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• Light Nights Festival Producer / Medway Council / South East

  22-07-2020 23:26
  Light Nights will be a spectacular festival of light. Over two nights Rochester Castle and the surrounding spaces will be transformed by works of light created by professional creatives and community...
  
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• Flexible Work Should Be Liberating. So Why Isn’t It?

  22-07-2020 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The abrupt restructuring of daily working life for tens of millions due to the COVID-19 pandemic has also dramatised just how different ‘flexible’ work is in different contexts: liberating for some, imprisoning for others. – Aeon
  
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• Virtual Theatre Is Changing The Notion Of Theatre

  22-07-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Given social-distancing protocols that prohibit physical gatherings, theatre makers have responded creatively to the COVID-19 pandemic by turning to online, digital and lo-fi or “non-embodied” modes of performance that use radio and phone. This change in how to perform theatre has required a reconsideration of longstanding ideas of what it means to be a theatre audience member: How has access to theatre changed? What etiquette is expected? How have ideas of privacy and intimacy shif
  
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• Company Co-Ordinator / Belfast Photo Festival / Belfast

  22-07-2020 21:53
  Belfast Photo Festival is a charity with big ambitions, holding a year-round programme, including a major two-day creative industries conference focusing on creativity and technology (CAPCON), in...
  
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• Aristotle Defended Slavery and thought Women Were Inferior. Cancel Him?

  22-07-2020 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If cancellation is removal from a position of prominence on the basis of an ideological crime, it might appear that there is a case to be made for canceling Aristotle. He has much prominence: Thousands of years after his death, his ethical works continue to be taught as part of the basic philosophy curriculum offered in colleges and universities around the world. – The New York Times
  
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• Gunman Frees Hostages After Ukraine’s President Endorses ‘Earthlings’

  22-07-2020 20:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A 44-year-old “animal rights activist” named Maksim Krivosh, who recently finished a prison term for fraud and weapons charges, ended a 12-hour standoff and released 13 hostages in the city of Lutsk after President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly endorsed a documentary about industry’s use and abuse of animals titled Earthlings and narrated by Joaquin Phoenix. – BBC
  
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• Programmes Producer / Together Productions / London

  22-07-2020 20:40
  Programmes Producer3 days per week, starting September 2020. Work from home. Together Productions is growing and looking for a Programmes Producer to join our small but dynamic team.  The...
  
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• Hollywood Releases Its Movies In US First. Rest Of The World Is Waiting As Its Theatres Reopen

  22-07-2020 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Reasons for synchronising release dates globally, such as minimising piracy and coordinating marketing, hardly seem like priorities given present circumstances. The US is still the largest single cinema market, but in 2018 it made up just 27% of the global box office. The longer the “America-first” principle remains, the worse things get for everyone: cinemas and related businesses, Hollywood itself and moviegoers – whose expectations for Tenet are now so sky-high, the movie w
  
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• Christopher Dickey, Journalist And Memoirist, Dead At 68

  22-07-2020 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A foreign correspondent who wrote books about terrorism and international intrigue” — he worked at The Washington Post and Newsweek for many years and at his death was world news editor of The Daily Beast — “but who was perhaps best known for a revealing memoir about his tortured relationship with his father, the renowned poet and novelist James Dickey.” – The Washington Post
  
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• Sales of Books In UK Hit Record In 2019. This Year? Not So Much

  22-07-2020 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The growth in nonfiction stands in contrast to fiction. Despite the publication of highly anticipated novels such as Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments, sales fell to £582m in 2019, down 5.6% when compared with 2015. – The Guardian
  
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• Jeff Divine’s best photograph: a wipeout on surfing's greatest wave

  22-07-2020 19:11
  
  ‘Other surfers at Oahu kept away from Fred. His eyesight was so bad, they were scared he’d wipe them out too’This wave is known as the Pipeline. It breaks near the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii’s third largest island. It’s one of the pinnacles of surf culture. In the 1970s, when this shot was taken, it was probably the most radical wave in the world. We knew of nothing else like it.To catch a wave like this, you need to amass a wealth of knowledge from years on the oc
  
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• How Yayoi Kusama Became A Global Industry

  22-07-2020 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Kusama’s enormous popularity stems not just from the transformative experience of her photogenic art or its digital reach, but from her compelling personal narrative as well [as her] cultural brand as Pop Art’s eccentric auntie. … But it is also the result of a supporting structure that brings together [psychiatric] hospital, studio, fabricators, and galleries to surround her like an exoskeleton.” – ARTnews
  
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• John Williams at 88

  22-07-2020 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Williams is a courtly, soft-voiced, inveterately self-effacing man of eighty-eight. He is well aware of the extraordinary worldwide impact of his “Star Wars” music—not to mention his scores for “Jaws,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “E.T.,” the “Indiana Jones” movies, the “Harry Potter” movies, the “Jurassic Park” movies, and dozens of other blockbusters—but he makes no extravagant clai
  
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• In Steps of Sundew Exhibition / Fermynwoods Contemporary Art / East Midlands / Northamptonshire

  22-07-2020 18:21
  Ikran AbdilleTom BaskeyfieldSarah GillettEllie HarrisonLiz LakeOnya McCausland
  The ArchesFineshade WoodNr CorbyNorthantsNN17 3BB
  10am – 4pm
  Saturday 25 July, Sunday 26 JulySaturday 1 August,...
  
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• Famed Hopi-Tewa Hoop Dancer Nakotah LaRance, 30, Dies In Fall

  22-07-2020 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He began training his training at age 4 and went on to win the World Championship of Hoop Dance three times in each of three age divisions and tour with Cirque du Soleil for three years. – The New York Times
  
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• Opinions and First Person Essay Editor / gal-dem / London / Remote

  22-07-2020 17:57
  gal-dem is an award-winning media company committed to sharing the perspectives of women and non-binary people of colour. We have proven that our journalism and creative work can shape debates, shift...
  
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• Web Site Management/Development and Social Media / Pax Romana Auctions / London

  22-07-2020 17:52
  Pax Romana Gallery and Auctions, 25 Bury Place, WC1A 2JH
  https://paxromana.auction/
  We are an established Antiquities and Numismatics Auction House and Gallery looking for an enthusiastic person to...
  
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• Bookkeeper / Illuminations TV / London

  22-07-2020 17:52
  We are a small independent media production company in Highbury - Illuminations Television Ltd -  and we are looking for a bookkeeper approximately 15 hours per week to start sometime in August...
  
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• Needed: A New Deal For The Arts

  22-07-2020 17:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This debilitating, isolating historical moment should make us rethink our attitudes, priorities and national policies with regard to our criminal justice system, health and education infrastructure and physical environment. Similarly, the American arts sphere shouldn’t merely hope to restore the “old normal” when it could instead be re-envisioned and rejuvenated. – Crosscut
  
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• Online Alchemy of Archetypes course - voice, body, imagination / Peta Lily Company / London / North East

  22-07-2020 17:15
  Bring the mythic inside you to life!
  The Alchemy of Archetypes ONLINE COURSE 20-23 August 2020for actors, clowns, theatre makers and the curious
  (Open to beginners as well as those with some...
  
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• Now Here’s A Black Female Composer Worth Rediscovering: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Wife

  22-07-2020 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Shirley Graham Du Bois notched up plenty of achievements in her own right beyond the activism she shared with her husband: she was a novelist, playwright, biographer (of Paul Robeson, Booker T. Washington, and Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser), and radical who (in)famously joined the American Communist Party. But when she studied at the Sorbonne, her subject was music. The premiere run of her 1932 opera Tom-Tom was an enormous spectacle that drew audiences of 25,000 (the planned transfer t
  
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• BalletX Is Turning Its Next Season Into A Film Festival

  22-07-2020 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The plan just announced by artistic director Christine Cox is for “a new series launching Sept. 10 celebrating the company’s 15th anniversary with world premieres by 15 choreographers. She sees the season in terms of a subscription-based film festival with nine shorts and six features. The shorts will be dance films presented on a new virtual platform hosted on the company’s website called BalletX Beyond. The features are intended to be performed live in the spring or summer,
  
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• Cord-Cutting Really Is Starting To Strangle Cable TV. So What Are The Cable Networks Doing?

  22-07-2020 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The decline of cable isn’t a new story, but what has started to take hold is a change in narrative inside the industry. Rather than try to prop up what they all know to be a decaying linear business, cable executives are instead focusing on their still-healthy intellectual properties and the brands behind them. Some of those cable brands are even aiming to carve out a space in the streaming world.” – Variety
  
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• There Are Four Kinds Of Streaming Video Viewers, Says Hulu Report

  22-07-2020 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A new study, titled “Unpacking the Streaming Experience” and released by Hulu to launch its “Generation Stream” audience research platform, found that consumers watch in four different ways, which Hulu calls therapeutic streaming, classic streaming, indulgent streaming, and curated streaming. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Urgent Volunteer Readers for adult short stories / HappyLondonPress / UK

  22-07-2020 15:14
  Hello All
  Do you enjoy reading?
  We need 4 volunteers who would like to become a Pre-Judge reader for our short story competition - Hi2020.
  You can work Anywhere or Anytime you like - as this is...
  
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• New COVID Emergency Fund For Nonprofit Presses And Literary Organizations

  22-07-2020 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Created jointly by the National Book Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, and the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses with $3.5 million from the Mellon Foundation, the Literary Arts Emergency Fund will make one-time grants of $5,000 to $50,000. – Yahoo! (AP)
  
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• Black Theatermakers In Europe Talk About The Change They’re Working Toward

  22-07-2020 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Excerpts from a recent Zoom conversation among three artistic directors — Kwame Kwei-Armah of London’s Young Vic, Julia Wissert of Schauspiel Dortmund in the Ruhr Valley, and Eva Doumbia of Compagnie La Part du Pauvre near Rouen — about their challenges as well as “white universality, decolonizing theater institutions and their issues with the word ‘diversity.'” – The New York Times
  
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• Arts Center In Sydney Is Saved From Liquidation — But At The Expense Of Some Artists

  22-07-2020 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Carriageworks has a clear path towards recovery after creditors voted unopposed on Tuesday for a proposal to rescue the arts company with the support of philanthropists and the New South Wales government, but not everyone is happy with the deal.” The problem: many of those creditors are small arts organizations and individual artists, who may get only about a third of the fees owed them. – The Guardian
  
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• Studio available October 2020 / Art in Perpetuity Trust (APT) / London

  22-07-2020 12:40
  Art in Perpetuity Trust was founded in 1995 by a group of artists in an old warehouse on Deptford Creek. Its mission is to support creative thought and artistic vision both in the studio and in the...
  
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• Public Engagement Manager (Exhibitions) / The Francis Crick Institute / London

  22-07-2020 11:23
  One of the Francis Crick institute’s strategic priorities is to engage and inspire the public through public events and exhibitions, education outreach, and community engagement programmes,...
  
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• Who inspired this crowning achievement? The great British art quiz

  22-07-2020 09:00
  
  The Arts Council Collection set today’s quiz, which enables explores the collection of British museums closed due to Covid-19 – while answering some fiendish questionsThis 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 come from the Arts Council Collection. Founded in 1946
  
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• Summer Film School - with a twist / Heifer Productions / Yorkshire / Nation-wide

  22-07-2020 00:32
  Are you aged 12 – 15 and looking for a creative outlet this summer? Join Heifer Productions to make a film using your own device at home! 
   
  Weekly online sessions to make a movie...
  
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• Tooting Market competition for local artists! / Tooting Market / London

  22-07-2020 00:10
  Tooting Market competition for local artists! In association with Love Art, Tooting Market is inviting local artists to submit a piece of art which reflects Tooting Community in 2020. It can be...
  
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• Two National Ballet Of Canada Dancers Retire With 114 Years Service Between Them

  22-07-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Laszlo Surmeyan danced lead male roles before becoming, in 1986, one of the company’s first principal character artists. This season has marked his farewell to the company after a remarkable 54 years, a record almost as remarkable as that of his wife, Lorna Geddes, who is also leaving this season, after 60 years. – Toronto Star
  
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