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• Cheap Food Is Good, Right? Well Maybe We’re Not Adding Up The Cost…

  01-07-2020 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a capitalist society, viewed from the point of view of consumers, cheap food looks like an unequivocal democratic good, because it enables people to feed themselves, even on relatively low incomes… The missing part of the picture, however, is that cheap food is also one of the factors pushing large swathes of the workforce into exploitation and poverty. – Times Literary Supplement
  
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• Why Proof And Data Don’t Convince People

  01-07-2020 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I work with civic data and teach about the power of data collection, so I want to believe that data (in the form of video footage depicting police brutality against Black people) can effect social change. But it is precisely because of my attachment to the power of data collection that I’m unconvinced video footage can solely, or even primarily, lead to meaningful change. – FiveThirtyEight
  
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• Invitation to Dada Costume Workshop & Party! / Decorating Dissidence / London / North, South, South East, South West, Yorkshire

  01-07-2020 22:11
  This Friday 3rd July, you're invited to join artist Hannah Skinner for a DADA costume party that celebrates the end of Decorating Dissidence's Take Dada Seriously (It's Worth It?) residency with...
  
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• Mellon Foundation To Invest In Prison Libraries

  01-07-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The prison library program will give each of the 1,000 prisons the same 500-book collection selected by the project’s leaders. The collections, which Dr. Alexander called “freedom libraries,” are to include a broad variety of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, science, social thought and more. – The New York Times
  
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• Why Letting Your Mind Wander Is Good For You

  01-07-2020 21:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While it is certainly not inevitable that children lose their sense of wonder as they grow up, and while adults are in principle as capable of experiencing wonder as children, it is to be expected that, as the world becomes more and more familiar to children as they age, they will experience wonder less readily. – Psyche
  
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• The Search For A Gender-Neutral Singular Pronoun Has Gone On For Centuries

  01-07-2020 20:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, they has been used in the singular since the late Middle Ages, but people complained about it, and looked for a different solution, back then and ever since. The effort to come up with alternatives has engaged not only lexicographers, writers and teachers but also attorneys, judges, and legislators; the issue even played a role in the fight for women’s suffrage. – London Review of Books
  
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• The CircusWorks Un-Conference / CircusWorks / South West / Online

  01-07-2020 20:59
  The CircusWork Un-Conference is a coming together of youth circus trainers, managers, researchers, fundraisers, educators, artists and advocates. Over July and August we will be learning, listening,...
  
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• “Live” But Not Too Lively: Auction Torpor (not Fever) at Sotheby’s Evening Sales

  01-07-2020 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sotheby’s “LIVE GLOBAL AUCTION EVENT” was, per yesterday’s post-sale press release, “an unprecedented live-streamed event, with banks of telephone-bidding colleagues beamed in from around the world.” This complicated set-up worked well enough, but at the expense of “auction fever,” the contagion that can spread when bidding happens the old-fashioned way: concentrated in one salesroom packed with live attendees. – Lee Rosenbaum
  
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• India Bans Chinese Social Media Apps

  01-07-2020 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  India has banned video-sharing social network TikTok and messaging platform WeChat along with 57 other Chinese developed apps over national security and privacy concerns, as tensions between the two countries continue to rise. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Why This Medical School Is Using Artworks To Teach Diagnostics

  01-07-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Stephen Russell at the University of Alabama at Birmingham developed the course “Prescribing Art: How Observation Enhances Medicine” to teach students to slow down and observe without worrying about the pressures of the examination room (it turns out that Mary Cassatt was excellent at capturing the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis), but also to spot students’ own biases and teach them (as Russell puts it) “the tolerance of ambiguity.” – Artnet
  
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• Explore & Test Commissions are now LIVE! / Creative Barking and Dagenham / London / Barking and Dagenham

  01-07-2020 20:01
  Creative Barking and Dagenham is working with Imagineer Productions on an incredible outdoor arts project, Bridge, for Barking and Dagenham in 2021. We are looking forward to getting together as soon...
  
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• Study: The Ideal Numbers Of Students For Online And In-Person Classes

  01-07-2020 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Laurence Tomei and Douglas Nelson say that, as mentioned, online undergraduate classes should have no more than 12 students. In person, on campus classes should be no larger than 18 students and hybrid models should be only 17 students. Undergrad classes should likewise have an upper limit of 18, while graduate classes should have no more than 14 students and doctoral classes should be just nine or fewer students, though Tomei advised more research around that doctoral level finding. – Fo
  
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• Acting classes on Zoom - A Weekly Programme / Theatre Gym / London

  01-07-2020 19:25
  Need more creativity in your life?Want to learn new things every week?Want to play with new friends?Want to do all this in lockdown time?
  Here are some of our upcoming classes:
  8th Jul -...
  
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• Assistant Curator / Create London / London

  01-07-2020 19:19
  This role is aimed at addressing the acute lack of representation in the visual arts in the UK of talented Black curators.
  The role is a unique opportunity for an individual to build on their...
  
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• Addressing Dancers’ Biggest Worries About Coming Back From Coronavirus

  01-07-2020 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Natalia Boesch: “Living-room ballet has always been a big part of my life, whether I was working out choreographic ideas or just giving myself barre. But, as I write this, living-room ballet is all we’ve had for weeks. That changes everything. I know that, for my students and other young dancers, fears about what they might lose due to the COVID-19 shutdown may be overwhelming. Below are some big-picture thoughts addressing those concerns, and a few suggestions for making the best o
  
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• Digital Producer / DaDaFest / North West

  01-07-2020 18:42
  We wish to engage a Digital Producer with a range of expertise and experience to guide and support us in producing new digital commissions as well as helping us develop new and existing work and...
  
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• How A Girls Choir Pivoted And Is Thriving Online

  01-07-2020 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Amazingly, not only has the group continued the girls’ education online, it has used the constraints to its advantage by bringing in guest artists for master classes and increasing one-on-one instruction. At a time when many of the girls are deeply moved, not to mention upset by recent events, the continuation of study has doubtless been a lifeline. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Exhibitions Assistant / Unit London / London

  01-07-2020 18:26
  We are looking for an Exhibitions Assistant to work alongside the Gallery Manager and wider Exhibitions team to ensure the smooth execution of all Unit London exhibitions.  The exhibition...
  
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• Artist Talks online from Monochromatic Minds pop-up / Jennifer Lauren Gallery / North West

  01-07-2020 18:24
  Whilst we are still mainly in lockdown, I thought a few conversations with artists from my ‘Monochromatic Minds’ pop-up exhibition would be inspiring, engaging and of interest to others...
  
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• The World’s Most Famous Illegal Theatre Company Was Ready For The COVID Lockdown

  01-07-2020 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Belarus Free Theatre — outlawed by its homeland’s dictatorship, forced to rehearse and perform in secret, and with its artistic directors living in asylum abroad — has years of experience using secure high-tech platforms to work together remotely and livestream its plays. The company has been unusually productive in the months since the pandemic arrived, and its newest production is already making news. – HowlRound
  
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• Open for submission: online multimedia publication / Seiren / London / Worldwide

  01-07-2020 18:00
  We would like to invite you to submit to seiren 2.0: superficial. 
  Seiren is a quarterly multimedia digital publication. The call for submission for our second issue is open until July 31. The...
  
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• The Radicalism Of Current Black Playwrighting

  01-07-2020 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Something is palpably different among playwrights of the millennial generation, who are envisioning, demanding and conjuring into existence a new and more diverse spectatorship. Their relationship with audiences, rather than operating in the quid pro quo manner of our commercial theater or the insider code of the avant-garde, is charged with protest, clarifying anger and targeted love. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Technician / Assistant Registrar / Unit London / London

  01-07-2020 17:31
  We require a Technician / Assistant Registrar to work alongside the Logistics Manager and wider Exhibitions team to ensure the smooth execution of all Unit London exhibitions. The gallery...
  
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• The Met Breuer: What It Achieved And Why It Mattered

  01-07-2020 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For decades, the Met’s programming has been associated with a kind of elegant classicism. The Breuer, it seemed, would allow the museum to strike a new balance between grandeur and something more outré. … But the Met didn’t follow the Whitney’s lead in that respect — most exhibitions were dark and relatively traditional in their presentation. … [But] since the opening of the Met Breuer, the Met has reoriented its modern and contemporary strate
  
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• Film Title Poem review – scratched, dancing, scrunched-up celluloid

  01-07-2020 17:00
  
  Jennifer West’s experimental piece is a strange reverie on disposability in which analogue footage of film title cards is physically distressedA cheese dream of strangeness is one way to describe this brief experimental piece from 2016 by the Los Angeles artist and collagist Jennifer West, who scratches, distresses and generally scrunches up celluloid film stock and then makes digital files of the results.In Film Title Poem, she has taken analogue footage of film title cards (evidently fro
  
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• Head of Finance and Administration / Collective / Edinburgh

  01-07-2020 16:58
  Collective is seeking a Head of Finance and Administration to develop, coordinate and deliver the finance, senior administration and HR aspects of our charity and trading arm. You will have a proven...
  
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• Rudolfo Anaya, Founding Father Of Chicano Literature, Dead At 82

  01-07-2020 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Literary critics say [that Bless Me, Ultima,] Anaya’s World War II-era novel about a young Mexican-American boy’s relationship with an older curandera, or healer, influenced a generation of Latino writers because of its imagery and cultural references that were rare at the time of its 1972 publication.” – AP
  
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• Curating for Change Project Development Officer / Screen South / South East

  01-07-2020 16:05
  Project Development Officer – Accentuate Curating for Change
  Salary £30k pro rata over a fixed period for 9 monthsScreen South, seeks to appoint a Project Development Officer for its...
  
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• Four Black Documentarians Talk About Film And The Struggle For Racial Justice

  01-07-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ava DuVernay, Stanley Nelson, Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis have all made movies that help explain our nation’s current efforts to face hundreds of years of inequity. Here’s what they said.” – The New York Times
  
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• Georg Ratzinger, Famed Choirmaster And Pope Benedict’s Elder Brother, Dead At 96

  01-07-2020 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ordained on the same day as his brother, Ratzinger proved to be a talented musician and went on oversee the recording of numerous masterpieces and concert tours around the world by the Regensburger Domspatzen, a storied choir that traces its history back to the 10th century. But his reputation was tarnished as he apologized for using corporal punishment to discipline boys amid a wider investigation into sexual and physical abuse in the Church.” – Yahoo! (AP)
  
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• Digital Media & Growth Associate / Kovet.Art / London / Remote

  01-07-2020 15:24
  Kovet.art is an exciting, recently launched art tech platform. Our mission at Kovet.Art is to develop a highly curated online and offline art platform to help emerging collectors discover...
  
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• Collection Manager: Storage and Moves / British Museum / London

  01-07-2020 15:18
  Collections Manager: Storage and Moves Collection Projects and Resources Full-Time Fixed-Term (2 Years) £27,435 per annum Application Deadline: 20 July 2020, 12PM
  The British Museum is seeking...
  
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• Quotations - Coventry`s strategy for the Creative Economy / Coventry City Council / West Midlands

  01-07-2020 15:13
  We are inviting quotations to shape and write Coventry’s first strategy for the Creative Economy.  Getting a Creative Economy Strategy in place is vital to ensure we make the most of the...
  
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• Surveying The Damage To Philadelphia’s Arts From Huge City Funding Cuts

  01-07-2020 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The budget passed by the City Council cuts municipal support for the arts citywide by 40% to $5.84 million, and even that amount is $1 million more than the mayor proposed as he attempted to close a $750 million deficit. The city’s arts office has been eliminated entirely, as has funding to film production and historic preservation agencies, and hundreds of other organizations have taken hits. – The New York Times
  
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• Consolation: Philadelphia Arts Orgs Get $4 Million In COVID Relief

  01-07-2020 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s a bit of welcome news after major cuts from the city government: “467 Philadelphia-area arts and culture groups plus more than a thousand individual artists are receiving a total of $4 million raised through … a multidonor fund assembled in response to the pandemic. … The fund ended up being able to make an award to every group that applied for support and met eligibility requirements.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Artist Commission / The Princess Theatre and Arts Centre / South West

  01-07-2020 14:50
  Contact: A lockdown visual arts exhibition
  Thanks to ACE’s emergency response grant, funded by the National Lottery, The Princess would like to commission 10 Somerset based artists to...
  
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• Lockdown Lounge #6 - Online Support Group for Freelance Artists / Guildhall Coaching Associates / London

  01-07-2020 14:37
  Reframe, refocus and refresh your perspective
  By consciously reframing our perspective, we can remain best-placed to see the potential in any given circumstance.
  Calling freelance musicians,...
  
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• After 23 Years, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s Artistic Director Says Farewell

  01-07-2020 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Terrence] Orr’s vision included growth for the entire organization. Ticket sales, PBT School enrollment and the organization’s physical footprint in the Strip District all increased while he was artistic director.” So did the size and range of the company’s repertoire (previously heavy on Balanchine), and Orr encouraged a number of company dancers to choreograph as well. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Composer / Musical Director for R&D / The Roaring Girls / Yorkshire

  01-07-2020 14:32
  Are you a musician or composer looking for a new project to sink your teeth into? Do you enjoy projects that balance humour and pathos? Do you want to collaborate with loud, hilarious, honest women...
  
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• Learning and Community Engagement Officer / The Kennet and Avon Canal Trust - Crofton Beam Engines / South West

  01-07-2020 14:27
  We are nearing the end of a major project, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, to conserve and re-present the early 19th century pumping station at Crofton, near Marlborough - home to...
  
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• Distance Arts Programmer / Span Arts / Wales

  01-07-2020 14:26
  Span Arts, a community arts charity based in Narberth, Pembrokeshire is seeking to recruit a highly motivated and exceptional individual to become our Distance Arts Programmer to develop and deliver...
  
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• GLOD: Political Theatre as a Civil Right #1 / BEZNA Theatre / East Midlands / London

  01-07-2020 14:22
  GLOD  
  Romanian noun
  Wet earth (soaked by rain water or melted snow)
  Mud
  Clay
  From the Hungarian galád or the Russian глуда...
  
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• At Last, A Major Opera House Has Returned To Full-Scale Production

  01-07-2020 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In Barcelona, they performed for plants. But at Madrid’s Teatro Real, it’s a real staging for a real (though smaller) audience. “The opening scenes of merriment have taken on a sombre tone, with the chorus clad in black and white and spaced exactly 2 metres apart. Minutes into the staging of La Traviata, the surgical masks come off, timed with the rising notes of an orchestra led by a conductor standing behind a plastic screen.” – The Guardian
  
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• Maintenance Technician / Regent Centre Christchurch / South West

  01-07-2020 12:38
  We are looking for a part time (30 hours over 5 days) Maintenance Technician to care for our historic building. The Regent Centre is a historic 88-year-old building with architecture spanning 70...
  
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• Breaking for adult beginners / adrenalindance / London / on line

  01-07-2020 12:12
  Do you know a windmill from a pretzel? How is your coffee grinder. Breaking is a Hip Hop dance form that originated in the Bronx in the 70's and is now an Olympic sport. Breaking is referenced...
  
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• Carl Reiner’s Last Interview

  01-07-2020 11:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The only thing that really matters in life is your progeny, the people who come after you, the people you send out to the world. They’re either toxic or nontoxic.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Dance teachers / Stage & the City / London

  01-07-2020 10:48
  Stage & the City is looking for new dynamic and inspirational dance teachers and choreographers to come on board for when our face-to-face classes resume. We are primarly looking for a...
  
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• Playful Learning Coordinator / Bright Box Makerspace / Yorkshire

  01-07-2020 09:21
  This role is ideal for someone who enjoys having different work each day to join a small team dedicated to providing equitable access to education and opportunity for all. To date, we’ve worked...
  
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• Which famous Royal Academician painted this? The great British art quiz

  01-07-2020 09:00
  
  The Royal Academy set today’s quiz, which lets you explore the art collections 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 for the UK’s public art collections, showing art from more than 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 the Royal Academy of Arts. The RA
  
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• Why Milton Glaser’s Iconic “I [Heart] New York” Worked

  01-07-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Glaser scrawled the first draft of the logo in the back of a cab, in 1976, red ink on a scrap of envelope; the sketch is now, fittingly, in the possession of the Museum of Modern Art. He made it for a marketing campaign for New York State, in 1977, which was a tricky moment for the city in particular—it didn’t seem very lovable. In the final design, the typeface is American Typewriter, friendly and approachable, with a cartoonish cast (notice the rounded bent knee of the “N&rd
  
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