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• Venice Will Begin Charging Admission For Tourists Next July

  10-10-2019 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The tax will apply to tourists who arrive by coach, cruise ship, water taxi, plane or train. They will be able to pay the charge online with a credit card or frommachines “installed in strategic points” around Venice, officials said. The council did not say what penalties would apply to tourists whofail to pay the charge, although in February authorities suggested theywould be hit with a fine of up to €450. – The Telegraph (UK)
  
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• Barre Teacher / Dance City / North East

  10-10-2019 21:04
  Dance City is looking for a Barre Teacher to deliver adult Barre class at Dance City Newcastle every Thursday at 5.30pm-6.30pm during term time, starting as soon as possible.
  Practitioners are...
  
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• Bong Joon-Ho Returns Home From Hollywood And Makes His Masterpiece

  10-10-2019 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Bong’s last two films, 2013’s Snowpiercer and 2017’s Okja, were his first to be made in English: they weren’t exactly misfires, either critically or commercially, yet both clearly had designs on being bigger deals than they were. … A globally minded film-maker with big-dreaming genre nous, he spent the last few years making a bid for mainstream Hollywood clout, only to finally make an international phenomenon from his own doorstep.” – The Guardi
  
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• Academy Assistant - Southampton / Sound Pop Academy / South West

  10-10-2019 21:00
  Sound Pop Academy is recruiting an Academy Assistant for our Southampton academy!
  We’re looking for passionate and skilled ‘Academy Assistant’ to support the delivery of permanent,...
  
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• Twitch Has Become The Most-Popular Live-Streaming Platform, And… There Are Problems

  10-10-2019 20:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  More people watch live streams on Twitch than on any other digital platform, including YouTube and Facebook, according to a report from StreamElements. But the platform has struggled to police content as it is posted. – The New York Times
  
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• Delivery Driver / ProLighting Ltd / London

  10-10-2019 20:13
  Delivery Driver
  ProLighting is a leading photographic and moving image lighting rental company based in Bethnal Green, London E1. We are currently looking for full-time and contract delivery drivers...
  
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• Lighting Warehouse Technician / ProLighting Ltd / London

  10-10-2019 20:08
  Lighting Warehouse Technician
  ProLighting is a leading photographic and moving image lighting rental company based in Bethnal Green, London E1. We are currently looking for full-time Lighting...
  
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• Showroom & Office Manager / Goldfinger Factory / London

  10-10-2019 20:07
  Goldfinger Factory is an award-winning social enterprise designing and making sustainable furniture and interiors in one of London’s most underprivileged areas. Located on the ground floor of...
  
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• Ciaran Carson, Poet Who Captured Belfast, Dead At 70

  10-10-2019 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “With a rich accumulation of poems, metafictions and other unclassifiable prose works, … he superimposed a psychic overlay on the city’s mundane streets and terraces, its feuds and factions, the aggravations and atrocities of the bloody 30-year Troubles.” – The Guardian
  
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• Chair of the Board / Tara Arts / London

  10-10-2019 20:00
  Tara Arts, this country’s longest-established Asian-led theatre company is seeking a new Chair. Based in South West London, in its award winning new theatre, the company is renowned for...
  
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• Head of Individual Giving / National Portrait Gallery / London

  10-10-2019 19:54
  The National Portrait Gallery houses a unique collection of all forms of portraiture of the people who have made or are currently contributing to British history and culture; the collection is the...
  
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• Language Frames How We Think About Things. But Changing That Language Can Backfire

  10-10-2019 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  When a linguistic shift is too heavy-handed, too obviously driven by anagenda to change hearts and minds, it can run up against a responseknown as reactance. Reactance is our mind’s instinctive defense againstthe attempts of others to control our thoughts and behavior.– Nautilus
  
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• Streets make communities. Have architects realised at last? | Simon Jenkins

  10-10-2019 19:22
  The award of the Stirling prize to Goldsmith Street in Norwich suggests the age of brutalist housing is endingWonders never cease. The Royal Institute of British Architects has just given a prize to a street. Not to a vainglorious skyscraper, or an “iconic” bunker museum or a luxury pad in a field, but a living, breathing street. This street is not just a street but a “council street”. Norwich council’s chief executive, Laura McGillivray, claims no higher ambition t
  
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• Treasurer / Blue Apple Theatre / South East

  10-10-2019 19:13
  Blue Apple Theatre is seeking a new treasurer to join our board of trustees.
  The ideal candidate will have considerable financial experience and a passion for supporting charitable work in the...
  
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• Marketing & Sales Assistant / Nobrow & Flying Eye Books / London

  10-10-2019 19:11
  We are looking for a Sales and Marketing Assistant to join the Nobrow and Flying Eye Books team. This is a full-time position based in our East London office.
  The Sales and Marketing Assistant will...
  
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• How Do You Translate The Life Of A Forgotten, Insane Swiss Novelist Into Dance Theater?

  10-10-2019 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Marina Harss: “The material feels both so deeply literary and, at the same time, so utterly deflating. The subject is a solitary man” — Robert Walser — “whose writings tended to track the minutiae of his solitary life, and who died alone in the snow — this hardly sounds like something to dance about. But that is precisely what the choreographer John Heginbotham and the illustrator Maira Kalman have set out to do … [in] Herz Schmerz.” – The
  
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• Education Coordinator / Burnley Youth Theatre / North West

  10-10-2019 18:51
  Burnley Youth Theatre is looking for an experienced and skilled arts practitioner to take lead on the delivery of the organisations education practice. The successful candidate will be responsible...
  
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• Exhibition: MAKE 2019 - Contemporary Crafts for Christmas / Devon Guild of Craftsmen / South West

  10-10-2019 18:42
  From 16 November '19 until 5 January '20 the Guild holds its annual Christmas exhibition, selling contemporary crafts by the finest designer-makers from across the UK. The variety of materials and...
  
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• Virtual Eye: An Exploration of Social Media Portraiture / Blue Monkey Network / South East

  10-10-2019 18:38
  Thursday 24th October, 6pm – 8pmat Towner, Devonshire Park, College Road, Eastbourne, BN21 4JJ
  Blue Monkey Network members FREE, non-members £5. 
  Artist Cliff Crawford...
  
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• Surprise: For The First Time Since 1986, Vinyl Is About To Outsell CDs

  10-10-2019 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Vinyl records earned $224.1 million (on 8.6 million units) in the firsthalf of 2019, closing in on the $247.9 million (on 18.6 million units)generated by CD sales. Vinyl revenue grew by 12.8% in the second half of2018 and 12.9% in the first six months of 2019, while the revenue fromCDs barely budged. If these trends hold, records will soon be generatingmore money than compact discs. – Rolling Stone
  
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• Painter and Decorator/Decorative Artist / Mathew Bray & Matthew Collins / South West / Oxfordshire

  10-10-2019 18:29
  Mathew Bray & Matthew Collins ltd are looking for an enthusiastic person to join our Site team of Artists and Decorators.
  The majority of our work will be based on site around Britain and...
  
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• Executive Director / Free Word / London

  10-10-2019 18:24
  Free Word is looking for an inspiring leader to play a key role in our next phase of development.
  We are an arts venue that explores the power and politics of words and a home for other...
  
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• The Banjo And The Ballot Box: Country Music As Political Tool

  10-10-2019 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[Historian Peter] La Chapelle explains how fiddler-politicians and politician-fans have used this oddly flexible genre to advocate for the poor and dispossessed, fight for racial justice, fight against racial justice, lobby for gun rights, and articulate a whole range of sometimes contradictory positions. (audio) – The American Scholar
  
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• Learn bookbinding at Cass Art Islington / Hanbury Press X Yodomo / London

  10-10-2019 17:42
  Learn all the techniques you need to make your own simple notebook in this workshop with book artist Kate Rochester of Hanbury Press.
  About this Event
  In this workshop, you will learn to make an...
  
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• Freelance Assistant Director/Practitioner / Churchill Theatre / London

  10-10-2019 17:34
  Churchill Theatre are looking for passionate, energetic and experienced individuals to expand our pool of freelance facilitators. Applicants should have experience directing/assistant...
  
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• George Stubbs review: sleek, sublime animals versus enslaved, absurd humans

  10-10-2019 17:33
  MK Gallery, Milton KeynesAs this wonderful show makes clear, the artist celebrated for his paintings of horses was no less adept at other animals – while his portraits of humans drip with disdainSurely George Stubbs can’t have recalled his own birth? In his icily brilliant illustrations for a book on midwifery, the 18th-century artist and anatomist depicts the process of delivering a child. Compressed and twisted babies lie in dissected wombs, or aim their heads at a narrow pelvic op
  
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• The Met Opera’s New “Porgy”: Restoring An American Masterpiece

  10-10-2019 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Joseph Horowitz: “The modernist view of Gershwin the gifted dilettante is no longer heard.Concomitantly, American music historians, for whom Gershwin once barelyexisted, have flocked to Porgy and Rhapsody in Blue. Aburgeoning interest in the interwar fate of black classical music willsurely promote new understandings of Gershwin as a necessary interloperbetween “classical” and “popular” genres severed by 20th-centuryaesthetic currents.” – American Schol
  
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• Education & Participation Director / Orange Tree Theatre / London

  10-10-2019 17:31
  We’re seeking a highly creative and ambitious Education and Participation Director to lead the Orange Tree Theatre’s Education and Participation team, developing our nationally recognised...
  
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• Call for Artworks: Donate to our secret postcard sale / Rosetta Arts / London

  10-10-2019 17:20
  CALL FOR ARTWORKS: Donate to our secret postcard sale and help Rosetta Arts transform lives through creativity.
  All funds raised will go towards the most vital areas of our work, from mosaics for...
  
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• The Time I Played Chess Nude With Marcel Duchamp

  10-10-2019 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Eve Babitz: “I took the smock off, letting it fall beside me, but Julian kicked it far across the slippery floor, out of the way in a corner. I sat down quickly at the chess set and wondered if we could just pose or did we actually have to play, but Marcel — whose obsession with chess made him give up not only art but girls — was waiting for me to make the first move.” – Literary Hub
  
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• HR Tustee / Film Oxford / South East

  10-10-2019 16:37
  Film and Creative Arts charity seeks HR Trustee
  As Film Oxford gears up for an exciting period of change (including a move to a new Creative Arts Centre in the redeveloped East Oxford Community...
  
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• Did The Philly Fringe Risk Its Patrons’ Safety By Including This Event?

  10-10-2019 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The 2019 Fringe Festival page touting [a solo biofeedback session with psychologist Gary Ames] reads biofeedback will open the bridge ‘between conscious and subconscious realms. Let creativity and talent arise.’ So why shouldn’t Fringe patrons try it? Perhaps because sending unwitting ticket-buyers alone to someone’s suburban home for a therapeutic session could result in major problems — for Ames, for the Fringe, and for the ‘audience’.” &
  
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• Writer Commission - Robyn Hood / Warts and All Theatre / East Midlands

  10-10-2019 16:31
  Writer Commission Callout - Robyn Hood
  Warts and All Theatre are looking to commission a Writer who has experience of generating a new play With/By/For Children and Young People.
  The commission...
  
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• Assistant Admissions Manager / Royal Collection Trust, Windsor Castle / South East

  10-10-2019 16:29
  It's the collaboration and community spirit. And it's helping millions enjoy world renowned buildings and beautiful art.
  The magnificence of Windsor Castle attracts millions of people from across...
  
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• Box Office Assistant (Full time) / Royal Albert Hall / London

  10-10-2019 16:23
  A natural communicator with a genuine passion for customer service, you’ll fit right into our fast-paced, dedicated team. Candidates will offer either box office; contact centre or customer...
  
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• Technical Manager / Northern Broadsides / Yorkshire

  10-10-2019 16:04
  Technical Manager (Quality Street 2020)
  A Northern Broadsides Production
  Rehearsing at Halifax
  Northern Broadsides has had a long-standing commitment to make bold, radical storytelling that is...
  
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• Why Netflix On Broadway Is Good For Both Of Them

  10-10-2019 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The streaming giant is renting the Belasco Theatre in midtown Manhattan for a four-week, eight-shows-a-week Broadway-style run of its latest major feature, Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman. Howard Sherman explains the benefits that Netflix, the Shubert Organization (owner of the Belasco), and Broadway more generally could get from the unusual arrangement. – The Stage
  
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• Triangle Network Administrator / Gasworks / London

  10-10-2019 15:56
  Gasworks is looking for a new Triangle Network Administrator to provide the Director and the Deputy Director of Gasworks & Triangle Network with high-level administrative support. The...
  
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• Company Stage Manager / Northern Broadsides / Yorkshire

  10-10-2019 15:54
  Company Stage Manager (Quality Street 2020)
  A Northern Broadsides Production
  Rehearsing at Halifax
  Northern Broadsides has had a long-standing commitment to make bold, radical storytelling that is...
  
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• Deputy Stage Manager / Northern Broadsides / Yorkshire

  10-10-2019 15:51
  Deputy Stage Manager (Quality Street 2020)
  A Northern Broadsides Production
  Rehearsing at Halifax
  Northern Broadsides has had a long-standing commitment to make bold, radical storytelling that is...
  
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• MidWinter Composers Course in Oxford / CoMA: Contemporary Music for All / South East

  10-10-2019 15:46
  Treat yourself this New Year to a gigantic creative boost with CoMA’ intensive mid-winter five-day composition course. With a track record for taking composers onto an entirely new level,...
  
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• They’ve Rediscovered The Naughty Bits From Europe’s Most Famous Medieval Romance

  10-10-2019 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fragments of a manuscript of Le Roman de la Rose — containing a double entendre-filled episode about a pilgrim at a shrine — were found in a centuries-old book binding in the public records office of the English city of Worcester. – Live Science
  
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• Singers / Enchant / West Midlands / Birmingham

  10-10-2019 15:05
  Do you enjoy singing? Enchant are a small but creative choir who have an excellent reputation in the West Midlands for quality singing and engaging audiences. We have a membership of different ages...
  
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• MoMA’s Expansion Is ‘Smart, Surgical, Sprawling And Slightly Soulless’: Michael Kimmelman

  10-10-2019 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For all its intelligence and skill and its obvious desire to make the place feel friendlier, the expansion seems to me not to have solved the problem of the Modern’s ambience. … You may feel like you’re entering an Apple store. Everything is crisp and coolly engineered.” – The New York Times
  
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• Assembly Stoke-on-Trent / a-n The Artists Information Company / West Midlands

  10-10-2019 15:03
  Assembly Stoke-on-TrentSaturday 23 November 2019
  Assembly Stoke-on-Trent focuses on activism in the arts and the artist as activist, activator and change maker. Taking place across several...
  
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• Assembly Thamesmead / a-n The Artists Information Company / London

  10-10-2019 15:02
  Assembly ThamesmeadSaturday 26 October 2019
  Curated by artist-led space TACO!, Assembly Thamesmead addresses issues around agency, placemaking and collective organisation in order to open up...
  
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• Paul Birkbeck obituary

  10-10-2019 14:48
  My father, Paul Birkbeck, who has died aged 80, was an artist and illustrator whose work is familiar to those of a certain generation brought up on BBC children’s TV programmes such as Crystal Tipps and Alistair, Play School and Jackanory. His distinctive style and keen eye for detail ensured that he became one of the BBC’s most-used artists through the 1970s and 80s.Born in Woolwich, south-east London, to Guy Birkbeck, a radio engineer, and Emma (nee Farringdon), Paul attended Brigh
  
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• Mokuhanga Printing Effects - November / West Yorkshire Print Workshop / Yorkshire / West yorkshire

  10-10-2019 14:46
  Sat 23 & Sun 24 November£140 - Weekend course
  Intermediate Level10 - 4Tutor: Lucy May SchofieldWe are delighted to welcome back artist Lucy May Schofield to WYPW to teach this follow-on...
  
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• Intro to Lino Etching - November / West Yorkshire Print Workshop / Yorkshire / West yorkshire

  10-10-2019 14:44
  Sat 23 & Sun 24 November£135 - Weekend course
  Beginners10 - 4Tutor: Jenny Thomas & Fabian OsborneJoin artists and WYPW studio holders Jenny Thomas and Fabian Osborne for a weekend of...
  
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• Mezzotint - Masterclass with Ali Yanya / Kensington and Chelsea College / London

  10-10-2019 14:43
  Among many printmaking techniques and processes, mezzotint (half-tone) in particular stands out when it comes to creating rich, velvety blacks, and delicate, soft mid-greys. It is a perfect medium...
  
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