We are partnering with South Facing Festival to give local young people aged 18+ the chance to do work experience at this year’s festival – an amazing chance to get some in-depth experience of various roles at a brilliant festival!

If you are interested in event management or festival production and want to get some experience then do check out the full role profiles and all details here.

To apply for these roles contact Noreen atinfo@crystalpalacefestival.org with an email about why you would like to do this work experience by 5pm on Friday 22 July or call Noreen on 07725 057453 for an informal chat.

Here’s an overview of the roles at South Facing Festival:

Artist liaison assistant

The role involves assisting the artist liaison manager with artists’ accreditation and other tasks involved in supporting artists onsite. You’ll be working alongside the rest of the artist liaison and stage management teams, liaising with artists, tour managers and other festival staff to help deliver the show’s logistics and ensure that everything artist-related runs like clockwork. If you love meeting people and problem solving, then this is a great role for you. You will gain an insight into how artists are managed at big festivals.

Festival production assistant 

This role is varied but will mainly be dealing with audience enquiries, compiling and sharing information, ad hoc administration and being proactive and helpful in resolving issues. The production team ensure everything runs smoothly as the festival unfolds. If you love ensuring that everything is running smoothly and know that thorough preparation is everything in making sure that happens then this is the role for you.

Stage management assistant

This role will assist the stage management team in ensuring the stage runs smoothly, helping to set up equipment and assisting artists. If you have a fascination for how a stage runs and want to learn about sound and lighting equipment and enjoy working with your hands then this is the role for you.

Marketing assistant – social media

This role involves assisting the marketing team in documenting the festival across socials, with a focus on Instagram Stories/Reels and TikTok. You will help create engaging content for the festival channels.  If you are a social media lover and get your kicks from engaging with your peers, getting them to respond to your questions and to come to events you love then this is for you!

Promoter/Production Assistant 

Are you interested in working in events? This role will give insight into working between both promoter and production teams, as well as helping the team with local community engagement during show days. If you enjoy being a team player, working with the public and understanding how big events come together then you would enjoy this role.

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