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• London Indian Film Festival Volunteer / Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival LTD / London

  12-05-2019 23:57
  The Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival is looking for enthusiastic and energetic VOLUNTEERS
   
  TO BE THE FACE AND HEART OF THE FESTIVAL ACROSS LONDON.
   
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• Cabaret Scratch Night Ft. Lucy McCormick / Kiss My Scratch / London

  12-05-2019 23:48
  A shameless come on/ work in progress night showcasing some of the most exciting and fresh material in experimental and alternative performance work. Kiss My Scratch presents an evening where...
  
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• Is There A ‘Chicken Soup For The Soul’ Book For Literally Every Person On The Planet?

  12-05-2019 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The series became a juggernaut in the 1990s, but it’s not over by any means. As the years have gone on, “the books have continued to multiply, to such an extent that the titles are now, by necessity, quite specific” including, for instance, Chicken Soup for the Chiropractic Soul. – LitHub
  
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• How Should We Deal With Actors Who Appeared In Racist Movies?

  12-05-2019 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lillian Gish appeared in more than 100 movies, but one stands out as a dangerous, racist movie that inspired the spread of the Ku Klux Klan – The Birth of a Nation. And she never seemed to get what the problem was. So “the trustees of a student union in Ohio have voted unanimously to remove the name of Gish and her sister Dorothy from a university cinema” – with an explanatory display explaining the reasons for the change. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• What To Read When You Want To Rethink Motherhood

  12-05-2019 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Happy, or something, Mother’s Day, from The Rumpus. “Mother’s Day is a Hallmark holiday, and often the celebrations it inspires reinforce our static and outdated ideas of what it means to be a mother and to have a mother rather than pushing against those antiquated stereotypes.” – The Rumpus
  
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• Las Vegas Has Become A Literary Hub

  12-05-2019 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yes, Las Vegas: “The Strip is still, and ever shall be, as Joan Didion described it, ‘bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate gratification.’ But a recent infusion of money, people and The Believer, a literary magazine, have kindled an already present bookish community into a steadier flame.” – The New York Times
  
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• Yes, We Should Dismantle Facebook – But That Might Not Be Enough

  12-05-2019 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yes, Chris Hughes’ argument that Facebook needs to be broken up is strong. But it may simply be too late. “In effect, all media lives downstream of a large attention river where Facebook has dammed the flow, only to sell your water back to you—water that you used to receive naturally.” – Wired
  
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• Are Sitcoms Doomed At The Networks?

  12-05-2019 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Whew, Friday’s cancellation news was intense, so bad that Vulture called it a “bloodbath.” What’s left? Fresh Off the Boat got renewed – but star Constance Wu flat-out stated that was nothing to be happy about. So everything’s great right now in sitcom land. – Vulture
  
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• As Penguin Random House Buys A Big Spanish Publisher, Its True Rivals Are The Big Three

  12-05-2019 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Penguin Random House acquired Salamandra on May 3, and some see it as the start of a large rivalry with multimedia firm and publisher Grupo Planeta – but the real rivals to both publishing companies are Amazon, Apple, and Google. – El Pais (Spain)
  
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• How To Listen To Music That You’re Pretty Sure Is By A Predator

  12-05-2019 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ann Powers re-listens to all of Michael Jackson’s work in the wake of Leaving Neverland. “If culture builds itself through revelations, explorations, secrets and lies, any response that doesn’t claim the contradictions gets it wrong.” – NPR
  
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• The Cost Of Being A Ballerina

  12-05-2019 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  As 43-year-old ballerina Crystal Brothers prepares to retire from Ballet Memphis, here’s what she has been doing each day to keep her body going in the brutal sport, er, art, of dance: She sleeps in therapy boots all night to reduce leg cramping, and then … “I ice my feet, I take at least three baths a day, I have heating pads attached to my body with elastic bands and thera-bands, and I’m, you know, shoving a heating pad down my pants for my lower back.” –
  
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• At The Venice Biennale, Lithuania Wins The Top Prize

  12-05-2019 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Three Lithuanian artists won the prize for an opera performance piece “on an artificial beach, in which swimsuited performers break from sunbathing to sing warnings of ecological disaster.” – The New York Times
  
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• Mawkish monuments and the beach from hell: our verdict on the Venice Biennale

  12-05-2019 17:42
  It has dancing monsters, a smoking pigeon and a ship full of migrants that sank. But this year’s haunting, standout show is Lithuania’s beach full of doomed sunbathersA black and white cow travels in endless circles on a circular track, going nowhere on a carpet of artificial grass. Chinese artist Nabuqi’s bovine installation is far from the most stupid and unnecessary thing you’ll find in this year’s Venice Biennale, which sprawls across the city, from the Giardini
  
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• Broadband In The US Is Still Slow And Expensive, But Companies Are Racing To Change That – From Space

  12-05-2019 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  OK, from low orbit, anyway. Still, potentially cool (and creepy? All at once?): First of all, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has a plan for something called “Starlink,” and now, “government filings have indicated Amazon is preparing a constellation of 3,236 satellites as the backbone of its own planned service currently dubbed ‘Project Kuiper.'”– Vice
  
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• Alvin Sargent, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter Of ‘Julia’ And ‘Ordinary People,’ Has Died At 92

  12-05-2019 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sargent was the master of the adapted screenplay. “One of Hollywood’s most versatile writers, Mr. Sargent, who adapted screenplays from books and stories, wrote or collaborated on scores of television and film scripts over six decades: comedies, dramas, westerns, romances, even Spider-Man adventures.” (As a matter of fact, many outlets headlined his obit as “Spider-Man Writer.”)  – The New York Times
  
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• Bringing Brooklyn Back To BAM

  12-05-2019 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Shamel Pitts, who grew up in Bed-Stuy and danced in The Ailey School and at Juilliard before leaving to dance with an Israeli group he saw at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, has moved back home – and is dancing his own creation in BAM, based on (but altered from) the Israeli dance called Gaga. – The Undefeated
  
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• How To Turn Kids Into Bookworms

  12-05-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s not magic. But it does require some effort (& also, do read Frog and Toad aloud): “Children have never been famed for taking sensible advice, but are superb at following a poor example. So if a parent spends most of their own time peering at screens, they can scarcely expect anything different from their offspring. … Maybe you can’t dump your phone, but at least give them that one half-hour in the day totally uninterrupted.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Estate Of Robert Indiana Sues To Stop Sales For Reproductions Of ‘LOVE’ And ‘HOPE’

  12-05-2019 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Wow, ugh, and this sure messes with those trying to remember Indiana a year after he died. “The complex legal battle surrounding the estate of Indiana began the day before he died at his home on Vinalhaven, when the Morgan Art Foundation filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York accusing McKenzie and Jamie Thomas, Indiana’s caretaker, of fraud and elder abuse. Indiana also was named in the suit. In fall 2018, Morgan also sued the Indiana e
  
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• Streaming Is The Talk Of The Media, But Advertisers Are Apparently Eager To Give Money To Traditional Channels

  12-05-2019 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This seems … weird: The fewer people watch, the more money comes in from ads? But OK: “A strong economy has sustained robust ad spending in recent years. But another reason the upfront pot keeps growing, analysts say, is that shrinking ratings drive up the price of reaching viewers who still watch the networks the old-fashioned way — now known in the industry as ‘linear television.'” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Howzat! LS Lowry's cricket match painting may sell for £1m

  12-05-2019 14:56
  Rare painting of cricket match in Salford unveiled for first time in more than 20 years The hopeless child at deep midwicket is facing the wrong way and the bowler is surely delivering a no ball but there is still much to enjoy in a rare painting being unveiled for the first time in more than 20 years.Sotheby’s has announced the auction, from an American collection, of a 1938 painting by LS Lowry showing a cricket match on a wasteground in Salford. Related: LS Lowry exhibition: 'an unaggre
  
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• The Meisner Technique - 5 Day Intensive / Both Feet Actor Training / London

  12-05-2019 14:44
  Both Feet delivers ongoing training for the professional actor rooted in the highly respected Meisner Technique.Discover The Meisner Technique @Theatre Deli, London3-7th June,...
  
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• CGO Surgeries, Coaching and creative support / Chris Grady.org / London / Scotland

  12-05-2019 14:36
  CGO offer one hour pay-what-you-can surgeries. A chance to share a new project, explore a stuck point in your creative journey from a business-like viewpoint, and seek connections which might move...
  
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• After Being Turned Down By A Woman Of Color, The UK Picks A White Man As Poet Laureate

  12-05-2019 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The man in question is 55-year-old West Yorkshire poet Simon Armitrage, who’s aware of the issues. “Armitage told the BBC that he believed there had been ‘a lot of discussion behind the scenes’ about whether it was right for the job to go again to a white man, and that he wanted to use it to amplify the voices of those from ‘diverse and disadvantaged’ backgrounds.”- The New York Times
  
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• Freelance Technician with own Transport / Tom Marshman / South West / UK

  12-05-2019 14:13
  We are looking for an experienced and confident theatre technician to work on Tom Marshman's show – A Haunted Existence, to support the UK Tour. 
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• An Author May Lose Her Book Contract After A Tweet

  12-05-2019 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Natasha Tynes tweeted a photo of a Washington, D.C., Metro employee eating on the train – the same behavior that gets non-employees tickets and is the subject of many online discussions – the World Bank employee probably did not expect the backlash that came, and fast. Now the publishing house that was supposed to publish her new book has said, “We think this is unacceptable and have no desire to be involved with anyone who thinks it’s acceptable to jeopardize a per
  
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• Oops, Fake Movie Money Is Fooling Cashiers

  12-05-2019 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  While actual prop money is pretty well regulated, let’s just say there’s a lot of fake prop (or fake fake) money flooding the market. By the way, with prop money, “One type is for ‘fanning, flashing, raining, counting’; a more expensive variety is for close-ups” (& perhaps fooling cashiers).– The Atlantic
  
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• Reframing Lee Krasner, the artist formerly known as Mrs Pollock

  12-05-2019 11:00
  Lee Krasner’s huge contribution to abstract expressionism was overshadowed for years by the work of her husband, Jackson Pollock. On the eve of a major London show, we trace her storyIn the autumn of 1945, two artists – not young, but not quite middle-aged, either – moved from New York to a village called Springs, near East Hampton on Long Island. These newlyweds had no money. It would be a while before they could make the small clapboard farmhouse that was to be their new home
  
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• Venice Biennale 2019 review – preaching to the converted

  12-05-2019 09:00
  There is much to praise from Ghana, India, France, and a stunning international pavilion. Less admirable is a true horror on the Arsenale…The tide is rising. The ice caps are melting. The oceans are awash with trash. That is the main message from the Giardini in Venice, where the 2019 Biennale has just opened. But apparently we should not abandon all hope. For there is always birdsong, and another dance class.This is what the international pavilions seem to be saying, over and over again.
  
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• Rembrandt’s Holland: exploring Amsterdam and Leiden

  12-05-2019 08:00
  It is 350 years since the artist’s death but visiting these two Dutch cities you can still feel the echoes of his work, and follow in his footstepsRembrandt stares out at me all around. To one side he is young, eyes shaded beneath tousled hair, to the other he’s wrinkled, gummy and turbaned, and in between variously smiling, frowning, astonished, or confident beneath a wide-brimmed hat at a rakish angle. It’s a perfect start to my journey in search of the greatest of Dutch mast
  
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• Interdisciplinary arts informal performance night / Mellifera Arts Platform / London

  12-05-2019 03:27
  Mellifera is an informal interdisciplinary arts performance platform, open to artists and arts enthusiasts of all disciplines and levels on the third Wednesday of every month, starting 19 June 2019....
  
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• Musical Director / Didcot Choral Society / South East

  12-05-2019 01:30
  Professional Musical Director  from September 2019– Didcot Choral Society (registered charity)We are a long established (since 1958) and thriving Choral Society in the growing town of...
  
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• Small admin work / Gravity Circus School / Yorkshire / Any where

  12-05-2019 00:08
  I need someone to do a small admin work for me which includes a creation of a list that contains names and email address of production, TV, film, advert companies around the world to advertise our...
  
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