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• Call for Kirklees Based Artists for Temporary Commissions / Beam / Yorkshire / Kirklees

  16-06-2020 21:32
  Artists and creative practitioners with the relevant experience either living or working in a Kirklees postcode are invited to apply for the below opportunities via an open call...
  
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• Assistant Producer / Immediate Theatre / London / Hackney

  16-06-2020 19:57
  We are looking for an experienced Assistant Producer to support the production of Immediate Theatre's new radio programme -Hackney Social Radio- from initial ideas to broadcast programmes and follow...
  
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• Culture warriors obsessed with statues ignore Rio Tinto’s vandalism of Indigenous heritage | Jeff Sparrow

  16-06-2020 19:30
  
  The focus has been on Captain Cook and Chris Lilley but an incalculably more important obliteration of treasures from deep time is taking placeAs the professional offence takers at News Corp and elsewhere bring themselves to repeated rage-gasms over the vandalism of Captain Cook statues and the removal of Chris Lilley in blackface from streaming platforms, they ignore, more or less entirely, the incalculably more important obliteration of cultural heritage taking place in the Australian desert.A
  
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• General Manager / Gabrieli / London

  16-06-2020 19:28
  Following a period of improved financial stability and significant development in Gabrieli’s performing and recording profile, education work and fundraising, the charity seeks a talented and...
  
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• Artist Commissions / Urban Wilderness / West Midlands / Stoke on Trent

  16-06-2020 19:27
  Wastelands is a programme to develop new art supported by the ACE Emergency response fund. 
  We will commission five artists to create new pieces of art that will explore changed and changing...
  
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• Artist Commission / Urban by Nature / London

  16-06-2020 19:07
  “If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
  ― William Morris...
  
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• Assistant Theatre Director / Riptide / Yorkshire / North

  16-06-2020 18:14
  Call out for Northern- based, early-career Directors to work with Riptide on our upcoming digital projects. (Project Intimacy and The Lucky Ones) 
  ELIGIBILITY
  Applicants must...
  
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• Create an artwork square for the Coronaquilt from Art Refuge / / South West

  16-06-2020 17:58
  Responding to community-level displacement during the coronavirus pandemic, charity Art Refuge has launched Coronaquilt, a world-wide collaborative quilting project which has seen 400...
  
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• Online Commissions and Mentors / filmpro / East / UK wide

  16-06-2020 17:27
  During lockdown creative production and exhibition has necessarily been moving onto online platforms. For some people it has been an easy transition, but many artists and audiences have found the...
  
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• Freelance Arts Consultant / Blue Apple Theatre / South East / National

  16-06-2020 17:09
  Blue Apple Theatre is seeking an experienced arts consultant to work with its team on a visioning project funded by Arts Council England. The consultant will contribute to a review of the...
  
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• Scratch Days III - News from the Rialto / The Muse Gallery / London

  16-06-2020 17:06
  The Muse Gallery presents
  Scratch Days III online performance
  NEWS FROM THE RIALTO
  By Stewart PermuttSaturday, 27th June, 7.pm
  * Book your ticket on...
  
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• Online Workshop: Intimacy in Digital Performance / The Lab Collective / London / Nationwide

  16-06-2020 16:23
  Interactive and Immersive performance is facing unique challenges during the current Covid-19 Crisis. As a form that thrives on close contact with audience members and adventures...
  
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• Can arts and culture help us navigate the crisis of Covid-19? / Settle Stories / Yorkshire / north west

  16-06-2020 16:21
  FREE WEBINAR
  This is a terrifying time for the arts and culture sector. Artists and organisations are concerned they won’t survive the next 12 months. 
  We’ve gathered leading...
  
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• Director of the Manchester School of Art / Manchester Metropolitan University / North West

  16-06-2020 16:15
  Situated in one of the UK’s best-connected and most culturally vibrant cities, the Manchester School of Art plays a central role in the region’s culture and creativity. Since it was...
  
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• Registrar / David Roberts Art Foundation / South West / Salisbury

  16-06-2020 16:13
  David Roberts Art Foundation (DRAF) is looking for a highly organised, competent and self-motivated Registrar for a short-term contract based in an art storage warehouse near...
  
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• Zoom Comic Book/Animation Teacher / Arts & Sparks / London

  16-06-2020 15:07
  Arts & Sparks are looking to recruit an exciting and engaging freelance teacher who can teach online kids classes in all or some of the following subjects:
   - Comic book making
  - Simple...
  
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• Course Leader, Scenic Art and Prop Making (1 Year FTC, 0.6 FTE) / Mountview / London

  16-06-2020 14:34
  Mountview is one of the UK’s leading drama schools. We offer professional vocational training at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate level in performance and production arts, alongside...
  
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• Suspected 14th-century statue fished out of river in Spain

  16-06-2020 14:08
  
  Sculpture of Virgin Mary and child discovered 11-days ago by an angler looking for trout
  A week after a Nile crocodile was allegedly spotted in a river in north-west Spain, the country’s waters have yielded an even more miraculous find in the mossy and somewhat eroded form of a granite statue of the Virgin Mary and child that could date from the 14th century.The sculpture was discovered 11 days ago in the Sar River on the outskirts of Santiago de Compostela by an angler looking for trout.
  
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• BlackInk New Writing Competition / Serendipity and Writing East Midlands / East Midlands

  16-06-2020 14:05
  Serendipity and Writing East Midlands are looking for creative writers from the African and African Caribbean Diaspora based in the UK to submit short stories for BlackInk: New Writing...
  
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• BHM Live: Call for Commission / Serendipity / East Midlands

  16-06-2020 14:03
  BHM Live is an initiative that supports emerging UK-based artists from the African and African Caribbean Diaspora. This year, Serendipity will commission three artists to create work to feature in...
  
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• Finance Manager / Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts / London

  16-06-2020 13:47
  Mountview is one of the UK’s leading drama schools. We offer professional vocational training at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate level in performance and production arts, alongside...
  
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• Online Open Studios Extended / Euroart Studios / London / Online

  16-06-2020 13:21
  Our first ever online Open Studios has been extended - by popular demand.
  You can still visit and see the work of 50 Artists based in Tottenham, north London at our Open Studios website.
  This...
  
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• Musical Theatre Teacher / Laine Theatre Arts / South East

  16-06-2020 13:13
  Laine Theatre Arts is inviting applications for the post of Musical Theatre teacher to cover maternity leave from September 2020.
  There is potential for a job share. Applicants should have...
  
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• Art and the Rural Imagination - Slow Conference / More Than Ponies / South East

  16-06-2020 13:13
  Art and the Rural Imagination is a slow conference presented in partnership with Arts University Bournemouth. The conference explores ‘The Rural’ as a central concern in contemporary...
  
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• Equality and Diversity Officer / Performance Preparation Academy LTD / South East

  16-06-2020 12:48
  PPA are recruiting a Equality and Diversity Officer. We are looking for an enthusiastic, innovative, and creative individual who can provide strong leadership alongside excellent pastoral care. To...
  
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• Course Leader - BA Hons Acting for Stage and Screen / Performance Preparation Academy LTD / South East

  16-06-2020 12:42
  PPA is a Performing Arts Higher Education College based in Guildford, Surrey our aim is to develop a nurturing and supportive environment in which every single student and employee is valued as an...
  
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• Poetry Competition - The Lockdown Rhythm / Dare to Create / North East

  16-06-2020 12:37
  We know many of you have been getting creative with your writing during the Lockdown period.
  ​Dare to Create believe Poetry and Creativity can be a great way of engaging our minds to explore...
  
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• Wardobe Manager / Performance Preparation Academy LTD / South East

  16-06-2020 12:35
  PPA have an exciting opportunity to appoint a Wardrobe Manager. Reporting to the Principal the Wardrobe Manager at PPA will be a key member of the Production department. Responsible for all aspects...
  
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• College Receptionist / Performance Preparation Academy Ltd / South East

  16-06-2020 12:26
  PPA have an exciting opportunity to appoint a new College Receptionist to join the team.
  You will be the first point of contact for our students, staff and visitors and guests entering the building....
  
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• Only Fools and 3 Courses The Sequel Comedy Night The Old Swan / Comedy Dining / Yorkshire

  16-06-2020 09:02
  Comedy Dining are pleased to bring you the sequel to Only Fools and 3 Courses a completely different dining experience.
  DCI Roy Slater will be putting in an appearance, and we all know what Del...
  
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• This is Cedric Morris. But what's his macaw called? The great British art quiz

  16-06-2020 09:00
  
  Towner Eastbourne set today’s quiz, 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 will set the questions. Today, they are set by the Towner Collection. Towner Eastbourne
  
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• Covert: new literary magazine for writers of colour / Writing Our Legacy / South East

  16-06-2020 00:08
  In 2020, we’re launching a new literary magazine called Covert. 
  The first edition of Covert will open for submissions on 1 July 2020 and invites writers & artists of colour...
  
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