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• Musicians Lobby For Greater Share Of Streaming Revenue

  11-05-2020 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The campaign calls for solutions to the problems that the lockdown has inflicted on musicians. The suspension of live music under lockdown has cut off most artists’ one dependable source of income: gigs. And payments from streaming services such as Spotify are so negligible that they cannot hope to fill the massive hole in artists’ incomes. – The Guardian
  
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• NY Public Library Acquires Martha Graham Archive

  11-05-2020 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For the dance division, it really was the only significant gap left that we had in telling the story of early American modern dance. We’ve had material belonging to Martha Graham in the archive for a very long time, but Martha herself, throughout her lifetime, had always said that she didn’t want there to be an archive.” – The New York Times
  
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• Commission: Sounds of Silence / Aerial Festival / North West

  11-05-2020 22:15
  2 X £1k commission from Aerial, in partnership with Great Place: Lakes and Dales, for artists working with sound and living in Cumbria or Yorkshire Dales, or with a strong link to...
  
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• AMC Stock Soars On Rumors Amazon Might Buy Theatre Chain

  11-05-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The stock movement was notable. AMC shares were trading at $5.62, up nearly 40%. They had been up as much as 70% in premarket trade. – Deadline
  
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• Programme Manager / Sparks Film and Media Arts Ltd / London

  11-05-2020 21:16
  Sparks is a leading and quickly-growing provider of children's film and media activities.  Our programmes for ages 5-18 help children to discover and develop their talents, grow in confidence...
  
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• David Remnick: Little Richard’s Revolution

  11-05-2020 21:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As Little Richard himself described his effect on body and spirit, “My music made your liver quiver, your bladder splatter, your knees freeze—and your big toe shoot right up in your boot!”
  
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• Music in Wartime

  11-05-2020 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Here’s an ingenious 45-minute film by Behrouz Jamali that revealingly juxtaposes the music Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky wrote in response to World War II. The video artist Peter Bogdanoff contributes a singular visual rendering of Stravinsky’s finale, applying pertinent newsreel clips. – Joseph Horowitz
  
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• Why We’re Addicted To Nostalgia

  11-05-2020 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Most kinds of longing can be settled in one way or another, if not necessarily to the satisfaction of the yearner. Nostalgia can only be lived in or abandoned: it is yearning distilled to its essence, yearning not really for its own sake but because there is nothing else to be done. – The Walrus
  
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• The Productive Value Of Anger

  11-05-2020 19:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Anger is epistemically valuable not just for the individual, but also for those around them. When co-opted skilfully by just causes, anger enables victims to identify similarities in their lived experiences, overcoming the superficial differences that drive them apart.” – Aeon
  
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• The Role Of Dreams In The 21st Century

  11-05-2020 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dreams shroud the waking world, dazzling and disturbing it with mystery, perplexity, novelty, anxiety, terror, hope, and possibility. – Cultural Weekly
  
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• Thriving and Surviving as an Artist : Online Summer School / Clayhill Arts / South West / UK wide [online]

  11-05-2020 18:56
  Join us this June for an online summer school with Rosalind Davis and Justin Hibbs to help you with your creative career and map out how to Thrive and Survive as an...
  
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• Koloro Artist Award - Free Competition for Children / / London / UK wide

  11-05-2020 18:46
  To all parents looking for educational inspiration during lockdown, this one’s for you!
  I have decided to use my free time during the lockdown to support children with their creative...
  
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• Fundraising Implementation (freelance contract) / Bath Industrial Heritage Trust Ltd (The Museum of Bath at Work) / South West

  11-05-2020 18:34
  This is a freelance position for a self-employed individual or small team, funded by Arts Council England (ACE) emergency funding.
  You will research grant-giving trusts and foundations for which...
  
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• Virtual Academy Practitioners / Pauline Quirke Academy / Online

  11-05-2020 18:19
  The Pauline Quirke Academy are looking for Actors with experience in:
  Mask Work
  Shadow Puppetry
  Mime
  Shakespeare
  and other areas
   
  To deliver bitesize workshops to students aged 8-16...
  
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• AI Program Scans Millions Of Historic Newspaper Images And Makes Them Searchable

  11-05-2020 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Assuming the captions are at all accurate, these images — until recently only accessible by trudging through the archives date by date and document by document — can be searched for by their contents, like any other corpus. – TechCrunch
  
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• Becontree Centenary Project Manager / Create London / London

  11-05-2020 18:09
  Create London is looking for an experienced and dedicated Project Manager to oversee an ambitious new arts and heritage programme to mark and celebrate the centenary of Dagenham’s Becontree...
  
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• Emergent: Digital | Listening party, roundtable & online gig / Drake Music / London / National

  11-05-2020 17:57
  Drake Music, in partnership with Sound and Music, are hosting a cross-genre digital showcase day of new music from emerging Disabled musicians.
  Making space within the industry for Disabled...
  
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• Commission - project newspaper / Milton Keynes Council / South East

  11-05-2020 17:55
  Milton Keynes Council wish to appoint an artist/writer/creative practice to help develop and deliver a digital and printed newspaper that captures the story of the Passtheparcel project and has...
  
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• How Might Classical Music Work Differently Going Forward?

  11-05-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What if concerts were announced one or two at a time, just a week or two in advance? The tickets would be sold per concert, not per season, and the marketing would be heavy on social media. Concert programs could be designed to attract different communities in the county, rather than the monolithic subscription crowd. What’s more, it would allow the groups to perform exactly when circumstances allowed, rather than cancel concerts when they didn’t. – Voice of Orange County
  
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• Northern-based Creatives / Stagebox / North East / North East/North West of England

  11-05-2020 17:20
  Stagebox is looking for experienced creatives to join our team of Directors, Choreographers, Musical Directors, and Acting Coaches based in the North of England, near to...
  
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• Commission call out for Somerset Theatre Makers / Writers / Wassail Theatre / South West

  11-05-2020 17:02
  SOMERSET EMERGENCY THEATRE - Alternative Endings Commission
  Wassail and Richard Crowe are working together to offer this commission.  We are looking for six theatre makers to collaborate on a...
  
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• This Author Published A History Of Two Millennia Of Restaurants Just As Every Restaurant Shut Down

  11-05-2020 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What does he think will happen now? “Nothing will go back to how it was and the new normal will reflect some aspects of lockdown life. More people will work from home, more people will cook at home, more restaurants will deliver food and more producers will have a closer access to consumers. These are morsels of good fortune that we should cling to.” – LitHub
  
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• TV Acting Tutors - Manchester / ActUpNorth / North West

  11-05-2020 16:59
  As we look to expand our operation in the coming months we are looking for x2 passionate and dedicated tutors to join our oustanding teaching team in Manchester. 
  Each tutor will teach between...
  
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• Open call for Artists and Creative Practitioners / Milton Keynes Arts Centre / South East

  11-05-2020 16:50
  Milton Keynes Arts Centre is commissioning short artist-led workshops to follow at home, and practical demonstrations exploring a range of arts practice, aimed at our online communities. Full...
  
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• The CDC Uses A Chinese Textile To Illustrate A Cover Story On Virus Transmission

  11-05-2020 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Or rather, misuses the textile, a late-18th-century military rank badge.“Byron Breedlove and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, authors of the cover feature ‘Auspicious Symbols of Rank and Status,’ try to give an art historical analysis of this textile their best shot. However, their attempt at intertwining art and science takes a disastrous, even comical turn in the sixth paragraph, in which they state that ‘The birds and animals featured on the various rank badges (excepting, among
  
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• Betty Wright, Powerful Singer Of ‘Clean Up Woman’ And Many More, Has Died At 66

  11-05-2020 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Wright, whose first hit came when she was 17 and who produced and mentored scores of other performers as she aged, had 20 singles in the Billboard R&B Top 40 and a voice that blew other singers out of the water. She was “one of the first pop vocalists to sing in the stratospheric ‘whistle register,’ a technique also used by Minnie Riperton, Mariah Carey and Ariana Grande.” – The New York Times
  
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• When Your Ex Already Wrote The Most Intimate Details Of Your Life, What’s Left?

  11-05-2020 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Linda Boström Knausgard has some pretty good ideas about that. The writer, ex-wife of Karl Ove Knausgard, has published two of her own novels in quick succession. “It’s a fresh start. Most of all I would like to be seen as a person and an author in my own right.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Will The High School Shutdown Derail Theatre And Other Performing Arts Careers?

  11-05-2020 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For students at performing arts schools, the lost senior recitals, plays, dance recitals and more are not just about losing the opportunity to share performances with family: This is their careers on the line. One 18-year-old playwright and director: “The environment in theater is nice because you have a lot of voices together, and everyone was working on this cool project and it felt really great, and I felt that we were all in sync with the vision. … Without that to look forward
  
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• Novelist Jenny Odell Wrote About Nature And Art, And Suddenly Her Book Seems Even More Relevant

  11-05-2020 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Odell’s simply considering things, not worried about producing art during the lockdown. “I have been thinking about that redirecting of attention. Our grocery store has the usual spaced-out lines with markings on the ground, and as you stand in line you just find yourself standing near this weird part of the building that you would never stand near. So now you have all this time to contemplate this wall. That seemed like a visual metaphor for everything else. The thing has always be
  
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• Cinderella Drama and Storytelling Workshop / Blue Elephant Theatre / London

  11-05-2020 15:12
  An engaging and fun workshop for ages 3 - 7 centred around the story of Cinderella, with a focus on positivity, fairness and encouragement. Enjoy some drama activities before settling down to hear...
  
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• Will French Bookselling Also Change Due To Covid-19?

  11-05-2020 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  French publishing, and its associated literary prizes like the (now somewhat disgraced) Goncourt, has long crowded the fall with a flood of titles (which has, in normal years, made the spring frantic for publishers getting the word out). But can that continue? One agent: “Why must so many prizes be awarded at the same time of the year? What logic is behind this? With a more balanced spread of editorial production, the chances of a larger number of books would be increased.” &nd
  
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• Tenet Is The Test

  11-05-2020 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  So Tenet is scheduled to come out July 17, which seemed like a long time ago when the lockdown began, but … wow, that’s soon. “The equation being pored over in Hollywood is whether pent-up demand from people stuck at home means they’ll be willing to pack into theaters, even with heavy restrictions, by the summer. When three theaters opened in San Antonio opened last week, around 3,000 people showed up in total, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It’s e
  
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• Jacquelin Taylor Robertson, Architect And Shaper Of New York’s Urban Design, Has Died At 88

  11-05-2020 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Robertson loved classical lines, but “there was no inconsistency between his love of grand classical architecture and his passionate belief in cities: It was all about finding ways to turn time-tested ideas to the benefit of modern life, and he would spend much of the rest of his career promoting better urban design.” – The New York Times
  
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• Open Call - Writer in Residence / Rabbits Road Institute Library / London

  11-05-2020 14:15
  Open call to be writer in residence at Rabbits Road Institute Library, soon to be housed at Company Drinks Pavilion, Barking Park, in the borough of Barking and Dagenham.
  The Library is a community...
  
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• Public Art Commission, Cable Wharf, Northfleet / Arc on behalf of Keepmoat / South East

  11-05-2020 14:12
  Artists are invited to submit an Expression of Interest for a public art commission in Ebbsfleet Garden City.
  The Artwork is being commissioned by Keepmoat Homes and is intended to provide an...
  
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• Marketing and Communications Lead / The Creative Seed CIC / North East

  11-05-2020 13:58
  The Creative Seed has a great opportunity for someone with experience in Digital Marketing, to use their skills to promote the Creative Seed and help increase the profile of our service. We are a...
  
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• CHWA Regional Champions for the West Midlands / Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance / West Midlands

  11-05-2020 12:20
  Are you based in the West Midlands region?
  Are you passionate about culture/health/wellbeing and ready for a new challenge?   
  Do you want to be part of developing regional and national...
  
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• The Royal Court's Caretaker is a space to think of theatre's past and future

  11-05-2020 11:27
  
  Hester Chillingworth’s installation, showing the empty London venue, is eerie, intimate and brings a message of support during the coronavirus lockdownHottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance onlineThere is a stalled travelator centre stage, flanked by deep cavities and grey walls, but I can’t help thinking of a huge colourful ball pool. That’s the set design I remember best from this particular view, in the middle of the Royal Court’s balcony. The ball pool w
  
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• Commission call out for Somerset Theatre Makers / Wassail Theatre / South West

  11-05-2020 10:52
  SOMERSET EMERGENCY THEATRE: CONNECTING COMMUNITIES
  Wassail Theatre are offering commissions for Somerset-based theatre makers to contribute to develop ideas for new work now.
  Somerset Emergency...
  
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