ESC: Musician wanted for 'Community Art' project in Ostend

KleinVerhaal – freely translated as 'Little Story' is an artistic non profit organisation that develops social community art productions. Born in Bruges about twelve years ago it developped to be a nomadic and multidisciplinary collective that is nowadays based in Ostend at the belgian coast, still developing projects in the whole province of West- Flanders. KleinVerhaal – freely translated as 'Little Story' is an artistic non profit organisation that develops social community art productions. Born in Bruges about twelve years ago it developped to be a nomadic and multidisciplinary collective that is nowadays based in Ostend at the belgian coast, still developing projects in the whole province of West- Flanders. We set up artistic productions in which the staff is responsible for the guidance of a qualitative process involving a high engagement of a mix of participants in collaboration with professional (young) artists. The project is set in a cross-sectoral partnership that is very typical for our practice (the colaboration of professional artists, artistic practice, social and cultural organisations, communities, neighbourhoods, ... ). We work towards an artistic product – this can be a movie/ performance/ book/ exposition/ show... The Concepts for the artistic productions are developed within the team of kleinVerhaal and they depend on the fund-requirements/ the specific context/ demands and the artists we are working with. We always want to question, move, confront & document mainstream thinking. The artistic process generates creativity, imagination and confrontation and there's a social process transcending social and cultural fault lines. There is always at least one external (young) porfessional artist involved in the project (this can be a filmmaker/ theatre maker/ grafic designer, musician, ..depending on the project). The colaboration between the participants and the professional artists is the core of the artistic process. We engage a mix of participants within productions and do a special effort to include people who don't get in touch with cultural organisation because of ignorance, poverty and social or cultural exclusion. All people, with their own curiosities and backgrounds, are brought together in productions. Depending the production we focus on youth/ adults/ seniors or children. Projects take place in cross-sectoral partnerships as we engage local governments, cultural and social organisations as partners within projects to recruit participants, to reflect on the social/ artistic process and the social/ cultural impact of the project. We usually have several (min. three) productions going on at the same time and we develop productions in Ostend and in other cities. For every production we have an average of two working-moments (ateliers) with the participants (average between 12 and 25 people) and the artists in one week. Within our workspace (OSTEND) we have an open house with many visitors and we work together with many social and cultural partners in Ostend so we are also involved in local events. Currently we are five people working with kleinVerhaal – three full times - a coördinator/ a financially responsable and the comunication man and two half-time production leaders. Weekly team meetings are an important feedback/planning/brainstorm organ. The whole team of kleinVerhaal is involved in every production (from back-up on the site to supporting on the work-floor when extra people are needed, doing communication, financial planning, ...) in kleinVerhaal we all do fieldwork. For every production there's a production leader being responsible for the implementation of the project. The production leader prepares the working moments (we call them 'ateliers') together with the artists (technically, logistically and socially), informs the participants and the volunteers, works together and updates the team, ... For example (www.kleinverhaal.be or Facebook 'kleinVerhaal'– pictures/ movies under every project) The Ostend Street Orchestra (Oct 2014- summer 2015) 'The Ostend Street Orchestra' with people hanging on the street of Ostend is an experimental music project. To recruit we work together with social organisations and also by presenting our project at places where people hang around in public places – we will go to these places with our caravan and some mucisians to invite them to join. Aim is to recruit about 20 participants. We will do a lot of custom work – people can join to be a percussionist, part of the brass section, a singer or part of the 'back-up-crew' (roadies/ costume-makers/ cooks/ .... The rehearsals are in the cultural centre of Ostend. There are four professional mucisians that lead the orchestra (a trumpetplayer, singer, drummer & producer). We will work four moments a week – three times in small groups (the singers/ percussionists and brass will rehearse seperatly) and every sunday all together combined with a shared lunch