Opportunities

Images Festival is seeking a Curatorial Assistant!

The Curatorial Assistant supports the Programming Director by conducting research and assisting with the preparation of socially and politically responsive projects, including screenings, exhibitions, public events, and publications. Key responsibilities include research, maintaining databases, drafting documents, note-taking, and potentially liaising with galleries, artists, curators, and distributors.

The ideal candidate is familiar with the Images Festival and the 2024 programming cycle. They will have a strong interest in experimental moving images, care-based practices, and contemporary art. With a background in visual culture, curatorial studies, museum studies, cinema studies, or a related field, they will demonstrate a sustained interest in these topics. This role is suited for a collaborative team player who is also capable of working autonomously, with excellent organizational skills and eagerness to contribute in a dynamic programming environment.

This is a part-time, short-term contract based in Toronto.

Compensation: $25.05/hour inclusive of applicable taxes and CPP/EI contributions

Deadline to Apply: October 31, 2024 at midnight

Start Date: November 18, 2024

To view the full job call and to find out how to apply, please click here. Only applications that are complete and include all required components will be considered for review.

Images Festival operates on land stolen from the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Tkáron:to is currently home to diverse Indigenous and Métis peoples as well as people who settle on this land. As part of Treaty 13 and the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Covenant, we acknowledge that we all eat from the same bowl and spoon, and must take only what we need, ensuring resources are available for all.

As art workers, artists, and curators, we see the process of untangling ourselves from settler complicity as internal, structural, and ongoing. It is not something to be taken lightly. The inclusion of Indigenous artists and curators into our program is just the first step of necessary and deeper change. Extending from our organizational accountability work, we strive to not only undo forms of complicity, but also actively create an environment and infrastructure that can support Indigenous peoples who work with us.

Images expresses our solidarity with Indigenous people on Turtle Island and globally. We are committed to continuing to learn, critique, and challenge the settler colonial structures we are complicit in.