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• Invitation to Tender, Lumen - Crewes Night of Lights 27 Nov / Crewe Town Council / North West

  17-04-2020 23:03
  The tender process is now open to manage and programme Lumen - Crewe's Night of Lights, which is scheduled to happen on Fri 27 Nov 2020 5-8pm. 
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• There’s Boredom And Then There’s Boredom As A Punishment

  17-04-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For people whose “confinement” looks more like days on end in pajama bottoms, media outlets scramble to provide useful tips for combatting quarantine-induced boredom. Users’ social-media feeds are flooded with content that makes light of how people are responding to the drudgery and how hilariously creative they can be in their attempts to break up monotony. Yes, the boredom of sheltering in place can be stressful, but for incarcerated people, that stress can be deadly. &ndash
  
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• Indie Musicians Take To Social Media To Replace Live Gig Income

  17-04-2020 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sales do not drive a career the way they used to, so it’s more imperative than ever for artists to stay out on the road. And right now we’re not talking about a diminishment of income, we’re talking about a cessation of it. It’s done. And no one can tell us for how long.” – Washington Post
  
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• Why Would An Oxford Professor Steal Ancient Papyrus?

  17-04-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dr Dirk Obbink, an associate professor in papyrology and Greek literature at the university, was detained by officers from Thames Valley police. The force had received a report claiming the papyrus fragments that had been housed at the renowned Sackler Library in Oxford, which ended up in a biblical museum in the US, had been stolen. – The Guardian
  
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• Deborah Borda: How The NY Phil Is Thinking About Rethinking Its Future

  17-04-2020 21:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A new virtual music platform, cancellation of tours and rethinking the renovation of the orchestra’s home. First – keep musicians employed and make sure they have health care – WQXR
  
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• Art? Or ‘A Pre-Raphaelite Wet T-Shirt Competition’? ArtActivistBarbie Hits The Museums And Calls Out The Male Gaze

  17-04-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Posing in her most glamorous handmade outfits, ArtActivistBarbie has been calling into question the representation of women on gallery walls” — the blonde doll is photographed in front of an artwork, generally one of a nude or topless woman such as Charles Mengin’s Sappho (1877), holding a sign saying, for instance, “Yet another painting where the male gaze is legitimised by fine painting & brushwork & a scholarly reference to Classical history.” &nd
  
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• We’ll Need A New Model For The Arts. The Question Is What

  17-04-2020 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Stephen Hetherington: “I think it unfortunate that the rise in state support has produced its own ideological and political adherents, creating for some a mythological differentiation between art and entertainment, and between the supposed coarseness of commercial motivation and a sacralised, Kantian notion of L’art pour l’art – “without purpose, for all purpose perverts art”. The evidence is quite different: artistic creations move freely between the subsidi
  
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• A New York Times And Guardian Critic Tries Out ‘Remote Immersive Theater’ At Home

  17-04-2020 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alexis Soloski got texts from Romeo (who’s a bit of a jerk), helped someone held hostage in Venezuela undo handcuffs, failed to help a pilot land a 747, told an inspector for the Misplaced Keepsakes Division about her long-lost Piaget watch, and (“because I am a terrible props mistress”) scalded herself while attempting Play in a Bathtub. – The New York Times
  
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• Connecting Online: Our Culture Is Moving Online – But Seniors Struggle

  17-04-2020 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Only 26% of internet users 65 years and older said they feel “very confident” when using computers, smartphones or other electronics to do what they need to do online, according to a 2015 study from Pew Research. – CNN
  
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• New York’s Public Theater Cancels Shakespeare In The Park, Faces $10-20 Million Shortfall — But Still Has New Work Coming

  17-04-2020 18:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Artistic director Oskar Eustis said that “there’s no way we can responsibly prepare, build and rehearse to get shows open in a timing that might match the quarantine’s timing.” 70% of full-time staff will be furloughed through the summer, with the rest taking pay cuts. Even so, the Public is now producing a videoconferencing play that Eustis calls “the best thing about how we live now in quarantine that I’ve read in any medium.” – The New York Tim
  
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• In For The Long Haul: Post-Virus World Will Be Very Different For The Arts

  17-04-2020 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There is a growing realization that the binary nature of open versus closed is not the right way to think. “It’s not going to be a light switch,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, last Sunday. So what does that mean for live entertainment? – Chicago Tribune
  
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• Call for Artists / First Art / East Midlands

  17-04-2020 18:03
  First Art are commissioning a series of fun creative projects in digital spaces for everyone’s enjoyment to be part of the Remote Access strand of the Go the Distance festival.
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• What’s All This Fuss We Hear About Marina Abramović Being A Satanist?

  17-04-2020 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In one of the strangest art controversies in recent memory, a group of right-wing internet users and blogs have begun targeting Marina Abramović, accusing her of being involved in a Satanist cult. She has previously denied the allegations, but the claims have continued to be levied against her, and yesterday brought news that Microsoft deleted a YouTube advertisement for a new work by her after users had targeted it. But where did the claims come from in the first place? [Here&rsquo
  
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• Remote festival launched for Notts & Derbyshire communities / First Art / East Midlands

  17-04-2020 17:56
  Virtual live portrait sessions, a bumper creative activity kit packed with puppets, comics and a self-isolation themed colouring book are just some things happening as part of a new long-distance...
  
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• Are Non-Profits Too Averse To Political Advocacy?

  17-04-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Vu Le: “This is the problem. Our sector is afraid of advocacy, much less politics. And we have an absolute disgust for politics. We believe it is beneath us. We don’t want to get our hands dirty. Politics and anything associated with it is an ugly, terrible thing; we should focus on more noble, feel-good pursuits while virtue signaling by rabble-rousing about how we need to change systems yet simultaneously avoiding doing the one thing that would significantly change systems.”
  
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• Fake art, a fastidious psychopath and Banksy's rodent rampage – the week in art

  17-04-2020 17:18
  
  Patricia Highsmith’s manipulative murderer, Michel Houellebecq’s bitter irony and Orhan Pamuk’s mysterious miniaturists feature in our roundup of the best art novels – all in your weekly dispatchRipley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith
  Fastidious psychopath Tom Ripley, a connoisseur who murders to fund the finer things, enters the art world as arch-manipulator of a forgery ring. Fake art results in real death. Continue reading...
  
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• There’s A Whole New World Of Coronavirus Slang Out There

  17-04-2020 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you don’t want to be a covidiot, spend some of your quatorzaine at home boning up on the new words about Miss Rona, from the Chinese tagline for social distancing to the German term for sports played in empty stadiums (and the one for the weight fans at home are putting on) to the metaphor for hoarding that a Dutch sign language interpreter came up with on the fly. – 1843 Magazine
  
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• ‘Reflective Nostalgia’: Alex Ross On Grieving For His Mother With Brahms

  17-04-2020 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Bach is undoubtedly music’s supreme companion of extreme distress. … But, on the plane to D.C. that night, Bach would have been too raw, too dire. With Brahms, everything passes through layers of reflection. He is the great poet of the ambiguous, in-between, nameless emotions: ambient unease, pervasive wistfulness, bemused resignation, contained rage, ironic merriment, smiling through tears, the almost pleasurable fatigue of deep depression. In a repertory full of arrested a
  
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• Online Workshops and Courses for Extraordinary Times / The Creative Genius / London

  17-04-2020 16:13
  Online Workshops and Courses for Extraordinary Times:
  *'Writing and Moving for Creative Living'
  *'SoulBoard Crafting for Peculiar Times'
  *'Writing your Heart for Uncertain Days'
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• Artist commission / Camberwell Arts / London

  17-04-2020 16:13
  Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s Camberwell Arts Festival will now be presented online - providing a space to present new artistic ideas as well as enable the public to...
  
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• Envisioning A New, Post-Pandemic Dance World

  17-04-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In many ways, we’ll have to start from scratch. So why not learn from this moment and rebuild our community on a stronger foundation? Why not use this opportunity to enact the desires, the dreams, the radical changes that we haven’t been bold enough to voice before? Why not reevaluate the systems and structures we’ve long seen as immutable? We talked to 10 leaders from across the field about how they’d radically reimagine the dance world.” – Dance Maga
  
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• The Great Pottery Throw Down / Love Productions / UK

  17-04-2020 15:41
  The Great Pottery Throw Down is returning and we are closely observing government guidelines, but at some stage after the Covid-19 situation has improved and it is safe to do so, we'll be filming the...
  
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• It Takes A Lot Of Work To Cancel A Big Arts Festival

  17-04-2020 15:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s bizarre to be this busy and not presenting music,” said an official at one festival; “We’ve had to unravel a pretty huge ball of yarn while transitioning to working remotely,” said another. Not only are there the issues of contacting patrons (individually, in some cases), testing the cancellation clauses of contracts, and dealing with lost income, there are problems like airlines giving (in place of refunds) travel credits to the ticket holder, not the
  
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• Online exhibition callout for disabled and/or deaf artists / Jennifer Lauren Gallery / North West / national and international opportunity

  17-04-2020 15:09
  During this uncertain time the Jennifer Lauren Gallery is seeking submissions from national and international artists that self-define as disabled and/or Deaf.The Gallery will be hosting an online...
  
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• Netflix Is Now Worth More Than ExxonMobil

  17-04-2020 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With demand for its content soaring as people are self-isolating due to COVID, the streaming giant’s total market value on Wall Street has risen to $196 billion. Meanwhile, with demand for its product collapsing as people avoid going anywhere, the oil giant — the most valuable company in the world in 2013, is watching its stock price slump. – The Guardian
  
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• How A Public Radio Station Raised $1 Million In 13 Hours With A Pandemic Pledge Drive

  17-04-2020 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[WBUR in Boston] had planned to return to a full eight-day campaign in 2020, after doing a marathon-themed 26.2-hour version for the past few years. … Months of planning for the original drive, however, went out the window when the coronavirus [hit].” Here’s what CEO Margaret Low (who had been in the job for less than three months) and the WBUR staff did instead. – Nieman Lab
  
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• Actor Brian Dennehy, 81

  17-04-2020 14:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Standing 6-foot-3, Mr. Dennehy had a booming voice and an often intimidating screen presence. … [He] was celebrated for his work as a character actor in Hollywood and on television, where he earned six Emmy nominations. But he received even greater acclaim for his performances on the stage, starring in revivals of classic plays including O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Galileo,” as well as t
  
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• Finance Manager / National Youth Theatre of Great Britain / London

  17-04-2020 13:48
  The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain is a leading youth arts charity that empowers young creative people aged 14-25 from across the UK from all backgrounds to be part of something bigger....
  
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• The forgotten French tapestry with lessons for our apocalyptic times

  17-04-2020 09:00
  
  Hidden away in a chateau in Angers is the beautiful Apocalypse Tapestry, made after war and pestilence had killed millions in medieval Europe. It is, quite literally, a RevelationIn a basement gallery in a French provincial chateau stands the perfect artwork for our chilling times. The Apocalypse Tapestry is by turns grotesque and daunting. It is also mesmerising in its beauty and intricacy. Yet few people know about it, even in France; fewer still have visited it.Commissioned by Louis I, the Du
  
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• How did this woman enrage the king? Take the great British art quiz

  17-04-2020 09:00
  
  Museums across the UK may be closed due to coronavirus, but you can still explore their art collections thanks to our fun daily quiz. Today it’s set by Waddesdon Manor in BuckinghamshireThis quiz is brought to you in collaboration with Art UK, the online home for the UK’s public art collections, showing art from more than 3,000 venues and by 45,000 artists. Each day, a different collection on Art UK will set the questions.Today, the questions are set by Waddesdon Manor. The manor was
  
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• Space to Write Zoom Mondays! / Creative Writes / London

  17-04-2020 01:25
  Places are filling up for our Creative Writes Space to Write Zoom Creative Writing Workshops! They start next Monday 20 April, 3-4pm and will run every week for now. All you need to do is sign up for...
  
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• Can The US Postal Service Be Saved?

  17-04-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The battle over the Postal Service has reached a critical stage. Now, others are stepping forward with suggestions for saving the agency that would utterly transform it, from privatizing the USPS to nationalizing Amazon. – CityLab
  
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