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Not Bad for a Girl (NB4AG) INTERNSHIP
Project Coordinator to assist team with the completion of the DVD/Book package
Emphasis: Journalism*Research*Public Relations*Gender Studies*Rock Music

Description of Organization:
Our focus is the arts of conscious living and spiral awakenings via energy medicine, meditation, shamanism, tantra, nutrition, movement, sound/music, communication, psychology, local and global community, and conservation. We create and produce workshops, seminars, retreats, global entrepreneurial alliances and educational books/DVDs. We cater to all age groups including adolescents and adults, men, women, and couples, and communities, and many programs are applicable to women’s studies, feminism/humanism, and critical gender studies. We work under the umbrella of the non-profit Association for Holistic Health. With local, national, and international projects year-round, interns are an integral part of our team approach. Dr. Lisa, current director of the Spiral Arts Institute, released a movie in 1995 for festival and university circulation. Currently, she is preparing the documentary for DVD along with a contemporary book to release together as a package to the public later this year.

Describe NB4AG internship:
Interns for the NB4AG project will embark on an investigation to locate and establish contact with all 50 of the original musicians who participated in the documentary film, Not Bad for a Girl: An Analytic Approach to Rock Music, Creativity, and Gender Deconstruction (1995) from 1990-1994. Using contacts and leads, myspace, youtube, search engines, and rock gigs, s/he will locate and engage the artists’ interest and commitment in a follow up interview and panel with contemporary dialogues about rock music, the industry, creativity, and gender.  S/he will explore with the artists their interest in co-creating a West Coast/East Coast jam with their peers. Interns will seek out other relevant or newly emerging musicians/bands who were not in the original documentary with the same intentions. Interns may also assist in the interviewing and producing of these events. This position involves investigative journalistic research, public relations, and gender/rock music issues. This work will support the completion of the Not Bad for a Girl companion book and DVD package and its release.

Skills required:
*highly resourceful with initiative and persistence and tenacious yet empathic
*highly responsible and who goes beyond what is expected without needing supervision
*strong work ethic with high standards of reliability, commitment, loyalty, ethics, honesty and integrity
*organized transcribing all dates/details on daily contact sheets and forwarding to the director
*equally competent working alone and with a team, and takes and initiates direction well
*interested in women in rock music/subculture and understanding musicians, music scenes i.e Riot Grrrl
*understands subgenres of music: heavy metal, speed metal, rap, hip hop, punk, grunge
*proficient with Word, Excel, Power Point, myspace, youtube, facebook, iMDb.com, search engines
*able to multi-task with complex tasks, follow through and complete tasks
*able to create a bridge to assist original participants to come back and give follow up interviews and participate in a panel discussion and jam sessions
*describe to artists project importance and relevance to them, fans, musicians and our culture

Time Commitment and Compensation:
Prefer 1 full-time intern 40 hrs/wk, or 2 part-time interns working 20-25 hrs/wk for winter and spring
Part-time interns earn a stipend of $500/mos. Full time interns earn a stipend of $1000/mos. College credit for internship hours is also available for interns at USD, UCSD, SDSU, and USC.

For serious inquiries, e-mail notbad4agirl@gmail.com.
NotBadforaGirlMovie.com
SpiralArtsInstitute.com