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• The War Breaking Out Among Medieval Scholars

  02-07-2019 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While squabbles over session approval are not uncommon at academic conferences, the conflict in medieval studies feels like a struggle for the future of the field, one that sometimes pits older scholars against a younger generation, and those with a traditional approach against those with a more activist bent. And it’s turned personal at times, even nasty and disturbing, with medievalists lobbing insults over Twitter, squaring off in blog posts, and calling for colleagues to be mor
  
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• Performing Arts Teaching Assistant / Pauline Quirke Academy Beverley / Yorkshire

  02-07-2019 23:20
  The Pauline Quirke Academy is currently recruiting a Teaching Assistant for their weekend performing arts Academy in Beverley.
  Brilliant, inspirational and energetic, you will instil your...
  
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• Performing Arts Teaching Assistant / Pauline Quirke Academy Hull / Yorkshire

  02-07-2019 23:19
  The Pauline Quirke Academy is currently recruiting a Teaching Assistant for their weekend performing arts Academy in Hull.
  Brilliant, inspirational and energetic, you will instil your passion...
  
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• Poppets (Early Years Performing Arts) Teacher / Pauline Quirke Academy Hull / Yorkshire

  02-07-2019 23:15
  The Pauline Quirke Academy is currently recruiting a Poppets (Early Years Performing Arts) Teacher for their weekend performing arts Academy in Hull.
  Brilliant, inspirational and energetic, you...
  
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• Film & Television Teacher / Pauline Quirke Academy Scarborough / Yorkshire

  02-07-2019 23:13
  PQA, the new generation of weekend drama schools set up by actress Pauline Quirke, are currently recruiting a Film & Television teacher for their academy in Scarborough on Sundays.
  We are...
  
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• Musical Theatre Teacher / Pauline Quirke Academy Hull / Yorkshire

  02-07-2019 23:09
  The Pauline Quirke Academy is currently recruiting a Musical Theatre Teacher for their weekend performing arts Academy in Hull.
  Brilliant, inspirational and energetic, you will instil your passion...
  
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• Governance Consultant / East Kent Cultural Education Partnership / South East

  02-07-2019 23:09
  The East Kent Cultural Education Partnership (EKCEP) has big plans to improve the quality and quantity of arts education available for children and young people in East Kent. The partnership has a...
  
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• This Is How A Language Dies

  02-07-2019 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Today, only about 40 people speak the Tayap language, and Don Kulick predicts that the language will be “stone cold dead” in less than 50 years. How did that happen? Perhaps more importantly, what cultural and economic losses paved the way? The answer might lie in the backward way we’ve been framing language death. – The American Scholar
  
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• The Pursuit Of Happiness: An Ultimately Futile Exercise In The Era Of Self-Gratification

  02-07-2019 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We trick ourselves into thinking we know what is needed to be happy: a promotion, a new car, a vacation, a good-looking partner. We believe this even though we know there are plenty of people with good jobs, new cars, vacations, and attractive partners, and many of them are miserable. But they, too, imagine their misery can be fixed by a bottle of Pétrus or a yacht or public adulation.” – Lapham’s Quarterly
  
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• Artist and Event Manager (combined role) London / PopUp Painting & Events / London

  02-07-2019 22:23
  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!
  We are looking for...
  
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• Event Manager in Bristol / PopUp Painting & Events / South West

  02-07-2019 22:19
  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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• Event Manager in West London / PopUp Painting & Events / London

  02-07-2019 22:18
  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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• Artist in Leeds / PopUp Painting & Events / Yorkshire

  02-07-2019 22:11
  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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• When Bad Things Happen At The Opera: Should We Applaud These Plotlines?

  02-07-2019 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When our society is having to confront the murder of women, how can we dare to applaud the killing of a woman?” said Cristiano Chiarot, the head of the opera house, the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. – Sydney Morning Herald
  
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• Opera Australia Director: It Would Be “Irresponsible” To Ban Classics Of The Repertoire

  02-07-2019 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lyndon Terracini was responding to a call from Australian composers, directors, musicians, and vocalists, who have called for a ”revolution” to remove what they describe as gender bias, sexism, and dramatised acts of violence against women in opera. – Sydney Morning Herald
  
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• The Book Editor Whose Sessions With Authors Are Like Psychoanalysis

  02-07-2019 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Judith Gurewich, the publisher of Other Press. trained as a Lacanian analyst and still practices as one part-time. “She brings her intensity to her uniquely aural editing process, hosting authors at her home in Cambridge, Mass., for days at a time while they read their manuscripts aloud to her.” – The New York Times
  
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• How Medieval History Is Being Used To Fuel Conspiracy Theories

  02-07-2019 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Simple stereotypes about the Middle Ages aren’t just wrong; they have become weapons for white supremacy. As the great spire of Notre Dame fell, I knew the disaster, whatever the cause turned out to be, would fuel incendiary anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish conspiracy theories based on white supremacist reconstructions of Western European history.” – Pacific Standard
  
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• Company Stage Manager / Omnibus Theatre / London

  02-07-2019 20:08
  About the role
  The multi-award winning show Queens of Sheba is going on tour and Nouveau Riché and Omnibus Theatre are looking for their Company Stage Manager.
  We are actively looking for...
  
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• Boris Johnson Or Jeremy Hunt — As UK Prime Minister, Which One Would Be Better For The Arts?

  02-07-2019 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ed Vaizey, who was Conservative PM David Cameron’s minister for culture: “Safe to say, the arts and cultural policy have not featured highly in the many debates and hustings that have taken place in the last few weeks of campaigning. Nevertheless, there is some hope for the arts, when one analyses the background of the main contenders.” (Vaizey goes on to compare Johnson to Marmite.) – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Access Consultant / Imagine If Theatre Company / Yorkshire

  02-07-2019 19:43
  imagine if theatre is known for creating gritty, exciting and unashamedly honest theatre that explores current social issues for intimate audiences. 
  Jadek is a brand new play written by...
  
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• The Rise Of Conspiracy Theory Culture

  02-07-2019 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Shane Dawson is a capricious conspiracist. In the middle of his paranoid rant about the moon, he places his hands sincerely over his chest and says: “Once again, it’s a theory. I don’t want to get sued, or put in jail.” Then he narrows his eyes, as if to size up the whole field of space science, and scoffs, “But I mean, the evidence is not looking good.” – The New York Times
  
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• Polish speaking Audience Engagement Officer / Imagine If Theatre Company / Yorkshire

  02-07-2019 19:15
  imagine if theatre is known for creating gritty, exciting and unashamedly honest theatre that explores current social issues for intimate audiences. 
  Jadek is a brand new play written by...
  
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• Head of Learning and Audience Engagement / Turner Contemporary Gallery / South East

  02-07-2019 19:11
  Turner Contemporary are seeking a Head of Learning and Audience Engagement. Working with colleagues across the organisation and with the learning and audience engagement team, you will be responsible...
  
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• Technical & Production Administrator / The Roundhouse Trust / London

  02-07-2019 19:05
  The Roundhouse’s very busy Technical and Production department is looking for a capable and motivated administrator to support our hard working team to ensure the smooth running of the...
  
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• Deputy Ticketing and Sales Manager / Edinburgh Playhouse / Scotland

  02-07-2019 19:04
  Deputy Ticketing and Sales Manager - Edinburgh Playhouse 
  With over 3000 seats The Edinburgh Playhouse is the largest traditional theatre in the UK. The Playhouse was originally designed as...
  
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• At Youth Festival In Crimea, Play Shows Girls Kissing; Russian Right Fumes About ‘Gay Propaganda’

  02-07-2019 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The production was staged by the Gogol School theatre lab during the Tavrida Festival, an annual art event organised by Russian state youth agency Rosmolodyozh. Reaction has been mixed, with some praising the audacity of the director, Ilya Romashko, and others calling it pure provocation. Given Russia’s 2013 law banning the spread of ‘gay propaganda’ among under-18s, the festival’s organisers have since issued an apology.” – BBC
  
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• Workshop Artisan / Cameron Design House / London

  02-07-2019 18:55
  Cameron Design House is a sculptural lighting and design company based in our workshop in North London. We are looking to employ on a FT contract for a fixed term 3 months with a view...
  
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• Head of Sales and Development / Glasgow Theatres / Scotland

  02-07-2019 18:54
  ATG Scottish Venues (King's and Theatre Royal, Glasgow and Edinburgh Playhouse) are seeking a Head of Sales and Development
  The Ambassador Theatre Group is an extraordinary success story in the live...
  
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• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang designer's kinetic sculpture up for sale

  02-07-2019 18:51
  Eight-metre-long work that imagines whimsical train journey should fetch six figuresAn enormous kinetic sculpture of a whimsical train journey made by the inventor who designed for the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is to appear at auction in London.Rowland Emett is most famous for designing the magical flying car and madcap contraptions made by the character of Caractacus Potts, played by Dick Van Dyke in the 1968 film. Continue reading...
  
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• Creative practitioner for public project about hearing research / Public Programmes Team / North West

  02-07-2019 18:31
  We’re inviting proposals from experienced creative practitioners (digital/visual arts) to help us raise awareness of hearing research. The work will take place in Greater Manchester and the...
  
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• Washington DC’s Museum Pay Gender Gap (It’s Startling)

  02-07-2019 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Women comprise the majority of museum employees, but in most cases they earn less than their male colleagues. – Washington Post
  
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• Stage Chargehand (3 Months FTC) / The Old Vic / London

  02-07-2019 18:24
  The Old Vic is London’s independent not-for-profit theatre, a world leader in creativity and entertainment. We hold the belief that theatre needs to be cherished, supported and shared with as...
  
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• Freelance Development Coordinator / Arts Connect / West Midlands

  02-07-2019 18:14
  Coventry Cultural Education Partnership: Commission for a Freelance Development Coordinator£8,750 (Part Time – August 2019 to March 2020)
  Coventry CEP are seeking an experienced...
  
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• Science Facilitator / The Hive / London

  02-07-2019 18:10
  Founded in May 2014, The Hive is a fast growing education company focused on Outdoor Learning. We run workshops for children and schools.Please see our website for more information about our...
  
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• PR Assistant (Paid Internship), part time, 3 months fixed term / Branch Arts / South East

  02-07-2019 18:05
  An opportunity has arisen for the position of PR Assistant at Branch Arts. We are looking to provide a more cohesive approach to new media channels and to expand the team with an enthusiastic...
  
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• Northern Ireland Rescinds Strict Prison Ban On Books About Terrorism Or Paramilitaries

  02-07-2019 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A review by the Northern Ireland Prison Service deemed the ban ‘not proportionate’ … Books and other reading material will now be permitted unless they overtly promote or encourage the commissioning of criminal acts or otherwise break the law.” – The Guardian
  
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• Grants & Learning Officer / Youth Music / London / Across whole of England

  02-07-2019 17:51
  We’re seeking two highly motivated Grants & Learning Officers to join the UK’s largest young people’s music charity and manage a diverse grants portfolio of innovative...
  
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• Event Team Member (casual) / Unity Theatre / North West / Liverpool

  02-07-2019 17:47
  JOB TITLE:                   Events Team Member...
  
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• My But We’ve Become So Literal (When Sometimes A Metaphor Would be Better)

  02-07-2019 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  We want to quantify, data-fy and measure everything. And if not, then see literal images that we can quickly grasp. Are we losing the ability to imagine (and to dream)? – Aeon
  
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• Group advice sessions Crafts Council Talent Development team / Crafts Council / London / London

  02-07-2019 17:27
  Crafts Council UK
  44a Pentonville Road | N1 9BY London | United Kingdom
  Friday, 19 July 2019 from 14:00 to 17:00
  Book Now: £40.00 Group Advice Session
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• Director of Marketing and Audience Services

  02-07-2019 17:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Signature Theatre, one of New York’s leading off-Broadway theatres, is seeking a DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND AUDIENCE SERVICES to join the senior leadership team and report to the Executive Director.Applicants from populations underrepresented in the theatre field are strongly encouraged to apply.Founded in 1991, the Company exists to celebrate the playwright, producing six to eight productions annually. In 2005, Signature began its groundbreaking Signature Ticket Initiative, providing subsi
  
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• Community Arts Internships / Headway Arts / North East

  02-07-2019 17:18
  Based: Headway Arts, BlythHours: 35 per weekDuration: 2 weeksPay: £8.75 per hourEligibility: These vacancies are open to currently-enrolled Northumbria students, and...
  
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• Head of Library and Collections / Society of Antiquaries of London / London

  02-07-2019 17:14
  We are looking for the Head of Library and Collections to join the Society's Senior Management Team. The successful candidate will build on the work of their predecessor to implement our strategic...
  
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• Free 4-week workshop for BAME female graphic designers / Collage Arts / London

  02-07-2019 17:09
  Collage Arts is calling all set designers, graphic designers, writers, artists and event planners!
  Be part of a hands-on workshop rediscovering some of the London untold histories of BAME...
  
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• David Koloane, Major South African Artist Of Apartheid Era, Dead At 81

  02-07-2019 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Koloane’s work — which comprised art-making, curating, activism, and writing — dealt head-on with colonialism and the continued oppression of black South Africans. His [art], which often takes the form of semi-abstract cityscapes, evokes the tensions felt in his country through clusters of swirling lines and compositions that evoke violence.” – ARTnews
  
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• Volunteering, Learning and Development Advisor / Museum of London / London

  02-07-2019 17:04
  Can you help us deliver our plans to increase our volunteer numbers and develop innovative new volunteering opportunities?
  Are you great at project management and building strong relationships and...
  
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• Female Video Game Designers Take On The Debate Over Abortion Rights

  02-07-2019 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi and Ohio work to reverse hard-won reproductive rights with ‘fetal heartbeat’ bills and potential 99-year sentences for performing abortions, game designers in the United States – and around the world – are creating interactive experiences that challenge the simplistic ways that many people think about abortion, and the blunt … laws that politicians have drafted around their constituents’ bodies.” &ndash
  
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• IT Admin Assistant / The Ambassador Theatre Group / South East

  02-07-2019 16:26
  The Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) is a global leader in the theatre and live entertainment business, owning and operating some of the most iconic theatres in the UK and the US. The magic of an...
  
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• Systems Developer / Science Museum Group / London

  02-07-2019 16:15
  Do you have experience or knowledge of system development across a variety of types? Are you an innovative thinker with an understanding of business environments and the wider context of ICT?
  As...
  
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• Watch Paul Taylor Dance Company Director Michael Novak At Work

  02-07-2019 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “No one was more surprised than Novak when Taylor tapped him to be his successor last year, three months before the legendary choreographer died. Dance Magazine recently caught up with Novak during the company’s appearances at the Orchestra of St. Luke’s Bach Festival.” (video) – Dance Magazine
  
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