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• Indie Bookstores Move Online… But Can Their Service Match Amazon?

  02-07-2020 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Customer expectations that independent booksellers will do what a massive online operation does has caused deep frustration. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Coaching for artists by artists / The Hour Collective / Nationwide

  02-07-2020 23:19
  Space to think is more vital than ever in these times of emergency and change. 
  Coaching is a practice of active listening and dynamic thinking, enabling you to hear your thoughts out loud,...
  
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• A Gallery Of Detroit’s Fabulous 20th Century Ruins

  02-07-2020 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  They’re grand spaces now in decay – which gives them altogether another kind of beauty. – The Guardian
  
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• Britain’s Arts Organizations Are Begging For Help. In The Rest Europe, They’re Getting It

  02-07-2020 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In France, Germany, Italy or Belgium, where the arts are heavily subsidized by the state, performing companies and museums can survive with reduced ticket sales. But in Britain, where government funding is much lower and organizations rely on commercial income, most are unprepared for a future in which they can only admit a fraction of their usual audience. – The New York Times
  
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• Researchers: Fans Of Apocalyptic Movies Are More Resilient

  02-07-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The bleak scenarios thrown up by films such as Contagion, from panic buying and isolation to fear of others and fake claims of miracle cures, appeared to help viewers take the outbreak in their stride and work out how best to handle the crisis. – The Guardian
  
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• Trustee, Management Committee Member, Volunteer Admin Support / New Arts Charity / London

  02-07-2020 21:38
  We are in the process of starting up an art club for girls and non-binary kids of African and/or Caribbean origin, who are from lower income backgrounds. And we are starting to expand the management...
  
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• General Manager / The Art Station / East

  02-07-2020 19:30
  Art Station are developing a creative industries hub in Saxmundham, a rural town in beautiful East Coastal Suffolk.  We are refurbishing our new space in an old telephone exchange (opens October...
  
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• Freelance Finance & Administration Support / Music Mark / London / Remote Working

  02-07-2020 19:16
  Music Mark, The UK Association for Music Education is currently recruiting a freelancer to support with Finance & Administration. Music Mark is a Membership organisation for the Music Education...
  
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• Commission for site-specific artwork with seating / Surrey Hills Arts / South East

  02-07-2020 19:02
  Surrey Hills Arts are commissioning an artwork incorporating seating on the Denbies Wine Estate in Dorking, Surrey.  The artwork will highlight the panoramic view from a point on the North...
  
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• Super/science episode 5: early earth and cyanobacteria / super/collider / London

  02-07-2020 18:18
  14 July7PM BST
  Join us for the fifth episode in our new online event series, super/science.Buy tickets here.
  During this event, we will hear from Dr Patricia Sanchez-Baracaldo about Cyanobacteria...
  
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• Artist opportunity / Morley Arts Festival / Yorkshire

  02-07-2020 18:03
  **ARTIST COMMISSION SHORT DEADLINE**
  Morley Arts Festival is offering a commission to a practising artist living or working in Yorkshire to create a new piece of digital work responding to the theme...
  
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• Where are the black voices in visual arts? | Letter

  02-07-2020 18:01
  
  We must address the absence of black and minority ethnic artists from our public museums and galleries, writes Gilane TawadrosI was pleased to see the intergenerational conversations between black British artists in G2 (Black British Culture special, 25 June) on racism in the arts. But I was surprised that no mention was made of the visual arts. No black or ethnic minority person has run a major art institution in this country. The first big retrospective exhibition of a black British artist at
  
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• Dancers and Choreographers for West End Summer Academy / South Side Theatre Academy / London

  02-07-2020 17:53
  We're looking for a team of performers or choreographers to run a days dance workshop as part of the South Side 'West End Summer Academy' at Tolworth Girls School. The project runs from Monday...
  
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• Dark Summer - online horror and dark fiction workshop / Nottingham Writers Studio / East Midlands

  02-07-2020 17:37
  DARK SUMMERSaturday 11th July, 1pm-5pmOnline workshop via ZoomBooking and info...
  
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• Creative Programme Manager (maternity cover) / Help Musicians / London

  02-07-2020 17:37
  Help Musicians is an independent charity with an extraordinary history. For nearly 100 years we have provided a broad spectrum of help, support and opportunities to empower professional musicians...
  
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• Bio Building - Instagram Live workshop / Meadow Arts / West Midlands

  02-07-2020 17:33
  Join artist Jamila Walker on Instagram Live @meadowarts as she guides you through a fun, imaginative, family art workshop that focuses on the combination of nature and man-made...
  
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• Creatives for new theatre/film project / Tanzlar Theatre / London

  02-07-2020 17:29
  It’s going to be a big project with lots of people involved. We are asking people who are interested to pitch an idea - of a “character”; it could be someone you know/ someone in...
  
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• Super/science Episode 6: Fantasies of Eel Ecology / super/collider / London

  02-07-2020 17:04
  Join us for the sixth episode in our new online event series, super/science.
  Kristina Pulejkova will present her work Wedding Journey. This event is in association with Exposed Arts...
  
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• Renaissance couple: unhinged duo reunited after 125 years apart

  02-07-2020 15:58
  
  Separated portraits of 16th-century high society husband and wife finally back togetherA couple painted by the leading renaissance artist Bartholomäus Bruyn the Elder before their marriage in 1539 have finally been reunited after an art historian turned detective, spending two decades piecing together clues from across Europe to bring the two-panel portrait together again.Jakob and Elisabeth Omphalius, scions of high-society in 16th-century Cologne, had stared at each other for over 350 yea
  
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• Tate Britain announces recipients of £10,000 Turner bursaries

  02-07-2020 14:45
  
  Cash awards given to ten artists who would have been in the running for cancelled 2020 prizeA “fantastic and exciting” list of ten artists who would all have been in the running for this year’s Turner prize have been named as the recipients of £10,000 bursaries.Tate Britain on Thursday announced the names of artists who will receive no-strings-attached cash awards in place of this year’s abandoned competition.Arika, a political arts organisation based in Edinburgh;T
  
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• Head of Operations & Artist Liaison / Sarabande Foundation / London

  02-07-2020 14:45
  Sarabande is a leading arts and cultural foundation with exhibition space and artist studios based in N1. Established by Lee Alexander McQueen to support the most creatively fearless visionaries of...
  
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• Administrator / Creative Learning Guild / Yorkshire

  02-07-2020 14:00
  Our administrator will be a point of contact for our stakeholders and undertake both basic bookkeeping and building management – often independently. You’ll be part of a tiny team who...
  
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• DUAIS DÃŒLEAB CHALUIM CHILLE / The Colmcille Legacy Award / Argyll and Isles Culture Heritage and Arts Assembly / Argyll & Isles

  02-07-2020 13:31
  Duais Dìleab Chaluim Chille / The Colmcille Legacy Award, is a small national award scheme created in partnership...
  
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• Digital Artist / Festival of Hope Chester / North West / UK wide

  02-07-2020 13:12
  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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• Micro-commissions for Artists / Healthy Arts / North West

  02-07-2020 13:09
  The Brief
  ‘2020 Vision’ is an opportunity for 6 artists from different disciplines to deliver a professionally filmed online workshop.
  There will be an opportunity to be coached by a...
  
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• Writing Dialogue - Online Workshop / Alex Davis Writing / East Midlands

  02-07-2020 12:42
  TUESDAY JULY 21ST, 6:30pm-8:00pmWRITING DIALOGUEOnline workshop via Google Meet ‘Pay What You Like’ sessionDialogue is a key part of writing great stories - but how can you make it...
  
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• Early-Stage Dementia Awareness Training for Arts Organisations / Arts 4 Dementia / London / World-wide online event

  02-07-2020 12:42
  Thu, 30 July 2020
  10:00 – 17:00 BSTThis interactive early-stage dementia awareness training is specifically for arts facilitators and learning teams from arts organisations. The full-day...
  
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• Quickfire Writing - Online Workshop / Alex Davis Writing / East Midlands

  02-07-2020 12:39
  WEDNESDAY JULY 15TH, 6:30pm-8:00pmQUICKFIRE WRITING!Online workshop via Google Meet ‘Pay What You Like’ sessionThis session will be a rapid-fire succession of writing exercises,...
  
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• How to Get an Agent - Online Workshop / Alex Davis Writing / East Midlands

  02-07-2020 12:38
  THURSDAY JULY 9TH, 6:30pm-8:00pmHOW TO GET AN AGENTOnline workshop via Google Meet ‘Pay what you like’ sessionThis ninety minute session will walk you through the key elements of...
  
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• Twenty21 Open Call for emerging choreographers is open / Aerowaves / London

  02-07-2020 12:37
  Aerowaves is a hub for dance discovery in Europe with a network of partners in 33 countries. The network is looking for the next Twenty talented emerging choreographers based in geographical...
  
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• Jarman prize shortlist 2020 celebrates vibrant escapism

  02-07-2020 11:57
  
  Afro-surrealism, Hollywood racial imbalances and LGBTQ history are explored by nominees for the £10,000 film-making prizeArabic science fiction, flying paint and a journey through the black techno scene: this year’s Jarman award nominees offer plenty of vibrant escapism.Among the six shortlisted artists for the £10,000 prize, which recognises the pioneering work of UK-based artist film-makers, are Jenn Nkiru, whose work is influenced by Afro-surrealism and electronic music, and
  
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• Where is this idyllic sun-dappled island? The great British art quiz

  02-07-2020 09:00
  
  Munnings Art Museum hosts today’s quiz, setting questions to explore art collections of museums closed due to coronavirusThis 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 Munnings Art Museum, in the beautiful Dedham Vale on the Essex/Suffolk border. The museum i
  
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• 'Daily life is deeply magical': images from OpenWalls Arles 2020 – in pictures

  02-07-2020 08:00
  
  Supernatural grandmothers and a family of 13 living on a boat were among the subjects that caught the eye of the prestigious photography award’s judges Continue reading...
  
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• Unseen Picasso portrait of lover and muse to appear at auction

  02-07-2020 07:00
  
  Sotheby’s will auction 1931 charcoal drawing that shines light on artist’s affair with Marie-Thérèse Walter A tender and largely unseen portrait by Picasso of his lover and muse Marie-Thérèse Walter, which the artist personally kept until his death, is to appear at auction for the first time.The 1931 charcoal drawing shines light on one of the great love affairs of the 20th century and was made by Picasso when his affair with Walter was still a closely gua
  
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• Pride, power, pedals and protest: black British photographers pick a best shot

  02-07-2020 07:00
  
  Black Lives Matter has underlined the crucial role played by black photographers. We asked eight British leaders in their field to pick a favourite image from their archives – and explain why it’s so important to them Continue reading...
  
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• 'It's like our future has gone': visual artists facing existential threat post Covid-19

  02-07-2020 04:53
  
  Shutdown and recession have caused artists’ commercial and teaching opportunities to dry up – with little help from government. But some see the crisis as a chance to resetAustralian artist Abdul Abdullah was in New York City showing new works at the famed Armory Show, held this year on Pier 94, when the Covid-19 pandemic struck.The first case in New York was identified on 1 March. The Armory Show opened four days later. “People were already elbow-touching instead of hugging, b
  
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• “Hamilton” The Movie Is A Sensation

  02-07-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For the uninitiated, it remains the cultural event of a troubled season. Disney Plus has reputedly suspended all discounts and free trials ahead of Hamilton’s debut on the streaming service. Expect complete internet breakage. – Irish Times
  
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