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• Online Lockdown Dance Project for Primary Aged Children / Black Country Dance Hub / West Midlands / Online project nationwide

  08-06-2020 23:56
  Black Country Dance Hub is delighted to announce that they were successful in receiving Emergency Funding from Arts Council England for a new lockdown digital dance project called New...
  
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• BBC Broadcasts Live Concerts From Empty Halls. A Way Forward?

  08-06-2020 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last week’s small beginnings showed a way forward, demonstrating what an crucial role the BBC can and must play to aid a potential recovery of classical music before it is safe for venues to open to the public. – The Guardian
  
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• Generational Divide: Younger Collectors Versus Older Collectors

  08-06-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Younger, digitally minded collectors are predictably more receptive to online purchases, albeit at relatively low price levels. By contrast, more experienced collectors, conscious of possible condition and provenance issues, remain wary — and it is their spending that makes the art world go around. – The New York Times
  
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• Online Printmaking Courses / Slaughterhaus Print Studio / London

  08-06-2020 22:54
  We are excited to announce Hausprint our new on-line courses. As a response to the current coronavirus pandemic we want to bring Slaughterhaus Print Studios to you at home and have put...
  
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• The Battle Over What Public Space Means

  08-06-2020 22:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the last week, protesters all over the country have come to see their barely walkable cities the way New Yorkers always have seen theirs, as a matrix of public space that must be fluid, free, and safe for everyone at all times. The freedom to walk outside and shout is a bedrock of American democracy. Yet in many places, exercising that right means fighting the city’s layout and design. – New York Magazine
  
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• Company Administrator (Part Time, Freelance) / Theatre Temoin / South East

  08-06-2020 21:52
  We’re Hiring – Company Administrator
  Theatre Témoin is looking to appoint a part-time Company Administrator (freelance) to oversee company financial administration and social...
  
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• Fixing The Messages On TV’s Cop Shows

  08-06-2020 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The power of the narrative that comes out of Hollywood — that not only travels to this country but travels globally; that creates a worldview, a mental model of black people and black communities as undeserving of empathy, as weak and damaged, as violent and as operating against society — is killing us. These narratives are killing us. And folks in Hollywood have the power to change that.” – Washington Post
  
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• Michael Tilson Thomas Says Goodbye To San Francisco Symphony After 25 Years As Music Director

  08-06-2020 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Despite the unexpected anticlimax, Mr. Thomas’s time in San Francisco should not go unmarked as it comes to a close. From the beginning, it has been a remarkable musical marriage. Mr. Thomas presented an American work in each subscription program he led that first season, a bold statement. But he simply saw the role of an American orchestra as championing American music. If that idea now seems standard, it’s in part because of him. – The New York Times
  
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• Hollywood Production Reopens, But It Will Look Very Different

  08-06-2020 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The future of daily life on Hollywood sets will not be the same when movies and TV productions start up again. Entertainment studios and labor unions this week agreed to a detailed set of production protocols that will make major changes to the way movie and TV sets operate, including the elimination of buffet-style meals and requirements to wipe down handheld props after each use. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Treasurer / PEER / London

  08-06-2020 19:28
  PEER is seeking to appoint a Treasurer to join its Board of Trustees. The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with experience of the Charities SORP, and it would also be an advantage if...
  
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• Engineers “Fix” Golden Gate Bridge Railings… But Now They Whistle Creepily

  08-06-2020 19:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After work on the Golden Gate Bridge’s sidewalks to bolster their wind resistance, nearby residents of San Francisco are complaining that the 1.7 mile-long structure makes a creepy droning noise when it’s windy. – BoingBoing
  
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• Contemporary Singing Teacher / Bodens Performing Arts / East / Enfield & Barnet

  08-06-2020 18:56
  We are currently searching for a contemporary singing teacher to join our team from September, working with students age 16-19 years. We look for committed, passionate and knowledgeable tutors that...
  
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• Queer All About It - Script Call Out / Green Carnation Company / North West

  08-06-2020 18:48
  QUEER ALL ABOUT IT SCRIPT CALL OUT – HIV: 30+ YEARS OF CHANGE
  Green Carnation Company are looking for script submissions for the first of our QUEER ALL ABOUT IT short film commissions.
  We are...
  
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• Artist Assistant / Alireza Abrishamchi / London

  08-06-2020 18:30
  We are looking for an artist's studio assistant. The role would include mixing colours, stretching and priming canvases and using stencils. The ideal candidate will have a broad knowledge of oils and...
  
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• An Argument To Ease 2 Metre Social Distancing For Musicians

  08-06-2020 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s difficult to see a way of easing social distancing for audiences to make theatres and venues viable during the pandemic, but this was not the case for performers. “There’s no finesse about the 2m rule at the moment. If you’re in a line rather than looking at each other, then it seems to be overkill.” – BBC
  
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• Creative Producer / Torbay Culture / South West

  08-06-2020 18:09
  Torbay Culture has been awarded Arts Council COVID-19 emergency response funding to support our local culture sector. As part of this, we are offering ‘Create to Recover’ project funding...
  
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• Serious Questions For Arts Organizations Entering The Political Arena

  08-06-2020 17:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Here’s the issue with the issues, at least around race: “Such efforts to meaningfully contribute to the conversation are especially sensitive because many of the institutions are led by white executives who answer to boards largely made up of wealthy white trustees. That composition has long fueled suspicion that arts organizations are inherently resistant to — or incapable of — real change.” – The New York Times
  
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• Programme Manager - Art / RHACC / London

  08-06-2020 17:42
  RHACC is a Specialist Designated Institution for Adult Learning, providing a varied course offer to support the lifelong learning goals of adults. With daytime, evening, weekend and residential...
  
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• What Bristol should erect in place of the toppled Colston statue

  08-06-2020 17:12
  
  Instead of complaining about ‘vandalism’ and ‘mob rule’, the powers that be should replace the statue with a bold artwork that shows the hell of life aboard a slave ship
  You might think, given some of the responses, that the statue of slaver Edward Colston was one our best-loved national treasures. Priti Patel, the home secretary, called its toppling and dumping in Bristol harbour by Black Lives Matter protesters “utterly disgraceful” and “sheer vandalis
  
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• The Sistine Chapel Reopens, To Much Smaller Crowds

  08-06-2020 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you’re not worried about Covid-19, now may be the time to visit Rome and the Vatican, where the museums have a limited number of people allowed per hour and many other coronavirus precautions. One Italian reporter in the Vatican Museums: “I decided to come because there are no Americans or other tourists. I hope the pandemic never happens again, but this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.” – NPR
  
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• General Manager (Maternity Cover) / XTRAX / North West

  08-06-2020 16:50
  XTRAX is seeking an experienced General Manager (Maternity Cover) to underpin the operations of our small, hardworking team and to assist us in delivery of our work across our range of projects and...
  
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• 'Create to Recover' funding / Torbay Culture / South West

  08-06-2020 16:50
  Torbay Culture has been awarded Arts Council England COVID-19 emergency response funding to support the local cultural sector to recover. As part of this, we are offering ‘Create to...
  
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• Shut Down Thanks To The Virus, A History-Changing Exhibition Reopens In Spain

  08-06-2020 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Who are the great writers of Spain’s Golden Age? Well, they’re men, of course … or, wait a second, we’ve been missing a whole bunch of information. “Recognition of these women and the ‘almost subversive’ fact of their writing is long overdue. Without them … we have an incomplete canon that tells only half the story of Spain’s Golden Age.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• MEHEM UpRising! Project Leader / Music Education Hubs East Midlands (MEHEM) / East Midlands

  08-06-2020 16:25
  The MEHEM consortium (Music Education Hubs East Midlands) are seeking to appoint an outstanding Project Leader for the new Youth Music funded region wide SEND project – UpRising!
  Over three...
  
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• Room to Rant Regional Project Coordinator / AudioActive / South East

  08-06-2020 16:02
  About AudioActive:
  To us music is an end in itself as well as a tool for social change, education and personal development.
  We are restless, unafraid and excited about what we do…About...
  
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• Marketing & Events Administrator (Maternity Cover) / Krowji / South West

  08-06-2020 16:02
  Based at the Old Grammar School buildings in Redruth, Krowji is Cornwall’s largest creative hub, dedicated to providing studios in a professional, supportive and inspiring environment for a...
  
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• Business Development Intern / Scouty App / ISSA Business Limited / London / + Remote

  08-06-2020 16:01
  We are Scouty - a booking platform for photo and film locations. Scouty makes finding and booking locations transparent, easy and accessible, while offering a new stream of revenue for...
  
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• Public Murals Across The United States Memorialize Those Killed By The Police

  08-06-2020 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  But many murals – like one to Eric Garner, who gasped out, “I can’t breathe” before he suffocated as an NYPD officer held him in a chokehold in 2014 – get painted over or destroyed. “When they are first painted, murals can act as ad hoc altars for public mourning. But their existence is often fleeting.” – The New York Times
  
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• Digital workshops for Young People in UK, starting next week / Prime Theatre / South West / UK wide

  08-06-2020 15:58
  This summer Prime Theatre are releasing a National Digital Summer Programme offering specialised workshops 
  Block A: 15 June – 17 July
  Block B: 27 July  - 28 August
  How it...
  
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• Why Digression Is Good, In Eating And In Writing

  08-06-2020 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  How should food writing work? “On the one hand, it should communicate the demands of craft, expressing the physical skill of cookery with words on a page; on the other, food writing should convey emotional content, the ability of food to carry inside it memories personal and historical. It was crucial for me that neither of these strands should dominate above the other.” – LitHub
  
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• Small commissions for circus writing and creative responses / ContraProject / London / UK & ROI

  08-06-2020 15:37
  With the support of ACE emergency fund, the team behind Laura Murphy’s Contra are starting an online publication project and are looking for submissions. 
  We want to continue...
  
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• The Disturbing Stats About Policing On TV

  08-06-2020 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Why do people tend to think crime has increased or stayed at a high level? Well, perhaps it’s the many cop shows on TV. And those series have some issues. “Of the 26 series from the 2017-18 season examined in the study, 21 had showrunners who were white men. At least 81% of these shows’ writers were white, compared to the 9% who were black. A whopping 20 of 26 series had either no black writers or just one black writer.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Lockdown Doesn’t Work For Every Writer, But Boy, Did It Ever Work For Pushkin

  08-06-2020 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Quarantined during a cholera epidemic 190 years ago, the poet excelled. “Pushkin, who would never be allowed to travel outside Russia and was now stranded in the countryside amid ‘rain, snow and mud up to your knees,’ leapt across historical epochs, countries and genres—from the medieval French tower in ‘The Miserly Knight’ to Vienna in ‘Mozart and Salieri.’ ‘The Stone Guest’ swept from the gates of Madrid to the balcony of one of Don
  
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• Broadway Wonders When Tourists Will Feel Comfortable Returning

  08-06-2020 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There’s no clarity about it. One responder from Los Angeles: “Without a vaccine or a cure, to attend a performance would not be a rational choice. The issue is not the statistical probability of getting the virus. Rather, it is the anxiety of being infected that prevents devout thespians, like yours truly, from going back.” – The New York Times
  
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• Free Organisation Development Support / people make it work / London

  08-06-2020 14:50
  We know that you are working hard at the moment to build a new business plan fit for these times, and at people make it work we have been gathering expert insights and building free tools that can...
  
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• Using Lidar To Find Out That Mayan Construction Projects Are Older And Much Bigger Than Anyone Knew

  08-06-2020 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  New lidar technology revealed the formerly hidden, at least from the ground, site. The “lidar survey found 21 other monumental platforms, clustered in groups around the region. But Aguada Fenix is by far the largest—in fact, it’s the largest single Maya structure archaeologists have ever found. It took between 3.2 million and 4.3 million cubic meters (113 million to 151 million cubic feet) of clay and soil to build up the platform. That’s a larger volume than the famous
  
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• Two new online workshops for young people / Blue Elephant Theatre / London

  08-06-2020 14:08
  Blue Elephant Theatre has released two new free ‘Drama at home’ workshops for young people.
   
  We’re excited to be expanding what we offer to include these new online...
  
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• #BetweenSpaces / Arts La'Olam / East / Worldwide

  08-06-2020 13:52
  Eight new online projects for elders, disability groups, mental health service users and cultural art lovers
  We are excited to announce the start of a programme of events, commissions and...
  
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• Development and Outreach Manager - Maternity Cover / IMS Prussia Cove / London / South West

  08-06-2020 13:26
  01/10/2020 - 30/06/20213 days per week
  IMS Prussia Cove is a charitable organisation dedicated to music-making at the highest level. We bring classical musicians from across the world to study,...
  
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• Heritage Consultant / Made With Many / East Midlands

  08-06-2020 13:22
   Consultancy Brief
  We are looking for a heritage consultant to act as a ‘critical friend’ to work alongside the steering group create the delivery plan for the Corby Pole Fair. We...
  
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• Freelance Evaluator / Brent 2020 / London

  08-06-2020 13:04
  Brent is The Mayor’s London Borough of Culture for 2020. Delivered by Metroland Cultures, a new charity established to deliver Brent 2020 and ensure its legacy thereafter, our programme...
  
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• Gallery Assistant (Part-time) / The Perimeter / London

  08-06-2020 12:24
  The Perimeter, a private art collection in Bloomsbury, is looking for an enthusiastic and efficient individual to join our team. 
  The ideal candidate would have a background in art or graphic...
  
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• Artist Commission - One Beautiful Moment / Festival of Thrift / North East / National

  08-06-2020 12:09
  Festival of Thrift is calling for artists to propose ‘One Beautiful Moment’ to launch this year’s festival.
  The Festival of Thrift is the UK’s national festival of...
  
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• Online Playwriting Course / Write Theatre / London

  08-06-2020 12:05
  Write Theatre is now offering an online course for aspiring theatre writers, over 3 consecutive Saturday mornings. We are keeping the maximum number of participants to 4, to ensure close attention to...
  
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• What's this rhino doing on a Wakefield lawn? The great British art quiz

  08-06-2020 09:00
  
  Yorkshire Sculpture Park set today’s quiz, which poses fiendish questions to explore the collections of museums closed due to Covid-19This 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 Yorkshire Sculpture Park. It is Europe’s leading international centre for modern
  
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• Breath & Waves - fluid movement & live responsive cello (online) / / South East / online

  08-06-2020 01:52
  Fluid movement and live responsive cello with Bela Emerson and Rosaria Gracia
  The session is designed to:raise awareness of the power of the breath
  promote wellbeing through experiencing the...
  
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• 'Lockdown, Dance Up'. Free online dance project for 4-16yrs / Union of Dance / Yorkshire

  08-06-2020 01:28
  This project has been generously supported by Arts Council England, meaning we are able to offer families something fun and uplifting for free during this unsettling time.
  Weekly sessions will be...
  
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• Signing Sundays / Concrete Youth / Yorkshire / UK wide

  08-06-2020 00:37
  Concrete Youth is an award-winning, Hull-based theatre company dedicated to creating exceptional, multi-sensory theatre experiences for audiences living with profound and multiple learning...
  
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