Beat Carnival is seeking an Artistic Director-Chief Executive to lead the company into an exciting new era. With 31 years of bringing joy, creativity and connection to communities, we’re at a pivotal moment: as Beat’s Founder-Director steps down we’re building a dynamic new leadership team to shape carnival arts in Belfast and beyond.
This is your chance to steer an internationally connected organisation, create vibrant public arts events and inspire the next generation of artists. You’ll drive artistic vision, strategic goals and community impact while ensuring long-term sustainability of the organisation.
About the Organisation
Beat Carnival is a full-time, producing, Carnival Arts organisation, established in Belfast in 1993. Beat creates carnival arts, organises and produces performances, trains and develops artists and encourages community participation and ambition. Operating from Beat Carnival Centre, the company delivers many hundreds of free workshops and training programmes with thousands of individuals each year. Activities range from drumming to costume design, dance to puppetry, neighbourhood celebrations to large-scale outdoor events. In this way Beat helps develop creative skills, for all abilities, with participants as young as four to over seventy years. Beat Carnival is committed to supporting artists and improving quality of life in communities and the carnival sector.
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