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• Opportunity to Share a Studio/ Project Space / / London

  19-07-2020 23:25
  We are three artists who have found a spacious and unique commercial premises in the heart of Hackney to use as a 5 person studio/ project space.
  The idea is to work at our individual practices as...
  
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• Barcelona, In The Middle Of A Second Wave, Re-Closes Movie Theatres

  19-07-2020 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While Spain’s figurehead monarchs went to the movies in Madrid, the Catalan government shut down Barcelona theatres and other mass gatherings (though it’s awfully hard to shut down Barcelona street parties, looks like). “The mandated shutdown is fiercely contested by Barcelona area town halls, adding to a nationwide debate about just how safe it is to go to the cinema.” – Variety
  
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• The Blockbuster Movie Tenet May Yet Come Out This Summer, But Should It?

  19-07-2020 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When you have to ask yourself, “Am I actually dying to see this movie?” it might be too early for the theatres to reopen. “Infections are still going up in many states, and there is no federal plan in place to halt that spread. Simple acts to contain the coronavirus, like wearing a mask or staying at home, have now become so hopelessly politicized that it’s all but impossible to imagine our country flattening the curve by Aug. 12.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Extremely Cold Case Of Hans Holbein’s Bones

  19-07-2020 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  London: “Emptied out by coronavirus during lockdown, the City was the perfect place for socially distanced, government-mandated walks. And beneath its streets are the bodies of innumerable plague victims. One in particular haunts me. Holbein died in London, almost certainly of plague, in 1543. The long shadow of bubonic plague permeates his art, in its danse macabre of corpses and skeletons. It seemed appropriate to seek out this master of pestilence in a time of pandemic.” –
  
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• Open Call for Artists, Musicians, Storytellers and Speakers / The Steamship Project Space for Totally Thames 2020 / London

  19-07-2020 21:25
  ‘Timeless Thames’ : Open Call for Artists, Musicians, Storytellers and Speakers
  The Steamship PS is an artist-run Project Space located in ‘The Steamship’, a former pub...
  
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• Susan Orlean Brightened The World By Getting Drunk, Missing Her Cat, And Tweeting

  19-07-2020 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Despair about the state of the world, a little rosé, and voilà: “Orlean sent 27 entertaining, if typo-infused, tweets (read: “I do r e we. Know who is I my house”) that careen from the state of the world to the location of her cat, Leo, interspersed with frequent nods to her progressing drunkenness and her husband’s mounting concern for her well being. Taken together, the tweets feel oddly in tune with the tenor of the times —
  
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• A Medical Error Probably Killed Raphael

  19-07-2020 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Bloodletting was a normal treatment at the time, but not the best practice for someone who probably had pneumonia, or so a new study says. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Dystopian Fiction Can Help Us Live Through Dystopian Reality

  19-07-2020 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  You’d think living during a plague (The Stand, The Walking Dead, Domesday Book) and a time when unmarked federal agents are kidnapping people off the street (Little Brother, Hunger Games) might not be a good time to read dystopian fiction like Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Sower. You’d be wrong. “What makes dystopian fiction different is that its creators are oddly optimists at heart, as we are. These works are not about prediction, but prevention. The stories warn
  
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• Sorry, New York, You Can’t Have Museums Yet

  19-07-2020 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Museums will not open on Monday, or anytime soon, says Governor Cuomo. “We’re not going to have any indoor activity in malls or cultural institutions. … We’ll continue to monitor that situation, and when the facts change, we will let you know.” The worry? Viral spread by tourists from the South and West of the U.S., where cases are increasing at a massive rate. – The New York Times
  
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• If You’re In A Low-Virus Area, Is It Safe To Sing Yet?

  19-07-2020 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Uhm. British government regulations are that singers and musicians stand three meters apart, or (for singers) back-to-back, or side-by-side (in other words, not in rows on risers). “If the chorus at the Last Night of the Proms had to stand side-by-side then Rule Britannia would begin in the Royal Albert Hall and stretch all the way down to the Natural History Museum, almost half a kilometre away.” Also, again, it may not be safe at all. – BBC
  
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• Longing For Outdoor Theatre, Yes, Including Bugs And Rain

  19-07-2020 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  OK, we just miss it. A lot. “It’s a different absence than the loss of indoor theater, partly because of how fondly we cherish summer traditions. But as the director Anne Bogart said in a phone interview, outdoor performance by its nature involves a fuller embrace of life, and of accidents.” – The New York Times
  
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• Emma Donoghue’s Book About The 1918 Pandemic Was Rushed To Press By The Publisher

  19-07-2020 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The author of Room says, “I generally go out of my way not to be timely or to try and capture cultural moments. It’s very peculiar “- Irish Times
  
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• Low-Budget Horror Movies Are Winning The Summer

  19-07-2020 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Why? Well … drive-in movies and a summer that’s full of actual horror as well. “It turns out that inexpensive horror flicks, which have been part of the Hollywood ecosystem as long as cinema has existed, are thriving as a result of a sparse film landscape and a largely quarantined moviegoing populace.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Falling (Back) In Love With Jazz Dance

  19-07-2020 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A new streaming documentary does a lot more than set jazz dance into context – it asks the ballet and dance communities to restructure what they consider “foundational.”– Dance Magazine
  
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• The Covid-19 Proms Start With A Remote Beethoven Mashup

  19-07-2020 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For the new Beethoven piece, 323 musicians and choir members will perform remotely – and during Proms, most performances will be from years past (though there’s a faint hope some final performances might be live). Proms organizer David Pickard: “This year it is not going to be the Proms as we know them, but the Proms as we need them.” – BBC
  
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• Who’s Making Money Off Of Cheap Language Instruction?

  19-07-2020 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s not the language teachers, especially the English-language teachers from places like the Philippines, who are getting paid poverty wages. And what of apps? Uh … “Language ‘learners’ on Duolingo are actually just performing the free labor—or even paying for the privilege—of helping the company improve its proprietary algorithms.” – Boston Review
  
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• Online Art Classes this Summer / Adult Learning - Norfolk County Council / East / Norfolk

  19-07-2020 15:50
  A selection of online art classed for adults are happening this summer as part of Norfolk Adult Learning summer school programme. Suitable for beginners and improvers, details and bookings through...
  
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• Playwright Paula Vogel’s Advice Right Now: Follow Your Joy

  19-07-2020 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Vogel isn’t saying this lightly. She started a play reading series in the middle of a pandemic. “The reason that I started Bard at the Gate is because I have asthma and diabetes. I was actually in rehearsal in New York, and all of us got tremendously sick and we thought, Oh, no. And I came back home to Wellfleet. And then I thought, ‘Well, it’s possible that the virus has my number.’ … [But] I don’t want to die before I see the play that I quit my job
  
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• Experienced Design Assistant / Freelance / Scotland

  19-07-2020 15:07
  Experienced design assistant needed for a new professional digital theatre project. Successful individual will work on sourcing items, making props, assisting with designer in realising vision. Ideal...
  
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• Vanta-Fish — Turns Out Nature Made An Ultra-Black Pigment Before The Nanotech Guys Did

  19-07-2020 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Eat your heart out, Anish Kapoor. At least sixteen species of deep-sea creatures “have evolved a different and devilishly clever way of going ultra-black with incredible efficiency: One species the researchers found absorbs 99.956 percent of the light that hits it, making it nearly as black as … Vantablack, the famous human-made material that absorbs almost all the light you shine at it.” – Wired
  
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• In Hollywood, Some LGB Representation Is Up, But What Happened To Trans Rep?

  19-07-2020 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Truly embarrassing themselves again, major studios released 118 films in 2019 and, well, they all got low grades from GLAAD. “Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures, United Artists Releasing and Universal Pictures were marked as ‘insufficient’ by GLAAD, while Sony Pictures Entertainment and Walt Disney Studios received ‘poor’ grades and STX Films was slapped with a ‘failing’ grade as it had no LGBTQ representation in its 2019 film slate.” But they all fail
  
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• Gabriella Tucci, Italian Soprano Who Sang 20 Roles At The Met, 90

  19-07-2020 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tucci began her career in Italy in the 1950s and went on to international acclaim, including in the 1960s at the Metropolitan Opera. “An unaffected and subtly compelling actress, she was best known for her interpretations of the spinto repertory, like her rendition of the title role of Verdi’s Aida, which demanded both lyric soprano lightness and the vocal heft to lift soaring phrases over an orchestra.” – The New York Times
  
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• LGBTQIA Writing/Creative Network - Have Your Say! / Writing Proud / All of UK

  19-07-2020 13:45
  Help us help you and have your say on what you want (or don't want) from an LGBTQIA Writing & Creatives Network.
  Writing Proud is an LGBTQ Writing Network based in the UK. We saw a need for more...
  
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• This Exhibition Invited Visitors To Steal The Art. How Long Did It Take For The Place To Be Stripped Bare?

  19-07-2020 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Roughly nine minutes. In famously low-crime Japan, no less. Organizer Tota Hasegawa, owner of the Same Gallery in Tokyo, had expected the “Stealable Art Exhibition” to run for ten days, but so many aspiring thieves showed up for the midnight start time last weekend that he had to open the doors half an hour early. (The cooperative Japanese crowd did obey the requests to take only one artwork per person and to steal quietly.) – Yahoo! (AFP)
  
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• Fire Breaks Out In France’s Nantes Cathedral, Destroying Famed 17th Century Organ

  19-07-2020 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Inspectors suspect arson for the fire that “broke the main stained glass windows between the two towers of the 15th-century cathedral, and destroyed the organ.” – Yahoo News (AP)
  
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• Sculptor unveils ‘black everywoman’ as UK row over statues and race grows

  19-07-2020 10:00
  
  Thomas J Price, who is also working on a Windrush memorial, says Bristol figure of a protester was a stuntWhat kind of statue can represent black British women today? It is a question the sculptor Thomas J Price believes he has answered.After the controversial appearance of the statue of a Black Lives Matter protester on the plinth formerly occupied by an effigy of Edward Colston in Bristol last Wednesday, Price has unveiled a new work destined for east London. Continue reading...
  
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