Cheerio to Trans Artists
Although I have not mentioned it here up to now, I have for the last four months or so been working as an unpaid intern at Trans Artists, an Amsterdam-based organisation who maintain a database of and give advice about artist-in-residence opportunities in the Netherlands, Europe, and throughout the world. I had heard about the position through an email received via the DAI, and since it seemed interesting I decided to apply.
I had thought that there would be loads of people who were interested, but this turned out not to be the case, and they took me on straight away. They are very nice people, and I have enjoyed my one day a week of helping out; this has turned out to be mainly translating pieces of text from Dutch to English. This has been necessary because a large part of their website has been up to now only available in Dutch, which of course is not a lot of use for an organisation trying to have an international appeal.
The plan was originally to stay for three months, but it has gone on a bit longer than that. Now the DAI has now started again I have increasingly less and less time for other things, and so it was agreed that I should finish this week.
I was very pleasantly surprised today when as a going-away present I was given some flowers, a leather-bound notebook, and a book token. Not only that, but we all stopped working for a while and had cake and herbal tea, the latter of which seems to be an essential working requirement in their office; while working there I was offered a fresh cup almost hourly. Thank you Trans Artists!
