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• Artist in Manchester / PopUp Painting & Events / London

  18-06-2019 23:55
  PopUp Painting is the leading ‘sip and paint’ business in the country, delivering over 40 events per month across London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds!
  Wine glass in one...
  
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• How to get a job as a TV Production Coordinator Workshop / Connect2TVCoaching / London

  18-06-2019 23:31
  Today we at Connect2TVCoaching invite you to attend our 14th event on the 03.08.2019, a training session – How to get a job as a TV Production Coordinator. Created and tailored to those...
  
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• Colossal Art: Stockhausen’s Astonishing Masterpiece

  18-06-2019 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alex Ross:“Aus licht” turned out to be the kind of inexplicable marvel that one waits half a lifetime to see. It induced shivers not just in its awesome moments—trumpeters intoning a chorale from balconies; brass players engaging in military-style skirmishes in the aisles; angel voices singing an extraterrestrial liturgy—but also in its unexpectedly intimate passages, its glimpses of the composer’s shattered childhood. “Aus licht” was one of t
  
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• The Dilemma Of Creative Placemaking

  18-06-2019 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The question of just how to execute creative placemaking without inviting gentrification sits at the forefront of creative placemaking circles. Jamie Hand, a researcher for ArtPlace America, says the friction between placemaking’s benefits and the onrush of gentrifying forces has happened frequently enough to spark vigorous discussion and dialogue on the efforts to walk a tightrope between uplift and displacement of the community. – NextCity
  
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• When The Machines Get Smarter Than We Are, Things Will Change

  18-06-2019 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  David Chalmers: “Once we have a human-level artificial intelligence, there’s just no doubt that it will change the world. A.G.I.s are going to be beings with powers initially equivalent to our own and before long much greater than our own. To that extent, I’m on board with people who say that we need to think hard about how we design superintelligence in order to maximize good consequences.” – The New York Times
  
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• America’s Museums Have Become A Political Battleground

  18-06-2019 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Once ivory towers of culture, far removed from politics and controversy, museums have increasingly come into the spotlight as sites of protest and places where equity, diversity, and inclusion have become imperatives. – ARTnews
  
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• When Zeffirelli Went Wrong At The Opera

  18-06-2019 21:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  He was all about the lavish set. At their best, his productions induced gasps. But ultimately, these stagings were not just singer- and conductor-proof. They were drama-proof, almost like a parody of opera. – The New York Times
  
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• The Welsh Language Is Becoming (Could It Really Be?) Cool

  18-06-2019 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are Welsh-language songs and TV series racking up remarkable streaming numbers, the number of speakers has increased by 20% over the last decade, and people who’ve never been to Wales are learning the language using apps. – The Guardian
  
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• Charity service generates over Gbp 60k for amateur music groups / Making Music / London / East, North East, North West, Yorkshire, East Midlands, West Midlands, South East, South West

  18-06-2019 20:57
  Making Music’s new Orchestra Tax Relief service has helped leisure-time music groups to claim back concert production costs from HMRC totalling more than £60K to date. As the UK’s...
  
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• Renee Fleming’s Theatre Breakout

  18-06-2019 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The past two years have been busy in the theatre, with non-operatic roles, some time in Carousel, and currently in The Light in the Piazza. – The Guardian
  
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• Archives and Drawings Coordinator / Antony Gormley Studio / London

  18-06-2019 20:07
  Archives and Drawings CoordinatorWe are looking for a Drawings and Archives Coordinator to join Antony Gormley’s Studio.
  This vital position will be the custodian of a very large and...
  
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• At This Ballet School, They Are Empowering Their Students With Important Life Skills

  18-06-2019 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The after-school program at the Thomas Armour Youth Ballet in South Miami … provides ballet, reading, math and etiquette classes along with access to mental health professionals. The program delivers professionally taught dance classes in multiple genres, at little or no cost to 500 students ages 5-11.” – Miami Herald
  
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• Marketing Officer/ Web Editor / Reading Arts / Reading UK / South East

  18-06-2019 20:03
  1 Year Fixed Term
  About usReading's arts and cultural scene is vibrant and diverse with the de-facto city fast developing into a cultural destination. To reflect this exciting cultural scene, we are...
  
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• Writers for Mental Health Festival / W5 Productions / London / South East

  18-06-2019 19:50
  W5 Productions is a new production company. In November we're staging a full schedule of events- new films, theatre, live events- for our Mental Health Festival.
  We're looking for...
  
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• Ruth Bader Ginsburg Goes To Broadway To See “What The Constitution Means To Me”

  18-06-2019 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ginsburg got a standing ovation when her famous line about women on the Supreme Court was said by a cast member: “When will there be enough women on the court? My answer is, when there are nine.” – CNN
  
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• Winter Residencies / Watershed & MAYK / South West

  18-06-2019 19:23
  This opportunity is open to creative practitioners (from or based in the UK), of any discipline, career stage and background, who have ideas for artistic projects that explore technology and climate...
  
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• Mural Artist / MyMural / London

  18-06-2019 19:21
  The exciting new MyMural project enables and encourages profficient artists and residents to connect - to work together, to create vibrant artworks on walls and colourful neighbourhoods. Pioneered...
  
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• Head of Marketing / The Coronet Theatre / London

  18-06-2019 19:19
  The Coronet Theatre is seeking a new Head of Marketing to lead and deliver robust campaigns for all of our work, with the principle aim to maximise box office income and develop new audiences across...
  
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• What Goes On Backstage At The World’s Oldest Theatre Collective

  18-06-2019 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Theatre collective” may seem a surprising way to describe the Comédie-Française (est. 1680), but it’s accurate: the company is owned and controlled by its actors and other members. Reporter Laura Cappelle pays a visit to see how it all works. – The Guardian
  
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• Community Learning and Engagement Officer (Maternity cover) / Wirksworth Heritage Centre / East Midlands

  18-06-2019 18:47
  The new Wirksworth Heritage Centre is seeking a part-time (18.5 hrs per week) Community Learning and Engagement Officer to co-ordinate and run our Activity Plan of events and our learning...
  
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• Printed Peregrines Workshop / Chichester Cathedral / South East

  18-06-2019 18:34
  Printed Peregrines Workshop Wed 26th June 2019 from 10am – 1pm Adult Craft Workshop with professional Printmaker, Cath Bristow
  Take our nesting Cathedral Peregrines as a starting point to...
  
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• Brazilians Face The Fact That Their Greatest Writer Was Black

  18-06-2019 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The traditional historical photo of [Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis] shows a man whose skin is nearly as light as his crisp white dress shirt. … Machado was known to be the descendant of freed slaves, but the new rendering, which shows him as a black man, has shaken Brazilians, prompting some to reconsider how they previously read his work and angering others who feel his legacy had been whitewashed.” – The New York Times
  
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• Administrative Assistant / Nottingham Music Hub / East Midlands

  18-06-2019 18:17
  This is a fantastic opportunity for an admin assistant role with a varied and interesting range of tasks. The role will be supporting the Music Service to deliver their aims and ensure...
  
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• Vital Spark Ideas Fund - Seed Commission (Gbp 2500) / The Spark Arts for Children / London / UK wide, not just London

  18-06-2019 18:15
  The Ideas Fund is a seed commission which offers financial support and expertise for an artist or company to take a bold and exciting new idea for a performance for children and young people (0-13)...
  
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• Peggy Lee tribute concert by Catherine Lima / National Jazz Archive / East

  18-06-2019 18:13
  Catherine Lima and her Quartet play a fundraising concert for the National Jazz Archive featuring the music of Peggy Lee on Saturday 27 July, in Loughton, Essex.
  Catherine explores Peggy Lee’s...
  
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• Blue Cabin Associate / Blue Cabin / North East

  18-06-2019 18:13
  Blue Cabin Associate Call Out 
  Blue Cabin is a Community Interest Company, established in October 2016.
  We nurture meaningful relationships between children and young people with experience of...
  
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• Executive Director/joint CEO / Spare Tyre / London

  18-06-2019 18:06
  Following the appointment of Rebecca Manson Jones as Artistic Director/Joint CEO of Spare Tyre, the Trustees are looking to appoint a dynamic Executive Director/Joint CEO who will work in partnership...
  
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• Charles Reich, Author Of ‘The Greening Of America’, Dead At 91

  18-06-2019 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Reich was a popular Yale University professor whose students included both Bill and Hillary Clinton and a respected legal scholar when a 39,000-word excerpt from The Greening of America ran in The New Yorker in September 1970, generating a massive volume of letters. The book was published a few weeks later and sold more than 2 million copies, making Reich a middle-aged hero for a rebellious generation despite scorn from both conservatives and liberals.” – AP
  
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• Vital Spark re-opens for BAME, D/deaf and Disabled Artists / The Spark Arts for Children / National

  18-06-2019 17:59
  In 2018, The Spark Arts for Children launched Vital Spark; a programme designed to address the lacking diversity in performance for children and young people by supporting a talented group of artists...
  
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• Trainee Instrumental Teacher (Brass Specialist) / Nottingham Music Hub / East Midlands

  18-06-2019 17:59
  This is a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic and committed Brass specialist with relevant ability and aspirations to support this creative and...
  
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• Project Manager, International Touring Exhibitions / The British Museum / London

  18-06-2019 17:47
  The British Museum is looking to recruit a Project Manager for their International Engagement department. In this varied role you will manage the development and delivery of a number of the...
  
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• An Oral History Of ‘Oh! Calcutta!, Which Premiered 50 Years Ago

  18-06-2019 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “An erotic revue conceived by the English theater critic Kenneth Tynan, Oh! Calcutta! took it all off at the Eden Theater, a former pornographic cinema that had been renovated by the show’s producer. … [Tynan] solicit[ed] anyone and everyone to submit a titillating sketch. Nothing ‘about art or redeeming literary merit,’ he advised. A lot of the luminaries (Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams, Edna O’Brien) dropped out or were dropped, but the final, all-male
  
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• 'I was terrible at drawing': the social worker who became a Turner prize nominee

  18-06-2019 17:25
  She flunked art at school and spent 10 years in children’s services. Helen Cammock talks about unlocking her creativity – and taking off on a singing, dancing, sketching tour of ItalyLast October, in a balmy Roman autumn, the artist Helen Cammock was making prints at the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica. The building sits at the back of, and forms the stage-set for, the Trevi fountain: from its windows you can look down to the crowds of tourists staring up at Oceanus and his tritons
  
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• 'I was terrible at drawing': Helen Cammock, the social worker who became a Turner prize nominee

  18-06-2019 17:25
  She flunked art at school and spent 10 years in children’s services. Helen Cammock talks about unlocking her creativity – and taking off on a singing, dancing, sketching tour of ItalyLast October, in a balmy Roman autumn, the artist Helen Cammock was making prints at the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica. The building sits at the back of, and forms the stage-set for, the Trevi fountain: from its windows you can look down to the crowds of tourists staring up at Oceanus and his tritons
  
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• Support St Mary's Creative Space and develop its cultural use / Cheshire West and Chester Council / North West

  18-06-2019 17:15
  Opportunity to support the running of St. Mary's Cultural Space, Chester and further develop its cultural use.
  St Marys is a fantastic performance and exhibition space in the heart of Chester and...
  
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• Engagement Manager (England, Midlands & East) / The National Lottery Heritage Fund / East Midlands

  18-06-2019 17:07
  Contract:                    Permanent...
  
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• Why More Than A Third Of The Board At Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre Quit

  18-06-2019 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  A letter from eight of the 13 departing board members noted that two leading candidates for CEO of the theater withdrew after meeting with the president of Roosevelt University (which owns the theatre) and said that, “As a result, we lack confidence about the future outlook for the Theatre, are unable to advance the Theatre’s mission, and have been stymied in our attempts to work with the University’s leadership to find a solution.” – Crain’s Chicago Business
  
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• Set + Costume Designer/Maker / Scratchworks Theatre Company / South West

  18-06-2019 16:48
  SET + COSTUME DESIGNER/MAKER CALL OUT
  FEE: £500
  APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10TH JULY @ 6PM
  We are looking for a set + costume designer/maker to come into the latter half of our R+D for our...
  
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• MK Calling 2020 - Open Call to exhibit / MK Gallery / South East

  18-06-2019 16:48
  MK Calling Submissions deadline: Midnight Sunday 30th June Exhibition at MK Gallery: 15th Feb – 25th May 2020We're inviting artists working across all art forms to take over...
  
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• Patrons Executive / Serpentine Galleries / London

  18-06-2019 16:39
  We are looking for a Patrons Executive to support the Head of Patrons in the delivery of the Patrons fundraising strategy and donor fulfilment programme. You will support membership schemes and...
  
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• Daniel Rowles: Digital Marketing Workshop / Museum of Brands / London

  18-06-2019 16:37
  The current global spending on digital marketing nears $100 billion according to a Reuters study. Marketers and advertisers have experienced a shift from offline to online techniques in the last...
  
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• The Ongoing Destruction Of The Bamiyan Buddhas (As If What The Taliban Did Weren’t Bad Enough)

  18-06-2019 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Most of the time, the remains of the monument are so poorly guarded that anyone can buy a ticket ($4 for foreigners, 60 cents for Afghans), walk in and do pretty much whatever he wants. And many do. Souvenir-hunters pluck pieces of painted stucco decorations from the network of chambers or take away chunks of fallen sandstone. Graffiti signatures, slogans, even solicitations for sex abound.” – The New York Times
  
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• Fly The Flag free opening event, Monday 24 June, 10.30am / / London

  18-06-2019 16:30
  We would love you to join us for a free event in the Edmond J. Safra Fountain Court at Somerset House, the Strand, London, WC2R 1LA on Monday 24 June at 10.30 am to celebrate the start of...
  
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• Kleptomaniac Feminism, Art & Writing Workshop / Freud Museum London / London

  18-06-2019 16:27
  Defined by the compulsive urge to steal often-useless things, kleptomania was first medicalized as a condition in the nineteenth century and was often gendered as a ‘feminine’ disease,...
  
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• Circus Minis and Mini Stars - Summer sessions in Sheffield / Greentop Community Circus / Yorkshire

  18-06-2019 16:11
  Circus Minis & Mini Stars Summer Sessions at Greentop CircusSun 23rd June 2019; 10.45 – 11.45am https://tinyurl.com/y68bwmwq
  Sun 28th July 2019; 10.30 – 11.30am...
  
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• Assistant to run mask workshops and giant puppet performance / Gozart / London

  18-06-2019 16:06
  Gozart, a non for profit art organisation which aims to nurture the creativity of individuals and groups in our community and the artists working with them, is seeking an assistant (self employed) to...
  
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• How The National Orchestral Institute Is Preparing Diverse Young Musicians For The Orchestra World (And Vice Versa)

  18-06-2019 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Anne Midgette: “Preparing young musicians for a career in music looks different now than it did in 1988, when NOI began. A big part of instrumentalists’ training has always been learning to play orchestral excerpts as best they can, to land a job in an orchestra. But in today’s world, orchestra jobs are ever harder to come by, and orchestras are struggling with their identities, trying to figure out ways to become more diverse in their personnel and their programming. Institut
  
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• Finance Trustee / The Yard Theatre / London

  18-06-2019 16:04
  We are seeking a new Trustee with particular experience in finance to join the Board at this exciting moment for the organisation. As well as serving on the Board and overseeing the strategic...
  
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• Serpentine Pavilion 2019: Japan's great conjuror falls foul of health and safety

  18-06-2019 15:48
  Junya Ishigami’s hillock of Cumbrian slate was meant to feel ‘primitive and ancient’. But British regulations – and the wind – dashed his dreams. Is it time to rethink the annual event?Squatting on the lawn like a moody crow, this year’s Serpentine Pavilion is an enigmatic arrival to Kensington Gardens. Formed from hundreds of pieces of rough Cumbrian slate piled up in a gentle mound, it has the look of a bird hunkered down in a hollow in the landscape, making
  
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• Susannah Hunnewell, Publisher Of The Paris Review, Dead At 52

  18-06-2019 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Ms. Hunnewell joined the magazine as an editorial intern in the late-1980s, when it was run out of an 8-by-14-foot office in the Upper East Side brownstone of its co-founder and editor George Plimpton. She remained associated with the magazine for the next 30 years … She was named publisher in 2015, taking over from [Antonio F.] Weiss,” her husband. – The New York Times
  
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