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• Join us for August 2019 Words & Wine / Creative Writes / London

  04-08-2019 23:42
  WORDS & WINE. WEDNESDAY 21 AUGUST 2019, 8-10pmCREATIVE WRITESSECRET LOCATION, MUSWELL HIL, N10We are back with our Words & Wine Workshop, 21 August.Words & Wine evenings offer the chance...
  
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• The Hotel Lobby As Gallery For Contemporary Art

  04-08-2019 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  And not just the lobby – some hotels commission artists or exhibits for every bit of space, including rooms, conference rooms, cafeterias and much more. – The New York Times
  
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• What Do The Original ‘Lion King’ Animators Think Of The New, Heavily CGI Version?

  04-08-2019 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  One animator said, “I will only get myself in trouble if I comment on the ‘other’ version,” so there’s that point of view. Another: “I think some of my colleagues forget that when you work on a Disney movie, you don’t own it. They own it. You get paid to work there, which is a great privilege. It’s an amazing company. You get to work on this great stuff. But when you walk away, it’s their movie and they can do what they want with it.”
  
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• It’s Time To Let ‘Miss Saigon’ Go – Forever

  04-08-2019 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen: “Fantasy cannot be dismissed as mere entertainment, especially when we keep repeating the fantasy. Fantasy — and our enjoyment of it — speaks to something we deeply want to believe. The enjoyment of this show is based on the privilege that the audience feels, the privilege of not being that Asian woman who kills herself, the privilege of seeing the world from the viewpoint of the powerful white male savior who can both be so a
  
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• Participatory Theatre At Its European Roots

  04-08-2019 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  During a conference on “Bürgerböhne” – or participatory theatre for citizens – “it became clear to me that not all countries—or even communities—have the same ideas about how participatory theatre projects work or ‘should’ work, and, on top of this, what the role of the artist, within these communities, is.” What’s the same, and what changes in different theatres across the world? – Howlround
  
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• D.A. Pennebaker, Documentary Filmmaker And Bob Dylan Mythmaker, Has Died At 94

  04-08-2019 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pennebaker’s documentary filmmaking stretched across more than six decades, and in that time, he “chronicled a who’s who of other pop music and entertainment world figures and icons over the course of his long career, including John Lennon, David Bowie, Jane Fonda, Little Richard, Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry and the Monterey Pop Festival.” Then there’s Dont Look Back. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Consultant Adviser / Media Education Association / London

  04-08-2019 20:07
  Tender for appointment of consultant advisor to the MEA
  Closing date: September 6th 2019
   
  About the Media Education Association (MEA)
  The MEA in the UK was established to support all media...
  
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• More Than A Year After 40 Artists Withdrew From A London Museum, They’re Still Demanding Answers

  04-08-2019 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The timeline: Last August, “more than 40 artists removed their work from the exhibition Hope to Nope at the Design Museum in London after the museum housed an event hosted by the arms manufacturer Leonardo. At the time, the museum assured the protesting artists, who organized in a group named Nope to Arms, that it will review its due diligence policy related to commercial and fundraising activities.” Or … not, apparently. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Oh, Hello, 80 Percent Of Books Published Between 1924 And 1963 Are In The Public Domain

  04-08-2019 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Wow, thanks for your data mining project, New York Public Library! Why, though? Because “until the 1976 Copyright Act, US works were not copyrighted unless they were registered, and then they quickly became public domain unless that registration was renewed.” And most people – and publishers – did not renew that registration. – Boing Boing
  
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• Hollywood Enabled ‘Eccentric Dance,’ And Now It’s Celebrating The Genre

  04-08-2019 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Of course, eccentric dance wasn’t new when the movies started recording it. “Eccentric dance can trace its origins to ancient times and has roots in many cultures. But perhaps no place did it flourish more than in the movies, particularly from the 1930s to the 1950s.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Wild Woman Workshop / Embodied Artists / London

  04-08-2019 18:45
  Embodied Archetype Workshop - WILD WOMAN
  3hr workshop
  Thursday 26th September 2019 7-10pm
  £35
  Aho Studio, 13 Prince Edward Road, London, E9 5EU
  tickets...
  
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• Vivian Paley, Pioneering Educator And Author Who Believed In The Power Of Story, Has Died At 90

  04-08-2019 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Paley won a MacArthur “Genius” Grant for her work. Her methods met with resistance during the era of quantification and textbook standardization, but “in addition to teaching children, she mentored a generation of teachers, held workshops and lectured about her experiences in the classroom” – and wrote 13 well-regarded books about the educational rewards of storytelling as a pedagogical practice.– The New York Times
  
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• The Man Who Founded Book Chain Waterstone’s Says He Has No Guilt Over The Deaths Of Indie Bookstores

  04-08-2019 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tim Waterstone – no longer associated with the stores that bear his name – says that “the competition simply wasn’t up to scratch. ‘I didn’t feel guilty,’ he says. ‘I’d just have to say, no, they had a shot.'” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Carlos Cruz-Diez obituary

  04-08-2019 17:35
  Venezuelan artist whose installations reflected his obsession with the understanding of colourCarlos Cruz-Diez, who has died aged 95, harboured a seven-decade obsession that the common understanding of colour was wrong. “Colour,” the Venezuelan-born artist believed, “evolves continuously in time and space.”“I want people to realise that colour is not a certainty, but a circumstance,” he said in 2014. “Red is maybe red. It’s not the same if you hold
  
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• Email Used To Be Amazing

  04-08-2019 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Then it became a “productivity tool” for work, and “regular folks don’t want to organize their private lives as if they were office jobs.” But it’s not too late to save the technology, if we start now and proceed with deep reinvention. – The Atlantic
  
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• Carry Franklin obituary

  04-08-2019 17:25
  My partner Carry Franklin, who has died aged 47 from cancer, was an artist and teacher, and the founder of Leeds Little Free Libraries. The small, vividly painted cabinets on street corners, inviting people to take or leave a book, have spread throughout the city and beyond.Reflecting Carry’s commitment to the transformative power of the arts, the scheme she started in 2017 has grown to more than 50 libraries that, she said, “feel a bit like political acts … [against the] tide
  
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• The Forbidden City Isn’t So Forbidden Anymore

  04-08-2019 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  After decades in peril – “Mao’s Communist government debated tearing down the complex, or creating a vast Soviet-style wedding cake palace opposite it.” – the Forbidden City complex has become a tourist attraction with restaurants, exhibits, gift shops, and more as President Xi Jinping makes “a broader push in China to protect and project the country’s cultural heritage.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Trouble With Writing About Sex

  04-08-2019 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The author of the viral hit short story “Cat Person” says that it’s not easy. to deal with constant questions about sex. “Write a book about the way young women use words to fight back against those who want to reduce them to sexual objects, and you may struggle to prevent yourself from becoming similarly reduced.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Ivor Guest Research Grants now open for application / Society for Dance Research / London

  04-08-2019 16:12
  Are you a PhD student, early career researcher, established researcher, independent scholar or artist practitioner?
  Have you heard about the Ivor Guest Research Grants?
  Society for Dance Research...
  
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• Producers Pushed Producer Lulu Wang To Make ‘The Farewell’ In English With Some White Leads

  04-08-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  But she said no, every time, and the film seems to have turned out OK. “It broke the box office record set by Avengers: Endgame for per-screen average, taking in $351,330 in four theaters when it opened in limited release.” – Variety
  
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• A Gothic Bridge Is Destroyed In Belgium So Bigger Boats Can Go Down The River

  04-08-2019 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The federal government is not happy with the town of Tournal, where, after years of argument and discussion, a crane pulled apart the bridge over the Scheldt, in sections. “A crowd on the river’s banks audibly reacted when some of the brickwork was seen falling into the water on Friday. Many watching a live stream on the website of the regional television station, Notele, wrote of their sadness at saying ‘goodbye’.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Reasons For Reader’s Block Vary, But They All Lead To One Thing

  04-08-2019 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  That is, reader’s block means you’re not reading a book. Why? – The New York Times
  
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• What Is Community Theatre For?

  04-08-2019 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jocelyn Allgood, who participates in several community theatres near her in Texas, says that “it’s our small contribution to humanity — to ease the burden of life, to make you laugh, to stir that emotion burning inside of you — be it jeers for the villains, tears or cheers for the heroes and (we hope) applause for the cast.” – Dallas Morning News
  
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• London’s Smallest Stages Are Hosting Wagner

  04-08-2019 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The artistic director of the Fulham Opera (which is doing Die Meistersinger this summer) says there’s good reason for smaller opera halls: “The immediacy, the storytelling, the quality of the voices up close and personal … the joy that radiates off the stage. I don’t think people fall asleep in our shows.” – The Stage (UK)
  
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• Imagine no graffiti: new regulation to fall on Prague’s Lennon wall

  04-08-2019 13:58
  Extra police and surveillance cameras to arrive as protest site becomes open-air galleryPrague’s Lennon wall, long a symbol of free expression and resistance to communist-era surveillance, is to be monitored by TV cameras and converted into an open-air gallery with graffiti strictly regulated, in an effort to tackle rampant vandalism and obscene artwork by drunken foreign tourists.Extra police will also patrol an area once renowned as a haven of rebellion against authority but now being ov
  
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• Music Tutor / Love2sing UK Ltd / London

  04-08-2019 13:44
  JOIN OUR TEAM! Love2sing are looking for some energetic, experienced and passionate music tutors to join our inspiring and motivated team! The work is based in East London, teaching EYFS, KS1 &...
  
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• Voluntary Hub Facilitator / 0282 CIC / North West

  04-08-2019 13:31
  0282 CIC is a creative co-op based in Burnley aimed around creativity and wellbeing.We have just launched our space at Burnley library and are looking to recruit some assistance to help us staff...
  
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• The Short Story Author Inspired By 19th Century Abolitionists – And The Current U.S. President

  04-08-2019 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nafissa Thompson-Spires’ first book, the short story collection The Heads of Colored People, is short-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize (a prize for a book that follows Burn’s “bold footsteps” and “enters history and dares to interrogate the past”). But why write about painful topics? The author: “I think the goal of a writer should be to tell the truth in some way, even if it’s to tell it slant – or to imagine a better version of the truth.
  
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• Trustee (finance) / Disability Arts Online / South East / UK-wide

  04-08-2019 13:06
  Disability Arts Online (DAO) is a disability-led arts organisation and Arts Council England NPO. We assist professional development through commissioning, training, showcasing, networking and giving...
  
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• Phil Hynes, Backstage Lighting Force For ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Has Died At 96

  04-08-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lorne Michaels: “He was a force to be reckoned with, and his presence and strength were something I came to rely on. … He will be missed, but if God has him now, despite all the arguing, heaven will be much better lit.” – The New York Times
  
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• Archive/Heritage Apprentice / Glasgow Women's Library / Scotland, Glasgow

  04-08-2019 11:49
  Lesbian Lives: Revealing Hidden Herstories - A heritage project based at Glasgow Women’s Library, supported by Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund, Rewards Training and the Modern...
  
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• Fundraising Coordinator (Part time) / Sound and Music / London

  04-08-2019 11:30
  Reporting to the Head of Development, this is an exciting and important post within Sound and Music’s core team, supporting the successful delivery of the development strategy.
  The post holder...
  
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• Tate Britain comes out of its modern sister’s shadow

  04-08-2019 10:00
  The London gallery goes from strength to strength and our new PM tries to convince as an art loverTate’s Van Gogh and Britain exhibition will have been seen by about 400,000 people by the time it closes next weekend. Only for the David Hockney extravaganza in early 2017 did more enter the portals of Tate Britain. The gallery’s Don McCullin show from earlier this year also did far better than expected - 170,000 in just three months.After several years in the doldrums, partly because o
  
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• Artists’ Film International review – the mesmerising view from elsewhere

  04-08-2019 09:00
  Whitechapel Gallery, London
  Bringing together images that are both familiar and otherworldly, the latest collection of AFI works is a hidden treasure The French ambassador’s wife sings bleak arias behind the shutters of her fortified residence in Ouagadougou. Somalian refugees perform the epic verse of their homeland on the streets of Turin. Rock drilling turns up great chunks of the earth’s mantle in the Mojave desert, alien in winter, while dancers in their 90s turn the boulevards
  
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• Call for Artists - Wotisart #31 (October 2019) / Wotisart Magazine / East / North East, North West, Yorkshire, East Midlands, West Midlands, South East, South West, London

  04-08-2019 00:43
  Wotisart is a portfolio magazine. Our goal is to allow unknown artists an avenue to show their work and gain some recognition in the industry and also to answer the question... What is art? We are...
  
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