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• MOMENTUM | Open Call / Coachworks / South East

  25-03-2020 19:00
  Coachworks seeks artists’ moving image, for the exhibition MOMENTUM. Submissions should respond to the themes of duration, time, labour, connectivity and how these have changed through the lens...
  
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• Librarians: If We Can’t Lend Books During Lockdown, Let’s Make Our Buildings And Bookmobiles Wi-Fi Hotspots

  25-03-2020 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The [American Library Association] urged the FCC to waive E-rate restrictions so libraries could not only offer [free] Wi-Fi access via local libraries, but could also provide broadband service to disconnected communities via bookmobiles and mobile hotspots without running afoul of FCC rules.” – Vice
  
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• Calling Creative Contributors - writers, dancers, photographers / The Creative Pandemic / no set location

  25-03-2020 16:51
  Feeling listless while in lockdown?
  We are a community website built to keep creative folk motivated and connected while stuck at home. We discuss our ideas online, encourage each others work and...
  
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• Remembering Terrence McNally

  25-03-2020 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Perhaps the most important comic voice in theater since Neil Simon, McNallywrote to amuse and awaken. Laughter for him was the greatest survivaltool ever invented. Humor was his shield against the homophobia heexperienced as a Catholic boy growing up in Texas, against the lossesthat rained down on him and his community during the worst days of theAIDS crisis and against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune —which in showbiz is even more outrageous than usual. – Los Angeles Tim
  
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• Project Manager (logistics & events) - Leicester City Takeover / UK Young Artists / East Midlands

  25-03-2020 16:24
  Fee: £5,500Number of days: 36 (approx)Contract: FreelancePlace of work: Leicester/ NottinghamTimescale: July 2020 - March 2021
  Leicester 2021 is a 4 day festival which will place culture...
  
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• Producer: Interdisciplinary Residencies, Leicester City Takeover / UK Young Artists / East Midlands

  25-03-2020 16:21
  Fee: £4,500Number of days: 27 (approx)Contract: FreelancePlace of work: Leicester/ NottinghamTimescale: July 2020 - March 2021
  Leicester 2021 is a 4 day festival which will place culture...
  
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• Producer: Live Work, UKYA City Takeover Leicester 2021 / UK Young Artists / East Midlands

  25-03-2020 16:17
  Fee: £5,000Number of days: 30 (approx)Contract: FreelancePlace of work: Leicester/ NottinghamTimescale: July 2020 - March 2021
  Leicester 2021 is a 4 day festival which will place culture...
  
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• Albert Uderzo, Co-Creator Of Astérix The Gaul, Dead At 92

  25-03-2020 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Born colorblind and with six fingers on each hand, [he] became one of the world’s most acclaimed cartoonists, known for drawing characters that ranged from the sword-wielding Astérix — with his winged helmet, bulbous nose and horseshoe mustache — to the roly-poly Obélix, a stonemason who joins Astérix in defending their village from Roman legionaries.” – The Washington Post
  
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• What Will America’s Arts Economy Be Like After COVID? How Can Artists Survive? (It’s Not A Pretty Picture)

  25-03-2020 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Zach Finkelstein does not sugar-coat the situation: “The tragic irony of this crisis is that, in the post-COVID era, the person most likely to have a performance career will be the one that can last the longest without performing. … The most effective route to survival in the post-COVID word will require artists to build another set of marketable skills, with training to start immediately.” – The Middle-Class Artist
  
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• Yvonne Rainer Creates An At-Home Dance For Coronavirus Quarantine

  25-03-2020 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Brian Seibert: “She calls it Passing and Jostling While Being Confined to a Small Apartment. It’s a dance history exercise [for Seibert’s class at Yale], but it occurred to me that it might double as a diversion for people now cooped up at home; it’s something that anyone can attempt, carefully. Ms. Rainer agreed. So here I can present her first dance for the socially isolated.” – The New York Times
  
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• Six Indie Filmmakers, Their New Movies Shelved, Talk About Cinema’s COVID Apocalypse

  25-03-2020 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Their sentiments run the gamut from hope to doom (‘I’ve been wondering when the next mass extinction event would come. This is it.’) and collectively form an uncertain picture of the future of film.” – Vulture
  
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• There Will Be No Spoleto Festival USA This Year

  25-03-2020 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After spending about $4.5 million that can’t be recovered, [the] Festival now must cope with a projected $756,000 deficit for 2020. (It did manage to avoid spending another $4.5 million that had been budgeted.)” No job cuts or furloughs are planned, and much of this year’s programming will be moved to 2021. – The Post and Courier (Charleston)
  
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• Ojai Music Festival Cancelled

  25-03-2020 13:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Ojai Music Festival has joined the list of coronavirus cancellations, … marking the first time since its founding in 1947 that the annual celebration of experimental classical music will not be held.” This year’s guest music director was to have been German composer Matthias Pintscher. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• International Call for Art, Summer Edition: Issue 18 / ArtMaze Magazine / London

  25-03-2020 13:25
  Art Maze Magazine is an independent artist-run and ad-free international print and online publication dedicated to showcasing and promoting experimental and progressive contemporary art, which...
  
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• San Francisco Art Institute Stops Enrolling Students, Prepares To Lay Off Faculty And Staff

  25-03-2020 13:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The nearly 150-year-old school, which counts Ansel Adams, Richard Diebenkorn, and Dorothea Lange as former faculty, says that it can’t continue to operate in the near term unless it joins a larger and more stable institution. Administrators expect to cancel all fall semester classes. Students graduating this spring will get their degrees; others are being strongly encouraged to transfer elsewhere. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Sixties Invasion Show featuring The Zoots and The Equals / Palace Theatre / South West

  25-03-2020 12:28
  Experience THE Sixties show that's wowing audiences around the world, selling out and headlining venues from the Palladium to Old Trafford - with the spectacular sounds of THE ZOOTS! THE ZOOTS are...
  
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• Private view: our art critic's favourite online galleries

  25-03-2020 09:00
  
  The world’s great art museums have closed their doors – but you can travel within their walls virtually to see treasures up closeTwo weeks ago, Andy Warhol opened at Tate Modern, then closed again. The artist barely got his 15 minutes. If you need an Andy fix, why not visit the website of the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, which has the largest holdings of the artist’s work in the world? If you never got to see the National Gallery’s Titian exhibition (or even if you did),
  
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• 'It feels like wartime': how street artists are responding to coronavirus

  25-03-2020 07:15
  
  The pandemic may have closed museums and galleries down but artists have found other ways to comment on the crisis With the pandemic closing museums and galleries across the US, artists have been heading to the street to find a way of making an impact through their work. Whether it’s with villainous cartoon-like germs, soldiers armed with Purell or even just a friendly reminder to wash your hands, creatives have found a collective coping strategy for dealing with Covid-19. Related: The Act
  
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• Isolation Arts Cafe / St Albans Arts Team / East

  25-03-2020 04:56
  In these times of self-isolation and lock-down, the Isolation Arts Cafe is a space where you can share your creativity and collaborate creatively with others. Whether you are from St Albans District,...
  
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