Digital Storytelling & Communications Intern

ON THE BLOCK DIGITAL STORYTELLING & COMMUNICATIONS INTERN

INTERNSHIP HOST SITE: ON THE BLOCK/FOREVER SAFE SPACES 


The On The Block Digital Storytelling & Communications Intern supports the Communications Lead and Steering Core of the On the Block/Forever Safe Spaces Ecosystem. This role is designed to support the implementation and maintenance of a robust content pipeline and publishing schedule across various digital platforms. The apprentice will play a key role in the digital curation, storytelling, and amplification of local events and artists.

The intern will have the unique opportunity to meet and work with a broad base of artists across all disciplines, gaining hands-on experience in community-centered cultural work.

Application review begins on May 1, 2026, we hope to begin this internship in early June. Position is open until filled. 

Read more and apply here. 


About Northwest Folklife and the CCWD:  

Since 1972, Northwest Folklife (NWFL) has been creating opportunities for all to celebrate, share, and participate in the evolving cultural traditions of the Pacific Northwest. The CCWD (Cultural & Creative Workforce Development Program) launched in 2020 as an initiative of the City of Seattle’s inclusive creative economy strategy, offering paid career development experiences rooted in the foundational aspects of culture and creativity; working on a strengths-based, paradigm shifting platform for artists, creatives, and culture bearers to foster the potential they bring to any workplace.  

Northwest Folklife (NWFL), in partnership with 4Culture and the Office of Arts & Culture (ARTS), collaborates with a diverse ecosystem of individual artists, culture bearers, cultural organizations, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and community organizers across the Pacific Northwest to provide culturally responsive, career development as well as a community-led program focused on equitable recovery and systemic transformation through the Creative Economy.  

The intentional and robust support of the creative and cultural sector is a forward-thinking urban growth strategy which interrupts historical patterns of cultural divestment, displacement, and erasure. 

About On The Block / Forever Safe Spaces: 
On The Block / Forever Safe Spaces (FSS) is a BIPOC-artist-led cooperative and conduit for sustainable opportunity and creative equity from the ground up. We operate a "little campus" of cultural spaces centered on 11th Avenue between E. Pike and E. Pine in Seattle's Capitol Hill Arts District: Blue Cone Studios, The Study, and So Below that support over 50+ resident artists of all mediums. Our programs include The On the Block Creative Marketplace, a monthly street fair June - September that centers BIPOC and LGBTQ+ creatives while activating public spaces, and CommuniTEAS a series of free weekly and monthly drop-ins for creatives of all mediums. With the recent opening of our first street-level venue, Eleven:Eleven, we are now producing and hosting more events and generating more traffic and interest. This is ushering in new opportunities which necessitate a new approach to our current content pipeline. This is where you come in!