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• South Norwood Community Festival Inside Out Comedy / Nice N' Spiky Comedy and SNCF / London

  29-08-2020 18:30
  South Norwood Community Festival, in conjunction with Nice N' Spiky Comedy, bring you a special evening of enthralling and entertaining live stand up comedy, starring the very best guest performers...
  
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• Art of noise: CD covers as watercolours – in pictures

  29-08-2020 18:00
  
  The Cee Deez collection of tiny watercolours (each 15cm by 15cm) was made during lockdown, when 27-year-old artist Rosie McGinn moved back from London to her family’s Maidstone home. There, she rediscovered Ronan by Ronan Keating, the first CD she ever bought, in 2000. During a row, her sister scrawled “I hate you” on the cover image. After reconciliation she had added “I love you” to the other side. “I did the first painting [of Ronan] for her,” says Mc
  
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• Heba Y. Amin: When I see the future I close my eyes / The Mosaic Rooms / London

  29-08-2020 17:02
  The Mosaic Rooms announces the first UK solo exhibition of artist Heba Y. Amin. Amin investigates how the elusive narratives of regional politics in the Middle East relate to global concerns....
  
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• Hanna Ten Doornkaat - Essentially Grey / The Muse Gallery / London

  29-08-2020 16:46
  The Muse Gallery presents
  Hanna Ten Doornkaat 
  Essentially Grey 
  17th September - 4th October
  Opening Night 17th September, 6-9pm
   
  The exhibition explores how our understanding...
  
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• SATELLITE: international courses live online / Embodied Poetics / Online

  29-08-2020 09:44
  Embodied Poetics launches SATELLITE - a hub for international courses, live online, topics including:
  embodied performance, writing and direction, performative approaches to the visual arts,...
  
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• 'I felt taken advantage of': the story of another Whitney museum controversy

  29-08-2020 08:05
  
  The New York institution has cancelled an upcoming exhibition after anger from artists whose work was being used without their permissionThe Whitney Museum of American Art has seen its fair share of controversies over the past couple of years — its teargas-manufacturing board member Warren Kanders stepped down last summer after an onslaught of protests, while a recent Whitney Biennial was in hot water for showing white artist Dana Schutz’s portrait of Emmett Till, a black boy lynched
  
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• International Festival of Arts & Ideas – Director of Programming & Community Impact

  29-08-2020 01:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The International Festival of Arts & Ideas (Festival) celebrates and builds community, engages with vital issues, and promotes the arts. Each year, the Festival highlights the City of New Haven’s diverse and culturally rich community with events featuring world-class artists, thinkers, and leaders. Its additional programs include the annual Visionary Leadership Award and educational opportunities like the High School Fellows Program. The Festival was established in 1996 by Anne Calabre
  
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• Company Manager (maternity cover) / Tavaziva / London / London

  29-08-2020 00:50
  Tavaziva is seeking a part-time Company Manager (maternity cover, 3 days a week) starting November 2020 
  Tavaziva is an acclaimed company touring work by its founder and artistic director,...
  
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• Is New York Over?

  29-08-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The city is indeed at a moment of reckoning—not simply because of the pandemic, but because of what it had already become. After the fiscal crisis of 1975, New York and its economy were restructured around tourism, high finance, luxury retail, and real estate. On the glittering surface, things had never looked better. By 2019, New York was richer than it had ever been before, its population at an all-time high and its forests of glass towers rising ever higher. Nearly 65 million tourists
  
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