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• Mark Redhill: The Trap Doors That Make Good Poetry

  12-04-2019 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Poetry has an inherent ability to not be linear, not be logical, be at times more about sound or suggestion than about direct meaning. This sounds a little bit like how the logic of dreams work.” – Toronto Star
  
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• President – Berkshire Choral International

  12-04-2019 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The President will provide leadership and direction for all programming, strategic planning, board relations, and management.“We come together so that we can collectively create something of more lasting value and beauty than we could ever manage as individuals.”
  – Conductor Robert ShawOrganization
  Berkshire Choral International (BCI) was founded in 1982 to provide amateur singers with professional level choral immersion experiences. To accomplish this goal, BCI provides weekl
  
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• CALL TO ARTISTS – City of Ottawa

  12-04-2019 23:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Opportunities for the City of Ottawa O-Train Stage 2 Public Art Program
  The City of Ottawa has issued two Requests for Qualifications (RFQ) seeking professional artist teams for the Stage 2 Confederation Line and Trillium Line extensions (O-Train). To learn more about Stage 2 public art opportunities, visit ottawa.ca/publicartprogram.
  
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• Livia Rita presents Kissing Futures: a wedding and live concert / Livia Rita / London

  12-04-2019 23:02
  An unholy matrimony celebrates new possibilities for the future. Join us for two nights across utopia where we’ll explore the dreams and visions of everything that is and could be. Livia Rita,...
  
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• Disney Used To See Netflix As A Way To Make Money. Now It Will Compete. Here’s What That’ll Looks Like

  12-04-2019 22:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Disney has thought about itself primarily as a maker of content. Netflix? That was the railway carrying the content to market. But Netflix has moved into content-making in a big way. So Disney is jumping in with its own streaming service to compete. – recode
  
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• Executive Director (Maternity Cover) / Middle Child Theatre / Yorkshire

  12-04-2019 22:55
  After a successful first 12 months as a new Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation, we are looking for maternity cover for our Executive Director position for nine months.
  Reporting to...
  
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• Arts Sector Pleads With Arts Council England: Get Rid Of Your Hated Grant Application Portal

  12-04-2019 22:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  The findings follow years of mounting frustration from grant applicants with the “nightmare” system: the ‘Grantium’ hashtag on Twitter reveals virtually no positive tweets. One user described the portal as both “the most hated software” in the arts and “the least intuitive thing you’ve ever had the misfortune of using”.  – Arts Professional
  
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• Do Environmental Crises Of 500 Years Ago Have Anything To Teach Us?

  12-04-2019 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Indeed, they do. The worst environmental disasters – the ones that killed the most people – were often deliberately worsened by predatory governments, companies and individuals. Societies that escaped environmental disaster were relatively safe from colonial exploitation, and flexible in the face of shifting environmental circumstances. We face an uncertain future but, like early moderns, there is much we can do to either ease human suffering in the face of environmental upheaval &nd
  
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• By Accident, Howard Sherman Finds Himself In A Theatre Audience Of Young People. It Changed His Experience

  12-04-2019 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Most theatre professionals recognise the value of bringing in younger patrons, especially those seeking careers in the theatre, as essential to the continued welfare of the industry. But there’s another benefit to bringing in such a group – that it has the effect of improving the vitality of the entire audience, broadening the range of responses to the work and breaking down the homogeneity that too often affects that essential element of theatre: the audience.” –
  
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• The Woman Who Single-Handedly Created An Indian Style Of Opera Constructed On Indian Classical Music

  12-04-2019 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Shanno Khurana first became a star performing in Punjabi folk operas in 1950s Delhi, but she was a fully classically trained singer who wanted to do serious classical work. So she devised and composed fully through-sung music-dramas based strictly on classical ragas and following their rules, and she toured her operas all over India right through the 1970s. (She’s still alive today, and still occasionally concertizing at age 91.) – Scroll (India)
  
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• The Problem With How We Get News? The Incentives Are Misaligned

  12-04-2019 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cal Newport, a computer-science professor at Georgetown University, marshals evidence that the addictive properties of our devices are not accidental but, rather, the product of careful thinking by tech companies about the feedback loops that will keep people returning to them. Newport’s main indictment is of social-media platforms, but he also argues that people need to rethink the way they consume news.  – The New Yorker
  
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• Production Coordinator, Broadcast (12 Month FTC) / National Theatre / London

  12-04-2019 20:09
  The National Theatre is recruiting for a Production Coordinator to join the Broadcast team on a 12 Month FTC.
  The Production Coordinator will report directly to the Production Manager providing...
  
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• 15 Ways Of Looking At What America Will Be Like In 2024

  12-04-2019 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We asked 15 playwrights to imagine America five years into the future” — among them Lynn Nottage, Terrence McNally, Jeremy O. Harris, Adam Rapp, Jocelyn Bioh, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Nassim Soleimanpour, and Paul Rudnick. “Alongside six of the plays you’ll find videos in which actors including Nathan Lane, Kerry Washington and John Lithgow perform the works.” – T — The New York Times Style Magazine
  
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• Company Stage Manager - Latitude Festival / National Youth Theatre / East

  12-04-2019 19:56
  The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain is a world-leading youth arts organisation. Established in 1956 as the world’s first youth theatre, we have nurtured the talent of hundreds of...
  
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• Washington State Reverses Ban On Allowing Prisoners To Get Books By Mail

  12-04-2019 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Concerns about contraband introduction led me to issue the original directive. After conducting further review, the data does not support continuing the restriction on donated, used books.” – Seattle Times
  
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• Programme Coordinator(Culture Mile Learning) / Museum of London / London

  12-04-2019 19:07
  Programme Coordinator (Culture Mile Learning)                    (Ref: 1087)
  £24,198 (pro-rata)...
  
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• Ballet Memphis’s New Choreographers’ Residency Aims To Create ‘Research-Driven, Community-Oriented Work’

  12-04-2019 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  During the company’s two-week New American Dance Residency, which starts up for the first time next week, “the dancemakers will visit important Memphis cultural sites … and meet with local experts on Memphis music history, Southern literature and social justice. The goal is to both help develop new choreographers and to encourage the pursuit of research-driven, community-oriented work.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Administrator / Tate / London

  12-04-2019 18:59
  Administrator 
  £11.99 
  3 month Contract 
  Duties:
  This is for an administrator position in the Operations Team, their main tasks being:Work with the Operations team to...
  
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• Office Manager / One Dance UK / West Midlands

  12-04-2019 18:54
  One Dance UK is moving to a new home in Birmingham and we are currently recruiting for the team who will be based there. It is an exciting time to be joining One Dance UK. We are the sector support...
  
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• Project Manager Events / One Dance UK / West Midlands

  12-04-2019 18:52
  One Dance UK is moving to a new home in Birmingham and we are currently recruiting for the team who will be based there. It is an exciting time to be joining One Dance UK. We are the sector support...
  
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• Technical Manager / Theatre Royal Windsor / South East

  12-04-2019 18:51
  Theatre Royal Windsor is looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Technical Manager to join the senior management team. Theatre Royal Windsor is proud to be one of the only unsubsidised producing...
  
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• Membership Manager / One Dance UK / West Midlands

  12-04-2019 18:49
  One Dance UK is moving to a new home in Birmingham and we are currently recruiting for the team who will be based there. It is an exciting time to be joining One Dance UK. We are the sector support...
  
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• Marketing and Communications Manager / One Dance UK / West Midlands

  12-04-2019 18:47
  One Dance UK is moving to a new home in Birmingham and we are currently recruiting for the team who will be based there. It is an exciting time to be joining One Dance UK. We are the sector support...
  
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• Head of Marketing and Communications / One Dance UK / West Midlands

  12-04-2019 18:44
  One Dance UK is moving to a new home in Birmingham and we are currently recruiting for the team who will be based there. It is an exciting time to be joining One Dance UK. We are the sector support...
  
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• Puppeteer/performers / Little Angel Theatre and Goblin Theatre / London

  12-04-2019 18:42
  Little Angel Theatre and Goblin Theatre are looking for a new cast of puppeteers / performers for a 3 month autumn tour of their production ‘Emily Rising’, written by Dan Rebellato....
  
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• Speak Up! A night of spoken word and poetry for World Book Night / London's BIG READ and LIBRARY / London

  12-04-2019 18:35
  London’s BIG READ and LIBRARY are collaborating on an exciting event to celebrate World Book Night. Speak Up! is a spoken word and poetry night featuring some of the most talented and exciting...
  
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• How Social Impact Philanthropy Is Impacting Arts Such as Theatre And Dance

  12-04-2019 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  A case study: “First, its focus on social impact theatre provides another illuminating example of a funder embracing the red-hot field of socially focused arts programming. And second, its work underscores the growing influence of institutional funders operating in fields like dance and theater that traditionally lack robust individual and government support.” – Inside Philanthropy
  
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• Senior Producer / Cirque Bijou / South West

  12-04-2019 18:12
  A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team in a crucial senior role at a time of change and development during Cirque Bijou’s 20th year.
  We are looking for an...
  
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• Chief Executive Officer / Berkshire Maestros / South East

  12-04-2019 18:12
  Due to the retirement of the current post-holder, we have an excellent opportunity for an experienced music educator and leader to join our team.  We are seeking an exceptional individual to...
  
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• Who Gave Us A Critical Theory Of Binge-Watching? Theodor Adorno (Who Died In 1969)

  12-04-2019 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  The German-born sociologist/philosopher first examined the mechanisms that producers use to get us to binge-watch streaming series — which are really no different than the ones used for decades to catch and keep TV viewers — in his 1954 scholarly article “How to Look at Television.” Writer Jake Pitre surveys Adorno’s ideas about the medium and those of later scholars who have applied his ideas to digital viewing. – JSTOR Daily
  
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• Bookings and Customer Service Coordinator x2 / Royal Museums Greenwich / London / Greenwich

  12-04-2019 17:54
  Two Part time positions - 22hrs and 14hrs.
  The Bookings and Customer Service team is part of the Commerce Department which is part of the Visitor Experience and Enterprise division. Putting visitors...
  
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• Academics launch petition against 'racist' mural in French parliament

  12-04-2019 17:43
  Mural was created in 1991 to commemorate France’s abolition of slavery in 1794Two French academics have launched a petition to remove a parliament mural commemorating the abolition of slavery which they said was a racist, humiliating and dehumanising depiction of black people.Mame-Fatou Niang, assistant professor of French at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and Julien Suaudeau, who lectures in Pennsylvania, said the vast mural which has hung in a corridor of a building at France&
  
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• What Kind Of Computer Is The Brain?

  12-04-2019 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The claim that the brain is a computer is not just a metaphor. The cognitive sciences are full of hypotheses to the effect that the brain computes such-and-such in so-and-so a way. Many of our perceptual capacities, for example, are understood in computational terms, and there aren’t any viable alternatives around. – Aeon
  
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• Sales Assistants x 3 / Liverpool Art Fair 2019 / North West

  12-04-2019 17:04
  We are looking for three outgoing, enthusiastic and committed people, looking to develop a career in the arts, to join our team as Sales Assistants.
  You will ideally have an arts background, with a...
  
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• Bob Fosse’s Trademark Moves: An Analysis Of The Only Dance He And Gwen Verdon Ever Filmed Together

  12-04-2019 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If you’ve seen dancers flare their fingers in the flexed position often mockingly called ‘jazz hands,’ then you’ve seen Fosse, especially if those dancers were also sitting into one hip and hiding their eyes beneath a hat.” Not only did these moves become Fosse’s signature style, they’ve become completely incorporated into the American dance vocabulary. Critic Brian Seibert shows us those moves and their effectiveness in the mambo from the movie
  
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• Give us a swirl: How Mohamed Melehi became Morocco's modernist master

  12-04-2019 17:02
  His psychedelic paintings linked the Bauhaus to Islamic art – and brought the radicalism of the late 60s to Morocco. Now, at 82, the world is set to rediscover his vibrant visions In 1969, a group of Moroccan artists known as the Casablanca school travelled to Marrakech to stage an exhibition in the streets. The paintings, hung on the city’s dusty walls, were a riot of colour and pattern. They owed much to the aesthetic of Bauhaus in Germany or “hard-edge” painting from N
  
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• Desert storm: how Mohamed Melehi became Morocco's modernist master

  12-04-2019 17:02
  His psychedelic paintings linked the Bauhaus to Islamic art – and brought the radicalism of the late 60s to Morocco. Now, at 82, the world is set to rediscover his vibrant visions In 1969, a group of Moroccan artists known as the Casablanca school travelled to Marrakech to stage an exhibition in the streets. The paintings, hung on the city’s dusty walls, were a riot of colour and pattern. They owed much to the aesthetic of Bauhaus in Germany or “hard-edge” painting from N
  
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• Events Manager / The British Museum / London

  12-04-2019 17:00
  The British Museum is seeking an experienced Events Manager to lead on the delivery of high-level Museum-hosted events linked to the Museum’s cultivation and advocacy programme and events for...
  
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• Finance Director & Company Secretary / Glyndebourne Productions Ltd / South East

  12-04-2019 16:58
  Extraordinary opera, extraordinary people
  Based in the Sussex countryside, Glyndebourne creates world-class transformative opera in a year round operation with a turnover of circa £30...
  
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• Artist in Residence / Burton at Bideford / South West

  12-04-2019 16:56
  Title of post: Artist in Residence
  Conditions: The terms of the contract will vary depending on the artist. The duration of the residency is 25 Days and ideally will be completed by Spring...
  
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• PA to the Chief Executive/Office Administrator / London Philharmonic Orchestra / London

  12-04-2019 16:54
  This is a key role in ensuring the smooth running of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The post holder will act as PA to the Chief Executive and Artistic Director, whilst also providing core...
  
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• Trustee / Forward Arts Foundation / National

  12-04-2019 16:52
  Do you want to support poetry in this country, celebrating excellence and promoting public knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of poetry in all its forms?
  Forward Arts Foundation, a small charity...
  
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• America’s Most Famous Constitutional Scholar Meets The Creator/Star Of ‘What The Constitution Means To Me’

  12-04-2019 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Laurence Tribe, who’s taught at Harvard Law School for 50 years and is familiar to many a public TV and radio listener, went to see Heidi Schreck’s hit theater piece in its pre-Broadway run in Manhattan’s East Village. He loved it, and he wanted to meet her. And so he did, after a Broadway performance of the show last month. Journalist Peter Marks got to come along. – The Washington Post
  
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• Volunteer Board Member / Kirklees Theatre Trust / Yorkshire

  12-04-2019 16:29
  Kirklees Theatre Trust is seeking new volunteer Board members. The trust is responsible for The Lawrence Batley Theatre (LBT) in Huddersfield.
  The LBT presents a year-round programme of live...
  
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• Deputy Retail Manager / Shepherds Bookbinders Ltd / London

  12-04-2019 16:26
  We are a long established independent retailer specialising in artists and designer’s paper.
  Our shop is based in Central London, just behind Victoria Station and is a mecca for anyone looking...
  
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• Casual Venue Assistant (Loughborough Town Hall) / Charnwood Borough Council / East Midlands

  12-04-2019 16:21
  Casual Venue Assistant
   
  Grade A (SCP 1 – 3) £17,364 to £18,065 (pro rata) (£9.00 per hour) 
  An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Front-of-House team at...
  
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• 'Turner gets his cobwebs blown away' – Sea Star: Sean Scully review

  12-04-2019 16:17
  National Gallery, London
  Sean Scully’s work has been placed alongside a much-misunderstood seascape by Turner. The result is a fascinating exhibition full of insight, power and glorious melting colourSometimes it takes a painter to see a painter. At the heart of Sean Scully’s exhibition in the National Gallery is an eye-opening meeting between him and JMW Turner on a beach where sky, sea and land are melting into an abstract layering of light.Turner was born in London in 1775 and by
  
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• Drama Facilitator / Creation Theatre / South East

  12-04-2019 16:14
  We’re looking for an exceptional and experienced drama teacher to join our education team. You’ll teach our Saturday Drama clubs, as well as two evenings a week. Sharing our love of...
  
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• ‘The Jungle’ — Dramatizing A Crucial Period In The Life Of The Notorious Calais Refugee Camp

  12-04-2019 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  The play, written by two young Englishmen (Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson) who went to live for several months in the camp and set up a makeshift-but-busy performing arts center there, shows what happened in the winter of 2016 after French authorities issued an order that the southern half of the camp — by that point, home to 3,500 people, several mosques and churches, restaurants, and a school — was to be evacuated and destroyed. – The New York Review of Books
  
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• Sexual Harassment - Real stories wanted / Moving Waves / London

  12-04-2019 15:52
  If you or someone you know has experienced sexual harassment in any way or form (no matter how ''insignificant'' or ''a small thing'' it might be!) please get in touch!
  We are at the early stages of...
  
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