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• JK Rowling Under Attack For Character In Her New Book

  15-09-2020 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Penned under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood is Rowling’s fifth book to feature private investigator Cormoran Strike. An early review of the book by Telegraph writer Jake Kerridge described it as featuring a “transvestite serial killer,” which inspired readers’ anger and spawned the Twitter hashtag #RIPJKRowling — a tongue-in-cheek commentary on the author’s career. – CBC
  
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• US Senate Report On Money Laundering Contains Warning For Art Market

  15-09-2020 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Focusing on purchases of art from major auction houses by Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, two Russian nationals described as ‘oligarchs’ by the report, the Subcommittee makes a series of pronouncements about the supposed prevalence of money laundering in the art market, and the need for regulation to address this perceived problem. – Apollo
  
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• Virtual Theatre As An Opportunity Space

  15-09-2020 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We’re working with authors, artists and companies we’ve always wanted to and reaching audiences around the world in numbers that would be completely unattainable with previous ways of working. This is our working practice now. It’s not an addition – it is the core.” – The Stage
  
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• Seasonal Welcome Team - Audience Assistants / Nottingham Playhouse / East Midlands / Nottingham

  15-09-2020 22:19
  We’ve been closed to the public since the end of March and can’t wait to re-open this autumn. We are now looking for friendly and confident people from all communities in our city to join...
  
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• Clarinetist Anthony McGill Wins $100,000 Avery Fisher Prize

  15-09-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mr. McGill was the Philharmonic’s first Black principal musician when he joined in 2014; he is currently its only Black player. He appears at David Geffen Hall and elsewhere as a concerto soloist, and is in a trio with his brother, Demarre McGill — the principal flute of the Seattle Symphony — and the pianist Michael McHale. In 2009, he performed at Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration. – The New York Times
  
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• The Wagner Problem

  15-09-2020 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  By making music ideological and semantic in new ways, Wagner made it much easier to talk and write about—which is one reason why he has always been so appealing to intellectuals. A book like Alex Ross’s Wagnerism, a survey of Wagner’s influence on art and ideas over the last 150 years, could not be written about any other composer. – The New Republic
  
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• Wooden Melania Trump statue replaced with bronze after arson attack

  15-09-2020 21:28
  
  Original carving near US first lady’s hometown in Slovenia was badly damaged in fireA bronze statue of the US first lady, Melania Trump, has been unveiled near her hometown in Slovenia, to replace a wooden carving of her that was burnt in an arson attack two months ago.The new work – like the original – is a collaboration between Brad Downey, a Berlin-based artist from Louisville, Kentucky, and a local craftsman, Ales “Maxi” Zupevc, who have invited residents of Mel
  
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• Bill T. Jones Dances With Rice

  15-09-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Well, to be truthful, it’s his performers who are engaging the grain directly. Artist Lee Mingwei’s performance installation Our Labyrinth, a meditative ritual in which performers sweep a mound of rice across a floor, has arrived at the Met Museum. Met Live Arts director Limor Tomer got the idea to add movement by Jones, who says he isn’t changing Lee’s piece but rather “infecting” it. – The New York Times
  
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• Alex Ross: Classical Music Grapples With Race

  15-09-2020 20:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Since nationwide protests over police violence erupted, in May and June, American culture has been engaged in an examination, however nominal, of its relationship with racism. Such an examination is sorely needed in classical music, because of its extreme dependence on a problematic past. – The New Yorker
  
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• Catering Manager / The Hepworth Wakefield / Yorkshire

  15-09-2020 20:19
  Catering Manager
  c. £28,000 per annum
  Full-time – 37 hours per week
  Permanent contract
  The Hepworth Wakefield has welcomed over 2.3 million visitors since opening in May 2011 and is...
  
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• Old White Lighthouse Gets Wildly Colorful New Paint Job (And Some Critics Blanch)

  15-09-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For almost a century, the lighthouse, near the Cantabrian town of Ajo, was a mute, monochrome sentry beaming its light out over the Atlantic. Now … the 16-metre tower is a collision of colours, geometric shapes and animals, which is intended to boost visitor numbers to one of the lesser known spots on the [northern] coast of Spain.” – The Guardian
  
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• Arts Marketing and Operations Role / Oaktree & Tiger/Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize / London

  15-09-2020 20:02
  Oaktree & Tiger manages the annual Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize (www.artprize.co.uk), an international competition now in its 7th year. It is sponsored by a top international law firm, Ashurst...
  
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• Business Support Officer / The Hepworth Wakefield / Yorkshire

  15-09-2020 19:52
  £22,000 (pro rata)
  Part-time – 22.5 hours per week
  Fixed-term contract – up to 12 months
  The Hepworth Wakefield has welcomed over 2.3 million visitors since opening in May 2011...
  
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• Virtual 10 Week Creative Space / Space Clarence Mews / London / Internationally

  15-09-2020 19:39
  OCTOBER 5th – DECEMBER 13th 2020
  Artists working in and across all performance practices - Choreographers, composers, directors, writers, maker-performers.
  Delve, draft, test, question,...
  
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• The “Festival Of Brexit” – Will It Really Bring The Country Together?

  15-09-2020 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ever since Theresa May announced a huge national event celebrating our departure from the EU, set for 2022 and with a budget of £120m, it’s acquired that nickname, suggestive of drizzle, stale pies and being forced to listen to Rule Britannia (with the words) on loop. Even the organisers are keen to stress that the current working title is actually Festival UK. – The Guardian
  
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• Extended: Open Call for Submissions, House Letters Issue 3 / / London

  15-09-2020 19:06
  In the hope of collecting more submissions (particularly written works), the open call for House Letters Issue 3 has been extended to Sunday 27 September. BAME applicants and those from...
  
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• As Ever More Viewing Happens Online, Will The French Drift Away From Dubbed Films And TV?

  15-09-2020 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As streaming platforms take over more and more of the screen time in France, some fear the curtain will fall over the French dubbing industry as more people get used to watching subtitled versions of films rather than the VF (version française).” In fact, the voice-over/dubbing industry is growing, with demand for its services high. Here’s why. – The Local (France)
  
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• Marketing and Content Assistant / Carpenters Workshop Gallery / London / Mayfair

  15-09-2020 19:03
  This role ensures that all activity within the marketing plan is coordinated / administrated in a timely and seamless manner, ensuring that each key stakeholder’s marketing needs are met...
  
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• Puppetry Intern / Little Angel Theatre / London

  15-09-2020 18:55
  The Little Angel Theatre are seeking a Puppetry intern to join their thriving and creative team. The placement will involve learning basic making and performance puppetry skills as well as the skills...
  
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• Choreographer / Frankly Speaking Productions / South East

  15-09-2020 18:40
  We are seeking an exceptional choreographer to join us for our latest production: a contemporary ballet adaptation of The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen. 
  Known as one of Andersen's best...
  
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• The Puzzling Connection of Translating Our Thoughts Into Words

  15-09-2020 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The gulf between our solitary thoughts and the words that would convey them to others constantly confronts us all. The thoughts we struggle to articulate might be as momentous as a transformative moral epiphany or as ordinary as an insight into a movie or the hurtful behaviour of a friend. – Aeon
  
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• Make a solo performance - Online Course / Facciocose / London / Nationwide

  15-09-2020 18:08
  Do you still want to make theatre during Covid-19?
  This "Make a solo performance Course" is a space to learn dramaturgy and devising methodologies to explore new ways to make theatre during...
  
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• Online Physical Theatre Course / Facciocose / London / Nationwide

  15-09-2020 18:05
  This Online Physical Theatre Course explores the fundamentals of Jacques Lecoq’s Techniques and Physical Theatre.
  We use Physical Theatre as a tool to expand the possibilities of our bodies...
  
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• Goodreads Is A Hopeless, Malfunctioning Mess. Is There Another Option?

  15-09-2020 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The site was a great idea when it was launched in 2007; by 2013, when Amazon bought it, there were 15 million users. But the new owners seem to have done little with it: users frequently can’t find titles they want or get messages sent to other members; the site design “is like a teenager’s 2005 Myspace page”; Amazon either can’t or hasn’t bothered to create an algorithm that doesn’t spit out countless irrelevant recommendations. “But new competit
  
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• More than 300 artists sign letter in support of striking Tate workers

  15-09-2020 17:52
  
  Signatories call on organisation to use 10% of £7m government fund to stop redundancies
  An open letter signed by more than 300 artists, including several former Turner prize winners, in support of striking Tate workers has demanded the organisation uses 10% of the £7m it received from the government to stop redundancies.Last year’s four Turner prize winners, 2008 winner Mark Leckey and fourth plinth artist Heather Phillipson are among the signatories, who support the letter whi
  
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• Human Resources Coordinator / Dance City / North East / Newcastle upon Tyne

  15-09-2020 17:47
  Are you an experienced Human Resources professional looking for an exciting new role in a leading North East cultural organisation?
  If so, we need you at Dance City to support us in all aspects of...
  
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• Study: Listening To Mozart As A Treatment For Epilepsy

  15-09-2020 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  They found that listening to Mozart, especially on a daily basis, led to a significant reduction in epileptic seizures, and also to a reduced frequency of abnormal brain activities in epileptic patients (called interictal epileptiform discharges, which are commonly seen in epileptic patients). These effects occurred after a single listening session and were maintained after a prolonged period of treatment. – Eureka
  
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• Making Romance Languages Gender-Neutral Is A Tricky Business, But Some Folks Are Trying

  15-09-2020 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  English has some nouns and adjectives that apply strictly to one gender, but the languages descended from Latin are full of them, especially when referring to occupations. Here’s how some queer activists and linguists are trying to address that issue in Spanish (notably in Argentina), Portuguese, French, Italian, Catalan, and (trickiest of all) Romanian. – Global Voices
  
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• Young Photographers Programme / Brighton Photo Fringe / South East

  15-09-2020 16:42
  Projecting Power: Photography as Activism - Young Photographers Programme
  We are calling for applications for a free Photo Fringe photography project for young people of colour aged 16 to 21....
  
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• Curators Training Programme / Brighton Photo Fringe / South East

  15-09-2020 16:36
  We invite early-career curators to apply to a unique and free professional development programme to develop their professional skills through hands on experience delivering this year’s...
  
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• Terence Conran, Whose Stores Brought Contemporary Design To The General Public, Dead At 88

  15-09-2020 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Before Martha Stewart and Marie Kondo were giving advice on household design, before Julia Child was teaching the art of French cooking on television, there was Terence Conran. … He took his ideas around the world and once owned an empire of 90 stores with annual revenue of more than $2 billion. Calling himself a ‘hard-working hedonist,’ he opened more than 50 restaurants, wrote more than 40 books, ran a design studio and later an architecture and urban planning firm.
  
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• Time To Stop Apologizing For Online Performances And Start Turning Them Into A New Genre

  15-09-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Peter Dobrin: “We should think of this as a research-and-development phase long overdue. Online performances won’t sink or swim based on how well they replicate live ones. … More important … is the question of whether a new breed of production designers and directors can give viewer-listeners something different from live performance.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• How Do London’s Theatre Workers Feel About Reopening Before The Virus Is Contained?

  15-09-2020 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Relieved. Worried. Excited. Frustrated. In short, ambivalent. “Performers are constantly living on the edge, even without COVID so now there’s even more pressure than ever to get back to work.” – The Guardian
  
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• Call for Entries! (November 2020) / Art Hole / East / North East, North West, Yorkshire, East Midlands, West Midlands, South East, South West, London

  15-09-2020 15:22
  Art Hole is an independent artist-run and ad-free international print and online publication dedicated to showcasing and promoting experimental and progressive contemporary art, which reflects modern...
  
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• London’s West End Starts Announcing Reopenings, Even As COVID Cases Rise

  15-09-2020 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The theatrical corporation Nimax announced that it would open the doors of six of its West End theatres, restarting such shows as Six (the pop musical about Henry VIII’s wives), The Play That Goes Wrong, and Magic Goes Wrong at roughly half the usual seating capacity. – The New York Times
  
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• Boston Symphony Musicians Accept 37% Pay Cut In New Contract

  15-09-2020 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In ratifying a new contract guaranteeing their jobs through August of 2023, BSO players have agreed to pay cuts averaging 37% … to mitigate a $50 million loss of ticket and rental revenue from the organization’s $100 million annual budget. If and when monies re-materialize, the contract provides for tiered, and possibly retroactive, restoration of the cuts. … Under the plan, no player shall receive less than $120,000, and many will continue to benefit from seniority b
  
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• Incoming Director Of Chicago Public Radio Withdraws Over ‘Turmoil’ At Her Previous Station

  15-09-2020 14:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[Andi] McDaniel, 39, a [Chicago-area] native who spent the last five years as chief content officer at WAMU-FM, Washington’s NPR station, was set to take the helm at WBEZ Sept. 28. … During the interim, her former station was rocked by allegations of sexual harassment by a former reporter, and complaints about the station’s workplace culture.” – MSN (Chicago Tribune)
  
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• Actors for Street Theatre & Digital Storytelling Experience / Paperwork Theatre / North West

  15-09-2020 14:03
  5 dynamic Actors needed for Paperwork Theatre & The Bookworm Players' production of Twisted, a live storytelling trail taking place across libraries in Liverpool this October. We need a...
  
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• People Support Manager / Science Museum Group / Yorkshire

  15-09-2020 13:59
  Are you passionate about HR service excellence and developing high performing teams?
  As part of our commitment to deliver an excellent service to our people and ensure our organisation has the...
  
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• Audiobooks and Character Voices, an online class / Theatre Gym / Online

  15-09-2020 13:32
  Audiobook narration is its own performing art, and it's a ton of fun!In audiobooks, one narrator usually plays the protagonist and all the characters, often switching voices quickly, reading both...
  
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• Emerging Film Maker - Black History Month / London Borough of Newham / London

  15-09-2020 13:14
  London Borough of Newham's Youth Empowerment Service is seeking an emerging film maker to shoot and edit 5 short interviews which will be part of our ongoing Role Models project, launching in Black...
  
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• Bard Online - October Half-Term 2020 / Theatre Workout / London / National

  15-09-2020 12:48
  Theatre Workout Academy is running an online drama course for students studying GCSE or A-Level English Literature or Drama who want to get ahead with their Shakespeare studies, exploring...
  
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• Storytelling for Adults: Merfolk Tales from Trinidad & Tobago / William Morris Gallery / London

  15-09-2020 12:46
  12th November 2020. 7.30pm to 8pm
  Inspired by William Morris’s Mermaid design at the Gallery's Works In Progress exhibition, professional storyteller Wendy Shearer has been invited to...
  
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• Records and Archive Manager / Acme Artists Studios Ltd / London

  15-09-2020 12:45
  We are seeking an individual with experience of archives and record management to join our team as Records and Archive Manager (3 days / 21 hours per week) on a fixed term contract basis for three...
  
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• October Half Term Online Courses / Theatre Workout / London / National

  15-09-2020 12:42
  Theatre WorkoutAcademyis running a part-time online course during the October half-term holiday based on Screen Acting for children aged 7-13 years, ideal for young performers of all...
  
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• Z-Crits / Artquest / London / UK

  15-09-2020 12:39
  Z-Crits is a project that seeks to support artists during lock down by providing an online space for them to connect, share work and reflect on the challenges of working at the current...
  
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• Drum Tutor / Tonbridge Drum Studio / South East

  15-09-2020 12:34
  Tonbridge drum studio is an extremely popular teaching studio located in the heart of Tonbridge town centre. Since opening in September 2017 we have been fully subscribed for lessons. We are now...
  
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• Danh Vo: Chicxulub review – art from the Garden of Eden to the end of the world

  15-09-2020 11:24
  
  White Cube Bermondsey, London
  Ancient sculptures combine with plants and human limbs in Vō’s pastoral yet troubling art for the apocalypseIt is just a year since Danh Vo’s two interrelated London exhibitions. Now he is back in the city with a show whose tenor is quieter, more reflective, somehow almost pastoral: except that the disquiet in Vō’s art never goes away.Partway through the current exhibition I found myself on my hands and knees, surrounded by huge felt tubs
  
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• Danh Vō: Chicxulub review – art from the Garden of Eden to the end of the world

  15-09-2020 11:24
  
  White Cube Bermondsey, London
  Ancient sculptures combine with plants and human limbs in Vō’s pastoral yet troubling art for the apocalypseIt is just a year since Danh Vō’s two interrelated London exhibitions. Now he is back in the city with a show whose tenor is quieter, more reflective, somehow almost pastoral: except that the disquiet in Vō’s art never goes away.Partway through the current exhibition I found myself on my hands and knees, surrounded by huge felt
  
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• Call out: Festival of work-in-progress Children's Theatre / Tramshed / London

  15-09-2020 10:36
  We are looking for 4 emerging companies/ artists, each to present a ten-min work-in-progress of a children's show for 8-11s in our Generator Kids in Focus Scratch Event.
  This is part of the...
  
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