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Information for joining the ThreeWeeks in Brighton team in 2010
Deadline for applications is now Tuesday 27th April.

Click here to download an application form.

Click here to browse ThreeWeeks in Brighton 2009 coverage.

We recommend reading the information below before filling out your application form.

If you have reviewed for ThreeWeeks before and want to apply to rejoin the team, check the information for returning writers on this page here.

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INTRODUCTION

ThreeWeeks has been covering the Edinburgh Festival for fourteen years. Every year 100 students recruited from universities around the UK come to Edinburgh to cover, between them, over 1700 shows including theatre, comedy, dance, music, musicals, art and talks.

Since 2006, ThreeWeeks has covered the Brighton Festival too, recruiting a team of mainly Brighton-based students and arranging for them to review hundreds of shows that take place as part of the Brighton, Brighton Fringe, Great Escape, Artists' Open Houses and Charleston festivals each May. Their reviews appear online, and in print through our Brighton-based media partners.

We will return to the Brighton Festival for our fifth year this May, and are currently recruiting our student review team.

ThreeWeeks In Brighton provides a unique opportunity for students to gain on-the-ground experience in arts and entertainment journalism. Reviewers have the chance to put into action the skills they have gained from their media course, or from being involved in their student newspaper or radio station, while benefiting from ThreeWeeks' high profile and good reputation at the Brighton Festival and in the wider cultural world.

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HOW IT WORKS, WHEN IT HAPPENS + HOW TO APPLY

All positions on the ThreeWeeks review team are voluntary and you need to get yourself to Brighton in May (if you don't already live there) . But participants receive free training and coaching from UnLimited's team of professional journalists and editors, and have the opportunity to see tens of festival shows for free during May, and to see their work published by a trusted festival publication.

Each reviewer tells us which genres they are comfortable reviewing, and when they are available to review (what time slots on what days). They will then receive a daily review schedule which will include details of the show or shows they are to review that day (assuming they are available). Reviewers need to submit their reviews by email before midday the day after they see a show.

Reviewing will take place in Brighton from Saturday 1 to Monday 24 May, reviewers therefore need to be available on some days between those dates. There is no minimum or maximum number of days a reviewer needs to be available to review, so reviewers can fit their reviewing around other commitments, eg exams or coursework deadlines.

The only compulsory date for all new reviewers is the Reviewer Training Workshop. Workshops are held on Saturday 1 and 2 May, from midday to 6pm,in Brighton and each new reviewer must attend one of these.

The genres we cover at the Brighton Festival include: theatre, comedy, cabaret, dance, physical theatre, musicals, art, literary debates and music (contemporary, classical and folk).

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WHAT PAST THREEWEEKS REVIEWERS SAY

"Being part of the ThreeWeeks review team was a valuable experience in developing my media skills within a fascinating working environment. More importantly it is one of the most enjoyable, action-packed and ultimately bizarre adventures I have ever had the pleasure to embark on!"

"The whole experience was just amazing, it is something I now fully recommend to everyone I meet. The experience of working with ThreeWeeks is something I will never forget and I can't explain how valuable and important the experience was to me. Thanks again!"

"Working for ThreeWeeks gave me my first chance to write in a non-student publication, the experience was invaluable".

"ThreeWeeks is an absolute gift of an experience; creative, challenging and emotional, it leaves you exhausted and proud".

"It was a priceless experience, which has put gold ribbons on my writing. Thank you".

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IMPORTANT DATES

Interviews
All applications will be reviewed by the ThreeWeeks editors. Phone interviews will be conducted with the best applicants in during March. Reviewers will be appointed in early April.

Training Sessions
All new reviewers will need to attend a ThreeWeeks Reviewer Training Workshop. There are two to choose from. Workshops will take place on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 April from midday to 6pm in Brighton.

Reviewing
Reviewing will take place from Saturday 1 to Monday 24 May.

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TRAVEL & ACCOMMODATION

Unfortunately ThreeWeeks is unable to help with travel to or accommodation in Brighton, so this programme is targeted primarily at students already based in the city. However, any students from outside Brighton able to get themselves to the festival and able to find themselves somewhere to stay are welcome to apply.

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ABOUT THREEWEEKS

• ThreeWeeks has been discovering, championing, supporting and enabling cultural innovation at the Edinburgh Festival for thirteen years.

• ThreeWeeks was created in 1996 by then Edinburgh University students Chris Cooke, Geraint Preston and Alex Thomson.

• Having managed a number of venues at the Edinburgh Fringe, Chris felt that too often the most exciting and most innovative performers and shows at the Festival were missed or ignored by the mainstream media.

• To rectify that problem, Chris, Geraint and Alex set about building a media platform specifically designed to discover and champion cultural innovation at the Festival - focusing in particular on the shows and performers ignored by the mainstream press. And so ThreeWeeks was born.

• From the start ThreeWeeks also aimed to give student journalists a fantastic opportunity to gain skills and experience in reporting on the arts. In the late nineties Chris worked with fellow editors Caroline Moses and Christabel Anderson to develop a dynamic media training programme around ThreeWeeks. In 2009 over 150 students took part in this programme.

• In 2000 Chris and Caroline decided that in order to truly discover cultural innovation at the Edinburgh Festival, ThreeWeeks needed to review more or less everything being performed. To this end Caroline developed a scheduling system that meant that, despite working with a volunteer review team, we were able to see more shows than any other publication at the Festival. In 2009 ThreeWeeks reviewed in excess of 1800 shows in 25 days, this year we will see even more.

• As well as seeing more shows than any other media, ThreeWeeks aims to get its coverage of the Edinburgh Festival out to as many people through as many media as possible. In 2009 this included a weekly newspaper and daily reviews sheet (distributed all over Edinburgh), daily email-bulletin, podcast service and the website, www.threeweeks.co.uk. By providing such wide coverage in so many places, ThreeWeeks has become the leading reviewer at the Edinburgh Festival.

• In 2006, for the first time, ThreeWeeks branched out of Edinburgh to take its ethos and approach to the Brighton Festival. Four years on ThreeWeeks has become the leading reviewer at this exciting arts festival too.

• ThreeWeeks is now managed and run by UnLimited Media – the content, communication and consulting company owned and run by Chris Cooke and Caroline Moses. UnLimited runs numerous projects and media platforms 365 days a year – all designed to discover, champion, support and enable cultural innovation.