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Are YOU ready for a Cultural Career in ....
MUSIC DO YOU... o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
Have a passion for music? Play an instrument? Love to sing? Think you’re a self-starter? Have a good ear? Handle reflection well? Like to make up songs in your head? Consider yourself an entrepreneur? Know how to persevere? Give 100% to your performance? Enjoy working for yourself? Have no interest in working 9 to 5? Like to travel? Have self- discipline? Have good communication skills?
Did you check off 10 or more? Then a career in Music may be perfect for you.
Is it RIGHT for YOU?
Music has a global audience, but it is also an intensely personal experience. To some it’s the passion of a dramatic tenor or the precision of a concert pianist. To others, it’s the passion of a love ballad or the power of a screaming guitar. Perhaps you want to be a soloist, or fronting an eight-person rock band, or even, playing first cello in an orchestra. You might see yourself behind a 32-track console in a recording studio. Or maybe you feel you have what it takes to nurture and promote talented performances and take them all the way to the top. Example Occupations: Musicians, Composers, Singers, conductors, Arrangers, Managers, Presenters, Recording Technicians, Computer Synthesists, Producers.
NEW MEDIA
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o Think in pictures and images? o Have an interest in computers and software programs? o Like the challenge of gaming? o Enjoy surfing the web? o Like solving problems? o Check out new technology whenever you get a chance? o Like drawing or creating graphic design using computer programs? o Know how to use “authoring” software programs? o Have ideas for writing interactive products? o Want to run your own business? o Work well with other people? o Have the ability to meet deadlines? o Consider yourself creative? Did you check off 10 or more? o Know how to handle change? Then a career in New Media may be perfect for you.
Is it RIGHT for YOU?
If you enjoy surfing the Web, using social media, trying new software, writing your own computer code…then you’re a player in a revolution that’s changing every culture and country on the globe. If you are interested in a new media career, you’ll be joining other creators and communicators – artists, educator, designers, animators, writers and business people – who are using digital technologies to delivery information to people in new ways. Careers include those in computer game design, digital filmmaking, graphic design, web site design, database development, software design and more. Example Occupations: Web designers, Computer Game Designers, Software Designers, Programmers, Digital Filmmakers, Graphic Designers.
VISUAL ARTS DO YOU ...
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o Like old things? o Want to work independently? o Enjoy your natural landscape and want to promote it? o Like learning stories about Canada’s peoples and places? o Read history books? o Have a curious and enterprising spirit? o Enjoy collecting things? o Use words, dance, art, music or film to honor a place or groups of people? o Like learning about past traditions? o Think you’d like to converse artifacts? o Like learning languages? o Like the look of old buildings or historic streetscapes? o Enjoy leazrning about your family history? o Like celebrating Canada’s multicultural heritage? o Want to create or preserve things with your hands?
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Love to draw or paint? Have a flair for working with your hands? Enjoy the illustrations in books? Appreciate visuals in music videos? Like wandering through art galleries? Enjoy graphics on the Internet? Thrive on expressing your creativity? Enjoy solving problems? Want to direct your own projects? Feel strongly about ideas? Seek to communicate your enthusiasm to others? Feel stimulated by new technologies? Adapt well to change? Trust your own mind? Prefer to work independently?
Did you check off 10 or more? Then a career in Visual Arts may be perfect for you
Is it RIGHT for YOU?
HERITAGE
Is your mind’s eye always at work? Do you come alive when you’re drawing, making or designing something? Do you get excited by vivid colours and striking images in a painting or photograph? Are you intrigued by the style and design of an ad or video game? Then visual arts, crafts, computer animation and graphic design could provide you with a deeply satisfying career path that would engage your eye, hand, head and heart. Example Occupations: Artists, Craftpersons, Agents, Curators, Animateurs, Program Coordinators, Managers, Dealers, Designers.
Is it RIGHT for YOU?
Did you check off 10 or more? Then a career in Heritage may be perfect for you.
Heritage is the core of our identity as Canadians. It is your story, your friend’s story, your neighbour’s story, you community story – all the stories from the past that Canadians keep alive and tell others. It includes historic buildings, museums, archives, family traditions, photos/film, traditional music and dance. Would you like to become a museum curator and create exhibits for many people to see? Maybe you’d like to be a tour guide through a park or heritage attraction? Or, perhaps a film producer creating a video of an important moment in history? A career in heritage begins with developing your skills and using them to their highest potential. Example Occupations: Curators, Educators, Conservators, Interpreters, Designers, Managers, Technicians, Registrars, Librarians, Archivists, Records Managers, Archaeologists, Genealogists.
WORDS DO YOU ...
o Like everything that has to do with words and the printed page? o Enjoy reading? o Love language? o Read magazines and newspapers? o Like to spend time in bookstores and libraries? o Think the Internet is a great source of information? o Have good communications skills? o Write for your own enjoyment? o Think being your own boss would be great? o Notice spelling and grammar mistakes in printed materials? o Enjoy publicity, promotion and marketing? o Have a creative flair – for words or Did you check off 10 or more? graphics? Then a career in Visual Arts may be o Find public issues and trends interesting? perfect for you. o Know that your workstyle can be flexible and adaptable? o Prefer to work independently?
Is it RIGHT for YOU?
Words are the building blocks of human expression. They convey information. They express our needs, emotions and desires. They are our means of communicating with one another. If you’re interested in a writing or publishing career, then you’re thinking about work in one of the most important areas of human knowledge and endeavour. Perhaps you have a driving ambition to become a famous writer. Maybe you want to be part of the process that gets written work to the public. Whatever route you choose, you will find that having a successful and enjoyable career in writing and publishing begins with developing your skills. Example occupations:Writers, Editors, Illustrators, Publishers, Managers, Agents.
STUDIO, STAGE OR SCREEN DO YOU ...
o Have an open mind about new technologies? o Have ingenuity and resourcefulness? o Know you can handle pressure well? o Enjoy giving 100 per cent for your effort to a project? o Know that you are committed to lifelong learning?
o Love the “magic” of the stage? o Have a fascination with film, tv or radio? o Like to exercise your creativity? o Have a terrific curiosity about people, places and things? o Enjoy being a part of a team and working with others? o Want to travel and meet new people? o Have high levels of energy and enthusiasm? o Enjoy solving problems and Did you check off 10 or more? making things happen? Then a career in Visual Arts o Deal well with financial may be perfect for you. uncertainty? o Want to be your own boss?
who work in studio, stage and screen create performances, products and Is it RIGHT People programs that help us understand ourselves and each other. However, we don’t make connections alone. Millions of other people often watch the same shows and hear for YOU? these the same music as we do. If you have a career in studio, stage and screen, you’ll be part of a powerful force in today’s world, linking people through shared experiences. Perhaps you dream of being in the spotlight and performing in front of live audiences or a film/ video director, camera and crew. Maybe you’d love to be behind the scenes, providing the important managerial, technical or marketing skills that make performances happen. Example Occupations: Actors, Producers, Directors,Writers, Set/Costume and Lighting Designers, Lighting and Sound Technicians, Film Editors, Stage Managers, Set Builders, Presenters.
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Copy condensed from Careers in Culture, produced by Cultural Human Resources Council, 2001, updated by SaskCulture in 2018.