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• Writing for Wellbeing - Hibernation & Regeneration, Fire&Air / Read Write Express / London

  24-11-2019 23:10
  Make space for yourself, get grounded and revitalised through meditation and allow your hand to write with imagination 
  These workshops provide a supportive space where, through...
  
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• Surface Spotlight: Volunteer Show / Surface Gallery / East Midlands

  24-11-2019 20:13
  Surface Gallery is excited to present Surface Spotlight, featuring an eclectic mix of artistic practices from our talented group of volunteers. While Boultbee’s multi-media work explores...
  
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• Christie's urged to pull sale of Roman statue 'linked to illicit dealers'

  24-11-2019 17:49
  
  Art expert says he has evidence 1st-century Eros marble was in archive of disgraced dealersA leading archaeologist is calling for Christie’s to cancel the auction of a 1st-century Roman statue because of its alleged links to “notorious dealers connected with numerous cases of illicit antiquities”.Prof Christos Tsirogiannis’ claims relate to a marble depiction of Eros unstringing his bow, which is due to be sold on 4 December. Continue reading...
  
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• Music Practitioner - Urban Music Development Unit / SoCo Music Project / South East

  24-11-2019 16:44
  To support the work of the Urban Music Development Unit, a new provision in Southampton supporting young people with an interest in Urban Music Genres.
  SoCo Music Project provides positive and...
  
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• Programme Manager - Urban Music Development Unit / SoCo Music Project / South East

  24-11-2019 16:42
  To lead the work of the Urban Music Development Unit, a new provision in Southampton supporting young people with an interest in Urban Music Genres.
  SoCo Music Project provides positive and creative...
  
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• Lady Macbeth hand sanitiser? It's the culture Christmas gift guide 2019!

  24-11-2019 16:00
  
  Putin flip-flops, a Darth Vader plant pot, Fleabag’s hot priest meltdown, No Man Is an Island oven gloves … get your Christmas in gear with our guide to the hottest, artsiest presents aroundMr Bingo advent calendar
  On the ninth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me … a gun pointing at my head. Nudey, scratchy fun from the man who’ll send you a hate-filled postcard for a fee. £44, shop.mr.bingoJoy Division Christmas tree decorations
  Salford’s postpunk leg
  
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• Project Manager: Gig Buddies Calderdale / Square Chapel Arts Centre / Yorkshire

  24-11-2019 14:17
  Square Chapel Centre for the Arts, Halifax…
  Is looking to appoint a Project Manager for Gig Buddies Calderdale 22.5 hours per week, fixed to 31st March 2021  
  Salary: £27,000...
  
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• Artist Commissions x 3 / Studio 3 Arts / London

  24-11-2019 12:52
  We are the Studio 3 Arts 'Youth Ambassadors', a group of young artists aged 14-17 who live in Barking and Dagenham. We are aiming to bring our community together through commissioning artists to...
  
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• QP Kit Room Technician / QP Motion / London

  24-11-2019 11:04
  QP Kit Room Technician Position - Full Time
  QP Motion are looking for a very organised, enthusiastic and driven individual to work within our team.
  We are a busy video equipment hire company based...
  
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• Musical Theatre Choreographer/ Teacher / The Pauline Quirke academy of Performing Arts / London / Enfield

  24-11-2019 10:17
  PQA Enfield is a thriving & reputable weekend performing arts academy in North London with an excellent reputation in the local community for providing an outstanding performing arts education to...
  
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• Troy: Myth and Reality review – bearing gifts, without the horse

  24-11-2019 10:00
  
  British Museum, London
  Paris, Helen, Odysseus and Achilles star in this sprawling show of art ranging from Pompeii to today, inspired by the legend of TroyIt begins with a startling vision of love at first sight, painted by an Athenian artist c530BC. The Greek hero Achilles is shown in glinting black armour, bearing down on Penthesilea, leader of the Amazons. Just as his spear pierces her white throat, their eyes meet and Achilles falls in love. His visible eye, in profile, grows lar ge with the
  
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• The big picture: a handbag's grown-up secrets

  24-11-2019 08:00
  
  Shirley Baker captures a pair of inquisitive young conspirators on the streets of Manchester in 1965When Shirley Baker, the great street photographer of Salford and Manchester, died in 2014, aged 82, she left behind a huge archive of negatives and prints in the attic of the house belonging to her daughter, Nan Levy. The vast majority of this archive had never been published. The curator and writer Lou Stoppard has excavated these boxes and files for a new book, published by Mack, which offers a
  
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• From the archive: George Melly interviews the poet Edward James in 1981

  24-11-2019 07:00
  
  Covering surrealism, toxic divorce and infidelity, the interview between the jazz great and the English poet was always going to be eye-bulgingly eccentricThe Observer Magazine cover story of 29 March 1981 was an interview by George Melly with the English poet Edward James in his role as a patron of surrealist painters (‘Dreams to sell’) – one eccentric interviewing another. The piece coincided with a Christie’s auction of 28 of James’s paintings that he needed to s
  
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