Awen Bus - Cauldron Designer Opportunity

The Awen bus is part of the Ar Waith Ar Daith programme of events, a magical celebration for the tenth anniversary of the Wales Millennium Centre, created by outdoor arts experts Walk the Plank.

Lloyds Bank Awen Schools, three outdoor training schools for arts practitioners, have taken place across Wales.

The Awen bus tour will take place in August until the beginning of September, and the finale event takes place in Cardiff Bay on Saturday 12th September 2015.

 

Wales Millennium Centre’s single decker bus will be kitted out with high end technology, a stage, a kitchenette, and a lounge. The Awen bus will travel the length and breadth of Wales, meeting and engaging with artists, performers and public alike, creating short web-friendly video showcases of artwork and digitally connecting everybody to a magic cauldron in the foyer of the Wales Millennium Centre.

 

The Awen bus will travel the length and breadth of Wales, meeting and engaging with artists, performers and public alike, creating short web-friendly video showcases of artwork and digitally connecting everybody to a magic cauldron in the foyer of the Wales Millennium Centre. The Awen bus and magic cauldron project is the brainchild of the digital artist, NativeHQ.

 

Drawing from the Welsh word “awen” (muse or inspiration) in the building’s inscription, the magic cauldron of inspiration is a key part of the creative vision for the project. Visitors to the Centre will activate the magic cauldron in the foyer and will be able to communicate live with the team on the bus. When the bus is offline the cauldron will play videos of recent tour encounters and performances.

 

The bus team will be made up of:

  • Host/Presenter
  • Bus Driver/Tour Manager
  • Video Producer
  • Social Media Producer

 

The team will be supported by the Walk the Plank, Administrator/Tour Booker, the NativeHQ partners, and the Ar Waith Ar Daith Communications Manager. None of these will be based on the bus.

 

Walk the Plank are looking to recruit a designer to work alongside NativeHQ’s technology team, and Candida Boyes, the show designer. The designer will make a magical cauldron and staging which will be placed in the foyer of the Wales Millennium Centre during August and September 2015.

 

Walk the Plank has already designed and built a large-scale production cauldron,which will feature in the show on Saturday 12th September. The design of the smaller, magic cauldron should be in harmony with this, and the staging will need to reflect the show’s design.

 

The magic cauldron for the foyer needs to be able to meet the technical specification and IT requirements (to be supplied on appointment), and create a magical user experience. The designer will need to collaborate closely with NativeHQ’s technology team to ensure that the phasing and construction of the cauldron will achieve the required integration.

 

The designer must have demonstrable experience of working collaboratively in creative teams to deliver designs and made artefacts on time and subject to technical specifications.

 

The designer fee and make is £3000.

 

The cauldron will be made in Cardiff, where NativeHQ and the technology team are based.

 

The project office is based in the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

 

Timeline

Role to be appointed as soon as possible

The Cauldron R&D will be 15th June to the 10th July

Designs to be in the workshop by the early June

Cauldron to be installed in foyer of Wales Millennium Centre by the 8th August.

 

Interviews to be held w/c 8th June 2015

Applications to be submitted by Friday 29th May 2015

 

Please apply by emailing recruitment@walktheplank.co.uk with a letter of application and any supporting material

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