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• How Changes In Facebook’s Algorithm Disadvantaged The Arts

  26-04-2019 23:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  The algorithm discouraged sharing of news. “While every subject group saw major reductions, on a percentage basis arts and entertainment referrals from Facebook to news pieces took the greatest hit. Legal issues may have been down 25%, politics down 34% and education down 35%, but arts and entertainment referrals were driven down by 71% overall.” – The Stage
  
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• Suggestion: Canadian Theatre Needs A New Funding Narrative

  26-04-2019 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jesse Lavercombe: “I think Canada needs a new narrative for itself that isn’t so much about buttressing a fortress or perfectly defining our national identity, but participating in a larger conversation. I’m not advocating for changes in CanCon regulations, and I’m certainly not advocating for less public funding (because it pays my rent, which in Toronto ain’t cheap), but those efforts shouldn’t come from a place of insecurity. Our public funding should be d
  
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• How Mavis Staines Started A Ballet Revolution

  26-04-2019 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Today, many of the Staines’ radical ideas — student-led teaching, community outreach, globally relevant ideologies and an emphasis on physical and mental health — are commonplace. And many of Staines’s students, whether they have continued in dance or not, have gone on to preach and evolve her doctrine. – The Globe & Mail
  
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• City-wide programmes project assistant / Sunderland Culture / North East

  26-04-2019 22:06
  Job Title: City-wide programmes project assistant  
  Salary:  £20,000 per annum
  Contract: Employed Fixed Term to March 2021 
  Location: Based at National Glass...
  
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• Scientists Make Progress On Decoding Speech Inside The Brain

  26-04-2019 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Although still a long way from restoring natural speech, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have generated intelligible sentences from the thoughts of people without speech difficulties. – Scientific American
  
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• Public Engagement and Learning Officer / Sunderland Culture / North East

  26-04-2019 21:57
  Job Title: Public Engagement and Learning Officer
  Salary:  £25,000 per annum 
  Contract: Employed Fixed Term to March 2022
  Location: Based at Sunderland Museum and Winter...
  
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• Exhibitions Officer / Sunderland Culture / North East

  26-04-2019 21:51
  Job Title: Exhibitions Officer, Contemporary Visual Arts
  Salary:  £25,000 per annum
  Contract: Employed Fixed Term to March 2022
  Location: Based at Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens...
  
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• Academics Worldwide Worry About New Online Censorship Law In Singapore

  26-04-2019 21:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Earlier this month, the country’s government introduced a draft of the Protection From Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act. It would authorize any minister in Singapore to order “corrections” to online content hosted anywhere in the world if the minister deemed that a statement is “false or misleading” in whole or in part, when that statement is made available online to one or more users in Singapore and it is deemed to be in the public interest to issue such a
  
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• Theatre Technician (part-time) / Arts at the Old Fire Station / South East

  26-04-2019 21:13
  Arts at the Old Fire Station (AOFS) is an arts centre in the heart of Oxford. We focus on four things:Great art for the public
  Professional development of artists
  Building the confidence and...
  
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• Jan Morris At 92

  26-04-2019 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Morris has lived many lives, and it is impossible to separate who she is now from who she was before. … She is impatient with questions about transgender politics, possibly because she made peace with her own decisions so long ago. Having reached her age and lived for equal amounts of time as a man and as a woman, she says, the transition she made so long ago somehow feels less relevant.” – The New York Times
  
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• Study Shows That People Cannot Identify “Fake” Voices Created With Technology

  26-04-2019 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The tech is now so good, it can impersonate voices you know. “The main takeaway is that human brains may not be able to distinguish a speaker’s voice from its morphed version, which means that people would be susceptible to voice impersonation attacks at a fundamental biological level.”  – The Daily Beast
  
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• Food and Beverage Supervisor / The Woodville Theatre / South East

  26-04-2019 20:25
  The Woodville is a 600 seat venue with a busy annual programme of cinema, events and theatre. Our foyer cafe is open to the public daily Mon-Sat. During the evenings our cafe and bar become a...
  
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• Wawa The Destroyer, Chewing Up Philadelphia Architecture And Spitting Out Identical Boxes

  26-04-2019 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The iconic Philly convenience store/sandwich chain, writes Inga Saffron, “is on a relentless march through central Philadelphia, where it picks off architectural trophies, runs them through the brand’s blanderizing machine, and spits them out as indistinguishable clones.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Director of Marketing and Communication, Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech

  26-04-2019 19:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech is searching for an experienced Director of Marketing and Communication to supervise in-house marketing planning, public relations, creative, and patron services.The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech is searching for an experienced Director of Marketing and Communication to lead marketing and patron services operations and ensure a prominent public profile for the Center and the associated Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology.
  Responsibilities inc
  
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• Be The Better You! Audio Books Are Assaulting Our Leisure Time

  26-04-2019 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  They’re the fastest-growing segment of the books industry, a real success for an industry that has struggled to reinvent. Learn while you’re doing something else. That’s what successful people do, right? Maximize their efficiency? But listening isn’t reading, and attention spans being what they are… – The Baffler
  
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• The Guardian view on critics: thin-skinned artists beware | Editorial

  26-04-2019 19:25
  US rapper Lizzo took to social media when angered by an unflattering review. But the wisdom of crowds hasn’t altered the need for independent, expert adviceCritics who don’t themselves make music “SHOULD BE UNEMPLOYED”, the American rapper Lizzo tweeted to her 222,000 followers this week. The star was reacting angrily to an unflattering, though far from hostile, review of her new album Cuz I Love You. The battle between offended artist and critic is a well-established one
  
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• LFF Delegate Services Manager / British Film Institute / London

  26-04-2019 19:09
  The BFI’s Festival team is looking for a Delegate Services Manager to work with a busy team delivering the 63rd BFI London Film Festival between 2 – 13 October 2019. Working closely with...
  
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• In Rome, Tourists And Locals Alike Rebel Against City Government That Can’t Provide Services

  26-04-2019 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[The Italian capital is] a city in a perennial state of disrepair, from its rubbish-strewn streets, potholes, scrappy parks and medieval buildings marred by graffiti to closed metro stations and buses that either never come or occasionally combust.” Yet taxes are high, and the per-night levy on tourists is the highest in Europe. Now people are demanding that the city government start giving them their money’s worth. – The Guardian
  
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• Executive Director (Maternity Cover) / Upswing Aerial / London

  26-04-2019 18:58
  EXCUTIVE DIRECTOR
  (Full-time, Maternity Cover)
  Reporting to: Artistic Director /CEO
  Salary: £37,000 per annum
  Contract: 9-months commencing end of August 2019
  Upswing are seeking an...
  
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• Show Director - Christmas Carol Casebook / Lichfield Garrick Theatre / West Midlands

  26-04-2019 18:50
  The Lichfield Garrick are looking for an experienced director for our home-produced adult Christmas production. 
  Building on the popularity of our previous adult Christmas productions, we have...
  
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• Assistant Producer / English Touring Theatre / London

  26-04-2019 18:44
  English Touring Theatre (ETT) create theatre of outstanding quality, imagination and ambition; work which interrogates and celebrates contemporary England and reflects the diversity of the nation. We...
  
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• The Culture Of Competitive Masculinity At The Iowa Writers’ Workshop

  26-04-2019 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  This “masculinist logic” infected the classroom. Criticism had always been central to the Workshop experience, and it was harsh by design. Engle believed “that young writers overestimated their creative powers, a flaw that only astringent criticism could overcome.” Cisneros put it more simply: “There was no love.” The poet Robert Bly described how “the aggression went against each other,” as students tore apart works in progress. Praise was uneven,
  
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• QuestLab Network Artist Opportunity / Studio Wayne McGregor / London / All

  26-04-2019 18:14
  Studio Wayne McGregor is offering an opportunity for eight dance artists from across England to participate in our artist development programme focusing on intersections between dance and technology....
  
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• Notre-Dame Isn’t Just An Architectural Monument And A Place Of Worship — For Centuries It Was The Intellectual Center Of Paris

  26-04-2019 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Influential medieval thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas, Albertus Magnus, Erasmus, John Calvin, several popes and many other intellectual luminaries studied or taught [at the cathedral’s school] in its early centuries. The opportunity to study with famous scholars drew students from across Europe.” Indeed, it was Notre-Dame’s school that grew to become the University of Paris. – The Conversation
  
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• Physical Fest 2019 Workshop Programme / Tmesis Theatre / North West / International

  26-04-2019 18:00
  Physical Fest 2019 Workshop Programme
  We are offering two free places on our physical theatre workshop programme to BAME individuals from the North of England.
  An exciting 6 day programme of...
  
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• HR Business Partner / Science Museum Group / North West

  26-04-2019 17:47
  Are you experienced in building relationships to effectively manage employee relations?
  Across the Science Museum Group, we’re in the business of Inspiring Futures.  We couldn’t do...
  
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• Pastoral Support Manager / The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain / London

  26-04-2019 17:45
  Full-time, permanent contractSalary: In the region of £25,000 per annum, dependent on experience
  Are you a skilled project manager with a passion for working with young people? The National...
  
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• Recording Projects Manager / London Contemporary Orchestra / London

  26-04-2019 17:42
  This is a rare opportunity offering considerable professional development and growth to someone interested in the music industry across record labels, publishing, A&R and soundtracks in...
  
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• Art class teaching assistant Gbp10ph Hertfordshire, Kings Langley / Art School with Heather / South East / Hertfordshire

  26-04-2019 17:35
  I teach a children’s after school art club at Kings Langley primary school in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire on a Tuesday afternoon. I am looking for somebody to help the children with their...
  
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• When What We Think Will Make Things Better Makes Them Catastrophically Worse

  26-04-2019 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Our very attempts to stave off disaster by introducing safety systems ultimately increases the overall complexity of the systems, ensuring that some unpredictable outcome will rear its ugly head no matter what. Complicated human-machine systems might surprise us with outcomes more favorable than we have any reason to expect. They also might shock us with catastrophe.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Art class teaching assistant Gbp10 per hour, North London / Art School with Heather / South East / London

  26-04-2019 17:30
  I teach two children’s art lessons in a primary school in Hampstead, North London on a Wednesday morning. I am looking for somebody to help the children with their artworks during the art...
  
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• Membership Operations Assistant / Glyndebourne Productions Ltd / South East

  26-04-2019 17:26
  Extraordinary opera, extraordinary people
  6 Month Fixed-term contract
  Since its founding in 1934, Glyndebourne has remained financially independent and, whilst receiving valued Arts Council support...
  
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• Performance Examinations Co-ordinator / Royal Academy of Music / London

  26-04-2019 17:23
  Full Time:                   35 hours per week, M-F
  Salary range:...
  
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• Archivist (Digital) / The Shakespeare Globe Trust / London

  26-04-2019 17:22
  We celebrate Shakespeare’s transformative impact on the world by conducting a radical theatrical experiment. Inspired and informed by the unique historic playing conditions of two beautiful...
  
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• Events Manager / Aylesbury Waterside Theatre / South East

  26-04-2019 17:20
  Aylesbury Waterside Theatre is one of the leading commercially operated theatres in the UK, successfully hosting the most prestigious touring theatre aswell as large scale conferences and events....
  
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• Cobbles and cottages causing confusion | Brief letters

  26-04-2019 17:07
  Ely | Myanmar | Leonardo drawings in regional museums | Brexit | Courtly courtesyMy husband and I have lived just outside Ely for 48 years and we did not recognise the city described in Weekend magazine (20 April). “Surrounded by marshes and miasmas”? Tell that to the farmers. “Cobbled lanes and cottages?” Perhaps Tom Dyckhoff could let us know where they are – we haven’t seen them.
  Linda Green
  Little Downham, Cambridgeshire• Myanmar does indeed exemplify
  
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• From Noh To Manga Musicals, A Survey Of Theatre In Japan

  26-04-2019 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This special issue … looks at theatre and performance in the Land of the Rising Sun, from its foundational traditions to its most up-to-date innovations, and considers its place within contemporary Japanese culture, among East Asian cultures broadly, and in the global context.” – American Theatre
  
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• Casual Stage Door Keeper / Glasgow Theatres / North West

  26-04-2019 16:46
  Glasgow Theatres (King's and Theatre Royal) are seeking a friendly and welcoming individual to join our stage door team
  Stage Door Keepers are responsible for providing a first class welcoming...
  
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• Manager, imagine / Intermusica / London

  26-04-2019 16:45
  Intermusica is an award-winning international classical music management agency. We seek not just to represent the world’s greatest artists, but to inspire them to new creative heights. We are...
  
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• Performing Arts Technician / Midlands Arts Centre / West Midlands / Birmingham

  26-04-2019 16:37
  Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) is an exciting, ambitious arts centre which offers a wide array of free exhibitions, theatre, music, cinema and comedy performances as well as creative learning and...
  
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• The Ten Commandments Of Translating The Hebrew Bible (Or Any Scripture, Really)

  26-04-2019 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Robert Alter, who finished a new three-volume translation of the text last year, offers thou-shalts and thou-shalt-nots. For example:
  “4. Thou shalt not multiply for thyself synonyms where the Hebrew wisely and pointedly uses repeated terms.” (includes interview podcast) – The American Scholar
  
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• Senior Chef de Partie / The Lowry / North West

  26-04-2019 16:35
  2 x Senior Chef de Partie – 45 hours per week, £22,000 plus staff benefits
   
  The Lowry is an internationally acclaimed visual and performing arts centre situated at the heart of...
  
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• PR and Communications Officer / Midlands Arts Centre / West Midlands / Birmingham

  26-04-2019 16:34
  Midlands Arts Centre MAC is an exciting, ambitious arts centre which offers a wide array of free exhibitions, theatre, music, cinema and comedy as well as creative learning and participation...
  
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• Building Maintenance Technician / Midlands Arts Centre / West Midlands / Birmingham

  26-04-2019 16:32
  Midlands Arts Centre MAC is an exciting, ambitious arts centre which offers a wide array of free exhibitions, theatre, music, cinema and comedy as well as creative learning and participation...
  
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• Artists challenge Tate's renewal of links with Anthony d'Offay

  26-04-2019 16:24
  Institution suspended ties with influential art dealer in 2018 after sexual harassment claimsArtists, curators and other members of the arts community have challenged a decision by the Tate to resume links with the influential art patron Anthony d’Offay a year after allegations of sexual harassment were made against him.Both the Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland suspended contact with D’Offay in January 2018 after it was revealed that he faced allegations of sexual harassme
  
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• Workshop Facilitators / Art Camp UK / Yorkshire

  26-04-2019 16:05
  Inspirational, professional, passionate Freelance Workshop facilitators wanted 
  Do you have experience teaching your passion? 
  Are you on the DBS update Service ?
  Do you have Liability...
  
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• Subtitling Movies Is A Serious, Difficult Craft (And Studios And Filmmakers Need To Remember That)

  26-04-2019 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  An outcry over the quality of translation in the subtitles of Roma has received a frustrated response from top professional subtitlers. Yes, they say, subtitling is getting worse — because the industry wants it done on the cheap. “A film-maker wouldn’t outsource their colour correction or audio mix and just think: ‘I’ll leave them to it, I’m sure it’ll be fine.’… Subtitles are the conduit allowing you to communicate your film’s ideas
  
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• Kubrick's visions and the trouble with Italian beaches – the week in art

  26-04-2019 15:41
  The many worlds of Stanley Kubrick are celebrated, Cy Twombly reaches back to Rome, and seaside hot shots sum up modern life – all in our weekly dispatch
  Stanley Kubrick
  Enter the mind of the man who filmed A Clockwork Orange … if you dare. Kubrick’s images are masterpieces of modern art, from Alex and his droogs in the Korova Milkbar to the blood flowing from the Overlook Hotel’s elevator in The Shining. Read our five-star review here.• Design Museum, London, until
  
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• Steven Spielberg Doesn’t Hate Netflix. Really!

  26-04-2019 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Recent reporting about the now-rejected proposal to bar movies produced by and for streaming services from Oscar contention has tended to portray Spielberg as a reactionary arch-enemy of Netflix. But insiders say that just isn’t true — his company actually helps Netflix produce some of its programming — and have taken pains to let the New York Times know it.” – The New York Times
  
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• Should We Really Drop Kate Smith’s ‘God Bless America’ From Sporting Events Because Of A Couple Of Racist Songs She Sang 80-Odd Years Ago? Well, Yes

  26-04-2019 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last week, someone brought forward two now-embarrassing songs about black people that Smith recorded in the 1930s (we’ll spare you the titles), and teams in New York and Philadelphia that had been playing her version of the Irving Berlin anthem at games promptly dropped her. Anne Midgette wondered if this was an overreaction — until she talked to two black opera stars who’ve done a lot of singing at sports events themselves. – The Washington Post
  
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