Organisation: P60
Location: Amstelveen, Netherlands
Deadline: 15/02/2015
Start: 01/09/2015
End: 31/08/2016
P60 is a venue for pop culture and media in Amstelveen (83.000 inhabitants) near Amsterdam. Our main activities are concerts, dance-events, festivals, visual arts, workshops, masterclasses and European exchanges. Every Tuesday to Saturday our café is open and every Thursday to Saturday there is a concert or dance event in our main hall.
We work with a small team of paid staff (8 fte) and 70 local volunteers. Our target group are youngsters in the age of 16 to 30. Also most of our volunteers are part of this target group.
Our aim is to offer activities for youngsters and to stimulate talent-development (we have 3 rehearsal rooms for musicians). We receive around 40.000 visitors per year on more than 155 activities. The capacity of our concerthall is 650 (standing). We partly get funded by the city of Amstelveen.
Tasks
We can host up to 4 EVS volunteers, 2 starting in September and 2 starting in March. Our EVS volunteers have some general tasks but mainly work in a specific field of their interest. This can be: – Graphic Design – Light Engineering – Documentation (Photo/Video) – Customer Services (Bar/Cloakroom/Token Office/Café)
Criteria
Aside from basic English language skills we only ask for one thing: Love for music!
Procedure
If you wish to apply, please send an email to evs@P60.nl between Januari 1st and February 15th. In your email, write us in what specific field you’d like to work (see ‘Tasks’), attach your motivation letter and attach your resume. Please do this BETWEEN Januari 1st and Februari 15th, we unfortunately do not have the capacity to take into consideration all emails sent before or after these dates.
