Sept 5 2006: Internship Position Available: Assistant to the Technology Program Coordinator

MNMP is seeking an intern to assist our Technology Program Coordinator with the Music Cre8tor, a music composition interactive software program utilizing motion sensors for children with disabilities.

Duties include:

Assist Technology Program Coordinator with:

• Video documenting project on site (at public schools within the 5 boroughs of NY)
• Researching grant applications
• Editing grant proposals and manuals
• Making phone calls
• Assisting during concert performances

• A passion for MNMP's education and artistic mission
• Familiarity with video recording/documenting and editing as well as MS Word, internet research
• Strong writing skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Flexibility of hours and variety of jobs
• Dependability
• Creative problem solving skills
• Willing, comfortable and sensitive working with a variety of populations, especially children with disabilities
• Excellent organizational skills
• Success in previous academic/professional endeavors

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  Teaching Artists Sought for School Progams and Teacher Workshops
The Manhattan New Music Project, an arts organization offering educational programming in music, dance, theater, drama, visual arts and creative writing, is now building a roster of Teaching Composers to serve for residencies in the New York City Public Schools (grades K-12). Individuals will be independent contractors working part-time.

Responsibilities:
The Teaching Composer will enable children (especially elementary grades) to make meaningful connections with the creative and analytical (problem solving) processes of creation in the arts and develop analytical and aesthetic comprehension. The Teaching Artist will be responsible for:

• designing meaningful, accessible, and structured experiences in improvisation, creation and performance enabling students to understand and materially participate in such activities;

• developing skills in performing in the arts without the encumbrance of traditional methods;
• introducing students to the basic elements of the arts discipline at hand
• introducing simple approaches to graphic notation that enable students to represent ideas, and improvise, perform and reproduce their original ideas
• increasing receptivity and aesthetic response to the arts and placing artistic experiences in a cultural context;
• reinforcing language skills, problem solving and connection to other subject matters;
• producing residency work plans in collaboration with teachers that can achieved;

In addition, highly qualified individuals are needed to:

• Conduct staff development workshops for teachers (regardless of artistic background), enabling teachers to conduct similar activities using a variety of approaches and strategies with children on their own.

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in the performing arts
• Evidence of professional activity in the arts; a recorded or live sample of playing and original composition(s) will be expected for musicians, videos and writing samples for drama and theater artists, a portfolio for visual artists and video of dance performances for dancers.
• Proven teaching experience in artist-in-schools programs , schools, or other classroom settings
• Capability of designing learning activities using easily replicable means. All Candidates will be asked to develop and demonstrate sample lessons as responsive to this approach.
• Ability to build connections to other areas of learning (e.g., language arts, mathematics, social studies)

For inquiries and applications contact Julia Reinhart at employment@mnmp.org, or fax your resume and cover letter to 212-977-1069.

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