Sunderland Culture Chief Executive Application Pack
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SUNDERLAND CULTURE CHIEF EXECUTIVE APPLICATION PACK 1 A MESSAGE FROM OUR PARTNERS WELCOME FROM Sunderland City Council Sunderland Music, Arts and Culture (MAC) Trust University of Sunderland OUR CHAIR Sunderland City Council are proud to be a partner The Music, Arts and Culture Trust was formed with The University of Sunderland is an ambitious and in Sunderland Culture. We have a rich history of the ambition to be: life-changing institution with 20,000 students Culture and Heritage and together with many small based in campuses on the North East coast, in 1. A catalyst for more cultural activity, changing groups we are committed to developing that history London, Hong Kong and at its global partnerships Dear Colleague the lives of people of all ages and from all parts for residents today. We have shipbuilding, mining, with learning institutions in 15 countries. We offer a of society by engaging in cultural activities as Thank you for taking the time to look at glass making, railways, beautiful architecture, professions-facing curriculum and careers-focused participants, learners and audience members; the details for the role of Chief Executive at Washington Old Hall, Sunderland Minster, St Peters teaching across five faculties – which includes our Sunderland Culture. Church, The Elephant Tea Rooms, Sunderland 2. A developer of cultural infrastructure as a focal medical school as well as extensive arts and creative Museum and Winter Gardens, Arts Centre point for the city’s regeneration and as places of industries provision. We may be biased – but we think it’s one of Washington and many more. The city has many entertainment, excitement and learning; We have a national and international reputation the most exciting jobs on offer in the world of committed volunteers who give their time freely for innovation in widening participation, world- arts and culture right now. Our partnership is and we are extremely grateful for that. 3. A strategic leader, partnering with other key a uniquely successful collaboration between players to deliver an exciting cultural future for the leading research and public and private sector Sunderland City Council, University of We very much support a thriving Culture offer within city, inspiring its citizens, attracting people to live collaborations. Sunderland and the MAC Trust, and in the five the city and having Sunderland Culture enables us here or visit here and raising its profile as a place Our work in culture-led regeneration has been years we’ve been operating, the organisation to work with and maximise those wider links across with great cultural assets, activity and aspirations. recognised through our investment in National has delivered real benefits for the people of the region and country to promote Sunderland as a Glass Centre, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Sunderland. place of Events, Culture and Heritage. Sunderland Culture is delivering on all three: Art and Northern Centre for Photography. As well We are an Arts Council England National Within the city we have many groups who are 1. With activities such as the Tall Ships cultural as being a founding partner of Sunderland Culture, Portfolio Organisation, and both the Board and constantly working within their communities to programme and exhibitions of the work of great the University is the lead organisation for The the staff team are united in our ambition to build record memories to keep for the future, whether artists such as Antony Gormley and Leonardo da Cultural Spring – an Arts Council England Creative on our successes. As we start to prepare our next it be through sculpture, ceramics, painting, film, Vinci at one level and community participation People and Places project now in its seventh year of five year strategy it’s an exciting time to join us, music or dance. These groups build confidence projects at the other and so much in between, working with artists and performers in community with The Fire Station coming on line and a whole within our community and encourage them to learn there has been a huge uplift in cultural activity settings. Students also benefit from our academic range of arts and cultural projects across the city. new skills and be successful. In many instances a and participation over recent years; partnerships with organisations including Dance We want to develop our capacity and capability qualification is part of the experience but if not, it 2. The transformation of an abandoned fire City, Live Theatre and the Northern Academy of to deliver outstanding creative and cultural paves the way for accredited qualifications. This is station into a thriving cultural hub and now Music Education. Our Chancellor is the musician experiences for everyone, and if you are keen to also about combatting social isolation and mental the imminent opening of the magnificent new Emeli Sandé. work with a great team and help us achieve even health and groups in the city, both constituted or auditorium adjoining it and neighbouring the We were ranked in the top twenty British universities more, this could be the job for you. informal, frequently meet to knit, sew, cook, discuss majestic Sunderland Empire is giving the city the in the ‘University of the Year’ category of the their feelings, and support each other. We also have venues it needs to meet its creative and cultural Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2019, the only I hope that the pack will encourage you to groups such as asylum seekers and residents with ambitions; national awards voted for by students. And our submit an application. Read on for more details language barriers who can get support within their commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion of who we are and what we do, and if you have community and share their skills with others. 3. Sunderland Culture has been a tremendous questions or would like to know more please get success since it was established and now is the was reinforced when we were named University of in touch. Councillor Linda Williams, Sunderland City Council’s time to push on with a clear vision for the future, the Year for Social Inclusion (The Times and Sunday Cabinet Member for Vibrant City, Sunderland full support from its board and partners and Times Good University Guide 2021). Jane Earl Culture Board member leadership that is ambitious, creative and focused Graeme Thompson, Pro Vice-Chancellor External Board Chair on delivering great culture for this great city. Relations, University of Sunderland , Sunderland [email protected] Paul Callaghan, CBE, DL, FRSA, Chair of Sunderland Culture Board member Music, Arts and Culture (MAC) Trust, Sunderland Culture Board member 2 3 soul of the city. The redevelopment of The Fire SUNDERLAND’S CULTURAL Station and the restoration of the historic Dun REGENERATION Cow and The Peacock pubs by Sunderland MAC Trust, alongside the historic Empire Theatre, the Sunderland is a city which stands on the threshold redevelopment of the historic Town Park next to the The first phase of The Fire Station Artist’s impression of the Grade II listed Sunderland Minster, and a cluster of opened in 2017 of change, with regeneration happening at an new Riverside Sunderland unprecedented pace and scale. The second largest independent and unique food and drink offers, have development connecting to in the North East, the city’s historic industrial heart all added to the growing excitement and energy in Keel Square is being reinvented as an extraordinary place to live, this area. a dynamic business location, and a vibrant focus for The developments in the cultural quarter connect community life – with culture firmly placed at its to the new Riverside Sunderland. Heralded as the core. most ambitious city centre regeneration project in More than £1.53bn of private and public money the UK today, Riverside Sunderland is transforming will be invested in the city by 2024 - from vibrant 32-hectares on and around the former Vaux site in seafront to city centre renewal, from the spectacular the heart of the city into a dynamic, carbon-neutral International Airshow, a renowned indie music Northern Spire bridge crossing the River Wear to the urban quarter with offices, hotels, restaurants, bars scene, and a rich heritage offer which traces its International Advanced Manufacturing Park offering and residencies - connecting nearby Keel Square, history to the Anglo-Saxon church of St Peter’s, a location of national strategic significance. New the soon-to-open City Hall and Culture House, with where Saint Benedict Biscop brought the first glass hotels are attracting new visitors and new road links The Fire Station and cultural quarter. making to Britain in the 7th century, Hylton Castle, are opening up under-used business areas. A city by the sea with stunning beaches and open the Grade 1 listed Holy Trinity Church in Sunderland’s The Fire Station is the corner stone development countryside on its doorstep, Sunderland has a historic East End – currently being transformed into in the transformation of the Cultural Heart of vibrant cultural offering. Alongside the programme a cultural venue and Washington Old Hall - ancestral Sunderland city centre; re-establishing the area’s in Sunderland Culture’s venues, visitors come to home to the family of George Washington, first previous importance as the Edwardian heart and the city to experience major events like Sunderland president of the USA. THE CITY’S HISTORIC INDUSTRIAL HEART IS BEING REINVENTED AS AN EXTRAORDINARY PLACE TO LIVE AND A VIBRANT FOCUS FOR COMMUNITY