JOBS + INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
We are looking for Summer Camp Volunteers!
Suffolk Center Summer Camp Volunteers primarily serve as classroom aides and are responsible for helping to ensure that campers have a positive and safe camp experience. Work is completed under the direction of Classroom Instructors and the Education Manager. Camp volunteers must be aged 15 by June 1, 2023 and must be able to commit to a week-long camp (Monday-Friday, 8:30am – 3:00pm).
Should you have any questions, please contact Rick Byrd, Suffolk Center Creative Director, at 757-923-0003, ext. 107.
DOWNLOAD: SCCA Volunteer Application
Statement of Diversity and Inclusion
The mission of the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts is to encourage and advocate the visual and performing arts by providing a forum where diverse audiences can actively participate in cultural experiences. The Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts is committed to supporting the economic vitality of Suffolk by enhancing the life experiences of our citizens and visitors.
We believe that our mission is most effectively fulfilled through a commitment to inclusiveness as a core value and practice. We maintain that building and sustaining diversity requires an ongoing commitment to inclusion that must find full expression in our organizational culture, values, norms, and behaviors.
Throughout our work, we support diversity across all lines of difference, including age, economic circumstance, ethnicity, sex, race, range of ability, religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity/expression. We aim to lead by example, viewing and encouraging diversity as a fundamental and abiding strength of the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts.
The Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts recognizes that its effectiveness will be enhanced, and its mission well served, when the practice of inclusion is reflected in all aspects of the organization.
About the Suffolk Center
Housed in the historic Suffolk High School, the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts is the premier visual and performing arts venue for Suffolk and the Western Hampton Roads Region. Located in the heart of downtown Suffolk, the restored landmark houses a 530-seat theater and stage for concerts, ballets, dramatic works, films, lectures, and so much more. The Suffolk Center is home to two art galleries, which host an ever-changing array of world-class exhibits, and a gallery gift shop featuring works by local artists.
The Center has a robust educational program and offers a multitude of classes for the community, such as dance, painting, choral singing, piano, photography, pottery, drawing, glass art, and more, and we send artists to public schools in our region to bring the arts to young people.
The Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts is nonprofit organization with a staff of 20 and a volunteer board of directors. We are committed to supporting the economic vitality of Suffolk by enhancing the life experiences of our citizens and visitors.
Want to get involved ~ consider Volunteering at the Suffolk Center!