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• We Still Don’t Know How Gravity Works

  16-08-2019 23:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  We can calculate what gravity does — whether to a cup elbowed off theedge of a table or the disk of light bent around a black hole — but westill don’t have a clue what causes it. – Washington Post
  
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• Placido Domingo’s Response to Accusations Lands With A Thud

  16-08-2019 23:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I think that to him, in his head, he was just a big star and everyonewanted him. And to the rest of us he was just, you know, this creepy guythat could make or break your career.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Segment That Cost Jimmy Kimmel Live! A Huge FCC Fine

  16-08-2019 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jimmy Kimmel Live! was fined $350,000 by the FCC for a sketch about the presidential alert system.– New York Magazine
  
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• Beethoven’s Revolution (But What Kind?)

  16-08-2019 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Beethoven’s political engagement is indisputable, but whether it findsdirect expression in his work – aside from dedications and commissions –is a sticky topic.– New Statesman
  
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• Beware The Literary Scammers

  16-08-2019 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “He would reject work, but praise the writing. His form rejections included a note: “It happens that I am both the editor of the Blue Moon and also the head of a critical revision business. If you have your manuscript revised I, as editor of the Blue Moon,shall then be glad to consider your story for publication in themagazine.” More than 30 writers agreed. Jessup took their money, andkept their stories.” – LitHub
  
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• San Diego Symphony To Break Ground On Year-Round Outdoor Venue

  16-08-2019 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The project reached its crescendo, transitioning from theoretical to actual, last month when the Port of San Diego agreed to lease a 3.68-acre siteon Embarcadero Marina Park to the symphony for up to 50 years. Theagreement was the last regulatory action needed for the symphony’slong-planned outdoor facility, which will serve as the permanent home ofthe Bayside Summer Nights concert series. – San Diego Union-Tribune
  
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• So Now We Have Augmented Reality Art In Real Spaces. What’s It Like?

  16-08-2019 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What mobile AR adds is the ability to changefocus by actively moving around a simulated object in real space. The technology wantsyou to do that. So it may just not be the ideal way to experienceanything that requires any degree of sustained focus, like a poem or aperformance.” – Artnet
  
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• How Napoleon Used Theatre To Legitimize Himself As Emperor

  16-08-2019 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  From one year to the next, he manipulated the Comédie-Française, selecting plays and scheduling performances on or around his birthday (which fell, conveniently, on a major Catholic feast) to give himself (born into minor Corsican nobility) the aura of a divinely appointed monarch. – History Today
  
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• Studio Assistant / Gen1-3 / London

  16-08-2019 20:43
  Gen1-3 is a four-year-old production house, and we are opening our first music studio as part of our new venture: Gen1-3 Ateliers. With this new venture, we aim to create spaces where culture...
  
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• Studio Manager / Gen1-3 / London

  16-08-2019 20:41
  Gen1-3 is a four-year-old production house, and we are opening our first music studio as part of our new venture: Gen1-3 Ateliers. With this new venture, we aim to create spaces where culture...
  
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• National Trust Artisan & Craft Retail Open Call / Crafts Council / London / UK wide

  16-08-2019 20:26
  National Trust has partnered with the Crafts Council to sponsor the 2019 National Trust Artisan & Craft Retail Open Call.
  In addition to developing a range exclusively for the National...
  
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• This Public Radio Station Created A Journalism School… For Its Listeners

  16-08-2019 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Roughly 100 people, most of them St. Louis Public Radio members andsupporters, paid $120 to attend. They visited St. Louis Public Radio’scommunity room in the city’s downtown Grand Center neighborhood toparticipate in evening sessions hosted by journalists from outletsacross the region. Topics included serious issues like media literacyand libel law and lighter fare like food reporting and TV weathercoverage. – Current
  
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• Mini Cardboard Theatres: How The 19th-Century English Bourgeoisie Staged Plays At Home

  16-08-2019 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The characters were laid out on sheets of paper, frozen in dramatic poses … [and] the sets [were] storybook illustrations of extravagant palaces and howling wildernesses, to be slotted in and out of the back of the theater, behind the cavorting characters. The scripts that came with them were as miniaturized as the stage.” – JSTOR Daily
  
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• General Manager / Invisible Flock / Yorkshire

  16-08-2019 19:51
  Invisible Flock is recruiting for a General Manager to support the organisation’s daily running and project production.
  Are you someone who loves to be challenged and work on multiple tasks?...
  
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• Tax, Compliance and Payroll Accountant / Shakespeare's Globe / London

  16-08-2019 19:41
  We celebrate Shakespeare’s transformative impact on the world by conducting a radical theatrical experiment. Inspired and informed by the unique historic playing conditions of two beautiful...
  
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• FIRE & STEAM Artist Commissions Call-out: BikeLights 2019 / Wadebridge Creative Hub / South West

  16-08-2019 19:37
  BikeLights is a magical, illuminated bicycle-based procession for all ages and abilities, now in its 6th year, with two 2019 Cornwall events taking place at dusk in Wadebridge on Saturday 12th...
  
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• Cello Tutor (Maternity Cover) / NORCA & Sistema In Norwich / East

  16-08-2019 19:37
  NORCA & Sistema in Norwich exists to increase access, participation and opportunity in the arts. Since our formation, in August 2001, we have developed innovative projects and initiatives across...
  
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• Detroit Art Is Hot. And With It Come The Challenges

  16-08-2019 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Artist studios get filled up pretty quickly,” he said. “And people are getting priced out.” – Artsy
  
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• Cello Tutor / NORCA & Sistema In Norwich / East

  16-08-2019 19:29
  NORCA & Sistema in Norwich exists to increase access, participation and opportunity in the arts. Since our formation, in August 2001, we have developed innovative projects and initiatives across...
  
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• Violin Tutor / NORCA & Sistema In Norwich / East

  16-08-2019 19:21
  NORCA & Sistema in Norwich exists to increase access, participation and opportunity in the arts. Since our formation, in August 2001, we have developed innovative projects and initiatives across...
  
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• Deputy Ticketing & Sales Manager / Grand Opera House, 4 Cumberland Street / Yorkshire

  16-08-2019 19:11
  The Grand Opera House is a 1000 seat theatre in the heart of York.  Converted and opening as a theatre in 1902, we present a broad programme of live theatre, music, comedy and talks throughout...
  
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• Lee Bennett Hopkins, America’s Unknown King Of Children’s Poetry, Dead At 81

  16-08-2019 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[He] dedicated a lifetime to writing and anthologizing poetry for children, amassing troves of verse” — 120 volumes by the time he died — “to help young people navigate the unknowns of life, from why stink bugs stink to how to survive a divorce.” – The Washington Post
  
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• Archivist / Blain|Southern / London

  16-08-2019 18:51
  Archivist
  ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS (Duties include but are not limited to the following):
  Database ManagementManage the inventory modules in the database system, including correctly and...
  
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• Lead Tutor: In2Music (Classroom Practitioner) / Merton Music Foundation / London

  16-08-2019 18:48
  Lead Tutor: In2Music (Classroom Practitioner)Employed, Full Time 
  £26-30k per annum dependent on experience
  London Borough of Merton (various Merton Primary Schools and MMF Music...
  
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• City at Sunrise: a creative walking & writing tour / / London / East

  16-08-2019 18:48
  Join Write & Shine and Living London for a unique dawn creative walking & writing wandering in Chelsea & BatterseaStarting off at Sloane Square, we will wander down the famous Kings...
  
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• Is English In Decline? Please! Worrying About That Is Dumb

  16-08-2019 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Linguistic decline is the cultural equivalent of the boy who cried wolf,except the wolf never turns up. Perhaps this is why, even though theidea that language is going to the dogs is widespread, nothing much hasbeen done to mitigate it: it’s a powerful intuition, but the evidence ofits effects has simply never materialised. That is because it isunscientific nonsense. – The Guardian
  
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• Hayward Exhibition Hosts / Southbank Centre / London

  16-08-2019 18:21
  This an exciting time to join the Hayward. After a two-year closure, the Hayward Gallery reopened in January 2018, and marked its 50th anniversary with the first major UK retrospective of the work of...
  
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• Open Call: Artist Film Festival X / BF Artist Film Festival / London

  16-08-2019 18:16
  We are now accepting submissions for the tenth BF Artist Film Festival premiering at The Lab F as part of the Art Licks Weekend 2019.
  The BF Artist Film Festival is a critical platform for...
  
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• Cultural Education Partnership Coordinator / London Borough of Waltham Forest / London

  16-08-2019 18:15
  Funded by A New Direction's Challenge London project
  Waltham Forest is the first ever London Borough of Culture 2019. We are recruiting an Education Partnership Co-ordinator to join the busy team...
  
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• Takis: his eye-popping and eerily beautiful magnetic marvels defined an era

  16-08-2019 18:14
  Effortlessly bridging the gap between the two cultures, the Greek sculptor – who has died aged 93 – played with invisible forces and put the truths of the cosmos on canvasThe Greek sculptor Takis, who has died at 93 during the run of an acclaimed Tate retrospective of his ingenious creations, was half artist and half mad scientist. His works of art look like experiments – because that’s what they are. He tapped into the fundamental forces of magnetism and electricity to m
  
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• Visitor Welcome Manager / Shakespeare's Globe / London

  16-08-2019 18:13
  We celebrate Shakespeare’s transformative impact on the world by conducting a radical theatrical experiment. Inspired and informed by the unique historic playing conditions of two beautiful...
  
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• Cafe Worker / Artsadmin / London

  16-08-2019 18:12
  Artsadmin seeks a part-time Café Worker for its friendly Arts Bar & Café at Toynbee Studios, to work as part of a small team led by the Café Manager. Excellent benefits and...
  
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• Trustee (Voluntary) / Upstart Projects / London / UK Wide

  16-08-2019 18:11
  Upstart’s mission is to create opportunities for young people to develop as the arts professionals of the future. We support young people to lead and manage projects, act as ambassadors, find...
  
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• Kitchen Worker / Artsadmin / London

  16-08-2019 18:09
  Artsadmin seeks a full-time Kitchen Worker for its friendly Arts Bar & Café at Toynbee Studios, to work as part of a small team led by the Café Manager. Excellent benefits and...
  
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• Public Art Commission for Pirelli Park / Eastleigh Borough Council / South East

  16-08-2019 18:05
  Eastleigh Borough Council (EBC) is inviting Tenders from Artists and Creative Design Practitioners to develop and deliver an exciting, imaginative and site-specific bespoke Play Environment for the...
  
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• Freelance Presenter with Explorer Dome / Explorer Dome South East / London

  16-08-2019 18:04
  Explorer Dome is a science outreach company that delivers hands-on science shows in an inflatable planetarium in schools across the UK. We are looking to recruit a new presenter in London.Our...
  
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• She Had Trouble Finding Dance Classes Online — So She Founded A $600 Million Startup

  16-08-2019 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Payal Kadakia, New Jersey-born daughter of two Indian immigrant chemists, got a degree from MIT while setting up one Indian dance group and worked a professional job at Bain & Company while launching and running another. In a Q&A, she recounts how, as a way to address one of her biggest frustrations as a New York dancer, she built ClassPass. – The New York Times
  
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• Guitar Tutor / Mary Ward Centre / London

  16-08-2019 17:56
  Acoustic Guitar Teacher
  Salary: £29.43/£30.88 per hour
  This is to teach two new Acoustic Guitar classes at Blackfriars Settlement near Southwark Station, they are aimed at...
  
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• Design the 2019 Alumni Awards / University of Liverpool / North West

  16-08-2019 17:34
  The University of Liverpool has launched its first awards to celebrate the success and achievements of alumni across the world. In autumn 2019, we will celebrate 20 Liverpool alumni, including 10...
  
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• What Happens When You Have To Cancel A Festival

  16-08-2019 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the enduringly expensive world of the multi-day music jamboree –where power bills alone can reach £100,000 for a 10,000-capacity event –ticket refunds are just one problem.– The Guardian
  
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• Creative Engagement Producer / Northern Broadsides / Yorkshire

  16-08-2019 17:24
  A cultural revolution is underway in Halifax. “The Shoreditch of the North” is booming with live events, festivals and theatre. It has entered the public consciousness via the huge...
  
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• How many likes for Da Vinci? Why it's fine to take pictures in an art gallery

  16-08-2019 17:13
  Photographs used to be banned in exhibitions – now they’re encouraged. So why do some people get so snobby about them? While I was studying art history, my tutor once advised the class that when you want to take photos in a gallery, it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission. Later, when I started working in various galleries, I always felt bad when someone asked whether they could take photographs, because I had to tell them no. Thankfully, things have loosened up thes
  
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• Research and Evaluation Consultant / The Saturday Club Trust / London

  16-08-2019 17:06
  The National Saturday Club are seeking to appoint a research and evaluation consultant who will work with the Trust over a 2-year period to evaluate the impact of our education programme, develop new...
  
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• The Squares Who Saved Woodstock

  16-08-2019 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  A big part of the 1969 festival’s legend is that no one involved had any idea how big it was going to get and how many people would show up, and the organizers were utterly unprepared. “Woodstock was saved at every step of the way by decidedly non-groovy regular people” — from Max Yasgur, the law-and-order Republican who rented his farm to the festival at the last minute, to the citizens of Bethel, NY who hard-boiled hundreds of thousands of eggs and sent canned goods wh
  
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• Office Assistant - Talent Department / Curtis Brown Ltd / London

  16-08-2019 16:40
  Curtis Brown is a leading international literary and talent agency, with a global reputation for excellence due to its extraordinary roster of clients within its actors, presenters and theatre, film...
  
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• Blue Exhibition / Rooftop Arts Centre / East Midlands

  16-08-2019 16:40
  A group exhibition which explores the colour blue inspired by the work of local Northamptonshire artist Leavon Bowman. Leavon inspired us to produce an open call for work featuring blue with his...
  
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• Board members and Chair of the Board / People Dancing / UK Wide

  16-08-2019 16:36
  People Dancing is looking for people with passion, energy and commitment to join its Board, and is recruiting both Board members and a Chair of the Board. 
  People Dancing is the development...
  
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• ‘I Love Staring At One Spot For Six Hours!’ Life-Drawing Models On The Trials And Joys Of Posing Nude For Art Students

  16-08-2019 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The person who gave that quote actually meant it. Tim Jonze talks to three professional figure models about the worst and best parts of their jobs. – The Guardian
  
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• Head of Development / Dulwich Picture Gallery / London

  16-08-2019 16:23
  Dulwich Picture Gallery, founded in 1811, is the world's first purpose-built public arts gallery.
  We are entering an exciting phase with several very important projects on the horizon. To help...
  
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