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Our Story
SICK! Festival has grown and evolved since 2013, emerging from reflections on our own lives and the lives of people around us to embrace issues of wider significance for communities and deep importance for individuals. We are constantly guided by those communities and individuals, who ground our work in real-life experience, huge knowledge and immense understanding of the sensitivities of emotive issues. All too often these subjects are kept away from public view and debate. We exist to change that.
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Our Team
OUR TRUSTEES
Rowena Burns
Chair of Manchester Science Partnerships and Health Innovation Manchester
Paul Ferry
Executive Chairman of gbpartnerships
Prof. Sandeep Ranote
Executive Medical Director, Mental Health & Integrated Care – WWL NHS FT Executive Medical Lead Mental Health – Greater Manchester Health & Social Care Partnership Visiting Professor in Mental Health – University of Salford & University of Chester
Duncan Craig
Founder/Chief Executive Officer, Survivors Manchester
OUR OPPORTUNITIES
FREELANCE EVALUATION SPECIALIST/ORGANISATION NEEDED
We are looking for a freelance evaluation specialist/organisation to work with us between March and May 2021 to evaluate our MINDSCAPES programme.
MINDSCAPES explores the impact that our environment has on our mental wellbeing, including 5 new commissions, produced by Dutch artists working with local communities in Manchester, to be presented in Spring 2021, alongside a conference and a range of additional public engagement activities.
We are looking for an individual/organisation who brings:
- Strong experience of delivering arts evaluation projects with partners from different fields
- A good knowledge of arts and health practice
- Knowledge of mental health issues and how this might impact on evaluation practice
- Ability to deliver effective online evaluation activity
The evaluation brief can be found via this link
Deadline: 08 March 2021 at 5pm
Applications to be submitted to: celia@sickfestival.com
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