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• WESTAF Exit Interview: Anthony Radich

  07-08-2019 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I find the field to be rather bad at evaluating the quality andusability of research. Often desperate for another advocacy hook, artsleaders at all levels have historically misused research results and, bydoing so, have made themselves targets of criticism by those who knowbetter.” – Barry’s Blog
  
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• Emmys Follow Oscars – No Host For This Year’s Awards

  07-08-2019 22:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  How is the decision going down with people who’ve hosted awards shows in the past? Pretty well, apparently.– New York Magazine
  
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• Masters at The Corn Hall: Bridget Riley / The Corn Hall / East

  07-08-2019 22:14
  18 November – 29 November Box Office Hours Free Art exhibition in the Lower Gallery
  Masters at The Corn Hall: Bridget Riley
  Renowned for her Op-Art paintings, Riley uses colour, line and...
  
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• Digital Content Manager (6-month fixed term contract) / London Symphony Orchestra / London

  07-08-2019 22:09
  This is a 6-month fixed term contract starting January 2020.
  The London Symphony Orchestra continues to lead the way both live on stage and through multiple digital platforms, from live...
  
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• Why Haven’t Museums Embraced Street Art More?

  07-08-2019 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The exponential expansion of theculture sector rests entirely on a quite narrow demographic of white,middle class, educated staff and visitors who have signed a socialcontract on what and who constitutes value in the field of visual art. Until there’s radical change in the makeup of institutional bureaucracies and boards, that’s unlikely to change.” – Artnet
  
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• Prospect Researcher / The Courtauld Institute of Art / London

  07-08-2019 21:32
  The Courtauld Institute of Art is the UK’s leading institution for teaching and research into the History of Art and the conservation of paintings, and is also home to one of the finest small...
  
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• The Arts World Still Isn’t Good At Making Accessible Spaces For Art

  07-08-2019 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In 2019, inclusive spaces that are comprised of voices from theneurodiverse and disabled community are still extremely rare. Despitethe enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) 29 years ago,neurodiverse and disabled communities continue to face collectivediscrimination from failures to accommodate in access, transportation,employment, education, and many other arenas. Unfortunately, the artworld is no exception.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Thanet Open Studios / / South East

  07-08-2019 21:14
  Thanet Open Studios returns this year with 29 artists and makers taking part in studios and homes across Thanet. The event is organised by artists Mike Samson of York Street Gallery and Emily Tull,...
  
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• How, And Why, ‘What The Constitution Means To Me’ Works

  07-08-2019 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the play’s first few moments — its preamble, really — [Heidi] Schreck lays out the elements for its perfect union of form and function: direct address, displayed enactment, meta-theatrical distancing, contemporary commentary, droll humor, and a disarmingly cheery demeanor that is both absolutely genuine and deployed for maximum comedic and critical effect.” Alisa Solomon examines each of those elements and how they fit together. – The Nation
  
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• Workshop - Vintage Poster Collage with Washi Tape mt / Naomi Vona / London

  07-08-2019 20:32
  Description
  Join Italian artist Naomi Vona for a Saturday afternoon of collage fun.
  During this session, Naomi will bring her collage experience into a new level. The event will be focused on...
  
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• Library Of Congress Puts Out A Call For Help Transcribing Suffragist Stories

  07-08-2019 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nearly 16,000 pages of letters, speeches, newspaper articles and other suffragist documents are now available on By the People,a crowdsourcing platform launched by the library in 2018. The projectseeks to make the library’s collections fully word searchable and easierto read, for both scholars and lay historians alike. – Smithsonian
  
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• Family Friendly Workshop - Crafty Mask Making With mt / Naomi Vona / London

  07-08-2019 20:15
  Description
  Come and join Artist Naomi Vona for a morning of fun creative activities in collaboration with mt Masking Tape. This session will involve decorating paper animals masks with the fab...
  
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• Using Theatre Games To Teach Police Officers And Civilians To Communicate With Each Other

  07-08-2019 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Brooklyn director Terry Greiss worked with the NYPD to develop a program called To Serve, to Protect, and to Understand, which brings officers and civilians together with meals and acting games and ultimately gets them to tell and act out each other’s stories. In New Jersey, a similar program called Walking the Beat involves police with high school students. – American Theatre
  
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• Freelance Editor, Photoworks Annual (p/t, GBP 4k fee) / Photoworks / South East

  07-08-2019 19:59
  Photoworks are looking for a freelance editor to edit the next issue of Photoworks Annual. Photoworks Annual is a journal on contemporary photography, published once a year.
  We are seeking an...
  
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• Part-time Duty Front of House Manager / Dominion Theatre / London

  07-08-2019 19:57
  We are looking for an experienced Manager to help oversee the Front of House operation on a nightly basis from September.
  Applicants should have a proven track record in motivating a team in a...
  
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• Duty Front of House Manager / Dominion Theatre / London

  07-08-2019 19:50
  We are looking for an experienced Manager to help oversee the Front of House operation on a nightly basis from September.
  Applicants should have a proven track record in motivating a team in a...
  
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• Wigs, Hair and Makeup Supervisor / National Theatre / London

  07-08-2019 19:41
  We are recruiting a Wigs, Hair and Make-up Supervisor to join the National Theatre on a permanent contract.
  The Department’s vision is to support designers, performers and directors both in...
  
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• Dance-As-Job-Creator

  07-08-2019 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Nigeria, 65 percent of the population is under the age of 18. Unemployment is endemic. One community organization created a jobs program through dance. “At the end of the day, dance is a business.” – BBC
  
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• LSO Live Production and Sales Co-ordinator / London Symphony Orchestra / London

  07-08-2019 19:23
  LSO Live is a leading independent label and media division of the London Symphony Orchestra.
  LSO Live is looking for a confident, articulate and intelligent Production and Sales Co-ordinator with an...
  
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• AA2A placements for Artists and Designer-makers / Anglia Ruskin University / East

  07-08-2019 19:20
  Four placements on the University's ‘Artists Access to Art Colleges’ scheme, which allows artists and designer-makers to realise a project using University facilities e.g. technical...
  
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• Director to collaborate with writer/performer / Jenny Swingler / London

  07-08-2019 19:07
  I am a performer, writer and researcher. My performance practice is concerned with how we are connected to a loop of screen images that are becoming increasingly entangled with our day to day lives...
  
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• ‘Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark,’ Beloved By Two Generations Of Kids (And Hated By Their Parents)

  07-08-2019 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Laura Miller: “For many kids, reading the Scary Stories books represented a first tentative step toward growing up and into independence. … Unlike, say, a Playboy magazine, they weren’t absolutely forbidden. But one glance at Gammell’s hollow-eyed ghouls, shrieking skeletal brides, and gibbering specters told any kid that here was something that danced right on the edge of taboo. … To claim your right to deliberately scare yourself (even if it gives you nightmare
  
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• Open Call - Top Prize GBP 10,000 / Chaiya Art Awards / UK WIDE

  07-08-2019 19:01
  The Chaiya Art Awards are the UK largest awards exploring spirituality through the Visual Arts with a £10K Top Prize.  They are open to any artist and cover all mediums including painting,...
  
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• Art Facilitators required for September 2019 / Skipz Productions cic / London

  07-08-2019 19:00
  Skipz Productions cic is a performing arts and arts company providing after school clubs for primary schools in London.  
  We are looking for Art facilitators for the following after school...
  
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• Kick-Starter Programme / HowTheLightGetsIn Festival / London

  07-08-2019 18:54
  Want to get a taste of working in media and the arts from within the world’s largest philosophy and music festival?
  We’re on the hunt for enthusiastic and dedicated young people to join...
  
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• General Manager / Stan's Cafe / West Midlands

  07-08-2019 18:54
  Stan's Cafe is looking for a General Manager, to act as the lynchpin of the company as we continue to pursue our ambitious plans for making high quality theatre projects, international touring and...
  
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• Drama, Dance & Singing facilitators required for September 2019 / Skipz Productions cic / London

  07-08-2019 18:53
  Skipz Productions cic is a performing arts and arts company providing after school clubs for primary schools in London.  
  We are looking for faciliatators for the following after school...
  
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• Project 2036 - Designers / Bush Theatre / London

  07-08-2019 18:32
  Project 2036 is a year-long programme that offers three Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee (BAMER) designers across three disciplines – Set, Lighting and Sound – a...
  
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• Charity Administrator and Venue & Events Assistant / Hattori Foundation t/a 1901 Arts Club / London

  07-08-2019 18:32
  Are you interested in developing your skills in arts administration and events with a special interest in classical music? We have a permanent position available to join our small, friendly...
  
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• What Psychopaths Can Teach Us About Ourselves

  07-08-2019 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Psychopaths are sick, deranged, lacking in moral conscience. In other words, they’re nothing like you or me. But this is false.Rather than freakish outliers then, psychopaths reveal important truthsabout human morality. But are we ready to accept what they might teachus? – Aeon
  
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• LSO St Luke`s Event Coordinator / London Symphony Orchestra / London

  07-08-2019 18:27
  The LSO St Luke’s Event Coordinator is a part of the team responsible for delivering the busy programme of events at the London Symphony Orchestra’s music education centre. The Event...
  
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• Guitar Tutor / LU Arts, Loughborough University / East Midlands

  07-08-2019 18:25
  LU Arts is seeking an enthusiastic, organised and dedicated Guitar Tutor to deliver one-to-one extra-curricular tuition to Loughborough University staff and students. The successful candidate will be...
  
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• 2 self-contained studios available at Cubitt / / London

  07-08-2019 18:21
  We are pleased to announce that we have 2 self-contained studios available at Cubitt.
  We are looking for two practicing artists to become full Cubitt co-operative members. Please...
  
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• Finance and Operations Officer / National Dance Company Wales / Wales

  07-08-2019 18:20
  National Dance Company Wales is one of the national arts companies of Wales. We make dance that aims to inspire audiences and participants across Wales, the wider UK and internationally. We are...
  
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• Tour Guide (Mandarin Speaker) / Royal Albert Hall / London

  07-08-2019 18:06
  The role
  The Royal Albert Hall offers a number of different tour opportunities for visitors to experience this extraordinary and iconic building and to learn about its colourful past, unique...
  
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• We’ve Got To Do Better At Teaching Teenage Male Dancers About Dance Belts

  07-08-2019 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Avichai Scher was a young student, no teacher or other authority figure ever said a word to him about when or how to start wearing a dance belt, which led to some very embarrassing moments when he was 13. His experience was, and is, all too common, he writes, though there are a few teachers and one company who are starting to deal with this issue properly. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Health and Safety Advisor / Natural History Museum / London

  07-08-2019 17:57
  The Museum is rightly proud to maintain OHSAS 18001 and is working to achieve ISO 45001 in 2021.  There is a strong health and safety culture throughout the organisation. 
  About the...
  
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• ISTD Ballet Teacher / The Theatre Workshop / South East

  07-08-2019 17:45
  We currently have a position for an ISTD qualified Ballet Teacher in Brighton at our Dance Academy. The classes run as 12 week terms with a half term break. We follow the academic year. Currently the...
  
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• Unlikely Success: How Small Publisher Faber & Faber Got To Be 90 Years Old

  07-08-2019 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Faber story certainly speaks volumes about the mix of passion,shrewdness, and luck that it takes to keep such an operation afloat; italso raises the question of who, ultimately, a publishing house likeFaber & Faber really belongs to. Is it the stockholders, whoseinvolvement in the day-to-day life of the company is sometimes remote?Is it the staff—publishers, editors, and others—who set the tone anddirection during their tenure? Or is it the writers, whose work is thec
  
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• Public Art Commission - Cross Keys Junction, Corsham, Wiltshire / Corsham Town Council / South West

  07-08-2019 17:28
  Corsham Town Council is commissioning a landmark public artwork to be sited at the Cross Keys junction on the A4; the aim of which is to create an attractive, noteworthy feature, that advertises the...
  
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• Gallery Accounts and Administration Assistant / Cambridge Contemporary Art / South East

  07-08-2019 17:18
  GALLERY ACCOUNTS AND ADMINISTRATION ASSISTANT
  Salary: £12 per hour / £23,400 per annum pro-rata
  Closing date for application forms: 22nd August 9am
  Interviews: 29th August
  Start date:...
  
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• Art Exhibition About Censorship In Japan Closed By Censorship

  07-08-2019 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  To be clear, government censorship wasn’t involved, although a number of right-wing politicians criticized the show. Titled After “Freedom of Expression?”, the exhibition at the Aichi Triennale in Nagoya featured artworks that had been kept out of other museums and shows, and it was cancelled after repeated threats of violence, including one to set fire to the venue. The issue? A statue of a Korean “comfort woman” — an extremely sore subject between Japan and
  
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• Exceptional, Bristol-based performer for a short Christmas run / Soap Soup Theatre and Tessa Bide Productions / South West

  07-08-2019 16:50
  Job Details
  Tessa Bide Productions and Soap Soup Theatre are looking for an exceptional, Bristol-based performer for a short Christmas run for 2019 of their new co-production, The Selfish...
  
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• Longtime Composer For ‘The Simpsons’ Files Wrongful Termination Lawsuit

  07-08-2019 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[Alf] Clausen joined The Simpsons during its second season and worked on the show for 27 years. When he was let go in 2017, he said he received a call from Simpsons producer Richard Sakai, who said the show was seeking ‘a different kind of music.’ In his new lawsuit, filed Monday, Clausen countered, saying, ‘This reason was pretextual and false. Instead, Plaintiff’s unlawful termination was due to perceived disability and age.'” – Rolling Stone
  
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• Communications Manager / Action Transport Theatre / North West

  07-08-2019 16:35
  Communications Manager (p/t)
  Action Transport Theatre is currently recruiting a part time Communications Manager to play a key role in promoting the work of the company and engaging audiences and...
  
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• Duty Manager (L406) (Loughborough Town Hall) / Charnwood Borough Council / East Midlands

  07-08-2019 16:24
  Grade D (SCP 13 – 17) £22,021 - £23,836 per annum 
  Permanent, full-time (37 hours per week) 
  An exciting opportunity has become available at Loughborough Town...
  
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• Assistant Programme Coordinator / Sotheby's Institute of Art / London

  07-08-2019 16:21
  The position of Assistant Programme Coordinator is an exciting, fast-paced and varied role at Sotheby’s Institute of Art - London. The ideal person for this role has an interest in the art...
  
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• Don Suggs, 74, Inventive Artist And Influential Teacher, Hit And Killed By Driver

  07-08-2019 16:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The painter, known for his wry, carefully composed investigations into the nature of art making — say, analyzing every shade of paint used in Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, then rendering those shades in abstraction — was also profoundly dedicated to his students as a professor of painting and drawing at UCLA, where he taught for more than three decades.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Development Director / English National Ballet / London

  07-08-2019 15:41
  English National Ballet (ENB) celebrates the tradition of great classical ballet while embracing change, we aim to take world-class ballet to as many people as possible wherever they are, whatever...
  
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• New York City Told Its Museums To Get More Diverse Or Lose Funding. Here Are What Museums Are Doing And How The City Will Enforce The Mandate.

  07-08-2019 15:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Directions on how institutions should incorporate these objectives were left intentionally vague. Rather than issuing blanket checklists, the city wanted individual institutions to formulate plans that made sense for their respective audiences and agendas.” Reporters Taylor Dafoe and Brian Boucher talk to leaders at the Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1, Queens Museum, and Brooklyn Children’s Museum about how they’re responding to the city’s directive. – Artnet
  
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