We are looking for a Freelance Tech Production Co-ordinator!

Richmond Arts and Ideas Festival is an event that takes place across the borough of Richmond (and beyond). Piloted in 2023 and due to take place again in 2025, the festival is a celebration of arts, culture, and community building.

Inspired by a theme, events fill venues and streets over two weeks in June. There are moments that provoke noisy ideas, thoughts, and discussions as well as moments for quiet reflection.

What unites this festival is the opportunity to seek a more positive future though art and culture.

The festival theme for 2025 is Cultural Reforesting, a programme initiated by the Richmond Arts Service. It is a series of artist-led, multi-disciplinary projects set in the context of the ecological crises. Each artist project responds to the question – how can we renew our relationship with nature?

Since its inception in 2021 the programme has featured artists, thinkers, scientists, indigenous leaders and more through an impressive forest of projects. Cultural Reforesting is expanding into Richmond Arts and Ideas Festival 2025. Events across the borough will explore our relationship with nature and reflect on the ecological crisis.

The Role

Richmond Arts Service are currently on the lookout for a Tech Production Co-ordinator (Operational) to join our small Festival team in Richmond Arts Service based at our offices at Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham. This is a freelance role reporting to the Festival’s Executive Producer. The role will be a location-based role, responsible for organising, coordinating and providing on the day technical support for a number of activations, installations and performances taking place across the borough.

The co-ordinator will be expected to travel between venues, installing, overseeing and troubleshooting a range of technical set ups; from exhibitions with audio visual components, to immersive experiences with complex rigging
requirements.

The Co-Ordinator will work closely with our team to develop and execute technical specifications to ensure a high quality, safe experience for festival audiences. Throughout May, the Co-ordinator will work one day a week to support the team in preparation for the festival, which may include; applying for temporary event notices; liaising with the councils parks and highways teams; compiling event safety plans and risk assessments for each event.

The Richmond Arts Service prides itself on being experts in delivering art and culture programmes and producing creative content in partnership with our wider arts community, which includes local, national and international artists, so you will naturally be able to respond to briefs and manage various technical requirements accordingly

How to Apply

Please submit your CV and covering letter detailing your experience and your approach to working with us. Send applications to artsinfo@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk and entering RAIF 25 Festival Producer in the email subject line, by 1 May 2025.

For more information, please see the brief attached below.