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• Is The British Theatre Critic Tradition Coming To An End?

  07-08-2020 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It is hard to think of a leading critic under fifty. There is no new generation in sight. This is unprecedented. Billington was barely thirty when he began at The Guardian, older than Nightingale when he started at The Statesman. Much is made of the fact that Tynan took over at The Observer when he was 27, but Hobson was only 31 when he began as a theatre critic and James Agate was 30 when he began at The Guardian.The great critics, in short, always began before they were forty. Who are their e
  
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• Meme Me – How Memes Work

  07-08-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The chaotic creativity of remixed internet memes and the new linguistic structures that rapidly evolve from them allow us to express certain states of mind and have others immediately get it and respond in kind. This has been called an “asynchronous, massively multi-person conversation.” – JSTOR
  
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• The Trump Book Industry

  07-08-2020 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Taken en masse, the books paint a damning portrait of the 45th president of the United States. But the sheer volume of unflattering material they contain can have the paradoxical danger of blunting their collective impact. After the 10th time you read about Mr. Trump’s short attention span, your own attention is in danger of wandering. – The New York Times
  
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• What I Learned From The Worst-Reviewed Novel Ever

  07-08-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a book called Weird Wisconsin: Your Travel Guide to Wisconsin’s Local Legends, Burrows’s name was listed under a chapter called “The Worst Novel Ever Published in the English Language.” Maddeningly, the Google Books preview would not reveal the offending passage, but soon I located a Washington Post article that explained the whole entanglement. – The New Republic
  
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• Tourist Fesses Up To Breaking Toes Off Canova Sculpture

  07-08-2020 21:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The tourist, on a trip to celebrate his 50th birthday, was visiting an art museum in northern Italy last week when he posed with the statue of a reclining Pauline Bonaparte. Her husband had commissioned the seminude sculpture by the Italian artist Antonio Canova in the early 19th century. It is known as Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victrix. What happened next might be attributable to the reckless exuberance that big birthdays often bring. – The New York Times
  
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• Where’s Classical Music Performance Headed Post-COVID? Here Are Some Clues

  07-08-2020 20:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Having listened to recent online offerings from North America and Europe (where concerts are carefully starting to move back into halls), David Patrick Stearns predicts that “innovation and experimentation will continue to be part of the package …, but in a less reckless form than in the past, and with a strong streak of social responsibility. Performances will be more intense. Decorative elements will be at a minimum. The pursuit of artistic truth could easily translate into a lac
  
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• Frank Gehry’s New Eisenhower Memorial In DC – Last Of The “Great Men” Memorials?

  07-08-2020 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Over the past decade, and at almost every step — from the design competition to the groundbreaking in 2017 — the project was dogged by controversy, subject to congressional hearings and, at one point, effectively defunded by the government. – Washington Post
  
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• Of Experts And The Willingness To Be Wrong

  07-08-2020 20:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When experts and pundits can’t or won’t say ‘I don’t know’, the consequences can be dire. In the short term, bad advice leads to bad decisions. In the context of admitting uncertainty about challenging questions, there are two ways this can happen. These are particularly clear and salient in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. – Aeon
  
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• Helen Jones Woods, Trombonist With Groundbreaking All-Women Jazz Band, Dead Of COVID At 96

  07-08-2020 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In addition to their pioneering role as women on the jazz circuit, the International Sweethearts of Rhythm were an interracial band in the era of Jim Crow. Their extensive itinerary through the South, where they traveled by sleeper bus, reportedly inspired jazz piano giant Earl Hines to call them ‘the first Freedom Riders.’ They also toured Europe, playing in occupied Germany for American soldiers — both white and Black, though not at the same time.” (After the ba
  
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• Freelance Fundraising Consultant / 99 Comedy Club / London

  07-08-2020 19:22
  The 99 Club is an award-winning comedy club, working with some of the finest comedians in the country and managing a busy programme of daily comedy shows in a number of West End locations. The 99...
  
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• Instead Of Canceling Its Next Production When COVID Hit, This Theater Completely Reimagined It

  07-08-2020 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Aleshea Harris’s Is God Is was the last show of the season at the
  Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, and when the shutdown came, there was still time to figure something out. “We then went through at least four different iterations of what the production could be,” said managing director Leigh Goldenberg, “so that we could still tell the story, share the art and employ the folks involved.” The key problem was that what most theaters were doing (reading plays on Zoom) w
  
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• Carnesky's Radical Cabaret School 8-week Course & Showcase / Tramshed / London

  07-08-2020 18:23
  What is cabaret today and when and how is it radical? How do you make your own cabaret persona and show and harness new ideas and styles?   
  Olivier Award winning performer,...
  
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• AI That Writes Prose And Poetry Is Getting Stronger (Uh-Oh)

  07-08-2020 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The more text to which an algorithm can be exposed, and the more complex you can make the algorithm, the better it performs. … The model that underpins [the AI software] GPT-3 boasts 175bn parameters, each of which can be individually tweaked — an order of magnitude larger than any of its predecessors. It was trained on the biggest set of text ever amassed, a mixture of books, Wikipedia and Common Crawl, a set of billions of pages of text scraped from every corner of the int
  
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• Kristy Edmunds: Why We Need Artists To Help Fix Things

  07-08-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With the calamities facing the world, rebuilding what has been is no longer our most pressing goal — reimagining the future moving forward is. The ever-changing present requires the arts to accelerate our well-practiced ethos of compassionate vision, intellectual honesty and moral ingenuity. These are urgently required for shaping the road ahead.” – KCET
  
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• Clown & Dark Clown course 17-10 September 2020 2-5pm / Peta Lily Company / London / East Midlands

  07-08-2020 17:17
  Re-fresh and deepen your Clown and be guided safely over to the Dark Side*
  In Clown state you’ll learn skills of comedy craft – which can be employed to bring...
  
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• Clown & Dark Clown course 17-10 September 2020 2-5pm / Peta Lily Company / London

  07-08-2020 17:17
  Re-fresh and deepen your Clown and be guided safely over to the Dark Side*
  In Clown state you’ll learn skills of comedy craft – which can be employed to bring...
  
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• Creative Producer / Bradford Literature Festival / Yorkshire

  07-08-2020 17:16
  Job Title: Creative Producer  
  Reports to: Director
  Salary:£30,000 to £34,000 dependent on experience
  Working Hours:09.00- 5.00pm Monday – Friday...
  
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• Production & Technical Manager / Gala Theatre / North East

  07-08-2020 17:14
  An experienced manager is needed to provide leadership for the technical function at the County’s three performance venues - Gala Theatre & Cinema, Empire Theatre Consett, and Bishop...
  
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• From 11th Aug: Fillu by Green Opera / JAM on the Marsh: VIRTUAL / South East / Online, East, North East, North West, South West, Yorkshire, London, East Midlands, West Midlands, South East

  07-08-2020 17:07
  Fillu is a drama of tension, separation and resolution, based around the lives of lovers Eugenie Schumann and Marie ‘Fillu’nger – both of whom led extraordinary lives in...
  
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• Reckoning With The Ugly Racist Origins Of Some Of American English’s Most Common Expressions

  07-08-2020 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Sold down the river.’ ‘Cakewalk.’ ‘Master and slave.’ American English is riddled with words and phrases with racist origins or undertones. Since the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis and the flurry of protests his and other Black Americans’ deaths have inspired, a growing number of public and private institutions are reevaluating their reliance on language with racist connotations or history.” – The Boston Globe
  
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• From 10th August: Daniel Cook - Organ Recital / JAM on the Marsh: VIRTUAL / South East / Online, East, North East, North West, South West, Yorkshire, London, East Midlands, West Midlands, South East

  07-08-2020 17:00
  Hear the organ played with passion and energy as never before, including stunning works by Bach, Vierne and Guilmant + contemporary composers Judith Bingham and Arthur Milner.
  As part of JAM on the...
  
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• Research and Engagement Fellow / University of Cambridge Museums / East / Cambridge

  07-08-2020 16:55
  Research & Engagement Fellow (Fixed-Term for 3 years)
  Salary £32,816 - £40,322
  The University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) is looking to appoint a Research and Engagement Fellow to...
  
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• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead / Sussex Dance Network / South East

  07-08-2020 16:50
  Sussex Dance Network are an artist-led organisation for individual dance artists providing regular opportunities for training and upskilling, a quality programme and an expanded, informed and...
  
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• Black Dancers Are ‘Reclaiming’ Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Monument

  07-08-2020 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Here’s one instance from last month: “Standing at the base of the three-story pedestal supporting the Confederate general’s likeness, [Janine] Bell, the artistic director of Elegba Folklore Society, welcomed a small sea of drummers, dancers and bystanders banging on plastic buckets to an event she called the Reclamation Drum Circle. ‘We are not playing today,’ she said, and invited all present to move and sway to the music. And so began an extended jam session at a
  
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• Creative Facilitation for Young People / Artswork / South East

  07-08-2020 16:32
  This course provides an introduction to a creative approach to group facilitation. It aims to encourage, develop and inspire those with responsibility to lead others through a facilitative process,...
  
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• New myths, Manet and an intimate guide to the Amazon – the week in art

  07-08-2020 16:10
  
  Toyin Ojih Odutola’s powerful drawings are like a graphic novel brought to life, while rare Renoir and Gauguin are at the Royal Academy and Colombia’s Abel Rodríguez heads to Gateshead – all in your weekly dispatchToyin Ojih Odutola
  Powerful expansive drawings and a Blake-like invented mythology make this Nigerian-American artist’s first British show, titled A Countervailing Theory, seem like a walk-through graphic novel. Includes an immersive soundscape by Peter A
  
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• Reporter At DC’s WAMU Harassed Female Colleagues For Years — And Kept His Job After Two Final Warnings

  07-08-2020 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Martin Di Caro, an award-winning transportation correspondent at Washington’s public radio news station from 2012 to 2017, was outrageous enough in hitting on junior employees at WAMU, local transportation advocates, and even staffers at the City Council and Metro that seemingly every woman in DC’s transport community had “a Martin story.” Many of those women are now speaking out. (And there are now calls at WAMU for the resignation of general manager JJ Yore for having
  
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• Part Time Vocational Actor Training - Auditioning Now / The Wheel Actor Training Company / South West

  07-08-2020 15:45
  This year we are launching a One Year Part Time Actor Training Course based in Plymouth, offering students a chance to hold down work whilst they study. The course runs under...
  
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• Stop Panicking Over The Age Of Classical Audiences, Says NY Times Chief Critic

  07-08-2020 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anthony Tommasini: “Elements of dismaying ageism run through the chronic bemoaning over the graying of classical and opera audiences, something that bothered me even before I entered this older demographic myself. … But images and television broadcasts make plain that even back in the 1960s, when Leonard Bernstein was galvanizing the Philharmonic and attracting young people like me to his concerts, audiences were dominated by those in their 50s and older. Yet, year after year, devo
  
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• Freelancer Actor / Director for Radio Play / SPID Theatre Company / London

  07-08-2020 15:16
  Are you passionate about theatre and community? SPID Theatre Co. is looking for artists of colour to join our team during the Estate Endz Black History Project.
  SPID Theatre is an award winning...
  
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• Freelancer Co-Producer / SPID Theatre Company / London

  07-08-2020 15:13
  Are you passionate about theatre and community? SPID Theatre Co. is looking for artists of colour to join our team during the Estate Endz Black History Project.
  SPID Theatre is an award winning...
  
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• Staffers At Philadelphia Museum Of Art Vote Overwhelmingly To Unionize

  07-08-2020 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The vote tally was 181 to 22. “While organizers said there were many reasons behind the union drive, complaints against two Art Museum supervisors provided the movement with energy. Organizers hoped that union representation would ’empower staff in the face of incidents of harassment and discrimination like those publicized in January of this year.'” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• What’s The Definition Of ‘Museum’? The International Council Of Museums Is Tearing Itself Up Over That Question

  07-08-2020 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In recent months, several people working on the committee to revise the body’s definition of what a museum is have resigned, and there have been accusations of ‘back-alley political games.’ The Council’s president has also quit her post. For some, these disagreements reflect a wider split in the museum world about whether such institutions should be places that exhibit and research artifacts, or ones that actively engage with political and social issues.” &n
  
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• Head of Musical Theatre / Chiswick Theatre Arts / London

  07-08-2020 14:29
  CTA Performing Arts are looking for a passionate, experienced Musical Theatre director/teacher who will have a clear vision and be excited to take our established Musical Theatre Programme for ages...
  
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• Northern Stage appoints Natalie Ibu as Artistic Director / Northern Stage / North East

  07-08-2020 14:06
  Northern Stage today announced the appointment of Natalie Ibu as their new Artistic Director and Joint Chief Executive. Natalie, currently Artistic Director and Chief Executive of tiata fahodzi, will...
  
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• Mao Zedong’s Home Province Is Now The Hotbed Of Chinese Commercial TV

  07-08-2020 14:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Making waves is what Hunan Broadcasting System does best. … That is striking for an outfit run by the government of a province that is better known as China’s largest producer of rice and the birthplace of Mao Zedong — ‘red tourism’ centred on Mao’s formative haunts draws devotees of the chairman from around the country. But Changsha, the provincial capital, has become a font of China’s popular culture. It is home to over 12,000 companies involv
  
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• #GettingBackOutdoors: Artists / Production / Producers / OutdoorArtsUK / London

  07-08-2020 13:28
  A free webinar for Artists, Production Teams & Producers
  28 Aug 10am-11.30am  
  In the current Covid-19 situation – and amidst ongoing guidance about returning to performance and...
  
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• #GettingBackOutdoors: Venues / Organisations / OutdoorArtsUK / London

  07-08-2020 13:25
  A free webinar for venues & organisations
  14 Aug 10am-11.30am  
  In response to Covid-19, many cultural, business and public sector organisations are looking at presenting arts and...
  
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• Project/Tour Manager / New Creations Collective Ltd. / South East

  07-08-2020 13:14
  Confident, experienced Project/Tour Manager required to come on board for a brand-new production of an outdoor ballet. Must be an excellent communicator, motivated, passionate and have experience...
  
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• Participant Support Lead (Maternity Cover) / Prism Arts / North West / carlisle

  07-08-2020 12:37
  Prism Arts is hiring!  We’re looking for Maternity Cover for our Participant Support Lead
  Prism Arts is an award-winning, inclusive arts organisation. We are seeking an experienced,...
  
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• Free careers advice, training and motivation / Dogs and Coffee / London / United Kingdom

  07-08-2020 12:25
  Dogs and Coffee – the free new network for everyone working or seeking work in 'live'; tips, training, recruitment alerts, motivation and Industry leaders.
   
  Dogs and Coffee has been...
  
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• From 9th Aug: Goldberg Variations - Variations Down the Line I / JAM on the Marsh: VIRTUAL / South East / Online, East, North East, North West, South West, Yorkshire, London, East Midlands, West Midlands, South East

  07-08-2020 12:24
  World premieres  by Samuel Becker and Julian Broughton feature in this exciting new project presenting Bach’s Variations interwoven with five 21st century responses,...
  
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• Board Member / Wired Aerial Theatre / North West

  07-08-2020 12:22
  Wired Aerial Theatre is searching for an enthusiastic, skilled and diverse range of Board members to steer and support the organisation.
  Wired is funded by Arts Council England as a National...
  
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• Digital Education Manager / Belarus Free Theatre / London

  07-08-2020 12:18
  The role of the Digital Education Manager is to initiate, develop, promote and facilitate the multi-national education and activist campaigns (both digital and offline) that run alongside the...
  
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• Creative Development Manager / Belarus Free Theatre / London

  07-08-2020 12:13
  Belarus Free Theatre (BFT) is looking for an experienced and strategic leader to support the next chapter of this lean, but impactful organisation. You will be an experienced professional with...
  
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• Illustrator - Commission / NYMAZ / Yorkshire

  07-08-2020 12:03
  Fee: £1000Application Deadline: Friday 4 September, 5pmNYMAZ are commissioning an illustrator to create a set of eight dynamic and engaging illustrations for use on the Connect: Resound printed...
  
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• Two Micro Commission / Signal Film and Media / North West / Cumbria

  07-08-2020 12:01
  During this extraordinary time how do we now behave? What have we observed as artists? How can we use this in our practice and how can we move forward?
  Alongside the talks Signal would like to work...
  
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• Call out for new work in progress performances for online event / Tightrope / East Midlands

  07-08-2020 11:22
  Calling all theatre-makers and performance artists for any and every medium. We want to see what you’ve been working on, and we’re sure you’re itching to show it off. TIGHTROPE is...
  
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• Call for applications: LUX Online Commissions for d/Deaf Artists / LUX / London

  07-08-2020 10:32
  LUX is the UK agency for the support and promotion of artists working with the moving image. We are launching a new ongoing series exploring access in artists’ moving image, not as an...
  
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• Operations Assistant / The National Gallery / London

  07-08-2020 10:29
  The National Gallery, founded in 1824, houses a uniquely important collection of some 2400 pictures of European art spanning seven centuries. At its heart is the commitment to engage the widest...
  
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