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• Writing In The Time Of Endless Pandemic Distraction

  21-06-2020 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Our brains, working at home: “The kitchen is a mess. How can I concentrate when I know that two rooms over, the kitchen is a mess? The sink is filled with plates and glasses that couldn’t fit into the dishwasher the night before, so now we have a lag in the dishwashing. There is no end to the dishwashing. There is no tabula rasa. It doesn’t help that the pans all have special requirements, they need so much individualized care they might as well be hothouse orchids.” &nd
  
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• Executive Director (Joint CEO) / Talawa Theatre Company / London

  21-06-2020 22:13
  Talawa Theatre Company is looking for a motivational and experienced Executive Director, who will work closely with the Artistic Director as Joint CEO.
  Talawa is the UK’s...
  
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• Learning From A Vanished Mural Of Racial Violence

  21-06-2020 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  John Wilson’s student mural The Incident made such an impression on David Siquieros that the famous muralist and head of Mexico’s Department for the Protection and Restoration of Murals requested it be preserved. It was, for a few years. Now, “with each passing day, it gains newfound relevance and newfound pain — its act of reckoning is far from done.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Sally Banes, Distinguished Dance Critic And Historian, 69

  21-06-2020 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Banes’ writing “paired a vivid and inquisitive approach with a lack of agenda and a belief that dance was a crucial part of cultural history.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Future Of Art: Human Scale

  21-06-2020 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It doesn’t seem clear what will happen until there’s a vaccine, but perhaps – “Museums will reopen, and galleries can stop pretending their online viewing rooms are actual shows. Exhibitions may be fewer, run longer, borrow less from abroad. Collections will be swapped, tours will be wider, perhaps there will be more slow-looking shows like the Courtauld’s Manetin 2004, which concentrated so deeply on one pair of paintings.” – The Observer (UK
  
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• Gathering And Honoring – And Playing – The Music Of The Death Camps

  21-06-2020 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Francesco and Grazia Lotoro have spent their lives collecting and cataloguing “symphonies, operas, scores and songs that were composed and performed under conditions so horrible one imagines that music would have lost its ability to encourage and to soothe.” Their project now: To raise money for a “citadel” that is “known formally as the Istituto di Letteratura Musicale Concentrazionaria [and] is to include a museum, a library and a theater, at a cost of
  
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• A new Master`s in Musical Theatre Performance / Associated Studios / London

  21-06-2020 19:45
  Associated Studios Performing Arts Academy is thrilled to announce the launch of a Master’s degree in Musical Theatre Performance, validated by the University of Wolverhampton.  Associated...
  
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• Stage Manager / One Night Records / London

  21-06-2020 18:49
  Dates
  From: 1 September 2020 Ongoing. Some pre engagement meetings needed.
  Location: London       
  Rate: £500pwk. £475 pre-production week. 
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• Free Creative Writing Workshops for Adults and Young People / The Write Network & L B Waltham Forest / London

  21-06-2020 13:08
  What is the Highams Park Poetry trail and when does it takes place?
  A trail of stories and poems created by local writers and residents will form a trail around Highams Park lake and surrounding...
  
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• The future of the arts: ‘The world is coming into visual art on a human scale’

  21-06-2020 13:00
  
  Our art critic longs to see paintings in person once more, and looks to a future where exhibitions may run longer and borrow less from abroadSusannah Clapp: ‘Online theatre is a skeleton of the thing itself’For three months straight I have stared and stared at an image fixed to my fridge. It is a postcard of The Little Street by Vermeer. The scene is so unassuming – rinsed cobbles, whitewashed walls, one woman stitching in a doorway, another cleaning in a side alley, the Dutch
  
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• ‘Bottle caps are more versatile than canvas and oil’: El Anatsui on turning the everyday into art

  21-06-2020 13:00
  
  The Ghanian sculptor worked with cheap, commonly found objects for decades until he arrived at just the right oneIt wasn’t normal for someone like me to become an artist. Growing up in rural Ghana, there was nothing like a museum or art gallery, and nobody pursued art as a profession, so I had no role models. When people heard I was going to study art, they wondered what precisely I would do when I finished. But I knew that I would go on to practise as an artist. I knew I was going to enjo
  
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• Nigerian scholar calls for halt to auction of sacred Igbo artworks

  21-06-2020 11:04
  
  Chika Okeke-Agulu says sale of sculptures removed during 1960s civil war ‘perpetuates violence’ of conflict
  A prominent Igbo-Nigerian artist and academic has called for the cancellation of a forthcoming auction in Paris of two sacred sculptures taken out of Nigeria during its devastating civil war in the late 1960s.Chika Okeke-Agulu, a professor of art history at Princeton University, said the sale of the Igbo objects – called alusi or “sacred sculptures” – at
  
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• This week's best culture at home, from Glastonbury's virtual 50th to a high-flying Dream

  21-06-2020 09:30
  
  The Observer’s critics recommend the best art, theatre, music and more on TV and online this week The Glastonbury Experience
  In lieu of fields, Glastonbury’s 50th anniversary goes virtual, with the BBC pumping out umpteen landmark sets from the festival’s archives next weekend. On BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds, Thursday, 10am, to Sunday, plus a live highlights show on BBC Two presented by Clara Amfo, Lauren Laverne and others (Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 8.30pm). Kitty Empire C
  
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• Former slave Bill Traylor's artistic legacy under threat from forgers

  21-06-2020 08:44
  
  Dozens of fakes are on the market after a drawing once owned by Steven Spielberg and Alice Walker sold for a record $507,000When Steven Spielberg finished filming his adaptation of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, the Pulitzer prize-winning novel about the struggles of African American women in the last century, he gave her a gift. It was a drawing by Bill Traylor, who died in 1949, having faced his own struggles as a black man born into slavery in Alabama, working on plantations and livin
  
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• Observer culture quiz: from an American werewolf to Van Halen's rider

  21-06-2020 08:00
  
  Test your arts knowledge with these questions from the Observer’s criticsThe closing credits of An American Werewolf in London contain which of the following messages?No animals, apart from werewolves, were harmed in the making of this filmHeartfelt congratulations to Lady Diana Spencer and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on the occasion of their marriageAll characters and events in this film are fictitious. Except for oneDuring the making of The Shining, what did Stanley Kubrick do
  
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