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• How The Rise Of Individualism Is Related To Plagues

  22-05-2020 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Following the Black Death in the 14th century, outbreaks recurred throughout Europe and the Mediterranean for centuries. The spectre of plague was significant not just in the history of medicine and society but of subjectivity – how we see ourselves and especially one another. Self-reliance became indistinguishable from self-protection. – New Statesman
  
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• Now The Hard Part: Testing Out Concerts In The New Normal

  22-05-2020 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For the moment, the eyes of the concert industry are on the Arkansas city of Fort Smith. There, at a venue called TempleLive, blues-rock singer Travis McCready is set to perform a solo show Monday. It may well be the first ticketed indoor public music event in the nation to take place since the coronavirus-fueled shutdown of concerts. – San Diego Union-Tribune
  
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• Why Is Climate Change MIA On America’s Stages?

  22-05-2020 22:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  How many climate-themed works have been presented in the theaters of America, one of the major energy-gouging countries in the world — particularly in our large, well-funded stages? It is any surprise that, given the economic stakes, that it is pretty well nada? – Arts Fuse
  
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• Open call out for online exhibition / Leeds Summer Group Show / Yorkshire / online

  22-05-2020 22:13
  Open call out for artists of Leeds and beyond for the Leeds Summer Group Show. If selected your work will be shown as part of a month long online exhibition and there’s a £500 cash prize...
  
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• Pandemic Is A Golden Opportunity For Australia’s Big Festivals To Reinvent

  22-05-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With high profiles, comparatively secure government funding and established philanthropic networks, major arts festivals are in a position to make a difference. At one point in Getting Their Acts Together, Adelaide festival’s annual bill is placed at $20m – around four times the amount of money the Australia Council has scraped together for its Covid-19 resilience fund. And after months of cancellations and pushbacks there will be no shortage of compelling shows by Australian artist
  
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• An Online Education: Some Essentials Missing

  22-05-2020 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I’ve heard administrators insist that online instruction is just a “change in delivery system,” not a diminution of content. But this bureaucratic bromide wilfully ignores the wisdom of Marshall McLuhan, whose work I often teach. The medium is always the message. You can reduce a seminar to a distortion-addled screen, sure, but that will never substitute for being there. – The Globe and Mail (Canada)
  
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• Teachers, Want To Get Your Students Interested In Learning Grammar? Start With A Rant

  22-05-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Not your own rant, mind you. A pair of teachers recommends using one of those vehement complaints that turn up every so often in advice columns or blogs. “[The instructors] “note that heated, emotional writing like this is more interesting to students than dry lists of rules to follow. More importantly, rants offer a clear demonstration of how powerful people make judgments — often harsh ones — based on grammar.” – JSTOR Daily
  
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• Producer (Maternity Cover) / Tinderbox Theatre Company / Belfast

  22-05-2020 20:38
  Tinderbox Theatre Company is one of the most established theatre companies in Northern Ireland.  For thirty years, Tinderbox has championed new writing, producing world-class performances from...
  
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• We Have To Talk: Learning (And Teaching) Online Is A Lesser Experience

  22-05-2020 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The real question may not be “How can you possibly teach art online?” but “How can you possibly understand art online?” My simple answer to that complex question is: “At best, imperfectly. At worst, inadequately.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Open Call - Paid Digital Residency for Kent based BAME artists / Crate Studio and Project Space and Durham Art Gallery / South East

  22-05-2020 20:04
  Trickster, Teacher, Chaos, Clay Digital ResidencyOpportunity for Kent based BAME artists to take part in paid Digital Residency
  The Project
  Trickster, Teacher, Chaos Clay Digital Residency (TTCC)...
  
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• Repertory Theatre, Live From An Actual Florida Closet

  22-05-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rachel Burttram Powers, co-founder and co-star (with husband Brendan) of Tiny_Theatre: “I started cleaning out a back closet because I thought, ‘What would happen if you made a theatre at home?’ We knew everyone was self-isolating. We both have a passion for new plays, and we have a lot of playwright friends who are very well established, and I just thought, ‘Let me just send an email to see if people would be game to play with us.'” Since March 21, they’ve a
  
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• West End Producer: Without Help, Our Theatres Will Be Obliterated

  22-05-2020 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Without an urgent government rescue package, 70% of our performing arts companies will be out of business before the end of this year,” she wrote. “More than 1,000 theatres around the country will be insolvent and might shut down for good.” The producer said the loss would be “irrecoverable” and said that without intervention the country would watch as over the next six months “our arts and cultural organisations will have to spend their reserves until
  
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• Bernice Silver, Beloved Agitprop Puppeteer, Dead Of COVID At 106

  22-05-2020 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A hummingbird of a woman at 4-foot-8, [she] was a puppeteer whose performances were mock-chaotic, subtly cerebral and always slyly subversive. She made sure to slip in a history lesson, or a plug for conservation or social justice. She called them happenings, for the political theater she was schooled in. Her fellow puppeteers called her the Queen of Potpourri.” – The New York Times
  
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• First Access and Curriculum Music Coordinator / Hillingdon Music Hub / London

  22-05-2020 18:44
  This is a part time 21.6 hour per week vacancy. The salary advertised will be pro-rata.
  Hillingdon Music Hub is a thriving and expanding hub, working as part of Hillingdon Council, delivering music...
  
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• super/science E3: Exploring Marine Wonders Around Thanet / / South East / Online

  22-05-2020 18:38
  During this online event, you will learn about the ecology of the Margate Coastline in association with Resortful.
  This talk with Alice Morley will allow people to learn more about the exciting...
  
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• Alex Ross: Connecting With Music Through Tinny Video

  22-05-2020 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As a critic, I am desperate to maintain contact with what musicians are doing, thinking, and feeling. The sound is often tinny, the stage patter awkward, the home décor distracting. One could instead sample archived professional-quality videos that opera houses, orchestras, and other organizations have placed online. For me, though, the live or freshly recorded happenings matter more. They document, with the oblique power that the arts possess, an extraordinary human phase in hist
  
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• Charity Trustee / Villages in Action / South West

  22-05-2020 18:13
  For the last 3 years the work of Villages in Action has been managed by Creative Kernow, the charity that runs Carn to Cove, our neighbouring rural touring scheme in Cornwall. We are now at a pivotal...
  
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• What Will Post-COVID Novels Be Like? For Possible Answers, Look To Post-9/11 Fiction

  22-05-2020 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Chris Bohjalian: “If 9/11 is a literary precedent, it could be years before we will see our first rush of novels about the coronavirus pandemic.” (The first such major titles, Ian McEwan’s Saturday and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, appeared in 2005.) “Some will no doubt take place in the innermost ring of Dante’s Inferno that has been New York City’s emergency rooms, and some will be about the chaos of home schooling twin
  
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• Canadian Government’s Efforts To Help Artists Shows Problems In Defining Artists’ Income

  22-05-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In mitigating the impact of the COVID19 crisis, the federal government swiftly responded with economy-wide measures as part of its immediate relief. It is in this roll out of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) and the Canadian Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) that officials discovered the many gaps in addressing the labour force in the arts—the artist. More than the employment of the labour, it was what constituted their income that became the challenge and eluded the fit for an ar
  
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• Freelance Creative Producer / Square Pegs Arts / South East

  22-05-2020 17:25
  Square Pegs Arts are an award winning charity that provides Theatre and Arts opportunities for people with learning disabilities and autism.
  We are looking for an experienced Creative Producer to...
  
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• Watching ABT’s Virtual Ballet Class

  22-05-2020 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Marina Harss: “A masked dancer in a studio, which is empty but for a pianist, peers into her computer’s camera, calling out a cheerful ‘Hi, everyone! So good to see you!’ In another frame, a toddler ambles by, prompting a dancer to joke,’Hey, guys, I had a baby!’ (The toddler actually belongs to the dancer’s sister, with whom she is staying.) More and more squares appear, revealing living rooms, kitchens where family members prepare sandwiches, a nurser
  
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• Director of Creative Engagement / National Theatre of Scotland / Glasgow

  22-05-2020 16:43
  Salary: Appropriate to the seniority of the role
  Based in Glasgow
  In these challenging times we are determined to continue our work with communities across Scotland and are pleased to be...
  
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• Well, Here’s One Way To Give A Coronavirus-Safe Live Dance Performance

  22-05-2020 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On Saturday night, about 35 cars converged at the Santa Monica Airport parking lot. Inside each vehicle, the passengers had 12 pages of instructions: Arrive exactly at 7:50 pm; stay inside your car with the windows rolled up; when you see a flashing light, turn on your headlights; wear a mask. They had come to see PARKED, an invitation-only, drive-in dance performance put on by Jacob Jonas The Company.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Public Engagement Consultant / Kirklees Museums & Galleries / Yorkshire

  22-05-2020 16:28
  Kirklees Museums and Galleries www.kirklees.gov.uk/museums  has been awarded National Lottery Heritage Funding for “Bringing out the Best: A bright new future for Kirklees Heritage”....
  
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• Chamber Music Coach / Royal College of Music / London

  22-05-2020 16:18
  The Royal College of Music Junior Department (RCMJD) is a specialist term-time only Saturday school offering advanced training to musicians between the ages of 8 and 18. Students combine...
  
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• Arts and Place NOW - series online conversations / Beam / Yorkshire / Online

  22-05-2020 16:08
  Arts and Place NOW
  2nd June - 16 July
  Arts and Place NOW is a free series of online conversations curated by the National Arts and Place Consortium that will shine a light on exemplar projects...
  
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• Facebook And YouTube Copyright-Police Bots Are Blocking Classical Musicians’ Concert Streams, Sometimes Mid-Performance

  22-05-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And the music at issue is almost always in the public domain. The bots, developed and trained on popular music, are finding performance videos of, Bach, Mozart, Chopin and so on to be too similar to existing commercial recordings by other musicians and automatically blocking them. Then the appeal process with these enormous corporations is frustrating and way too slow. – The Washington Post
  
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• Curator/Researcher in Residence, Aubrey Williams Archive / Art360 Foundation / London

  22-05-2020 16:03
  Art360 Foundation and International Curators Forum are seeking curators and researchers interested in engaging with and developing work around the archive of British-Caribbean artist, Aubrey...
  
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• Experienced Gallery Assistant and PA to the Directors / Luxembourg & Dayan / London

  22-05-2020 15:37
  Starting: July 2020
  Experience: 1-2 years in a similar position/relevant field
  Other: Another language required (Italian, German, French)
  Salary: Upon experience
  This position offers an exciting...
  
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• Marketing & PR Manager / Bradford 2025 / Yorkshire

  22-05-2020 15:36
  We seek an outstanding marketing and communications professional to work with the Bid Director and other colleagues to develop, manage and promote Bradford 2025. You will develop high-impact,...
  
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• Programme & Community Co-ordinator / Bradford 2025 / Yorkshire

  22-05-2020 15:34
  We seek a Programme & Community Co-ordinator to work with the Bid Director, other colleagues, the Board, steering group, our reference groups and programme advisors and other partners to help...
  
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• U.S. Copyright Office Says Digital Millennium Copyright Act Should Be ‘Fine-Tuned’

  22-05-2020 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The issue discussed in a report just released by the Copyright Office is the DMCA’s Section 512, which lays out what social media companies and Online Service Providers (e.g., Spotify, YouTube) must do to remove pirated material and police copyright infringement. The Office says that the balance has shifted too far toward the OSPs, leaving creators whose material has been posted without permission to play “whack-a-mole.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Hollywood Studios And Craft Unions Struggle Over How To Restart Production

  22-05-2020 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The industry task force that was assembled last month to address the safety issues has generated a 30-page draft of a white paper that is designed to convince governmental officials to give Hollywood the greenlight to resume production. … But the white paper is not complete and has not been signed off by all of the participants in the task force, which has spurred anger and finger-pointing among union and studio officials and … the labor negotiating body for the major studi
  
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• Membership Manager / Royal Opera House / London

  22-05-2020 15:01
  Permanent contract, full-time (40 hours per week)
  The Royal Opera House offers world-class opera, ballet, music and dance live on stage at our iconic theatre in Covent Garden, and reaches out to...
  
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• A lost childhood home, magic mushrooms and arty face masks – the week in art

  22-05-2020 15:00
  
  Ashile Gorky and Jack Whitten provide serious art for serious times, David Shrigley designs a face mask for charity, and early Beatles photographer Astrid Kirchherr has died – all in your weekly dispatchArshile Gorky and Jack WhittenHauser and WirthSomerset House, LondonV&A, LondonThe Hepworth, Wakefield, 22 to 25 MayThe Bank of England, London Continue reading...
  
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• Italy’s First Classical Concert Since Lockdown: Muti In Ravenna, June 21

  22-05-2020 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The performance, Riccardo Muti conducting the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra in Scriabin and Mozart, will be the opening event of this year’s Ravenna Festival. Attendance will be limited to 250 people, masks required, with both audience and musicians practicing social distancing. – Yahoo! (AP)
  
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• Personal Assistant / Carter Latif / London

  22-05-2020 14:24
  I am an 18 year old male living in the SW18 area.  I’m currently pursuing my academic studies at Goldsmiths and my interests are film and TV, the arts, politics, sports, comic books,...
  
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• Rothko Chapel In Houston Finally Has A Post-Renovation Opening Date

  22-05-2020 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Menil Collection’s octagonal landmark, which houses 14 of Mark Rothko’s black paintings, was closed in early 2019 for work that included reinforcing the walls, installing a digital lighting system and replacing the skylight to protect the canvases from sun exposure. The Chapel’s reopening, originally planned for June, has been postponed to September because of the COVID epidemic; there will be a “soft opening” in July. – Archinect
  
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• Performing Arts Teacher / Razzamataz Sheffield / Yorkshire

  22-05-2020 13:34
  Razzamataz Theatre Schools Sheffield are seeking a special individual to deliver our magical Performing Arts classes to the younger end of our school. The successful candidate will be able to deliver...
  
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• Creative Talent Programme Call Out / Creative Youth / South East / outside of London

  22-05-2020 12:28
  Creative Youth are delighted to announce that applications are open for our Creative Talent Programme for 2020-2021. We are searching for three new and exciting emerging or early career...
  
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• Artists Make Change - an R&D project by a-n Artist Council / AirSpace Gallery / West Midlands

  22-05-2020 09:35
  ARTISTS MAKE CHANGE
  This project is designed to explore the role of the artist in society, and in particular to assess, and advocate for, how artists and art organisers can effectively work for...
  
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• What is the Laughing Cavalier not wearing? The great British art quiz

  22-05-2020 09:00
  
  London’s Wallace Collection set today’s quiz, which enables you to explore the art of museums and galleries in the UK closed due to the pandemic – while answering some fiendish questionsThis quiz is brought to you in collaboration with Art UK, the online home of the UK’s public art collections, showing art from more than 3,000 venues, by 45,000 artists. Each day, a different collection on Art UK sets the questions.Today, they are set by the Wallace Collection, an internat
  
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• Gallery Assistant / Artisan Alchemy Gallery / West Midlands

  22-05-2020 00:22
  A job share vacancy has arisen at a contemporary furniture and jewellery gallery.
  The vacancy will be a job share, working part time, to include working alternate Saturday’s. Working hours...
  
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• Are We Losing Our Abilities To Read Deeply?

  22-05-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Beyond self-inflicted attention deficits, people who cannot deep read — or who do not use and hence lose the deep-reading skills they learned — typically suffer from an attenuated capability to comprehend and use abstract reasoning. In other words, if you can’t, or don’t, slow down sufficiently to focus quality attention — what Wolf calls “cognitive patience” — on a complex problem, you cannot effect
  
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