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• Board members / BrumYODO / West Midlands / Birmingham

  31-07-2020 21:06
  BrumYODO (You Only Die Once) is a community interest company set up with the aim of supporting and empowering our communities to have more open and honest conversations about death and dying. Based...
  
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• Recreating The Sound Of Hagia Sophia

  31-07-2020 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For a group of scholars, scientists and musicians, Hagia Sophia’s rededication as a Muslim place of worship threatens to cloak a less tangible treasure: its sound. Bissera Pentcheva, an art historian at Stanford University and an expert in the burgeoning field of acoustic archaeology, has spent the past decade studying the building’s extravagantly reverberant acoustics to reconstruct the sonic world of Byzantine cathedral music. – The New York Times
  
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• How Books Became Cheap: An Illustrated Timeline Of Publishing Technology

  31-07-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  From woodblock printing (3rd century) to movable type (11th century — sorry, Gutenberg) to stereotyping (in the original sense; ca. 1700) to paperbacks (ca. 1845) to hot-metal typesetting (ca. 1884). – Lapham’s Quarterly
  
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• Creative Facilitator - Blackhorse Responders / Blackhorse Workshop / London

  31-07-2020 19:41
  CREATIVE FACILITATOR - BLACKHORSE RESPONDERS
  Part Time, Fixed Term Contract 
  Wednesdays 2pm - 7.30pm, approx. 1 Saturday a month 
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• Commercial Director / Compton Verney House Trust / West Midlands

  31-07-2020 19:36
  We are looking for a Commercial Director with both an interest in and passion for culture, arts, natural environment and history, as well as bringing to bear expertise and knowledge to support the...
  
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• The Radio Audience Has Changed In The Pandemic. But Radio doesn’t Seem To Have Changed

  31-07-2020 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When I pop around and listen to public radio streams from around the country, they almost universally sound like they did before the pandemic started. Same with the programs themselves. Things have changed topically, but not formatically. The audience dynamics have completely changed, so why hasn’t the stations’ sound? – Current
  
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• Not 20 Years After World War II, Modern Design Reintroduced Tokyo To The World

  31-07-2020 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jason Farago: “Tokyo 2020, its name unchanged, will now take place in July 2021 if it takes place at all. Yet all around the Japanese capital is the legacy of another Olympics: the 1964 Summer Games, which crowned Tokyo’s 20-year transformation from a firebombed ruin to an ultramodern megalopolis.” – The New York Times
  
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• TikTok Will Give Billions To Creators

  31-07-2020 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The video-sharing social media app said in a blog post Wednesday that it will give creators in the U.S. over $1 billion in the next three years, and more than double that globally. – CNBC
  
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• Programme Evaluators: Heritage Fund Business Support Programme / Cause4 / London

  31-07-2020 18:28
  Cause4 is the lead delivery organisation for the National Lottery Heritage Fund’s Business Support programme, along with consortium partners Creative United and the Arts Marketing Association....
  
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• Head of Programme: Heritage Fund Business Support Programme / Cause4 / London / Any

  31-07-2020 18:19
  The new Head of Programme will work closely with Cause4’s Director of Strategy and Programmes, to deliver the aims and objectives of the Heritage Fund programme. This is a new post within the...
  
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• America Needs A Truth And Reconciliation Commission — And It Should Be Televised

  31-07-2020 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Wesley Morris: “What would an American version be? Court, theater, a hearing, a telethon, therapy, TV, church, Ken Burns, Anna Deavere Smith? Each perhaps — and more. Who would make it? I don’t know…. The production, however, is merely the second hurdle to clear. The first would be convincing executives that it’s worth doing in the first place. Here’s what to say about that: The entertainment industry itself has more than a century of harm to atone for and a
  
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• Defending Kitsch

  31-07-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kitsch is a conflicted term—hard to strictly define, but as with Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s joke about pornography, one knows it when one sees it. For the purchasers of kitsch in nineteenth-century Munich, reproductions of elaborate and intricate decoration were a means of class ascension. But they also signaled a type of bourgeoisie cluelessness concerning taste, discretion, and style. – JSTOR
  
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• Visual Arts Sub Committee Members / Creative Folkestone / South East / Folkestone

  31-07-2020 17:24
  Creative Folkestone, the major arts organisation dedicated to transforming the creative life of the town and district, is seeking new members for the Visual Arts Sub-Committee of the charity’s...
  
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• What’s The Most Popular Book In Russian Prisons? Not ‘Crime And ‘Punishment’

  31-07-2020 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  No, Dostoevsky’s novel is only the second-most popular title among inmates there; Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita is in the top spot, with Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo at number three. The data was released by Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service as part of a nationwide government program to encourage reading called “Books Are Your Friends.” – The Moscow Times
  
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• Salzburg Festival Will Happen This Year, And Here’s How They’ll Do It

  31-07-2020 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A sprawling, 44-day anniversary program has been mostly postponed until next year. It has been replaced with a reduced, 30-day schedule, through Aug. 30, of concerts, plays and two (instead of seven) staged operas.” Artistic director Markus Hinterhäuser says “we have measures for cultural institutions — which are 200 percent necessary — that respect the health of the people working and the audience.” And those measures, it turns out, were designed partl
  
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• How Earlier Black Classical Musicians Faced (And Faced Down) American Racism

  31-07-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Shirley Verrett: “Maestro Stokowski called. He was embarrassed, but said that it would not be possible for me to sing with the Houston Symphony because the symphony board did not want to use a Negro singer.” (Stokie made it up to her later in Philadelphia.) And then there was the time Jessye Norman was invited to play a maid in a sitcom … – WQXR (New York City)
  
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• Black Classical Musicians Share Stories Of The Crap They’ve Had To Put Up With

  31-07-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “During my senior year of undergrad, my voice teacher complimented me on my final Mainstage role by saying: ‘You did great! And you don’t even look African-American on stage!'”
  “[The language coach] said, ‘Silly me … no ‘decent’ French ever comes from such big lips anyways … Maybe patois, but not Français.'” – WQXR (New York City)
  
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• Ai Weiwei terrifies us and Audrey Hepburn takes a dip – the week in art

  31-07-2020 15:47
  
  The artist and activist tackles weapons of mass destruction and Terry O’Neill’s most celebrated photographs of A-listers are on display – all in your weekly dispatchAi Weiwei: History of Bombs
  A seductive and terrifying array of fetishised weapons of mass destruction is mapped across the main hall of the Imperial War Museum in this powerful intervention that – like the museum itself – provokes uneasy thoughts about war, history and the modern world.
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• John Homans, Longtime Editor At New York Magazine And Vanity Fair, Dead At 62

  31-07-2020 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Because he was not a celebrity editor, he was not particularly well known outside the publishing universe. But let us assure you, because we saw it firsthand: There was nobody quite like him. A disproportionate number of the best things you ever read in New York came through his hands. .. We’ve invited his colleagues at New York, past and present, to talk about him. Here’s John in their words.” (And here’s a similar piece from his colleagues at Vanity Fair.) &ndas
  
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• Free online interactive workshops for 13-25 yr olds / Your place in the world now? / North West

  31-07-2020 15:27
  As the current local lockdowns restrict our lives even further, we want to hear from young people aged 13-25 from Lancaster, Morecambe and surrounding areas, about their experiences during this time...
  
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• Project Assistant (Dance On) / Yorkshire Dance / Yorkshire

  31-07-2020 15:12
  Purpose of the job:
  To provide project and administration support to assist the successful delivery of the Sport England-funded One Dance UK / Yorkshire Dance / darts (Doncaster Community Arts) /...
  
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• Bursaries: Emerging Curators Group, Sub-Groups, Two-Day Seminars / British Art Network (Tate / Paul Mellon Centre) / UK-wide and beyond

  31-07-2020 15:12
  Applications are open for three British Art Network bursary opportunities covering activity from October 2020 to June 2021 (deadline 14 September 2020).
  The British Art Network brings...
  
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• Washington Ballet Loses Another Executive Director

  31-07-2020 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a statement that also announced the cancellation of all remaining 2020 performances (including The Nutcracker), the company revealed that Michael Pastreich is departing after 14 months. He’s the third executive director to resign since Julie Kent succeeded Septime Webre as artistic director in 2016. But a pattern of Washington Ballet CEOs quickly coming and going was established quite some time ago, writes Sarah Kaufman. – The Washington Post
  
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• Youth & Community Manager / Kiln Theatre / London / London

  31-07-2020 14:55
  Kiln Theatre is looking to recruit a dynamic Youth & Community Manager to develop and deliver its youth and community work as part of the wider Creative Engagement programme. During lockdown,...
  
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• First Indoor Play Approved By Actors’ Equity Won’t Be Indoors After All

  31-07-2020 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Barrington Stage Company in the Berkshires was all set to go with a production of playwright David Cale’s one-man play Harry Clarke — the union had given the go-ahead, and the theater had had seats removed and the bathrooms and air conditioning system redesigned to meet COVID safety guidelines. But the state of Massachusetts has refused to waive its ongoing ban on indoor performance. The show will go on, however — in a tent. – The New York Times
  
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• Writer Commission (The Child's View Project) / Changing Relations C.I.C / North East

  31-07-2020 14:21
  Arts education company, Changing Relations, are seeking to commission a writer committed to socially engaged / participatory practice to work collaboratively with an existing group of young people -...
  
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• Voice Actors / 4-Kingdoms / South East / Newbury

  31-07-2020 14:11
  4-Kingdoms Magical Christmas Adventure is looking for principle performers to join this years’ show. 4-Kingdoms award winning Magical Christmas Adventure is the UK’s number 1 largest...
  
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• Freelance Evaluator / Extant / London

  31-07-2020 14:11
  Pathways is Extant's tailor-made professional development training programme for visually impaired theatre practitioners. Extant nurtures and develops this talent, in order for visually impaired...
  
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• As COVID Cases Continue To Rise, South Carolina Reopens Performance Spaces And Cinemas

  31-07-2020 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Venues newly allowed to reopen to customers include movie theaters, auditoriums, stadiums and performing arts centers. Those represent the last of the business restrictions not rolled back two months ago. However, they must keep capacity at 50 percent or 250 people, whichever is less.” – The Post and Courier (Charleston)
  
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• Magician / 4-Kingdoms / South East / Newbury

  31-07-2020 13:53
  4-Kingdoms Magical Christmas Adventure is looking for principle performers to join this years’ show. 4-Kingdoms award winning Magical Christmas Adventure is the UK’s number 1 largest...
  
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• Ice Princess / 4-Kingdoms / South East / Newbury

  31-07-2020 13:40
  4-Kingdoms Presents A Magical Christmas Adventure is looking for principle performers to join this years’ show. 4-Kingdoms award winning Magical Christmas Adventure is the UK’s number 1...
  
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• Choreographer for Site-specific University production / University of Chichester Conservatoire / South East

  31-07-2020 13:37
  We are looking for a choreographer who will work with us to support third year Musical Theatre students to devise, create and perform a full-scale site-specific production in April 2021.
  You will...
  
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• Administrative Coordinator / MeWe360 / London

  31-07-2020 13:25
  Administrative Coordinator
   
  Summary
  MeWe360 is a black-led non-profit organisation that champions black, Asian and minority ethnic entrepreneurs in the arts and creative industries. ...
  
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• Santa Claus / 4-Kingdoms / South East

  31-07-2020 13:18
  4-Kingdoms Presents their award winning Magical Christmas Adventure, which is the UK’s number 1 largest indoor immersive Christmas attraction that lasts approx 2.5 hours per tour. We are...
  
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• 6-15 Aug festival goes ahead / JAM on the Marsh: VIRTUAL / London / Online, East, North East, North West, South West, North West, Yorkshire, London, East Midlands, West Midlands, South East

  31-07-2020 13:17
  From 6-15 August, JAM on the Marsh will present 9 new concerts and 3 sensational exhibitions. All events will be presented virtually and for free, with no audience, on JAM’s website...
  
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• Lead Facilitators Theatre31 / Icon Theatre / South East

  31-07-2020 13:12
  Icon Theatre is searching for two talented individuals, passionate about working with hard to reach and disadvantaged young people in theatre, to join our team as Lead Facilitators (Medway/...
  
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• Visual Artist / National Football Museum / North West / Manchester

  31-07-2020 13:07
  We are looking for an artist to play a key role in our 2021 exhibition about Lily Parr. We would like to commission an artist or artists to deliver some of the creative elements of the project and...
  
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• Freelance Consultant / Exeter Canal and Quay Trust Ltd. / South West

  31-07-2020 13:01
  The Exeter Canal and Quay Trust (ECQT) seeks to appoint a freelance consultant to support its Board.
  Established as an independent charity in 1981, ECQT is working on a Vision for 2021-26 including...
  
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• Skill Sharing Session #3 Running a Creative Business Karen Poley / Brighton Artists Network / South East / Online Events

  31-07-2020 12:16
  Brighton Artists Network Skill Sharing Session #3 Running a Creative Business with Karen Poley Wednesday 2nd of September
  6.00 - 7.00 pm £5
   
  This Skill Sharing Session led by BAN...
  
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• Skill Sharing Session #2 Social Media Management, Kate Shields / Brighton Artists Network / South East / Online Events

  31-07-2020 12:11
  Brighton Artists Network Skill Sharing Session #2Social Media Management with Kate ShieldsWednesday 12th of August
  6.30 - 7.30 pm£5Without real-life opportunities to present one's work,...
  
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• Brainstorming Session #3 / Brighton Artists Network / South East / Online Events

  31-07-2020 12:09
  Brighton Artists Network Brainstorming Session #3How can we, as artists, support the recovery of our City?Friday 7th of August12 - 1 pmFREEOur Brainstorming Sessions are an opportunity for...
  
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• Skill Sharing Session #1 Working Digitally with Sarah Ticho / Brighton Artists Network / South East / Online Events

  31-07-2020 12:07
  Brighton Artists Network Skill Sharing Session #1Working Digitally with Sarah TichoWednesday 5th of August6 - 7 pm£5
   
  With galleries, theatres and music venues closed, most artistic...
  
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• Multilingual Creative Babysitter / ToddlerTunez / London / London

  31-07-2020 11:01
  ToddlerTunez is looking for multilingual creative babysitters, especially speaking Polish and Turkish who are based in London and willing to work with families in South East London (Greenwich area)....
  
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• Which painter are these acrobats paying homage to? The great British art quiz

  31-07-2020 09:00
  
  Brighton Museums set today’s quiz, which enables you to explore the art collection of British museums closed due to Covid-19 This 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 Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove. The Brighton Museums collection ranges f
  
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• Out to play: the best things to do around the UK this week

  31-07-2020 07:30
  
  From pop-up dining boxes in Salford to being cast away in Cornwall, here’s our weekly pick of attractions and eventsLast week’s selection – all still going onSupport local artists while dining waterside by the Quays in Salford, at Box on the Docks, which launches today. Private dining pods seating two to six people have each been curated by a different local artist or collective, with light and sound installations, murals and more. Designs range from graffitied greenhouses to a
  
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• Internet Archive Responds To Publishers’ Copyright Lawsuit Over Lending

  31-07-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Controlled Digital Lending’s essential position is that it’s fine for a nonprofit like the archive or a library to scan a print copy of a book it owns, then lend that digital scan out on a one-copy-per-one-user basis. The print copy is to be unavailable while the digital copy is loaned, meaning that only one copy is out at a time in any format, and an author or publisher has the right to opt out of this by asking. Many rights holders have, indeed, asked to opt out because, as they s
  
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