Festival Pathways - Creative Assistant

Team Love; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

Creative Assistant

Organisation: Team Love (with placement being delivered in partnership with Twisted Theatre)

Job Title/Role: Creative Design Assistant for Immersive Experiences at Festivals

Place Of Work: For Planning Days: Team Love Offices/Workshop, St Werburghs, Bristol (BS2) and some working from home. For On Site Days: Ashton Court, Bristol - Love Saves the Day Onsite.

Hours: 5 x 8 hour planning days at Team Love Offices: Monday 5th - Friday 9th May 2025. 1 x 4 hours Work From Home. 5 x 8 hour days onsite (10:00-18:00) Monday 19th - Friday 23rd May 2025. TOTAL: 11.5 days (Plus potential extra onsite work offered for w/c 23rd June 2025 - these dates are yet to be confirmed and this extra work will be subject to the successful candidate’s availability.)

Rate of Pay: £12.60 per hour

Start Date: Monday 5th May 2025

Employment Type: Freelance (see ‘Role Specific Information’ for more detail on this employment type)

Employment Term: 5th - 23rd May 2025

Application closes: 23rd April 2025

Interview Date: 29th April 2025

About Team Love: We are one of the South-West’s leading event production companies, specialising in music festivals and events. We co-programme and produce a number of innovative, large-scale events (Love Saves The Day, Love International, Simple Things, Waterworks, FORWARDS and the Silver Hayes area of Glastonbury). We also run our own venue, an established cornerstone of Bristol nightlife, The Love Inn. Social responsibility and sustainability are central to our work, we aim to produce events which contribute to wider change in the local community and beyond, and run a number of additional dedicated projects and initiatives centring around social and environmental impact and change.

About Twisted Theatre: Twisted Theatre is a diverse collective of artists who come together to create immersive experiences at Festivals and Events across the UK. Their work has a political edge which seeks to challenge perspectives and parody real life events. They love creating design-led work that surprises unsuspecting people and is unpredictable and exciting in nature. They have created interactive venues, walkabouts, performances, set designs, installations, and more at festivals including: Love Saves the Day, Forwards, Boomtown, Eldorado & Glastonbury. They are a large collective with a wide range of skills and experiences. At Love Saves the Day 2025 they will be unveiling a brand new set of experiences and designs!

About The Role: You will be part of the Twisted Theatre team, supporting the build and development of our area. We are looking for someone interested in Set Design / Set Dressing to support the design, build, install and dressing of the multiple immersive secret venues run by Twisted Theatre at Love Saves the Day. The area is made up of several interactive experiences. Previous years have included; a parody no.10 Downing Street Christmas party, a fortune telling booth, a money laundering laundrette and a secret club tropicana ball pit venue with live acts and DJs. Your role will help create these immersive venues through use of Set Design, Making, Building and Set Dressing tasks.

Key Responsibilities: You will be supervised by Ruby Pugh (Artistic Director of Twisted Theatre) on all of your placement days. Any task you are set will be fully explained and talked through by one of our core team with a chance to ask questions throughout the completion of the task. You will be assisting Designer Alice Sales on the design and making the interiors of the secret venues. Following the ideas from concept to completion. The planning days will include: shopping, painting, sewing, creating and prepping the interiors ready for the install days. The on site days will include: Painting, building, installing and decorating the interiors of the venues. You will also be given your own design task where you can come up with a concept of your own and use a small amount of allocated budget to create your own installation within a small tent. This is where the 4 hours of ‘homework’ come in as you will need some time to research and present your idea.

Personal Characteristics:

• Up for a challenge
• Enthusiastic and helpful
• Proactive
• Comfortable in busy environments
• Able to work under pressure
• Happy to work as part of a team

Essential Skills & Experience:

• An interest in creative design of spaces
• An interest in Festivals
• Practical experience (can be in any relevant area; making art, building, painting, sewing, crafts… etc.)
• A strong interest in creative pursuits

Desirable:

• Experience using basic hand tools (if you don’t already have this experience then you will need a willingness and positive attitude towards learning. Plus respect for the health and safety instructions that will be given to you.)
• Attention to detail
• Experience in Sketch Up or Photoshop (or similar)
• Experience following a concept from idea to delivery

Role Specific Information: Travel to and from Site - Transport and logistics will be discussed prior to the commencement of the placement and planning support will be provided if required. The Love Saves the Day site is accessible by public transport. Onsite Accommodation - n/a due to City Centre location - you will not be required to stay on site overnight. For extra work at other shows that do require overnight stays, you would be expected to camp in the crew area with access to backstage toilets and showers. Camping Kit can be loaned for use if required. Meals Onsite - Meals provided on site whilst on shift. Physical Description of the Role - This role is a mixture of office based, and on site work at our events, with some desk work, and a large proportion of physically active work, involving moving, bending, stretching and lifting. LSTD takes place on a greenfield site and the role requires someone to move around independently and extensively. Employment Type Info - This role is offered on a Freelance / Self Employed basis so you will need to invoice for payment and be responsible for your own tax and national insurance payments to HMRC.

Other Information: Team Love is committed to increasing diversity within our workforce, promoting equality and openly challenges discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We are also committed to promoting equality of opportunity for disabled staff. We aim to support disabled staff by making reasonable adjustments wherever possible to prevent any disadvantage. If you would like to discuss this informally and confidentially prior to making an application, please contact our Accessibility Manager - [e-mail].

Next Steps: If you think this sounds like the role for you, please apply using this FORM. If you have any questions about the role, or need the application form in an alternative format please contact [e-mail]. Application deadline - 5pm on Wednesday 23rd April 2025. Interviews will be held on 29th April at our office in Bristol (BS2). Applicants must be available for interviews on these dates. Team Love operates under UK Employment Law and we will require evidence of your right to work in the UK at interview stage.