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• Tyshawn Sorey And The Dawning Of Musical Consciousness

  09-10-2019 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Besides the physical notation, the sheet of paper or whatever, there’salso the psychological notation. That should also be there—where you candeal with the music on a real level. Whether it’s notated on paper ornot. You’re still in the room and you’re still in the music.” – NewMusicBox
  
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• Advancing Philosophy Comes In Clarifying Existing Ideas

  09-10-2019 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It is no triviality to define analytic philosophy. Broadly, it combines afaith in formal logic as a tool for eliminating philosophical confusionwith an almost unquestioned, at least in recent decades, belief in itsown status as continuous with the natural sciences.” – The Point
  
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• Mona Lisa Returns To Its Regular Refurbished Gallery

  09-10-2019 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Louvreattracts 10.2 million people a year with about 80 per cent believed tocome just to see the Mona Lisa. In July, officials had to restrictaccess for three days because of the chaos caused by the queues. – The Telegraph (UK)
  
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• Facebook Would Pay $40 Million For Falsely Inflating Video Metrics

  09-10-2019 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The suit accusedFacebook of acknowledging miscalculations in metrics upon pressreports, but still not taking responsibility for the breadth of theproblem. “The average viewership metrics were not inflated by only60%-80%; they were inflated by some 150 to 900%,” stated an amendedcomplaint. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Why Are Streaming Companies Paying Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars For Old TV Shows?

  09-10-2019 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  These pricey deals for what is essentially digital reruns have, like theSeinfeld syndication deal two decades ago, raised eyebrows. Why arestreaming companies willing to pay so much for shows of nostalgic value?And as numerous companies prepare to launch their own streamingservices – HBO Max and Peacock, not to mention the forthcoming Apple TV+ – why bet on the appeal of legacy TV shows? – The Guardian
  
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• Writing on Water - artist Hanien Conradie / ClimateCultures / South East

  09-10-2019 21:27
  It's been a great pleasure working with artist Hanien Conradie, bringing her wonderful short film 'Dart' to the ClimateCultures website: a collaborative film (made with fellow artist Margaret...
  
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• Dance Facilitator required for Street Dance Club / Skipz Productions cic / London

  09-10-2019 21:04
  Skipz Productions is a performing arts and art club provider for primary schools in London.
  We are looking for Dance Club facilitator for the following club:
  Club: Dance Club (street dance...
  
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• In The 50 Years Since Caravaggio’s Nativity Was Stolen, Have The Police Been Chasing Bogus Tips?

  09-10-2019 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[A] stream of stories, boasts and false leads has kept the police busy for years and has led to just two conclusions: the painting was stolen by the mafia, and it was then destroyed. … In 2017, however, the case was re-opened by the anti-mafia commission, … [and] the situation raises a number of questions that have never been answered by earlier investigations.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Why “Porgy and Bess” and the Met Need One Another

  09-10-2019 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  More than its disappointing 1985 predecessor, the Met’s vigorous new staging of Gershwin’s opera manages to vindicate a controversial cultural landmark whose reputation, still unsettled, feeds on the fraught racial sensitivities of the current moment. – Joe Horowitz
  
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• Why Music Grabs Ahold Of Our Brains

  09-10-2019 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We are essentially pattern-recognizing machines. Everygreat musician knows that a great performance involves building uptension to an eventual release. And that’s because that taps into ourpattern recognition apparatus in the brain. Our brain is trying tofigure out what’s going to happen next.” – PBS News Hour
  
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• Marshall Efron, Star Of Idiosyncratic TV Comedies, Dead At 81

  09-10-2019 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “An actor and humorist, [he] was a core figure in two of the quirkiest television shows of the 1970s, The Great American Dream Machine and the children’s program Marshall Efron’s Illustrated, Simplified and Painless Sunday School.” – The New York Times
  
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• SM on the Book - Land Without Dreams / Gate Theatre / London

  09-10-2019 19:48
  We are looking for an SM on the Book for the upcoming production of Land Without Dreams at the Gate Theatre. The show is a co-production with Danish Theatre Company Fix & Foxy, directed by Lise...
  
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• What The Fight Over A Rural Library Says About America

  09-10-2019 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I didn’t realize it at first, but thefight over the library was rolled up into a bigger one about the librarybuilding, and an even bigger fight than that, about the countygovernment, what it should pay for, and how and whether people should betaxed at all. The library fight was, itself, a fight over the future ofrural America, what it meant to choose to live in a county like mine,what my neighbors were willing to do for one another, what they werewilling to sacrifice to foster a se
  
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• Marketing and Content Creator / Noel Coward Estate / London

  09-10-2019 19:32
  Following recent expansion, two exciting roles have been created by the Noël Coward Estate for its charitable arms, the Noël Coward Archive Trust (NCAT) and Noël Coward Foundation...
  
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• Technical and Tutorial Support Roles (Freelance and Fixed Term) / Mountview / London

  09-10-2019 19:24
  Mountview is one of the UK’s leading drama schools. We offer professional vocational training at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate level in performance and production arts, alongside...
  
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• Administration and Cultural Development Officer / Noel Coward Estate / London

  09-10-2019 19:13
  Following recent expansion, two exciting roles have been created by the Noël Coward Estate for its charitable arms, the Noël Coward Archive Trust (NCAT) and the Noël Coward Foundation...
  
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• Percussion Instructor, South Leeds Music Centre / ArtForms (Leeds City Council) / Yorkshire

  09-10-2019 19:06
  ArtForms supports schools in music and artistic activities throughout Leeds.  Our music service provides tuition to 14,000 young people across the city, through a combination of school-based...
  
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• Brass Instructor, Wetherby Music Centre / ArtForms (Leeds City Council) / Yorkshire

  09-10-2019 19:04
  ArtForms supports schools in music and artistic activities throughout Leeds.  Our music service provides tuition to 14,000 young people across the city, through a combination of school-based...
  
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• A Black, Queer Kentuckian Returns Home To Take The Helm At Actors Theatre Of Louisville

  09-10-2019 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  After decades living and working all over the U.S., actor-director-choreographer Robert Barry Fleming is now in his first season as artistic director of one of the country’s most important regional theatres. He tells Diep Tran, “It’s taken me 50 years to be afforded my ‘Jackie Robinson moment’: the chance to lead a large, multi-million dollar institution, and I believe that may have less to do with my ability or readiness to do the job, and more about the dominant
  
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• Spring 2020 season: celebrating 50 years of Northern Stage / / North East

  09-10-2019 18:54
  Spring 2020 marks the start of Northern Stage’s 50th anniversary year; featuring ambitious new productions made in Newcastle including stage premieres of Shandyland - originally developed...
  
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• Sponsorship Executive / Kings Theatre Trust Ltd / South East

  09-10-2019 18:52
  The Kings Theatre is experiencing an exciting period of growth and development with a new management team committed to making the business as successful as possible. It’s a great time to be...
  
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• Call for Music is now open - 19th Dec deadline / JAM / London / UK-wide

  09-10-2019 18:41
  Deadline: Thursday 19th December 2019, 5pm.
  Submit music for choir, brass quintet and organ, or any combination of these forces.  
  Anyone aged 18 or over may submit music if they are...
  
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• Silicon Valley’s Miracle Tech Was Supposed To Make The World A Better Place. What Happened?

  09-10-2019 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  These magical machines were supposed to provide a solution to theeconomic and political problems of the late twentieth century, a way totranscend and break free of the confining aspects of postwar capitalism.This was a feint, a way of imagining a miracle fix to tensions andconflicts that had no easy resolution. Computers, Margaret O’Mara suggests, havelong been metaphors as much as machines.– The New Republic
  
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• Theatre Administrator / The Roses Theatre Trust / South West

  09-10-2019 18:22
  We are looking for a friendly, highly organised and methodical individual with excellent administrative and creative skills. 
  The Theatre Administrator role is essential to the running of the...
  
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• Full Time Concert Usher - 10.5 hrs per week / St Martin-in-the-Fields / London

  09-10-2019 18:22
  We are searching for someone to commit to all of our December Concerts! If you’re an enthusiastic, passionate, customer focused person come and join our team of Evening Concert Ushers!
  In this...
  
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• Dresser / Sheffield Theatres / Yorkshire / Sheffield

  09-10-2019 18:22
  £9.34 per hour – Tuesday 15 to Saturday 19 October 2019
  We are seeking two Wardrobe Dressers to support the dressing team for 1 week from Tuesday 15th to...
  
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• Co-ordinator / Classical Sheffield / Yorkshire

  09-10-2019 18:21
  Classical Sheffield champions music-making in Sheffield, increasing audience engagement & participation and connecting music-makers with a wider network of audiences and promoters. CS runs major...
  
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• New places released for 2 year leadership programme / Change Creation / East / UK wide

  09-10-2019 18:17
  Demand for our next Change Creation Programme has been so staggering that we have decided to build TWO new programmes – one running from November 2019 – December 2021 and another in June...
  
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• Marketing and Events Manager / Cromwell Place / London

  09-10-2019 18:06
  Cromwell Place is a membership organisation building a thriving community for the arts, with a reputation for the quality and professionalism of its members.Five historic Grade II listed buildings...
  
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• Can A Rope Bondage Show Empower Women? These Two Actor-Aerialists Think So

  09-10-2019 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Everything I See I Swallow, which scored a success at this summer’s Edinburgh Fringe and is now touring regional England, involves “the art of shibari, the centuries-old practice of Japanese rope bondage … It’s the spark for a piece of theatre that speaks to something universal and pressing, about the rights of women over their own bodies, the ramifications of digital life, and that knotty old question: can it ever be empowering for a woman to take her clothes off in pu
  
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• Director of Operations & Finance / AudioActive / South East

  09-10-2019 17:57
  AudioActive is a groundbreaking music organisation working with young people and emerging artists at the meeting point of technology and contemporary urban culture. 
  Through this new role at...
  
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• Gallery Space Available - Long term hire / ENCLAVE Deptford, TemporaryContempoary / London

  09-10-2019 17:56
  Public fronted gallery space available for long term hire along Enclave our street of 10 gallery and arts project spaces.
  Large exhibition space with storage/office attached. Bills included (except...
  
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• Regional Programme Officer, London / First Story / London

  09-10-2019 17:52
  First Story changes lives through writing. We place professional writers into secondary schools serving low-income communities, where they work intensively with students and teachers to foster...
  
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• Treasurer & trustees / Arts & Minds / East

  09-10-2019 17:49
  Arts and Minds has provided a varied programme of arts-based workshops for people experiencing mental illness across Cambridgeshire & Peterborough, since 2008. Programmes include Arts on...
  
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• Migrations: Masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection Exhibition / The Museum of Gloucester / South West / Gloucestershire

  09-10-2019 17:40
  Migrations: Masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection Exhibition
  Ben Uri is delighted to be working in partnership with Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (GARAS), The Museum of...
  
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• The Magical World of William Simmonds: Puppets and Paintings / The Museum of Gloucester / South West / Gloucestershire

  09-10-2019 17:38
  Step into the magical world created by local puppeteer, artist and woodcarver William Simmonds (1876-1968). Discover all the fun of the circus and the enchanted realm of the woodland with fauns and...
  
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• Does George W. Bush’s Art Deserve A Show At The Kennedy Center?

  09-10-2019 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “By giving these paintings the endorsement of a professional exhibition,in the nation’s capital, with the imprimatur of a major arts center andby extension the federal government (which supports the center’sbudget), the art has been put into a different context, where it doesnot belong.” – Washington Post
  
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• Event Manager / Alexandra Palace / London

  09-10-2019 17:26
  Ally Pally currently has a vacancy for an Event Manager to deliver nominated events as part of our ever-growing, eclectic events programme. This exciting role will work across all event spaces and...
  
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• Operations Coordinator / AudioActive / South East

  09-10-2019 17:18
  AudioActive is a groundbreaking music organisation working with young people and emerging artists at the meeting point of technology and contemporary urban culture.
  The Operations Coordinator is a...
  
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• Engagement and Access Producer / festival.org / London

  09-10-2019 17:17
  FESTIVAL.ORG is looking for a dynamic Engagement and Access Producer to join our team. You will lead a programme of exciting work with communities through free, ambitious and ground-breaking outdoor...
  
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• Schools Programme Coordinator / Three Inch Fools / London

  09-10-2019 17:12
  The Three Inch Fools are an innovative touring theatre company performing vibrant and musically driven productions of Shakespeare at interesting and historic locations across the UK. We have a keen...
  
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• Paris Opera Director Stéphane Lissner Named Superintendent Of Teatro San Carlo In Naples

  09-10-2019 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lissner, who ran La Scala in Milan (2005-2012) before taking charge of the Opéra national de Paris, reaches France’s mandatory retirement age of 67 next year, so his contract there won’t be renewed past its expiration in August 2021. He begins his five-year term in Naples as both superintendent and artistic director that fall. (in French; for Google Translate version, click here) – Le Monde (France)
  
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• VP joins #SewingBee's Patrick Grant to open Textiles Biennial / The Northern School of Art / North East / Yorkshire

  09-10-2019 17:03
  A major festival celebrating the past and present of UK-made textiles was opened by The Northern School of Art's Vice Principal.
  Acting in his capacity as Arts Council England North Area Council...
  
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• Open Call - Making Places Round Two / London Borough of Waltham Forest and Create London / London

  09-10-2019 17:02
  The Open Call is for artists and creative practitioners from anywhere in the UK to propose a long-term physical installation or intervention at one or more of the Round Two nominated sites.
  We are...
  
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• Media & Communications Officer (6-month contract) / New Vic Theatre / West Midlands

  09-10-2019 16:59
  Media & Communications OfficerNew Vic Theatre, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire
  40 hours per week 6 month contract Salary £20,795 per annum
  The New Vic is seeking a positive, proactive...
  
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• Research Assistant: Laser Conservation Science / The British Museum / London

  09-10-2019 16:57
  The British Museum has an exciting opportunity for a research assistant/ early career researcher to consolidate and extend the use of laser cleaning at the Museum. Based in the Department of...
  
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• The Westmorland Landscape Prize / / North West

  09-10-2019 16:56
  Conceived and developed by Westmorland, the Westmorland Landscape Prize aims to document, celebrate and interrogate our relationship with the landscape. It offers a First Prize of £10,000:...
  
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• User Centricity with Mars / Museum of Brands / London

  09-10-2019 16:53
  Deborah Madelaine, Senior Community Manager at Mars Inc will talk about how she and her team created a global internal movement called User Centricity as part of their digital transformation and how...
  
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• 'Future relics': the painter capturing the beauty of council houses

  09-10-2019 16:44
  Frank Laws’s Hopperesque watercolours depict the individual character of east London’s most impressive – and everyday – buildings, as gentrification threatens their very existenceFrom Mike Leigh’s film Meantime to the TV show Top Boy, the social housing estates of east London have provided rich subject matter for writers and artists exploring the human stories intertwining in their communities. In the paintings of east Londoner Frank Laws, however, there isn’t
  
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• ‘The Stage’ Runs Pro And Con Articles On The Old Vic’s Gender-Neutral Toilets, Then Deletes Them In A Panic

  09-10-2019 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The website issued a statement on Twitter today saying it had taken the articles [about the battle of the loos] down after receiving what it described as ‘strong responses’ from readers, adding they had ‘only polarised the debate further’.” Sareah Ditum, who wrote one of the essays, called the move “gross editorial cowardice.” – Press Gazette (UK)
  
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