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• A Puff of Smoke: Exhibition and Book Launch / The Centre For Better Health / London

  28-10-2019 22:55
  A Puff of Smoke (published by Jonathan Cape 7th November) is a graphic memoir about what it is like to grow up with an illness that no one can diagnose. Sarah Lippett spent eleven years suffering...
  
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• Fundraising Manager (Trusts and Foundations) / The Big House Theatre Company / London / London

  28-10-2019 22:12
  The Big House has a simple mission: to enable care leavers to fulfil their potential.
  Through drama and individualised long-term wrap around support we help care leavers overcome traumas experienced...
  
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• University of South Wales Closes Its Dance Program

  28-10-2019 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  A spokesman for the University of South Wales said “projected recruitment figures forthe degree mean that we will not have enough students in future to beable to continue to provide a high quality education”. – The Stage
  
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• Abbie Hoffman’s Papers Go To College

  28-10-2019 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mr. Hoffman, whose infamously anarchic work, “Steal This Book,”included tips on how to shoplift, might be amused to have his papersend up in so solemn a setting as a university research library. He wasarguably the most emblematic figureof the youthful protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s, a man whohelped coin the term “Yippie” and co-founded the group that took thatname. But he was always more of a comic provocateur than an ideologue,specializing in thumbing his nose
  
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• Production Assistant / InTheatre Productions / London

  28-10-2019 20:02
  InTheatre is looking for a highly efficient, hard working, dynamic Production Assistant with a passion for theatre who will play a key role working on multiple productions.
  Job...
  
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• Streaming Has Changed The Ways We Listen To Music

  28-10-2019 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the moment, at least, people seem to prefer podcasts and music thatmake them feel as if they’re alone in the room with the performers. Andthat in turn has an appreciable effect on the kind of music and talkthat’s produced. – Irish Times
  
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• Landmarks Theatre President Suddenly Quits. Is The Quality Movie Business In Jeopardy?

  28-10-2019 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ted Mundorff: “Since 1927, attendance has gone down, though box office remains thesame. It usually sits around $10 and a half billion dollars. I’ve alwaysbeen very bullish on movie theaters, and I don’t think they are goingaway, but I do think these past two years we have seen closures oftheaters.”– Deadline
  
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• Oxford University Student Union Votes To Abolish Clapping In Favor Of “Jazz Hands”

  28-10-2019 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “British Sign Language clapping is used by the National Union of Students since loudnoises, including whooping and traditional applause, are argued topresent an access issue for some disabled students who have anxietydisorders, sensory sensitivity, and/or those who use hearing impairmentaids. – Oxford Student Union
  
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• Assistant Site Manager / ACAVA / South East

  28-10-2019 18:56
  Assistant Site Manager, ACAVA Hadleigh Old Fire Station (HOFS),  
   
  Artists’ Studios, Community and Educational Charity 
   
  Location: Hadleigh,...
  
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• Site Manager / ACAVA / South East

  28-10-2019 18:54
  Site Manager, ACAVA Hadleigh Old Fire Station (HOFS),  
   
  Artists’ Studios, Community and Educational Charity 
   
  Location: Hadleigh, Essex 
  Salary: ...
  
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• Queen’s University – Appointment of Director, Agnes Etherington Art Centre

  28-10-2019 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University is now seeking anew Director who will articulate a bold and dynamic vision thatleverages the Agnes’ impressive strengths, collections, and successesthrough an exciting stage of transformational growth.Queen’s University, and Agnes Etherington Art Centre, are situated on traditional Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee Territory.
  The Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University is now seekinga new Director who will art
  
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• Fire Breaks Out Near Getty; Area Evacuated

  28-10-2019 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Getty fire, which broke out near the Getty Center along the 405 Freeway, has burned more than 500 acres. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Elizabeth Price: A Long Memory review – traumatic visions that are hard to forget

  28-10-2019 18:16
  The Whitworth, Manchester
  The Turner prize winner’s multi-layered yet surprisingly succinct exhibition considers how we form and hold memoriesA common fix for those struggling with sluggish internet use is to clear the cache. A quick trip into settings and the browser forgets all your logins, your recently viewed websites and Google searches for things like “Donald Trump impeachment odds”, “best sustainable swimsuits” and “how do I clear the cache?” But
  
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• Elijah Cummings: Librarians Helped Me Most

  28-10-2019 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The people who helped me the most were the librarians,” Cummings told Steve Kroft in a 60 Minutes interviewbroadcast in January of this year, adding that the public library wasthe only integrated institution in his neighborhood. – School Library Journal
  
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• Box Office Assistant (Casual / Coliseum Theatre / North West / Oldham

  28-10-2019 17:59
  The Box Office Assistant (Casual) will play an active role in the on-going development and efficient operation of the Coliseum Box Office, maximising opportunities to achieve sales targets and...
  
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• Inspiring People Project Director / National Portrait Gallery / London

  28-10-2019 17:41
  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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• Artsmark Coordinator / The Mighty Creatives / East Midlands / Leicester

  28-10-2019 17:41
  Salary: £21,305 plus contributory stakeholder pension, pro rataHours: Part time (21 hours per week, 3 days a week, excluding an unpaid lunch hour) plus occasional evenings and weekendsLocation:...
  
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• Registry Support Officer / Royal Academy of Dance / London

  28-10-2019 17:38
  £22,000 – £26,000 per annumPermanent | Full-time | Monday – Friday (34.5 hours per week)
  We are looking for a highly organised and experienced administrator to join our...
  
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• Box Office Receptionist / South Hill Park / South East / Bracknell

  28-10-2019 17:28
  South Hill Park’s Sales and Marketing Team is seeking a new full time Box Office Receptionist to sell tickets for all events and deliver the highest possible service standards. This role will...
  
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• Argentina Believed It Found A Trove Of Nazi Artifacts. Experts Aren’t so Sure

  28-10-2019 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Police came across the more than 80 objects by accident during a housesearch of an antiques dealer in a suburb of Buenos Aires. They includedaggers with swastikas, a ouija board and magnifying glass that weresaid to have been used by Hitler himself.– Der Spiegel
  
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• Performing arts tutor / Big Creative Training Ltd / London

  28-10-2019 17:21
  Big Creative Training is a well-established and expanding creative industry training provider with a long track record of delivering positive outcomes for learners. Our mission is to improve the...
  
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• Group show around the concept of art in, of and about boxes / Studio ExPurgamento / London

  28-10-2019 17:11
  Square (squared)
  Studio ExPurgamento, 132D Camden Street, London NW1 0HY
  8 November - 8 December 2019 Private View: Thursday 7 November 2019, 6.30pm till lateThemed group shows at...
  
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• Painting Spotted In Woman’s Kitchen Sells At Auction For $26 Million

  28-10-2019 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  An auctioneer spotted the painting in June while inspecting a woman’shouse in Compiegne in northern France and suggested she bring it toexperts for an evaluation. It hung on a wall between the kitchen anddining room. – Washington Post (AP)
  
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• Andy Warhol's trans portraits to go on show at Tate Modern

  28-10-2019 16:53
  Exhibition will feature one of artist’s biggest ‘but probably least known’ series of worksA little-known series of paintings of drag queens and trans women by Andy Warhol will be part of a major exhibition being staged next year at Tate Modern.The London gallery on Monday gave details of its first Warhol show for almost 20 years, which will explore the artist through the lenses of sexuality, migration, death and religion. Continue reading...
  
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• Spoken Word Competition / Oxford City Council / South East / Oxford

  28-10-2019 16:52
  Are you a budding writer, poet or a songwriter?
  Would you like the opportunity for your work to be installed in a new listening post in the Covered Market so everyone can hear it, perform with a...
  
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• Business Development & Promo Coordinator / Woodwork Music / North West

  28-10-2019 16:47
  Woodwork Music – one of the UK’s leading music agencies representing labels, artists and composers for music licensing and creation in visual media - is looking for a part- time Business...
  
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• Gilbert Bayes Award for early career sculptors 2020 - OPEN / Royal Society Of Sculptors / London / Nationwide

  28-10-2019 16:41
  The Gilbert Bayes Award for early career sculptors is given annually by the Royal Society of Sculptors to a small group of outstandingly talented sculptors.
  Selected by the sculptor members of the...
  
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• A Tiny Bookshop On The Greek Island Of Santorini Fights To Stay “Authentic”

  28-10-2019 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Over the last 15 years, as cruise-ship hoards and souvenir schlock haveoverrun the village of Oia on Santorini’s northern tip, Atlantis Bookshas become an unlikely oasis of authenticity and cultural sanity. – The New York Times
  
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• Entertainment & Attractions Assistant Manager / KidZania London / London

  28-10-2019 16:21
  Do you want to work in the biggest indoor city in London? Based in Westfield London, KidZania London is the UK’s first indoor educational entertainment centre and is now recruiting for...
  
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• Theming Designer / KidZania London / London

  28-10-2019 16:17
  This is a unique role which includes devising and building creative concepts. The aspects include interior design, set design, some prop making, graphic design and architecture.Working within the...
  
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• Call for Entries: Curatorial Fellowship / Crafts Council / London

  28-10-2019 16:13
  The Crafts Council and Artisa Foundation are looking for an individual or collective to become our first curatorial Fellow/s.  The Fellowship will run from January to June 2020.
  The Fellow will...
  
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• Why Are The NYT, WSJ And Others Making TV Shows?

  28-10-2019 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “So what are newspapers and web producers up to, besides making extremelyexpensive pivots-to-video? And why are these outlets willing to betpeople like their journalism enough to watch entire TV shows about it?Maybe it’s because they aren’t really about journalism. Thebest producers money can buy aren’t interested in “all the news that’sfit to print.” What works best on television is one kind of journalismthat has a long track record of success, especia
  
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• Wakey wakey! The artists healing our sleep-deprived world

  28-10-2019 15:56
  From experiments in light deprivation to ‘unfitness monitors’, works by Douglas Coupland and others in this urgent exhibition resist the 24/7 demands of late capitalismThirty-thousand feet over the Pacific, the author and artist Douglas Coupland asked a flight attendant why the airline’s wi-fi was so impressively fast. She replied that it needed to be: being online made time pass more quickly for passengers, and is preferable to sleeping.Why? Coupland suggests we’ve under
  
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• Part-time Ceramics production fettler / Cheeky Tiki / London

  28-10-2019 15:36
  Job title: Part-time Ceramics production fettler
  Salary:     £8.21 per hour
  Location: Stoke Newington, London
  Who this job would...
  
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• Part-time Ceramics production slip caster / Cheeky Tiki / London

  28-10-2019 15:31
  Job title: Part-time Ceramics production pourer/slip caster
  Salary:     £8.21 per hour
  Location: Stoke Newington, London
  Who this job would...
  
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• Rowan Williams: How Poetry Clarifies Our Language

  28-10-2019 15:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  As Auden says, poetry is “a way of happening”. It takes the passage oftime, the reality of loss, the absorption in a sharpened kind of seeingor hearing, and makes all these into speech that can survive (as Audenalso insists) and help others survive. Its task of “turning noise intomusic” is thus irreducibly political, a sustained resistance tocommodified, generalised language and the appalling reductions of humanpossibility that this brings with it. Far from being a decor
  
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• Development Officer / Peer Productions / South West / South East

  28-10-2019 15:29
  Peer Productions are looking for an articulate, thoughtful and excellent written communicator to join our small and dynamic team. The successful candidate will be able to support the team’s...
  
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• Scratch, Crackle & POP! December Applications OPEN / Poplar Union / London

  28-10-2019 15:20
  Calling Writers, Performers & Poets!
  We welcome you to Scratch, Crackle & POP!, our seasonal scratch night showcasing the work of writers, performers and poets in the early stages of...
  
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• NY Is Trying To Diversify Its Monuments. Not So Easy, It Turns Out

  28-10-2019 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Under Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, the city is aiming to build monumentsat an unusually rapid rate to honor women, people of color and otherspreviously overlooked. But the effort has become far more contentiousthan expected, as a diverse, vocal and highly opinionated city fightsover the legacy it should leave in bronze and stone. – The New York Times
  
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• Voice and Yoga workshop / / London

  28-10-2019 15:00
  Would you like to explore your unique voice through yoga?To Move with Voice project, created in 2015, integrates specific yoga positions with contemporary vocal techniques and aims to support anyone...
  
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• Short film screenings - apply your film / Zima Club / London

  28-10-2019 14:47
  Every last Tuesday of a month we are showing short films of Russian speaking filmmakers in the heart of Soho.
  The main idea behind that is to connect filmmakers with each other, to provide them with...
  
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• Emerging Visual Artist Call Out / Frequency Theatre / London

  28-10-2019 14:45
  Frequency Theatre is seeking an emerging visual artist with at least three pieces of existing work which can be exhibited cohesively in one exhibition. The successful artist will only be...
  
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• Musical Youth Theatre Director and Facilitator / Play to the Crowd / South West

  28-10-2019 14:40
  Playmakers Youth Theatre are seeking to engage an experienced Musical Director/Facilitator and a Musical Youth Theatre Director/Choreographer for our vibrant and popular Musical...
  
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• Musical Director and Facilitator / Play to the Crowd / South West

  28-10-2019 14:36
  Playmakers Youth Theatre are seeking to engage an experienced Musical Director/Facilitator and a Musical Youth Theatre Director/Choreographer for our vibrant and popular Musical Youth Theatre groups...
  
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• What Your Brain Looks Like When You’re Improvising

  28-10-2019 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What do the brains of jazz musicians look like as they create theirart on the fly? Using an fMRI machine, Dr. Charles Limb found that activity in themedial prefrontal cortex shot up, while activity in the lateralprefrontal cortex plummeted. In short, the area of the brain responsible for self-monitoring shut off, and the source of self-expression lit up.” – Fast Company
  
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• International Youth Arts Festival launches applications for 2020 / Creative Youth / London

  28-10-2019 14:23
  Creative Youth have announced that applications for Kingston’s 12th International Youth Arts Festival (IYAF) are now open.
  Key dates: Applications close – 29 November 2019,...
  
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• Administrative Coordinator for Junior Department / Royal College of Music / London

  28-10-2019 14:15
  Job Ref. No: 701-19
  Founded in 1882, the Royal College of Music (RCM) is a world-leading music conservatoire with a prestigious history and contemporary outlook. Our 800 undergraduate and...
  
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• Head of Heritage / York Minster / Yorkshire

  28-10-2019 14:10
  York Minster is seeking to appoint a Head of Heritage.  This is an important role as the Minster develops its Masterplan which will bring collections and learning together and open up a new...
  
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• Lead Technician / The Manchester College / North West

  28-10-2019 14:06
  We are looking to recruit a permanent, full-time (37 hours per week) Senior Technician within our successful and dynamic Creative Arts department, with specific remit across Performing Arts and...
  
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• Can Pompeii Be Saved From The Tourists?

  28-10-2019 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Since concerted excavations began in the middle of the 18th century,Pompeii’s rich homes, tombs and public buildings have been plundered bylooters, exploited by profit-hungry private excavators, and (in someearly cases) “restored” so aggressively as to spoil the originaltreasures.– The New York Times
  
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