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• Hand Squeezed Objects - clay sessions for babies and toddlers / Modern Clay / West Midlands / All

  16-02-2020 22:16
  Hand Squeezed ObjectsClay making sessions for babies and toddlersMonday 6 April, 10am, 11.30am and 2pm£15 for 1 adult and 1 child
  After a successful run before Christmas we're happy to...
  
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• Hand Building with Ceramics 8 Week Course / Modern Clay / West Midlands / All

  16-02-2020 22:10
  Hand Building with Ceramics 8 Week CourseWith Joanne Masding and Sophie McKinneyThursday evenings from 19 March, 6.30-8.30pm£200
  Join artist Joanne Masding and ceramicist Sophie McKinney for...
  
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• Set Designer / Closer Each Day Company / South West

  16-02-2020 20:18
  Closer Each Day Company are looking for a set designer to give their improvised soap opera a fresh, creative, ingenious set that can be used every other week at the Wardrobe Theatre. Please get in...
  
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• A Creative Journey in 31 Envelopes - Get Involved / 31 Envelopes / South West

  16-02-2020 19:42
  A creative journey in 31 envelopes – GET INVOLVED
  We are excited to invite anyone in Bristol to engage with this very initial exploration of an idea – an idea that will allow the people...
  
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• Costumer Designer/Maker / Masquerade Theatre Arts / London

  16-02-2020 16:50
  Masquerade Theatre Arts Ealing are seeking a Costumer Designer/Maker for their children's production of The Sound Of Music. The production will take place on Sunday 21st June at The Beck Theatre,...
  
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• A deeper Splash: the artist painting the pool cleaners David Hockney forgot

  16-02-2020 16:00
  
  As Hockney’s cool pool dive goes for £23m, we meet Ramiro Gomez, the Mexican-American putting labourers, security guards, removal men and more back into the pictureDavid Hockney’s “splash” paintings are still making waves. A medium-sized canvas from the 1967 series, showing the aftermath of a dive into the clear blue waters of a California pool, just sold at auction for £23m. In the half-century since it was painted, the work has become synonymous with a langu
  
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• Studio Space Available / Vale Artists Studios / North West / West Midlands

  16-02-2020 15:54
  We have a shared studio space available at Vale Artists in Congleton, Cheshire for an artist, maker or designer.
  The space is half of a ground floor room shared with one other artist.
  The whole...
  
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• Workshop Leader & Entertainer S London / CLIP Theatre / London

  16-02-2020 15:44
  The most fun you’ll have at work… probably
   CLIP Theatre is an award-winning, creative learning feast for the under 5s and their entourage.  Think puppets, think huge beach...
  
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• Andy Warhol's 1950s erotic drawings of men to be shown for first time

  16-02-2020 14:12
  
  Collection lined up for Tate Modern not displayed before due to homophobia artist encounteredAll about Andy: extracts from Warhol – A Life As ArtDozens of previously unpublished Andy Warhol drawings on the theme of love, sex and desire are to be seen for the first time. The pop artist’s foundation is releasing a major study of his depictions of young men in private moments, whether in a loving embrace or more explicit acts.They date from the 1950s, when Warhol was a successful commer
  
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• Andy Warhol's 1950s erotic drawings of men to be seen for first time

  16-02-2020 14:12
  Collection lined up for major publication not displayed before due to homophobia artist encounteredAll about Andy: extracts from Warhol – A Life As ArtDozens of previously unpublished Andy Warhol drawings on the theme of love, sex and desire are to be seen for the first time. The pop artist’s foundation is releasing a major study of his depictions of young men in private moments, whether in a loving embrace or more explicit acts.They date from the 1950s, when Warhol was a successful
  
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• Writer / Alnwick Playhouse / North East

  16-02-2020 14:08
  Call out for new Christmas Performance
  Alnwick Playhouse are working in partnership, with the Queen’s Hall, Hexham and Sunderland Culture (for The Fire Station), to commission a new Christmas...
  
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• Illustrated Textiles - A six week course for creatives / Ellie Shipman / South West / Bristol

  16-02-2020 12:11
  Tuesdays, 6 - 8:30pm from 3rd March - 7th April
  REGISTER HERE: bit.ly/IllustratedTextiles
  Are you an illustrator or artist who would love to push new avenues in your practice with textiles and...
  
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• Cultural Programme Officer / National Trust / North East

  16-02-2020 10:45
  Would you like to be part of a new creative, dynamic and exciting team who are looking to engage with the North East audience? We have a unique opportunity to shape and create...
  
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• Steve McQueen review – don’t look away

  16-02-2020 10:00
  
  Tate Modern, London
  Whether exposing the horrors of a South African gold mine or probing Charlotte Rampling’s eye, McQueen is forever unflinching in his first major UK show for 20 yearsEnter through the film-house gloom and you’re immediately plunged into deeper darkness. The screen before you seethes with obliterating blackness. A blurred face appears for half a second, and occasional glimmers hurtle upwards like sparks up a chimney. But other than the deafening crankshaft thrum, th
  
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• Should opera fans feel cheated at the Coliseum?

  16-02-2020 10:00
  
  ENO books a four-month Hairspray; Parasite looks to outdo Amélie at the UK box office; and sensitivity warnings at the TatePaul Merton is to star at the London Coliseum. Yes, Coliseum; not Palladium. The quirky comic and Have I Got News For You panellist will be officially unveiled on 18 February as Wilbur Turnblad in a revival of the musical Hairspray. It will open at the Coliseum, home of English National Opera, in late April and run to the end of August. His co-star is Michael Ball. Th
  
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• All about Andy: extracts from Warhol – A Life As Art

  16-02-2020 10:00
  
  In his new biography, the former chief art critic of the Washington Post sheds new light on the late 20th century’s defining artist“Andy Warhol, prince of pop art” – that’s still how we pigeonhole the man often described as the greatest of the west’s postwar artists, even though pop only occupied the first three years of his fine-art career. In the quarter-century that followed, Warhol produced a vast range of work that has gone on to matter at least as much,
  
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• Stephen Hargadon on Twitter collagist Cold War Steve

  16-02-2020 08:00
  
  The Anthony Burgess prize nominee reviews four years of photomontages from Twitter collagist Christopher Spencer, better known as Cold War SteveIs something bad about to happen? Or has it just happened? It’s hard to tell. The room is dim and seedy, straight out of the 1970s, with its geometric wallpaper and dark, chunky furniture. We might be in a pimp’s lair, an adulterer’s den. Boris Johnson sits on the edge of the bed, wan and dishevelled, his bulk girdled in high-waisted br
  
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• Phoebe Walker on photographers Ute and Werner Mahler

  16-02-2020 08:00
  
  Portraits focused on East Germany show ongoing disillusion, pre- and post-1989, writes the Anthony Burgess prize nomineeTheir melancholy droop tugs your eye. Houseplants, half-heartedly displayed in suburban windows, or silhouetted behind lowered blinds, captured with a large-format camera, in grave monochrome. Is this bathos? I can smell the dust on the flowers, the stiff buds and stalk-like grasses; feel the flesh of my fingertip give against a succulent’s pointed leaf. No, this is Klein
  
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• Alastair Curtis on a David Wojnarowicz exhibition

  16-02-2020 08:00
  
  The Anthony Burgess prize nominee on a retrospective of the work of anti-Aids activist and artist David Wojnarowicz“I’m carrying this rage inside me like a blood-filled egg.” So said the artist and activist David Wojnarowicz in his memoirs, Close to the Knives. He had reason enough to rage, after an abusive childhood, years of living and working on the New York streets as a teenage hustler, and now AIDS was wiping out his world. Exclusion, suffering and violence: Wojnarowicz&rs
  
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• A Lived Reality and a Search for New Ones / Knot Work / North East

  16-02-2020 01:55
  Thursday, 26 March 2020
  13.00 - 18.00
  Please join us, the members of creative research group Knot Work, for an afternoon of play and storytelling. Help us to explore serendipitous research and...
  
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