Early TAP opportunities

We have two brilliant early internship opportunities starting in early March. Please find details below.

Music and Place - Reconnections for People with Dementia - 1 x 105 hour internship available 

For this internship you will be working with the Music Dementia Technology team at the University of Sheffield along with Sheffcare homes and a composer who is leading the workshops. You will be supporting workshops on acousmatic storytelling, which is a form of music composition that allows people living with dementia to blend together music, meaningful sounds from their environment, and stories that they have told in response to the music and sounds presented to them. These workshops offer people living with dementia an opportunity to make something together with one another, to reminisce with each other, and to intertwine their stories together with music and sound. 

Your main role will be to support a series of acousmatic storytelling workshops, either as a workshop assistant or as video analysis support for the workshops. This might be of interest for someone who is interested in storytelling, creative activities for health and wellbeing, and/or someone who has family members living with dementia. You don't need to be a Music student to apply - we encourage applications from all disciplines. 

The internship starts Thursday 9th March. You would complete the internship during the same period as attending the TAP preparatory sessions. If you would like to be considered, there is a dedicated section of the main TAP application form to fill out. 

For full details of the opportunity, please see the document below. If you have any questions about the opportunity, please email Zelda on whatworks@Sheffield.ac.uk.

Popular Music in Iberia and Latin America with Peter Watt, School of Languages and Cultures - 4 x 105 hour internships available (ideally for 2 music students and 2 School of Languages and Cultures students) 

Peter is looking for four interns to join a collaborative project working with several local musicians and a filmmaker. The project involves the creation of musical content and culminates in a live performance of Latin and Iberian music at a music venue in Sheffield. Working as a group, you will collaborate with local musicians with whom you will be involved in a series of workshops and with whom you will perform in the concert. You will also make a short film about the project and the development of your own experience working with Sheffield-based musicians and members of the Latin American community. For this, you will have the help of a Latin American filmmaker based in Sheffield. The paid internships are 105 hours each and will be worked between 10th March and 1st July in a part-time working pattern to be agreed with Peter. 

The internship starts Friday 10th March. You would complete the internship during the same period as attending the TAP preparatory sessions. If you would like to be considered, there is a dedicated section of the main TAP application form to fill out. 

For more information, including who this opportunity would suit, please see the document below. If you have any questions, please email zelda.hannay@sheffield.ac.uk and p.watt@sheffield.ac.uk, ensuring you copy us both in.