{"id":318,"date":"2021-11-04T12:57:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T12:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/?p=318"},"modified":"2021-11-04T12:57:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T12:57:03","slug":"creative-kent-kaz-cooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/2021\/11\/04\/creative-kent-kaz-cooper\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Kent: Kaz Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kaz first got in touch with the Institute when she applied for an internship. We suggested that she volunteer for the BOing festival, and from that opportunity she landed a role as Assistant Curator for the <a href=\"https:\/\/playingapartautisticgirls.org\/events\/beyond-stereotypes-conference-2021\/exhibition\/\">Welcome to Our World exhibition.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was over the moon when the Institute sent me the email suggesting that I volunteer for the <a href=\"https:\/\/boingfestival.com\/\" data-link-type=\"external\">bOing\u00a0<\/a>Festival. Employers do not usually reach out to interviewees if they have filled the position with another candidate. Receiving that email was encouraging and boosted my self-esteem, reaffirming that not being the first choice didn\u2019t necessarily mean failure. I truly appreciated that&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full article and find out more about the Welcome To Our World Exhibition (WOW) on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries\/creative-kent\/kaz-cooper\">Creative Kent<\/a> pages.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-319\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/files\/2021\/11\/IMG_8284.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaz first got in touch with the Institute when she applied for an internship. We suggested that she volunteer for the BOing festival, and from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/2021\/11\/04\/creative-kent-kaz-cooper\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25727,"featured_media":320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}