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• Cartoon Animator video for children's short story / Lillian Avon / South West

  18-03-2020 23:32
  I am a short story writer living in England.  I have written a 2 minute children's short story that I would like animated into a cartoon.  I want to post this on YouTube first then possibly...
  
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• Right Now Boring Online Social Sharing Is Comforting

  18-03-2020 22:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s not just Americans broadcasting their living spaces to the world inthe hopes of finding digital company. In the midst of a pandemic, kidswith smartphones and wireless access and unlimited free time are showingus what a room looks like globally. American teenagers are watching TikTok videosfrom countries that are two or three weeks ahead of the United Statesin quarantine measures, peering into the life they will soon be living. – The Atlantic
  
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• City Of Seattle Announces Emergency Rent And Financial Support For The Arts

  18-03-2020 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This is 9/11 meets The Great Recession meets the snowstorm,” RandyEngstrom, director of the city’s Office of Arts and Culture (OAC), saidduring an online public meeting Tuesday afternoon. “We know we’re goingto get through this together — and this is our time.” – Seattle Times
  
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• Finally We’re Learning Online

  18-03-2020 21:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If there is a silver lining in this crisis, it may be that the virus isforcing us to use the internet as it was always meant to be used — toconnect with one another, share information and resources, and come upwith collective solutions to urgent problems. It’s the healthy, humaneversion of digital culture we usually see only in schmaltzy TVcommercials, where everyone is constantly using a smartphone to visitfar-flung grandparents and read bedtime stories to kids. – The New Yor
  
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• Some Practical Suggestions For Arts Organizations Struggling To Survive

  18-03-2020 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michael Kaiser: “Formany, it is a lack of clarity on the duration of the crisis that causesthe most anxiety. Should we proceed with rehearsals for a newproduction scheduled for May? Do we issue next season’s subscriptionbrochure? Should we move forward with our capital campaign? Will ourreserves outlast the downturn, or are more drastic measures necessary?These are some of the sensible and challenging questions we have heardfrom arts leaders across the nation.” – DeVos I
  
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• Skateboard Delivery? Recommendations? A Simple Chat? Book Shops Get Creative

  18-03-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The authors I contacted all jumped at the chance to do something tobenefit both the bookstore and those readers facing isolation, eventhough many of those authors themselves are entering a period of greatuncertainty.” – The Guardian
  
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• Sobering Prospects For The Books Industry

  18-03-2020 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The potential long-term effects for book retailers are sobering. Many inthe industry are worried that independent bookstores will be devastatedas local and state officials mandate social distancing and order somebusinesses to temporarily close. – The New York Times
  
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• The Big Stop On The Political Book Circuit? It’s Not In D.C., It’s In L.A.

  18-03-2020 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Writers Bloc, a series of talks, readings and discussions, pulls in sold-out crowds for the likes of Rachel Maddow, Cory Booker, Joy Reid, Elizabeth Warren, and the Pod Save America guys. Yes, in La-La Land. – The New York Times
  
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• Crisis as Opportunity

  18-03-2020 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With my lens as an advocate for community engagement, I think of the many (many, many) people who have told me they just don’t have time to devote to making connections with their communities. There are too many other tasks to do. But now … – Doug Borwick
  
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• Covid’s Metamorphoses: How Coronavirus Has Transformed the Artworld

  18-03-2020 19:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last Wednesday, the Met invited me to the press preview for the 150th anniversary show Making the Met; Thursday, the museum announced it was closing. On Mar. 11, the Association of Art Museum Directors began a running list of member institutions that had closed; as of today, all of them have. – Lee Rosenbaum
  
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• Met Opera Cites Force Majeure And Cancels Soloist Contracts

  18-03-2020 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Five days ago, the largest opera company by budget in the United States released a statement to the press that all rehearsals and performances through the end of the month would be cancelled due to Coronavirus.
  Multiple soloists currently engaged at the Met confirm they found out about their lost work via a Tweet. – Middle Class Artist
  
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• How COVID-19 Is Changing Podcasting

  18-03-2020 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Shows are drastically scaling down their studio time, production teams are increasingly shifting to remote workflows, public radio stations are postponing their pledge drives, and independents are bracing for hits to their business models. Here, a look at how the podcast world is handling the crisis.” – Vulture
  
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• William Burke obituary

  18-03-2020 18:44
  
  My friend William Burke, who has died of a heart attack aged 71, was a distinguished gallerist and collector whose passionate love of the arts led to close associations with many notable cultural figures. As an American in Paris, he was also an anglophile, who nurtured friendships and professional relations between New York, London and Paris.Born in the small Bible belt town of Marianna, Arkansas, William was the adopted son of Robert Burke, a post office clerk, and his wife, Sarah (nee Stevenso
  
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• How Public TV And LA Schools Quickly Got An At-Home School Learning Program Up And Running

  18-03-2020 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  LAUSD curriculum specialists and PBSSoCal/KCET were in a programming war room, mapping out priorities bygrade, and identifying shows inside the TV stations’ library that mightmatch up. Also, San Francisco PBS station KQED was brought in, and tookthe lead in developing an online service to match the broadcast servicebeing developed in Los Angeles. – Variety
  
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• Artist Commission - Marlow Library / Buckinghamshire County Council / South East

  18-03-2020 18:09
  Marlow Library, part of the Buckinghamshire Library network, is being refurbished and this is an exciting opportunity to help us give the new library the wow factor!  The distinctive interior...
  
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• Summer Internship / Oxford University Press / South East / Oxford

  18-03-2020 18:06
  Oxford University Press (OUP) is a department of the University of Oxford that furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing...
  
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• This French Nonprofit Is Training Refugees To Work In The Arts

  18-03-2020 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The organization Sama for All, founded by Syrian refugee Souad Nanaa, prepares displaced persons in France to find jobs in museums and cultural organizations. The six-month program teaches topics such as museum security, making presentations to visitors, and the specialized vocabulary refugees won’t learn in their regular French classes. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Museum Manager / Bow Street Police Museum / London

  18-03-2020 17:50
  Bow Street Police Museum is a new independent museum opening this summer, celebrating the history of the Bow Street Runners and telling the story of London’s first police station and the...
  
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• Take In A Museum – Ten Museums That Offer Cool Virtual Tours

  18-03-2020 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  These virtual tours take you right inside some of the world’s most iconicinstitutions. Been putting off that trip to Amsterdam to explore theVan Gogh Museum? Here’s your chance to take it all in. Dreaming of atrip to Paris that includes taking in the Louvre? You can do that, too. – Yahoo!
  
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• Manchester Science Festival Deadline for Submissions Extended / / North West

  18-03-2020 17:08
  Manchester Science Festival returns from Friday 23 October – Sunday 1 November 2020 and we are looking to collaborate with partners to curate this year’s programme, which will centre...
  
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• My Pal Inigo Philbrick, The Bernie Madoff Of The Art World

  18-03-2020 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When I first met Inigo Philbrick in 2012, he was all of 25, looked an awful lot like Justin Timberlake, and … I was immediately smitten, professionally and personally; Philbrick was sharp, fun, and funny. … And for a long time, I thought that was one of the most fortunate days of my life.” Dealer-collector-curator-Artnet columnist Kenny Schachter, for whom Philbrick made and then lost a few million dollars, writes about watching his best bud run amok, run aground, and
  
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• What The COVID Crisis Is Doing To New Music

  18-03-2020 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Life as a freelancer is already touch and go. We can’t really count onwork to begin with, we don’t know what our schedules will be more than3-6 months in advance, there’s always the risk of something fallingthrough at the last minute, and there is no safety net. Yet there’s somestrange consistency in that. You know how it goes and what to expectand you know you have some control over what you do and don’t do. Inthis instance, we are totally unprepared and wi
  
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• Italy’s Dancers, Stuck At Home, Are Taking Class Via App

  18-03-2020 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Marina Harss talks to four dancers from across the country about how they’re staying in shape and in touch despite being more or less trapped in their houses. – The New York Times
  
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• An Upside Of Italy’s Lockdown: You Can Now See Fish And Waterfowl In Venice’s Canals

  18-03-2020 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Venetians are posting photos to the Facebook group Venezia Pulita (Clean Venice), saying that they’ve never seen the water in the canals so clear. It’s not that they’re suddenly far less polluted than before, says the mayor’s office: the lack of boat traffic means that no sediment is getting stirred up from the bottom. – CNN
  
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• An Honor Roll Of North American Opera Companies And Vocal Ensembles Who Are Paying Musicians Despite The Cancellations

  18-03-2020 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There are a lot of small regional organizations on this list who are stepping up despite finances that are precarious even in good times, but the only big-name company there is Houston Grand Opera. And though Lincoln Center Theater is included (for its now-cancelled production of the new Ricky Ian Gordon-Lynn Nottage opera Intimate Apparel), the Metropolitan Opera is definitely not. (Across the Atlantic, English National Opera will honor at least one month of contracts.) – The Middle-Clas
  
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• Actor Lyle Waggoner, Known For ‘The Carol Burnett Show’ And ‘Wonder Woman’, Dead At 84

  18-03-2020 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In addition to being the handsome announcer and sketch actor on Burnett’s show and the foil to Lynda Carter’s superheroine, he was the first-ever centerfold for Playgirl magazine and, later in life, launched a successful business renting custom trailers for actors to retreat to during movie and TV shoots. – Yahoo! (AP)
  
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• Researcher-in-Residence: Craft / Grizedale Arts / North West

  18-03-2020 14:23
  We are looking for enquiring, creative minds who can inform and develop our future projects and further their own research interests with our support.
  The Researcher-in-Residence will...
  
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• For The American Shakespeare Center, COVID Could Be An Existential Threat. Here’s How The Company’s Holding It Together

  18-03-2020 14:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The replica Elizabethan theatre in the Shenandoah Valley normally thrives, in the usual hand-to-mouth way, with a mix of school groups and out-of-town visitors. Now both are gone indefinitely. Peter Marks traveled to Staunton, Va. to see how the ASC is coping. – The Washington Post
  
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• A Guide To Concerts And Operas To Stream During The COVID Quarantine

  18-03-2020 13:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Of the dozen or more such articles that we’ve seen so far, this one from David Patrick Stearns is our favorite so far — not only because it offers a lot of options, but also because of his sense of humor and compassion. – WQXR (New York City)
  
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• Digital Technician / Birmingham City Council / West Midlands

  18-03-2020 13:22
  'Everything to Everybody' is a National Lottery funded partnership project between the University of Birmingham and Birmingham City Council.
  Based at the Library of Birmingham, the project will work...
  
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• Archivist / Birmingham City Council / West Midlands

  18-03-2020 13:18
  'Everything to Everybody' is a National Lottery funded partnership project between the University of Birmingham and Birmingham City Council.
  Based at the Library of Birmingham, the project will work...
  
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• Senior Collection and Engagement Library Assistant / Birmingham City Council / West Midlands

  18-03-2020 13:15
  'Everything to Everybody' is a National Lottery funded partnership project between the University of Birmingham and Birmingham City Council.
  Based at the Library of Birmingham, the project will work...
  
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• How Dancers And Dance Organizations Can Prepare For The Financial Fallout Of COVID-19

  18-03-2020 13:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Garnet Henderson’s guide includes more than just obvious advice such as “keep three to six months’ worth of income in savings” (which, she acknowledges, is impossible for many dancers). One key point: be sure to save documentation of every gig you’ve lost because of the epidemic, because you’ll need it when you apply for aid. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Head of Development / Unit London / London

  18-03-2020 12:38
  Unit Drops is an e-commerce business and an extension of Unit London which focuses on limited prints and editions. Unit Drops aims to increase accessibility for a younger generation, offering...
  
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• Creative Artworker + Printer / Omni Colour / London

  18-03-2020 12:13
  Creative Artworker & Large Format Printer
  For over 25 years, Omni and sister company K2 Screen have worked extensively with the art world, as well as covering all areas of print for high...
  
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• Smile-ing Boys Project – in pictures

  18-03-2020 10:40
  
  Kay Rufai’s portraits of smiling black boys from south London came out of an initiative that investigated the lack of mental health provisions for black teenagers. The photographs will be on display at Brixton VillagePhotographs of black teenagers that stare prejudice in the face Continue reading...
  
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• Dancing and Moving from wherever you are / Rosaria Gracia Dance / South East / All regions

  18-03-2020 10:20
  An opportunity to continue being healthy and connected!Join me for a series of dance and movement sessions over the next few weeks.Starting on 20th March, we are going to link up every day at...
  
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• The Act of Love: using photography to spread unity during a pandemic

  18-03-2020 07:10
  
  New York artist Arina Voronova has created a street art project aimed at promoting love and support at a difficult timeAt a construction site on the Lower East Side, there’s a set of posters far different than the rest: they show photographs of people kissing while wearing surgical masks. Art in the age of Covid-19? Perhaps. But also a call for unity as the nation faces pressure living under the weight of pandemic. Related: Plague visionaries: how Rembrandt, Titian and Caravaggio tackled p
  
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• Photographs of black teenagers that stare prejudice in the face | Irena Barker

  18-03-2020 07:00
  
  Kay Rufai’s images of smiling 13-year-olds are one project confronting damaging stereotypes of black boys and menIn terms of challenging stereotypes and representations of black boys this was so powerful for me … because it’s not an image that you’re used to ever seeing, and you question why it has such an impact on you,” says Kay Rufai. He is talking about the 16 large-scale colour photographs of teenage boys that went on display at City Hall in London last autumn
  
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• The death of Aubrey Beardsley - archive, 18 March 1898

  18-03-2020 06:30
  
  18 March 1898 The artist showed a feeling for the value of line and an ingenuity in devising striking patterns that were unusual in so young a manThe death is announced, at Mentone, of Mr Aubrey Beardsley, the young designer whose black and white work has gained so considerable a vogue during the last five years. He was born in 1874, educated at the Brighton Grammar School, and placed in an architect’s office at the age of fifteen. Disliking the profession, he left it in 1890 to become a c
  
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• Coronavirus collabs: the social media games entertaining the masses – and bringing us together

  18-03-2020 04:05
  
  From a film club on Twitter to Spotify playlists and a covers concert making its way through Instagram, creatives are finding ways to keep you entertained What’s quarantine without a fun way to pass the time? As pandemic-induced social distancing pushes more and more people to the solitude of the home, self-isolators have started coming up with ways to entertain themselves, their neighbours and strangers around the world through social media. Related: Coronaviral: the best memes, tweets an
  
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