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• Digital storytelling in the museum - Projection Takeover Day / Birmingham Museums Trust / West Midlands

  08-09-2019 23:44
  As part of the BBC Academy's Digital Cities week in Birmingham, we are running an event that will give you a chance to create visual interactive art work, and take over Birmingham Museum and Art...
  
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• A Festival of Creative Urban Living in Milton Keynes / / South East

  08-09-2019 22:36
  A Festival of Creative Urban Living in Milton Keynes - curated by raumlaborberlinwww.afcul.org
  You’ll find MK’s first ever free ‘A Festival of Creative Urban Living’ from...
  
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• Festivals Marketing Manager / Severn Arts / West Midlands / Worcester

  08-09-2019 20:45
  We are seeking a dynamic and innovative Marketing and Communications Manager to lead all marketing and communications within our festivals programme of The Arches – Worcester...
  
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• Operations Super-Charger / Dynamix Extreme CIC / North East

  08-09-2019 20:22
   Dynamix Extreme CIC are looking for a dynamic, energetic and highly organised person to super-charge our team and our operations.
  Dynamix is an Indoor Skatepark, Circus Training and Performing...
  
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• 'We are living in disturbing times': artist Barbara Walker on Margate and racism

  08-09-2019 18:42
  Place, Space and Who looks at the experiences of five black women living in the Kent townAn artist who spent four months recording the experiences of black women and migrants in Margate came face to face with racism in the seaside town that will play host to the Turner prize later this year.Barbara Walker relocated to Margate for a residency that saw her take over one of the Turner Contemporary’s galleries – a light-filled, cavernous space with floor-to-ceiling windows that look out
  
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• Say a prayer: the Muslim woman who photographed Bradford's last synagogue

  08-09-2019 16:00
  Nudrat Afza, a single mother who can’t afford her own camera, talks us through her new show – of poignant shots capturing the last 45 Jewish worshippers in the city’s only remaining synagogueThe last UK census, which took place in 2011, found that there were just 299 Jews left in Bradford, a tiny number for a city that became home to so many German Jews in the 19th century that the warehouse district they created is still called Little Germany. The Muslim population, meanwhile,
  
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• Graphic Designer - Required ASAP / LSE Students Union / London

  08-09-2019 14:45
  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 currently looking for a...
  
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• Peter Doig; Jasmine Thomas-Girvan & Chris Ofili review – tall tales on distant shores

  08-09-2019 11:00
  Michael Werner Gallery; David Zwirner, London
  Peter Doig’s new paintings are typically mysterious and entrancing, but a joint show from his Trinidadian neighbours glitters less for all its goldPeter Doig’s latest paintings are as bewitching as ever – but even stranger. Given that lingering mystery has been the uppermost trait of his art for more than 30 years, this is no small feat. Many of his motifs remain the same, what is more – lone divers, solitary figures on glowin
  
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• ‘I was Lucian Freud’s spare pair of eyes’

  08-09-2019 10:30
  Former Observer art critic William Feaver was a friend of Lucian Freud for 30 years. As the first volume of his biography of the painter is published, he recalls their time together, and Freud’s journey from obscurity to global fame
  The phone went. After midnight, so it could only be him. “Hello Villiam. How goes it?” That faintly Germanic tinge and, as always, straight to the point: “I’ve got her a dog.”Alice, my youngest daughter, just 13, had been ill for s
  
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• A book, then a play, now Litvinenko’s story is coming back to the small screen | Richard Brooks

  08-09-2019 10:00
  The murdered Russian dissident’s case is to become an ITV drama. And the National Gallery gets first dibs on a baroque masterpieceDavid Tennant is being lined up to play the murdered Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko in a TV drama. Following Litvinenko’s poisoning in London in 2006, the case has since proved popular for adaptation and retelling. A play, A Very Expensive Poison, about his assassination has just opened at the Old Vic, itself loosely based on the book of the same n
  
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• Maria Anastassiou: Life in the UK, Project Presentation / / London / Essex

  08-09-2019 00:06
  Maria Anastassiou presents the project and the film made in response to the historic port of entry for immigrants arriving in Britain; Tilbury in Essex. Join us for a boat trip along the Thames to...
  
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