Vagina Festival 2008 Production Assistant application

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VAGINA FESTIVAL 2008
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

Vagina Festival is a collaboration among artists, performers, speakers, sponsors, our crew, and attendees. Together, we'll create a fun, moving, thought-provoking experience. A key agent in making it happen is the Production Assistant.

This is an opportunity for someone who

• enjoys a challenge
• takes direction well
• follows through
• is passionate about conversation

Vagina Festival is produced entirely by volunteers. We work from our homes. Frequently from mine [mid-town Manhattan on the east side]. The Production Assistant will work closely with the Producer, Alexandra Jacoby, to fill out the program, coordinate artists, performers, speakers and volunteers, engage sponsors, and publicize—pretty much all aspects of Vagina Festival.

Interested? Please read through the following list of qualifications.

Commitment to our mission to create a space for conversation.
Self-starter who takes initiative, asks questions and then forges ahead.
Excellent communication skills, verbal and written. You'll be making calls, sending emails and assisting with meetings.
Detail-oriented—there will be many people involved in Vagina Festival. Contact lists and schedules will need to be developed and maintained meticulously. This will be the backbone of our production.
Positive and flexible. We'll be creating Vagina Festival where there was none before. Creating it our of own energy and inspiring others to lend theirs. What we put in is what will come out.
Sticks to schedules. Meets deadlines. Can commit several hours a week at first, and then more as we get into rehearsals and production.
Computer-literate. Much of our work will be done via email and website. Word, Excel—definitely. Comfortable using new programs.
Experience in event-planning and fund-raising preferred.

ABOUT THE PRODUCER:
My name is Alexandra Jacoby, and since Sept. 2000, I have been working on a book of vagina portraits, vagina vérité®—an unabashed exploration of the plain, ordinary, mysterious matter of vaginas. Vagina Festival is an outgrowth of this eight-year conversation.

I'm a high-energy person, overflowing with ideas. A self-taught painter and photographer, who has a full-time job weekdays.

Vagina Festival is something I've wanted to do for a while now. I'm energized by the success of Vagina Festival 2007, percolating with ideas, and looking forward to every step of the way toward VF2008 and—setting the stage for a self-sustaining annual event!

READY TO APPLY? Click here for the form.
I look forward to hearing from you! —Alexandra

APPLY FOR THE PRODUCTION ASSISTANT POSITION: Click here for the form.

VAGINA FESTIVAL
Oct. 24-26, 2008
Sage Theater
711 7th Avenue, 2nd Floor
between 47th & 48th Streets
Manhattan

SPONSOR
Vagina Festival is presented entirely by volunteers. We keep expenses low and produce the event with the help of generous sponsors. Please join us in creating a space for conversation.

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© Vagina Festival 2006-2008. Vagina Festival is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non profit arts service organization. Contributions on behalf of Vagina Festival may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law. Donations can be made by credit card, or by check.