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• Art Writer / ArtWeb / London

  12-05-2020 22:02
  ArtWeb is a platform for artists looking to showcase their work, with over a quarter of a million works of art. In addition to the platform we maintain a popular blog and monthly newsletter with tens...
  
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• The Psoas Major Muscle = The Muscle of the Soul - workshop / To Move with Voice project / London / Nationwide

  12-05-2020 20:31
  What role does the psoas major muscle play in speaking and singing?Are you someone who is interested in vocal exploration?Are you curious about the connection between voice and body?​✨...
  
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• Decorative Artist / Painter & Decorator / Mathew Bray & Matthew Collins / London

  12-05-2020 19:10
  PAY depending on experience £15/£17 p/h
  Persons applying for this position must be able to demonstrate an excellent understanding of Building Site practices. They must have at least...
  
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• Digital Tools and Techniques for Artists & Creatives / Creativity Works / South West / All

  12-05-2020 18:18
  Join Sara Pugh, co-founder and Managing Director of design and marketing agency Eight Wire, for this series of five one and a half hour sessions, focusing on the digital tools and techniques that can...
  
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• FREE ONLINE art with artist Brenda Coyle / Mbbcrafts / London

  12-05-2020 18:06
  Join artist Brenda Coyle in one of her weekly meditative art classes.
  Relax and create beautiful art using basic materials in your home. These mini taster sessions are suitable for all ages and...
  
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• Lockdown with Gilbert and George: they've lost the world, but the walk goes on

  12-05-2020 17:36
  
  For decades the suited pair have spent their days strolling around London. Now due to coronavirus they’ve stoically adapted their routine, as shown in a strangely moving video diaryThe best arts and entertainment during self-isolationAged 76 and 78 respectively, the renowned artist couple Gilbert and George are of the age supposedly most in need of isolating against the coronavirus. Yet exploring the streets of London has been their life since they met as students in 1967 – taking ph
  
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• Communications Administrator / Voluntary Arts / North West / UK wide

  12-05-2020 16:45
  Voluntary Arts was created in 1991, in response to a need identified by government and the voluntary arts sector, to provide a universal voice for the voluntary arts across the UK and the Republic of...
  
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• SIREN POETS - open call out to all South West based poets / Cape Farewell / South West

  12-05-2020 16:44
  Cape Farewell is delighted to announce Siren Poets, supported by Arts Council England, as part of an emergency cultural response to the COVID-19 outbreak. 
  Born from our commitment to...
  
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• Making Work Online, and Making Online Work - Zoom Workshop / Part of the Main / London / Online via Zoom

  12-05-2020 15:50
  Monday May 18, 10 AM - 12 PM | £8In this practical workshop, director, drag king and dramaturg Jo Tyabji will lead participants through an exploration of online rehearsal techniques, and how to...
  
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• Social Media Manager - Maternity Cover / The British Library / London

  12-05-2020 15:49
  Full Time, Fixed term Maternity Cover for 14 Months
  £32,000
  We’re looking for a strategic thinking Social Media manager to help us tell the British Library story across our social media...
  
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• What is Dramaturgy? Zoom Workshop / Part of the Main / London / Online via Zoom

  12-05-2020 15:47
  Friday May 15, 10 AM - 12 PM | £8                                            ...
  
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• Amid The Epidemic, There’s One Place Where Dance Goes On (Almost) Undisturbed

  12-05-2020 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This rural compound in India’s southern tip is one of the few places where professional dancers can still do what the rest of the performing arts world can only dream about. At Nrityagram, dancers experience neither loneliness nor confinement. They gather in the same dance hall for hours at a stretch, every day, to train, rehearse and perform — if only for one another.” – The Washington Post
  
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• Online Weekly Frame Drum and Darbuka Workshops / Elizabeth Nott / London

  12-05-2020 15:18
  Learn or improve your frame drum or darbuka playing technique, rhythms and variations through weekly online workshops
  If you always wanted to explore playing Middle Eastern percussion or improve...
  
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• This May Be The First US Theater To Call Off Its 2020-21 Season Due To COVID

  12-05-2020 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In place of a regular mainstage season, Theater Latté Da in Minneapolis will expand its “Next” workshopping program, “making public the shows it is developing for the future, keeping writers, actors and other artists busy creating work even though it’s not certain when it will be shared with audiences.” – Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
  
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• Movie Theatres In UK Won’t Open Until At Least July 4

  12-05-2020 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[A] 60-page document, entitled Our Plan to Rebuild, sets out that cinemas are part of a ‘high-risk’ group of businesses that will be the last to reopen from July 4 onwards” — and even that date is not guaranteed. – Variety
  
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• Italy’s First Post-Lockdown Opera Performances Will Be At A Roman Horse Track

  12-05-2020 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In July, the Rome Opera will stage Verdi’s Rigoletto, conducted by Daniele Gatti, in the Piazza di Siena, a venue on the grounds of the Villa Borghese normally used for equestrian events. Audience numbers will be capped at 1,000 (in a facility that normally holds several times that number), with all social distancing regulations followed. – Wanted in Rome
  
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• Senior Finance Assistant: VAT and Compliance / British Museum / London

  12-05-2020 13:55
  Senior Finance Assistant: VAT and Compliance Finance Full time Permanent£26,394 per annum Application deadline: 25 May 2020 by noon
  An exciting opportunity has arisen at the British Museum to...
  
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• BSDC For Schools - online learning / Balbir Singh Dance Company / Yorkshire

  12-05-2020 13:31
  We are delighted to announce our online learning platform for children across the UK. BSDC For Schools encompasses a series of online dance tutorials and a dance quiz via our Youtube...
  
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• 6 x Micro Bursary, Gbp500 / GRAIN / West Midlands

  12-05-2020 12:48
  As part of our online programme we have a series of commissions and bursaries aimed at exploring, responding to and documenting the current historical and significant time we are experiencing.The...
  
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• 2x Gbp2000 Commission / GRAIN / West Midlands

  12-05-2020 12:45
  As part of our online programme we have a series of commissions and bursaries aimed at exploring, responding to and documenting the current historical and significant time we are experiencing.The...
  
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• Call for Entries: UKNA City Takeover, Leicester 2021 / UK New Artists / East Midlands / Open to artists across the UK

  12-05-2020 11:58
  UK New Artists is seeking up to 70 new artists from across the UK to takeover the city of Leicester for a long weekend. 
  Exhibitions, performance, music, writing and film will animate cultural...
  
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• Project Assistant / Just Some Theatre / North West

  12-05-2020 11:22
  Just Some Theatre are currently seeking a Project Assistant to work alongside the team with the launch of a new writing initiative. Just Some Theatre launched in 2012 and since then have been...
  
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• Not For Profit Initiative, Make With Clay At Home / Woodsetton Art Pottery / West Midlands

  12-05-2020 11:06
  Woodsetton Art Pottery in The Black Country are again part of Hey Clay! at home in conjunction with @craftscouncil Every year the Crafts Council has an annual celebration of clay, and this year...
  
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• 'This made me smile': our readers' favourite coronavirus street art

  12-05-2020 10:40
  
  Houses, roads and shops all over the UK have been redecorated and reinvigorated during lockdownSeeing this makes me feel proud of what we have in the UK. Without the NHS, we would be in serious trouble in normal times, let alone during this pandemic. I have friends who are working in the NHS, in the care sector and as key workers. They are working seriously hard in difficult circumstances to make our lives the best they can be. Continue reading...
  
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• Artist Out of Residence / spudWORKS / South West

  12-05-2020 10:03
  spudWORKS is offering the opportunity for a socially engaged artist with a track record in working intergenerationally to take up an artists’ residency exploring intergenerational interactivity...
  
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• How did Devonshire wrestlers fight dirty? The great British art quiz

  12-05-2020 09:00
  
  The Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter has set today’s quiz, in the series that explores UK collections while coronavirus keeps museums closed. Test your knowledge hereThis quiz is brought to you in collaboration with Art UK, the online home for the UK’s public art collections, showing art from over 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 Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter &ndash
  
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• Forget Titian, here's a talking dog! Is this digital art's big moment?

  12-05-2020 07:00
  
  A film noir about a cluttered flat, an animated canine, Yesterday whistled in a corridor … artists in coronavirus lockdown are making the leap to digital. Can they stop people switching over to Netflix?The last art I saw in the flesh was the Titian exhibition at the National Gallery in London. It was a remarkable, treasurable experience: his group of “poesie” paintings, based on stories from Ovid, had last hung together 400 years ago. Two days later, the museum closed its door
  
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• Jerry Stiller, 92

  12-05-2020 01:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[He] rose to national prominence on a barrage of one-line jokes and sly ethnic humor, with his Jewish background and [wife/partner Anne] Meara’s Irish Catholic heritage forming a comic motif. With age, he transformed into a master of righteous indignation and raucous anger, drawing on memories of fights between his parents to create some of the funniest moments of the 1990s’ most celebrated and popular sitcom.” – The Washington Post
  
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• March 8 Choral Concert In Amsterdam Led To 4 Virus Deaths

  12-05-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Of the chorus of 130, 102 were diagnosed with the virus. – Diapason
  
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