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• Live Performance Opportunity / Asking for it Exhibition / London

  10-09-2019 23:32
  We are the ‘Asking for it’ exhibition. Our aim is to create a place for people to share and feel and come together over adversity. Through expression of art - in a variety of mediums such...
  
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• Study: Forty Percent Of UK Arts Organizations Pay Junior Staff Less Than Living Wages

  10-09-2019 23:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Research by the Visitor Experience Forum and BOP Consulting on practicesat 140 museums, galleries and visitor attractions found that 39% ofrespondents paid their entry level visitor experience staff less thanthe Living Wage. – Arts Professional
  
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• Let The Uproar Begin: English National Opera To Take Away Critics’ Companion Tickets

  10-09-2019 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Financially it is not sensible for us. And a lot of peoplecriticise the critics, so it will be quite good to let others have a goand, I suspect, find out that it is not as easy as it looks.” – The Guardian
  
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• Do Arts Organization Boards Need To Be Battlegrounds?

  10-09-2019 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Darren Walker: “Unfortunately, some people have framed having a diverse board asoppositional to having a wealthy board. These are one-dimensional ideas.I’m simply saying that you can have both, and you should have both. Itwould be a grave error to demonize wealthy people. That is somethingthat I find regrettable about the discourse around the Whitney board,around this whole controversy.” – artnet
  
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• The Shocking Costs Of Doing Art History Research

  10-09-2019 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It sometimes seems to me that academic success is designed for peoplewho are already wealthy, just as first-class seating in airplanes isdesigned for tall men. Underfunded humanities are an extension of unpaidinternships and poorly paid fellowships in museums. Do we reallybelieve that our disciplines are just a decoration and offer viablecareers only to those with trust funds?” – Times Higher Education
  
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• Scientists Find Anomaly In Dead Sea Scrolls That Casts Doubts On Origin

  10-09-2019 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This inorganic layer that is really clearly visible on the Templescroll surprised us and induced us to look more in detail how thisscroll was prepared, and it turns out to be quite unique.” – The Guardian
  
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• In 1913, Edith Wharton Created An Anti-Heroine For The 21st Century

  10-09-2019 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jia Tolentino: “More than a century after The Custom of the Country was published, Undine’s habits, given a superficial makeover, could be rebranded not just as aspirational but feminist. Today, she would learn how to defend her life story as that of a woman going after what she wants and getting it — and what could be more progressive than that? This pitch would be bullshit, but plenty of people would believe it. Our twenty-first-century Undine would have a million followers
  
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• Volunteer at The Hullabaloo and TakeOff Festival 2019 / Theatre Hullabaloo / North East

  10-09-2019 20:39
  We are looking for a small pool of volunteers to support our programme at The Hullabaloo across the year and a small team of TakeOff Festival volunteers for October 2019.
  Being a volunteer at The...
  
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• How We Think About Intelligence Warps How We Think About People

  10-09-2019 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The notion that intelligence is a measurable ‘something’ that ispossessed by people in varying degrees is one of the ways in which weend up with an education system that fails the majority of those it issupposed to be helping.– 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Can Card Tricks Make The World A Better Place? These Magicians Are Giving It A Try

  10-09-2019 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Reporter Claire Armitstead talks to prestidigitators who use their craft to comfort children in refugee camps, restore movement to hemiplegia patients, assist in research on cognition; treat dyslexia and and symptoms of autism, and teach surgeons how to relate to their patients as human beings. – The Guardian
  
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• Project Manager (External Partnerships) / National Trust / London

  10-09-2019 19:41
  The National Trust was started by people who wanted everyone to benefit from greenspace and our shared heritage. To ensure we continue this mission, we need to keep expanding our partnerships. This...
  
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• Art exhibition - Transitions: Changing States of Mind / Redlees Studios / London / Isleworth

  10-09-2019 19:32
  For three days only, four emerging female artists from across London will be exhibiting a variety of work including; sculpture, painting and film as part of Transitions: Changing States of...
  
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• Are Bots Defining Your Aesthetic? (Of Course They Are)

  10-09-2019 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The intelligent software agents that you interact with online are ‘intelligent agents’in the sense that they try to predict your behaviour taking intoaccount what you did in your online past (e.g. what kind of movies youusually watch), and then they structure your options for onlinebehaviour. For example, they offer you a selection of movies to watchnext. However, they do not care much for your reasons for action.” – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Future Fridays: Grace Nicol / Chisenhale Dance Space / London

  10-09-2019 19:20
  Grace NicolFuture Fridays at Chisenhale Dance Space4th October 2019 £5 Early Bird | £7.50 Advance | £10...
  
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• Womxn SRSLY Eight / / London

  10-09-2019 19:18
  Womxn SRSLY will take over The Yard, presenting a programme of unique and challenging performance on the 3rd October. Woman SRSLY returns bringing an evening of artists – spanning...
  
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• There’s One American TV Show That Depicts Labor With Real Dignity

  10-09-2019 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “On its face, [The Science Channel’s] How It’s Made is arguably about science and engineering rather than the vicissitudes of the working class, but its depiction of the everyday worker nonetheless makes it a kissing cousin to socialist realism — or at least a kissing cousin to social realism, which is itself a kissing cousin to socialist realism.” – The Baffler
  
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• Devon Based Artist Call Out / Theatre Alibi / South West

  10-09-2019 19:00
  With our next project we aim to celebrate our neighbourhood, St Thomas in Exeter. Led possibly by its tendency to flood, the area has often been labelled as the “wrong side of the river”,...
  
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• Associate Producer / Secret Group Ltd / London

  10-09-2019 18:57
  Who We Are:
  Secret Group Ltd is a global pioneer of immersive film experiences with a record of over 50 immersive productions and over 600,000 attendees in the last five years alone. Creating...
  
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• Venue Crew / 'a space' arts / South West

  10-09-2019 18:51
  ‘a space’ arts is now recruiting Crew Members for God’s House Tower.
  Join our team and be part of the exciting new Arts & Heritage venue, set to open later this year with...
  
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• Do You Want More Audiences and Donors?

  10-09-2019 18:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Attend the National Arts Marketing, Development & Ticketing Conference in Seattle! November 5 & 6. Build Your Next Generation Strategies for RevenueGrowth. Sign up by September 27 and bring 2 colleagues for FREE!(3-for-1). Digital Marketing Skill-Building Track included!It’s easy,convenient & affordable.
  Where Great Minds MeetArts Reach, the Association of Arts Management, Marketing andDevelopment Professionals, has collected the best speakers from acrossNorth America for this
  
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• How “Ulysses” Became A Scandal And Changed The Definition Of Obscenity In America

  10-09-2019 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The conspirators were Bennett Cerf, publisher and cofounder of Random House, and Morris Ernst, a cofounder of the ACLUand its chief legal counsel. The target was United Statesanti-obscenity law. The bait was a single copy of an English-languagenovel, printed in Dijon by Frenchmen who could not understand a word ofit, bound in bright blue boards, and sold mail-order by the celebratedParis bookshop Shakespeare and Company.” – New York Review of Books
  
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• Fee Paid Learning Assistants (IWM Duxford) / Imperial War Museums / East

  10-09-2019 18:29
  We are looking for reliable, flexible and enthusiastic Learning Assistants with exceptional presentation, storytelling and delivery skills to join our team to support the delivery of Public...
  
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• Fee Paid Learning Assistants (IWM London and HMS Belfast) / Imperial War Museums / London

  10-09-2019 18:10
  We are looking for reliable, flexible and enthusiastic Learning Assistants with exceptional presentation, storytelling and delivery skills to join our team to support the delivery of Public...
  
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• PBS NewsHour Visits Cambodia’s All-Gay-Male Classical Dance Troupe

  10-09-2019 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In 2015, artist Prumsodun Ok formed Cambodia’s first all-male and gay-identified Khmer dance company — in his living room. Part of his mission was to support the revival of an art form all but destroyed by the reign of the Khmer Rouge. Ok told his dancers they would need to be brave in order to give voice to a marginalized community. He shares his brief but spectacular take on honoring tradition.” (video plus transcript) – PBS NewsHour
  
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• Associate / Encounter / London

  10-09-2019 17:52
  Encounter was founded in 2013 as a sustainable alternative to the traditional gallery model. We run an international ‘moving’ exhibition program curating academically rigorous and...
  
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• Henry Hudson Studio Assistant - 6 months / Order & Chaos / London

  10-09-2019 17:49
  An exciting opportunity to work as part of Henry Hudson's east London art studio where you will assist in creating plasticine paintings and future commissions. You will work alongside the artist,...
  
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• Stage Manager / Technical Swing / Les Petits Theatre Company / UK Tour

  10-09-2019 17:40
  We are looking for someone to join our touring company for our children’s show 'Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosuars". The production will be touring from 4th October - 3rd November...
  
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• Freelance Digital Advertiser / Becky Dell Music Academy / London

  10-09-2019 17:39
  We are a small arts business, offering music lessons for local people in Greenwich and Blackheath in south-east London. We started 7 years ago and have grown from 22 students in our first year to 170...
  
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• New Ceramic Courses / Westminster Adult Education Services / London

  10-09-2019 17:36
  PLEASE CHECK OUT OUR NEW CERAMIC COURSES FOR 2019/20 at WAES (Westminster Adult Education Services)
  COURSES: We have a wide variety of ceramic courses, both accredited (Level 1 - 3) and general...
  
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• Why Birds Have Been Such Powerful Symbols Throughout History

  10-09-2019 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Birds enter popular culture from the earliest times, and they continueto pervade literature and art throughout the classical period. They arementioned in the very first sentence of European literature – asscavengers, at the start of Homer’s Iliad. They featurerepeatedly in subsequent epic, lyric, didactic, pastoral and personalpoetry, in tragedy and comedy, in epigrams and invective, and in prosewritings on geography, history, travel, medicine and early science.” &ndash
  
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• Open Studios / Centrespace Co-operative Studios / South West / Bristol

  10-09-2019 17:26
  Centrespace Co-operative Studios are opening up its doors to the public for the first time in over four years.Located in Leonard Lane, at the heart of the Old City of Bristol, Centrespace Studios is...
  
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• Assistant Programme Coordinator - Semester Courses / Sotheby's Institute of Art, London / London

  10-09-2019 17:26
  The Assistant Programme Coordinator will be part of the administrative team led by the Semester Programmes Manager. The person in this role will participate in coordinating the day to day running of...
  
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• Volunteer Coordinator / Entelechy Arts / London

  10-09-2019 17:25
  Entelechy Arts and the Albany are looking for an experienced Volunteer Coordinator to join their unique participant/artist-led project Meet Me. 
  Since 2013, Entelechy Arts has partnered with...
  
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• Site Manager / Underbelly / London

  10-09-2019 17:17
  Underbelly Ltd. (UB) is looking for experienced festival Site Managers with knowledge of working on a large range of seasonal festivals. They will be reporting to the Underbelly Production Manager...
  
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• EFG London Jazz Festival Volunteer 2019 / Serious / London

  10-09-2019 17:09
  Come join the team this year and gain invaluable hands-on events experience by volunteering at EFG London Jazz Festival 2019.
  We are seeking a team of volunteers with a passion for live music and...
  
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• Peter Nichols, Playwright Of ‘A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg’ And ‘Privates On Parade’, Dead At 92

  10-09-2019 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Over a period of 15 years, from 1967 to 1982, [he] wrote some of the most brilliant and distinctive plays on the British stage. Yet he became sour and paranoid about the failure of the artistic establishment to pay him his rightful due.” – The Guardian
  
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• Black Arts World - Slate Weekender / Site Gallery / Yorkshire

  10-09-2019 16:54
  Black Arts World Slate Weekender
  A showcase of the new wave of Black* artists in the North.
  Cultural Industries Quarter, S1 2BS, SheffieldThur 12 - Sun 15 Sept
  FREE – includes some...
  
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• Artist for We are Commoners contemporary craft exhibition / Craftspace / National

  10-09-2019 16:53
  We Are Commoners!
  A Craftspace national touring exhibition launching at Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham in September 2020
  “The commons means: Things we share/ Places we share/ Systems we...
  
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• Chief of Staff / Natural History Museum / London

  10-09-2019 16:33
  Acting as a trusted aide to the Director, Sir Michael Dixon, you will facilitate the effective governance and management of the Board of Trustees, the Executive Board and a new, to be established,...
  
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• Baltimore Symphony Musicians File Charges With National Labor Relations Board

  10-09-2019 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The unfair labor practices complaint charges that Baltimore Symphony management has failed to bargain in good faith, “unlawfully locked out the musicians … [and] failed and refused to provide relevant and necessary information requested by the union in bargaining.” – WBAL-TV (Baltimore)
  
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• Art After School Facilitators / Skipz Productions cic / London

  10-09-2019 16:12
  Skipz Productions cic is a performing arts and art club provider for primary schools in London.
  We are looking for facilitators to join our team on:
  Thursday:
  Art club. 3:30pm-4:30pm - Primary...
  
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• Canceling ‘Cancel Culture’ — Would That Even Be Necessary?

  10-09-2019 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The best argument against cancel culture is that the whole thing is a myth, existing only in the furious minds of outraged social media users. People who are canceled usually don’t stay that way, and often the attention just fuels their success.” – Wired
  
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• Part-Time Job Fair / University of the Arts London / London

  10-09-2019 16:03
  Looking for flexible, part-time, seasonal or freelance staff? Come to UAL's annual Part-Time Job Fair (9 October 2019, Central Saint Martins).
  The fair is a great opportunity to meet UAL’s...
  
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• Enterprise and Development Manager / Theatre Centre / London

  10-09-2019 15:53
  Theatre Centre brings world class theatre straight into the heart of schools. We make plays with big heart that empower children and young people to think, act and speak for themselves. We are...
  
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• The Agreed-Upon Definition Of Museum Will Not Be Changed — For Now

  10-09-2019 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Following “profound and healthy debate” at its Extraordinary General Assembly, the International Council of Museums postponed indefinitely a vote on whether to adopt a new definition of museums as “democratizing, inclusive and polyphonic spaces for critical dialogue about the pasts and the futures … aiming to contribute to human dignity and social justice, global equality and planetary wellbeing.” – Time
  
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• James Rosenquist: Warhol's favourite artist celebrated in London show

  10-09-2019 15:32
  Pop art pioneer was a friend and contemporary of Warhol, Lichtenstein and RauschenbergSurreal, innovative and political paintings by an American artist worshipped by Andy Warhol have gone on display in London.James Rosenquist was a pop art pioneer whose name is well known in America and parts of Europe, but far less so in the UK.James Rosenquist: Visualising the Sixties is at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in London, 10 September to 9 November. Continue reading...
  
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• Cultural Programming Coordinator / The AllBright / London

  10-09-2019 15:32
  An exciting opportunity has arisen in our programming team for a Cultural Programming Coordinator. We are searching for a hardworking, driven individual to join a close-knit team to provide support...
  
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• The ESOP Newman Young Artist Scholarships 2019-20 / The Essential School of Painting / London / United Kingdom

  10-09-2019 15:21
  For the second year the Essential School of Painting is offering three full scholarships for young artists aged 21 to 30 to study at The ESOP with an opportunity to join our end of year student...
  
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• IT Systems & Data Support Assistant / Roundhouse Trust / London

  10-09-2019 15:11
  IT Systems & Data Support Assistant Chalk Farm Rd, London, NW1 £22,000 - £26,000 per annumWho we are:The Roundhouse is a hub of inspiration where artists and emerging talent...
  
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• External Evaluator - CREUS / Collage Arts / London

  10-09-2019 15:06
  CREUS is an Erasmus Plus Key Action 2 Strategic Partnership of seven European partners that aims to develop and nurture the vocational transversal skills of disadvantaged young people through...
  
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