FREELANCE ART & CULTURE PUBLICIST
Intended start date: as soon as possible- ideally last week of August or earlier
Deadline for applications: 16th Sept
FEE: Freelance – Competitive, Dependent on Expertise and day rate
A freelance arts and culture publicist who specialises in driving profile pieces and stand-out features for a multidisciplinary creative studio and thought-leader across multiple industries (STEAM focus). Excited by spreading the word about imaginative and boundary breaking activations that redefine the realms of possibility. Skilled at generating coverage across varied types of media – both proactively and reactively for maximum impact.
REQUIREMENTS
- Strong contacts and evidence of gold tier coverage across arts, culture and national press
- Mixed media experience: print, digital, broadcast, podcast, social coverage
- Proven expertise in driving founder profile placement in key arts and culture titles
- Natural collaborator who can work closely with founder and studio to drive success
- Strategic thinker and natural problem solver, who is always looking to find both the proactive and reactive hook for a relevant press opportunity
- Interest in actively promoting and attending key studio events along with gold tier press
AVAILABILITY
- Available from late August
- Min 3-4 days per month, scaleable (with key priorities / events of focus) which may require more time.
This job will be based at The Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, London EC2A 3PQ. Our offices are into a train carriage on top of a nightclub so you need to be at ease with unusual, original looking offices.
Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios is committed to equal opportunities employment and has a zero tolerance policy against any forms of harassment.
To apply please send a copy of your CV and Cover Letter to Megan Humphreys at email hidden; JavaScript is required
About Tour de Moon
Tour de Moon is a cosmic adventure, a large-scale public festival of immersive experiences and live events developed in collaboration with our “universal satellite”: the Moon, seen as a character, a landscape and a prompt for radical imagination. The festival, composed of 8 programming strands, aims to reach millions of visitors across the UK and the world in 2022, through live and virtual experiences, supporting youth, nightlife creators, scientists and digital creators through cooperation. With Tour de Moon, we seek new beginnings, to empower others to create, to initiate, to innovate with new thinking and pluralistic practices so that history does not repeat itself on and beyond Earth.Tour de Moon is composed of more than 90 individuals as a part of its team, Youth Reporter Board and Advisory Board and further collaborative organisations, all working together to build a festival committed to plurality, decolonial practices, social and racial justice, solidarity and equity. www.tourdemoon.com
About Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios
Founded in 2009, Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios Ltd. designs experiences for you to become an astronaut in your living room while dark energy is being created in your kitchen sink and a volcano erupts on your couch. We are an interdisciplinary design studio which devises subversive events, experiences, and feature-length films. We work on multimedia, highly ambitious projects to empower countercultures and communities by building platforms for them to challenge power structures, while also allowing for change and critical thinking through multi-faceted immersive experiences. We are pioneers in the design of experiences, our mission is to reveal meanings and power structures through experiential practices and to foster critical thinking within institutions across the world. We have consulted and worked with leading scientists, creatives, writers, brands, politicians, policymakers, musicians, and engineers worldwide and we have a track record of having successfully challenged public engagement mechanics through theatrical, experiential, films and design practices. We rethink and question systems in education, design, distribution, communication, public speaking, politics, economics, history, and sociology towards further pluralistic models which we implement in our projects. We are a team of architects, graphic designers, textile designers, philosophers and more based in an artist collective in a train carriage on top of a nightclub. Plurality is one of our core tenets and as a result we support various forms of educative and alternative training, through the University of the Underground, a tuition-free charity we founded in 2017 with board members such as Pussy Riot, Noam Chomsky, and Massive Attack; it supports free, pluralistic, and transnational education. In 2020, Dezeen shortlisted Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios Ltd. one of the world’s best design studios and in 2021 The Dots selected Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios Ltd. as one of the “Top 50 companies to work for in 2021”.