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• WarnerMedia Lays Off Hundreds

  11-08-2020 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Impacted staffers begun being informed about the cuts at roughly 10:30 a.m. PT. Approximately 650 people at Warner Bros. are expected to be let go, according to people familiar with the matter, while HBO will cut 150 and 175 staffers. – Variety
  
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• The Wellness Trap

  11-08-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Once we realize that we cannot find lasting happiness through relying on outer things, we might turn to meditation, but now a new problem can arise. Many people today are drawn to meditation practice for enhancing their own well-being: we would all like to achieve “inner happiness,” but again we are back to the search. The very attempt to seek a happy mind becomes endless, with chasing the happiness leading to more chasing. At the same time, our efforts to get rid of stress can seem
  
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• Freelance Audience Engagement Consultant / STUN / North West / Lancashire

  11-08-2020 22:52
  STUN is seeking a Freelance Audience Engagement/Marketing Consultant  Fee £7,800                        
  STUN enables...
  
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• Director's PA / Liverpool Biennial / North West

  11-08-2020 22:35
  Liverpool Biennial is seeking an experienced Director’s PA. You will be responsible for managing the Director’s diary, correspondence and travel arrangements, as well as organising,...
  
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• Head of Business Development and Marketing / Liverpool Biennial / North West

  11-08-2020 22:32
  Liverpool Biennial is seeking a dynamic and creative Head of Business Development and Marketing  to join its team. You will manage our communications and fundraising strategies, ensuring...
  
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• Great – Time To Practice! But A Musician Gets Restless…

  11-08-2020 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some days, I think this glut of time is an offering. More often, however, it’s a force-feeding. To have ideas, you need constraints, which for us were the auditions, rehearsals and performances dribbled across our calendars. Now that those boundaries have evaporated, I have begun to realize how much I depended on them and how much my relationship with music was predicated on feeling present with others, both in the audience and onstage. If a sonata falls in the forest and nobody he
  
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• Finance Officer / Liverpool Biennial / North West

  11-08-2020 22:29
  Liverpool Biennial is seeking a  Finance Officer to join its team. You will support our Head of Finance by maintaining accurate and legally compliant records and reports which support and record...
  
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• Rudy Giuliani Being Sued By His Art Advisor

  11-08-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In November 2019, Miller Gaffney invoiced a total of $27,300 for her services appraising the estranged couple’s fine and decorative art collections in order to determine their market value “for equitable distribution purposes.” – Artnet
  
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• Major Layoffs At DC Comics

  11-08-2020 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Roughly one third of DC’s editorial ranks are being laid off, according to sources. Insiders also say the majority of the staff of the streaming service DC Universe has been laid off, a move that had been widely expected as WarnerMedia shifts its focus to new streaming service HBO Max. – Hollywood Reporter
  
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• UK’s Summer Theatres Work Through, Around, And With COVID Restrictions

  11-08-2020 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A stage on the beach in Brighton with audience groups at picnic tables. A solo show in a Belfast shopping mall and another amid the Narnia sculptures in C.S. Lewis Square. And, of course, open-sided tents in car parks and on lawns. Here’s how regional theatre festivals are making sure the show goes on. – The Guardian
  
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• Closet Cleaning

  11-08-2020 20:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For a lot of us, these last few months have provided an opportunity to clean out and organize our closets, cupboards, garages, and workshops. (Stick with me, there will be a point to this.) – Doug Borwick
  
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• Parallel musical universes? More lost continents? The early-music movement in New York explores an endless past

  11-08-2020 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One stands back and marvels how horizons have kept expanding in the music before J.S. Bach, with modern premieres of 400-year-old works by names you’ve barely heard of — and leave you wanting more. – David Patrick Stearns
  
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• Chicago Jazz Impresario Joe Segal, 94

  11-08-2020 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For more than 70 years, starting in 1947 as a student at Roosevelt University, Segal presented the world’s greatest jazz musicians in rented hovels, rundown showrooms, dilapidated hotels and, eventually, elegant clubs and concert halls. – Chicago Tribune
  
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• Visitor Experience and Enterprise Consultant / Durham Cathedral / North East

  11-08-2020 20:19
  Durham Cathedral seeks a Visitor Experience and Enterprise Consultant. This is part of a wider review of our operations, supported by Heritage Emergency Funding from the National Lottery Heritage...
  
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• Creative Programme Consultant / Durham Cathedral / North East

  11-08-2020 20:18
  Durham Cathedral seeks a Creative Programme Consultant to assist with the development of its visitor experience. This is part of a wider review of our operations, supported by Heritage Emergency...
  
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• Audience Research Consultant / Durham Cathedral / North East

  11-08-2020 20:18
  Durham Cathedral seeks an Audience Research Consultant. This is part of a wider review of our operations, supported by Heritage Emergency Funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and following...
  
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• Commercial and Trading Consultant / Durham Cathedral / North East

  11-08-2020 20:17
  Durham Cathedral seeks a Commercial and Trading Consultant. This is part of a wider review of our operations, supported by Heritage Emergency Funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and...
  
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• Judit Reigl, Painter Who Abandoned Breton And Surrealism For Abstraction And The Human Body, Dead At 97

  11-08-2020 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It was only a short time after Breton gave her her first solo show in Paris that she left the artistic movement he spearheaded, developing a muscular, energetic approach to abstract art. Roughly a decade later, she began applying that approach to partially abstracted (and muscular) human figures. – ARTnews
  
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• LA Dance Project’s App Has Turned Into A Source Of Revenue

  11-08-2020 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The LADP app takes this experience of live-streamed classes to a new level by packaging this professional-grade instruction with a sneak peek into the company’s rehearsals and performances. The app is free; access to the classes is $9.99 a month. The app is a savvy effort to prevent layoffs similar to the ones that have hit many dance companies, while raising the profile of Millepied’s  eight-year-old organization. Classes are taught by members of the company in genres includin
  
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• Administrator / NYMAZ / Yorkshire

  11-08-2020 19:30
  Are you dedicated to making music happen for all children and young people?
  NYMAZ is seeking a dynamic and motivated Administrator to support the coordination of our music and workforce development...
  
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• Trustee/Director / Three Choirs Festival Association / South West

  11-08-2020 19:20
  The Three Choirs Festival Association seek to appoint a member-elected Director of the Three Choirs Festival Association.
   This trustee will join a Board of Directors who oversee the strategic...
  
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• Martha Graham’s ‘Lamentation’ Is Just The Piece We Need In The Time Of COVID

  11-08-2020 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dana Naomy Mills: “The theme of the universality of grief, as well as the tension of confinement and expansion that echo throughout Graham’s performance, acquire a double meaning by being viewed at this time, when contemporary spectators, shielding from the virus, are isolated inside their own grief.” – Psyche
  
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• Community Arts Practitioner / Action Transport / North West / Ellesmere Port

  11-08-2020 18:56
  Action Transport Theatre (ATT) has received special funding from the Westminster Foundation to support COVID recovery in Ellesmere Port. ATT are therefore looking to employ an experienced Community...
  
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• Butterflies: an online writing course / / South East / London

  11-08-2020 18:33
  Enjoy a refreshing burst of morning creativity this summer with Write & Shine’s online library of writing courses. Ideal for writing in your garden, in a park, or while walking....
  
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• Five Musicians Talk About Diversity In Chicago Orchestras

  11-08-2020 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One solution that all five instrumentalists opposed was changing the orchestral world’s blind audition process in which candidates try out behind curtains or screens. In a July article in the New York Times, music critic Anthony Tommasini argued that such an approach was no longer tenable and that orchestras had to take more “proactive steps” to hiring. – Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• Marketing and Communications Co-ordinator / Metal / Near Southend-on-Sea, Liverpool or Peterborough

  11-08-2020 18:15
  We are currently looking to recruit a talented and motivated Marketing and Communications Co-ordinator with ideas, ambition and a passion for connecting audiences of all ages and from all walks of...
  
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• The Man Who Translated The Entire Talmud Is Dead At 83

  11-08-2020 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz wrote more than 60 books on subjects from philosophy to zoology, including a classic on the Kabbalah. But his major achievement is what he called his “hobby”: a 45-volume translation (which took him 45 years) of the Babylonian Talmud from the original Aramaic into modern Hebrew (from which it’s been trnalsated into English and other languages), with enough commentary and background info that even a beginner can approach it. – The New York Times
  
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• Mountview MA Site-Specific Theatre Practice / Mountview / London

  11-08-2020 17:58
  Applications open for entry January 2021.
  The first course of its kind in the UK, Mountview's MA Site-Specific Theatre Practice is a fantastic option for students interested in highly specialised...
  
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• Be Red Ribbon Inspired - Artwork Competition / National AIDS Trust / Across UK

  11-08-2020 17:58
  Aspiring artists and designers are invited to enter HIV charity National AIDS Trust’s inaugural Be Red Ribbon Inspired artwork competition and have their work judged by Sir Antony Gormley and...
  
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• Skills Development Manager / Attitude is Everything / London

  11-08-2020 17:38
  Attitude is Everything is excited to offer this opportunity to join our growing team in a key position within our new volunteering and skills development programme. The new ‘Beyond the...
  
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• Director of Finance & Operations / Magic Me / London

  11-08-2020 17:33
  Magic Me, the UK’s leading intergenerational-arts charity are seeking a Director of Finance & Operations to help shape and deliver the organization’s strategy and vision, and be the...
  
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• In Denver: Without Live Music, Who Are We?

  11-08-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  More than halfway through Denver’s bizarre, unprecedented Summer of No Music, an increasing amount of people — artists and fans alike — are wondering: Without live music, who are we? – Denver Post
  
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• Trustee / Link4Life / North West

  11-08-2020 17:17
   
  Link4Life are looking for up to four trustees to help guide and shape the future development and delivery of this dynamic charity.
  Rochdale Boroughwide Cultural...
  
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• How Can Online Journalism Get Ad Revenue Back? Maybe By Tossing Its Cookies

  11-08-2020 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That’s what worked — shockingly well — when Dutch public broadcaster NPO tried it: when it eliminated cookies, and thus the means to target ads to particular users, revenue soared. Here’s why contextual advertising (what NPO sold instead) brought in more money than targeted advertising — and why, says one American ad pro, this would not (yet) work in the United States. – Wired
  
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• Color-Blind Casting Is Not The Solution — We Need Color-Conscious Casting

  11-08-2020 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That’s the argument being made by a growing number of nonwhite actors and observers such as critic Diep Tran: “Color-blind casting is dangerous in the same way the phrase: ‘I don’t see race’ is dangerous. It negates the very real structural hindrances that block actors of color from the same opportunities as white actors — like low pay in the theatre industry, a lack of roles that are ethnically specific that actors of color can play, and unconscious bias on
  
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• Editorial Focus Group (EFG) for HOTFOOT Online / One Dance UK / Nationwide

  11-08-2020 16:31
  One Dance UK are seeking to expand our Editorial Focus Group (EFG) for HOTFOOT Online, Autumn 2020 and Spring 2021 editions. The EFG are seeking 4 new members to join the team. The Editorial...
  
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• Kent Nagano At The Montreal Symphony: A Final Assessment

  11-08-2020 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Arthur Kaptainis: “[He] managed to forge an entente with an orchestra still reeling from the public resignation of Charles Dutoit and a provincial government that took culture more seriously than most. Not to mention a public that was quite prepared to be mesmerized by his mix of Japanese ancestry, Californian upbringing and European credentials. … As the right conductor at the right time, Nagano was in a much better position than most music directors to do whatever he wanted &hell
  
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• Open Call - Lancashire Graduate Micro-Commissions / National Festival of Making / North West

  11-08-2020 16:01
  The National Festival of Making is looking to commission 3 individual artists or artist collectives, who have graduated this year from Lancashire-based degree programmes, to deliver an artistic...
  
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• STUDIOBOOK {ONLINE}: 8-week course / Mark Devereux Projects / North West

  11-08-2020 16:00
  Starting this September, STUDIOBOOK {ONLINE} is a new eight-week short course for artists based around the UK, led by Mark Devereux Projects. Practical, discursive and tailored to every participant,...
  
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• Monet's water lilies to star at National Gallery in London

  11-08-2020 15:54
  
  Impressionist artists will ‘brighten walls’ of gallery in major exhibition from September 2021Three spectacular water lily paintings by Claude Monet are to be loaned to the National Gallery as part of the first major exhibition exploring the impressionist passion for decorative arts.The water lily paintings are among the most popular in the world with the true showstoppers being the series of 22 that Monet donated to the French state in 1922 and which are housed in two jaw-dropping o
  
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• Monet water lillies to star at the UK's National Gallery

  11-08-2020 15:54
  
  Impressionist artists will ‘brighten up the walls’ at the London gallery in a major exhibition from September 2021Three spectacular water lily paintings by Claude Monet are to be loaned to the National Gallery as part of the first major exhibition exploring the impressionist passion for decorative arts.The water lily paintings are among the most popular in the world with the true showstoppers being the series of 22 that Monet donated to the French state in 1922 and which are housed i
  
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• Creative Writing Workshop by the Lake! / The Write Network / London

  11-08-2020 15:48
  Highams Tales Creative Writing Workshops are Back!!  
  For new and experienced writers to create poems, short fiction or monologues. The workshops will provide stimulus, prompts and feedback to...
  
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• Freelance Filmmaker / The D-Day Story / South East

  11-08-2020 15:47
  We are looking for a filmmaker(s) to record a live tour and stream to our social media channels for a Heritage Open Days event on 18 September 2020.
  We would also like you to review our current in...
  
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• World’s First Entirely Virtual, Entirely Interactive Art Museum Opens Aug. 14

  11-08-2020 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Virtual Online Museum of Art (VOMA) …, curated by London-based art dealer Lee Cavaliere, will feature masterpieces on loan from international institutions such as Musée d’Orsay, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. … Additionally, VOMA will present commissioned artworks by international contemporary artists as part of its newly-launched Digital Firsts Commission Programme.” – Yahoo! (AFP)
  
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• Paint me up before you go-go: London borough to get George Michael mural

  11-08-2020 15:17
  
  No, it’s not a careless whisper: a nine-metre-high image of the singer, by artist Dawn Mellor, is set to adorn BrentTurn a different corner in the London borough of Brent from September and you’ll be confronted with the strangest thing: a nine-metre mural of local hero George Michael.No this isn’t just a careless whisper. British artist Dawn Mellor has been commissioned to paint a permanent public artwork in Kingsbury, celebrating the life of the singer, who grew up in the area
  
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• General Manager Out At DC’s WAMU After No-Good, Very Bad Summer

  11-08-2020 15:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “J.J. Yore … presided over big increases in revenue and membership since the Marketplace co-creator arrived at the public radio station in 2014, but the end of his tenure began with a public debate over the station’s ability to retain Black journalists and blossomed into a full-on staff revolt that followed an investigation into one editor and revelations about how WAMU treated allegations of harassment by former reporter Martin Di Caro.” – Washingtonian
  
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• FORMAT21 Open Call // CONTROL / FORMAT International Photography Festival / East Midlands / Worldwide

  11-08-2020 15:02
  We can be in control, out of control, beyond control. Control can be passive as with a remote control or progressive as in birth control. It can offer science a control group and be an expression of...
  
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• Play About Afghan Dancing Boys Withdrawn By Authors After Anger From Many Sides

  11-08-2020 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In 2017 [sic], two Americans attempted something unconventional … a musical about a subject even Afghans would consider too sensitive and unsettling — ‘bacha bazi‘ or ‘boy play’.” Turns out it was. When Diversionary Theatre, an LGBTQ company in San Diego, presented The Boy Who Danced on Air onstage, the play was well-received; when the company posted video of it online this summer and people from all over could see it, the response was not so wa
  
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• Creative Participation Manager / Herts Inclusive Theatre / South East / Watford

  11-08-2020 14:32
  Herts Inclusive Theatre (HIT) use the arts and wellbeing practices to build confidence, develop skills and give participants and their families memorable, enjoyable life experiences where everyone is...
  
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• From 13 Aug: Rebecca Afonwy-Jones(mezzo) & Anna Tilbrook(piano) / JAM on the Marsh: VIRTUAL / South East / Online, East, North East, North West, South West, Yorkshire, London, East Midlands, West Midlands, South East

  11-08-2020 14:17
  Be spirited away by songs from Elgar, Dring, Dove & Britten, draw comfort & enjoyment from the evocative poetry & find solace within nature, in these troubled times.
  For JAM on the...
  
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