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Survey Takers: Creative City Challenge Days

Posted on Thursday, July 10th, 2014 at 9:40 pm.

Northern Lights.mn in coordination with the City of Minneapolis is hiring individuals for the following tasks:

Survey Seeker

Administer a short survey to the Creative City Challenge* attendees on September 13^th at the Minneapolis Convention Center plaza. The shift would include attending an hour long survey training followed by a three hour working session. Must be friendly and willing to approach and speak with a diverse group of people. Experience with survey administration or canvasing is preferred. Must be willing to fill a quota of 15-20 surveys and be willing to follow instructions.

The currently available shifts are:

Saturday, 9/13: 9am-1pm ($50 pay, 5 shifts open)
12pm-4pm ($50 pay, 5 shift open)

If you are interested in working this event, please email surveys@northern.lights.mn no later than Thursday, August 14 (shifts will be filled on a first come basis) and include:

Your name, email, and phone number;
Which shifts you’d like to work (you can work more than one); and
Include any previous survey experience you may have.

Positions will be confirmed as received (those interested must email no later than 5 pm on Thursday, August 14p).

*Creative City Challenge is collaboration between Northern Lights, the Minneapolis Convention Center and the Arts, Culture, and Creative Economy at the City of Minneapolis. It is a competition for Minnesota artists and architects to create a destination artwork, which acts as a sociable and participatory platform for summer-long onsite activities. More information about Discovery Day.

Northern Spark: 175 Days

Posted on Saturday, December 21st, 2013 at 11:58 pm.

Written by Steve Dietz

175 days. A little less than 6 months.

As we settle into some holiday relaxation – or at least a different kind of frazzle – June 14, Northern Spark, seems like a long way off. But we have learned from experience that it’s not. The deadline for project proposals is open through January 13 and partner proposals still have some leeway as well, so we don’t even know the full line up of the program yet. At the same time, web deadlines, print deadlines, contract deadlines, permit deadlines, kicksstarter campaign deadlines, sponsor support deadlines, press deadlines, budget deadlines are all advancing like demographics, inexorably.

Over the next 175 days, I want to give an insider perspective on putting this event together. Not just the daily what-I-had-for-breakfast minutia or the here-comes-the-next-appeal appeal, although I’m sure some of that will be mixed in. It’s part of our friending, tweeting, rough and tumblring micro-cultures that sustain the new environment of Sustainability, Resiliency, and Innovation we all find ourselves in.

But I’m also interested in sharing our version, or at least my version of the thrill of victory and agony of defeat that is the human drama of artistic experimentation at Northern Spark’s free, annual, multidisciplinary, multi-venue, multiple partner, dusk-to-dawn, public arts festival.