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• Board of Directors / Concrete Youth / Yorkshire

  05-05-2020 22:10
  Concrete Youth is an award-winning, Hull-based theatre company, specialising in multi-sensory theatre for audiences living with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD). All of our work is...
  
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• OMG! How I Got Obsessed With Oil Painting

  05-05-2020 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “By the time the eight-week course was over, I was the wretch I am now: an unhinged woman vehemently obsessed with oil painting who wrestles with it like a feral person for hours every day. I had earth-moving revelations as I graduated from using makeup brushes to real sable, and switched from canvas to linen panels. My formerly adorable kitchen now looks as though Francis Bacon had assaulted a pope in it. I know things about linseed oil its own mother doesn’t know.” – N
  
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• Disney Company’s Massive Size Was Always A Strength — Until The Pandemic Hit

  05-05-2020 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After a decade of spectacular growth, the entertainment conglomerate has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. Its 14 theme parks (annual attendance: 157 million) delivered record profits in 2019. They’re now padlocked. Its movie studios (there are eight) controlled a staggering 40 percent of the domestic box office last year. Now, they’re sitting at a near standstill.” – The New York Times
  
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• Washington Attorney General Is Investigating Brown Paper Tickets

  05-05-2020 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Until recently, BPT had enjoyed a good reputation, sometimes called the David to Ticketmaster’s Goliath. One unpaid client, the Taste of Philadelphia Food Tour, had been doing business with the company for 10 years, but is now waiting on $2,782 in bounced checks from events as far back as December 2019 (the checks weren’t deposited until March 16), plus $207 for March events canceled by coronavirus lockdowns. – Seattle Times
  
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• How The COVID Crisis Is Changing Classical Music Performance (No, It’s Not About Zoom)

  05-05-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Musicians and their audiences may be physically separated these days, but they’re closer emotionally, writes David Patrick Stearns. “The old sense of ‘us’ and ‘them’ — each side with its respective definition of excellence — is now more of a collective ‘us.’ We’re part of the same extended family, because artists are delivering something less filtered, and audiences are listening past questionable sound quality, faulty computer c
  
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• Administration Assistant / THE LEAP / Yorkshire / Bradford

  05-05-2020 19:44
  THE LEAP is the new Creative People and Places programme for Bradford, an exciting ten year project to increase people’s engagement in the arts and cultural activities. It...
  
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• Community Development Manager / THE LEAP / Yorkshire

  05-05-2020 19:38
  THE LEAP is the new Creative People and Places programme for Bradford, an exciting ten year project to increase people’s engagement in the arts and cultural activities. It...
  
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• Remembering Cellist Lynn Harrell

  05-05-2020 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mark Swed: “I’ve never heard a cellist make the instrument sing quite the way Harrell did. Despite his impressive physical presence — he had been an athlete in his youth and traded football for music — his sound was not particularly loud and never penetrating. He was anything but pushy when it came to the limelight. Rather, his way was to rely on the sheer persuasion of song and personality.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Fantastic for Families Awards / Family Arts Campaign / London / National

  05-05-2020 19:24
  The Fantastic for Families Awards deadline has been extended by two weeks, to 12 midday Friday 22nd May 2020.
  Celebrating the work of 2019 and those who offered creative and welcoming events...
  
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• Creative Producer / The LEAP / Yorkshire

  05-05-2020 19:14
  THE LEAP is the new Creative People and Places programme for Bradford, an exciting ten year project to increase people’s engagement in the arts and cultural activities. It is led...
  
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• Lessons On Solitude From An Author Who’s Not Thoreau

  05-05-2020 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In Rousseau’s scheme of things, solitude was the natural human state. By stepping outside of society, by distancing oneself from other voices, one was facilitating a return to oneself. But being with oneself is one thing; writing about the state of being with oneself, another.” – The Paris Review
  
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• Behold The Live-Streaming Fundraising Machine

  05-05-2020 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  During the COVID-19 shutdown, live-streamed concerts have grown from a novelty born of necessity into a fixture of cultural life. D-Nice’s dance parties (known to include a presidential candidate or two), Instagram Live’s R&B/hip-hop battles and Fortnite and Minecraft’s virtual festivals have remade live music. Global Citizen’s “One World: Together at Home” event was a veritable live-streamed Live-Aid. Likewise, the Weitz family’s Zooms have become
  
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• Advice For Dancers Who Fear Their Companies Will Shut Down, From Colleagues Who’ve Been Through It

  05-05-2020 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Of course, people are doing everything possible to avoid that fate. But fears of folding are, understandably, creating major anxiety right now. To gain some perspective, [we] spoke to a few people who’ve been through company closures in the past, and proven just how resilient dance artists can be.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Canterbury College Singing Teacher / BRIT Kids / South East

  05-05-2020 17:51
  Are you a passionate teacher in the Arts?  BRIT Kids are fee paying performing, creative and media arts classes that run on Saturdays. BRIT kids is part of The BRIT School in Croydon, a unique...
  
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• Where (And Why) Science Is Failing Us

  05-05-2020 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The average scientist’s acquaintance with philosophy tends to be of the passing variety. This is a great pity. Deep-rooted, seemingly intractable problems in foundational theoretical physics – the physics of matter and radiation, space, time and the Universe – have now frustrated progress for 50 years or more. We’re living through a period in the history of foundational physics in which ideas about nature are cheap, but gathering the empirical facts needed to show that t
  
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• Artist in Residence / St Joseph's Specialist Trust / South East

  05-05-2020 16:36
  Fixed term contract for 1 academic year (September 2020 to July 2021)
  Actual Salary is £12,120 per annum for 35.5. hours per week during Term Time 
  We are looking to employ an...
  
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• One Of Sydney’s Major Arts Centers Declares Bankruptcy Due To COVID And The Lockdown

  05-05-2020 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Carriageworks, Australia’s largest arts center devoted to contemporary work, has entered voluntary administration (as it’s called there). A statement from a spokesperson said, “The sudden cancellation or postponement of six months of activities due to restrictions on public gatherings has resulted in an irreparable loss of income.” – The Guardian
  
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• Mezzo Rosalind Elias Dead At 90

  05-05-2020 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  She made her Metropolitan Opera debut at age 23 and sang 54 roles there over 42 years, becoming one of the most beloved singers within the company. Perhaps most notable among the many operas she sang at other houses was Samuel Barber’s Vanessa: she created the role of Erika in the opera’s premiere, and almost 50 year’s later she sang that character’s grandmother. What’s more, at age 81 she made her Broadway debut. – The Washington Post
  
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• Commission: artists, creators and performers / Somewhere in Ely/ Babylon ARTS / East

  05-05-2020 15:37
  PLEASE NOTE:  This commission was previously advertised but we have extended the deadline and revised the project plan in-light of Covid-19.  
  Somewhere in Ely is a project in...
  
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• Glyndebourne Opera Festival Bows To The Inevitable, Cancels Remainder Of Summer Season

  05-05-2020 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Festival management] had previously cancelled all performances up to and including July 14, but the festival was due to continue until August 30. A virtual festival, Glyndebourne Open House, has been announced in its place, which will begin on May 24. Opera fans will be able to stream a free, full-length past production at 5pm every Sunday.” – The Telegraph (UK)
  
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• Finance Officer: Payables (Mat Cover) / British Museum / London

  05-05-2020 15:30
  Finance Officer: Payables (Mat Cover)
  Finance Department
  Full-time
  Fixed term for 6 month
  £26,929 -£31,846
  Application deadline: 19 May 2020 by noon
  This is an exciting opportunity...
  
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• Large Hoard Of Fake Antiquities Found And Impounded At Heathrow

  05-05-2020 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A Border Force officer at Heathrow Airport discovered the hundreds of clay figurines, pots, and tablets covered in cuneiform script in a pair of metal trunks last July. Intercepted en route from Bahrain to a private address in the UK, the objects were sent to the British Museum for inspection. There, they were discovered to be fakes. The striking thing about the discovery, says St John Simpson, a curator at the British Museum, is not the number of counterfeit relics. It’s the type.
  
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• Is Jenny from the block or the yacht? The poll taking the temperature of our times

  05-05-2020 14:44
  
  Locked down in Milan, the artist Francesco Vezzoli has decided to survey the world’s emotional state under coronavirus – with a little help from art history, pop culture and Prada“I haven’t seen a human being for 65 days,” says Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli from his home in lockdown Milan. “I think I’m developing a very tiny bit of agoraphobia.”As an artist whose work so often involves people gathering for grand social occasions – among ot
  
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• ‘This American Life’ Wins First-Ever Pulitzer For Audio Journalism

  05-05-2020 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In partnership with the Los Angeles Times and Vice News, This American Life won for an episode called ‘The Out Crowd’ — which illuminated the personal impact of the Trump Administration’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy. In the episode, listeners hear from asylum seekers in a refugee camp in Mexico just across the border, as well as the officers who sent them there. In fact, many of the U.S. asylum officers felt awful about sending the migrants back to Mexic
  
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• ‘The Central Park Five’ By Anthony Davis Wins Pulitzer Prize For Music

  05-05-2020 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[The work,] which debuted last June at Long Beach Opera, … chronicles the racially and politically charged New York trial and conviction of one Latino teenager and four black teens — who were later all exonerated and freed — in the 1989 rape [and beating] of a young white female investment banker in Central Park.” – The San Diego Union-Tribune
  
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• ‘A Strange Loop’ By Michael R. Jackson Wins Pulitzer Prize For Drama

  05-05-2020 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Jackson’s win marks the first time the committee has awarded a black writer for a musical. … That’s particularly poignant given the material itself: a discursive meta-tale about a young, gay, black musical theater writer, who’s writing a musical about a young, gay, black musical theater writer, and so on down the rabbit hole.” – Forbes
  
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• Colson Whitehead, Jericho Brown, Benjamin Moser, W. Caleb McDaniel, Anne Boyer, Greg Grandin Win Literary Pulitzers

  05-05-2020 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Whitehead received his second fiction Pulitzer for The Nickel Boys; Brown’s The Tradition took poetry honors; the biography prize went to Moser’s Sontag: Her Life and Work; McDaniel’s Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America took the history category; the general nonfiction prize was shared by Boyer for The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care and Grandin for The End of the My
  
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• Community Illustration Comission / Mafwa Theatre / Yorkshire

  05-05-2020 13:02
  Mafwa Theatre is a community theatre company working with refugees, asylum seekers and settled communities in Leeds. Our women’s drama group takes place at Leeds Refugee Forum where...
  
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• Collaborative Artist Residency / Social Convention / South East / UK wide

  05-05-2020 12:20
  Social Convention is seeking expressions of interest from performance practitioners to participate in the launch of our LAB programme - a series of collaborative, co-created, public-facing digital...
  
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• Senior Fundraising Manager - Grants and Legacy Giving / National Portrait Gallery / London

  05-05-2020 11:50
  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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• Self-taught artist Jiab Prachakul wins BP portrait award

  05-05-2020 11:41
  
  Award for Thailand-born artist comes as National Portrait Gallery comes under growing pressure to drop BP as sponsor A delicate portrait of friends interacting in a Berlin bar by a self-taught artist has won the 2020 BP portrait award, amid intensifying scrutiny of the oil company’s continued sponsorship of one of the most prestigious prizes in the art world.Jiab Prachakul’s Night Talk was picked as the winner by the judging panel, which, for the first time since 1997, had no represe
  
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• Writers Competition - Win Gbp 200 / Ceramic Review Magazine / International

  05-05-2020 11:20
  Do you want to develop and showcase your talent as a writer and explore the exciting world of ceramics? Enter our competition for a chance to be published both online and in print and win...
  
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• Which children's author was inspired by this painting? The great British art quiz

  05-05-2020 09:00
  
  The Foundling Museum in London set today’s quiz. Like the rest of the UK’s arts institutions, it’s currently closed – but you can explore its collection here while answering some tricky questions This 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 th
  
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• L.A. Times Art Critic Christopher Knight Wins Pulitzer Prize

  05-05-2020 01:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The jury said Knight’s work demonstrated ‘extraordinary community service by a critic’ through the application of ‘his expertise and enterprise to critique a proposed overhaul of the L.A. County Museum of Art and its effect on the institution’s mission.’ … [The other finalists were] Justin Davidson of New York magazine, nominated in part for his writing on the Hudson Yards development in New York, and Soraya Nadia McDonald of The Undefeated, hon
  
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• How Production Studios Are Adapting To Stay-At-Home Productions

  05-05-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There are systems we had before that are good and coming in handy, but there are new systems that are popping up all the time, too. I think it’s going to change us for the better in the long term. There’s no way we go back to the studio and produce the show the same way we did before. We’ve learned too much.” – Washington Post
  
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