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• Brexiteers Protest Playing Of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony At Choral Festival

  09-07-2019 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I was told that some people felt it was not an appropriate programming for a concert in an area that voted overwhelmingly for Brexit.” The complainant then promised to call for other people to stay away. – The Guardian
  
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• Producer / Hubbub Theatre Company / East Midlands

  09-07-2019 23:29
  Hubbub Theatre Company is recruiting for a producer to support their next project The Drum. They’re looking to work with an ambitious producer who will bring their own...
  
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• Jack Renner, Co-Founder Of Telarc Records, 84

  09-07-2019 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I used to say that my recordings are made from the perspective of thebest seat in the house,” he told Stereophile. “And immediately, ofcourse, somebody says, ‘Well, who are youto say what’s the best seat in the house?’” – The New York Times
  
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• The Number Of UK Creative Jobs Is Growing Twice The Rate Of The Rest Of The Economy

  09-07-2019 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Between 2011 and 2018, the number of jobs in the creative industries increased by 30.6%, compared with 10.1% in the UK overall. – The Stage
  
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• Will This New Museum In Istanbul Be A “Game Changer”?

  09-07-2019 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thirty-five exhibitions and more than 180 art commissions produced inalmost a decade at the previous space were a “testing ground”, Mehli Ferelisays, for an institution that aims to foster “contemporary artisticproduction across all disciplines, from music to dance, theatre to sonicarts, film to literature”. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• New York Had 65 Million Tourists Last Year. They Shape The Culture

  09-07-2019 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  If arts institutions had to survive on locals’ loyalty alone, MoMAwouldn’t be adding yet another new wing, the Metropolitan Museum of Artwouldn’t be open seven days a week, theaters would go dark, and operawould cease to exist. That cute antiques store on your block that youhope won’t get gentrified out of existence? Chances are a quarter of itsclientele lives abroad. – New York Magazine
  
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• Mark Morris Directs His First Non-Dance Theatre — Beckett, No Less

  09-07-2019 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The choreographer is directing three plays — Come and Go, Catastrophe, and Quad (a pure-movement piece which Morris likens to Lucinda Childs) — for this month’s Happy Days festival in the Northern Irish town of Enniskillen (where Beckett went to boarding school). “The timing is actually much harder than it looks; the point isn’t virtuosity, it’s expertise,” says Morris. “… And I am all about timing.” – The New York Times
  
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• Cold, Dead White

  09-07-2019 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Posset was a drink that, in the 16th century, solidified, a sheer nightmare with emollient richness I can only say is a spoonful of lacks — texture, diversity, surprise. On its face, raw tofu comes close — until you cut, taste, wake up. – Jeff Weinstein
  
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• BlogBack: A CultureGrrl Reader on Critic Douglas Crimp, Met Curator Douglas Eklund & “The Pictures Generation”

  09-07-2019 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We seem to be fighting similar battles,” wrote a CultureGrrl reader in response to my appreciation, posted Monday, of the critic/scholar, 74, whose pioneering work defined what became known as “The Pictures Generation.” – Lee Rosenbaum
  
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• Makeup artist for short film / Central school of speech and drama / London

  09-07-2019 20:45
  Looking for a MAKEUP ARTIST in LONDON available for short student film shoot 16-18 JULY
  Provides meals and transport costs
  
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• Retail & Gallery Assistant / Hauser & Wirth Somerset / South West

  09-07-2019 20:36
  Hauser & Wirth is one of the world’s leading contemporary art galleries with offices in Zurich, Gstaad, London, Somerset, New York, St. Moritz, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles. Hauser &...
  
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• Why David McAllister Stepped Down From Running Australian Ballet

  09-07-2019 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Having presided over the company’s 40th and 50th anniversaries, he waslooking ahead to the 60th anniversary and planning what he could do thatwould “be new and different”, he explains. “And I just sort of went —you know what? Maybe it’s actually the time for a new person to have theopportunity – a new director, new vision.” – Dance Australia
  
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• Why Tracy K. Smith Spent Her Two Years As Poet Laureate Traveling America

  09-07-2019 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “She felt poetry might be able to help mend some of the divisions that the election had highlighted. Her plan was this: to put together a collection of poems from living poets, called American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time, that she felt were in some way relevant to our moment, and to hit the road — visiting community centers, senior centers, prisons, and colleges.” (audio) – The New Yorker Radio Hour
  
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• Open Call: Artists working with Brazilian Culture / Offshoot Gallery / London

  09-07-2019 19:58
  This call is open to artists of all backgrounds, ages, and nationalities who are interested in Brazilian Identity and Culture and would like to take part in a group show in London.
  This exhibition...
  
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• Johannah Latchem: No Whole Truths / Vane / North East

  09-07-2019 19:33
  Preview: Wednesday 17 July 5-8pm
  Dates: 18-27 July 2019
  Johannah Latchem’s work addresses themes of law, punishment and power. It intervenes in the material culture of the courthouse to...
  
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• How Did Nature Get To Be Seen As A Moral Good?

  09-07-2019 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Today, nature is valued as a signifier of sustainability, resilience,and good quality of life not only in European and American cities, butalso in new “smart” cities across Asia and the Middle East, and in“megacities” of the Global South.– Public Books
  
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• Hundred Heroines - Free Photography Exhibition / Royal Photographic Society / London

  09-07-2019 19:23
  Un)framing Identities is a collaborative exhibition from the Royal Photographic Society's Hundred Heroines initiative in which female photographers explore the theme of identity.
   
  A pop-up...
  
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• Stage & Automation Technician (Temporary) / Royal Exchange Theatre / North West

  09-07-2019 19:07
  Contract: Temporary until 31st October 2019Salary: £22,904.31Location: Manchester City Centre
  The Royal Exchange Theatre sits at the heart of Manchester’s culturally dynamic city centre....
  
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• Coffee Shop Supervisors and Team Members / Leeds Playhouse / Yorkshire

  09-07-2019 19:05
  Leeds Playhouse is seeking Coffee Shop Supervisors and Team Members.
  Coffee Shop Supervisors
  The Coffee Shop Supervisor supports the Food & Beverage Manager in overseeing the operation to...
  
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• Food & Beverages Supervisors & Team Members / Leeds Playhouse / Yorkshire

  09-07-2019 19:03
  Leeds Playhouse is seeking Food & Beverages Supervisors and Team Members.
  Food & Beverages Supervisors
  The supervisor will cover all aspects of F&B delivery in each area of operation....
  
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• Poet Marie Ponsot, 98

  09-07-2019 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “She supported [seven children] as a translator, writer for radio and television, and college professor, carving out at least 10 minutes each day to write. While changing diapers and preparing dinners, she scribbled lines of poetry on notebooks, napkins and the backs of envelopes, ultimately filling the drawers of her desk with completed poems.” Twenty-five years after publishing her first book of poems, she published a second, and went on to be “recognized as one of the most
  
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• Lighting Supervisor (Grade 2a) / National Theatre / London

  09-07-2019 18:50
  We are looking for a Lighting Supervisor (Grade 2a) to join us at the National Theatre.
  As a Lighting Supervisor (Grade 2a) you are the manager and supervisor of your designated theatre space,...
  
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• Free Meditation Course + Lifetime App + Wellness Portfolio Shots / Beeja Meditation / London

  09-07-2019 18:45
  We at Beeja teach the most powerfully transformative - and easiest - meditation technique in the world. With mental health issues climbing every year, and so much conflict and destruction happening...
  
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• Olafur Eliasson review – art's weatherman fogs up Tate Modern

  09-07-2019 18:38 via theguardian.com
  Tate Modern, London
  Pea-soupers in corridors, moss on the walls – the artist wants to change the way we see our place in the world at a time of climate emergency. Does he go far enough?Here is rain at the window running down the pane on a sunny July afternoon. In the early morning light, another window frame appears, a projected apparition cast on a blank wall. Ripples of amber-tinted water slop back and forth in low trays on the floor, the sound slightly muffled by a huge wall entirely co
  
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• #CriticsSoWhite (And Male)

  09-07-2019 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s 2019 and we are in the middle of a renaissance in black artisticproduction. And you are telling me the best people to evaluate that arethe same ones who basically ignored black artists for decades?” – The New York Times
  
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• Strategy Director / Jukebox Collective / Cardiff

  09-07-2019 18:23
  Jukebox Collective Dance Company and creative agency are looking for a Strategy Director to join our team. The role would be to manage, influence and inspire the overall strategic direction of the...
  
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• Executive Assistant / Jukebox Collective / Cardiff

  09-07-2019 18:16
  Jukebox Collective Dance Company and Creative Agency are looking for an Executive Assistant to join our team. As an Executive Assistant, your responsibilities will include performing a variety of...
  
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• Press Office Assistant / Royal Collection Trust / London

  09-07-2019 18:15
  It's developing your skills on a worldwide platform
  It’s becoming part of something special, and it's the satisfaction of promoting one of the world's greatest and most diverse art...
  
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• Martin Charnin, Who Won A Tony For ‘Annie’, Dead At 84

  09-07-2019 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “With more than 40 productions to his credit, Charnin penned lyrics for seven Broadway musicals and directed seven shows as well. He won his Tony Award for best original score, with composer Charles Strouse, for Annie,” which he also directed.“Charnin also received three Emmys for his work on television variety specials and won a Grammy for Jay-Z’s ‘Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem),’ which sampled his lyrics from the Annie song of that name.” – The
  
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• Marketing and Communications Officer / Jukebox Collective / Cardiff

  09-07-2019 17:56
  Jukebox Collective Dance company and creative agency are looking for a Marketing and Communications Coordinator to develop and deliver its marketing and communication strategy. This will include (but...
  
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• Business & Operations Coordinator / Bradford Cooperative Association / Yorkshire

  09-07-2019 17:50
  We are looking for a full-time Business & Operations Coordinator to join our team at Bread + Roses, based in Bradford. This is an exciting role within our cooperative and we are looking for a...
  
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• Academy Dance Development / Jukebox Collective / Cardiff

  09-07-2019 17:46
  Jukebox Collective - Academy of Performing Arts is looking for an experienced and committed Dance Development Officer, to join its team in Cardiff. You will develop and deliver the Academy annual...
  
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• Technical Swing (A Taste of Honey UK Tour 2019) / National Theatre / London

  09-07-2019 17:42
  We are looking for a Technical Swing to join NT Productions on our A Taste of Honey UK Tour.
  As a department of the National Theatre, NT Productions (NTP) is responsible for managing and maintaining...
  
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• Womenswear Returns and Stock Maintenance / Cosprop / London

  09-07-2019 17:37
  We are looking for a committed and meticulous person with a passion for and knowledge of period costume to work in our Returns Department. The job entails working with women's costumes, checking them...
  
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• What Our Behavior In Masses Means For Predicting The Future

  09-07-2019 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rapid progress in information technology has led to the ‘big data’revolution, in which gigantic quantities of information can be obtainedand processed. Patterns of human behaviour can be extracted from recordsof credit-card purchases, telephone calls and emails. Words suddenlybecoming more common on social media, such as ‘demagogue’ during the2016 US presidential election, can be clues to hot political issues. – Aeon
  
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• Academy Producer / Jukebox Collective / Cardiff

  09-07-2019 17:31
  Jukebox Collective - Academy of performing arts is seeking a Producer to work with the Dance Development Officer and the wider team to design, plan, facilitate, and evaluate the annual course...
  
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• Graphic Designer / LSE Students' Union / London

  09-07-2019 17:26
  Do you enjoy working on a diverse range of design projects? Are you passionate about developing a brand across an organisation to suit its purpose and audience?
  We are looking for an experienced...
  
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• Producer / soundLINCS / East Midlands

  09-07-2019 17:18
  Over the past 20 years soundLINCS has been on a journey, touching the lives of many different people from all backgrounds unleashing potential through music. 
  soundLINCS is delighted to be the...
  
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• Community Participate Manager / Jukebox Collective / Cardiff

  09-07-2019 17:15
  Jukebox Collective Dance Company and Creative Agency are recruiting for an experienced Community Participation Manager to work within its Participate department and join a small team in Cardiff. We...
  
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• Chief Executive / Capital Theatres Edinburgh / Scotland

  09-07-2019 17:14
  The Board of Capital Theatres is seeking a Chief Executive to succeed Duncan Hendry when he retires later this year. The Board wishes to recruit an outstanding individual who can build on the...
  
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• Heritage Engagement Assistant (Schools and Families) / Bristol Old Vic & Theatre Royal Trust Ltd / South West

  09-07-2019 17:12
  We are recruiting for the post of Heritage Engagement Assistant (Schools and Families) to work with the Heritage Engagement Manager and the wider Engagement team on the delivery of...
  
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• Does Watching Lots Of TV Make You Dumber And More Likely To Vote For Populists? New Study Says Yes

  09-07-2019 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yascha Mounk: “These claims … sound far too much like the sort of thing educated people want to believe. But a meticulous new paper published in the American Economic Review, one of the world’s most prestigious social-science journals, suggests that there might be truth to these clichés.” At least in Italy, among those who watched channels owned by Silvio Berlusconi. – The Atlantic
  
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• Executive Producer / Tom Dale Company / East Midlands / West Midlands

  09-07-2019 16:57
  Tom Dale Company are seeking an experienced and dynamic individual to join the team as Executive Producer. 
  In 2018 we entered a new phase of growth and development joining the Arts Council...
  
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• Treasurer / Spike Island / South West

  09-07-2019 16:54
  Spike Island is recruiting a new Treasurer (voluntary role) to join the charity’s board of trustees. Our ideal candidate will be a financially trained professional with experience of applying...
  
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• Sound No. 2 (A Taste of Honey UK Tour 2019) / National Theatre / London

  09-07-2019 16:53
  We are looking for a Sound No. 2 to join NT Productions on our A Taste of Honey UK Tour.
  As a department of the National Theatre, NT Productions (NTP) is responsible for managing and maintaining the...
  
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• Chair of the Board of Trustees / Film and Video Umbrella / London

  09-07-2019 16:49
  Applications are open and ongoing until we find a candidate. 
  Film and Video Umbrella (FVU) is a pioneering arts charity. For three decades, primarily under the leadership of Director Steven...
  
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• Mobile Neon Workshops: Scotland / Neon Workshops / North West

  09-07-2019 16:45
  Details: Mobile Neon Workshops: Scotland
  When: 8th + 9th February 2020
  Where: Archipelago Folkschool
  We're already looking forward to next years drive into the wilds towards our host Archipelago...
  
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• Tutor Vacancies / Swarthmore Education Centre / Yorkshire

  09-07-2019 16:43
  Fantasy Art - Tuesday 6.30pm-8.30pm
  Watercolour - Thursday 10.30am-12.30pm; 1.00pm-3.00pm; 6.30pm-8.30pm
  Cartoon Drawing - Tuesday 4.00pm-5.30pm starting 2020. This is a family course, experience...
  
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• Star Immersive Art Collective Meow Wolf Sued For Gender Discrimination And Unfair Labor Practices

  09-07-2019 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Two former employees of Santa Fe-based immersive arts and entertainment company Meow Wolf allege in a new lawsuit they were subjected to discrimination and unfair pay practices, and then wrongfully fired after bringing complaints to senior staff. … [They] also are seeking to have their case recognized as a class action, representing more than 50 female workers of Meow Wolf the women say have been affected by unfair labor practices since 2017.” – Santa Fe New Mexican
  
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• Dance Tutor / Dance North Scotland / Scotland

  09-07-2019 16:28
  In 2015 Dance North piloted its participation programme, delivering classes and workshops for children, young people (including the establishment of Bodysurf Youth Dance), older people and people...
  
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