"Jobs for Young Artists" is a innovative project, which approaches in 2 different ways the employment issue for young adults from the 10 partner-organisations: a) by training and upgrading the individual skills as both performer and trainer, while creating and implementing a 2 weeks Baltic Sea Youth Performance Tour for 20 professional artists age 18-30. b) by doing research on the actual job-world within arts and entertainment-world which, since the 80'ies with ABBA exporting for more money the car-company Volvo, has exploded even more. 10 Organisations from DK, EE, FI, IT, LV, LT, PL, PT & SE and will meet in June 2020 to decide a call for young, professional artists and in October 2020 to decide from the incoming applications the 20 participating artists. These will meet for 1 week in January 2021 in FI and in DK for 2 other weeks of training in April, where they basically improvise together on the theme "International Communication & Cooperation" towards the play/performance assisted by an external paid dirtector. Straight after April rehearsal the performance will go on a 2 week paid performance-tour with 11 performances around the Baltic Sea, where they also will do at least 3 x 20 school-workshops for students. Meanwhile a team directed by Mr. Bo from Arttrain, who is cand.phil. in musical science and previously has researched and edited about "Music as a socio-pedagogical Tool" will do the research, which will to some degree be incorporated in the performances, and presented both there, at conferences and through newspapers, newsletters and TV.
- 20 young artists will have the company and a professional production on their CV - 20 young artists will get a better international network - 20 young artists will learn about other ways of making an income for example by running workshop in schools - The project will also run a research about employment situation for the arts and the entertainment industry, which has grown enormously over the last decades, and general knowledge here needs an update.
Both in own organisation and at our partner in Drums for Peace network we now have young adults, who after growing up with our art-based youth-exchanges, have finished and graduated with an art-education (music, dance, drama, visual arts a.o.) and having severe difficulties in finding jobs, and for example as dancer receives the answer, when applying to companies: "We prefer dancers, who have experiences from working in a company". So we have made this project, which is like a company for 5 weeks and will rehearse a professional production and tour with this over 2 weeks.