Description
Upintheair is seeking a new curator for the 2025/26 festival.
The Resident Curator Program is an open opportunity for an emerging, re-emerging, or mid-career performing artist or administrator to receive mentorship and experience from Upintheair Theatre in curation for arts festivals under a two-year program.
This is an unprecedented program that allows for an emerging curator to get hands-on learning about festival production, curation of programming, community building and outreach skills, and artistic scouting.
Eligibility:
- Must be a Lower Mainland resident, and/or available for the entirety of the 2-year agreement;
- Must be in Vancouver to attend festival events, April, May & early June 2025 and 2026;
- Relevant experience in producing, performing, creating, or designing performing arts events;
- Is interested in working as a producer/curator in the performing arts and supporting and lifting up the work of others in addition to their own artistic practice.
We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous, Black, people of colour, 2SLGBTQQAI+, women and/or femme-identified and other peoples that identify as being part of underrepresented and equity deserving communities. Upintheair Theatre is dedicated to creating equitability and inclusivity in our programming and operations.
