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• Study: Inventors Are More Productive When They’re Geographically Clustered

  01-10-2019 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Inventors are significantly more productive when they are working inlarger geographic clusters. The study finds that when inventors movefrom a smaller to a large cluster, they experience increases in both thenumber of patents they generate and the impact of those patents, basedon their subsequent citations. – CityLab
  
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• Prose Poetry: So If Everything Is A Poem, Then Nothing Is

  01-10-2019 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s the insiders—the poets, the tenured—who like to “problematize”poetry and wield their whatabouts. The “prose poem” is one of the mostabiding whatabouts. It remains an outlier, a problem. – The Walrus
  
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• The Tech Revolution Was Supposed To Be Fun. So What Happened?

  01-10-2019 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  For many years, Silicon Valley and the machines that came out of it werepresented as personally, economically, and socially transformative,agents of revolutionat both the level of the individual and the whole social order. Theywere democratizing, uncontrolled, anarchic, and new. Most of all, theywere supposed to be fun—to open up a space of play and freedom. How isit, then, that just a few decades in, we find ourselves trapped in adreary spectacle that seems to replicate the old patterns
  
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• What Effect Do Morals Have On Our Political Leanings?

  01-10-2019 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Peter Ditto created a survey websiteto learn to what extent different moral frameworks shape outlooks onpolitical questions, and indeed the greater world. His findings werecompelling, but likely unsurprising if you’ve ever had an irreconcilablepolitical squabble at the dinner table: it’s our moral filters, notfacts or rational thinking, that mould our ideological outlooks.– Aeon
  
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• Visitor Experience Host/Hostess - Welcome / Royal Academy of Arts / London

  01-10-2019 21:44
  Our Visitor Experience Hosts and Hostesses welcomed one million visitors last year, acting as ambassadors for the Academy.  They provide assistance and information at each step of our...
  
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• Business Development Manager / Goldsmiths Community Centre / London

  01-10-2019 21:32
  We have a new senior role within the organisation with an overall responsibility for generating a robust stream of income through community partnerships, business relationships, sales, fundraising...
  
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• This Year’s Giller Prize Finalists

  01-10-2019 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 2019 shortlist features three authors previously nominated forthe Giller Prize. Ohlin was shortlisted in 2012 for the novel Inside, Crummey was shortlisted in 2001 for the novel River Thieves and Bezmozgis was nominated in 2011 for The Free World and again in 2014 for The Betrayers. – CBC
  
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• Searching Through The Myths (Some Of Them Her Own) For Zora Neale Hurston

  01-10-2019 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “On February 4, 1960, the Associated Press ran her obituary. It read, ‘Zora Neale Hurston, author, died in obscurity and poverty.’ And with those words, syndicated in The New York Times and in papers from Jamaica to California, a new set of myths formed. Some listed her age at 57, others 58. After all, depending on what suited her, she told people she was born in 1901, 1902, or 1903 — in Eatonville, Florida. But as it turned out, none of this was true.” – The
  
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• Jessye Norman’s lost Isolde – and so much else

  01-10-2019 20:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  The process and the permanence of recording never seemed to entirely sit well with her. There are some likely treasures out there somewhere that we’ve never gotten to hear. – David Patrick Stearns
  
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• Fashion and Dance Get Married

  01-10-2019 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the New York City Ballet’s Fashion Gala, premieres by Lauren Lovette (costumed by Zac Posen) and Edwaard Liang (costumed by Anna Sui). – Deborah Jowitt
  
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• Propwatch: the gloves in ‘The Watsons’

  01-10-2019 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Does anyone still wear – gloves? A lady’s elegant, elbow-tweaking white gloves? Or a gentleman’s svelte riding gloves? Spot these on stage, my friends, and you can rest assured that you are safely encased in the genteel past. Dickens World. Downton World. Best of all, Austen World. At least, that’s how it seems when The Watsons begins. – David Jays
  
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• Hearing is believing

  01-10-2019 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of my Twitter followers asked over the weekend if I’d post a list of my favorite film scores. This is, needless to say, an impossible task, but I did spend a few minutes drawing up the following roster. – Terry Teachout
  
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• Rights Executive - Translation Rights Department (Books) / Curtis Brown Limited / London

  01-10-2019 20:51
  Curtis Brown is one of the world's leading literary and talent agencies representing authors, playwrights, film and television writers and directors, theatre directors, actors...
  
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• Engagement Officer, Create Jobs Programme / A New Direction / London

  01-10-2019 20:38
  We are looking for an Engagement Officer to work on our employability programme, Create Jobs, and lead on giving under-represented young Londoners access to employment in the creative, cultural...
  
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• Is Audible’s New Captions Service A Copyright Violation?

  01-10-2019 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The publishers’ attorney, said that Captions—a feature that scrolls a fewwords of an AI-generated transcription alongside a digital audiobook asit plays—represents a “quintessential” case of copyright infringement.– Publishers Weekly
  
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• Emmanuel Macron’s Plan To Save France’s Declining Villages: 1,000 Cafés

  01-10-2019 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The president’s project, called 1000 Cafés and run by a nonprofit called Groupe SOS, will receive up to €200 million from the French government to open new cafés, or prop up struggling ones, in villages with fewer than 3,500 residents. Nearly a third of France’s population still lives in such villages, and more than half of those no longer have a commercial establishment of any kind. – Slate
  
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• Event Supervisor/Technician / Komedia Ltd / South East

  01-10-2019 19:49
  This is a great opportunity to join the friendly Komedia team and work in the exciting atmosphere of an award winning comedy and live entertainment venue. This unique and exciting role offers a...
  
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• Open Call - The Coming Community - Associate Artist / Freelands Foundation / London

  01-10-2019 19:42
  Freelands Foundation is delighted to announce an Open Call for an Associate Artist. This project is delivered in partnership with Haberdashers’ Aske’s Borough Academy.
  With the support...
  
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• New York Times Changes Its Bestseller Lists

  01-10-2019 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  After cutting the mass market paperback and graphic novel/manga lists in 2017, the Times‘ Best Sellersteam will again track mass market paperback sales, as well as debut acombined list for graphic books, which will include fiction, nonfiction,children’s, adults, and manga. Two new monthly children’s lists, middlegrade paperback and young adult paperback, will debut as well. (The Times retired its middle grade e-book and young adult e-book lists in 2017.) In addition, the Times
  
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• Drama, Dance and Singing Teachers / Fresh Arts Ltd / South East

  01-10-2019 19:28
  Fresh Arts Education is committed to making the arts accessible for children from all backgrounds. We are currently looking for new drama, dance and signing teachers to join our amazing team of...
  
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• Hertfordshire Based Music Teacher (Primary School) / Fresh Arts Ltd / South East

  01-10-2019 19:21
  Fresh Arts Education is committed to making the arts accessible for children from all backgrounds. We are currently looking for a skilled Hertfordshire based freelance music teacher who feels as we...
  
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• Violin & Viola Assistant / Stringers London / London

  01-10-2019 19:16
  Violinist/Violist required to join the vibrant team at Stringers, a specialist stringed instrument shop in central London. This is a full time, salaried position – and a career path. Please...
  
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• Does An Actor Always Need Her Own Voice?

  01-10-2019 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mind you, this isn’t a question of mime or dance. Chris Jones considers the implications of The King’s Speech, in which Britain’s King George VI learns to use his voice properly, and Lucas Hnath’s recent play Dana H, in which the star (brilliantly) lip-synchs to a recording of the playwright’s own mother recounting a horrific experience and its aftermath. – Chicago Tribune
  
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• The Price of Punishment / Safe Ground / London

  01-10-2019 18:51
  We have given nine emerging artists the opportunity to create a performance in response to the title The Price of Punishment. The artists have used their unique skills to produce an...
  
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• Garden Gasp! | Exhibition / Eastcheap Studios + ASC Gallery / London

  01-10-2019 18:42
  PV: Thursday 17 October, 6-9pmExhibition continues: Friday 18 - Sunday 20 October, 12-6pmArtists | Sean Pearce, Hideki Arichi, John Vincent, Louise Lahive, Chantelle Stephenson, Callum Abbott, Iona...
  
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• How Math Has Helped Shape Our Culture

  01-10-2019 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When I say that mathematics is seen as not having a history, I mean thatmathematical truths are supposedly eternal, they’re unchanging, itdoesn’t matter the context, it doesn’t matter the time, they’re alwaystrue, one and one equals two. It’s been true since the beginning oftime, whether there have been humans or historical figures ormathematicians who knew it or not.” – LongReads
  
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• Communications Officer / Central School of Ballet / London

  01-10-2019 18:28
  Communications Officer 
  Salary - £22,250 per annum
   
   
  Central School of Ballet provides one of the most comprehensive degree-level dance courses in Europe, training...
  
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• Rembrandt's Light review – glorious art needs no gimmicks

  01-10-2019 18:17
  Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
  In imagining the artist as a cinematographer, this exhibition misses the bigger picture – and in any case, his love of murk would make him a terrible filmmakerIf Rembrandt were alive today, claims Dulwich Picture Gallery, he’d be a cinematographer. It’s a very precise posthumous career choice. Why not a director, special effects wizard, installation artist … or even painter? But this inventive exhibition, which marks the 350th anniversary
  
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• Chair of Board / NMC Recordings / London

  01-10-2019 18:06
  NMC RECORDINGS CHAIR VACANCY
   
  In NMC’s 30th year, we seek a new Chair to succeed Andrew Ward in helping us build on past successes and secure our future. The ideal candidate will have...
  
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• Chair of Trustees / Farnham Maltings / South East

  01-10-2019 18:04
  Farnham Maltings are seeking a Chair of Trustees to lead the board during an exciting time of change.
  “One of the jewels in the crown of the South East” Arts Council of England
  You...
  
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• What American Theater Owes To Uta Hagen

  01-10-2019 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Beyond her acting, her greatest legacy may be how she influenced generations of actors, teaching at HB Studio and writing two books that are popular with acting students across the globe. Reporter Jeff Lunden speaks with some of those former students and colleagues, including F. Murray Abraham, Mercedes Ruehl and David Hyde Pierce, about what made Hagen such an important figure in the history of American theater.” (audio) – Studio 360
  
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• One to one advice sessions with Talent Development Team, London / Crafts Council / London

  01-10-2019 17:54
  Book now: £60
  Are you looking for a brain storm session for your creative business? Have you found yourself at a crossroads with your practice?  Do you need a spark of inspiration or an...
  
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• Freelance Fundraiser / Impelo / Powys

  01-10-2019 17:54
  Impelo is a charitable organisation that seeks to share the transformational power of dance as far and wide as possible, connecting people of all ages and walks of life in joyful expression.  ...
  
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• Audience Development Manager / Ballet Black / London

  01-10-2019 17:49
   Audience Development Manager 
  Reporting to: Producer and Artistic Director 
  Time commitment: 1 day a week 
  Daily rate: £100-£150 depending on experience 
  The...
  
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• Sea Shanty Workshop / Arachne Press/ London Sea Shanty Collective / London

  01-10-2019 17:47
  Spend the afternoon learning approx 5 Sea Shanties in 3 or 4 part harmony in celebration of this year's Solstice Shorts Festival, Time and Tide.
  The workshop will be run by a small group of London...
  
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• First Assistant (Job Share) Ref BID007 / Libraries Unlimited South West / South West

  01-10-2019 17:38
  For more information about this role and details of how to apply, please visit our website - https://librariesunlimited.org.uk/jobs/
  Salary: £10.00 per hourHours: 7.25 hpwLocation:...
  
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• Senior Supervisor (Ref TAV004) / Libraries Unlimited South West / South West

  01-10-2019 17:35
  For more information about this role and details of how to apply, please visit our website - https://librariesunlimited.org.uk/jobs/Salary: £26,741 per annum pro rataHours: 31.5...
  
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• Can Sound, Music, Physically Heal Our Bodies?

  01-10-2019 17:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Interest in sound therapy has soared in tandem with renewed globalcuriosity about cosmic energy and spirituality. Case in point, salesof “healing crystals” have doubled in the previous three years. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Training Coordinator / Four Corners / London

  01-10-2019 17:14
  The post holder is responsible for delivering the training scheme: Zoom Film School. This scheme supports 16 people living in Tower Hamlets each year, who face multiple barriers to gaining...
  
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• Volunteer Call Out - IBT Summit 2019 / In Between Time / South West

  01-10-2019 17:04
  In Between Time is looking for motivated, well organised and passionate people to join our dynamic volunteer team at our upcoming Summit and help us call for change.
  In Between Time is a leading...
  
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• Philadanco Founder Joan Myers Brown Gives Up One Of Her Many Jobs

  01-10-2019 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Brown, at age 87 still the company’s artistic director, will remain at least through next year’s 50th anniversary celebrations, but she has turned over the executive director position, on an interim basis, to administrator, professor, and former company dancer Elgie Gaynell Sherrod. Her main task will be stabilizing the company’s long-precarious financial situation; Brown has, over the years, lent Philadanco hundreds of thousands of dollars of her own money. – The Philad
  
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• Deputy Head of Sound / The Old Vic / London

  01-10-2019 16:52
  The Old Vic is London’s independent not-for-profit theatre, a world leader in creativity and entertainment. We hold the belief that theatre needs to be cherished, supported and shared with as...
  
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• The Dementia Friendly Heritage Network Meeting / Historic Royal Palaces / Yorkshire

  01-10-2019 16:38
  The Dementia Friendly Heritage Network (DFHN) is delighted to invite you to a free networking and skills sharing event.
  Date: Monday 21st October 2019
  Time: 10:00- 16:00
  Location: Brodsworth Hall...
  
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• Clown through Mask course, January / Jonathan Young / London

  01-10-2019 16:34
  Clown through Mask, London 6th - 31st Jan 2020
  'Of the many clown courses I've done this was by far the most inspiring.'
  Samantha Holdsworth, founder Clowns without Borders...
  
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• Jimmy Nelson, Star Of Golden Age Of Ventriloquism, Dead At 90

  01-10-2019 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Introduced by Ed Sullivan as “the greatest I’ve ever seen in his field,” Nelson, with his puppet sidekicks Danny O’Day and Farfel the hound dog, performed on television variety shows and in nightclubs, but he — they — became most famous for humorous commercials for Texaco and Nestlé’s Quik. – The New York Times
  
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• Writer/Editor / Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI) / London

  01-10-2019 16:11
  This is a remarkable opportunity to play a key part in a rapidly expanding global ideas and education platform, the Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI).
  We are looking for an exceptionally talented...
  
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• Research Intern / Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI) / London

  01-10-2019 16:10
  This is a remarkable opportunity to play a key part in the growth of a rapidly expanding and unique organisation, the Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI).
  We are looking for a bright and enthusiastic...
  
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• Development Trainee / Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI) / London

  01-10-2019 16:08
  This is a remarkable opportunity to play a key part in the growth of a rapidly expanding and unique organization - the Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI).
  Described by the Guardian as 'the return to...
  
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• Notre-Dame: A Progress Report, Five Months After The Fire

  01-10-2019 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  What’s being done with the rubble, the windows, and the stabilization of the walls; who is, and who will be, running the restoration effort; what the next steps will be; and the general philosophy behind the work. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Mindfulness and Communication Through Acting Workshops / Vera Chok & Dom Murphy Workshops / London

  01-10-2019 16:01
  AUTUMN sessions: Oct 5, Nov 2, Nov 30.
  Curious about mindfulness? Nosy about acting? Want to get out of your head and try something gentle, fun and new?
  These are day-long, immersive, and practical...
  
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