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• Jérôme Bel: The Dance World Is Going Through A Major Change

  05-10-2020 23:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jérôme Bel has been impressed with the activist streak of younger artists. “They want to work without travelling the globe in the way my generation did,” he says. “The dance community is going through drastic change right now. It’s for us to adjust in order to remain in sync with a world in need of transformation.” – The Guardian
  
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• Study: Demand For Diverse TV Programming Outstrips Supply

  05-10-2020 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The study highlighted that audience demand for shows with diverse casts rose 113% from 2017 to 2019. Last year, the level of demand for shows with diverse casts was 17 times greater than the demand for the average U.S. TV show (it was eight times higher in 2017). – Los Angeles Times
  
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• What The Anti-Smoking Campaigns Can Teach Us About Regulating Social Media

  05-10-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The comparison is more than metaphorical. It’s a framework for thinking about how public opinion needs to shift so that the true costs of misinformation can be measured and policy can be changed. – MIT Technology Review
  
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• Nobel Literature Prize Has A Scandal-Plagued Few Years. Look For A “Safe” Choice This Year

  05-10-2020 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The prize has been mired in scandal since November 2017, when the Swedish Academy, which selects the winner, was caught up in sexual abuse and financial misconduct allegations, which resulted in the conviction of Jean-Claude Arnault, husband of academy member Katarina Frostenson, for rape in 2018. The following January, Frostenson left the Academy after she was found to be the source of leaks of previous winners. The Nobel was postponed in 2018 in the wake of the controversy, but found itself f
  
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• Female or Non-binary Actor/Voice Artist / The Gramophones Theatre Company / East Midlands

  05-10-2020 22:21
  The Gramophones Theatre Company are looking for an Actor/Voice Artist to record and perform live in our new show ANOTHER PLANET.
  ANOTHER PLANET is an audio experience where an adult and child (7+)...
  
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• What Small Movie Theatres Discovered After They Reopened

  05-10-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When we opened in June I had the No. 7 theater in the country. I thought that was cool.” Yet in subsequent weeks, attendance wasn’t enough to justify keeping the lights on. After just a few weeks back in business, Chris Johnson had to make what he refers to as a “heartbreaking” decision: He closed down his theaters. He doesn’t know, realistically, when he’ll be able to welcome customers again. “We found there was a core audience who came out righ
  
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• Led Zeppelin Wins Copyright Case Over “Stairway To Heaven”

  05-10-2020 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Supreme Court “denied a petition aimed at reviving the case, ending six years of litigation that the song’s writers, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, plagiarized the song’s iconic intro from the 1968 song “Taurus” by the group Spirit.” – Variety
  
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• Puppet Designer / Arden & Moore / London / London / Birmingham

  05-10-2020 21:28
  Freelance
  Fee: £3,000
   
  Development Fee (Stage One): £2,000
  Production Fee (Stage Two): £1,000
   
  Job Description:
  Stage One –...
  
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• Virtual Conference: Institutional Approaches to Sustainability / Art/Switch / London / Online

  05-10-2020 21:05
  October 31, 2020 from 4-7pm CET on zoom.Tickets are donation-based: https://www.artswitch.org/ticketing-1
  This conference is part of our virtual trilogy [re]Framing the Arts: A Sustainable...
  
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• London Nightclub Sues City Over COVID Lockdown: What’s The Scientific Basis?

  05-10-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Simpson Millar said the government had not provided any evidence to support the restriction, which “seems to lack any obvious rational or scientific basis”. Critics have said the measure is not only damaging to the hospitality sector but may actually be counterproductive, due to the large number of people gathering in the streets or homes after 10pm, or crowding onto public transport at the same time. – The Guardian
  
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• Education Manager / MAP Charity / Yorkshire

  05-10-2020 20:59
  MAP Charity is looking for an Education Manager to join our growing team. If you have management experience, like working as part of a small team and are passionate about supporting young people to...
  
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• Philip Guston Bluster: Why It’s Wise to Postpone a Show Depicting Cartoonish Ku Klux Klan Figures

  05-10-2020 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Knowing that I’m sticking my head into a lion’s mouth, I strongly disagree with sanctimonious art critics, artists and scholars who have piled on against a decision by four museum directors to postpone (not to cancel) their Philip Guston Now retrospective. – Lee Rosenbaum
  
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• Casting Call // The Snow Queen // Winter 2020/21 Tour / Frankly Speaking Productions / South East

  05-10-2020 20:31
  Frankly Speaking Productions is seeking three exceptional dancers for its new production: a contemporary ballet adaptation of The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen.Celebrated as one of...
  
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• Is NYC’s The New Museum “A Sweatshop”?

  05-10-2020 20:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  A former finance director says Ms. Phillips told her to mislead the museum’s board about a cash shortfall. Art handlers say they were forced to work overnight at times to meet onerous deadlines. A former exhibitions director says that when the museum could not locate a work of art, its top officials suggested just making a copy, without telling the artist. – The New York Times
  
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• AOP Awards 2020 - Finalists Exhibition and Winners Announcement / Association of Photographers / London / Worldwide

  05-10-2020 20:17
  The AOP Awards 2020 finalists exhibition is now live! View over 350 exceptional works of photography and moving image.  
  Each year the AOP Awards celebrates the best in established and...
  
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• Artist Mentors / SPACE / London

  05-10-2020 20:10
  Number of posts: 2Part-Time, Fixed Term Contract until 31 Oct 2021 Working hours: 1 day per weekLocation: Remote working until further notice; otherwise, SPACE Ilford and other London...
  
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• Volunteer Oral History Interviewer / Communicating Connections, Essex Record Office / South East

  05-10-2020 20:08
  'Communicating Connections' is an oral history based community heritage project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, with contributions from Essex 2020 and the Friends of Historic Essex. It...
  
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• How Reading Habits Have Changed During COVID

  05-10-2020 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  While it’s still relatively early to see the influence of the coronavirus and the lockdown on creative industries, there were some striking patterns in media consumption in the early part of the pandemic. – The Conversation
  
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• LA’s Center Theatre Group Creates A New Digital Stage

  05-10-2020 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  CTG Artistic Director Michael Ritchie said in an interview that he would like to make the Digital Stage a permanent fixture, even after the threat of the coronavirus fades. The hope is that the kind of work appearing on the Digital Stage will transcend COVID-related restrictions to establish a new language for theater. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Art Technician - Hillingdon Secondary School / Love Teachers / London

  05-10-2020 19:20
  Love Teachers is currently working with a secondary school in Hillingdon, which is looking for an Art Technician, to join them part time from November 2020, 1-2 days a week,...
  
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• Exhibitions Curator and Events Coordinator / Anise Gallery / London

  05-10-2020 19:19
  We are looking for a dynamic, experienced and passionate individual to join our team at a senior level. Our ideal candidate will have at least a year or two of post graduate experience in the arts...
  
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• Trustees - various expertise / Museum of Cambridge / East / Cambridge

  05-10-2020 19:17
  The Museum of Cambridge is recruiting for Trustees and seeks expertise in several fields including:Treasurer and financial management (see separate listing)
  Business development and...
  
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• Treasurer Trustee / Museum of Cambridge / East / Cambridge

  05-10-2020 19:14
  The Museum of Cambridge is recruiting for a new Treasurer to join our Board of Trustees
  Our Museum is for and about Cambridge. We are a popular visitor destination and play an important role in the...
  
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• Mellon Foundation Gives $250 Million To Reimagine Monuments

  05-10-2020 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Monuments Project, the largest initiative in the foundation’s 50-year history, will support the creation of new monuments, as well as the relocation or rethinking of existing ones. And it defines “monument” broadly to include not just memorials, statues and markers but also “storytelling spaces,” as the foundation puts it, like museums and art installations. – The New York Times
  
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• An Introduction to The Science of Acting - 2 Evenings a Week / The School of The Science of Acting / London

  05-10-2020 18:49
  An  opportunity to discover The Science of Acting a unique acting technique taught by experienced tutors who are professional actors and directors.  This is the only school in the world...
  
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• Marketing & Communications Manager / The Architecture Centre / South West / Bristol

  05-10-2020 18:47
  Job Title: Marketing & Communications Manager
  Employment Basis: 30 hours per week (0.8 FTE, we will consider 0.6 – 0.8 FTE)
  Salary: £28,000 – £32,000 pro...
  
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• A new take on old masters | Brief letters

  05-10-2020 18:33
  
  Working from home | Breastfeeding | Staycations | Guardian bookshop | Old mistressIt comes as no surprise that Covid-19 has changed UK working patterns for good (Report, 5 October). I look forward to seeing this new army of homeworkers organising to encourage employers to subsidise internet connections, utility bills, office furniture and computer paraphernalia. Above all, companies must fulfil their duty of care, with particular attention to mental health issues and workplace assessments.Andrew
  
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• The “Structural” Color That Comes From Butterflies And Could Cool Cities

  05-10-2020 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cypris Materials has created a paint inspired by blue morpho butterfly wings, which get their color from blue lightwaves reflecting off the nanostructure of the wings themselves (up close you’ll see they’re actually translucent). Like butterfly wings, Cypris’ paint works through reflection, so color comes from particular lightwaves that reflect off the nanostructure of the paint. In short, this paint functions through structural color rather than chemical pigments or dyes. &nd
  
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• Theatre Administrator / Lowther Pavilion Theatre / North West

  05-10-2020 18:24
  Lowther Pavilion Theatre is looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and highly organised Theatre Administrator to thoroughly support the administration of the Lowther Pavilion and to provide...
  
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• Camp Assistant / The Hive / London

  05-10-2020 18:20
  The Hive is a fast-growing education company focused on Outdoor Learning. We run workshops for children, families and grown-ups. The Hive is unique in the UK, bringing together outdoor learning,...
  
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• Lead Facilitator Stories & Adventures / The Hive / London

  05-10-2020 18:13
  The Hive is a fast-growing education company focused on Outdoor Learning. We run workshops for children, families and grown-ups. The Hive is unique in the UK, bringing together outdoor learning,...
  
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• Bruce Nauman review – 'I have no doubt of his greatness'

  05-10-2020 18:11
  
  Tate Modern, London
  Featuring funny walks, shouting, inertia, banality, sex, detritus and an abject clown, this retrospective of the pioneering video artist’s career is a disturbing thrill Even before you get to Bruce Nauman’s exhibition at Tate Modern, he’s there. Washing his hands in a two-monitor video installed on the ground floor that inverts the same ritual, the same suds, the same palms and fingers kneading water and soap. Nauman’s voices follow you up and down the
  
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• London’s Royal Academy Considers Selling Michelangelo Sculpture To Save Jobs

  05-10-2020 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Considered to be a national treasure, “The Virgin and Child with the Infant St. John” (c. 1504–1505) is the only marble sculpture by Michelangelo in the country. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Kinky Boots The Musical at Blackpool Grand Theatre April 2021 / Blackpool Grand Theatre / North West

  05-10-2020 17:44
  Blackpool Operatic Players present Kinky Boots. Charlie Price has reluctantly inherited his father’s shoe factory, which is on the verge of bankruptcy. Trying to live up to his father’s...
  
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• Tom Stoppard’s Charmed Life

  05-10-2020 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Stoppard sails through customs: his charm – not the calculated sort – fuels his success. Friends and acquaintances are almost comically diverse: Harold Pinter, Mick Jagger, Samuel Beckett, Princess Margaret, Kenneth Tynan, Steven Spielberg … No one is charm-proof (including Lee), although the charm is impermeable, making her task harder. The great man continues not to see himself as one. He is happiest drifting into a writing day. And once a play goes into rehearsal, he is no
  
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• Associate Artists For Schools Partnership Project - 4 Roles / Stan's Cafe Theatre Company / West Midlands

  05-10-2020 17:28
  Internationally acclaimed innovative theatre company seeks theatre makers to help deliver a creative learning programme in Birmingham primary schools.
  Following a successful application to the Paul...
  
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• Why Do We Let Social Media Control Us?

  05-10-2020 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jill Lepore: “Things are briefly upended by new technologies before finding a new equilibrium. With social media, that equilibrium has not happened. The question is how do you repair the fabric of democracy when the technology is itself built to polarise us? It is like we have built a perfect trap for ourselves. That is what leaves me so frankly terrified.” – The Guardian
  
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• Access Worker / Stopgap Dance Company / South East / Farnham

  05-10-2020 16:58
  Stopgap Dance Company creates inclusive productions with disabled and non-disabled dancers for national and international touring. The company receives core NPO funding from Arts Council England to...
  
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• New Exhibition - When Brands Take a Stand - Open Now / Museum of Brands / London

  05-10-2020 16:48
  Our new exhibition is now open! When Brands Take a Stand presents TV commercials, posters and packaging to function as a platform for these questions.
  Brands and advertising have the power to...
  
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• Writing Non-Fiction (webinar) / in partnership with the British Library / London / all (webinar)

  05-10-2020 16:39
  13th Oct 10am-1pm (Video available afterwards to ticket-holders if you cannot attend). £35
  Many people would like to write a non-fiction book: from memoirs to business or how-to books, but...
  
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• Soon DeepFake Video Might Throw Doubt On Historic Events Of The Past

  05-10-2020 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  This new technology doesn’t just threaten our present discourse. Soon, AI-generated synthetic media may reach into the past and sow doubt into the authenticity of historical events, potentially destroying the credibility of records left behind in our present digital era. – Fast Company
  
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• Audition Notice / Jasmin Vardimon Company / South East

  05-10-2020 16:18
  Jasmin Vardimon Company are looking for versatile performers with strong technique and theatrical ability to join their new creation and tour. Contract from March 2021.
  Where: Due to...
  
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• Senior Relationship Manager, Strategic Partnerships x 6 / Arts Council England / West Midlands / Nationwide

  05-10-2020 16:14
  If you are interested in applying for one of the post please visit our recruitment website
  https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/news-and-jobs/jobs-and-careers-0
  Senior Relationship Manager, Strategic...
  
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• Greenpeace drops 1.5-ton rock outside Defra HQ in fishing protest

  05-10-2020 16:06
  
  Sculpture is part of group’s direct action campaign against illegal fishing in North SeaSecurity had been told to expect an artwork for the secretary of state at 9am. Perhaps they were not expecting it to be an enormous chunk of granite painted with squid ink and so heavy it will need a crane to remove.The artist Fiona Banner and a team from Greenpeace deposited the 1.5-ton artwork outside the Westminster offices of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) on Monday.
  
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• China Is Planning A Giant New Green City Run By AI

  05-10-2020 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  This data would be used to inform various aspects of city planning, including security systems and tourist areas. As more data is collected and analysed by the AI, the city will be continuously “upgraded”. – Dezeen
  
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• Safeguarding Officer / Brass Bands England / Yorkshire

  05-10-2020 16:01
  (Part-time post: up to 17.5 hours per week) Salary: £25,000 per annum pro-rata (up to £12,500 actual) 
  Based either at the successful applicant’s home or at BBE’s...
  
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• Head of Commercial Operations / Manchester Jewish Museum / North West

  05-10-2020 15:57
  We’re looking for a Head of Commercial Operations to create and manage new catering, retail, corporate hire and membership offers as we get ready to reopen next year, following a major...
  
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• Open Call: Join the Without Walls Artistic Directorate / Without Walls / North West / National

  05-10-2020 15:44
  Without Walls are looking for festivals and arts organisations to join the Without Walls Artistic Directorate (AD), which includes some of the UK’s most regarded outdoor arts...
  
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• Freelance Artists / The Lowry / North West / Lancs

  05-10-2020 15:31
  The Lowry are looking for artists to deliver exciting arts programmes focused on improving wellbeing and increasing the life chances of young people in Salford, both in person and online.
   
  We...
  
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• A Pocket History Of All The Times Hollywood Has Died

  05-10-2020 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  In fact, morbidity is an old habit in Hollywood. The trick is to know what is really an existential threat—this one certainly seems real—and what is just another stage death in an industry that is forever deciding the show is finally over. – Deadline
  
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