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• In Ancient Times, Timekeeping Was Erratic. When We Figured It Out, It Revolutionized The World

  09-05-2019 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In our own world, filled with ubiquitous date marks, it is easy to underestimate the sheer novelty, and so historical significance, of this mass year-marking. But, in the ancient world, this was without precedent or parallel. In no other state in the ancient Mediterranean or west Asia did rulers and subjects inhabit spaces that were so comprehensively and consistently dated.” – Aeon
  
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• Musical Theatre facilitator for After School Club / Skipz Productions cic / London

  09-05-2019 23:28
  Skipz Productions cic is a performing arts and arts company providing after school clubs for primary schools in West London.  
  We are looking for a musical theatre facilitator for the...
  
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• Lyric writing & Music facilitator for After School Club / Skipz Productions cic / London

  09-05-2019 23:24
  Skipz Productions cic is a performing arts and arts company providing after school clubs for primary schools in West London.  
  We are looking for a lyric writing and music facilitator for...
  
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• streetcake experimental writing prize for 18-26 year olds / / South West / South East, North West, North East, Yorkshire, East Midlands, West Midlands, London, East

  09-05-2019 23:20
  streetcake experimental writing prize, supported by ACE, open to entries.
  Open to 18-26 year old UK residents.
  Genres: poetry and short fiction
  First prize: mentoring from SJ Fowler, Sascha...
  
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• New Deal: Italian Galleries Won’t Have To Pay Artist Resale Royalties

  09-05-2019 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Primary market galleries in Italy no longer have to pay the artist’s resale right (ARR) when selling a work for the first time on behalf of an artist, meaning only works being resold are subject to royalties. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Where Does The Original End And The Copy Begin? (And Don’t Even Mention Fakes)

  09-05-2019 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s an issue, since the beginning of art. Where does one person’s art end and another’s begin. The lines are quite blurry… – Smithsonian
  
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• Maine Newspaper Prints Letter To The Editor Complaining About Opera Gala Attendees’ “Slovenliness.” Uproar Ensues. Then Paper Says Letter Was Fake

  09-05-2019 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  So was it a troll? – Washington Post
  
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• Survey Of UK Musicians With Disabilities: 70 Percent Hide Their Disability So They Can Work

  09-05-2019 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Seventy percent said they had kept their disability hidden because of worries it would damage a relationship with a venue, promoter or festival, while two thirds said they had to “compromise their health or wellbeing” to be able to perform live. – The Guardian
  
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• ‘We Are In The Early Stages Of A New Filmmaking Revolution’

  09-05-2019 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “An array of rapidly developing technologies offer thrilling potential for the future of motion pictures – such as the rise of AR (augmented reality), AI (artificial intelligence) and the ever-increasing capacity for computers to power detailed digital worlds. What will films look like in 20 years’ time? And how will the cinematic stories of the future differ from the experiences available today?” Correspondent Luke Buckmaster asks some of the people working to make it a
  
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• We need to unearth some history

  09-05-2019 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  There should be a book about all the changes orchestras went through in the last few decades. I’ll be doing posts on some of the things I think should be in this book, often things that aren’t revealed publicly. Here, to start, are a couple of examples. – Greg Sandow
  
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• Sontagian Revulsion: My Notes on “Camp” at the Metropolitan Museum

  09-05-2019 20:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Camp: Notes on Fashion begins promisingly with a deep dive into the early history of camp, including the derivation of that designation as an aesthetic category (first known usage: Molière). But its sprawling, diffuse finale embodies the “camp” worldview at its worst, as it devolves into a parody of a museum exhibition. – Lee Rosenbaum
  
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• Then There’s This: Brecker With Holmquist And The UMO

  09-05-2019 20:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  We have been meaning to call to your attention to an instance in which – unlike, say, the trade talks between the US and China – international cooperation works beautifully. – Doug Ramsey
  
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• Agency Assistant / PA (16 hours per week) / Small Screen Talent / North West

  09-05-2019 20:47
  Small Screen Talent is a unique weekend TV Acting Academy and Agency for young performers aged 5-19. Our classes are held each Saturday in 6 locations across the North West of England and we are...
  
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• Teaching Assistant Bolton and Stockport (Saturday role) / Small Screen Talent / North West

  09-05-2019 20:35
  Small Screen Talent is a unique weekend TV Acting Academy and Agency for young performers aged 5-19. Our classes are held each Saturday in 6 locations across the North West of England.
  We are...
  
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• Scientists Are Exploring An Ancient Country North Of England That Was Submerged The Last Time The Seas Rose

  09-05-2019 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The ancient country, known as Doggerland, which could once have had great plains with rich soils, formed an important land bridge between Britain and northern Europe. It was long believed to have been hit by catastrophic flooding. Using seabed mapping data the team plans to produce a 3D chart revealing the rivers, lakes, hills and coastlines of the country. Specialist survey ships will take core sediment samples from selected areas to extract millions of fragments of DNA from the buried plants
  
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• Ocular: NTU GEN23 Photography Festival, Surface Gallery / / East Midlands

  09-05-2019 20:18
  Ocular: NTU GEN23 Photography Festival22nd May – 5th JunePrivate View: Thursday 23rd May, 19:00 – 21:00Maia Baker / Tom Coffey / Mitch Gamble / Rosie Garrett / Lucy Rebecca Hill / Lucy...
  
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• Onstage (And Partly Under It) With A Metropolitan Opera Prompter

  09-05-2019 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Before each performance Carol Isaac climbs into her little box from the orchestra pit and raises her seat just enough to be seen by the singers but not the audience.” It’s tight quarters in there, especially for a six-hour Wagner opera. But she and her seven colleagues in the job at the Met love the work. And the singers love them. (includes video) – NY1 (New York City)
  
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• Freelance Acting Tutors / Workshop Leaders - Saturday roles / Small Screen Talent / North West

  09-05-2019 20:03
  Small Screen Talent is a unique weekend TV Acting Academy and Agency for young performers aged 5-19. Our classes are held each Saturday in 6 locations across the North West of England.
  We are...
  
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• 'We're fighting for the same spaces': Are lockout laws killing Sydney's queer culture?

  09-05-2019 20:00
  It’s no secret Sydney’s nightlife has suffered under NSW laws, but artists like William Yang say the effect on LGBT spaces has been particularly profoundWhen photographer William Yang began capturing the dancefloors and stages of warehouse parties that electrified the Sydney queer community in the 1980s and 90s, he produced a vital pictorial record of a fresh, thriving LGBTQI culture driven by house music and unprecedented creative costuming and performance, but which today is squeez
  
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• Marketing & Communications Officer / Making Music / London

  09-05-2019 19:38
  Making Music is the UK organisation for leisure-time music groups, with over 3,500 groups in membership, home to around 190,000 hobby musicians. We support members with practical services and...
  
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• Should You Be Afraid Of AI? First Let’s Pin Down What It Is…

  09-05-2019 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The conversation about AI is full of confusion, misinformation, and people talking past each other — in large part because we use the word “AI” to refer to so many things. So here’s the big picture on how artificial intelligence might pose a catastrophic danger, in nine questions. – Vox
  
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• Drama Teachers who can sing & dance / Perform / London / South West

  09-05-2019 19:28
  Love working with children? Looking for rewarding well paid part-time and full-time work?
  Perform is a unique children’s drama school working across London and the South. We’re...
  
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• Community Manager / NextUp Comedy / London

  09-05-2019 19:25
  NextUp Comedy is a subscription video platform for stand-up comedy. Unlike other platforms that are enjoyed passively by users, we have members who feel part of our grass-roots journey - like us,...
  
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• Board Members / Rambert / London

  09-05-2019 19:11
  Rambert are looking for new members to join the Board of Trustees. We’re after people from all walks of life who believe in our vision and want to help us achieve our goals. We are particularly...
  
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• Nurit Karlin, 80, The New Yorker’s Master Of The Wordless Cartoon

  09-05-2019 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[She] drew whimsical but thoughtful cartoons: an office worker sitting in what is actually one of his desk’s drawers; a lumberjack peering at a heart pierced by an arrow carved inside the rings of a felled tree; a harpist taking his bows on a concert stage with the strings of his instrument dangling from one hand.” And a favorite: two doves fighting over an olive branch. – The New York Times
  
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• Managing Director – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

  09-05-2019 18:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Woolly Mammoth invites applicants and nominations for this leadership position at one of the field’s leading regional companies. The next Managing Director will join Artistic Director Maria Manuela Goyanes, in her inaugural season, in a co-leadership structure. Woolly Mammoth has engaged Management Consultants for the Arts to lead this search and interested candidates may apply for this position and submit requested materials by visiting this link: 
  https://tinyurl.com/Woolly-MDFor fo
  
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• Head of Stage / Liverpool Empire / North West

  09-05-2019 18:49
  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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• Van Gogh's gushing letter to art critic goes on show in Amsterdam

  09-05-2019 18:47
  In letter artist describes review, one of the first of his paintings, as ‘a work of art in itself’It was written by Vincent van Gogh a few months before his death aged 37, during his time as a patient at a small asylum on the outskirts of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence where he painted some of his most vivid and celebrated works.In rapture at one of the first reviews of his paintings, Van Gogh described the critic’s writing as “a work of art in itself” in a tightly p
  
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• Poets and visual artists sci-fi mini-commission / Edalia Day / East

  09-05-2019 18:47
  As part of the development of a new family show for under tens about neurodiversity, Edalia Day is commissioning 15 visual artists and poets to use themes of robots, aliens and space travel to...
  
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• IT Security Manager / The Ambassador Theatre Group / South East

  09-05-2019 18:47
  The Ambassador Theatre Group is an extraordinary success story in the live entertainment industry.
  We are looking for a vibrant, enthusiastic and dynamic individual to lead on our IT Security. The...
  
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• Deadline Announced / Call-Out to Artists / Birmingham Comedy Festival / West Midlands

  09-05-2019 18:38
  Birmingham Comedy Festival has announced it's deadline for 2019.
  The long-running city-wide arts festival recently picked up two What's On Awards for Best Festival - Best Midlands Arts Festival and...
  
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• Facing Death Creatively Conference / St Christophers Hospice / London

  09-05-2019 18:36
  The Arts team at St Christopher’s Hospice are mounting their fourth conference ‘Facing Death Creatively’ to explore how the Arts can be utilised to make sense of and provide comfort...
  
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• The Shocking Number Of Americans Who Say They’re “Bothered” Hearing Someone Speak A Foreign Language

  09-05-2019 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  According to Pew Research Center, 47 percent of such Republicans say it would bother them “some” or “a lot” to “hear people speak a language other than English in a public place.” Eighteen percent of white Democrats said they would be similarly bothered. – Washington Post
  
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• Creative Artist / St Christopher's / London

  09-05-2019 18:29
  JOB TITLE:   Creative Artist SALARY:       £16,710 per annum (£27,850 full time...
  
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• Graham Arnold obituary

  09-05-2019 18:27
  Graham Arnold, who has died aged 86, was an outstanding painter and an important member of a group of artists who sought to counteract what they saw as the corrosive impact of the modern movement on the traditional strengths and virtues of English art.Together with Peter Blake, David Inshaw, Graham Ovenden and Annie Ovenden, Graham and his wife, Ann, also a painter, formed the Brotherhood of Ruralists (a conscious echo of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood) in 1975. Discarded, painterly skills would
  
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• Introduction to screen writing / Adult Learning Lewisham / London

  09-05-2019 18:15
  On this course you will learn to identify the form and structure of a good short film through reading, sharing ideas and group discussion. You will exercise your craft through a range of writing...
  
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• Americans Are Finally Reading More Translated Translation — Aren’t They?

  09-05-2019 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yes, there are some literary stars here whose books come to U.S. readers in translation — Karl Ove Knausgaard, Stieg Larsson, Elena Ferrante — but the number of books published in English that were originally written in another language has held steady at around 3% of the total for many years. Chad Post, founder of the publishing house Open Letter, which specializes in translated lit, writes about the interlocking issues behind “the 3 percent problem.” – Vulture
  
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• Freelance Facilitator: Stories from M&S Sheet Music / M&S Company Archive/Leeds International Piano Competition / Yorkshire

  09-05-2019 17:52
  Following a successful bid to the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Leeds International Piano Competition and the M&S Company Archive are able to offer this exciting opportunity. ‘Stories...
  
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• What “The Great Gatsby” Tells Us About Jazz In The 1920s

  09-05-2019 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  F. Scott Fitzgerald’s deployment of jazz imagery was as cutting-edge as it was conservative. He embraced the new music; he struggled more to embrace its practitioners and progenitors. He was willing to learn. Yet in the age when jazz was at its arguable peak of public visibility, he was still not able to see black people in the same way he saw white Americans and Europeans. – JSTOR
  
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• Head of Cultural Programme & Partnerships / Royal Docks / London

  09-05-2019 17:20
  Contract type: Permanent Salary: £68,863 per annum Location of Role: The Crystal, Royal Victoria Dock
  Details: We’re helping to unlock the creative spirit of the Royal Docks....
  
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• Creative Producer / Royal Docks / London

  09-05-2019 17:13
  Contract type: Permanent Salary: £43,517 per annum Location of Role: The Crystal, Royal Victoria DockGrade: 8
  We’re helping to unlock the creative spirit of the Royal Docks. You’ll...
  
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• One Spirit Workshop Artist / HMDT Music / South East

  09-05-2019 17:06
  HMDT Music's ONE SPIRIT is a pioneering project that has been delivering creative arts and resettlement focused projects in YOIs and HMPs since 2010 and running a Through the Gate program with...
  
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• Financial Administrator / Studio Manager / Troika / London

  09-05-2019 17:06
  Troika is looking for an experienced, personable, pro-active team member who will be responsible for General Studio Administration, Financial Administration and Logistics. Experience in arts and...
  
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• Front of House Supervisor, Wembley Park Theatre / Troubadour Theatres / London

  09-05-2019 17:04
  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...
  
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• Front of House Supervisor, White City Theatre / Troubadour Theatres / London

  09-05-2019 17:03
  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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• What’s The Deal With America’s Fondness For Endless Adolescence? Blame Mark Twain

  09-05-2019 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tom Carson: “Most of the Americans entranced by the fib that everything after high school is a fall from grace undoubtedly have no idea where it originated, but the Clearasil staining Mark Twain’s hands can never be wholly scrubbed away.” – The Baffler
  
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• This Guy’s Getting All Avant-Garde Hipster-y With The Renaissance’s Most Genteel Instrument

  09-05-2019 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Although Renaissance and Baroque repertoire remains his lodestar, [Liam] Byrne has taken the music — and audiences — to surprising places. In 2015, he squeezed into the belly of a plaster sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum and performed for one person at a time, Marina Abramović-style. Two years later, he participated in a site-specific reworking of Schumann’s song cycle Dichterliebe, holing up in the kitchen of a historic house with the performer Mara Car
  
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• Red Lady to Richard III: Britain's 10 best buried treasures – ranked!

  09-05-2019 16:33
  How does ‘Britain’s Tutankhamun’, a Saxon prince’s tomb found near an Aldi in Southend-on-Sea, fit in with the UK’s great archaeological finds?
  We really are good at talking up our treasures. Britain’s Tutankhamun? There are lots of reasons why the remnants of a Saxon princely burial, discovered under a verge near an Aldi in Southend, can’t match up to the ancient Egyptian boy king’s treasures. After a 16-year excavation, the artefacts are now goin
  
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• Search Press Demo Day 2019 / Mall Galleries / London

  09-05-2019 16:25
  Wednesday 28 August, 11am to 4pm
  Search Press Demo Day returns to Mall Galleries for 2019 so why not join us in watching your favourite artists doing what they do best! Come and be inspired to...
  
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