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• On sculpture - a morning writing workshop / / London / South East

  06-10-2019 23:20
  Join us for a very special morning writing workshop this October with artist Rita Evans.
  Rita will guide us through a session focusing on sculpture & creative writing. Come with an openness to...
  
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• Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum Has Been Closed For Renovation For Two Years

  06-10-2019 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  And the results are almost in; the museum reopens on Monday, with much pomp, a lot of new paint, and a ton of QR codes. – BBC
  
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• Nancy Drew Is Still Alive At 90, And Also Still 16 Years Old

  06-10-2019 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  How, why, and why is Nancy so hard to adapt to the screen? “Never out of print, she has appeared in more than 250 books and counting, in movies, on television shows, in CD-ROM games. She has been reinvented, in ways that fans have not always embraced, for seemingly every era.” (And she’s being reinvented now, again, for a new series.) – The New York Times
  
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• Part Of The Los Angeles Central Library’s Mysteriously Missing Sculpture Returns Home

  06-10-2019 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  But where are the other parts of the Wall of Scribes? And how did someone (or someones, or a syndicate, who knows?) steal the bronze sculpture in 1969? – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Poet, Novelist, Translator And Biographer Elaine Feinstein Has Died

  06-10-2019 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Feinstein was 88. She’d published more than a dozen poetry collections and 15 novels, translated Russian poets and wrote biographies of Ted Hughes and Bessie Smith. “Feinstein often explored the relationship between being Jewish and being English — the ‘not quite at-homeness of the English Jews in England,’ as Paul Morris put it in The Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. Ever present with her was the knowledge that had her ancestors settled in Germany rath
  
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• A British Greeting Card Company Says It Isn’t Trying To Own A Banksy, Just Use It To Sell Cards

  06-10-2019 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Yorkshire greeting card company said it wasn’t trying to own his work, but “Banksy claimed he had been forced to open a shop in Croydon, south London, this week, as a result of the dispute. … The street artist was advised by his legal team to sell his own merchandise to avoid his trademark being used by someone else under EU law.” – BBC
  
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• The First Black Woman To Direct In Hollywood Says That Industry Thought She Was ‘Too Black’

  06-10-2019 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Euzhan Palcy’s A Dry White Season earned Marlon Brando an Oscar nomination, but that didn’t impress Hollywood executives, she says. When she pitched other films with black leads, “‘They were very matter of fact: they’d ask: ‘Can’t the lead be white?’’ she said. ‘I was pitching a story about a black freedom fighter and they asked me if he could be white. Incredible things like that.'” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• College Kids Don’t Want Your Fancy ‘Reinvention,’ Just A Plain Old Library

  06-10-2019 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s a lot of glitz going on in the college library funding race. A media room! A media room with a green screen! No, a Maker Space! And – perhaps the best idea of them all – a library escape room where students save a rare book! But actually … “Survey data and experts suggest that students generally appreciate libraries most for their simple, traditional offerings: a quiet place to study or collaborate on a group project, the ability to print re
  
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• A Three-Year Saga Comes To A Conclusion As Jeff Koons’ Tulip Sculpture Lands In Paris

  06-10-2019 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Though many in France said Koons’ sculpture “donation” – more on that in a minute – was “opportunistic and cynical,” the artist said “he hoped his tulips would become part of the local landscape and that Parisians would interact with them.” After the terrorist attacks of November 2015, the artist announced that he would give Paris a sculpture that echoed Picasso’s Bouquet of Peace. But “Koons only donated the concept for Bou
  
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• What’s The Bestselling Album In Britain Right Now? Abbey Road, Obviously

  06-10-2019 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The last time The Beatles’ Abbey Road was #1 on the charts, a U.S. president was laying the groundwork for his later impeachment, and Harold Wilson was Prime Minister of the UK. This return to the top “sees the album set a record – the gap of 49 years and 252 days since its initial chart-topping run ended in early 1970 is the longest gap before returning to number one.” – BBC
  
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• The Secret To A Life Well-Lived

  06-10-2019 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re tired of other people’s “Month of Gratitude” posts on Facebook, sorry to tell you this, but that’s the secret – gratitude. Wildly, if you want to save for retirement or something, gratitude is also the way to go: “We’ve repeatedly been able to show the close link between gratitude and self-control. In 2014, we demonstrated that people induced to feel grateful, compared with those induced to feel happiness or no emotion at all,
  
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• Head of Programming / Red Entertainment / London

  06-10-2019 17:58
  Red Entertainment are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and hardworking Programmer to work on their continually growing portfolio of UK & international touring productions. The company...
  
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• Marketing Manager for Touring Theatre Company / Red Entertainment / London

  06-10-2019 17:48
  Red Entertainment are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and hardworking Marketing Manager to work on their continually growing portfolio of UK & international touring productions. The...
  
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• Groundbreaking Oscar-Nominated Actress And Singer Diahann Carroll Has Died At 84

  06-10-2019 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Carroll was the first Black woman to star in a non-servant role in a TV series in the U.S. “NBC executives were wary about putting Julia on the network during the racial unrest of the 1960s, but it was an immediate hit.” Carroll also won a Tony for No Strings and an Oscar nomination for Claudine. The director and producer Ava DuVernay wrote, “Diahann Carroll walked this earth for 84 years and broke ground with every footstep. An icon. One of the all-time greats. She blazed tra
  
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• Dancer for a performance lecture / Cambridge / East / Cambridge

  06-10-2019 17:13
  I am looking for an expressive and physically dynamic dancer to begin a collaborative relationship with. I am open to dancers of all backgrounds and ages, and have worked with dancers trained in...
  
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• Even After Hordes Of ‘New Yorker’ Publications, Authors Might Need To Be Rescued For Future Readers

  06-10-2019 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Is this the most discouraging development ever, or is it just a sign of how many writers are forgotten as the relentless pressure of the new takes hold? Nancy Hale holds the record for the most short stories to appear in The New Yorker in a year – 12 between July 1954 and July 1955 (TWELVE?!). “She also put out seven novels and was a 10-time recipient of the O. Henry Prize for short fiction. Her writing is progressive and tackles issues such as infidelity, abortion, domestic abuse,
  
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• In Dijon, This Museum Features Not Mustard But The Goddess Of The Waters

  06-10-2019 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Long before tourists came to Dijon in search of mustard (“Dijon” mustard actually comes from Canada, but never mind), pilgrims were heading to the area temple to buy mass-produced icons of a goddess and to worship at the nearby source of the Seine. – The New York Times
  
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• London’s National Theatre To End Funding From Shell

  06-10-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The National Theatre joins the Royal Shakespeare Company, which had been deliberating for quite some time before ending its longtime “relationship” with BP (formerly British Petroleum). Pressure from youth, climate activists, and even its own artists means that “the National Theatre has announced it will end Shell’s membership from next year, as the arts organisation accelerates plans to make itself carbon neutral in the face of the climate emergency.” &n
  
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• The Woman Who Changed Hawai’i – And International – Theatre Forever

  06-10-2019 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jane Campbell, who died in March at 87, served as the managing director of Honolulu Theatre for Youth for more than four decades. “At a time when theatre for children was seeking a place at the American professional theatre table, Jane quietly yet determinedly guided her company from a tiny community ensemble to a fully professional company with national and international recognition.” – American Theatre
  
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• Breaking All The Rules Of The Tango To Make It Better, And To Make It Safe

  06-10-2019 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Argentine feminists are fed up with the patriarchal, rigid roles of traditional tango, and they’ve published a new protocol that breaks old rules – and reinforces new ones. “The protocol provides suggested guidelines for tango venue organizers, including acceptance of couples who depart from heteronormative roles. It also offers guidance on how to handle instances of harassment and abuse, advising, for instance, that men accused of acting inappropriately on the dance
  
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• The New Museum That’s Expressly Designed For Selfies

  06-10-2019 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  People love museum selfies, and here’s the logical conclusion of that love: A museum designed expressly for uploading cute artsy self-portraits to Instagram. The museum in Vienna “joins a number of establishments across the world targeting heavy users of social media.”– BBC
  
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• Julie Delpy Was Paid One Tenth Of What Ethan Hawke Was Paid For ‘Before Sunrise’

  06-10-2019 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  And for the big sequel, Before Sunset, Delpy got half of her co-star’s salary. For the third movie in the trilogy, Before Midnight? She refused to do it without equal pay. – Variety
  
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• Marcello Giordani, Italian Tenor Of Beauty, Has Died At 56

  06-10-2019 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Giordani sang hundreds of performances at the Met and, at a relatively young age, stepped back from the spotlight and began to mentor younger singers. He was the son of a prison guard who owned a gas station. He said, “That’s mostly where I made my debut, making coffee. … “People still remember me when I was 12 or 13, singing or bringing coffee.”Yahoo News (AP)
  
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• Roger Taillibert, The Architect Of Montreal’s Olympic Stadium, Has Died At 93

  06-10-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The French architect also designed the Olympic Pool and the vélodrome for the Olympics, a building that has become the Montréal Biodôme. The stadium was controversial at the time, and has stayed controversial – and costly – ever since. But the mayor who asked him to design these 1976 Olympics buildings had a different view. “‘Taillibert is the kind of architect who built the cathedrals of ancient times,’ said [Jean] Drapeau, calling Taillibert&r
  
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• Victor Willing 'Scratch the Wall' / Turps Gallery / London

  06-10-2019 10:14
  PV: Friday 25th October 6-9pm26th October - 30th NovemberWednesdays - Saturdays 12-5pmBeneath even the desire to change society and the need to communicate is a need, urgent in some of us, to affirm...
  
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• BAME Actor/Storyteller / Theatre-Rites / London

  06-10-2019 09:48
  Theatre-Rites seeks: a BAME male actor or storyteller for a new project in 2020
  Our new show, Tangle (working title) will be a 30-minute performance with 2 performers followed by some interactive...
  
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