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• New York Theatres Are Opening Their Buildings To Protestors

  05-06-2020 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A new Twitter account, called “Open Your Lobby,” has encouraged theaters to welcome protesters. A post from the account recommended that the theaters “not permit police inside of the building for the safety of your protesters,” adding that nonblack staffers should block officers from entering. – The New York Times
  
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• Where Did “Shit Hits The Fan” Come From?

  05-06-2020 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The true origins of the expression “shit hits the fan” are largely undetermined, though some sources suggest that Canada is to blame—it might have come from particularly picturesque Canadian military language of the early twentieth century. Another suggestion is that the idiom is descended from “an old joke.” – JSTOR
  
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• Evaluation Framework Tender / Clore Leadership / London

  05-06-2020 22:58
  Clore Leadership provides leadership development programmes, promotes thought leadership and fresh ideas through debate and challenge, and offers access to an unrivalled network of leaders. Our...
  
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• China’s Movie Theatres Reopened… But Audience Hasn’t Returned

  05-06-2020 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There are now more than 12,000 cinemas in China, according to market research firm IBISWorld. This figure has more than doubled in the past decade as China has embraced movie-going. But four out of 10 said they “are very likely to close” in the near future, according to the China Film Association survey. This could mean nearly 5,000 cinemas going bust as a result of the pandemic. – BBC
  
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• Lebrecht: Privatise The South Bank Centre

  05-06-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Save that? Better to take the South Bank apart, piece by piece, in a period when there is no performance, so that it can put it together again under entrepreneurial management over the next year, ready to serve the public interest once concerts resume. It was the public, after all, who paid from their LCC rates to have the place built in 1951. That public has been given no say in its destiny ever since. – The Spectator
  
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• Poor Old Machiavelli Had ‘A Talent For Ending Up On The Losing Side’

  05-06-2020 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  His tenure as a senior administrator in the Florentine Republic saw many more failures than successes; he was bounced into prison and then exile after the Medici returned to power; when he finally got back into their favor, he was commissioned to write a great history of the city, only to see the family booted once again and die himself a couple of months later. “That hallmark of his work, Fortune, shined upon him only posthumously.” – History Today
  
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• Study: Kids Now Spending Nearly As Much Time On TikTok As On YouTube

  05-06-2020 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kids are now watching twice as many videos per day as they did just four years ago. This is despite the fact that YouTube’s flagship app is meant for ages 13 and up — an age-gate that was never truly enforced, leading to the FTC’s historic $170 million fine for the online video platform in 2019 for its noncompliance with U.S. children’s privacy regulations. – TechCrunch
  
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• The Backstory Of The Bravest (And Sneakiest) Opening Number In Tony Awards History

  05-06-2020 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Here’s how songwriters Adam Schlesinger and David Javerbaum and host/lead performer Neil Patrick Harris concocted, and got away with, the immortal intro to the 2011 Tony Awards telecast, “It’s Not Just for Gays Anymore.” – The New York Times
  
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• No Tonys This Year? How About The Charlies?

  05-06-2020 19:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Instead of choosing the best from an incomplete list, I decided to play a different game. Looking back at the last 10 years of Tony winners, I came up with my own nominations and winners for the Charlie Awards, representing the crème de la crème of Broadway from 2010 through 2019. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Writing the Rules for Zoom? Skillshare for artists and educators / / London

  05-06-2020 19:19
  Friday 12th June: 4pm - 5.30pm
  A no-cost skills exchange session to share how socially engaged art practitioners and educators have used, adapted and reshaped Zoom (and other video comms...
  
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• HomeBrew Commission x5 / The Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre / South West

  05-06-2020 19:05
  Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre are offering 5 commissions of £1000 for Somerset artists to create work that is proudly, inherently digital, that will be hosted on Brewhouse’s website...
  
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• How Did Ancient Australians Make Their Cave Paintings So Precise? A Team Of Archaeologists May Have The Answer

  05-06-2020 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At a site in Limmen National Park in the Northern Territory are 17 paintings, stenciled on rock, that are far smaller than usual for such art, featuring detailed renderings of humans, kangaroos, turtles, boomerangs, and geometric figures. Researchers, working with the Marra people native to the area, think the painters may have used the same beeswax figures they used to make toys. – Artnet
  
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• From Outbreak to Archive: Summer Youth Film Project / The National Archives / London / UK Wide

  05-06-2020 18:59
  For the last four summers, The National Archives has worked with young people to create animated films that are inspired by our unique collection of historical documents. You can watch last...
  
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• Head of Library Service & Customer Experience / Libraries Unlimited / South West

  05-06-2020 18:32
  Salary: £45,000 – £55,000 p.a. depending on experienceHours: 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday with a requirement for occasional evening and weekend workingLocation: ExeterClosing...
  
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• How Ornette Coleman Radically Reimagined Jazz

  05-06-2020 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Conventional jazz harmony is religiously chord-based, with soloists improvising within each key like balls pinging through a pinball machine. Coleman, in contrast, imagined harmony, melody, and rhythm as equal constituents. He sometimes said that he played around a melody, in such a way that he could hear it was there, but some listeners could not. – The New Republic
  
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• Collections Management Analyst / Imperial War Museums / East

  05-06-2020 18:15
  An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Collections Management Analyst to join our team at IWM Duxford.  
  We are looking for a skilled collections manager who is able to use their knowledge of...
  
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• Post-Plague Poetry In Medieval England Could Be Downright Reactionary

  05-06-2020 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With the huge drop in population following the Black Death, peasants and laborers were able to take advantage of the labor shortage to demand higher pay and improve their lives. Those who had been at the top of 14th-century society weren’t happy about that — and since they were the ones who were literate, such works as Langland’s Piers Plowman, Gower’s Vox Clamantis, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales reflected and reinforced their readers’ wish that the social o
  
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• Artist Response To Injustice? Seven Musicians Speak Out

  05-06-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What’s really important is to take a step back and look at the macro picture, and think through, how did we get here? What are the underlying causes? There’s this phrase flying around a lot for coronavirus, that the disproportionate impact on black or minority communities is due to “underlying health conditions.” Well, what were the conditions that created the underlying health conditions, and what can we do to start picking away at that? And it’s so unsexy,
  
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• Venetians Are Loving This Not-Utterly-Overrun-By-Tourists Thing. Is There Any Hope Of Preserving It?

  05-06-2020 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Residents and interested observers have been concerned for years about the local economy’s addiction to mass tourism and the ills that accompany it. Italy’s COVID lockdown has, at least temporarily, returned Venice to its own people, and many of them are wondering how they might be able to keep it. – The New York Times
  
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• Programme Engagement Co-ordinator / Lewisham Education Arts Network / London

  05-06-2020 16:43
  Lewisham Education Arts Network (LEAN) provides a range of services and projects to support the arts education sector working with children and young people in Lewisham. We want to maintain and...
  
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• Producer (Maternity Cover) / Rhiannon Faith Company / East / Nationwide

  05-06-2020 16:36
  Rhiannon Faith Company is looking for a kind and enthusiastic Producer to work alongside the Artistic Director to deliver the company’s ambitious programme of work.  
  We are looking...
  
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• These Ballet Dancers Are Calling Out Inequity At Their Companies

  05-06-2020 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Over the past few years, calls for the ballet world to become more diverse, equitable and inclusive have become a regular rallying cry. Most of the public complaints, however, have been about general, systemic problems throughout the field. But this week, as our entire country is reckoning with the devastating effects of racial injustice on the Black community, a handful of dancers have taken to Instagram to directly call out the problems they’ve seen in their own companies.”
  
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• Are TV Shows Scared Of Dealing Frankly With Police Brutality? Or Just No Good At It?

  05-06-2020 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd continue around the country, THR‘s Daniel Fienberg and Inkoo Kang reflect on the small screen’s struggle to depict police violence and community responses.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Head of Programme (Information Experience Design) / Royal College of Art / London

  05-06-2020 15:51
  The Royal College of Art is the UK’s only entirely postgraduate institution of art and design, dedicated to teaching, research and knowledge exchange with industry. In 2020, the RCA was named...
  
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• Playwrights! Submissions open for Bare E-ssentials / Encompass Productions / London

  05-06-2020 15:40
  Encompass Productions is looking for new short plays to produce for Bare Essentials, London's best-reviewed new writing night! Last taking residency at the Arts Theatre West End, we recently debuted...
  
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• Here’s One Area Of Publishing That’s Making Progress On Diversity: Audiobooks

  05-06-2020 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Audiobook publishers are increasingly offering opportunities to narrators of color, … a response to a broader range of stories and desire for the voice talent to reflect that diversity. … But the particular demands of the job, compared with film and stage acting, make this tricky. What does representation mean when actors can only be heard and not seen? What constitutes a black, Latino or Asian voice? And to complicate matters, in most audiobooks a single narrator voices mu
  
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• Stuffed mermaids, baroque masterpieces and David Hockney at dawn – the week in art

  05-06-2020 15:18
  
  Books gather treasures from Europe’s strangest collections and show what we’re missing at the National Gallery, and artists respond to George Floyd’s death – all in your weekly dispatchCabinets of CuriositiesWith museums closed, a richly illustrated book of artistic wonders is the next best thing. This new extra-large volume is full of photographs of some of Europe’s most surreal collections. The cabinet of curiosities was a Renaissance ancestor of the modern museum
  
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• 'Foot Notes' from the Covid Crisis / Dance Research Studio / London

  05-06-2020 15:11
  At the beginning of the Covid Crisis, Dance Research Studio’s Artistic Director Jacky Lansley began making a series of short unedited films which focus on her feet, as a way of staying in touch...
  
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• Museums And Galleries Sue UK Insurers For Not Paying COVID Claims

  05-06-2020 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The group of more than 50 claimants — none of whom wanted to be named — includes major contemporary art galleries, museums and sole traders, with claims ranging from around £50,000 to £35m.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Digital Artist for Public Art Commission / Clifton Park Museum - Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council / Yorkshire

  05-06-2020 14:49
  Rotherham Museums, Arts and Heritage would like to commission an artist as part of the Wentworth and Elsecar Great Place programme to develop a creative response to Mark Wallinger’s...
  
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• Artist Educator in Animation for One to One Tuition / Artworks / Yorkshire

  05-06-2020 14:42
  Artworks, The Everybody School of Art is a not for profit, artist led, community arts organisation in Halifax, West Yorkshire. We provide opportunities for people to develop their artistic skills and...
  
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• €1 Billion For Arts In Germany’s New €130 Billion Corona-Rescue Package

  05-06-2020 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The funds, which will be made available this year and next year, will be widely distributed across cinemas, music clubs, memorials, museums, theaters, and festivals. €250 million will go to help cultural institutions reopen with new hygiene protocols, such as updated ventilation systems and new socially-distanced visitation arrangements. Some €30 million has been earmarked for galleries, cultural centers, and publishing. The package, called New Start, also decreases the tax rat
  
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• One-On-One Corona-Concerts Are Now Spreading Through Germany

  05-06-2020 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last month, a few musicians in Stuttgart began giving intimate-yet-socially-distanced performances — one performer, one listener, a couple of meters of empty space between them — at the city’s currently-unused airport. Now two of the area’s publicly-funded orchestras, the Staatsorchester Stuttgart and the Southwest German Radio Symphony, have taken on the project. “The result has been an intense series of more than 1,100 encounters — first in Stuttgart, and n
  
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• The Solo School / / London / UK wide

  05-06-2020 13:28
  The 'Solo School' is a new online and remote course for actors and artists across all disciplines to enrich the art of working alone and to excavate and empower the process of personal practice. The...
  
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• Curating for Change - Digital Consultant / Screen South / South East

  05-06-2020 12:47
  Screen South is seeking expressions of interest from Digital Consultants to research and produce detailed plans for the digital elements of the delivery phase of Curating for Change...
  
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• Freelance Consultant Evaluator / Screen South / South East

  05-06-2020 12:30
  Screen South, through the Accentuate programme, wishes to appoint an external evaluator in order to undertake consultancy activity to develop an evaluation strategy for the proposed Curating for...
  
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• Register now - Emergency Composer Fund / ORA Singers / London

  05-06-2020 12:24
  ORA Singers, the award-winning vocal ensemble, is launching a £12,000 Emergency Composers’ Fund to provide work for composers who have been so disastrously affected by the COVID-19...
  
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• Strategic Consultant / Shadwell Opera / London

  05-06-2020 11:28
  Shadwell Opera is looking for a Strategic Consultant to help the company on its next stage of development.
  Shadwell Opera is London’s accessible opera company. We create overwhelming live...
  
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• Ghost, angel, martyr: the brutal brilliance of George Floyd murals from Syria to Belfast

  05-06-2020 10:03
  
  In Minneapolis, he’s an unforgiving ghost. In Naples, a saint weeping blood. In Nantes, a revolutionary. Our critic on how the killing has inflamed street artists worldwide Continue reading...
  
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• Bail-Outs For The Arts Aren’t Enough

  05-06-2020 09:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Virus impacts aren’t a short-term blip for the funded arts to be ameliorated by nifty footwork, strategised centrally and ‘top down’ in the coteries of arts power. Short-term bail-outs are insufficient for the enormity of the task. No amount of skilled fundraising and better marketing technique will save the plethora of slow-moving, risk-averse arts organisations in the recessionary world ahead. – Arts Professional
  
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• Did the captain of this wrecked ship have a wheat intolerance? The great British art quiz

  05-06-2020 09:00
  
  Oriel Môn set today’s quiz for our series, which enables you to explore the art collection of British museums closed due to Covid-19 – while answering some fiendish questions along the wayThis 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.Oriel Môn was founded in 1991 and has strived to c
  
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• 'Declan' debuts online, raising funds for The Actors Centre / The Actors Centre / London

  05-06-2020 01:17
  Declan, a new play written and performed by Alistair Hall, is making its debut online to raise funds for London’s The Actors Centre, during its period of closure due to the Covid-19 crisis. The...
  
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• Here’s What A Socially-Distanced Theatre Looks Like

  05-06-2020 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Around 70 per cent of the auditorium’s seats have been removed, with every second row cleared and seats arranged either individually or in pairs on the remaining rows. – Dezeen
  
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