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• Home Alone: What We Know About Solitude And Its Healing Power

  09-04-2020 23:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Steadily, slowly, research interest in solitude has been increasing. Note, solitude – time alone – is not synonymous with loneliness, which is a subjective sense of unwanted social isolation that’s known to be harmful to mental and physical health. In contrast, in recent years, many observational studies have documented a correlation between greater wellbeing and a healthy motivation for solitude – that is, seeing solitude as something enjoyable and valuable. – Aeo
  
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• Archeologists Arrested In Peru For Violating Lockdown

  09-04-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The team, led by archeologist Pieter van Dalen, were caught digging at the Macatón cemetery in the town of Huaral during the state of emergency on Sunday, April 4. The group from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos were taken into custody for breaching Peru’s strict lockdown measures, despite their claim that they were simply securing the national heritage that was left exposed at the site as agreed with the ministry of culture. – Artnet
  
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• Emergency Aid To Artists (Without Lots Of Paperwork)

  09-04-2020 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The emergency package has an initial pot of $10 million for 2,000 grantees. The funds are culled from the operations budgets of the seven US-based organizations: Academy of American Poets, Artadia, Creative Capital, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, MAP Fund, National YoungArts Foundation, and United States Artists. With most of the arts programming cancelled, the grants-giving organizations formed a group to design a mechanism that will allow them to give money to artists directly. – Qua
  
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• DreamsTimeFree - The End book launch / TACO! / London

  09-04-2020 18:30
  Join us online on the 18-19th April for the launch of the inaugural edition of DreamsTimeFree, a new publication of experimental artists writing published by TACO!To accompany the publication launch...
  
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• STAMP - The Invisible Producer (self-producing your own work) / STAMP, hosted by Blue Elephant Theatre / London / Online

  09-04-2020 17:12
  Are you an artist who produces their own work? Or is considering it? Are you wondering about your next step? Would you like to hear from a panel of artists who self-produce and together bring a wide...
  
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• Non-Executive Director / Halle Concerts Society / North West

  09-04-2020 15:33
  The Hallé Concerts Society is seeking two Non-Executive Directors to join its Board of Directors.
  Founded by Sir Charles Hallé in 1858, the Hallé is one of the world’s...
  
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• Light Artist on new theatre production for 3-6yrs / The Herd Theatre / Yorkshire / Hull

  09-04-2020 14:30
  THE PROJECT
  The Herd Theatre are currently developing The Last Dinosaur, a new show for 3-6 year olds for the Autumn of 2020. Part performance, part immersive experience, The Last Dinosaur considers...
  
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• Homotopia unveils its new Board / / North West

  09-04-2020 13:27
  Homotopia has unveiled new additions to its Board of Trustees to help guide the festival through 2020 and beyond. Featuring expertise and voices from Merseyside’s LGBTQIA community, the new...
  
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• The Zoots Sounds of the 70s show at The Plaza, Romsey / Plaza Theatre / South East

  09-04-2020 11:58
  Join The Sounds of the 70's for their unforgettable live show, as they explore the sounds of Abba, T.Rex, Queen, Bowie, Mud, The Sweet, Dolly Parton, The Rolling Stones, Chic and other amazing...
  
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• OK. Ready. Let's Do It / Tse Tse Fly Middle East / London / Worldwide

  09-04-2020 11:05
  OK. Ready. Let’s Do It is an online exhibition of free to use, web-based sound and noise-making tools. When Tse Tse Fly Middle East was first founded in the UAE in 2015 our work centred...
  
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• Chair & Trustees / Chantry Dance Company CIO / East Midlands / National

  09-04-2020 10:47
  Chantry Dance Company is seeking to appoint a new Chair and Trustees to join its Board, to co-incide with the implementation of our new Strategic Plan. 
  Based in Grantham, we are seeking to...
  
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• The great British art quiz: set by the Holburne Museum, Bath

  09-04-2020 09:00
  
  British museums and galleries are closed due to coronavirus – but you can explore their collections through a brain-teasing quiz, set by a different institution each dayTake all the quizzes in this seriesThe best arts and entertainment during self-isolationThis 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. Each day, a different collection on Art UK will set the questi
  
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• The town built on pineapple martinis: the real Atlantic City – in pictures

  09-04-2020 08:00
  
  With its glittering casinos and thrumming nightclubs, it was known as The World’s Playground. How does it look today? Photographer Timothy Roberts hits the legendary boardwalk Continue reading...
  
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• April pink full moon: readers' photos of the supermoon

  09-04-2020 06:14
  
  A supermoon happens when the moon reaches the closest point to Earth in its 27-day orbit and it happens to be full, which usually occurs once a year. We asked you to share your shots of April’s lunar spectacular. Here’s a selection of our favourites Continue reading...
  
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• Dot Dot Dash: Call for Submissions / Surface Gallery / East Midlands

  09-04-2020 01:36
  Surface Gallery invites all artists and creatives to take part in ⚬Dot⚬Dot-Dash, a display of contemporary mark-making.
  Mark making is a vibrant area of research in contemporary art, we...
  
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• The University As Intellectual Factory (We’ve Been Warned)

  09-04-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The transformation of the university into a capital-intensive, bureaucratically organised enterprise was not simply an effect of academic specialisation. More than a century earlier, Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant had observed how some universities had begun to function as factories and organise themselves around the division of intellectual labour. – Aeon
  
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