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• Is The Future Of Music Festivals Drive-In Theatre?

  04-05-2020 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Danish city of Aarhus allowed popular singer Mads Langer to perform a drive-thru event at a newly constructed venue just outside the city. With six days’ notice, the event sold 500 tickets and, according to locals, went off without a hitch. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Will Audiences Really Pay For Online Content?

  04-05-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The rationale is clear enough. With families trapped inside by COVID-19, and children out of school and starting to climb the walls, a hyperactive new movie ought to be just the ticket. Also, twenty bucks is less than you’d pay at the cinema for yourself, your kids, and your silo-size Cokes. Yet the sum feels extortionate when you’re shelling out at home, perhaps because it carries a sweaty whiff of boxing bouts on pay-per-view. – The New Yorker
  
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• Can This Live-Streaming Platform In Europe Help Save Night Life?

  04-05-2020 22:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Called United We Stream, the combined live-streaming and fundraising platform hosts live music, DJ sets, performances and other live experiences from a growing roster of venues across Europe. Patrons are invited to drop into daily events staged for the platform, and invited via on-screen buttons to donate money if they can, either by buying merchandise or by splashing out on a “virtual drink.” These donations are plowed back into keeping music and nightlife scenes alive. – Cit
  
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• An Atlanta Movie Theatre Reinvents, Adapts To Its Community

  04-05-2020 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Atlanta’s Plaza movie theatre is famous after its vociferous opposition to Governor Brian Kemp’s decision to reopen theaters. But the theatre has been adapting its operations, offering online movies, a pop-up drive-in, and other movie promotions.– ArtsATL
  
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• Sotheby’s Reports $71.2m Loss & “Substantial Doubt” About Continuing; Major June Sales Planned

  04-05-2020 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sotheby’s new leaders, who took the publicly traded company private, are understandably eager to reopen their New York saleroom for post-pandemic business. Having disclosed a $71.2-million net loss in its 2019 Annual Report (compared to net income of $108.6 million the previous year), the company could use a life-sustaining income infusion. – Lee Rosenbaum
  
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• Now Is The Perfect Time To Memorize A Poem

  04-05-2020 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s no great mystery why. Poetry is sticky. Prose slips. Barbed and spurred, poems catch in your chest; they get stuck in your head like songs. Still, to admit to liking poetry is faintly embarrassing. – The Cut
  
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• Philadelphia Mayor Proposes Killing Arts Funding (Because Of Course Now’s The Perfect Time…)

  04-05-2020 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In his new budget to cope with the revenue loss driven by the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Jim Kenney on Friday proposed the elimination of the city’s Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy — a $4 million cut that would end grants to hundreds of cultural groups in the city. – Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Online Acting Tutor / Identity School of Acting / London

  04-05-2020 19:23
  IDSA is a multicultural and vibrant acting school, which provides ongoing training of the highest quality whilst also preparing actors from all backgrounds for the reality of becoming a working...
  
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• Tutor Online or in your area / Apprentus / London / Nationwide

  04-05-2020 19:17
  Apprentus is an in-home, one-to-one, private tutoring company. We provide tutoring and academic coaching to students of all ages and in all subjects in addition to art, music, languages, sports...
  
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• Freelance Fabricators / Technicians / Pangaea Sculptors' Centre / London / UK wide

  04-05-2020 19:14
  PSC is committed to creating opportunities which enable artists to develop long-term sustainable art practices. We do this by creating opportunities for paid employment that utilise their creative...
  
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• Lessons to be learned from cholera | letters

  04-05-2020 18:42
  
  Brian Waller questions the lack of political will when it comes to preventable deaths across Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, while Tony Haynes reveals how artists can explore attitudes to disease Neil Singh’s powerful long read (Cholera and coronavirus: why we must not repeat the same mistakes, 1 May) tellingly compares the way in which the world is reacting to Covid-19 with how it has handled cholera, especially in developing countries. He states: “There is no biological or environment
  
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• 'It's great if you're bored with Netflix': video art flourishes in lockdown

  04-05-2020 18:21
  
  From dogs’ plums to death metal shrieks, video artworks are finding a new audience hungry for culture that is accessible, original and bizarreAs the art world adapts to the reality of the Covid-19 lockdown with virtual tours, live-streamed artist Q&As and Instagram Live videos occupying the space once filled by physical exhibitions, video art is flourishing.The former MoMA video art curator Barbara London explains in her book, Video/Art: the First Fifty Years, how she struggled to get
  
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• Producer / Smoking Apples Theatre Company / London

  04-05-2020 17:48
  Smoking Apples Theatre Company (Flux, In Our Hands, CELL) seek a Producer to work with the company through an exciting new phase of artistic and audience development. This role will support the...
  
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• Curator, Missing Narratives on Women / National Portrait Gallery / London

  04-05-2020 17:42
  The National Portrait Gallery houses a unique collection of all forms of portraiture of the people who have made or are currently contributing to British history and culture; the collection is the...
  
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• One-to-one Sessions with Writer Emma Pass / LoveLit / Online

  04-05-2020 17:12
  LoveLit is offering a limited number of 30 minute one-to-one sessions online with award-winning young adult writer Emma Pass via Zoom. Price £17
  Subject areas
  Writing for Middle Grade (9-12...
  
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• Project Producer / Arts La'Olam / East / London

  04-05-2020 15:56
  Arts La’Olam is an artists agency and community arts company led by artistic director and founder Daisy Lees.Arts La’Olam creates projects and events with artists from around the...
  
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• 'Homefront' Call to Profile Emerging Artists amid Covid-19 / RUYA MAPS / London / International

  04-05-2020 15:27
  RUYA MAPS would like to hear about the experiences of early-career artists and final year students who have been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic. We are inviting emerging artists, 'the Class of...
  
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• Executive Director / Aakash Odedra Company / East Midlands

  04-05-2020 15:03
  We are seeking an exceptional, adaptable and entrepreneurial Executive Director to jointly lead the company with Artistic Director, Aakash Odedra evolving a robust business model to realise the...
  
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• Micro-commissions for artists in Dorset / Activate Performing Arts / South West

  04-05-2020 14:11
  Do you have an idea for a creative intervention during this period of social distancing?
  Activate are offering 5 micro-commissions of £500 each to artists based in Dorset, Bournemouth,...
  
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• Byker Partnership Manager / Northern Stage / North East

  04-05-2020 14:05
  Main purpose of the post:
  To develop and clarify the remit and structure of the ‘Byker Children and Young People Partnership’ (BYCPP) to create a robust, effective, sustainable and safe...
  
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• Open Call for Porch Gallery submissions / Left Bank Leeds / Yorkshire

  04-05-2020 13:02
  The Porch Gallery at Left Bank Leeds welcomes applications from new and emerging artists who live / work in Leeds and the surrounding areas.
  Left Bank Leeds is a multidisciplinary arts venue set in...
  
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• V-Art Show on Zoom Thursday 7th May 7-10pm UK time / / London / International

  04-05-2020 12:52
  With all exhibitions and art shows cancelled and half the world confined to our homes we were missing the interaction with art collectors and critics – thus the V-Art Show was...
  
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• Songwriter / Queens Hall Arts / North East

  04-05-2020 12:23
  Queens Hall Arts, Hexham is recruiting a songwriter to create new music for an innovative project to celebrate 25 years of the National Lottery. 
  Ideally with roots or living in the Northeast,...
  
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• Which Biblical scene is this? Take the great British art quiz

  04-05-2020 09:00
  
  The Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle sets today’s quiz, which enables you to look at the collections of galleries across the UK closed due to Covid-19 while answering a few fiendishly difficult questionsThis 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, our questions are set by the Laing Art G
  
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• Window on my World - children`s online art exhibition / Untapped Uk (CIC) / London / Worldwide

  04-05-2020 01:20
  Window on my World is an online children's art exhibition with a weekly theme, and regular 'how to' videos. The aim is to increase connection in children to each other, their community and the wider...
  
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• Contemporary artistic works mark 75th anniversary of VE Day

  04-05-2020 01:01
  
  Online exhibition of art, poetry and music explores themes around conflict and victory
  When the Spanish illustrator Cristina Daura was asked to contribute to a collection of artistic works to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day it was a challenge.The idea of victory in war begged the question: at what cost? At 31, Daura, whose vibrant illustrations have featured in exhibitions, books, magazines and newspapers around the world, had not lived through the second world war. Continue reading...
  
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