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• UK Study: Businesses Are Not Investing In The Arts

  23-08-2019 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fewer than one-third of businesses do. “Most individuals surveyed by the funder wanted more culturalopportunities where they live (55%), but businesses were lessenthusiastic: they prioritised other spending, felt local arts groupswere “not business minded enough”, and didn’t see how investing in artsand culture would benefit them.” – Arts Professional
  
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• The Increasingly Oh-So-Complicated Politics Of The Politics Of Arts Organization Donors

  23-08-2019 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Youdon’t want to have either Fox or MSNBC after you. Those are huge distractions of the time of individual board members andsenior management.” – The New York Times
  
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• Russian Literature And The Meaning Of Truth

  23-08-2019 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We usually assume that literature exists to depict life, but Russiansoften speak as if life exists to provide material for literature.Russians, of course, excel in ballet, chess, theater, and mathematics.They invented the periodic table and non-Euclidian geometry.Nevertheless, for Russians literature is in a class by itself. The veryphrase “Russian literature” carries a sacramental aura.” – New Criterion
  
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• The New Streaming Reality Is Looking More And More Like The Bad Old Days Of TV

  23-08-2019 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The rise of digital video is bringing back more than just bloated bundlesand bills. Many companies are returning to TV’s original businessmodel: selling you anything and everything but the television show infront of you. – The New York Times
  
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• How “Sesame Street” Revolutionized Teaching Using Music

  23-08-2019 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Since its inception in 1969, the public television show has redefinedwhat it means to teach children through TV, with music as its resoundingvoice. Before “Sesame Street,” it wasn’t even clear that you could dothat; once the series began, as a radical experiment that joinededucational research and social idealism with the lunacy of puppets andthe buoyancy of advertising jingles, it proved that kids are veryreceptive to a grammar lesson wrapped in a song. – The New York T
  
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• Conductor Leo Driehuys, 87 – He Built The Modern Charlotte Symphony

  23-08-2019 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “He was a very strong face for the Charlotte Symphony, but he worked hisbutt off behind the scenes with the power players in Charlotte. He got people to realize that this was somethingimportant to put money into because it was good for the city.” – Charlotte Observer
  
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• Festival Assistants / Deptford X / London

  23-08-2019 21:07
  Deptford X Festival AssistantsWe are recruiting 2 festival assistants for this year's festival to help us plan and deliver Deptford X 2019.Festival Assistant (Programme Delivery)Festival Assistant...
  
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• The Joys Of Traveling From Small Town To Small Town Performing Shakespeare For High Schoolers For $225 A Week (A Reminiscence)

  23-08-2019 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As a recent graduate with a BFA in acting, I could have been stuck lip-synching to Buddy Holly at an amusement park or being cast as a Native American in a problematic outdoor drama in Chillicothe, Ohio. But here I was doing something respectable; noble, even.” Jeremy D. Larson recalls the three-hour load-ins for 8 a.m. shows. The flu passed from cast member to cast member when no one could sit out a show. The drink and drugs. The streaking. And the time they made the mistake of ut
  
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• Fascinating Rights Issue: After Dispute, Taylor Swift Says She’ll Re-Record Her Early Albums

  23-08-2019 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The singer reached an impass with her recording label, which owns masters of the original songs. So Swift says she’ll simply re-record them all so she has control. Travis Andrews untangles the copyright implications. – Washington Post
  
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• Comfort Reading: In Defense Of Returning To The Same Book Over And Over

  23-08-2019 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rebecca Jennings — who confesses to having read each of the Harry Potter books at least ten times and insists she’s “not advocating for laziness” — points to research on “repeated hedonic experiences” that explains why those repeated experiences are hedonic (that means pleasurable) and, in fact, good for you. – Vox
  
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• Production Assistant / Wise Children / South West

  23-08-2019 19:45
  About Wise Children
  Wise Children is a new theatre company created & led by director Emma Rice. It is the beginning of a new chapter and the culmination of the practice and ethos Emma has...
  
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• Development Operations Assistant / National Theatre / London / London

  23-08-2019 19:44
  The Development Operations Assistant provides back office support for a busy fundraising and memberships department. 
  The contributions of donors and members of the National Theatre support our...
  
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• Cruising For Art – The Bizarro World Of Cruise Ship Art Auctions

  23-08-2019 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  One gimmick in particular stood out: A pair of works presented turnedaway from the audience, and sold as one lot, without any idea of whatthey looked like. “They are going to be two of the most gorgeous worksof art that anyone has ever seen,” Borotescu promised the audience.“Once you turn it around, if it’s something you don’t like, you don’thave to keep it.” – artnet
  
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• Murmurations / Candid Arts Trust / London

  23-08-2019 19:08
  A group exhibition of multidisciplinary graduate artwork, film screenings and live performances
  OPENING NIGHT ->>>> Friday 30th August ~ (6pm-12am)
  TOP FLOOR EXHIBITION CONTINUES...
  
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• Anish Kapoor’s ‘Orbit’ — AKA Boris Johnson’s Giant Erector-Set/Sliding Board — Is Millions In Debt

  23-08-2019 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 376-foot sculpture was commissioned by Johnson, then London’s Mayor, for the 2012 Olympics, and he had hoped that it would become London’s answer to the Eiffel Tower (7 million annual visitors) or the Statue of Liberty (over 4 million). But Orbit never even cracked the 200,000-visitor mark — not even after it was bailed out by tycoon Lakshmi Mittal (which is why it’s now named ArcelorMittal Orbit) and Johnson had Carsten Höller add a sliding tube for which admis
  
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• Cataloguer & Valuer / Dawson's Auctioneers / South East

  23-08-2019 18:59
  Dawson’s are recruiting for the above full-time position. This is a varied and busy role in a Fine Art & Antiques auction house. Candidates will assist in the production of the catalogue at...
  
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• Living Lab Manager / Knowle West Media Centre / South West

  23-08-2019 18:57
  Bristol arts organisation Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) runs the Bristol Living Lab - a space where communities, entrepreneurs and organisations can come together to innovate, experiment and...
  
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• General Manager / The Regent Centre / South West

  23-08-2019 18:54
  The Regent Centre is looking to employ a General Manager to manage all aspects of the Regent Centre, enabling it to flourish as a vibrant cinema / theatre and artistic hub.
  This is a full time...
  
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• Design and Website Developer / Eight Creative Agency, Knowle West Media Centre / South West

  23-08-2019 18:54
  Knowle West Media Centre's creative agency is looking for a Design & Website Developer to create engaging websites and designs, and support its freelance creatives to develop their skills and...
  
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• Creative Services Manager / Askonas Holt / London / London

  23-08-2019 18:51
  THE COMPANY
  With a history dating back to 1876, Askonas Holt Ltd. is an established leader in classical music and performing arts management. Based in London and working worldwide, we nurture the...
  
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• Thamesmead Community Archive Artist Engagement Commission / Peabody / London

  23-08-2019 18:38
  As part of the Thamesmead Community Archive programme we are seeking an experienced and engaging artist to work with the diverse communities in Thamesmead to collect their memories and histories. The...
  
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• UK Entertainment Unions Lament Decline In Arts Journalism

  23-08-2019 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The letter states that recent job losses for arts critics at the Guardian and the Evening Standard highlight this issue. It goes on to quote figures from the List magazine that reveal thenumber of reviews in eight major national and arts titles dropped from5,134 in 2012 to 3,169 in 2017. – The Stage
  
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• Programme Producer / Bedford Creative Arts / East Midlands

  23-08-2019 18:26
  In this new role, the Programme Producer will be responsible for engaging with partners and communities to identify their needs and commission creative interventions that respond to them. This...
  
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• Casual Technicians / Boulevard Theatre / London

  23-08-2019 18:22
  Boulevard Theatre is Soho's newest playhouse opening to the public in October 2019. It is an exciting, versatile space with a seated capacity of up to 170. The theatre will present its own theatre...
  
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• Casual Customer Service Assistants / Performances Birmingham Ltd / West Midlands / Birmingham

  23-08-2019 18:20
  Casual Customer Service Assistant  Salary: £9.00 per hour
  Customer Service Assistants will work across both our bars as Bar Assistants and our foyers acting as Stewards for numerous...
  
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• Assistant Facilitator with The Yard Theatre's Young Artists / The Yard Theatre / London / London

  23-08-2019 18:12
  The Yard theatre is searching for a Assistant Facilitator to work with our The Queen’s Yard Company.
  The Queen’s Yard Company are twelve exceptional young Londoners aged 15-19, making...
  
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• Inside India’s First-Ever Contemporary Sculpture Park

  23-08-2019 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the Madhavendra Palace, just outside Jaipur, “floral murals, elaborate arches, patterned columns, dark paneled doors, and stone-lined courtyards serve as maximal backdrops for sculptures — many of them site-specific — that simultaneously respond to the environment and introduce challenging new ideas into the space. Beauty and contemporary politics collide in room after room; visits to the palace become opulent treasure hunts.” – Artsy
  
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• George Davies Centre Gallery Coordinator / Attenborough Arts Centre / East Midlands

  23-08-2019 18:01
  The Attenborough Arts Centre at the University of Leicester are looking to recruit a Gallery Coordinator to work within the George Davis Centre. The postholder will; • Curate exhibitions...
  
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• Switch off your phone and get lost in a gallery | Letters

  23-08-2019 17:42
  Readers respond to Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s piece about selfie culture in art galleriesI was pleased to read Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s criticism of selfie culture – every aspect of life has been gatecrashed by the mobile phone (Art, aura and the search for a perfect selfie, 22 August). However, as John Berger pointed out in Ways of Seeing (indebted to Walter Benjamin), the withering of the aura of a work of art is to be celebrated, because aura shrouds the work of art in a veil
  
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• ASL Casting Call for 'Not I' / Battersea Arts Centre / London

  23-08-2019 17:40
  Touretteshero and Battersea Arts Centre are looking for a female-identified performer who is a hearing American Sign Language user to perform and interpret in ASL alongside Jess Thom in a...
  
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• We Are The Stories We Tell Ourselves – And That’s Determined By Our Age

  23-08-2019 17:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s a lot of research now that shows that in the teenage years wedevelop skills from what’s called autobiographical reasoning—which isthe ability to derive personal meaning from your past—and that’s reallythe key to narrative identity. When you start doing that in your teenageyears, then that kind of opens up a Pandora’s box that says “okay nowyou can actually create a story for your life that makes meaning aboutwho you were and where you’re go
  
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• Emotion and Economics - History of the Gate Cinema, Notting Hill / / London

  23-08-2019 17:34
  Saturday 7th September, 2019
  The Gate Picturehouse, 87 Notting Hill Gate, Kensington, London W11 3JZ
  1-3pm
  This is a free (turn up on the day) film programme held as part of the Portobello Film...
  
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• Bauhaus: Art & Education in Practice Symposium 18th Oct 2019, / West Dean College / South East

  23-08-2019 17:20
  This one-day symposium celebrates the centenary of the Bauhaus School of Design. It questions how the innovations in teaching and creative practice it is known to have fostered continue to underpin,...
  
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• Outside In: Exploring the West Dean Collection Tuesday 8 October / West Dean College / South East

  23-08-2019 17:17
  West Dean College of Arts and Conservation recently partnered with Outside In to deliver a training course to artists who find it difficult to access the art world for reasons including...
  
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• Technician / Relighter / Harlow Playhouse / East

  23-08-2019 17:16
  HARLOW PLAYHOUSE is currently recruiting a Technician / Relighter for this year’s children's christmas show.
  Production:   ‘The Great Christmas...
  
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• Netflix India Has Its Own Version Of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

  23-08-2019 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s 2047, 100 years after India’s independence, and in the fictional nation of Aryavarta, water is scarce. The republic’s authoritarian rulers are seizing children of mixed parentage from their families, interning the mothers, and forcibly reprogramming them to serve the nation and to purify their defiled minds. … While it has drawn parallels with The Handmaid’s Tale thanks to its depiction of a draconian, patriarchal state suppressing women and restrictin
  
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• Are We Reaching The Point Where Dancers Need Big Social Media Followings Just To Get Hired?

  23-08-2019 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “New York City-based choreographer and director Jennifer Weber once worked on a project with a strict social media policy: ”Hire no one with less than 10K, period’ — and that was a few years ago,’ she says. ‘Ten thousand is a very small number now, especially on Instagram.’ … It’s unsurprising that profit-driven dance enterprises lead the pack when it comes to leveraging artists’ exposure; policies at nonprofit dance organizations are
  
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• Float | Residency | Exhibition | / BLOAT Collective / London / Deptford

  23-08-2019 16:34
  We are delighted to be a part of the August Collectives residency at APT Studios & Gallery.~From the 27th of August to the 31st, we invite all to come and join in, participate or simply observe...
  
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• Casual Duty Manager / Shaw Theatre / London

  23-08-2019 16:28
  Duty Manager
  We are currently looking to recruit a Casual Duty Manager to join our management team as we take The Shaw into its next...
  
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• 2019 NOAPS Fall International Online Exhibition / National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society / London / International

  23-08-2019 16:24
  The National Oil & Acrylic Painters’ Society (NOAPS), a non-profit arts organization, invites oil and acrylic painters from around the world to apply to our exhibit honoring the Best in oil...
  
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• Audience Talks And Talkbacks, And Keeping Them On Track

  23-08-2019 16:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Says the former director of public programming at Lincoln Center, who has moved on to a new arts center in Abu Dhabi, “I’m someone who dreaded talkbacks and Q&As. While I was in New York, a lot of the time it was just audience members trying to show off how smart they were.” Journalist Zachary Whittenburg talks with presenters and artists about how they direct the focus of audience engagement events. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Marketing Officer (maternity cover) / Bernie Grant Arts Centre / London

  23-08-2019 16:08
  An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the team at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre as our Marketing Officer (maternity cover) and help shape the future of this extraordinary venue in Tottenham,...
  
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• New Carlisle Writers' Retreat / Writers' HQ / North West

  23-08-2019 15:45
  Writers' HQ are bringing their one day procrastination-busting Writers' Retreats to the beautiful Carlisle. That means it’s time to stop faffing about and start writing.Spend the day with a...
  
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• The Access Conundrum At The Heart Of Popular Music Journalism

  23-08-2019 15:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are more and more outlets, but they pay writers less and less; there are huge quantities of new music pouring out, but large bodies of readers are going to click on pieces about artists they’ve already heard of; those famous artists have less and less time to make themselves available to journalists, whom they no longer need to reach their fans. Jeremy Gordon looks at this conundrum and seeks a way beyond it. – Columbia Journalism Review
  
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• Head of Business Development and Sales (Social Enterprise) / Royal Institution of Great Britain / South West

  23-08-2019 15:41
  For over 220 years, the Ri has been inspiring people to engage with science, and at the Ri, we are beginning a new chapter in our history. From a strong foundation of success, both financial –...
  
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• Head of Marketing and Communications / The Reading Agency / London / South East

  23-08-2019 15:30
  The Reading Agency is looking for an excellent communicator, to lead our marketing and communications team and help deliver our vision for the future.
  As a national charity, we tackle life's big...
  
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• Applications for our most popular intensive programme now open / AMA / North East / Leeds

  23-08-2019 15:24
  Small Scale Development Programme
  Wednesday 30 October — Friday 1 November
  What is it about?
  As the leader of a small-scale arts or cultural organisation you’re likely to be wearing...
  
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• Discover what you should be considering when creating podcasts / AMA / East / Online

  23-08-2019 15:22
  Podcasts the Engage Audiences
  Wednesday 30 October, 10.30am — 12.30pm
  What is it about?
  At this online workshop you’ll discover what you should be considering when creating podcasts....
  
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• Engaging with the Deaf community / AMA / East / Online

  23-08-2019 15:20
  Engaging and Retaining Deaf Audiences — providing an accessible, Deaf-friendly service
  Thursday 17 October, 10.30am — 12.30pm
  What is it about?
  Deaf people belong to a thriving...
  
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• Define what a 'diverse audience' is for your organisation / AMA / East / Online

  23-08-2019 15:18
  Diversify your Audiences — across your organisation
  Tuesday 15 October, 10.30am — 12.30pm
  What is it about?
  At this online workshop, trainer Mel Larsen will help you define what a...
  
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