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• Dead Musicians Are Touring As Holograms (Really)

  31-10-2019 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Was it really okay, I wondered, to let holograms stand in foronce-vital, important artists and carry out new performances? Was thisan inevitable development in the interweaving of high tech and art — ordid it possibly speak to something darker about our 21st-century moralsand our endless quest to be entertained? What did this phenomenon sayabout, well, us?” – Washington Post
  
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• Technician/Op / From the Mill Theatre Company / London

  31-10-2019 22:43
  We are looking for a technican to work with us our latest production which will open at the CLF Art Cafe.
  We require a technician from the 11th to the 17th November. This would involve daytime work...
  
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• AI Is Getting Very Good At Writing Prose

  31-10-2019 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  When the creators of GPT-2 gave the AI model a single sentencereferencing J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series, the machinegenerated a few paragraphs of Tolkien-esque prose—capturing a measure ofthe author’s unique world and sensibility. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• How Happiness Got To Be So Much Work

  31-10-2019 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Happiness is in many ways the marketing breakthrough of the past decade,with self-care and anti-stress products now rounding out the bestsellerlist on Amazon (think of ‘gravity blankets’, ‘de-stressing’ adultcolouring books and fidget spinners), where they nestle alongsidechart-topping tomes by ‘happiness bloggers’. All of this is madepossible by a specific, disturbing and very new version of ‘happiness’that holds that bad feelings must be
  
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• LA’s New George Lucas Museum Names A Director

  31-10-2019 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Wednesday the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art announced SandraJackson-Dumont as its new director and chief executive officer. Shecomes to L.A. from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, where since2014 she has headed education and public programs. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Zadie Smith: Art Of The Muse

  31-10-2019 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Yoko Years. The Decade of Dora. Accounts of the muse–artist relationwere anchored in the idea of male cultural production as a specialcategory, one with particular needs—usually sexual—that the muse hadbeen there to fulfill, perhaps even to the point of exploitation, butwithout whom we would have missed the opportunity to enjoy this or thatbeloved cultural artifact. The art wants what the art wants.” – New York Review of Books
  
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• Scientists Figure Out Direct Brain-To-Brain Communication

  31-10-2019 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a new study,technology replaces language as a means of communicating by directlylinking the activity of human brains. Electrical activity from thebrains of a pair of human subjects was transmitted to the brain of athird individual in the form of magnetic signals, which conveyed aninstruction to perform a task in a particular manner.– Scientific American
  
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• Props and Set Dressing Supervisor / BIll Kenwright Ltd / London / UK

  31-10-2019 20:17
  We are looking for highly experienced props supervisor and set dressing buyer for our upcoming season within our classic thriller company.
  Applicant must be available for key dates below.
  General...
  
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• Overworked, Underpaid Young Architects In UK Start Drive To Unionise

  31-10-2019 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Unpaid overtime, precarious contracts, working hours so antisocial your only friends are people who do the same job … after a minimum of seven years’ education and professional training, the reality of working as an architect can be a bleak prospect. It’s not hard to see why so many of them wear black, as if in permanent mourning for the lives they once had.” – The Guardian
  
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• Once Upon a Time There Was Romance

  31-10-2019 19:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Do you ever wonder how choreographers choose their titles?After seeing James Whiteside’s New American Romance on the last day of American Ballet Theatre’s fall season at the former New York State Theater, I spent some time pondering that. – Deborah Jowitt
  
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• Picasso Fiasco: Jarring Juxtapositions & Missed Connections at the New MoMA

  31-10-2019 19:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  The aggressively transgressive new MoMA, trying to combat museum-ennui by shaking up its displays, has aimed its cannon at the canon. Its disruptive installation strategy audaciously breaches traditional geographic, temporal and art-historical boundaries, arranging shotgun marriages among strange (and strained) bedfellows and sundering longtime soulmates. – Lee Rosenbaum
  
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• Liberty Festival 2019 Scratch Performers / Waltham Forest Borough Council / London

  31-10-2019 19:52
  Liberty, the Mayor of London’s free festival celebrating the work of deaf and disabled artists is coming to Waltham Forest on 23-24  November, delivered in partnership with Waltham Forest...
  
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• The twenty-five record albums that changed my life (13)

  31-10-2019 19:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Forty-nine years after the fact, I can’t remember how or why I first got interested in Miles Davis. Not that you would have needed a reason to be interested in Miles in 1970. – Terry Teachout
  
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• Can Painting Murals On City Streets Change How People Use Cities?

  31-10-2019 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Asphalt Art Initiative will award 10 small or mid-sizedcities with grants of up to $25,000 to create colorful murals onstreets, intersections, and crosswalks, or vertical surfaces oftransportation infrastructure like utility boxes, traffic barriers, andhighway underpasses.“Most of the time these projects are used as a relatively inexpensiveand quick way to either make streets safer or to reallocate space awayfrom cars and for people.” – Curbed
  
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• Jock Mooney: From Spiceworld to Brexit / Vane / North East

  31-10-2019 19:27
  In ‘From Spiceworld to Brexit’ Jock Mooney has chosen to revisit his memories of a more optimistic time in the late 1990s, to re-examine them with an older and hopefully wiser eye....
  
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• Performer / Musician / Sound Artist for Outdoor Arts Project / Red Herring Productions / South West / South East, London

  31-10-2019 19:09
  Performer/musician/sound artist required for ‘WHISTLERS’ Outdoor Arts Project (Green Carpet Commission)
  We are looking for an artist with wide ranging experience to join our team in an...
  
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• How Matthew Lopez Transposed The Edwardians Of ‘Howards End’ Into The Gay New Yorkers Of ‘The Inheritance’ (A Crib Sheet)

  31-10-2019 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘I consider this the ultimate in fan-fiction, basically,’ [says] Lopez, … [who] wanted to know, ‘How faithful can you be to the novel while simultaneously blowing it up?’ For those who know Howards End well and need an intro to the gay New York of The Inheritance (or vice versa), the playwright walks a few key lines of comparison between the two.” – New York Magazine
  
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• Podcast Producer / Gasworks / London

  31-10-2019 19:02
  Gasworks is looking for a new Podcast Producer responsible for helping to shape and devise a new a podcast series on Feminist Economics. You will work closely with Ruth Beale and Amy...
  
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• Production Co-ordinator / Stagebox / London

  31-10-2019 18:51
  The Production co-ordinator’s jobs shall include, but not exclusively, handling the administration of child licensing, administration, booking travel and accommodation, diary management,...
  
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• Production Manager / Stagebox / London

  31-10-2019 18:50
  The incoming Production Manager will manage liaison with our members, creative operations, audition seasons, productions & enhancement of the company. The manager will be a motivated with...
  
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• Customer & Administration Assistant / The DanceXchange Ltd. / West Midlands

  31-10-2019 18:47
  Post:             Customer & Administration Assistant (CAA)
  Salary:           £9.00 per...
  
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• If You Replace The Choreography In “A Chorus Line” Is It Still “A Chorus Line”?

  31-10-2019 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A Chorus Line” is the ultimate ensemble musical, a compilation ofautobiographical material about the emotional travails and aspirationsof Broadway dancers, as they audition for spots in the singing anddancing chorus of a new musical. – Washington Post
  
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• Choral and Musicianship Practitioners / The Voices Foundation / North West / UK wide

  31-10-2019 18:20
  Voices Foundation (VF) are seeking individuals who have experience in delivering high quality Musicianship and/or Choral pedagogy with teachers, children and whole schools. The VF model embeds...
  
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• Gallery Interpreter (fixed term) / The Lowry / North West

  31-10-2019 18:10
  Gallery Interpreter (x 3) – Temporary fixed term contracts - £16,750.50 pro rata per annum, plus staff benefits 
  The Lowry is one of the UK’s leading multi art form...
  
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• John Witherspoon, One Of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Black Actors, Dead At 77

  31-10-2019 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[He spent] a long career of playing crotchety yet lovable men whose working-class roots mirrored his own. The actor, who worked until the day before his death, had a remarkable fluency with the hardships his characters faced and the humor they derived from those situations. … [His] ability to convey paternal irritation with comedic flair became a hallmark of nearly all his performances.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Call for Entries: Royal Society of Portrait Painters / Mall Galleries / London

  31-10-2019 18:02
  The Royal Society of Portrait Painters seeks submissions of new and traditional artistic models and perspectives in portraiture
  Artists over 18, from the UK and beyond, are invited to submit works...
  
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• Freefalling Manager & Youth Theatre Director - Freelance / Polka Theatre / London

  31-10-2019 18:01
  Polka Theatre is seeking a Freefalling Youth Theatre Director/Project Manager to join our busy and ambitious Creative Learning team. Freefalling is a tailored drama programme, provided free-of-charge...
  
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• Seventeenth-century portrait of St Agatha comes home to Osterley

  31-10-2019 17:53
  National Trust bought Carlo Dolci painting to return it to the house where it once hungA powerful 17th-century portrait of the Christian martyr St Agatha has gone on display at the Georgian mansion and country estate where it was once a star of the art collection.The painting, by the devout Catholic Florentine artist Carlo Dolci, was bought by the National Trust last year to return it to its “home” of Osterley House in west London. Related: National Trust to create 68 orchards by 202
  
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• Applications now open for Nonclassical Battle of the Bands 2020 / Nonclassical / London

  31-10-2019 17:46
  Battle of the Bands 2020 - Applications Open
  Whether you want to try out ideas on stage, or you fancy dipping your toe in alternative classical waters, Battle of the Bands is a chance for...
  
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• Female Performer / Rhum and Clay Theatre Company / London / Touring UK

  31-10-2019 17:26
  We are looking for a FEMALE PERFORMER to join the performing ensemble for a 12-week, mid-scale UK tour of Rhum & Clay’s The War of the Worlds. This critically acclaimed production...
  
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• School Reading Scores Declined In Half Of American States This Year

  31-10-2019 17:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Eighth graders at the bottom 10th percentile of reading achievement lostsix points on the exam compared with similar students two years ago,while students at the 50th percentile lost 3 points and students at the 90th percentile — top achievers — lost only 1 point.” – The New York Times
  
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• Technical Assistant / 59 Productions / London

  31-10-2019 17:08
  Overall purpose of the job:
  Working with the entire 59 Productions team and external collaborators and suppliers, this role will collaborate closely with designers, directors and senior Technical...
  
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• In house video maker / Veolia / London

  31-10-2019 17:05
  Salary - £30,000 pro rata
  Contract basis - circa 6 months 
  Start date - early December 
  Veolia are looking for a video maker to join our team on a contract basis to produce a suite...
  
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• Who Gave You The Right To Tell That Story? Ten Authors On Writing Fiction About Identities Other Than Their Own

  31-10-2019 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The conversation is often depicted in the media as a binary: On one side are those who argue that only writers from marginalized backgrounds should tell stories about people who share their cultural histories — a course correction for an industry that is overwhelmingly white — while on the other are those who say this wish amounts to censorship. For those following closely, it can feel as though the debate has gotten stuck in a rut.” Here, a group of writers including J
  
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• Producer / Common Wealth / Cardiff, Wales

  31-10-2019 17:03
  Common Wealth have a brilliant opportunity for an experienced and ambitious Producer to come and join us in Cardiff. 
  Working from our Cardiff base you will support in the delivery of...
  
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• Project Manager, Videotape Digitisation / British Film Institute / London

  31-10-2019 16:56
  Project Manager, Videotape Digitisation
  Fixed Term Contract until 31 March 2022
  Salary £36,024 - £42,570 plus generous benefits package
  We support flexible working
  A fantastic...
  
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• PA to the Director of Learning / National Theatre / London

  31-10-2019 16:49
  We are looking for a PA to the Director of Learning to join our Learning department.
  This role provides vital administrative assistance to the Director of Learning, supporting the leadership of a...
  
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• Festival Communications Manager / Abandon Normal Devices / North West

  31-10-2019 16:49
  Festival Communications ManagerFee: £18,000Contract: 7 Month Freelance Contract, 4 days per week, Dec 2019 – June 2020Location: AND Office, Manchester & with travel/working from...
  
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• Programme Assistant / Abandon Normal Devices / North West

  31-10-2019 16:45
  Programme AssistantSalary: £19,000 PAYEContract: 6 Month Fixed Term Contract (PAYE) Full time Jan-June 2020Location: AND Office, Manchester & with travel to festival and touring sites...
  
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• Bartender / Immersive LDN / London

  31-10-2019 16:42
  Immersive LDN is the UK's first dedicated immersive theatre situated in the heart of Mayfair, moments from Bond Street Station.  This is the latest project by Oliver Award Winning Producers...
  
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• A Clickbait List Of America’s Most Interesting Museum Building Designs State-By-State

  31-10-2019 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  We admit, this is just museum building porn, but we love looking at beautiful buildings, and Architectural Digest has compiled a list of coolest-looking museums in each state in America. – Architectural Digest
  
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• Freelance Drama Facilitator / Talawa Theatre Company / London / Croydon

  31-10-2019 16:27
  We are currently looking for Lead facilitator(s) to deliver a 16 week drama programme in Croydon.  We are ideally looking for facilitator(s) who can commit to both terms.Term One: w/c 20th...
  
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• Dance & Drama Leader - UK Summer Camp / XUK Camps / London

  31-10-2019 16:23
  Dance & Drama Specialist Activity Leader 
  Have the summer of a lifetime at XUK Camps.  
  Residential activity summer camps for kids based...
  
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• Front of House Assistant at the Cambridge Theatre / LW Theatres / London

  31-10-2019 16:03
  Location: Cambridge Theatre
  Rate of pay: £36.95 per 3.75 hour call plus double time on Sundays
  Contract details: Contract will be for the run of the show at the Cambridge Theatre...
  
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• Front of House Assistant at Her Majesty's Theatre / LW Theatres / London

  31-10-2019 16:01
  Her Majesty’s Theatre, home to The Phantom of The Opera, is currently seeking Front of House Assistants to join the team!
  Successful applicants will drive retail sales whilst delivering...
  
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• Culture Will Be Key To Rebuilding Iraq, Say Experts

  31-10-2019 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Officials ranging from the country’s minister of culture to UNESCO executives say that restoring museums, ancient churches and mosques will not only provide employment and (eventually) revenue from tourism, they will help build “social cohesion through shared national heritage and history.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• SM on the book - Faces in the Crowd / Gate Theatre, Notting Hill / London

  31-10-2019 16:00
  We are looking for a SM on the Book to work on Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli, directed by Ellen McDougall at the Gate.
  Dates:
  Rehearsals week 1: 2 December Rehearsals week 2: 9...
  
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• Trust & Foundation Officer (Maternity Cover) / Birmingham Royal Ballet / West Midlands

  31-10-2019 15:35
  Birmingham Royal Ballet exemplifies a modern, ambitious and world-class ballet company that inspires, develops and showcases the very best of our country’s talent and creativity. 
  As a...
  
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• Rediscovering The Women Who Built The Early Film Industry

  31-10-2019 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the early years of the twentieth century, women worked in virtually every aspect of silent-film-making, as directors, writers, producers, editors, and even camera operators. The industry — new, ad hoc, making up its own rules as it went along — had not yet locked in a strict division of labor by gender. … Now we are in the midst of a new round of rediscoveries — this time of women’s behind-the-camera roles well into the golden age of Hollywood.” &n
  
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