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• Actors - Free membership to The South West Actor`s Network / The Wheel / South West

  31-03-2020 20:51
  ACTORS BASED IN SOUTH WEST ENGLAND
  Free membership to 'The South West Actor's Network' for the next 3 months or as long as the crisis lasts, with no obligation to continue afterwards.
  During this...
  
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• Head of Development (extended deadline) / FACT / North West

  31-03-2020 18:46
  FACT seeks Head of Development (deadline extended)
  The Head of Development will work closely with the CEO/Director and the leadership team to identify, develop and implement opportunities...
  
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• Experienced Writer / Meng / London

  31-03-2020 18:01
  EXPERIENCED WRITERMENG is seeking a writer to work with the founder of the company to develop a memoir, using personal anecdotes to illustrate deeper historical, psychological, social and...
  
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• Open call for Artists - Space Between Us / Artlinkhull / Yorkshire

  31-03-2020 17:00
  CALL FOR ENTRIES
  Artlink Hull presents- Space Between Us
  A digital exhibition of work exploring themes of human interaction and outdoor space.
  Showing internationally Friday 24th April - 26th June...
  
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• This way for brain tingles: ASMR gets a shiver-inducing exhibition

  31-03-2020 16:00
  
  From cucumber-crunchers to cranial exams, YouTube is full of ASMRtists provoking the strangely pleasurable autonomous sensory meridian response. Now they’ve got their own euphoric museum showSome whisper gently into the microphone, while tapping their nails along the spine of a book. Others take a bar of soap and slice it methodically into tiny cubes, letting the pieces clatter into a plastic tray. There are those who dress up as doctors and pretend to perform a cranial nerve exam, and the
  
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• Hunting down the 42 paintings of Pieter Bruegel - books podcast

  31-03-2020 15:46
  
  On this week’s show, we chat to Toby Ferris about his search for the master painter Pieter Bruegel. Ferris was 42 when he decided he would track down the 42 surviving paintings by the 16th-century great, a project he documents in his latest book Short Life in a Strange World.And Claire and Sian chat to independent bookseller Sam Fisher about how he and his staff at Burley Fisher Books have been coping during the coronavirus outbreak, and to Hay literary festival director Peter Florence, wh
  
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• Chair of the Board of Trustees / Actors Touring Company / London

  31-03-2020 15:17
  Actors Touring Company (ATC) is seeking a Chair of the Board of Trustees to support Matthew Xia, Andrew Smaje and the Board in taking the company forward.
  This is an exciting opportunity to get...
  
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• Met Museum Will Provide Another Month’s Pay To Laid-Off Staff

  31-03-2020 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With its building closed indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic, the museum’s administration let go most of its employees with a promise to pay them only through April 4; that promise has now been extended to May 4. – The New York Times
  
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• Theatre31 Project Management / Medway Council / South East

  31-03-2020 14:24
  Fixed term opportunity from June 2020 until December 2022 Medway Council is looking for an amazing organisation to deliver THEATRE31, a £1 million Arts Council England funded, ground-breaking...
  
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• Aldeburgh Festival Is Called Off For First Time In Its History

  31-03-2020 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Aldeburgh Festival is the latest cultural casualty of the coronavirus pandemic. The classical music event founded in 1948 by Benjamin Britten will not go ahead, it has been announced.” – The Guardian
  
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• Artist to create temporary, illuminated installation / Surrey Hills Arts / South East

  31-03-2020 13:12
  Harvest is an annual event bringing people together at Box Hill to celebrate the Surrey Hills landscape through the arts.
   The event takes place at dusk and features singing, percussion, poetry...
  
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• Arts and Culture Writer / The Gallyry / London

  31-03-2020 09:27
  The Gallyry is an online magazine and community, uniting and supporting women and non-binary people in the arts. We aim to create a friendly and inclusive space for people to...
  
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• The great British museum quiz: inside the Ashmolean, Oxford

  31-03-2020 09:00
  
  British museums are currently closed due to coronavirus – but you can explore their collections by answering some tricky questions. The first of a series of quizzes is set by the AshmoleanThis quiz is brought to you in collaboration with Art UK, the online home for the UK’s public art collections, showing art from over 3,000 venues and by 45,000 artists.Today, our questions are set by the Ashmolean Museum. The Ashmolean is the University of Oxford’s museum of art and archaeolog
  
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• The great British museum art quiz: inside the Ashmolean, Oxford

  31-03-2020 09:00
  
  British museums are currently closed due to coronavirus – but you can explore their collections by answering some tricky questions. The first of a series of quizzes is set by the AshmoleanThis quiz is brought to you in collaboration with Art UK, the online home for the UK’s public art collections, showing art from over 3,000 venues and by 45,000 artists.Today, our questions are set by the Ashmolean Museum. The Ashmolean is the University of Oxford’s museum of art and archaeolog
  
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• Moshpit mayhem: the northern club where punks rampaged to Hellbastard

  31-03-2020 07:00
  
  The Station was a legendary hotspot where cider-fuelled punks would pogo to Rancid, Death Zone and more. Chris Killip reveals how he photographed the pummelling chaosIn 1985, Chris Killip was “trying unsuccessfully to photograph nightlife in Newcastle” when a friend told him about the Station, a former police social club in nearby Gateshead that had been turned into a live venue by a collective of local punks.“I went there and everything else around it had been demolished,&rdqu
  
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• How A Magazine Of Debate Influenced Our Culture

  31-03-2020 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For many who wrote for the magazine, attended its monthly discussion lunches or simply subscribed, involvement with Encounterwas to take sides in an historic struggle in which the Anglo-Americanrelationship was deemed crucial (which is certainly how Lasky sawthings). It was this sense of engagement, reflected in the magazine’stitle, that gave its pages their distinctive character. – The Critic
  
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