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• Artist Commission - Light Art / The Atkinson / North West

  12-08-2020 23:04
  Commission Opportunity for Festival of Hope Sefton
  We are looking for a visual artist or collective based in the North West to create a large-scale artwork incorporating light, either on the front...
  
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• Artist Commission - Sustainability As An Artform / The Atkinson / North West

  12-08-2020 22:47
  Commission Opportunity for Festival of Hope Sefton
  We are looking for a visual artist from the North West to work with us to create and deliver a series of online workshops with young people based...
  
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• Online Solo Show Creation Lab / / London / Online

  12-08-2020 22:45
  If you’re an actor or comedian with an idea for a solo show but you’re struggling with blank-page paralyses, overwhelm or self-doubt AND you’re craving camaraderie, inspiration...
  
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• Artist Commission - Skate Paint / The Atkinson / North West

  12-08-2020 22:40
  Commission Opportunity for Sefton’s Festival of Hope
  We are looking for a visual artist based in the North West to create a large-scale, striking painting/mural for the Skate Park in North...
  
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• Artist Commission - This Is Our Home / The Atkinson / North West

  12-08-2020 22:33
  Commission Opportunity for Sefton’s Festival of Hope
  We are looking for a visual or textile artist based in the North West to create three 5-foot by 5-foot fabric-based maps, which will be...
  
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• Facilities and Maintenance Manager / Nottingham Castle Trust / East Midlands

  12-08-2020 21:57
  Nottingham Castle Trust is seeking an experienced Facilities and Maintenance Manager to lead the development and operation of all facilities activities at Nottingham Castle when it re-opens following...
  
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• Project Coordinator / Elizabeth Arifien / London / London

  12-08-2020 21:15
  Date: 31st August - 21st Dec (16 weeks)
  Flat Fee: £1900 (approximately 1 day per week at £120pd. These hours will be dispersed throughout the week and for you to manage)
  Elizabeth is...
  
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• Open Call for Photographers & Lens-based Artists for Exhibition / Nadir Project Space / South East

  12-08-2020 19:57
  Open call for artists who use photography or lens based media for an exhibition from 3 October - 1 November at Nadir Project Space.  About the exhibition We are looking for artists who use...
  
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• Website Designer for Housmans: 60 Years of Books and Activism / On the Record / London

  12-08-2020 19:13
  On the Record are seeking a design partner to help them create a website for Housmans: 60 Years of Books and Activism, a youth-led performance and oral history project recording the history of...
  
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• Call Out: Moving With the Times 2021 (Dance) / Dancin Oxford and Pegasus Theatre / South East

  12-08-2020 19:00
  Celebrating its’ 10th Anniversary, Dancin’ Oxford and Pegasus Theatre are delighted to announce the Moving with The Times commission for 2021.
  Three dance artists/companies...
  
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• bOlder: Greater Manchester Talent Programme for Artists 50+ / Castlefield Gallery / North West / All regions

  12-08-2020 18:47
  We are very excited to announce bOlder 2020/21, a talent development programme for contemporary visual artists aged 50+, funded by the European Social Fund Community Grants Scheme. It follows the...
  
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• John McDonald's final show in 'The People's Chapel' / Chapel Arts Studios / South West

  12-08-2020 18:23
  Save the date for CAS:AIR artist John McDonald’s final show with local talent in ‘the people’s chapel’
  We are pleased to invite you to the exhibition which celebrates the...
  
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• Assistant Curator / Wysing Arts Centre / East

  12-08-2020 18:14
  We’re looking for a talented Assistant Curator to join our programme team to provide programme delivery, care and support for artists as well as administrative support. The Assistant Curator...
  
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• Safeguarding for Trustees Course / Artswork / London / South East

  12-08-2020 17:50
  This 2.5hr session for those in governance who wish to understand the role they play in the delivery of safeguarding within their organisation
  This online course is ideal for those in...
  
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• Cinema Supervisor / Olympic Studios / London

  12-08-2020 17:49
  Olympic Studios is an independent, award-winning three-screen cinema, private member’s club & bustling restaurant located in Barnes, South West London. We are looking for a sparkling FOH...
  
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• #AllOfUs Redundancy Care Package / / London

  12-08-2020 17:26
  Applications are now open for the #HereToStay programme created by Black Womxn in Theatre & Eclipse Theatre in partnership with The Bush!
  This programme is for Black, Asian &...
  
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• Financial Trustee / Sound UK Arts / London / South West

  12-08-2020 17:18
  Sound UK Arts (Sound UK) is one of the country’s leading new music producers. It commissions and produces a wide range of music projects for national arts centres, rural and outdoor settings...
  
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• Dance Teacher / Up In Lights Dance Academy LTD / Maldon

  12-08-2020 16:21
  Superstars required.... no superpowers necessary just a happy and caring personality, with a goal to help children grow through the power of dance!
  We are looking for a new teacher to join our...
  
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• Free Art and Creative Writing Workshops / Holloway Neighbourhood Group / London

  12-08-2020 15:57
  Art for WellbeingWe are offering a mixture of face-to-face and live online workshops in visual art and creative writing. We aim for people to enjoy the positive experience of being creative and...
  
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• Pink Floyd's burning man: Aubrey Powell's best photograph

  12-08-2020 15:34
  
  ‘A gust of wind blew the fire into the stuntman’s face. His team piled in with blankets to put him out – but he still lost an eyebrow and some of his moustache’
  Storm Thorgerson and I had created most of the artwork for Pink Floyd’s albums, including Dark Side of the Moon. One day we were asked to Abbey Road Studios to listen to tracks from the band’s new record. The lyrics were mostly about absence, and the album’s title, Wish You Were Here, was a refer
  
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• And Say the Animal Responded? review – artists make a fierce point

  12-08-2020 15:08
  
  FACT, Liverpool
  A reanimated rhino mixes with DJs and dancers in a captivating show that explores our fragile connection to other speciesIn the exhibition And Say the Animal Responded? science-y artists and arty scientists ponder interspecies communication. Their co-stars include some of the world’s great brains and hive minds: wolves, cetaceans, apes, pachyderms, colonies of ants and choruses of birds.The largest family of works is Amalia Pica and Rafael Ortega’s exploration into co
  
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• Executive Director and Joint CEO / Gate Theatre / London

  12-08-2020 14:57
  The Gate is looking for a special individual to take on the role of Executive Director and Joint Chief Executive. Building a strong working relationship with Ellen McDougall, the Artistic Director...
  
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• Designer / Troy House Art Foundation / London

  12-08-2020 14:50
  In 2017, Fortress Contemporary Art Foundation was established in London by internationally renowned contemporary artist Yuan Gong, who also serves as its director. In 2020, the organisation was...
  
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• Development Officer / The Charterhouse / London / London

  12-08-2020 14:48
  We are seeking a Development Officer to focus on maintaining and expanding our donor constituency of Friends of the Charity. This is an exciting and very varied role, for an initial 12 months’...
  
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• Volunteer Officer / Brooklands Museum Trust / South East / Weybridge

  12-08-2020 14:32
  This role will support our HR & Volunteering Manager to run our volunteering programme, which currently includes approximately 800 active volunteers, as well as to provide an HR service to our...
  
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• Tate galleries to make half of commercial workforce redundant

  12-08-2020 13:35
  
  313 jobs to go in publishing and shops, cafes and restaurants in London, Liverpool and St Ives
  Tate has announced 313 redundancies across its commercial enterprises, which include staff who work in publishing and in gallery shops, cafes and restaurants in London, Liverpool and St Ives.An email to staff was sent on Tuesday evening from the Tate director, Maria Balshaw, and chief operating officer, Vicky Cheetham, announcing what they said were “difficult and painful” decisions. Contin
  
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• From 14 Aug: Faure: Requiem - Gesualdo Six & London Mozart Players / JAM on the Marsh: VIRTUAL / South East / Online, East, North East, North West, South West, Yorkshire, London, East Midlands, West Midlands, South East

  12-08-2020 13:33
  The Gesualdo Six & London Mozart Players perform a sublime concert for all affected by Covid-19; David Hill’s 2011 setting of Fauré’s Requiem with new poems by...
  
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• Emerging Creative Producer / Doorstep Arts / South West / Paignton

  12-08-2020 13:19
  Doorstep Arts are seeking a candidate to join our team as an Emerging Creative Producer on our new Esmee Fairbairn-funded project Producing Praxis. This is a role for an emerging or early-career...
  
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• Associate Teaching Artist / Doorstep Arts / South West

  12-08-2020 13:05
  Job Title: Associate Teaching Artist: participatory drama, teaching, facilitation
  Purpose of Job Role: To assist and move toward solo-leading Doorstep Arts participatory theatre sessions...
  
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• Video Editor / Freelance / London

  12-08-2020 12:49
  VIDEO EDITOR NEEDED FOR NEW DIGITAL CONTENTWe’re looking for a talented and experienced editor to cut and colour correct a series of short films for an upcoming digital theatre production. All...
  
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• Embedding Safeguarding Practice (Artswork Leadership Training) / Artswork / South West / South West

  12-08-2020 12:38
  An Organisational Approach to Safe Practice with Children and Young People in the Creative and cultural sectors
  This course is for those who wish to develop a strategic approach to safeguarding and...
  
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• Casual Visitor Experience Team Member / Harewood House Trust / Yorkshire / Leeds

  12-08-2020 12:24
  Rate of pay: £8.72 per hour
  Harewood House is an educational charity set up to share Harewood’s story, to listen, to learn, and to enrich people’s lives using our collections,...
  
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• Principle and Ensemble Cast / LaplandUK / South East

  12-08-2020 11:24
  Whitmoor Forest, Ascot
  7th November – 24th December
  Both Full Time and Part Time roles available
  £9 - £10 per hour
  LaplandUK are seeking talented performers to join us in...
  
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• Creative Futures / Bromley by Bow Centre / London

  12-08-2020 10:56
  Creative Futures registration page is now live on the Bromley by Bow Centre Website HERE
  Whether you have recently left education, looking to change jobs or searching for a way to redefine your...
  
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• Non-Executive Director / Elevator Arts CIC / East / Essex

  12-08-2020 10:39
  Do you believe in the power of the arts for positive social change?
  Elevator Arts CIC is a newly formed not-for-profit company. Our goal is to deliver outstanding arts...
  
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• This painter was which famous author's sister? The great British art quiz

  12-08-2020 09:00
  
  Rye Art Gallery Collection set today’s quiz, which enables you to explore a British art collection closed because of Covid-19 – while answering some brainteasersThis 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 Rye Art Gallery Collection. The gallery holds a pe
  
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• How Data Fueled The Progressive Era

  12-08-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Statistics in the Progressive Era were more than mere signs of a managerial government’s early efforts to sort and categorize its citizens. The emergence of statistical selves was not simply a rationalization of everyday life, a search for order (as Robert Wiebe taught a half century of historians to say).2 The reliance on statistical governance coincided with and complemented a pervasive revaluation of primal spontaneity and vitality, an effort to unleash hidden strength from an elusive
  
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