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• Italian Book Buying Habits Have Changed. Will They Change Back?

  28-05-2020 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a shift of consumer patterns, in the first 16 weeks of the year, 47 percent of Italy’s trade book sales, both in fiction and nonfiction, took place online. In the same period of 2019, only 26.7 percent of those sales were made online. Like France, Italy is a market that buys its books in normal times primarily through physical stores, and some observers wonder if the move to online commerce during the pandemic will permanently change consumer behavior. – Publishing Perspectives
  
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• How Coffee Has Powered (And Destroyed) Societies

  28-05-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There have been times that coffee as a commodity was more valuable than most currencies. Cultures have been built around the bean, and destroyed others who have been exploited for it. – Times Literary Supplement
  
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• Loneliness As Punishment And Inspiration

  28-05-2020 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In 2018, the first British Minister for Loneliness was appointed and the government published A Connected Society. In the preface, the country’s then prime minister Theresa May referred to research that “shows that loneliness is as damaging to our physical health as smoking”. – Times Literary Supplement
  
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• Artist Commissions / Music in Detention / London / National

  28-05-2020 18:56
  Music In Detention is offering 8 artist commissions of £500 each, to create different ideas and activities to bring inspiration and solidarity to people currently in immigration detention...
  
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• Culture Hotline - call up for live Irish music on Wednesdays / Irish Cultural Centre / London

  28-05-2020 18:31
  The Irish Cultural Centre is pleased to announce that Anthony McGrath will be back by popular demand on Wednesday 3rd June from 2-3pm for a second session of songs to sing along to!
  The Culture...
  
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• Programme Coordinator / Coventry City of Culture / West Midlands

  28-05-2020 17:56
  Coventry City of Culture Trust was set up in 2015 to bid to be UK City of Culture in 2021. Now that we have been successful in securing the prestigious title, we are recruiting the team ready to...
  
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• City of Culture Leadership Programme Coordinator / Coventry City of Culture / West Midlands

  28-05-2020 17:44
  Coventry City of Culture Trust was set up in 2015 to bid to be UK City of Culture in 2021. Now that we have been successful in securing the prestigious title, we are recruiting the team ready to...
  
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• Freelance Taskforce Member / Brighton Dome & Festival / South East

  28-05-2020 16:52
  Jun – Aug 20, 1 day a week, £200 per dayWe are looking for a representative, based in or around Brighton and Hove, to be part of a new national task force of self-employed theatre and...
  
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• Call for entries: London Short Film Festival / LSFF / London / National

  28-05-2020 16:44
  London Short Film Festival is seeking short form submissions for its 18th edition, taking place next January 2021.
  A platform for independent short filmmaking and the eclecticism of its many forms...
  
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• Steering Group member / What Next? / East / National

  28-05-2020 13:55
  What Next? is seeking to recruit up to eight new members to its Steering Group; a leadership team that supports the core team and the national movement as a whole. 
  What Next? is a...
  
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• Exhibition Opportunity / Devon Guild of Crafts / South West

  28-05-2020 13:37
  CALLmOUT TO ALL UK BASED DESIGNER-MAKERSExhibition title:  MAKE 2020
  Exhibition tagline:  Contemporary Crafts for Christmas
  Exhibition dates:  Saturday 14 November 2020 –...
  
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• Audition Online - MA Advanced Dance Performance / Dance City / North East

  28-05-2020 13:36
  Dance City is delighted to announce that students can now audition online for their MA Advanced Dance Performance course beginning in October 2020 until Friday 5 June. 
  This unique 43-week...
  
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• Art at Home / Sherborne ArtsLink / South West

  28-05-2020 12:02
  A series of activities for anyone to access, share with the family or do on their own at home put together by ArtsLink and the ArtsLink Fizz! team. We hope that they will support you creatively...
  
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• What is this Hepworth sculpture made of? The great British art quiz

  28-05-2020 09:00
  
  The Pier Arts Centre in Orkney sets today’s quiz – which enables you to explore the art collections of museums closed due to Covid-19 while answering a few brain-teasersThis 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 Pier Arts Centre, Orkney. The centre, in S
  
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• Ai Weiwei creates 10,000 masks in aid of coronavirus charities

  28-05-2020 09:00
  
  Humanitarian groups to receive artist’s eBay income from masks bearing sunflower seeds – or a middle fingerCoronavirus – latest updatesArt has come together with activism in the shape of face masks created by Ai Weiwei which show images of sunflower seeds, mythical beasts and perhaps most appropriately of all, a defiant middle finger.The Chinese artist and activist has printed an initial batch of 10,000 face masks to be sold for charity through eBay. All the takings will go to
  
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• Continuing Professional Practice Course, Oxford / Ovada / South East

  28-05-2020 01:07
  Warehouse Art School (WAS) offers a structured course with a clear focus on the development of an individuals’ professional practice in fine art.
  The one year course creates a stimulating...
  
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