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• Surge In Library E-Book Borrowing

  22-04-2020 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Loans of online e-books, e-magazines and audiobooks were up an average of 63% in March compared with last year. And 120,000 people joined libraries in the three weeks after lockdown began, Libraries Connected said. – BBC
  
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• Can We Learn From Movies About Interactions That Take Place In Different Places?

  22-04-2020 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Movies depict phone calls, there are split screens, fast cuts, etc. There’s already a rich visual language of remote interaction. So what can we learn? – Irish Times
  
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• No Surprise: Netflix Reports Huge Increase In Subscribers

  22-04-2020 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Netflix added 15.8 million subscribers, more than double the 7.2 million that were expected — a growth of more than 22 percent year over year. Netflix now has 182 million subscribers worldwide. The company also saw quarterly revenue of $5.77 billion versus the $5.76 billion estimated. – The Verge
  
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• Online Circle Singing session - donations based / / London

  22-04-2020 18:17
  Nothing will ever replace human contact but it doesn’t mean that we cannot sing and/or create together, in other ways! The session will be based on individual/collective exploration, being...
  
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• Remote Residencies: Open Call Out / Metal Culture UK / East

  22-04-2020 17:34
  Remote Residencies: Open Call Three round deadlines: 15 May / 12 June / 10 July 2020 In response to the impact felt by many freelance artists and creative practitioners as a result of the Covid-19...
  
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• Call for Digital Conversations / performingbordersLIVE and LADA / North West / UK and/or international

  22-04-2020 17:20
  For 2020’s edition of performingbordersLIVE (March – November 2020), performingbordersLIVE and LADA invite proposals for two digital conversations by curators, artists, researchers,...
  
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• Curatorial Residency / performingbordersLIVE20 and Never Done / North West / UK wide, except London

  22-04-2020 16:45
  PerformingbordersLIVE20 and Never Done offer a fully supported one week residency in London during July 2020, for a womxn or non-binary curator/artist with a curatorial practice from an ethnic...
  
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• Haley McGee's 14-Day Creative Quarantine Challenge / / London / Nationwide

  22-04-2020 16:28
  The 14-Day Creative Quarantine Challenges is a self-directed online program, created by Haley McGee, for artists and creative spirits to help you keep (or start) creating during this strange...
  
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• Free Online Recovery Filmmaking Workshops / Sobriety Films / London / Online, UK wide

  22-04-2020 16:22
  Sobriety Films are offering six, one-hour filmmaking sessions twice a week for three weeks to 18-26 years old in recovery from addiction, mental ill health and trauma. Sessions will be run on Zoom,...
  
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• Creativity Council Coordinator / Bradford Producing Hub / Yorkshire

  22-04-2020 16:03
  Bradford Producing Hub (BPH) is looking for an experienced and friendly coordinator to help pull together, support and deliver the new Creativity Council. 
  BPH is a multi-stranded pilot project...
  
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• Dance-Theatre lab: Relation in Isolation / Saturday 25th April 5pm - 6.30pm Get Active Online! from Intercultural Roots / London / National

  22-04-2020 15:11
  Intercultural Roots and Get Active Online! present:
  Dance-Theatre Lab: Relation in Isolationwith Gabriela Flarys and Alice Motta
  http://getactiveonline.org/ ...
  
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• The Art of Moving Gently The Feldenkrais Method - Thomas Kampe / Friday 24 April 6pm - 7pm - Get Active Online! from Intercultural Roots / London / National

  22-04-2020 15:01
  Intercultural Roots & Get Active Online presents:
  The Art of Moving Gently – The Feldenkrais Method®, Improvisation & Wellbeing - with Thomas...
  
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• 'Don't catch it!': Gilbert & George make free coronavirus artwork

  22-04-2020 14:32
  
  The duo are the latest artists to produce downloadable posters for your living room windowThe best arts and entertainment during self-isolationFor those wanting to make a statement about Covid-19 without following the crowd of rainbows, Gilbert & George are here to help. They’re the latest artists to offer up some free downloadable art for your living room window – although their take is a little different from the rest.“Gilbert & George say: Don’t catch it!&rdquo
  
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• Pandemic - Call For Artworks / Swarm Dynamics / South West

  22-04-2020 14:27
  We are offering up to 5 micro commissions of 250 pound each for small creative or reflective works that respond to the below brief about life after the pandemic, system change at this moment, and...
  
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• Lead Artist - Film, State of Flux / Ludus Dance / North West

  22-04-2020 14:10
  PLEASE NOTE: Pre-covid-19 this contract was delivering on site at The Cove CAMHS Unit in Heysham.  Whilst lockdown is in action the sessions will be delivered online to a range of community...
  
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• SHOUT Festival Manager / Birmingham LGBT / West Midlands

  22-04-2020 14:00
  SHOUT Festival ManagerBirmingham LGBT is seeking to recruit a dynamic arts professional to oversee the artistic programme, development, and strategic direction for SHOUT Festival of Queer Arts and...
  
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• Exquisite Futures Open Call / Revolv Collective / London / international

  22-04-2020 12:59
  We are calling emerging photographers and students to create a collage which describes /interprets /reinvents /challenges the current surreal situation the world is experiencing as a result of the...
  
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• Tell us about the UK coronavirus street art near you

  22-04-2020 12:45
  
  If you have spotted any coronavirus art outside we want to see your photos
  The coronavirus pandemic has been the subject of vibrant street art, with murals to the NHS and key workers pictured on roads and on pavements.If you have spotted any near you, we’d like to see your photos and find out your reaction to them. We would also like to see any others from around the world. Continue reading...
  
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• Artist Olafur Eliasson releases interactive works for Earth Day

  22-04-2020 11:00
  
  Public invited to stare at series of dots for 10 seconds and consider each afterimageOlafur Eliasson says he wants the public to be the artist for his latest work but it may not be a straightforward task – we are urged to rethink how we see the planet Earth.To mark Earth Day 2020, Eliasson has begin to release what could be one of his most ambitious works in that it invites mass participation on a global scale. Continue reading...
  
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• The coronavirus museum: how historians are documenting the pandemic

  22-04-2020 08:35
  
  The New-York Historical Society has started collecting artifacts for a collection aimed at teaching future generations about the current crisisCoronavirus – live US updatesLive global updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageShortly after the 9/11 attacks in New York City, a museum on the Upper West Side, the New-York Historical Society, began collecting items from the tragedy – from scraps of the World Trade Center to public signage, letters and firefighter helmets.“There was li
  
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• For your eyes only: Terry O'Neill's unseen shots of James Bond – in pictures

  22-04-2020 08:00
  
  The celebrated photographer went on a string of Bond film shoots, including Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever and Live and Let Die. A new book, published by ACC Art Books, collects together images from his archives Continue reading...
  
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• Zoom Space to Write Workshops, Monday afternoons / Creative Writes / London

  22-04-2020 01:19
  I hope this finds you well in these strange and challenging times.At Creative Writes, like many other businesses – we have had to think about different ways of working and we are offering more...
  
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