Marketing & Communications Intern

About the internship

Sonic Acts is looking for one intern to join our small, close-knit Communications team. This is a hands-on internship within an interdisciplinary cultural organisation, focused on maintaining and developing our communication channels and keeping audiences engaged with our ongoing activities. 

As an intern, you will support the day-to-day execution of our communications and marketing activities. This includes helping manage and update channels such as newsletters, social media, the website, and other online platforms, as well as supporting the rollout of campaigns and regular communications. You will be closely involved in the practical side of communication and marketing workflows: scheduling and publishing content, preparing and adapting materials for different platforms, maintaining consistency across channels, and supporting the coordination of ongoing activities. 

This internship provides experience with working methods and tools commonly used in cultural organisations, such as Basecamp (project coordination), content planning systems, and general workflows around time management, prioritisation, and collaborative project organisation. 

There is also room to take ownership of a specific focus area or learning trajectory, or to create your own project that would improve Sonic Acts' promotional efforts. Depending on interest and learning goals, this may develop into a more defined internship focus project in dialogue with the team.

The internship provides insight into how communications function within a cultural organisation: how content is structured across channels, how audiences are maintained and developed over time, and how marketing activities are planned and executed in a coordinated way. You will work in a collaborative environment where reliability, attention to detail, and curiosity about digital communication tools are essential. 

Please note: Sonic Acts employs dedicated staff for its core operations; this internship is intended as a learning environment to gain practical experience in cultural communications and marketing. The role is oriented towards audience development, campaign coordination, and public-facing communications, rather than editorial production.

About Sonic Acts

Sonic Acts is an Amsterdam-based interdisciplinary arts organisation dedicated to the research, development, and production of work at the intersection of sound art, visual art, science, and theory. As an international platform for artistic research, commissioning, and co-production, the organisation operates within a broad ecosystem of cultural and academic contexts, through which it develops and presents new work in close exchange with partners across the arts, research, and education.

Founded in 1994 to present new developments in electronic and digital art, Sonic Acts has evolved into a platform for experimental and interdisciplinary practice. Its activities include residencies, long-term research trajectories, public events, publications, and newly commissioned works, often developed through collaborative processes and presented within public programmes. Alongside its year-round programme, Sonic Acts is known for its Biennial, a large-scale multi-venue programme featuring exhibitions, concerts, performances, screenings, and conferences across disciplines, often presenting works developed through Sonic Acts’ research and commissioning processes (next edition: 2028).

Based in Amsterdam, Sonic Acts fosters artistic experimentation by creating conditions for research, production, and exchange. It acts as a resource for knowledge development and provides opportunities for artists, researchers, and cultural practitioners to develop and present new work within an interdisciplinary context.

During your internship, you will support us with a range of communications and marketing tasks, including:

• Keeping the website and other Sonic Acts platforms up to date

• Planning, drafting, and publishing textual and visual content for the website, social media, and newsletters

• Executing PR and audience research

• Contributing ideas for (online) marketing activities and audience engagement

• Providing practical support, such as taking minutes during meetings

• Requesting and coordinating communication materials from artists and artist management

• Organising and maintaining marketing and communications materials, including the digital archive

• Spending dedicated time on a focused project, depending on the specific learning goals.

Internship requirements:

• You have a college- or university-level working and thinking capacity and are ideally undertaking this internship as part of your studies

• You have an affinity with Sonic Acts and its fields: sound) art, science, contemporary theory, and technology

• You write and speak fluent English (the Sonic Acts team primarily communicates in English)

• You are confident using social media platforms such as Instagram and YouTube, and interested in how content performs across digital channels

• Experience with communication, marketing, or content production is an advantage

• Basic familiarity with design tools such as Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop is an advantage (and an interest in developing these skills further is welcome)

• You are organised, proactive, and comfortable working in a context where tasks vary from day-to-day execution to longer-term coordination

• You are flexible; our activities occasionally take place in the evenings and on weekends, with working hours adjusted accordingly

• You live in Amsterdam or the surrounding area, or are willing to travel to the office

• Applicants must have Dutch citizenship or a valid residency permit/visa that allows them to complete the full internship period.

We offer:

• An internship from September 2026 through February 2027 (exact dates to be confirmed)

• A 3-day-per-week internship within a small, collaborative team

• An in-depth and varied internship in communications, PR and marketing activities

• A collaborative and inspiring working environment with colleagues, partners, and artists

• An internship allowance of €400 gross per month, in accordance with the guidelines of De Zaak Nu.

Please note: This is an internship position intended to provide hands-on experience and in-depth knowledge of communications and marketing/PR within a dynamic cultural organisation.

Sonic Acts endorses the Fair Practice Code and the Code Cultural Diversity and is committed to expanding the range of voices within the organisation. Applicants from all cultural backgrounds are encouraged to apply. In the case of equal suitability, preference will be given to the candidate who strengthens the diversity of the team.