Opening Doors to Creative Careers: De La Warr Pavilion Hosts Local Students for Hands-On Industry Insights

As part of Discover Creative Careers Week 2024, the Learning & Participation team carried out a number of Open Doors visits with local schools and colleges. Various members of the wider De La Warr Pavilion team attended these visits too, talking about their roles, how they got into them, and general information about working in their type of creative work.

To start off the week, nine further education students from Mount Camphill Community School visited the gallery. They were joined by Laura from the Auditorium Technical Team, who spoke about working as a technician, including a tour of the auditorium and the sound and lighting desks.

To celebrate the brand-new creative T Level course happening locally, our next visitors were nine Year 12 T Level students from Bexhill College. João from the Exhibitions team joined them for their visit and let them know a little bit more about what it’s like working in exhibitions and curation, including jobs and routes into that field. Learning even more about working in the creative industries, they were also joined by Greg from the Live Programming team, who spoke to them about them about working in the live music and events sector.

     

Helping to teach students about creative careers before selecting their options, the next visit was from twenty-three Year 9 students from Saxon Mount School. This visit was joined by Amy from the Talent Accelerator team, who spoke about her roles at Talent Accelerator, Beeching Road Studios, and East Sussex College Group including what it means to be freelance and work across multiple areas within a similar sector.

Finally, we were joined by fourteen Year 8 students from Ratton School. Their visit was supported by Cassie and Daisy from the Communications & Marketing team, where they spoke about everything from social media through to communicating with audience members, and the growing importance of this type of behind-the-scenes role within arts organisations. Along with this, they also gave the Ratton School students an insight into apprenticeships, and how this is a great alternative route into work and the creative industries.

We had a wonderful time showing these students around the De La Warr Pavilion, and opening our doors to give then am insight into everything that happens at the gallery from front of house right through to office based work.

If you would like to attend an Open Doors visit with you school, get in touch with Maya Kindcaid, our Head of Learning & Engagement, on Maya.Kincaid@dlwp.com.

Posted by Cassandra Ash on Wednesday 11 December 2024