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• Project Assistant / Pan Macmillan / London

  17-02-2019 22:46
  Are you all for content creation and project management? If so, check out this brilliant entry level opportunity with one of the UK’s largest publishing houses! 
  Founded in 1843, Pan...
  
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• Trainee Production Runner / ScreenDog Productions / South East

  17-02-2019 22:45
  Calling all TV hopefuls! If you’re looking to kickstart your career in television, then check out this brilliant entry level role in the South East of England…
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• Trainee Assistant Producer - Music Production / BBC Radio 6 / London

  17-02-2019 22:42
  Calling all music-obsessed individuals looking to gain top class experience within radio broadcasting…
  BBC 6 Music brings together the cutting edge music of today and the iconic and...
  
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• The Lincoln Memorial Is Iconic, But It Might Have Been Very Different

  17-02-2019 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  So many things could have gone wrong. For instance: “As ideally situated as it seems today, many officials charged with building the Memorial did not want to locate it at West Potomac Park, the once-marshy fringe of Washington’s National Mall. Bizarre alternative proposals included Virginia’s Arlington Cemetery—in the former Confederacy.” Then let’s talk about the statue. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Frame Drum and Darbuka Workshop for Beginners / Frame Drums UK / London / South Hackney

  17-02-2019 22:15
  Learn the art of Middle Eastern percussion with experienced percussionist and music teacher Elizabeth Nott.During the day you will learn and improve the following:- Upright and Lap style frame...
  
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• It’s Great To Have A Diverse Cast, But What About The Writers?

  17-02-2019 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The BBC has a new series about a Chinese family running a restaurant – but the writers aren’t from the community. Writers and actors from film, TV, and theatre have signed a letter that “calls for all scripts on the series, called Living With the Lams, to be authored by British East Asian Writers.” – The Stage (UK)
  
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• Dave Smith, Disney’s Archivist And The Keeper Of The Company’s Secrets, Has Died

  17-02-2019 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The man with expert knowledge on everything in the company’s past has died at 78. “In an industry that’s notorious for neglecting its past, Smith stood out as perhaps the most respected, if unheralded, member of a small group of in-house studio historians. Smith is credited with helping Hollywood understand the cultural value of its past, starting at Disney in 1970 when rival studios were auctioning or dumping their histories.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Apply To Play | The British Country Music Festival / Fit The Bill / North West

  17-02-2019 21:07
  Apply To Play is now open for The British Country Music Festivall. A new three day music festival celebrating home grown Country and Americana artists and songwriters.
  Septemenber 13th-15th 2019|...
  
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• Bollywood Gets Its First Major LGBTQ Film [VIDEO]

  17-02-2019 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The film, with major Bollywood stars in it, centers on the love story between two women, but they’re under pressure to be in opposite-sex marriages. The film’s director, Shelly Chopra Dhar: “Theintent for this film was to reach a wider audience, to have everybody understand that love is love, and does not need to be qualified.” – BBC
  
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• The Theremin Had A Life Before Sci-Fi Movies Took It Over

  17-02-2019 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The original advertising campaigns for the theremin included it as a home music-making instrument. “This campaign primarily targeted middle and upper-class white women, a demographic frequently associated with (and compelled to take on) domestic music-making and most likely to select music technology purchased for the home.” – NewMusicBox
  
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• Digital Project Co-ordinator / HdK Associates / London

  17-02-2019 20:20
  Are you organised, good at solving problems and comfortable working with digital technology?
  We’re looking for someone to join our small team based in Hoxton. You’ll be helping our...
  
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• Dancers for LGBT Dance Film / UCA Farnham Students / South East / Farnham

  17-02-2019 20:14
  Looking for two female dancers.
  Filming 15/03/2019 and 16/03/2019 in UCA Studio, Farnham, Surrey.
  Travel and food expenses will be covered.
  ‘Pulse’ is an LGBT dance film exploring the...
  
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• Italian Film Star Claudia Cardinale On A Life Working With Directors Like Fellini, Visconti, Leone, And Herzog

  17-02-2019 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cardinale’s voice was “too husky” and also too French (she grew up in Tunisia) for Italian cinema when she started. But then came 8 1/2.– Los Angeles Times
  
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• Admin & Marketing Assistant / London Russian Ballet School / London

  17-02-2019 19:38
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  Salary:       £21,000 -...
  
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• Frank Stella Explains His Art Collection, Including Fakes Of His Work

  17-02-2019 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  He doesn’t have anything of his own on his living room walls (though he does own, and display, four fakes that were sent to him for authentication). “It’s nice to come home and look at paintings. I don’t have to look at my own paintings. To me, it’s a relief. I like seeing them and not worrying.” – The New York Times
  
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• Finding a World

  17-02-2019 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Welcome to a primordial world that’s fiercer than anything religious texts ordain.” – Deborah Jowitt
  
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• Brooklyn Gets An Oslo-Worthy Home For Fiction, And For Writers

  17-02-2019 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Oslo has Litteraturhuset – a place for readers and writers to “to meet, write, debate, read, and discuss writing, ideas, and politics over food and drinks, all with the mission of promoting the greater good of art and literature,” but that kind of physical space “seemed an impossible fantasy” for New York. Until now. – LitHub
  
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• The Expressive Body Workshop / Tmesis Theatre / London

  17-02-2019 18:54
  Sat 9th March- 4-6pm – Jacksons Lane- London (Tmesis performance 7.30pm)
   £10 DEAL IF BOOK A TICKET FOR SHOW or £20 for just workshop
   This workshop will focus on...
  
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• Propwatch: The celery in Berberian Sound Studio

  17-02-2019 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some props have long lives, and others, well: “The celery and carrot, the cabbage and water melons, all make a distinct if self-immolating impact.” – David Jays
  
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• Rethinking The Purpose Of British Arts Institutions

  17-02-2019 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Take a look at Battersea Arts Centre, which “no longer focuses on creating the ‘future of theatre’—a laudable purpose, but not one of much interest to the many who doubt theatre is for them. Instead, it concentrates on inspiring and supporting people to take creative risks to shape their own and their communities’ future, whether those people define themselves as artists or not.” – HowlRound
  
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• What The Academy Should Drop From The Live Broadcast: The Shorts

  17-02-2019 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The NYT‘s Carpetbagger: “These categories are an island unto themselves, whereas a nominee from any other race — be it an animated feature or a foreign-language film — can conceivably vie for best picture or at least be eligible for other Oscars. If there are categories that have to go, these three provide the cleanest cut.” – The New York Times
  
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• Narrative Drive with Rod Duncan / Writing School East Midlands / East Midlands

  17-02-2019 17:57
  Narrative drive is one of the most important qualities needed to win an audience. It delivers the page-turning quality that publishers are seeking. Yet it is hard to define and seldom taught. Using...
  
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• Oops: The Live Oscars Broadcast Will Include Cinematography After All

  17-02-2019 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  For the second time, the Academy reversed itself about something it planned to cut from this year’s Oscars broadcast. “The announcement came after an outcry by some of Hollywood’s heaviest hitters, including BlacKkKlansman director Spike Lee and Roma director Alfonso Cuarón.” – NPR
  
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• Behind The Scenes Of ‘The Great British Baking Show,’ They Really Are Friends

  17-02-2019 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Imagine all of the contestants on Top Chef being buddies, or baking cakes for each other’s weddings. (Alert: This story spoils the season that had Selasi and Val on it.) – The Atlantic
  
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• What Was Up With The Crude Racial And Sexual Stereotype Jokes That Filled This Carnegie Hall Performance?

  17-02-2019 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Everyone was in on the joke, or at least everyone on stage was. But the audience wasn’t sure what to do or how to react. “The concept, whatever its good intentions, tempts comparisons with the history of African-American performers in blackface, acting out stereotypes of themselves for predominantly white audiences. It also risks feeding the common perception of Asian-Americans as perpetual foreigners.” (Of course, not everyone agrees.) – The New York Time
  
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• Gallery Assistant / The Summerhouse Gallery / South West / Cornwall

  17-02-2019 16:26
  The Summerhouse Gallery is a beautiful, welcoming space showcasing the very best of Cornish art. Located only a stone's throw away from the wonderful St Michaels Mount, we aim to create the perfect...
  
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• Let’s Just Split The Elgin Marbles Between Britain And Greece

  17-02-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Half and half. Equal. “Of course, there would be disputes about who gets what. But those aren’t disputes that can’t be resolved. The marbles don’t consist of one major piece and a lot of minor pieces. There are almost only major pieces. This is a unique situation – and an opportunity – since in many restitution cases sharing doesn’t work.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Andrea Levy, Chronicler Of Britain’s Windrush Generation, Has Died At 62

  17-02-2019 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Levy didn’t start writing until she was in her 30s, but her fourth novel, 2004’s Small Island, won the Orange Prize and made her a household name in Britain and the U.S. – The Washington Post
  
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• The Dancing Soldier From South Wales

  17-02-2019 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  One night, a young man in dance school worried about his future walked by an Army recruitment center in Manchester – and joined up. Alex Smith “says that, despite appearances, dancers and soldiers have quite a lot in common. Self-discipline is important in both cases, and a determination to succeed.” – BBC
  
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• Why Do Audiences Love Comedy, But Not Comedies?

  17-02-2019 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  That’s a bit of an exaggeration – audiences still enjoy seeing comedies at the theatre. But stand-up specials are eating theatre’s lunch. “TV was long seen as the enemy of theatre. … But TV was always fundamentally different than theatre. Comedy, on the other hand, shares a lot. It is a live art form, and the same romantic defenses you often hear of theatre you can also hear from comics—the beauty of its ephemerality, the present-tense nature of the form in
  
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• This Map Of The Bezos Story Looks Like It Came From An Amazon Original Police Story

  17-02-2019 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Seriously, connecting the dots is a little bit intense. Bezos’ affair and associated selfies, and his post to Medium last week, “has revealed more than just a series of leaked texts and naked selfies. It has also laid bare a tangled web of overlapping relationships and interests across Hollywood, politics, national security and the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.” (And if you were wondering why Amazon has Jack Ryan as an original series, well, read on.) – Los Angeles&
  
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• Studio Manager / Sam Rock / London

  17-02-2019 13:52
  Studio Manager for Photographer, Sam Rock
  www.artandcommerce.com
   
  Full Time
  2 year commitment
   
  Studio Management
  -       Studio administration and...
  
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• A San Francisco Theatre Has To Cancel A Show Because A Government Agency Decides It’s Not Unique Enough

  17-02-2019 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Not unique enough for a visa for the Canadian artists, that is. EXIT Theatre’s founder had consulted a lawyer and submitted reams of information about why the play Crippled, by playwright Paul David Power, was indeed “culturally unique.” But a week before it was set to open, the visa was denied.– KQED
  
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• Bruno Ganz, The Swiss Actor Who Played An Angel And Hitler, Has Died At 77

  17-02-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yes, his angry Hitler from 2004’s Downfall was memed millions of times, but many of us remember him best as the angel Damiel from Wim Wenders’ 1987 masterpiece about divided Berlin, Wings of Desire. The actor “made his film debut as a hotel employee in The Man in the Black Derby (1961), a Swiss comedy, and was still busily making films in his late 70s.” In 2018 alone, he starred in five movies.– The New York Times
  
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• Youth Theatre Workshop Leader / Warwick Independent Schools Foundation - Warwick School / West Midlands

  17-02-2019 11:56
  Warwick School are seeking to appoint a Youth Theatre Leader to lead the delivery of the Bridge House Young Company workshops, productions and to partake in associated general administration.
  The...
  
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• On my radar: Anand Giridharadas’s cultural highlights

  17-02-2019 11:00
  The author on Taylor Mac’s discombobulations, Hilma af Klint’s artistic timing and piña coladas at an all-in resort in MexicoRaised in Ohio, Paris and Maryland, Anand Giridharadas was educated at Michigan, Oxford and Harvard universities. In 2003, he worked as a consultant for the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company; in 2005, he moved into journalism, working for the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times. His third book, Winners Take All, an expos&e
  
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• Changing focus: people with Down's syndrome in a remarkable art project

  17-02-2019 11:00
  A project by fine art and fashion photographers and models with Down’s syndrome is challenging concepts of beautyActor Sarah Gordy MBE stands on a pedestal, half-turned to face the camera. Her dress – red, sequinned, elaborate – spills and pools around her feet. Gordy’s expression, captured by fashion photographer Zuzia Zawada, is serene. The image is taken from forthcoming photography book Radical Beauty Project. Shot by leading fashion and art photographers, it’s
  
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• Diane Arbus: In the Beginning; Don McCullin review – two lone souls out in the world

  17-02-2019 09:00
  Hayward Gallery; Tate Britain, London
  The riveting street photography of Diane Arbus is an intense, two-way exchange, while Don McCullin’s urgent lifetime’s work amounts to a history of our timesIt is 1957, and a girl clutching schoolbooks to her small body steps from the gutter to the sidewalk of an empty New York street. She is getting home on her own, native wit condensed in her determined face. Sun gilds the distant buildings, but she seems to live in a foreground of grimy shadow
  
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• Workshop: The Laboratory for Embodied Space / Embodied Poetics / London

  17-02-2019 07:14
  "Architecture is gesture" - Ludwig Wittgenstein
  An immersive exploration of this statement, repositioning "architecture" as structures that move - including choreography, musical scores, masks, even...
  
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