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• Mass Layoffs Has US, UK Museums Rethinking Their Roles

  21-08-2020 23:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The current crisis raises the question of what exactly a museum is. Is it a collection of objects, or the staff that bring those objects to life and makes them accessible to the public? ‘We need to think about museums not only as repositories for things […],’ Nicole Cook, a member of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Union organising committee, writes via email, ‘but rather as vital centers for scholarship, education, and community, all core activities that revolve around
  
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• Thamesmead Canal Mural Programme: Local Artist Open Call / Moniker Projects / London / Thamesmead

  21-08-2020 23:10
  Moniker Projects has been commissioned by Peabody to develop and deliver a programme of quality public artworks on underpasses that connect Thamesmead’s winding network of picturesque...
  
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• Art Basel Goes Virtual, Charging Galleries For Virtual Booths

  21-08-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Art Basel organizers plan to present two new online viewing room initiatives in September and October, which they describe as “freestanding, thematic editions.” Unlike previous iterations of the Art Basel-branded viewing rooms, these will not be provided free of charge to exhibitors at the physical fairs. Instead, Art Basel will charge a flat fee of CHF 5,000 ($5,500) for each of the new editions. – Artnet
  
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• Theatre Reform: We Shouldn’t Work So Many Hours

  21-08-2020 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s this process that we have spent decades, centuries developing in theatre of how much time it takes to make the thing. In my experience, the process will expand to fill as much time as you give it. So we’ve put ourselves in a place where we say, it’s going to take this many weeks to rehearse and this many hours to tech, and we take that as gospel now.” – American Theatre
  
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• A Historical Disinclination To Theatre

  21-08-2020 21:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One of the key facets of Jonas Barish’s argument is that, throughout history and across cultures, theatrical activity has almost always been met by vociferous opposition. From ancient Greece, when Plato wrote that acting and the theatre would be excluded from his ideal state, to the Soviet era in Russia, when strict governmental regulation dictated what type of work theatre artists were permitted to create, theatre has been subject to both philosophical criticism and material censorship.
  
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• Is Resilience Overrated?

  21-08-2020 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Here in New Orleans, for example, where I am a relative newcomer, my friends who are longtime residents and who survived Hurricane Katrina greet the word “resilience” with a fiery disdain. This is a city where people have been called resilient for years, and so many I talk to just seem exhausted by it. – The New York Times
  
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• When Bat Boy Escaped The FBI And The Alien Endorsed Bill Clinton: An Oral History Of ‘Weekly World News’

  21-08-2020 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At the height of its popularity in the late 1980s, circulation reached 1.2 million copies per week. Headlines like ‘Bigfoot Kept Lumberjack as Love Slave’ ruled its covers. A team of dedicated journalists filled its pages with satirical fiction. If fact happened to stumble its way inside, it would be adjusted to fit the paper’s mission statement.” Here, from the people who worked there, is the story of everyone’s real favorite supermarket tabloid. – Me
  
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• Unexpected Dance: Alongside A London Canal

  21-08-2020 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This free, Instagram-advertised event is DistDancing, one of the few opportunities to see live dance at the moment and its founder Chisato Katsura is a member of the Royal Ballet. Katsura, 23, moved to a new flat during lockdown and her landlord, Russell Gray, also owns Hoxton Docks, a former coal store turned performance venue. – The Guardian
  
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• What Happened To The Lost Colony Of Roanoke Island? Researchers Say They Have The Answer

  21-08-2020 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s American history’s oldest mystery: in 1587, 100-odd colonists sent by Walter Raleigh settled on Roanoke Island in what is now North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Within a few weeks, their leader had to go back to England for supplies, and he wasn’t able to return for three years. When he finally did, he found the settlement abandoned — with the word “CROATOAN” carved on a post. No Europeans ever found the missing Roanoke settlers, and there’s been
  
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• Collective Of Black Classical Musicians Takes To Social Media To Detail Issues

  21-08-2020 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Almost every aspect of classical music, as it is currently, cultivates a toxic and racist culture. That doesn’t mean that every participant in classical music is racist, obviously. The specific aspects that sustain institutional racism are: hero worship; classism and elitism; unbalanced power structures (like the relationship between students and private teachers; the fear-based mentality that your teacher can “make or break you”); access to quality education and opport
  
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• Advertisers And Media Outlets Are Fighting, With Billions Of Dollars At Stake, And Nobody Really Knows How To Fix It

  21-08-2020 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s easy to pin the current squabbles on the coronavirus. Look more closely, and you’ll see evidence of deeper frustrations at play that marketers and media outlets have known about for years but haven’t done enough to fix. … Since the industry agreed to changes in the way Nielsen measures TV ratings in 2007, viewership patterns have grown exponentially more complex — and everyone, it seems, has a different vision of how to calculate the number of people w
  
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• Charge: Chicago Dance Support Organization Gives Little Support

  21-08-2020 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What they tell you they raise to help dance professionals and what they actually spend to help dance professionals is vastly different,” former executive director Kesha Pate wrote. When she calculated the philanthropic “return on investment” for Dance for Life, she told me, it was only about 26 percent.  – Chicago Reader
  
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• The bias of blessings that are blind to love | Letters

  21-08-2020 18:12
  
  Ian Emerson questions why the Church of England is happy to bless statues of mythical creatures, but withholds this ceremony for same-sex marriages, while Steve Ibbetson points out a sculptural inspirationHow nice to see the bishop of Hull blessing a carving of Aslan and the other stone effigies of characters from Narnia, whose stories apparently “contain incredible truth that helps many Christians today reflect on our own understanding of God and faith” (Yorkshire church to be adorn
  
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• Musician/Teacher (Upper or Lower Strings) / Sistema Scotland / Scotland

  21-08-2020 18:12
  Big Noise Torry (Aberdeen) are looking for a Musician/Teacher (Upper or Lower Strings) to work as part of a dynamic team delivering a visionary, socially driven children's orchestra centre.
  You will...
  
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• Right trousers, but the wrong consultants | Brief letters

  21-08-2020 18:11
  
  Climate crisis apathy | Art quiz | Virus consultants | Second city | More jamGreta Thunberg (After two years of school strikes, the world is still in a state of climate crisis denial, 19 August) provides a salutary reminder that it is not getting a B grade for an A-level where an A grade was expected that is going to adversely affect the life chances of today’s young people; it is something else entirely, about which there is far too little protest.Isabella StoneSheffield• Thanks to t
  
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• Right trousers, but the wrong consultants

  21-08-2020 18:11
  
  Climate crisis apathy | Art quiz | Virus consultants | Second city | More jamGreta Thunberg (After two years of school strikes, the world is still in a state of climate crisis denial, 19 August) provides a salutary reminder that it is not getting a B grade for an A-level where an A grade was expected that is going to adversely affect the life chances of today’s young people; it is something else entirely, about which there is far too little protest.Isabella StoneSheffield• Thanks to t
  
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• Tony Awards Will Go Ahead This Fall, Online

  21-08-2020 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It was not immediately clear how many shows would be eligible for consideration. Twenty plays and musicals opened during the abbreviated 2019-20 season, but a few might be deemed ineligible because they were open for such a short period of time that not enough Tony nominators or voters got a chance to see them.” – The New York Times
  
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• 3 Month Intensive Acting Course - October Start - Covid Friendly / The School of the Science of Acting / London

  21-08-2020 17:56
  Now taking applications for October 2020 and January 2021
  Our bespoke 3 Month Intensive Acting Course is designed to hone your craft with detailed acting classes and the preparation and analysis of...
  
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• Susan B. Anthony Museum Rejects Trump “Pardon” On Her Behalf

  21-08-2020 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House in Rochester, New York, explained in a lengthy Twitter thread Tuesday why it objected to Trump’s pardon for Anthony, who was arrested and charged in 1872 for voting illegally. It also suggested some other ways that Anthony could be honored. – AOL
  
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• Communications Officer / Parents and Carers in Performing Arts / UK wide

  21-08-2020 17:28
  Parents & Carers in Performing Arts (PiPA) believes that a truly world class performing arts is inclusive of all talents and circumstances. We show what’s possible by working in partnership...
  
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• Vocal Coach / Razzamataz Theatre Schools / Yorkshire

  21-08-2020 17:16
  Razzamataz Theatre Schools Sheffield are currently seeking a Singing Teacher/Vocal Coach to work with children aged 9-18 years on Saturday’s during term time and private lessons throughout the...
  
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• Creating Stories: Game Design for Beginners / Clayhill Arts / London / Nationwide

  21-08-2020 17:06
  Join us on the 26 - 28 February for this three day course, Creating Stories: Game Design for Beginners
  Are you curious about the idea of interactivity and storytelling?  Have you...
  
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• More COVID Innovation: A Drive-Through Art Exhibition

  21-08-2020 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Leave it to the ingenious Dutch. With both the Rotterdam Ahoy conference and exhibition center and the city’s Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen closed due to the pandemic, the two institutions got together to use the Ahoy’s large space to display video installations that visitors can view from vehicles. Electric cars only; if you don’t have one, you can borrow one on site. – Deutsche Welle
  
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• Diversity Action Group Co-opted Members / Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Theatres / North West / Liverpool

  21-08-2020 16:47
  e&P is a local artistic force with national significance and an international reputation. We are driven by our passion for our art-form, our love of our city and our unswerving belief that...
  
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• Kenneth Bernard, Playwright Of The Ridiculous, Dead At 90

  21-08-2020 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “By day Dr. Bernard was an English professor at Long Island University, a job he took in 1959 and held for more than 40 years. By night he was a central figure in the experimental theater movement that began bubbling up in the small performance spaces of Midtown and Downtown Manhattan in the 1960s. His works were a favorite of John Vaccaro, the director behind the Playhouse of the Ridiculous, whose assaultive, anarchic productions were part of the stew that gave rise to punk, queer theate
  
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• Two Actors Pursue Berkeley Rep And Their Union For Violating Contracts On Last Day Before COVID Shutdown

  21-08-2020 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On the day in March when the Bay Area got lockdown orders, Berkeley Repertory Theatre called the cast of Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, which was still in rehearsal, to come in on their day off. When the actors arrived, they were told to get into costume and perform the play for video cameras before the company closed for the duration; Berkeley Rep then sold tickets to stream that video in lieu of the cancelled performances. Now two members of the School Gir
  
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• Masking up in the Science Museum and honouring a biscuit factory water feature – the week in art

  21-08-2020 15:46
  
  Elsewhere, Mary Quant’s swinging London comes to Scotland, and Arthur Lanyon brings his Arcade Laundry to St Ives – all in your weekly dispatchMedicine Galleries
  The Science Museum has now reopened and if you want a wider view of the pandemic that closed it, you won’t find a more spectacular history of human responses to illness than its curious and fascinating gallery of medicine past and present.
  • Science Museum, London, free permanent display. Continue reading...
  
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• Community Music Practitioner / SoCo Music Project / South East

  21-08-2020 15:44
  TITLE: Community Music Practitioner
  CONTRACT: Freelance
  HOURS: 0-6 hours per week (may include some unsocial hours)
  SALARY: £15 - £30 per hour
  LOCATION OF WORK: Southampton and...
  
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• Project Coordinator / RIBA / North East

  21-08-2020 15:37
  Be part of the vision; be part of the RIBA.
  The RIBA is a global professional membership body, and a cultural organisation, driving excellence in architecture.
  Salary: £22,579 -...
  
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• COVID Has Squashed In-Person Teaching. Some Performing Arts Students Question Whether It’s Still Worth It

  21-08-2020 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With the virus still on a rampage, many of the age-old, hands-on ways of training musicians, dancers and actors have had to be tossed out the window or, at the very least, drastically reshaped. How much this will affect the industry down the line — and what audiences may see and hear in years to come — is difficult to gauge. But to varying degrees, depending on the art form, professional groups and future performances rely on a pipeline of well-trained graduates of higher edu
  
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• Freelance Lecturing Opportunities / ICTheatre / North West

  21-08-2020 15:31
  Freelance Lecturing opportunities at ICTheatre, part of the BIMM Institute Group of CollegesExpressions of Interest: Lecturers in Higher and Further Education
  Contractual Hours: Freelance,...
  
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• Singers Can Reduce COVID Danger By Singing More Softly, Says Study (But There’s A Big Caveat)

  21-08-2020 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Researchers at the University of Bristol used 25 professional singers of various genres as subjects, having them speak and sing at various levels, and found that singing at a conversational level produces only slightly more aerosols than speaking normally does — more volume of sound equals more volume of potentially virus-carrying droplets on the breath, basically. The caveat? The researchers are chemists, not virologists, and the study has not yet been peer-reviewed. – BBC
  
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• Developing a Writing Mindset - Online Workshop / Derbyshire Writing School / UK Wide

  21-08-2020 14:54
  Workshop: Developing a writing mindset
  There is no doubt about it, writing is hard. There are so many reasons to quit. To hold strong, you need to develop a clear and focused growth mindset. This...
  
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• Memories to Memoir - Online Course / Derbyshire Writing School / UK Wide

  21-08-2020 14:42
  Memories to Memoir – An Introduction to Life Writing
  Your life matters, it means something; you have a story to tell. It’s time to bring it to the page. 
  Have you always wanted to...
  
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• MGM Remakes One Of Its Divisions As Studio Run By And For BIPOC Moviemakers

  21-08-2020 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As one of the authors of UCLA’s annual Hollywood Diversity Report put it, “There are almost no people of color in the film industry who have the power to say, ‘This movie is getting made and by this person.” Now MGM is taking a concrete step to address that: it’s turning its Orion Pictures division over to 36-year-old Alana Mayo (“a person who is a woman and Black and queer,” as she puts it) to produce films by, and about, underrepresented people and gr
  
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• New Guide To Shooting COVID-Safe Sex Scenes Says To Go Back To Hays Code

  21-08-2020 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Directors UK (the Brit equivalent of the Directors Guild) has published Intimacy in the Time of COVID-19, a new set of guidelines for the planning, staging and recording of sex scenes, starts with suggesting that “the director, writer and producer review the scenes together and decide if the intimate act needs to be shown.” And yes, the guide explicitly suggests looking to the Hays Code as a model. – Variety
  
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• Head of Exhibitions (Maternity Cover) / Nottingham Contemporary / East Midlands

  21-08-2020 14:00
  £34,000–36,000 p/a depending on experience
  Full-time, fixed-term contract for up to 12 months (minimum 6 months)
  Nottingham Contemporary, one of the UK’s leading and largest...
  
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• Digital Editorial Lead / National Museum Liverpool / North West / Liverpool

  21-08-2020 13:49
  Reporting to the Head of Digital, you will develop and oversee the digital editorial strategy for our platforms, editorial standards, commissioning framework / mechanisms (internal and external) and...
  
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• Digital Content Producer / National Museum LIverpool / North West / Liverpool

  21-08-2020 13:34
  Reporting to the Digital Content Lead, you will develop and produce an assortment of high-quality, impactful and engaging content across the multimedia mix (video, photo, audio, text) to promote the...
  
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• Composer for Children's Audio Book / Scratchworks Theatre Company / South West

  21-08-2020 12:21
  We are adapting our show ‘The Snow Beast’ into a 60-min audiobook for listeners aged 5-10. The composer will: 
  compose original underscoring & incidental...
  
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• Cultural Education Partnership Development Co-ordinator / Chichester Festival Theatre / South East

  21-08-2020 12:06
  Chichester Festival Theatre is working in partnership with Sussex Arts Academy to develop a West Sussex Cultural Education Partnership supported by funding from Artswork (the SE Bridge). Following...
  
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• Searching for America’s 1930s post office murals – a photo essay

  21-08-2020 12:00
  
  Photographer Justin Hamel stumbled on a Great Depression-era mural one day in a New York post office, and was intrigued to learn there are 1,200 of them across the countryThe instinct to try to boost morale during a time of hardship and suffering resonates today as we face the pandemic and economic recession.Almost 90 years ago during the Great Depression, with the unemployment rate hovering between 20 and 30%, the United States government sought ways to lift up its citizens. Continue reading...
  
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• Online Safeguarding 1 hour Course - 2nd September / Artswork / London / South West

  21-08-2020 11:46
  This one hour webinar will help you identify and consider the risks and areas of concern that you might encounter with online delivery.
  About this Event
  As organisations adjust to the current...
  
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• Child Protection and Safeguarding Course - 27th August / Artswork / London / South East

  21-08-2020 11:41
  The day will provide in-depth practical advice to help you develop sensible structures and build confidence around child protection issues, within the context of developing and delivering creative...
  
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• Creative Facilitation Course - 2nd & 9th September 2020 / Artswork / South East / London

  21-08-2020 11:37
  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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• Sutapa Biswas’s Housewives With Steak-Knives: avenging goddess

  21-08-2020 11:00
  
  The London-based artist challenges Britain’s colonial past and art history’s prejudicesA weekly Guide column in which we dissect the influences and interpretations of a work of art Related: The Guide: Staying In – sign up for our home entertainment tipsContinue reading...
  
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• Red + Green = Yellow: Commission/Exhibition for Abstract Artists / The NewBridge Project / North East / Newcastle

  21-08-2020 10:25
  Deadline: Wednesday 09 September, 12 noonFee: £700 
  Red + Green = Yellow is an experimental exhibition which will explore visual communication through imagination, abstraction and making....
  
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• Palestinians stage surprise 'thank you' event for Banksy in Bethlehem

  21-08-2020 08:19
  
  Photographs of works go on display in Manger Square to celebrate British street artist’s contribution to diversifying tourismPhotographs of 20 pieces of Banksy’s artwork in Palestine have been displayed in the centre of Bethlehem as a thank you to the anonymous British street artist for helping diversify tourism in the city.The images were collated by Palestinian photographers for the surprise exhibition in Manger Square. Related: 'Worst view in the world': Banksy opens hotel overloo
  
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• Student artists exhibit their final shows online – in pictures

  21-08-2020 08:00
  
  Most universities and colleges have cancelled or postponed this year’s final degree shows as a result of Covid-19, to the frustration of art students who have worked toward them for years. Many have turned to virtual exhibitions instead. Here’s a selection of their work Continue reading...
  
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• Distanced 1 - Shaun Caton + Paul Hurley / Performance Art Event / London

  21-08-2020 01:15
  Performance Platform Presents... ‘D I S T A N C E D 1’ SHAUN CATON + PAUL HURLEY
  Saturday 12th September, 7pm - 11pm. OPEN Ealing Arts Centre, Unit 14, School Lane, Dickens...
  
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