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Center for Traditional Music and Dance
The Center for Traditional Music and Dance (CTMD) sustains and promotes the performing arts and traditions of immigrant communities, sharing these art forms with a broad audience across New York. CTMD offers programs that combine research, documentation, presentation, and education, helping immigrant communities preserve and pass on their traditions to new generations. Over the past fifty years, it has worked with dozens of different communities, providing a unique opportunity to experience the city’s rich cultural heritage. The organization’s work has had significant national and international impact; it maintains the largest archive documenting New York’s immigrant performing arts traditions and is an affiliate program of UNESCO.
Museum of the Moving Image
The Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) explores the central technology of the contemporary world: screens. With exhibitions and screenings on the art, history, technique, and science of film, television, video games, and other digital media, the museum “presents the real and imagined worlds of our past, present, and future.” Offering educational programs, digital literacy initiatives, and media labs, MoMI invites visitors to make sense of the reality around them. Among its many activities, MoMI features temporary and permanent exhibitions, film screenings, and live conversations with artists, filmmakers, scholars, media educators, and other industry professionals. It also publishes articles in its online film magazine Reverse Shot and the science and film resource Sloan Science & Film. The museum’s collection includes more than 130,000 objects, and its education department serves approximately 70,000 students each year.
Poetry Society of America
The Poetry Society of America, founded in 1910, places poetry at the crossroads of American life. We make poetry part of daily life through programs like Poetry in Motion, Poems on Wheels, and poetry-based public art installations. We place poems in parks and gardens, on subways, buses, and street corners, and now in the window of our own storefront project space. The PSA also supports and honors poets through annual awards, readings, seminars, and workshops.
Interns can expect to be involved with operations and programs at the Poetry Society of America. Work will include: researching poems suitable for the Poetry Society's ongoing public arts projects, helping with day-to-day administrative needs (shelving books, assisting with mailings), proofreading communications, assisting the Development Associate with membership-related tasks, assisting the Public Programs Manager and other staff with events (including live streaming and event setup and breakdown). Interns will work from the Poetry Society of America's Brooklyn office one day per week and must be available to work two weekday evenings per month.
Giorno Poetry Systems
Giorno Poetry Systems is a non-profit organization that supports artists, poets, and musicians, and centers their perspectives. It's based on the idea of artists supporting other artists.
GPS was founded in 1965 and became a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in 1974. It was created by the artist, poet, and activist John Giorno (1936–2019), who pushed poetry off the printed page and into visual, musical, political, and social realms. GPS also supports his work and maintains his extensive archive of the downtown New York poetry, art, performance, and music communities.
GPS is seeking a Poetry Fellow to help with various activities across the organization including our public event program, archive of materials related to John Giorno’s life and community, our record label Giorno Poetry Systems Records, and our ongoing Dial-A-Poem projects. This position can be shaped by applicants' special interest in any of these areas, or can span the range of activities that GPS is engaged in. Responsibilities include: assisting with event planning and promotion; organizing and cataloging archival materials; supporting the production of new records on the GPS Record label; and assisting with international Dial-A-Poem phone lines. Ideal candidates are passionate about poetry, art, and music, are detail-oriented and eager to gain hands-on experience in a dynamic arts nonprofit environment.