Sound Justice Lab Performance Coordinator
The Sound Justice Lab is looking for a creative and organized undergraduate to help us plan a performance event on Thursday, September 19, 2024.
The Sound Justice Lab is excited to host a conference and performance called Technologies of Silence. We're looking for a student to help us plan a performance for this conference that celebrates resistance to injustice. The conference will address questions such as: Who does the law hear and who does it not? What techniques, instruments and norms amplify certain voices over others? What do people create in response to technologies of silence? What spaces welcome and nurture voices of resistance and talking back? This multidisciplinary and multimodal conference, hosted by UVA’s Sound Justice Lab, will bring together lawyers, students, musicians, activists, journalists, artists, and academics to explore the law’s technologies and tactics that try to silence stories, individuals, and groups.
Responsibilities:
Work with SJL to generate description and call for acts
Recruit between 6-10 diverse acts that respond to the prompt: Resisting Silence. Acts can be original or pre-existing works of poetry, music, drama, dance, pretty much anything you can put on a stage!
Provide feedback to acts on their work.
Coordinate one rehearsal before Thursday, September 19th.
Communicate regularly with Sound Justice Lab leadership on the progress of the event.
Help coordinate logistics for the event including: catering, A/V needs, crafting run sheets, promotions, drafting emails, etc.
Qualifications. Candidates should be:
Involved in and connected to the Arts community at UVA.
Interested in issues of justice and equity.
Organized and communicative with strong time management skills.
We anticipate that this role would take about 40 hours total from August 1 - September 21st in addition to a couple planning meetings in May and June. We can offer a $1000 stipend for this work.
If you are interested, please send a resume that describes all your arts-related work at UVA and in the Charlottesville area, and a one page document that answers the following questions to mgm6jm@virginia.edu.
Please read about the aims of the Technologies of Silence conference and describe your interest in the issues and themes of the conference.
Tell us about a time you helped plan an event or had to recruit people to participate in something.
Please share three examples of works that you think would be a good fit for this event. They can be poems you have read, a great dance performance you’ve seen, people you know of at UVA or in Charlottesville that do creative work, a favorite scene from a play etc.