Future Talent
The Future Talent programme seeks to recruit individuals from diverse backgrounds and lifestyles to become equipped with the skills to help bring to life the highly ambitious Future Walls project.
Selected participants will work alongside an eclectic mix of leading industry specialists, including top-name street artists, experienced urban curators, award-winning filmmakers, and Art of Protest Project’s energetic project delivery team in a creative, artistically driven and passion-fueled environment.
With a multitude of focus areas which vary in levels of intensity and duration, this programme will help guide participants on their own creative journey as the real-time developments of an exciting and dynamic urban art project unfold and come to life. In conjunction with empirical lessons spanning project management and artist coordination, to wall preparation and press writing, the selected candidates will step forward into a lesser-known creative industry and venture boldly into the future.
This transformative experience is truly a hearts and minds programme, designed for the curious, eager and engaged learner.
The overarching mission of the Future Talent Programme is to create job opportunities for participants by increasing their visibility and upskilling their practice
The Future Walls team aims to recruit a variety of roles for participants to be involved with. These include the core areas of public art and placemaking curation, including design, project management, marketing and press/media, effective communication and collaboration, administrative tasks, production and delivery of public art in various forms and precise, project coordination and documentation
Future Talent aims to create participants to become industry-ready and hireable for a plethora of creative industry job roles
Our team will also aim to cultivate participants’ practical and theoretical knowledge and capabilities around delivering large and small-scale projects and events, and understanding how to inform and educate the public through engagement and workshops
Future Walls aims to identify and invite the budding talents and fledgling artists of Sunderland to work with us, expanding and supporting the scope of their creative career journey
Through Future Talent, our goal is to enrich the creative capital of Sunderland by supporting a diverse set of talented creatives and providing connections for paid work both in the city of Sunderland and further afield