Open Call for Expressions of Interest
Traditional Trades & Heritage Crafts
Are you an artisan with a Victorian-based practice? Sherbrooke Village, Nova Scotia’s largest living history museum, is seeking people that have a passion for sharing their skills and knowledge to help keep heritage arts and traditional trades alive through practice, demonstrations and teaching. We value authenticity and historical accuracy with particular interest in Mi’kmaw and rare Maritime crafts.
As a 19th century settlement, Sherbrooke Village includes historic spaces for blacksmithing, woodworking, weaving, pottery, letterpress, costume design and heritage building trades. The museum site contains other spaces that can be adapted for other types of trade and craft practices.
If you haven’t demonstrated or shared your skills before, our team can support you to develop or expand your skill set to include teaching, communication and engagement skills.
No enquiry is too small, whether it be about the types of opportunities and working relationships we seek to develop, the equipment we have for use, about what it takes to become a heritage artisan with us, or about how we can help you take your craft to new levels.
Consider working with Sherbrooke Village to…
- Ensure rare skills, knowledge and practices survive into the future
- Build awareness for your own practice to new audiences
- Join a community of like-minded practitioners who are passionate about sharing skills and knowledge
- Help people discover what it is to ‘make’ and nurture their appreciation for the handmade, quality materials and craftsmanship
- Inspire people to learn about unique heritage skills
- Dedicate time to your practice in an inspiring Victorian village with like-minded artisans
- Be supported by our team who want to build enjoyable experiences for you and for our visitors
- Expand your skillset with our interpretation team
Consider Sherbrooke Village if you are looking for an organisation that…
- Is a keystone in the cultural life of the Eastern Shore and beyond
- Is actively expanding its community engagement
- Promotes learning through a wide range of experiences and environments
- Embraces its historic rural setting with respect and integrity
- Seeks to contribute to equity, diversity and inclusion in Canada’s museum and trades/crafts sector
Apply to work with Sherbrooke Village
Please send us a brief description of your practice, up to ten (10) images of your work and why you would like to work with our living history museum, including your professional goals. Please combine all attachments as a single document and email to Sherbrooke.ED@novascotia.ca – Subject: Heritage Crafts.