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• Assistant Producer / Wayward Productions / London

  12-02-2019 23:46
  Wayward is a new theatre production company led by Judith Dimant.  Judith was Executive Producer at Complicité for 25 years until 2018 producing all of Simon McBurney’s work...
  
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• Programming Manager, Joyce Theatre

  12-02-2019 23:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. among the world’s best presentation for venues for dance, seeks Programming Manager.Reports to Director of Programming. The Programming Manager will:
  Work closely with Director of Programming, in coordination with Production, School and Family Programs, Marketing, Finance, and other departments as needed, to manage all engagement related logistics for an approximately 48-week annual performance seasonCollect and disseminate information regarding programm
  
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• How The Red Carpet Became Such A Thing

  12-02-2019 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Although the red carpet has been a part of Hollywood premières since the silent era and a part of the Academy Awards since the early sixties, it became a beast unto itself in large part because of Joan Rivers, who began hosting her barbed red-carpet specials in the nineties, with her daughter, Melissa. The “Joan Rivers effect” made the whole enterprise funnier and—for the starlets on display—scarier. Soon the red carpet became its own cottage industry, with the E!
  
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• The Cities That Fall Into A Branding Trap

  12-02-2019 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Look at any piece of city marketing material, from promo videos to airline magazine ad inserts. It’s amazing how so many of them rely on the same basic ingredients: hipster coffee shops, microbreweries, bike lanes, creative-class members, startups, intimations of a fashion scene, farm-to-table restaurants, new downtown streetcars, etc. These are all good things, mind you: things cities should be happy to have. Some of them may even be modern necessities. But you can’t help bu
  
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• 2 Week Pottery and Print Workshop / Bristol Print Collective & Trylla / South West / Bristol

  12-02-2019 22:38
  Print and Pottery Workshop
  Tuesday 26th Feb & Tuesday 5th March
  Bristol Print Collective @ Trylla Shop
  8 North Street, Bedminster, Bristol, BS3 1HT
  £45 for two sessions.
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• 2 Week Screen Printing Workshop / Bristol Print Collective / South West / Bristol

  12-02-2019 22:32
  Screen Printing with Paper Stencils
  Thurs 21st March & Thurs 28th March 6.30 - 8.30pm
  North Gallery Workspace135 North Street, Bristol, BS3 1EY
  £50 for two sessions. 
  Using...
  
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• How This Year’s Oscar Nominees Got To Be Oscar Nominees

  12-02-2019 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Only so many movies are chosen, and the road isn’t straight. Here is a movie-by-movie account of how each got to be a best picture nominee. – Deadline
  
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• 2 Week Reduction Lino Printmaking Workshop / Bristol Print Collective / South West / Bristol

  12-02-2019 22:28
  Thursday 28th Feb & Thursday 7th March 6.30 - 8.30pm
  North Gallery Workspace, 135 North Street, Bristol, BS3 1EY
  Reduction Lino Printmaking Workshop
  £45 for two sessions. 
  It's...
  
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• Disability As Strength – Except When Portrayed As Cliche In The Theatre

  12-02-2019 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Modern thinking around disability looks to a social model: people are disabled by society’s structures, the stairs they can’t climb and the doors a wheelchair can’t fit though are simple examples. It’s the job we can’t get, because having a disability is viewed as an inherent weakness rather than living with it being a demonstration of strength.” – The Guardian
  
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• What Makes Us Human: Laughter?

  12-02-2019 21:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Something that sets us apart from these ancestors and primate relatives, and should be of special interest to anthropology, is our unique propensity to laugh. Laughter is a paradox. We all know it’s good for us; we experience it as one of life’s pleasures and a form of emotional release. Yet to be able to laugh, we must somehow cut ourselves off from feelings of love, hate, fear or any other powerful emotion.  – Aeon
  
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• What Happened When Three Philosophers Put An ‘Ask A Philosopher’ Booth On A Manhattan Street Corner

  12-02-2019 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Oh yes, people showed up, and they asked real questions. Lee McIntyre, author of Post-Truth and one of the three, offers a report. (The hardest part: the six-year-old girl who looked him in the eye and asked, in all seriousness, “How do I know I’m real?”) – The Conversation
  
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• New Conservation Center & Stellar Van Gogh Show: David Bomford’s Last Hurrahs at MFA, Houston

  12-02-2019 20:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Gary Tinterow, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has a knack for attracting distinguished staff. After Gary’s homecoming to Houston (where he grew up), to assume the MFAH’s directorship in 2012, one of his first and best hires was David Bomford, who became chairman of conservation and curator of European art. — Lee Rosenbaum
  
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• Propwatch: the strap-on in ‘When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other’

  12-02-2019 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  There is stuff you expect to find in a garage. A car. Metal shelving, peg board. Strip lighting that tints everything stark and queasy. A toolbox. Gaffer tape. An Amazon delivery box (there’s always a swoosh-marked Amazon box). They’re all here in Vicki Mortimer’s design. There’s also a strap-on. — David Jays
  
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• British Critic Alun Morgan Is Gone

  12-02-2019 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Morgan’s critiques, reviews and album notes were among the most widely read of those by any contemporary jazz critic. — Doug Ramsey
  
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• After School Facilitators required - Dance / Skipz Productions cic / London

  12-02-2019 20:54
  Skipz Productions cic is a creative arts company for children aged 5 years to 18 years.We are looking for the following facilitators to join our team:Tuesdays:Street dance at a primary...
  
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• A Sense Of Doom In The Air (What, Me Worry?)

  12-02-2019 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Since the financial crash of 2008, across Europe and in the United States, there has been (to borrow a phrase from Frank Kermode) a “sense of an ending”. Liberal orthodoxies have fallen into radical doubt. Populist movements are arrayed against the political and economic order that has stood in place for the past fifty years. Electorates have leaped into unknown futures. The grounds of civilization won’t break up under our feet so much as recede under melting ice caps a
  
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• Camp Director / The Hive / London

  12-02-2019 20:14
  The Hive are recruiting! ROLE: ​Camp Directors 
  COMMITMENT: Part-time (week-long camps throughout the year - see dates below)
  The Hive are looking...
  
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• Lost Soviet Art (Good Art, No Less) Keeps Turning Up In Kazakhstan’s Largest City

  12-02-2019 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mosaics, reliefs and sgraffiti from the days of the USSR are being found behind boards in Almaty and restored. Why did they escape being destroyed, as Soviet artworks were in so many other places? Most likely, because the capital of the newly independent country was moved somewhere else. – The Guardian
  
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• Mission Facilitators / The Hive / London

  12-02-2019 20:00
  The Hive are recruiting! 
  ROLE: Mission Facilitators 
  COMMITMENT: Part-time (week-long camps throughout the year - see dates below)
  The Hive are looking for energetic, skilled...
  
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• A Prescient Warning From 1994 About Dangers Of A Distraction Culture

  12-02-2019 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Writing in 1994, Sven Birkerts worried that distractedness and surficiality would win out. The “duration state” we enter through a turned page would be lost in a world of increasing speed and relentless connectivity, and with it our ability to make meaning out of narratives, both fictional and lived. The diminishment of literature—of sustained reading, of writing as the product of a single focused mind—would diminish the self in turn, rendering us less and less able to g
  
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• Giant leap for art: Lichfield Cathedral to become 'lunar landscape'

  12-02-2019 19:23
  Installation will transform cathedral floor to mark 50 years since Apollo 11 moon landingIt’s hard to imagine anything less like a lunar landscape than the medieval glories of Lichfield Cathedral. But this summer, an artist will transform its magnificent tiled floor into a representation of the moon’s surface to mark half a century since Neil Armstrong took “one small step for [a] man and one giant leap for mankind”.The three-spired cathedral in Staffordshire has commissi
  
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• Tate Modern wins privacy case brought by owners of £4m flats

  12-02-2019 19:13
  Residents had complained of ‘near constant surveillance’ by visitors to London gallery One of Tate Modern’s most popular areas, a top-floor terrace that offers spectacular 360-degree views of London, is to remain fully open after neighbours lost a privacy case.More than half a million visitors a year get lifts up to the 10th floor of the gallery’s £260m extension and breathe in fresh air as they look out to St Paul’s, or the Shard, or the luxury interiors of e
  
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• That Old Saw ‘Eskimos Have 50 Words For Snow’? Every Word Of It Is Wrong

  12-02-2019 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Aaron Bady goes through they saying itself and its history to explain why. (For one thing, in Inuit languages, “they can have as many words as they want for almost anything.”) In fact, “what’s been the most interesting discovery is that all the wrong answers are at least as interesting and useful as the so-called right ones.” – Popula
  
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• Project Manager Vacancy / ArtReach / East Midlands

  12-02-2019 18:59
  Salary £23,000 - £25,000 Pro rata Part Time (3 days per week Fixed Term Contract)ArtReach is working on an exciting new project to deliver a programme of Arts & Heritage activity...
  
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• Development Manager (Partnerships) / Orange Tree Theatre / London

  12-02-2019 18:47
  In the last five years, the Orange Tree Theatre has won 27 industry awards and performed to audiences of 75,000 a year across the UK.  In addition to artistic success, the OT has undergone...
  
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• Development Manager (Individuals) (Maternity Cover) / Orange Tree Theatre / London

  12-02-2019 18:45
  In the last five years, the Orange Tree Theatre has won 27 industry awards and performed to audiences of 75,000 a year across the UK.  In addition to artistic success, the OT has undergone...
  
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• Dance Studies Officer / Royal Academy of Dance / London

  12-02-2019 18:44
  £22,000 to £26,000 pa (pro rata)
  Permanent | Part-time 4 days a week (28 hours per week) | Battersea, London
  The Royal Academy of Dance is a dynamic organisation dedicated to advancing...
  
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• Drum Kit Instructor, North Leeds Music Centre / ArtForms (Leeds City Council) / Yorkshire

  12-02-2019 18:42
  ArtForms Music + Arts (www.artformsleeds.co.uk) supports learners in music and artistic activities throughout Leeds.  Our music service provides tuition to 14,000 young people across the city,...
  
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• Admin Assistant / David Chipperfield Architects / London

  12-02-2019 18:28
  David Chipperfield Architects London is looking for an Admin Assistant to work at the practice based on the Strand. This role will involve supporting David Chipperfield’s EA and assisting in...
  
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• New Concert Hall Designed By Frank Gehry Proposed For Wimbledon

  12-02-2019 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Former Hollywood film director Anthony Wilkinson – now director of Wimbledon International Music Festival – is looking to raise around £100 million for the concert hall. Wilkinson told the AJ the facility could host ‘the finest music of all genres featuring significant musicians from around the world’. – Architects’ Journal
  
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• Administrator / Dance in Devon / South West

  12-02-2019 18:23
  Dance in Devon seeks an Administrator to support our small team in all administrative duties, to ensure the smooth running of our office and help us to co-ordinate our diverse arts projects across...
  
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• Trustee / Shropshire Music Trust / West Midlands

  12-02-2019 18:14
  Opportunity to be a Trustee for Shropshire Music Trust (SMT)
  SMT is a vibrant, specialist music organisation, unique to Shropshire as the only professional organisation regularly promoting and...
  
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• Senior Stage Door Receptionist / The Alexandra Theatre / West Midlands

  12-02-2019 18:12
  The Alexandra is a busy receiving house in the centre of Birmingham, which has just undergone a £650,000 refurbishment including a brand new façade and full corporate rebrand. What makes...
  
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• Why Bodice-Rippers Have Become Big Business

  12-02-2019 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s not simply that romance novels are “bubble gum for the mind” — there’s plenty of that available in just about every medium and style around. In fact, romance novels appeal largely to a particular demographic, and that’s for a particular reason. – JSTOR Daily
  
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• Frame Technician / Rainsford & James Ltd / South East

  12-02-2019 17:54
  Position Title: Frame Technician
  Hours: 30 hours per week
  Pay: £8.21 per hour starting pay (£10.00 once fully competent) target driven monthly bonus pay
  Job...
  
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• Volunteer / Norfolk & Norwich Festival / East / Norwich

  12-02-2019 17:40
  “There wasn’t a single moment during the last two weeks when I didn’t feel supported & appreciated (and very well fed) and I’m very grateful for that. Everyone I worked...
  
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• Independently Funded Residencies / Cove Park Ltd / Argyll & Bute

  12-02-2019 17:36
  “Cove Park is one of the most productive places on the planet.” Former Cove Park resident Maria Fusco, writer and Professor of Fine Art at Northumbria University.
  Cove Park...
  
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• So Your Books Are Balanced. What Does That Have To Do With Your Mission?

  12-02-2019 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Fiscal responsibility is good business. But it is immaterial with respect to, and when contrasted with, a nonprofit’s impact. Fiscal responsibility, then, has no place anywhere near a mission statement.” – Clyde Fitch Report
  
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• Rising Appalachia: Using Music As A Platform For Change

  12-02-2019 17:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chloe Smith: “Like I mentioned earlier, we work to utilize our platform as musicians to help promote social and environmental justice causes with the aim of educating and inspiring positive change. The melting pot is the best flavoring at the end of the day when all these ingredients come together and bring the music out beyond the stage and into the layers of daily life.” – Guitar Girl Magazine
  
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• Inspiring Audiences Home & Away: South West Fed Conference 2019 / / South West

  12-02-2019 17:09
  South West Fed Conference 2019 'Inspiring Audiences: Home and Away'4-5 July 2019Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth(In partnership with Cornerstone Heritage, University of...
  
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• Senior Audience Researcher / Science Museum Group / London

  12-02-2019 17:06
  Do you have experience of audience research techniques and methodologies? Have you designed and managed audience research as part of wider development projects?
   
  Technicians Make It Happen...
  
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• The Six-Foot-Seven Prisoner Who Staged The First All-Black Shakespeare

  12-02-2019 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Richard Crafus, aka “King Dick”, was shipped off to a prison in southwestern England as an enemy combatant during the War of 1812. The biggest and strongest man in a segregated wing of the jail, he ran everything there — including a prisoners’ theatre, where he staged Romeo and Juliet and Othello. – The Stage
  
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• Gig Buddies Croydon, Project Manager / Club Soda / London / South East

  12-02-2019 17:00
  Club Soda is an organisation that supports people with learning disabilities to create exciting social and creative opportunities in Croydon.
  We initially ran Gig Buddies Croydon as a 12 month pilot...
  
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• Link Arts Advocacy With The Actual Arts (And Their Community)

  12-02-2019 16:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Since arriving as the newDean of the School of the Arts at Purchase College in the State University of New York system last summer, Lorenzo Candelaria, 47, has made arts advocacy his school’s cause. His teaching, scholarship and community engagement seek to shape and drive “a nationalconversation on the central role of the arts in society” with “humanities-infused public programming” playing a vital role, he says. – Diverse Education
  
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• Independent Trustees / Libraries Unlimited / South West / Devon

  12-02-2019 16:42
  We are an independent charity established in 2016, looking for experienced and professional independent trustees to join our diverse Board. We have ambitious plans to grow and develop our...
  
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• BODY and PLACE Funded Artist Residencies / theCoLAB / London / and West

  12-02-2019 16:37
  The inaugural BODY and PLACE funded residencies aim to reframe the drawing of the body within unusual contexts outside the confines of the life room.  Drawing and mark making is a...
  
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• The Video Game That Lets You Fight Back Against Jim Crow And The KKK

  12-02-2019 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[Video game company] Rockstar’s version of American history is not for the fainthearted. The developer took pains to make Red Dead Redemption 2 as historically accurate as possible. Someone at Rockstar was clearly paying attention in history class, because Red Dead Redemption 2 unflinchingly confronts America’s ugly racial history throughout the game.” – Slate
  
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• Front of House Bar Team / Theatre Royal Windsor / South East / Windsor

  12-02-2019 16:28
  We are looking for Front of House Bar Staff who are friendly, reliable, presentable & enthusiastic individuals, who have a passion for theatre and can deliver great customer service.Front of...
  
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• Production Manager (Events) / The Nest Collective / London

  12-02-2019 16:19
  We are looking for a skilled, passionate event manager to join our small team committed to delivering exceptional events in unexpected places. Freelance contract for 1 year, with a view to rolling....
  
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• Wells Art Contemporary: WAC Awards 2019, Call for Entries / Parker Harris / South West / Wells

  12-02-2019 16:11
  The Wells Art Contemporary (WAC) Awards is an international open competition for contemporary visual arts which has already established a strong presence in the London art world and which is drawing...
  
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