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• Building & IT Manager / Central School of Ballet / London

  08-07-2020 23:01
  Building & IT Manager  
   
  Salary - £32k-£35k per annum
   
   
  Central School of Ballet trains students for careers in classical ballet and dance. Central is...
  
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• Lewisham Lounge Fest - Call for Performers aged 7-15 & 16-21 / Lewisham Music / London

  08-07-2020 20:45
  Lewisham Music announce Lewisham Lounge Fest, our first ever online music festival for young creatives!
  Spread over multiple digital stages, Lewisham Music will host an eclectic mix of diverse young...
  
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• How Will The Art Market Realign? It Is

  08-07-2020 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With wealthy collectors no longer travelling, most art business is now conducted online. Art dealers are typically reporting a 70% drop in sales, according to a recent survey conducted by The Art Newspaper and Pownall. Up to a third of galleries are expected to fold, with smaller ones particularly vulnerable. The shift to online auctions has seen an equally dramatic slump in secondary market revenues at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• The Story Behind The Instagram Hit #CamerasandDancers

  08-07-2020 19:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[The] monthly, location-specific Instameet … brings together top dancers, interesting architecture and elite movement photographers — the intersection of which results in truly exquisite dance photography.” Choreographer Jacob Jonas, the creator of #CamerasandDancers, tells reporter Haley Hilton how it all works. – Dance Magazine
  
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• What To Do With Problematic Books? Read Them

  08-07-2020 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The great reckoning now sweeping across pop culture has been working through the stacks of literature for far longer. The effects of time are twofold: Most books have fallen into dust, along with the racist values they imbibed. And those few texts that survive have been subjected to rigorous — and ongoing — debate. – Washington Post
  
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• Stradivari’s Hometown Became A COVID Hotspot, And Its Instrument-Makers Are Still Suffering

  08-07-2020 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “COVID-19 has caused more than 1,000 deaths and 6,600 confirmed cases of infection in the province of Cremona … and it is now putting a strain on its economy. In particular, it is threatening the violin-making craftsmanship that has been the historical engine of Cremona’s industry and made its botteghe (Italian for ‘workshops’) famous throughout the world, turning the city into a microcosmic reflection of how the pandemic is jeopardizing the culture and arts secto
  
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• Music performance tutor / Big Creative Training Ltd / London

  08-07-2020 19:01
  Big Creative Training is a well-established and expanding creative industry training provider with a long track record of delivering positive outcomes for learners. Our mission is to improve the...
  
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• Exhibitor / AirSpace Gallery / West Midlands

  08-07-2020 18:41
  An opportunity to exhibit in one of the country's leading artist-led art galleries. The AirSpace Gallery Window reaches a large, varied and appreciative daily audience.DEADLINE: 22 July, 2020 -...
  
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• So Your Country Needs To Deal With A Difficult History. Here’s How Germany Did It

  08-07-2020 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What I think we can learn from that example is that anti-racism, or facing up to your past, is not a vaccine. It’s not a one-shot option. It’s a process that you need to continue to go through, and it will change generationally. People will see history differently. Generations will have different needs. I also want to emphasize that it’s not just revision of textbooks. I really think popular culture is at least as important as what gets taught in schools, perhaps more s
  
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• The Daring Detective - Murder Mystery Creation Workshops / Dare to Create / North East

  08-07-2020 18:13
  Join the Daring Detective as they investigate whodunit in our BRAND NEW Virtual Murder Mystery Series. 
  Get involved and gain skills in character development, improvisation and basic script...
  
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• Britain’s Theatre World Banded Together And Got The Government To Provide Lockdown Rescue Money. Why Can’t American Theater Do The Same?

  08-07-2020 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jesse Green: “For months I’ve been waiting for industry groups to galvanize themselves into meaningful action, as they did in Britain — and as Black theater artists have proved can be done here, too. … But the American theater’s biggest failure is the one that renders it helpless in an existential crisis like this. In allowing itself to be cast as just another industry — a role it does not even play very well — it has disowned its true identity as a pu
  
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• Seaside: Photographed | Call for an Artist & Arts Educator / John Hansard Gallery / South West / Southampton

  08-07-2020 17:58
  Curated by Val Williams and Karen Shepherdson, Seaside: Photographed, is a major touring exhibition that examines the relationship between photographers, photography and the British seaside from...
  
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• Open Call: QUAD Self Portrait (Online) / QUAD / East Midlands / Worldwide

  08-07-2020 17:44
  With so many of us in lockdown, self isolating and working from home, with human inter-connections changing - how do we look inwards at ourselves? And how do we look towards the “new...
  
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• Organise a Being Human Cafe as part of a nationwide festival / School of Advanced Study, University of London / London / All of the UK

  08-07-2020 17:43
  Get involved with this year’s Being Human festival (12-22 November) – the UK’s only national festival of the humanities. This year we’ve introduced a new, simple way to get...
  
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• Our Public Monuments Don’t Preserve History, They Rewrite It

  08-07-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Celebrating Mount Rushmore isn’t remembering history; instead it requires spectacular acts of forgetting. How could we honestly claim to see in this anything worth defending? – Chicago Tribune
  
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• Other-Wordly Story Takes Prescot Festival Prize / Prescot Festival of Music & the Arts / North West

  08-07-2020 17:31
  The tale of a boy’s dreams underneath a magical night sky has won the 2020 Prescot Festival Short Story Competition.
  Rita Simpson, from Huyton, received £100 and publication on...
  
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• Directors of Devised Theatre / Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance / London

  08-07-2020 17:19
  Rose Bruford College seeks four directors/companies to lead the creation of our devised performances as part of our “Theatre in the 21st Century” season in the Autumn term.
  Directors...
  
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• Project Assistant / The Brixton Project / London

  08-07-2020 17:15
  The Brixton Project creates and curates places and spaces in which everyone has an investment. We develop cultural and creative projects as part of our place-making activities, that seek to...
  
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• An Art Critic Visits The Newly-Socially-Distanced National Gallery In London

  08-07-2020 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Adrian Searle: “Visitors … have to follow one of three designated routes through the galleries, all of which are signposted, with arrows on the floor pointing up the prescribed flow. Quite how this will work, and how much one can deviate or jump between Route A, which begins in the Sainsbury Wing, and routes B and C in the main galleries, … defeated me on my press preview visit on Saturday. I get the feeling the few dozen of us wandering the galleries were guinea pigs for a
  
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• What To Do With The Theatres And Concert Halls Now Sitting Empty? Use Them As Classrooms

  08-07-2020 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Justin Davidson makes the case that New York City’s overburdened, underinvested-in school buildings simply can’t fit students in at a COVID-safe distance, but the currently-dark performance venues (and sports arenas and deserted malls, for that matter) can. – New York Magazine
  
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• Yet Again, Milan Kundera Denounced In His Native Land

  08-07-2020 16:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While the Czech-but-now-French author is known in much of the world for his pointed depictions of how the Communist regimes of Europe twisted the lives of regular people, he’s been viewed ambivalently or worse by many in the Czech Republic — not least because he got out of Czechoslovakia in 1975 and didn’t have to suffer through the final years of the Communist Party’s misrule. Now a new 900-page biography of Kundera has reignited criticism of and debate over the most fa
  
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• Programme Manager / Liverpool Biennial / North West

  08-07-2020 16:04
  Liverpool Biennial is seeking a dynamic and forward-thinking Programme Manager to join its team. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the Programme Team and to support the Director Fatoş...
  
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• Alternative Art Education (Slow) Marathon / Conway Hall / London

  08-07-2020 15:36
  Turn on, tune in, get involved, start your own art school!
  Join us via the Conway Hall Zoom channel to celebrate alternative art education and launch the first issue of URgh! a zine on education and...
  
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• Here’s The Full ‘Letter On Justice And Open Debate’

  08-07-2020 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted. While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is also spreading more widely in our culture: an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty. … The way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion, not by trying to silen
  
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• Atwood, Marsalis, Steinem, Rushdie, Bill T. Jones Among 153 Signing Letter Warning Of ‘Intolerant Climate’ (Yup, There’s A Backlash)

  08-07-2020 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The letter, which was published by Harper’s Magazine and will also appear in several leading international publications, surfaces a debate that has been going on privately in newsrooms, universities and publishing houses that have been navigating demands for diversity and inclusion, while also asking which demands — and the social media dynamics that propel them — go too far. And on social media, the reaction was swift, with some heaping ridicule on the letter’s s
  
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• Personal Assistant to Artist / Jason Wilsher-Mills LTD / East Midlands

  08-07-2020 15:29
  PA needed for Jason Wilsher-Mills
  Exciting job role. I am a disabled artist, a wheelchair user, who requires a full time Personal Assistant for an exciting job, which involves lots of travel, with...
  
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• Creating a Safeguarding Risk Assessment for the Arts / Artswork / South East

  08-07-2020 15:22
  For safeguarding policy and practice to be effective, it must take into account the specific people we work with, the activities that we deliver and the places and spaces we work in. Risk assessment...
  
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• Big Three Movie Theater Chains Sue New Jersey For Right To Reopen

  08-07-2020 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the lawsuit led by the National Association of Theatre Owners of New Jersey, naming Gov. Philip Murphy and New Jersey’s health commissioner, …, the plaintiffs” — which include AMC, Cinemark, and Regal — “argue that because churches and retailers have been allowed to open in the state, the movie theaters should be permitted to reopen as well.” – NPR
  
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• City & Guilds of London Art School Foundation Show open online! / / London

  08-07-2020 14:41
  Enter the Virtual Foundation Show 2020
  View the outstanding work of our 2019/20 Foundation Diploma students in our new online gallery space. The Foundation Show includes works from a wide range of...
  
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• Artists’ Retreat MacDowell Colony Drops ‘Colony’ From Its Name (Because Colonial Oppression)

  08-07-2020 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “MacDowell Board Chair Nell Painter … acknowledged that the word ‘colony’ can mean a country or given location under the control of an outside power or, as would apply to MacDowell, a community of like-minded people. But she said both definitions carry a sense of exclusion and hierarchy, and that … ‘in the language we speak today, colony is a word tied to occupation and oppression.'” – AP
  
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• Commission opportunities for Black Artists/Practitioners / Blaze Arts / North West

  08-07-2020 14:24
  The Festival of Hope is a celebration of hope and heritage led by young people working in collaboration with museums around the North West. The festival is produced by Blaze and will take place in...
  
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• Development Associate / Cause4 / South East

  08-07-2020 14:15
  This is a superb opportunity to join Cause4 on a two-year development programme, which will give you an in-depth insight into the charity sector, fast-track agency experience, and a...
  
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• Terry Pratchett’s Last Unpublished Stories Will Finally See Print

  08-07-2020 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The final collection of early stories from the late Terry Pratchett, written while the Discworld creator was a young reporter, will be published in September. The tales in The Time-travelling Caveman, many of them never released in book form before, range from a steam-powered rocket’s flight to Mars to a Welsh shepherd’s discovery of the resting place of King Arthur.” – The Guardian
  
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• Social Media Content Designer / You Make It / London

  08-07-2020 14:03
  We’re an award-winning organisation, recognised for our huge impact and innovation in transforming the life chances of young women who’ve got so much to offer, but who just need a little...
  
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• Short Course - An introduction to Solo Performance Practice / Morley College / London / Online

  08-07-2020 14:03
  Would you like to make a solo performance but don't know where to start?
  In this 8 hour online course that is spread over two days, you will be given a brief overview of solo performance practice...
  
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• Volunteer Trustee / The Maddermarket Theatre Trust Ltd / East

  08-07-2020 13:41
  Are you keen to use your expertise in supporting an exciting local charity? The Maddermarket needs new trustees to join the board of Norwich’s community theatre. We are seeking skilled and...
  
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• Marketing & Communications Coordinator / Towner Eastbourne / South East

  08-07-2020 13:29
  We are looking for a dynamic and highly organised individual to join our marketing team. Able to produce high-quality accessible content, you will be energetic, a sophisticated and effective...
  
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• Digital Skills Mentors / Arts Marketing Association / London / UK wide

  08-07-2020 13:29
  Digital Skills Mentors for The Lab
  The Digital Heritage Lab is a project managed by the Arts Marketing Association (AMA) in partnership with Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy, One Further and the...
  
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• Lesnes Abbey Woods Co-commission of a new artwork / Estuary 2021 / London

  08-07-2020 12:53
  Open call to co-commission a new public realm artwork to be sited at Lesnes Abbey Woods for Estuary 2021. Co-commissioned by Metal and London Borough of Bexley, the selected artwork will be launched...
  
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• Head of Fundraising / Hampshire Cultural Trust / South East

  08-07-2020 12:34
  Hampshire Cultural Trust is looking for a driven and dynamic Head of Fundraising for a maternity cover contract. While in post, the successful candidate will lead the delivery of an interim...
  
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• Artist Commission: The Maurice O`Connell Bursary / November Club / North East

  08-07-2020 11:34
  November Club re-launches a one-off artists’ bursary worth £5,000 in memory of Maurice W. H. O’Connell, aka The Lord of Misrule and the Abbott of Unreason.
  The bursary was...
  
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• Digital Marketing Executive / Studio Will Dutta / South East / Remote

  08-07-2020 11:06
  The Digital Marketing Executive will work across three distinct artistic projects between August and October 2020. Your role will encompass external communications (to maximise our visibility, and to...
  
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• What connects performing pigeons with this painting? The great British art quiz

  08-07-2020 09:00
  
  The Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture 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 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 sets the questions.Today, our questions are set by the Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, in Edinburgh. The RS
  
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• Salisbury Cathedral to reopen to tourists with art extravaganza

  08-07-2020 09:00
  
  Grayson Perry work features in show marking building’s 800th anniversary Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageVisitors are finally returning to one of the UK’s most glorious buildings, Salisbury Cathedral, where they will be met by sights and sounds ranging from a shimmering Antony Gormley figure perched high above the choir to peregrine falcons on the tower.The cathedral believes that from Wednesday it will be able to welcome 600 visitors a day, well dow
  
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• The great reopening – how Britain's galleries Covid-proofed themselves

  08-07-2020 07:00
  
  From London to Llandudno to Dundee, museums are back in business. So is it now safe to view art – and how will they cope with the drastic drop in numbers?
  ‘There was a moment,” says Andrew Nairne, “when I was thinking, of course, we are like Nottingham Contemporary and the Hepworth Wakefield, places like that.” The director of Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge is guiding me around a gallery that’s “in rehearsals” for a socially distanced opening in
  
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• Online Sculpture Course / Fiona Campbell / South West / UK wide

  08-07-2020 01:02
  Learn how to make a nature-inspired sculpture using found & recycled materials that could enhance your surroundings.  
  A 5-week online sculpture course aimed at adults, art students,...
  
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• Fantastic for Families Awards recognise UK`s best arts events / / London

  08-07-2020 00:39
  Fantastic for Families announce those who have made an outstanding contribution to family-friendly arts and culture
  Today Family Arts Campaign announce the shortlist of arts events, organisations...
  
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• Time To Make The Theatre Reforms We’ve Needed For A Long Time

  08-07-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anna Fleischle, an award-winning designer, has defined “a moment of reset in our industry.” Rachel O’Riordan, artistic director of the Lyric Hammersmith, says she is looking at the public square outside the theatre on King Street. West End producers know that the days of the premium ticket and rip-off booking charges are over. And one can only say to all three parties: what took you so long? – Prospect Magazine
  
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