Dora - the new volunteer, not the explorer

Hey everyone! I just started volunteering at MTA last week to get some experience working with artists. I’ve never really posted a blog entry before so this will be a first for me. I’ll be posting an entry every week to let you know how my experience is going! J

I’m 19 at the moment and I’ve been interested in working in the music industry my whole life. I’ve finally decided to pursue a career in event management and/or managing bands/artists so I think working here will be an awesome way to understand how things work. I recently got accepted into SAE to study a Bachelor of Audio Production and I’m very excited to start studying there in March.

I went to an awesome Tegan and Sara event last week at the Thornbury Theatre where they performed a somewhat intimate set followed by Q & A from the audience. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Tegan and Sara, they are a Canadian indie-pop band and they are fricken amazing. Youtube some of their videos and I guarantee you will fall in love! It’s really cool that some of these obscure bands are visiting Australia.

So, enough about my interests… Some things I’ve been doing here for MTA lately are basically to do with keeping the website up to date and editing the bios for all the artists, (making them somewhat less tedious to read for potential clients). My new project is to find some more friends for MTA’s Facebook page and to let our contacts know what’s going on at MTA through some quirky statuses and such. I feel that I will be a massive help in this area mainly due to the fact that being Facebook-savvy is one of my many talents. I have an unhealthily strong addiction to status updates. You’ll see when you visit the page…

Anway, I’m really enjoying working here so far, the staff are really cool and are a big help. Big thank-you to Mandy for giving me the opportunity. Also shout out to Gareth, Russ and Shari for helping me out and just being super-cool people in general.

MTA wooooo!

- Dora