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• What Pricks The Conscience (And When): The Ethics Of Whose Money You Take

  10-04-2019 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  I understand the logic of “We’ll take everyone’s money” and the logic of “We won’t take any ethically impure money.” Those are pure. What I question is the efficacy of cherry-picking the ethics of the donors to your arts organization. Do you choose to receive or not to receive donations from particular corners of the philanthropic universe because of the nonprofit’s core belief or your own personal core beliefs? Is your collective conscience bother
  
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• Academia’s Itinerant Labor Problem: How Exploitation Of Adjuncts Betrays Students

  10-04-2019 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the nineteen-seventies, about a quarter of college faculty were on limited-term, adjunct contracts; the majority of professors were tenured or on the tenure-track. Today, it’s estimated that nearly three-quarters of college faculty are adjuncts.  – The New Yorker
  
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• I Used To Have A Great Sense Of Direction. Then Came GPS… What Skills Is It Safe To Forget?

  10-04-2019 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Instead of looking at what we’re learning, perhaps we should consider the obverse: what becomes safe to forget? As the internet grows ever more powerful and comprehensive, why bother to remember and retain information? If students can access the world’s knowledge on a smartphone, why should they be required to carry so much of it around in their heads? – Aeon
  
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• Director of Programmes / Black Country Living Museum / West Midlands

  10-04-2019 22:30
  The Museum is one of Europe’s best and most successful open-air museums.  We welcomed over 350,000 visitors in 2018, have a turnover of £8m, many national awards to our name, a...
  
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• Atomic 50 review – hammer away in a ghost factory for metalheads

  10-04-2019 22:02
  Leyton Sports Ground, London
  This craft-based installation celebrates a London borough’s history of metalwork – and the wonder of tin On a wall opposite Blackhorse Road underground station in Walthamstow, east London, a giant spangly heart declares: “Welcome to the home of people who make and create.” Up the road is the childhood home of one of the borough’s most famous makers, William Morris, now a hands-on museum. Aircraft engines were once built on the site of th
  
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• Rushing Restrictive Laws About Internet Content After Terrorist Tragedy Is A Bad Idea

  10-04-2019 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are vile things on the internet. And after what happened withshootings in New Zealand, there are calls to clamp down on digital content. That may be a bad idea, argues David Sullivan. – Slate
  
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• Bloom Festival Opportunity for East London-based Performers / The Space / London / Tower Hamlets

  10-04-2019 22:01
  The Early and Late Bloom Festivals bring a wide variety of performances together in the stunning setting of the Crossrail Place Roof Garden in Canary Wharf. The festivals run over 4 days and showcase...
  
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• Assistant to Talent Agent (Actors) / Curtis Brown Ltd / London

  10-04-2019 21:59
  Curtis Brown is a leading international literary and talent agency, with a global reputation for excellence due to an extraordinary roster of clients within its actors, presenters and theatre,...
  
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• Christopher Knight: LACMA’s New Vision For Itself And Its Building Should Be Rejected

  10-04-2019 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A ‘yes’ vote from the supervisors means that more than 50 years of the county project to build the last great encyclopedic art museum in the United States is over. It has driven five former LACMA directors, scores of curators and professional staff, countless past benefactors, an array of trustees and untold others in building the institution, virtually from scratch, since 1965.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• This Theatre Asks Audience Members To Help Plan Its Programming

  10-04-2019 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For the last year or so, the Theatre Royal [in the English city of York] has not only been asking its audience what they think of their shows – it has invited them to make programming decisions themselves.” Visionari, a group of about 20 (old) Yorkers assembled by Theatre Royal, “[have] attended workshops, met everyone from the artistic director to the graphic designer, and taken responsibility for a week-long festival in the studio.” – The Guardian
  
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• Eureka!

  10-04-2019 20:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  One professional musician who has long been passionate about connecting with communities is shocked by an insight about most performing arts marketing — and that shock isn’t really surprising. – Doug Borwick
  
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• Music from Paradise

  10-04-2019 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  It is remarkably little known that the non-Western genre that has most influenced Western composers is not African or Chinese or Indian – it’s Indonesian. – Joe Horowitz
  
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• Meet The Woman In Charge Of Dance Theatre Of Harlem

  10-04-2019 20:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “On this episode of Women in Charge, Allison Benedikt talks to Virginia Johnson, artistic director and founding member of Dance Theatre of Harlem. They talk about how she shifted from principal dancer to founding member to artistic director. Johnson also shares stories about what it meant to grow up as a black ballerina and what progress is being made in the dance culture now.” (podcast) – Slate
  
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• Women Dominate Man Booker International Prize Shortlist

  10-04-2019 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Of the six authors and six translators up for this year’s £50,000 award, only one author (Juan Gabriel Vásquez of Colombia) is male. Arguably the most prominent name on the list is Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk (who took the same award last year for Flights) with Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. – The Guardian
  
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• Safe Play Area, Collaborative Project Space/Pop up Exhibition / CAS / South West / South East

  10-04-2019 20:24
  CAS is offering the opportunity for 3 artists to to work in our unique space together over one week to test new ideas, and push their practice through collaborative ‘play’. The week will...
  
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• The Political Fairy Tales Of Edouard Laboulaye

  10-04-2019 20:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Laboulaye’s creative work has been eclipsed by his political career” — a judge during France’s Second Empire, he was committed to women’s rights and the end of slavery — “but in his day he was recognized as a writer of fiction, too, and especially known for his fairy tales … [in which] rulers are more often than not oppressors, and women and outcasts and peasants usually win out.” – The New York Review of Books
  
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• Yes, Returning Native American Artifacts From Museums Really Does Help Heal The Wounds

  10-04-2019 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chip Colwell, senior curator of anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, in a New York Times Op-Ed: “Repatriation can turn museums from places of colonialism into mediating spaces that confront and then move beyond their own pasts. If my grandfather took something from your poor and powerless grandfather — and your community continues to suffer because of it — then I am presented with the chance to make things right.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Aretha Franklin Doc ‘Amazing Grace’ Is To Documentaries What Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote Movie Is To Features

  10-04-2019 19:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Which is to say that, like Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, it was eagerly anticipated, took decades to get done, got stopped immediately before a premiere screening by a lawsuit, and generally ill-starred if not cursed. Reporter Natalie Rinn tells the tale. – The New York Times
  
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• Creative Digital Marketing Assistant / HemingwayDesign / London

  10-04-2019 19:48
  The ideal candidate should have a genuine love for social media and their eye on a career in digital marketing or PR. You should be creative, proactive, organised, friendly and have a keen eye...
  
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• Open Call: Artist Commission / SPACE / London

  10-04-2019 19:35
  SPACE invites artists to submit a proposal for a new project to be made in dialogue with older people based in Ilford. The commission will include activity with which older people can engage and will...
  
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• Not A Revolution, Exactly: James Baldwin Talks To Robert Penn Warren About The Nature Of The Civil Rights Movement

  10-04-2019 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It is a very peculiar revolution because, in order to succeed at all, it has to have as its aim the reestablishment of the Union. And a great, radical shift in American mores, in the American way of life. … The hope has to be to create a new nation under intolerable circumstances and in very little time and against the resistance of most of the country.” – Literary Hub
  
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• Ticketing and Sales Manager / Edinburgh Playhouse / Scotland

  10-04-2019 19:18
  Ticketing and Sales Manager - Edinburgh PlayhouseReporting to the Theatre Manager, the Ticketing & Sales Manager has lead responsibility for the theatre’s ticketing at a venue level...
  
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• Who, Us? Of Course We’re All Black, Hungarian ‘Porgy And Bess’ Cast Members Tell Gershwin Estate

  10-04-2019 19:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Hungarian State Opera has asked the nearly all-white cast … to sign a statement declaring that ‘African-American origin and identity is an inseparable part of my identity’ and made being in Porgy and Bess ‘a special joy.'” – Yahoo! (AP)
  
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• Sound Artist Performer for a Welcome Collection Event / Kingston University / London

  10-04-2019 19:12
  We are looking for a sound performer that works with live sound composition using peculiar objects or electroacoustic composer  to participate in our 30min project 25’ by...
  
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• Freelance Stage, LX and Sound crew / New Theatre Royal / South Coast

  10-04-2019 19:01
  New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth is looking for Stage, LX and Sound Freelancers to join our pool of casuals.
  Main Purpose of the role
  To assist the Technical Management team in all duties relating to...
  
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• Designing An Arena Specially For Video-Game Tournaments

  10-04-2019 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Fusion Arena, a $50 million, 65,000-square-foot venue dedicated to esports, is set to open in 2021 in Philadelphia’s sports district. Primarily, “[it] will host home games for the Philadelphia Fusion, the professional nine-person team in the 20-team Overwatch League, … but the arena will also host occasional outside events.” – CityLab
  
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• Physical Fest 2019- Workshops / Tmesis Theatre / North West / England

  10-04-2019 18:51
  WORKSHOP PROGRAMME 2019
  10TH-15TH JUNE
  UNITY THEATRE
  An exciting 6 day programme of workshops from international practitioners including: - Izumi Ashizawa (Japanese Performance);- Deanna Fleysher...
  
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• Quiz Bowl — Like College Football, But For ‘Jeopardy!’

  10-04-2019 18:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ken Jennings, Jeopardy! all-star and an alum of Brigham Young University’s quiz bowl team (and a fine writer), gives a look inside what’s become quite a youth subculture: “Quiz bowl: molding the Jeopardy! gladiators of tomorrow, one little brainiac at a time.” – Slate
  
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• Theatre Manager / Troubadour Theatres / London

  10-04-2019 18:40
  Troubadour Theatres is a company which specialises in large-scale installation theatres. We build and operate go-to destination venues that are fully flexible, contemporary and impressive with the...
  
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• Lecture Series- Hindu, Buddhist and Jain Rock-Cut Architecture / The Bhavan / London

  10-04-2019 18:37
  Join us for an interesting and informative Lecture Series on Hindu, Buddhist and Jain Rock-Cut Architecture and Temples of India and Sri Lanka by Dr K Sivakumar Delivered over 3 Modules of 4...
  
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• Personal and Project Assistant (Director General's) / Imperial War Museums / London

  10-04-2019 18:35
  The Personal and Project Assistant provides support to the Director-General and Executive Director of Collections and Governance. Working closely with various departments and project boards across...
  
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• Wait, Did Russell Maliphant Just Choreograph A Dance About Rolfing?

  10-04-2019 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Not exactly, no, but Silent Lines is about “the internal environment of the body” and very much draws on his training in Rolfing, the deep-tissue massage technique, and in other forms of bodywork. Writer Anna Winter talks with Maliphant about what he’s after in his new piece. – The Stage
  
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• They’ve Found The Cause Of The Fire That Destroyed Brazil’s National Museum

  10-04-2019 18:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  The culprit was one of three air conditioning units on the ground floor of the two-century-old building. The machines weren’t installed according to manufacturer’s recommendations for grounding and separate circuit breakers, and all three were receiving a more powerful electrical current than they were designed for. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• Fundraiser / Holburne Museum, Bath / South West

  10-04-2019 18:16
  The Holburne Museum in Bath is recruiting a Fundraiser to join its small and ambitious team. We are looking for a highly motivated individual with demonstrable experience in fundraising and...
  
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• Call for proposals: Readings from the Pulpit / Live Art Development Agency / London

  10-04-2019 18:08
  Readings From The Pulpit will take place at LADA on the evening of Thursday 6 June.
  We are seeking proposals from artists, writers, educators, and other curious folk who would like to read out...
  
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• Germany’s Orchestral Scene Isn’t As Marvelous As It May Look To Outsiders

  10-04-2019 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Germany might have more orchestras [than other countries], but it also has more musicians (including those flooding in from abroad) looking to fill positions in them. The audition procedure is often archaic, unnecessarily nerve-racking and, with strict voting systems, sometimes deeply frustrating. Musicians go from one temporary contract to the next in the vain search for the security of a permanent position.” – The Strad
  
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• Assistant Producer / Kate McStraw / South West

  10-04-2019 17:59
  Role – ‘Assistant Producer’ for Kate McStrawI am an Independent Creative Producer working across a range of artforms and projects, including touring theatre & dance,...
  
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• 'Much of the experience is meant to be horrible': Hito Steyerl review

  10-04-2019 17:53
  Serpentine Gallery, London
  The German artist provides an uneasy ride in a show that starts in the digital realm and leads us towards the difficulties of everyday realityThere is a health and safety warning on one of the apps you must download to get the full augmented reality experience of Hito Steyerl’s Serpentine Gallery project. “In the future, 100% of all humans will die,” Steyerl warns us. “Access this zone at your own risk and don’t complain later.” She
  
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• Assistant Curator: Engagement / Chisenhale Gallery / London

  10-04-2019 17:47
  Chisenhale Gallery seeks to appoint an Assistant Curator: Engagement as a key member of its curatorial team. The primary function of this new role is to support the Curator: Engagement with the...
  
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• Opera-Ballet-Concert House Flooded By Sprinkler System, Closed Indefinitely

  10-04-2019 17:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  The municipal theater in Duisburg, a city in Germany’s industrial Ruhr Valley, saw 80,000 liters of water pour over the stage, the floors, and crucial building infrastructure following a mishap during sprinkler system testing. (No answer yet as to whether the cause was mechanical or human.) The venue is home to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Ballett am Rhein, the Schauspiel (spoken theater) and the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra. (in German; for Google Translate version, click here) &nd
  
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• Master Carpenter / Apollo Victoria Theatre / London

  10-04-2019 17:46
  The Ambassador Theatre Group is an extraordinary success story in the live entertainment industry. Founded in 1992 in the UK, we’ve grown into the world’s number one live-theatre company...
  
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• Assistant Curator: Commissions / Chisenhale Gallery / London

  10-04-2019 17:42
  Chisenhale Gallery seeks to appoint an Assistant Curator: Commissions as a key member of its curatorial team. The primary function of this new role is to support the Curator: Commissions with the...
  
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• Citizen Science Manager (Interim) / Natural History Museum / London

  10-04-2019 17:41
  The Natural History Museum is one of the world’s leading museums, internationally recognised for its dual role as a centre of excellence in scientific research and as a leader in the...
  
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• Bid Writer and Project Manager / Faculty of Art, University of Wolverhampton / West Midlands

  10-04-2019 17:40
  Part-time post working 22.5 hours per week
   
  The Faculty of Arts is seeking to appoint an Academic Enterprise Manager to support the Faculty’s external income targets related...
  
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• AWP Artistic Projects Intern (for UAL graduates only) / Forma Arts / London

  10-04-2019 17:40
  AWP Artistic Projects Intern
  6 month freelance contract, 2 days a week (flexible) from October 2019 to March 2020
  Working hours 10am - 6pm
  Salary: £10.80 an hour
  Location: Forma office
  To...
  
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• The Teaching Musician Postgraduate Certificate, Diploma & MA / Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance / London / UK

  10-04-2019 17:36
  The Teaching Musician is a flexible and vocational programme designed for experienced music educators. It offers a high quality professional development opportunity, leading to a suite of...
  
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• Event Manager (River Stage) / National Theatre / London

  10-04-2019 17:35
  The Event Manager (River Stage) will be based in the NT Production Office, with responsibility for supporting the Production Manager (River Stage) in managing, delivering and supporting Front of...
  
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• Deputy Director / Forma Arts / London

  10-04-2019 17:34
  Forma Deputy Director
  4.0 days week. 32 hours, initially fixed term for 24 months to 1st July 2021 (with probationary period and possibility to extend)
   
  ABOUT FORMA
  Forma Arts is one of...
  
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• Last Year’s Most Objected-To Books In Schools And Libraries

  10-04-2019 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The American Library Association’s annual list is out, and as usual, there are some head-scratchers. Harry Potter? To Kill a Mockingbird?The media darling of the list is John Oliver’s parody of the Pence family’s leporine romp A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo. – Melville House
  
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• Paid Social Media Manager (Emerge Festival) / Culture24 / South East

  10-04-2019 17:26
  Culture24 is looking for a Social Media Manager, experienced and confident throughout the paid social process to help launch London’s newest cultural festival, Emerge.  You will be a...
  
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