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• Call out for artists: Folk Discovery Research and Development / English Folk Dance and Song Society / London / Camden

  29-09-2019 23:43
  Folk Discovery – Research and Development Days
  Call-out for artists: towards a cross-cultural creative learning programme
  5 & 6 November 2019, 10am – 6pm
  Cecil Sharp House, 2...
  
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• Learning & Access Officer / imitating the dog / North West

  29-09-2019 22:00
  imitating the dog make ground-breaking, world class work in theatre spaces and site-specific locations fusing live performance and digital technologies.
  The company has developed a popular and...
  
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• Marketing Assistant / Derby LIVE (Derby City Council) / East Midlands

  29-09-2019 20:37
  The Council’s Leisure, Culture & Tourism department directly manages a range of sport, leisure and cultural facilities across the city with a mission to provide Derby citizens and visitors...
  
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• Finance Officer / London Theatre Bookings / London

  29-09-2019 18:14
  Here at London Theatre Bookings we are looking for a new Finance Officer. This is a pivotal role at the heart of the organisation. The Finance Officer is responsible for ensuring the effective...
  
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• Early Years Ballet, Street Dance, Tap teachers (SE London) / Eos Dance / London

  29-09-2019 15:17
  Due to expansion, Eos Dance is recruiting new EARLY YEARS Ballet, Tap and Street Dance teachers in SE London. Weekdays after-school (Mon to Fri), Saturday and Sunday morning slots...
  
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• Part Time Cafe Staff / Candid Arts / London

  29-09-2019 14:58
  Part time experienced staff wanted for Candid Cafe, Angel Islington.
  Preferred applicants would have a hygiene certificate. Duties include food preparation, coffee making, serving, washing up,...
  
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• One to one performances with Roleof Petrus van Wyk / KEDLER Projects / London

  29-09-2019 12:33
  Drawing this year which saw LGBTQ+ liberation celebrations clash with political turbulence to a close, KELDER Projects is proud to present THREE MEN AT A PARTY; an immersive exhibition where drawing...
  
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• Ryan Gander and Tony Chambers: how we redesigned the kitchen sink

  29-09-2019 11:05
  Artist Ryan Gander and creative director Tony Chambers want you to love doing the dishes and enjoy using wall hooks. Their new venture OTOMOTO tries to make mundane objects pleasurable. The first product: a kitchen sink…“I don’t want to over-conceptualise this,” says Ryan Gander, enthusiastically showing me the kitchen sink he has designed, “but the way you deal with this sink cognitively and emotionally is different from the way you deal with a normal kitchen sink
  
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• Italians laughed at Leonardo da Vinci, the ginger genius

  29-09-2019 10:05
  New book reveals how the artist was lampooned in a 15th-century ‘comic strip’Far from being admired as an extraordinary genius, Leonardo da Vinci was repeatedly lampooned and teased about his unusual red hair and his unconventional sexuality by other leading artists of his day. Although the work of the great Italian was popular in his time, an extensive new study of the artist to be published this week has outlined evidence that he was the butt of gossipy jokes in Renaissance Milan.A
  
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• The pre-Raphaelite sisterhood is finally getting its due

  29-09-2019 10:00
  The National Portrait Gallery is giving wall space to the art movement’s female contingent, while the refunded Arnolfini is back on trackThe pre-Raphaelites are usually thought of as a band of brothers who loved painting ethereal-looking women. Think of William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Yet there were women too, mostly overlooked, in this 19th-century art movement. Pre-Raphaelite Sisters, opening at the National Portrait Gallery in London on 17 October,
  
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• Robert De Niro on his father's journals: 'It was sad for me to read. He had his demons'

  29-09-2019 09:53
  Robert De Niro Sr left notebooks that revealed struggles with his sexuality and mental health. His son still can’t bear to read themRobert De Niro has given the authors of a book about his artist father access to intimate journals written by the painter, even though he can’t face reading them himself.The journals reveal what the Oscar-winning actor describes as his father’s “demons”, including De Niro Sr’s struggle to make enough money and to find artistic rec
  
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• Chameleon: Contemporary Colour Exhibition / Surface Gallery / East Midlands

  29-09-2019 01:57
  5th-19th October 2019
  Opening Night: 4th October 2019Susan Banks / Suzanne Bethell / Ryan Boultbee / Izzy Bradley / Anthony Collier / Daphnellc / Stevie Davies / Megan Doyle / Uta Feinstein /...
  
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• Assistant Musical Director / Neighbourhood Voices / Yorkshire

  29-09-2019 00:18
  Neighbourhood Voices are a choir of 50+ women meeting on Tuesday evenings 7.30-9pm and sing predominantly pop and indie/alternative songs, the majority of which are arranged in house. We have sung...
  
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