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• What do audiences for arts and culture want from organisations? / Crystallised / North East

  24-06-2020 23:40
  4 August, 11am - 1pm
  When lockdown began, we started asking the public weekly questions about arts, culture & entertainment, four months in, we tell all.
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• Pandemic Has Shut Down The Cultural Economy Of The Berkshires

  24-06-2020 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The COVID-19 crisis has devastated the Berkshires, where tourists flock for theater, art, music, and dance, as well as yoga, spa treatments, and hiking and biking amid wooded hills. One after another this spring, world-renowned organizations canceled their seasons or shut their doors, some for the entire year — crippling the Berkshires’ tourism industry and the more than 8,000people working in it. – Boston Globe
  
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• NY Design Commission Unanimously Denies Mayor’s Plan To Move Wall Street Bull

  24-06-2020 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The artist, who spent $350,000 to make and install the sculpture as a guerrilla artwork in 1989, had argued that moving it would transform it into an advertisement for the stock exchange, which would violate his copyright. – Artnet
  
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• Time To Do Away With The Movie Multiplex?

  24-06-2020 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What the past three months of relative confinement—and the resulting shift from theatrical to online releases—have proved is that movie theatres, particularly the multiplexes, hardly matter now. The widespread shutdown has only exaggerated and accelerated a shift that was already occurring. – The New Yorker
  
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• Defund The Western Humanities Canon?

  24-06-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I could not help but wonder about the institution of the Western canon. Were my colleagues and I right to think that the institution to which we had given much of our professional lives could be reformed? Was our particular culture as teachers of Western culture compromised to the core? If it was, must we then, well, defund the teaching of the canon?” – The American Scholar
  
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• The Metaphors We Use For Illness Shape Our Sense Of Self (And The World)

  24-06-2020 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Part of what illness does is to unsettle both the sense of ourselves that emerges from our patterned and effortless doings, and our capacity to project this sense outwards, into the social world. In illness, the body as it is processed and experienced by others takes over and wholly penetrates the lived-in body, the body as it feels “from the inside.” – The Point
  
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• Paolo Giorgio Ferri, Hero In Fight Against Trade In Looted Antiquities, Dead At 72

  24-06-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Colleagues say his legacy includes dismantling multinational looting and trafficking rings; recovering tens of thousands of Greco-Roman artifacts from secret storehouses; and compelling what is sometimes called ‘the great giveback,’ a period that began in 2006 and continues to this day, during which American museums have returned at least 120 ill-gotten antiquities valued at more than $1 billion to the Greek and Italian authorities.” – The New York Times
  
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• Changes Afoot: What’s Next For Me

  24-06-2020 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In January I made the difficult decision to leave The New School when my current contract ends. My heart and mind have been calling me to other lands, to other ways of being and living in the world, and to center work that has been squeezed into the margins the past few years. – Diane Ragsdale
  
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• ‘Dover Beach’ on video: When scope is achieved with many shades of gray

  24-06-2020 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Whenever someone of visibility in the music industry proclaims that what the pandemic lock-down world needs now is this (whatever that is), the chances are good that it’s here already. – David Patrick Stearns
  
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• Creative Producer / Company of Others / North East

  24-06-2020 20:39
  Company of Others has rapidly outgrown our ambitions and we’re looking for a Freelance Creative Producer to work with the Artistic Director and CEO to reimagine our future and create a clear...
  
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• Throes of Grief : Open Call / / South West / Nationwide

  24-06-2020 20:33
  An open call for artists who have experienced or who may be experiencing Deep Grief.
  I am looking to connect with artists whose experience with deep grief has changed, informed, paused, or...
  
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• The Crisis Of Supporting The Arts

  24-06-2020 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The current crisis is also a policy crisis. It illuminates the need to support artists more fulsomely and creatively throughout the various stages of their careers. Central to this is imagining ways to limit the precarity of the gig economy which, perhaps surprisingly, characterizes the careers of even the highest echelon of performers, classical or otherwise. – The Conversation
  
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• Co-Founder Of DC’s Signature Theatre Resigns After Sexual Assault Allegations

  24-06-2020 20:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Eric Schaeffer, founding artistic director of the Tony-winning Signature Theatre, resigned late Tuesday after an actor made public his allegation that Schaeffer sexually assaulted him during a Washington awards show in May 2018. – Washington Post
  
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• When Hollywood Discovered Cyberspace (The Year Was 1995)

  24-06-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Johnny Mnemonic. The Net. Hackers. Strange Days. “It’s hard to know what’s most dated about these mid-’90s curios: the primitive-looking effects, the funky fashions or the clunky technology depicted on screen. But now, 25 years later, they’ve proved prescient in their concerns about surveillance, corporate power and the corruption of what seemed to be an excitingly democratic new age.” – CNET
  
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• Interactive Digital Art Commission / Festival of Hope Chester / North West / Online

  24-06-2020 19:40
  We would like to create an interactive and playful way for people to record all of the quirky things they have bought during quarantine. We are to encourage people to reflect on their contemporary...
  
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• The University Is Ripe For Unbundling

  24-06-2020 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What online services lack in quality, they make up for in convenience—and as they get more popular, they’re only going to get better, which in turn could unbundle the prevailing model of higher education.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Cartoon Commission / Festival of Hope Chester / North West / Online

  24-06-2020 19:30
  We want to commission a cartoon strip which explores people’s feelings of hope and heritage, particularly throughout this period of lockdown, which we feel has heightened people’s...
  
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• It's a botch-up! Monkey Christ and the worst art repairs of all time

  24-06-2020 19:26
  
  As another religious painting restoration goes horribly wrong, we take a look at some of the finest examples of butchered statues, art installations and frescoes In the latest instalment of the greatest genre of art news – and I write that as a lover of art – another restoration has gone awry. The word “awry” is being generous.This is the revelation that a private collector, based in Valencia, paid €1,200(£1,070) for a restoration job on baroque painter Bartolo
  
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• Visual Designer / Hope Streets Festival / North West / Online

  24-06-2020 19:13
  We are looking for someone to develop graphics to be used on social media, and on our website.
  The designs created will need to be used by two young producer groups, who are staging different...
  
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• Is The Line Between Concert And Commercial Dance Finally Fading?

  24-06-2020 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With more crossover than ever, the line between the two once-distinct career paths feels increasingly blurred. Broadway shows now feature every style from hip hop to ballet to the work of contemporary choreographers like Sonya Tayeh and Camille A. Brown. In Los Angeles, still considered the hub of the commercial world, concert dancers seem in higher demand. … But why is this happening now, and what does it mean for the dance world as a whole?” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Short Film Commission / Hope Streets Festival / North West / Cheshire, Winsford

  24-06-2020 18:57
  We would like to commission an artist to work with us and our community to create a new film reflecting the wider experience of contemporary heritage in Winsford.
  We are particularly interested in...
  
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• Project Engagement Officer / The Heritage Alliance / London

  24-06-2020 18:37
  The Heritage Alliance are seeking a dynamic, proactive and reliable individual with a demonstrable track record of project support, audience engagement/marketing and excellent communication skills to...
  
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• AOP Breakfast Club Talks - Tuesdays 09:00-10:00 - Free / Association of Photographers / London / Worldwide

  24-06-2020 18:32
  Tuesday 7 July 09:00-10:00 - On-line Exhibitions - Free - Zoom Webinar
  Photojournalist and AOP Board Member Carol Allen-Storey will be in conversation with Tracey Marshall, (Northern...
  
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• Kennedy Center Cancels Through The Rest Of 2020

  24-06-2020 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For a number of weeks, we have been talking about what would it take to be able to bring people back, how seating in the theaters could be with social distancing and thinking about the performers onstage. But it became increasingly apparent, for the safety of our artists and audience and our staff, it was going to be impossible to do that in the near term.” – Washington Post
  
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• Street Art Commission / Festival of Hope Winsford / North West / Cheshire

  24-06-2020 18:28
  We would like to commission an artist to work with us to create a new street artwork in Winsford town centre.
  The design of the piece will be created collaboratively with us, the commissioners,...
  
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• Learning and Community Officer for `Snapping the Stiletto` / Essex County Council / South East

  24-06-2020 18:20
  This is a part time position, 15 hours per week. Working hours will be discussed at interview. The pro rata salary would be up to £10,864.86 per annum. Please note that in light of Covid-19 and...
  
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• Project Manager for `Snapping the Stiletto` / Essex County Council / South East

  24-06-2020 18:16
  Essex County Council’s Culture, Heritage, Tourism and Green Spaces Service are looking to a recruit a Project Manager over 18 months as part of the National Lottery Heritage Fund supported...
  
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• The Challenge Of Fundraising For Opera In The Time Of COVID

  24-06-2020 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As one development exec for a major company puts it, “During a crisis, it’s not really the time to go out and ask for those five-year campaign pledges. It’s the time to say, ‘how are you’ and ‘how can we as an arts organization be of support during this time?’ ‘Is there anything you need from us?’ ‘What are your ideas and thoughts?’ And among the people we’re close to, that we’re asking those questions of, those who a
  
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• Commission: Composer (fee 2.6k) August '20 - Nov '20 / LeftCoast / Showtown / North West

  24-06-2020 17:56
  We are looking to appoint a Composer to join a creative team who will lead on the development of a new participatory dance project for Blackpool with an integrated digital strand.
  This is an...
  
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• Commission: Digital Artist (fee 7k) August '20-Apr '21 / LeftCoast / Showtown / North West

  24-06-2020 17:52
  This is a large scale commision and we are looking to appoint a creative team who will lead on the development of a new participatory dance project for Blackpool with an integrated digital...
  
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• Commission - Creative Lead with a dance specialism (fee 11k) / LeftCoast / Showtown / North West

  24-06-2020 17:49
  This is a large scale commision and we are looking to appoint a creative team who will lead on the development of a new participatory dance project for Blackpool with an integrated digital...
  
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• Ballet teacher (part-time) / Stage & the City / London

  24-06-2020 17:42
  Stage & the City, the adult branch of the Anna Fiorentini Theatre & Film School, is looking for a ballet teacher to teach two classes on Thursday evenings in Kings Cross from...
  
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• How To Decide Which Statues To Take Down?

  24-06-2020 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Much of the social media debate has been over whether a historical figure who took a morally objectionable positions must be understood as “a man of his time.” The response of activists has often been along the lines of “Hitler was a man of his time too.” Here both sides are mistaken. – Bloomberg
  
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• Project Manager: Maternity Cover / Beatfreeks / West Midlands

  24-06-2020 17:21
  We are seeking a full time Project Manager to cover maternity leave for a period of 10 months from Aug 2020. We’re looking for someone with experience in project management, as well as a...
  
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• Movie Production Is A Global Affair, And Restarting It As The Pandemic Rages On Is A Tricky Matter

  24-06-2020 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A game of ‘international chess’ is how Maxime Cottray describes the current state of the global production business. ‘Right now, everyone’s moving their pieces around the board, trying to find a place to shoot — Australia, Iceland, wherever,’ says Cottray, a production executive with genre film specialists XYZ Films. ‘And you have to be ready, if COVID strikes, to be able to move fast to find somewhere else.'” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Meet The ‘Dean Of African-American Composers’, Adolphus Hailstork

  24-06-2020 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I survived the gun-to-the-head modernism, back when I was a student — you know if you weren’t crunching elbows on the keys and counting up to 12 all the time, you weren’t being much of a composer. I decided I didn’t want to go that way. I came up as [an Episcopalian cathedral] singer and singers don’t often sing in 12-tone technique and things like that. I’ve used it, but it wasn’t a natural fit and so I’ve spent most of my career trying to
  
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• Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize / Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust / London

  24-06-2020 16:20
  For 25 years, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize has had an established reputation as the UK’s most important annual exhibition of drawing.
  The following prizes will be awarded:
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• Nine Black Artists And Cultural Leaders On Seeing And Being Seen

  24-06-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Whether it’s the artist Tschabalala Self discussing the fraught experience of seeing her paintings be sold, like her ancestors, at auction or the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Michael R. Jackson searching for his characters’ interiority, their perspectives distill what it means (and what it has meant) to be black in America.” – T — The New York Times Style Magazine
  
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• Marketing and Project Assistant (Internship) / Acoustic Nations / East Midlands / Lincoln

  24-06-2020 16:01
  We, Acoustic Nations (AN), are developing a programme that coincides with the Government guidelines related to COVID-19 in order to be able to move forward in a way that introduces culture back into...
  
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• Artist Call Out / Royal Museums Greenwich / London

  24-06-2020 15:59
  Royal Museums Greenwich comprises the Royal Observatory, Cutty Sark, National Maritime Museum, Queen’s House and Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre. Together we’re dedicated to...
  
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• Education (handicapped children) Act 1970 project / / London / UK

  24-06-2020 15:55
  On the 23rd July it will be 50 years since the Education (handicapped children) Act 1970 introduced ‘An Act to make provision, as respects England and Wales, for discontinuing the...
  
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• Practitioners and Support / Art Camp UK / Yorkshire

  24-06-2020 15:49
  Job Type: Part time, School Holidays only, Leeds 
  Age of children: 5 – 13yrs
  Work Hours: between 8:00am - 4:00pm Weekdays only / Holidays only
  Art Camp have exciting opportunities for...
  
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• Tell us: how do you feel about cinemas, museums and galleries reopening?

  24-06-2020 15:41
  
  We’d like to hear your thoughts about returning to cultural venues in England after the coronavirus lockdown Cinemas, museums and art galleries in England will be able to re-open on 4 July after the easing of lockdown rules.Theatres and concert halls can also open their doors again, but only to show previous works on a screen. Live performances are still banned, to protect the health of performers. Continue reading...
  
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• Why Did One Of Chicago’s Best For-Profit Theaters Have To Close?

  24-06-2020 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When things shut down in March, Mercury Theater proprietor L. Walter Stearns — one of the few commercial theater producers in the city to own the real estate they operate on — thought he’d be out of business for a month or so. Now he says he can’t see any near-term end to the danger COVID poses to performers, staff and patrons — so the only way he can avoid foreclosure on the mortgage is to shutter the company and sell the buildings. – Chicago Tribune
  
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• Black-Owned Bookstores Are Suddenly Getting More Business Than They Ever Planned For

  24-06-2020 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As Americans grapple with the country’s history of racism, many of them have turned to books, propelling titles like How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi and So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo to the best-seller lists. … All that demand, however, is becoming a challenge for some Black-owned bookstores around the United States, as they attempt to manage the deluge of orders, a handful of titles that are out of stock, and occasionally, customers angered by the
  
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• Participatory commission for creative practitioner / Royal Museums Greenwich / London / #

  24-06-2020 14:44
  As we start the gradual reopening of Royal Museums Greenwich sites in Greenwich, we want to use our spaces to bring people back together, to renew and to rebuild.
  We are seeking a creative...
  
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• "Reloaded" Symposium / The Lab Collective / London / Nationwide

  24-06-2020 14:39
  Imagining the future of Interactive, Immersive and Participatory Performance
  Forum Sessions: 17th, 18th, 19th July 2020
  Over three days The Lab Collective will host "Reloaded", a free online...
  
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• Facebook Bans All Trade In Historical Artifacts After Rampant Selling Of Looted Antiquities Discovered

  24-06-2020 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After an investigation by the BBC and a Syrian-American archaeologist found a network of groups trading in ancient objects stolen from Middle Eastern war zones — including loot-to-order offers to dig up and steal mosaics that were still in the ground — the social media colossus says it will block all sale and trading of antiquities on its flagship site and Instagram. – BBC
  
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• Met Museum Sets Reopening Date

  24-06-2020 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Metropolitan Museum of Art plans to open its doors on Aug. 29, after more than five months of pandemic shutdown … If everything goes smoothly with New York’s phased reopening, museums would be allowed to open on July 20 — in the fourth and final phase of the plan. The Met has set its date for about a month after that, with some staff members returning to work a few weeks earlier to prepare.” – The New York Times
  
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• Wikimedian in Residence / Science Museum Group / London / Multiple locations

  24-06-2020 13:58
  The Science Museum Group is all about inspiring futures. Due to our ambitious growth and development plans, our Digital Department has launched a major digitisation programme and new initiatives to...
  
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