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• Musical Director / Ermine Music / East Midlands

  10-11-2019 23:17
  Responsibilities of Music Director
   
  Outreach Programme –
   To lead a weekly workshop in a minimum of two schools per week.
  To provide a minimum of 30 sessions per academic...
  
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• We should honour the art, not the artist | Letter

  10-11-2019 18:15
  
  Maybe the time has come to stop deluding ourselves that great work must be created by great people, says Bernard LyallWith yet another reminder of Roman Polanski’s problematic history (Woman accuses Roman Polanski of raping her in 1975 when she was 18, theguardian.com, 8 November) and the recent furore over Peter Handke’s Nobel prize (Report, 17 October), maybe the time has come to stop deluding ourselves that great work must be created by great people. Indeed, to acknowledge that it
  
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• Why Would The Oscars Reject A Nigerian Film For Its Language?

  10-11-2019 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Because the language isn’t “foreign” enough – it’s English. The Academy is changing what the category is called – Best International Film instead of Best Foreign-Language Film – but it hasn’t changed the rules. “Lionheart, then, is ineligible for the Best International Film category, despite being an international movie shot in the most populous country in Africa.” – The Atlantic
  
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• How Reassuring: Manet Used Tracing Paper To Make Doodles Look Effortless

  10-11-2019 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  So, Manet’s “off-the-cuff spontaneity” took a little more work than he, and art historians following his words, ever claimed. “Most of these things seem to have been traced from more searching and careful drawings that he’d made in his sketchbooks. He would take semi-transparent letter paper, lay it down over a sketchbook page, trace that design with a wash of grey watercolour and then basically colour it in with watercolour.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Maria Perego, Who Created The Mouse Puppet Topo Gigio, Has Died At 95

  10-11-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Perego was an Italian puppeteer who came up with the 10-inch tall mouse puppet/marionette in the 1950s – and then the Ed Sullivan Show came calling, and calling, and calling. Of the puppet’s numerous appearances on the show, Perego said, “My puppet not only entered Americans’ households, I believe he also entered their hearts.”– The New York Times
  
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• Laid-Off Marciano Art Foundation Staffers Protest At The Museum’s Building In Los Angeles

  10-11-2019 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The staffers walked a picket line in front of the former Scottish Rite Temple on Friday. “We’re here to work! We want to work!” they chanted, and “Let us in! Let us in! Let us in!” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Valentine Monnier Is The Sixth Woman To Accuse Roman Polanski Of Raping Her When She Was A Teen

  10-11-2019 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the French newspaper Le Parisien, the photographer and former actress and model says that in 1975, the director raped her at his ski chalet in Switzerland. “She said she remembered fearing she would die. ‘I said to myself, this is Roman Polanski. He can’t take the risk that this would be known, so he will have to kill me.'” – The New York Times
  
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• The Rise – And Importance – Of Asian American Dance Groups

  10-11-2019 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a lot of Asian countries, “hip-hop rose to popularity as a form of self-expression and resistance, sometimes in the face of colonialism and oppressive regimes.” But current Asian American hip hop groups are all about finding each other, and finding community. – Noisey
  
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• Shared Artist Studio in Finsbury Park / / London

  10-11-2019 14:06
  Shared Artist studio. £295 per calendar month.
  Available NowHi! We are 3 artists sharing a studio in Regent Studios, Finsbury Park.
  Studio offers: Great natural...
  
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• What Happens When A Renowned Flutist Gets Diagnosed With Alzheimer’s?

  10-11-2019 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Well, if the flutist is Eugenia Zukerman, she writes a memoir chronicling what happens to her brain. Now three years into her Alzheimer’s diagnosis, she says, “music for me is a second language.” – NPR
  
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• McSweeney’s Internet Tendency Is Now Old Enough To Drink Legally

  10-11-2019 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Happy 21st, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. How the heck do you stay so funny over some exceedingly unfunny years? One editor interviews another to find out. – Inside Higher Ed
  
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• Preorder Your Books From Indie Bookstores

  10-11-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Here’s why you should do that: “Your interest in a title will indicate to booksellers that it’s worth checking out! Maybe they’ll read it. Maybe they’ll love it and give it table space up front and hand-sell it to everyone who walks in the door.” – Literary Hub
  
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• Gillian Wearing on George Eliot: 'She spoke of life from every side'

  10-11-2019 12:30
  
  The acclaimed artist discusses her new BBC film celebrating the life of the great Victorian novelistEver since her 1992 series Signs That Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs That Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say, Gillian Wearing has used real life in her art to tell us deeper things about ourselves. Her latest work will air on television and initially appears different: a BBC Arena film she has made about the novelist George Eliot. The threads between Eliot and Wearing reveal thems
  
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• Self-Publishing workshop at the British Library / / London / South East

  10-11-2019 10:08
  Self-publishing is now the way forward for many authors: fulltime writers are four times more likely to make a living when they self-publish! It is a quick, relatively cheap process and simple when...
  
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• 24/7: A Wake-Up Call for Our Non-Stop World review – in search of lost time

  10-11-2019 10:00
  
  Somerset House, LondonAn enjoyably restless multimedia show explores the nonstop nature of our round-the-clock world, where day and night merge and elusive sleep is the last refuge
  There is a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, dated 1782, that looks as anomalous as anything by Magritte. It shows a landscape by night, eerie and dark beneath a clouded moon. But in the distance squats a five-storey building with all its windows illuminated like some modern apartment block. This is Richard Arkwrigh
  
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• ‘The scene has exploded’: China gets set to be leading global centre for art

  10-11-2019 09:15
  
  Shanghai is fuelling China’s transition to world’s biggest art market – despite the thorny issue of censorshipSitting at one of her exhibits in the West Bund Art & Design booth of Shanghai art week – a sake bar that has just been placed on hold for a collector – Pilar Corrias reflects on the huge change she has seen since she started exhibiting here in 2013. “Energy has been building in China for well over a decade, but the way the scene has exploded over
  
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• Programme Coordinator / David Roberts Art Foundation / London

  10-11-2019 09:03
  DRAF is seeking a Programme Coordinator who is passionate about developing and delivering an ambitious programme of contemporary art exhibitions, performances and public events in...
  
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• Administrator / David Roberts Art Foundation / London

  10-11-2019 08:45
  DRAF (David Roberts Art Foundation) is seeking a dynamic and enthusiastic full-time Administrator to work closely with a small, busy team supporting all areas of...
  
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• Meltdown: the urgent art of our disappearing glaciers

  10-11-2019 06:30
  
  An arresting exhibition from activist charity Project Pressure uses conceptual photography to capture the decline of the ice caps‘What is it about those melting glaciers and desperate polar bears that makes us want to look away?” the activist and author Naomi Klein asked in 2015. In her book This Changes Everything, she laid the blame on powerful global corporations and acquiescent governments, which both simultaneously underplay the scale of the climate emergency and exploit our col
  
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• Call for Contemporary Composer for new performance / Dorcas Seb / North West

  10-11-2019 00:15
  Looking for a contemporary composer to join the artistic team for a new immersive audio-visual performance piece by Dorcas Seb.This project will further the development of Dorcas Seb’s show...
  
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