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• Singing Teacher Maternity Cover / Murphy School of Music / North West

  13-10-2019 22:24
  We are a music school based in Chester and are looking for an additional singing teacher to join our team. We need maternity cover from January to August for 1 day time and 1 evening time. There will...
  
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• Dance Teachers / One Youth Dance / London

  13-10-2019 21:29
  Recruiting dance teachers for weekend work in central London.
  Ideal candidates will have graduated from/ currently be in full-time vocational training and specialise in one of our four core areas;...
  
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• Guardian cartoonist appeals for return of missing artworks

  13-10-2019 21:26
  Andrzej Krauze, who has drawn for the paper since the early 1990s, believes he left the cartoons on a London busAn award-winning Guardian cartoonist is appealing to trace a missing portfolio containing a selection of his most precious works which he likens to “children”.Andrzej Krauze was in London, returning from his studio in Chelsea to his Paddington home at around 6pm on Thursday on what was an otherwise uneventful bus journey. Continue reading...
  
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• Performing Arts Teacher / Starlight Theatre Academy / East Midlands

  13-10-2019 19:22
  Starlight Theatre Academy is looking for teacher(s) to take over singing and dancing from next January. Sessions run 2pm-5pm Sundays, term time, in Newark on Trent. There are also holiday clubs,...
  
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• EM19: Octeria / Surface Gallery / East Midlands

  13-10-2019 19:14
  EM19: Octeria2nd November – 16th NovemberOpening Night: Friday 1st November, 6-9pm
  Sophie Baker (Lincoln) / Charlie Dean (NTU) / Arit Emmanuela Etukudo (NTU) /Rachel Phillips (Loughborough) /...
  
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• Performance Artist Carlos Celdran Has Died In Exile At 46

  13-10-2019 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Celdran was arrested and convicted in the Philippines for a dramatic performance protest, and he fled to Spain to escape his sentence. Celdran, who led walking tours all over Manila that he turned into plays, “had a charm that appealed as much to people in Manila’s glitzy hotels as to people in the slums, where his friends included cigarette vendors and drivers of the horse-drawn carts that plied the tourist neighborhoods.” – The New York Times
  
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• A Slate Of Recent Films Offers New Portrayals Of Asian, Not Tiger, Mothers

  13-10-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Films like Always Be my Maybe, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, The Farewell, and Searching create new images for larger mass consumption. “In these complex films, Asian American mothers are transmitters of domesticity, culture, and care, and their tragic deaths leave behind relatives who are struggling to find themselves in their absence. It’s a new and different kind of familial negotiation for Asian American families. On many shows, including All American Girl a
  
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• Weekend Mosaic Course for Beginners / Midlands Arts Centre (Birmingham) / West Midlands

  13-10-2019 15:47
  Learn the art of creating beautiful mosaics in this practical weekend workshop.
  Date: Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th October
  Time: 10am-5pm
  Location: Midlands Arts Centre, Cannon Hill Park,...
  
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• The Hong Kong Protesters Are Making Excellent Use Of Instagram-Ready Art

  13-10-2019 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  What defines the protests in the public’s memory might just be the art, including statues likening protesters to the Statue of Liberty and pop-art posters of Chinese officials and the city’s leader, Carrie Lam. “Street art and graphic design are defining features of the pro-democracy demonstrations that have roiled the semiautonomous Chinese territory since June. Artists often work quickly and anonymously, and present their oeuvres either in Reddit-like internet forums or publ
  
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• Students At A U.S. University Burn A Campus Speaker’s Book

  13-10-2019 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  One student recorded the burning of author Jennine Capó Crucet’s novel, which Georgia Southern had chosen as a campus read: “These people decide to burn her book because ‘it’s bad and that race is bad to talk about,'” she tweeted. Other outlets reported that “a group of apparently angry students had gathered outside” the author’s original hotel, so the college moved her to a different one. (The college’s response has been, shall we sa
  
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• The Messy, Textural, ‘Suitable For Ladies’ Medium Of Pastel

  13-10-2019 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hilariously to anyone who’s ever worked in, or anywhere near, pastels, “There’s one theorist who said it was better for women to use because they wouldn’t soil their fair hands the way that they would with oil paint.” – NPR
  
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• When A Star Stares Right Back

  13-10-2019 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Why did The Washington Post reviewer (and the now-infamous headline writer) have such a hard time dealing with singer Debbie Harry’s memoir? Perhaps because “she always comes off as tough and matter-of-fact and New York–y,” and the Post reviewer wanted a lot more. – The Atlantic
  
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• The New Movie Tech Of Making Will Smith Look Like He’s A Quarter-Century Younger

  13-10-2019 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Apparently this is, or was, a new process; “Digital humans have been put into shots before, but, according to Guy Williams, a visual effects supervisor at Weta who is quoted in the film’s press notes, ‘this is the first time where one of the leading characters of the film is a totally recognizable human.'” The details are new, but the fountain of youth for established actors isn’t (think, if you will, of Samuel Jackson’s Nick Fury and Clark Gregg’s
  
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• The Internet And Texting Are Changing Language – But Not For The Worse

  13-10-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  IDEK why ppl think txting & emojis aren’tlanguage. “Any concerns about what the internet is doing to our collective mental health must be set against the poetry that it has simultaneously unleashed – the sheer range of textual innovation and expression that you can find on Tumblr or Twitter or even TikTok, the way three dots, or a question without a question mark, or ‘idk lol’ can become loaded with meaning – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Will the BBC’s plan for its arts coverage involve more than just Mary Beard?

  13-10-2019 10:00
  The broadcaster’s arts director sets out his stall for the future. Plus, 60 reasons to love Lucian FreudTomorrow, the BBC will announce its forthcoming arts programming for TV and radio. I’m hoping for some positives, because its coverage of culture, certainly on TV, has been faltering. Imagine, BBC One’s flagship documentary strand, has fewer editions and goes out too late, while BBC Two’s once great Arena has been fading from our screens.The Film Show, once a must with
  
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