SPACE

New Creative Opportunities for Young People at SPACE

SPACE will be one of the first arts organisations to offer talented young people creative apprenticeships. In partnership with City and Islington College, SPACE will create a new progression route for young people wishing to pursue a career in the Creative and Cultural Industries, fulfilling part of the government’s ambition to create 5000 of such initiatives by 2013. (Creative Britain 2008, Department for Culture Media and Sport).

The first apprenticeships will be media arts based with further opportunities being developed with our partners in the future. They will incorporate bespoke, project based, learning packages and mentoring from staff. After completion, apprentices will be eligible to apply for University or go on to further employment either with SPACE or other employers within the sector. 

SPACE is ideally placed to deliver creative apprenticeships for several reasons. Our activities range from providing affordable studio provision to training in media software, from delivering community based collaborations to staging contemporary art exhibitions and events at the Triangle.

We are located at the heart of one of London’s most ethnically diverse boroughs and as an arts organization with charitable status we recognize the need to harness the talent of those who may not have been offered such opportunities on leaving school, college or University.  

Not all young people can afford to do unpaid internships and so their chances in the sector diminish. With greater strain on the few entry-level paid jobs available, creative apprenticeships provide an opportunity for young people and more generally, the Creative & Cultural Industries, to push us forward out of the economic slump and offer opportunities to a wider range of people.

This initiative compliments SPACE’s existing young people’s programme of creative media training, arts engagement and artist studio visits.  

Full details of this opportunities will be available on the website from May 2010.

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