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• Stripped-Down Salzburg Festival Opens

  05-08-2020 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While the 2020 Salzburg Festival may not have such a global audience, it has commanded the world’s attention by forging ahead against all odds. New regulations notwithstanding — including compulsory masks, half-full theaters and no intermissions — it often felt like business as usual: a bustling festival for a wealthy and elegant audience amid the grandeur of the Alpine landscape. – The New York Times
  
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• Can Neil Young Really Win A Lawsuit Against Trump Playing His Music At Rallies?

  05-08-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If he has withdrawn those two particular songs from BMI’s political license program, then the Trump administration does not have a license to play them at a political rally and they have a good case that they will more likely win.” – Rolling Stone
  
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• Virtuosity Doesn’t Mean Playing Lots Of Notes

  05-08-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  You don’t think minimalists can be virtuosos? Tell it to Ernest Hemingway. Tell it to Thelonious Monk. Tell it to the Japanese calligrapher who spends his entire life perfecting a straight line, or drawing a flawless circle. – https://psyche.co/ideas/true-musical-virtuosos-are-minimalists-who-put-roll-before-rockPsyche
  
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• Tracing The Ancient Art Of Bullshit

  05-08-2020 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If we want to trace bullshit back to its origins, we have to look a lot further back than any human civilization. Bullshit has its origins in deception more broadly, and animals have been deceiving one another for hundreds of millions of years. – Lithub
  
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• Freelancer Sound Designer for a Radio Play / S.P.I.D. Theatre Company / London

  05-08-2020 21:03
  SPID Theatre is looking for artists of colour to join our team during the Estate Endz Black History Project.
  Estate Endz is a Heritage project for young people from 13 to 25 years old. In the second...
  
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• Seattle Children’s Museum In Turmoil Over Black Lives Matter Post

  05-08-2020 20:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Staff posted to social media but the museum’s director later deleted “Black Lives Matter” from the posts. Some museum staff went on strike, and then were laid off.– The New York Times
  
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• Producer, Asia / Punchdrunk / London / Shanghai

  05-08-2020 20:40
  Punchdrunk are looking for a talented and experienced Producer, with a minimum of five years relevant experience, to lead on its projects in Asia, including its phenomenally successful production of...
  
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• Disney Posts A Near $5 Billion Loss In Q2

  05-08-2020 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Burbank entertainment giant posted a net loss of $4.72 billion for the three months that ended in June, Disney said Tuesday. That’s compared with the $1.43 billion in net income the company reported for the same period in 2019. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• J.S. Bach: The Six Solo Cello Suites Performed by Wendy Sutter

  05-08-2020 20:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sunday, August 23 Perspectives Ensemble presents a two-part event: J.S. Bach: The Six Solo Cello Suites Performed by Wendy Sutter Part I: 3pm EDT (Suites 1-3) and Part II: 6pm EDT (Suites 4-6) Livestreamed from Judson Memorial Church, New York City. Free admission, Eventbrite registration required.Perspectives Ensemble presents The Six Bach Solo Cello Suites performed by Wendy Sutter, cellist, on Sunday, August 23, 2020. Suites 1-3 will be performed at 3pm EDT and Suites 4-6 will be performed a
  
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• The World’s New Favorite Refugee Writer Tries To Get Comfortable With Freedom And Fame

  05-08-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Far from his native Kurdish village, escaped from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, now released from the Australian internment camp in Papua New Guinea where he wrote his award-winning No Friend but the Mountains on a cell phone, Behrouz Boochani has received asylum in New Zealand and is settled in safe, pretty, tranquil Christchurch, where most Kiwis seem thrilled to have him. It’s driving him a little nuts. – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• Report: Hollywood Has A Problem With Chinese Censorship

  05-08-2020 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Beijing has sent a clear message to the filmmaking world, that filmmakers who criticize China will be punished, but that those who play ball with its censorship strictures will be rewarded,” proclaims the hard hitting “Made in Hollywood, Censored by Beijing” report. – Deadline
  
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• Audience Development and Communications Officer / Serpentine Galleries / London / London

  05-08-2020 19:12
  As Audience Development and Communications Officer, you will develop and implement targeted audience engagement and marketing plans for all Serpentine Programmes. You will use your analytical skills...
  
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• Washington Post’s Theater Critic Ends Up With A Hairdressing Degree (What Twitter Hath Wrought, Part MMMDCLXII)

  05-08-2020 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Peter Marks: “Some people warn that you enter the bilious environs of social media at your peril. But I say, power up your device and be Zen about whatever transpires. Because you just might innocently scroll down one morning and end up with an honorary doctorate in hairdressing from a large chain of salons in Ireland.” – The Washington Post
  
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• Call Out: Castlefield Gallery Associates Members Exhibition / Castlefield Gallery / North West / All regions

  05-08-2020 18:31
  Deadline for proposals: 12 noon, Wednesday 26 August 2020 Exhibition dates 12 February-7 March 2021The Castlefield Gallery Associates Members Exhibition supports members of Castlefield Gallery...
  
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• Call For More Transparency In Choosing Public Art

  05-08-2020 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There is a cultural revolution happening in the United States, and people are realizing that they have the power to be more engaged with how public art is decided,” explained Patricia Walsh, who helps run the Public Art Network, a membership group of more than a thousand public art professionals organized by the nonprofit Americans for the Arts. “Best practices need to be reinvented to become more equitable and diverse.” – ARTnews
  
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• Revolution on trial: looking back at New Haven's Black Panthers at 50

  05-08-2020 18:28
  
  The 50th anniversary of the polarising New Haven Nine trial has led to a group exhibition exploring racial injusticeIn 1970, a polarising trial in New Haven captured the attention of the nation, including Yale president Kingman Brewster who said at the time: “I am appalled and ashamed that things should have come to such a pass in this country that I am skeptical of the ability of black revolutionaries to achieve a fair trial anywhere in the United States.”The New Haven Nine, as they
  
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• Curriculum Music Teacher (Leeds) / YMES / Yorkshire

  05-08-2020 18:08
  Curriculum Music Teacher, Leeds, £30-32 per hourRequired from September
   
  The Role
  YMES is seeking to appoint a curriculum music teacher to join its team, to devise and deliver...
  
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• Everyone’s A Copy Editor In This New Card Game For Word Nerds

  05-08-2020 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The game involves some role playing. If you use only the Grammar cards, the dealer is called the Copy Chief, as in ‘The Copy Chief shuffles the fifty Grammar cards.’ If you mix in the Style cards, the dealer is the Author, the players are Copy Editors … and the deck is huge.” New Yorker Comma Queen Mary Norris writes about Stet!, a spinoff from Random House copy chief Benjamin Dreyer’s 2019 book Dreyer’s English. – The New Yorker
  
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• Producer - Artist Projects / Artsadmin / London

  05-08-2020 17:51
  Artsadmin seeks a Producer to join our team at an exciting moment of strategic change at the organisation.
  You will be an enthusiastic team-player who is passionate about producing a variety of...
  
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• Head of Finance / Artsadmin / London

  05-08-2020 17:48
  Artsadmin is looking for a new Head of Finance to join our small finance team.
  If you thrive on variety and would like work for a leading performing arts charity that specialises in producing new...
  
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• Pete Hamill, The Ultimate New York Newspaperman, Dead At 85

  05-08-2020 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[He] became a celebrated reporter, columnist and the top editor of The New York Post and The Daily News; a foreign correspondent for The Post and The Saturday Evening Post; and a writer for New York Newsday, The Village Voice, Esquire and other publications. He wrote a score of books, mostly novels but also biographies, collections of short stories and essays, and screenplays, some adapted from his books.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Forgotten Black Musician Who Helped Create Bossa Nova

  05-08-2020 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  João Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim were just two of many Brazilian musicians who considered pianist-singer-composer Johnny Alf a genius and his “Rapaz de Bem” the first bossa nova song. So why isn’t he as famous as they are? Racism was certainly a factor, but not the only one. – The New York Times
  
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• Sculptor's black 'everywoman' erected on public art walk in London

  05-08-2020 17:00
  
  Thomas J Price’s Reaching Out artwork becomes one of only three public sculptures of black women in UKAt 9ft tall and weighing 420 kilograms, she is impossible to miss but she is also strikingly ordinary – an antidote, the artist hopes, to chest-puffing and hero worship.Sculptor Thomas J Price on Wednesday unveiled a public statue of a black everywoman. Like most of the rest of the world, she is on her phone. The artwork is called Reaching Out but the question remains, is it the view
  
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• Paint Jam: Carnival - Al fresco & live stream paint party / Paint Jam London / London

  05-08-2020 16:46
  * CARNIVAL SPECIAL* Paint Jam night is London's original paint party - painting workshop x live DJ sets - now live streaming...Did you really think this local Notting Hill band of artists were...
  
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• Why ‘Norma Rae’ Is, After 41 Years, As Relevant As Ever

  05-08-2020 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What remains powerful, writes Naomi Fry, is “the movie’s suggestion that no struggle can take place alone. Norma Rae is heroic, but she comes into her own, as a woman, because she is fighting for class solidarity — a struggle that, in turn, could not happen without a breaking down of long-standing ethnic and racial barriers.” – The New Yorker
  
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• Heritage Panel Commission / Swansea Council / Wales

  05-08-2020 16:19
  Heritage panelSwansea Council is inviting applications from suitably qualified and experienced artists/designers/architects to create a bespoke and distinctive heritage panel.  It is...
  
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• NN Ambassadors: Online CPD Programme / NN Contemporary / East Midlands

  05-08-2020 16:08
  The NN Ambassador programme is a free professional development programme for those aged 18 or over who are interested in developing a career in the arts, culture or creative industries. To be...
  
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• Installation Art As Big Business Proposition (Think Of Kusama Infinity Rooms, But For Profit)

  05-08-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Superblue, as [the venture] is called, will open a series of experiential art centers (EACs for short) that won’t sell precious objects, as conventional galleries do. They’ll present art experiences: deep dives into all-encompassing works by such artists as JR, the French photographer who focuses on issues like migration, displacement and imprisonment; and James Turrell, the celebrated Light and Space artist.” What are they selling? Tickets, of course. – The New Y
  
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• Director / acta community theatre / South West / Bristol

  05-08-2020 15:52
  acta is recruiting a new, full-time, Director with experience in fundraising and human resources to manage its innovative work in participatory Community Theatre; a unique opportunity to lead this...
  
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• Digital Content Creator (Freelance) / Rambert / London

  05-08-2020 15:45
  What if...
   
  ...there was a dance company where brilliant and daring people could show up and be supported to push themselves to move the world forward.
   
  Welcome to...
  
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• Even The ‘Veep’ Showrunner Says Trump’s Axios Interview Outdid ‘Veep’

  05-08-2020 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  David Mandel: “At the end of the day, this is why we ended the show. … Sometimes I have the horrible thought of if we had filmed a show last fall that was supposed to be on right now, and between when we were done filming and began editing, the pandemic and all of this stuff happened. I think you’d have to throw the show in the garbage.” – The Washington Post
  
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• Editorial Assistant / World Health Organization / London

  05-08-2020 15:23
  The World Health Organization is hiring an editorial assistant to support its publication team at the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. The position will be based in central London...
  
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• Folk Weekend: Oxford presents James and David Delarre / Folk Weekend: Oxford / South East

  05-08-2020 15:16
  James and David Delarre first became known as the firestorm force behind the Essex-based band Mawkin. These days they can be seen playing with Eliza Carthy MBE, Topette! and Steve Harley and Cockney...
  
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• Open Online Theatre: Training Programme for Performing Artists / IJAD Dance Company / London / Remote

  05-08-2020 15:12
  Online Open Theatre offers artists all-round training in how to future-proof their creative practice by developing work specifically for live streaming, including monetisation and co-creation...
  
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• Trey McIntyre Project Is Back, But It’s Not A Dance Company Anymore

  05-08-2020 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Six years after shuttering his popular dance troupe …, its eponymous founder is relaunching the company as a conduit for digital dance films, with a project called FLTPK. … He sees his film work more of a continuation of his work as a photographer rather than as a choreographer. … ‘It’s not a company of dancers,’ McIntyre insists. ‘It’s a community of artists.'” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Youth Residency Opportunity for music, dance, theatre artists! / Academy Mews Dance Studios / London

  05-08-2020 14:56
  Calling all music, dance and theatre creative artists!
  Academy Mews Dance Studios, as part of the Camden and London community, is seeking to support more artists in the development and...
  
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• The Edinburgh Fringe And The Post-COVID Future

  05-08-2020 14:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With the fringe cancelled this summer, Edinburgh hopefuls are eyeing 2021 – but will it be back next year? And if so, what will it look like and what size will it be? Artists and fringe leaders tell Lyn Gardner about the value of the festival and how this could be a chance to remake it for the future.” – The Stage
  
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• Turning The Edinburgh Fringe Virtual

  05-08-2020 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For the first time in its 73-year history, the Edinburgh Fringe will not take place as an official live event in 2020. But this has not deterred companies and venues from developing creative online solutions. They speak to David Pollock about adapting to the pandemic, crowdfunding and the appetite for change in the sector.” – The Stage
  
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• 7th Aug: Passion and Polyphony with The Gesualdo Six / JAM on the Marsh: Virtual / South East / Online, East, North East, North West, South West, Yorkshire, London, East Midlands, West Midlands, South East

  05-08-2020 14:17
  The Gesualdo Six present some of the finest vocal consort works from modern-day composers to renaissance, as part of JAM on the Marsh: VIRTUAL festival; www.jamconcert.org  PASSION and...
  
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• Dance Teacher: Ballet, Cheerleading, Commercial, & Contemporary / Amanda Nicole School of Dance / North East / Wallsend

  05-08-2020 14:14
  Dance Teacher required in Ballet, Cheerleading, Commercial, & Contemporary - various hours
  (Role can be split)
   
  Position involves teaching all age groups, ranging from teenies to...
  
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• Socially Engaged Photographer / Manchester Histories / North West

  05-08-2020 14:13
  Manchester Histories is seeking a socially engaged photographer to work with us on an exciting new project. The People’s River is a community-led project that will collaborate with...
  
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• Dance Teacher / Coach required in Freestyle Disco & Cheerleading / Amanda Nicole School of Dance / North East / Wallsend

  05-08-2020 14:11
  Dance Teacher / Coach required in Freestyle Disco & Cheerleading  - various hours
  (Street Dance is also an advantage)
   
  Position involves teaching all age groups, ranging from...
  
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• Beirut Explosion Wrecks Galleries And Museums

  05-08-2020 14:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The damage rocked an already fragile Beirut to its core and wreaked havoc on the city’s renowned art scene. Major art galleries, including Marfa Gallery, located close to Beirut’s Port, and Galerie Tanit were completely destroyed. … The Sursock Museum, once the centre of Beirut’s cultural life in the 1960s and which was reopened in 2015 following a costly restoration, was severely damaged.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Communications Co-ordinator / British Film Commission / London

  05-08-2020 13:42
  The British Film Commission (BFC) is the national organisation responsible for maximising feature film and television inward investment in the UK. The BFC is the national division of Film...
  
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• Information and Administrative Assistant / British Film Commission / London

  05-08-2020 13:36
  The British Film Commission (BFC) is the national organisation responsible for maximising feature film and television inward investment in the UK. The BFC is the national division of Film...
  
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• 'Come Closer' - An Exhibition of Drawings / Dugdale Centre / London

  05-08-2020 13:28
  ‘Come Closer’ An exhibition of drawings by Taz Gray.
  Visit the show:
  14 September - 11 October 2020 10am - 5pmDugdale Centre, 39 London Road, Enfield , EN2 6DS.
  Taz's drawings reflect...
  
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• Senior Policy Advisor / British Film Commission / London

  05-08-2020 13:23
  The British Film Commission (BFC) is the national organisation responsible for maximising feature film and television inward investment in the UK. The BFC is the national division of Film...
  
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• Maintenance Techncian / Regent Centre Christchurch / South West

  05-08-2020 13:12
  We are looking for a part time time (30 hours over 5 days) Maintenance Technician to care for our historic building. The Regent Centre is a historic 88-year-old building with architecture spanning 70...
  
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• Stage Space Development Manager / British Film Commission / London

  05-08-2020 13:09
  Fixed Term Contract until 31st March 2023
  JOB DETAILS
  The British Film Commission (BFC) is the national organisation responsible for maximising feature film and television inward investment in the...
  
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• Artist Database - submit your details/portfolio / Creative Giants on behalf of Coventry City Council / West Midlands

  05-08-2020 13:05
  Artist Database Update
  Calling all artists! Coventry City Council is working to create a database of artists that we can work with to help us create more beautiful spaces in the city...
  
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