Illustration: Stipan Tadić, 'Super Andrija', 2018
aqb Volunteering
Volunteering period will be from March until May of 2022, to help at the upcoming exhibition “Are you sure you want to leave?”, a selection of the OSTRALE Biennale "Breathturn".
APPLICATION
Deadline: February 27, midnight
OPTIONAL TASKS
We would like volunteers to help throughout the exhibition minimum once a week for 5 hours. Volunteering periods are:
• Exhibition installation, preparation between March 1 - 18
• Art mediation, exhibition guarding between March 19 - May 22
REQUIREMENTS
• Conversational level of Hungarian and English
• Having personal interest in cultural and art related projects
COMPENSATION
• We can provide you with the signing of your school / university documents (if required), along with inviting you to gain a basic insight of the content, preparation and outcome of a Budapest-based international contemporary art exhibition.
ABOUT US
Being an independent cultural institution and a centre of contemporary arts, art quarter budapest hosts a wide diversity of programs. The building complex consists of a broad collective of in-house visual and performance artists and gives home to creative industry companies also. Aqb curates local on-site exhibitions and hosts a residency program for various international creators.
Alex Károlyi
Alex founded Shadowpath, a charitable theatre company in 2002 as a professional outlet for local performers in York Region. She developed the site-specific theatre series; Plays in Cafes, Readings In Wineries and Hotel Solstice, transforming everyday spaces into creative places for suburban audiences. She develops and delivers workshops for youth and seniors and is training the next generation of female creative leaders with a paid apprenticeship program at Shadowpath. Shadowpath is the recipient of Newmarket’s Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Award for Innovation and Richmond Hill’s Creativity Symposium Award for Best Innovation for their Cafe Cruise project. Shadowpath has been nominated for Not-For-Profit of the Year by Vaughan’s Chamber of Commerce and Artistic Director, Alex Karolyi recently received a Leading Women Leading Girls Award from MPP Chris Ballard recognizing her work to advance female leadership in Canadian Theatre. Alex began as an actor training at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, York University and the Randolph Academy for Performing Arts in Toronto. After travelling to Scotland in the musical, That’s Life, Alex founded Shadowpath, transforming everyday spaces into creative places. Shadowpath, allowed Alex to developed into a theatre producer and playwright gaining her the position of General Manager with Resurgence Theatre Company in 2007 and as the Programming Coordinator of the York Region Festival Alliance in 2015 - 2016. Her own plays have been produced in Toronto, Vancouver and the UK. She has travelled as a global artist to Hungary, Scotland, Paris, Vienna, Italy, Panama City and most recently, PEI.
