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• This Year’s National Book Award Nominees

  06-10-2020 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Publishers submitted a total of 1,692 books for this year’s National Book Awards: 388 in Fiction, 609 in Nonfiction, 254 in Poetry, 130 in Translated Literature, and 311 in Young People’s Literature. – National Book Awards
  
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• Of Curtain Speeches, Raising Support And Being Human

  06-10-2020 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In all cases, as nonprofits, for Pete’s sake, just do something measurably impactful without resorting to counting the number of butts in seats, how many jobs you provided, and your economic impact on the community at large. If you do, people will get it and support you. If you don’t, you’ll lead the Irrelevance Day Parade.” – 501c3 Guru
  
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• How Black Artists Are Investing In The Next Generation

  06-10-2020 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Artists who have benefited either directly or indirectly from the Studio Museum’s famous residency program—as well as from an art market that is no longer undervaluing their work as much as it has in the past—are building spaces of their own to strengthen the infrastructure available to artists of color. – Artnet
  
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• Break Zoom (Theatrically)

  06-10-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Even “live” is up for debate or redefinition. Does “live” mean in person, breathing the same air? Or does it mean, like, live TV news, that it’s happening now, simultaneously? We’re also learning to define online spaces. Are you and I in the same space now? We’re in the same Zoom room. – Howlround
  
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• The Man Who Would Replace LACMA

  06-10-2020 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Peter Zumthor, who despises monuments, finds himself responsible for a building intended to anchor a diffuse and sporadically planned city, where the forests catch fire every fall. A year ago, when I visited him in Haldenstein, an ancient village in the low Alps where he lives and has his atelier, it seemed to him as if the project might, at the final moment, fail, and ruin his good name. He was despondent, familiarly so. “Maybe it happens, maybe it won’t,” he told me.
  
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• This Year’s MacArthur “Genius” Award Winners

  06-10-2020 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Known colloquially as the “genius” grant (to the annoyance of the foundation, which sees “genius” as a much different concept than creativity), this year’s fellows include writers, performing artists, scientists and academics. There is a wide range of specialties encompassed in the list. – The New York Times
  
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• 'We step outside and start to dance' launches soon / / North East / National

  06-10-2020 20:40
  We step outside and start to dance is a new immersive audio experience written by award-winning North East playwright Alison Carr (The Last Quiz Night on Earth, UK Tour; Iris, Live Theatre), which...
  
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• The Power Books Wielded In The Middle Ages

  06-10-2020 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The written word wielded power in part because of the rarity of the skills required to comprehend it, let alone compose in it. In the later Middle Ages, books were produced in increasing quantities for increasingly diverse audiences, but even then, as earlier, in Christendom, literacy was always the reserve of the few. – Lapham’s Quarterly
  
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• Tokyo’s Transparent Public Toilets Were Designed By A Pritzker Prize Winner

  06-10-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Yes, these colorful, see-through stalls turn opaque when occupied. When not, you can literally see right through them. … The architect behind these one-of-a-kind Tokyo toilets is Shigeru Ban, winner of none other than the Pritzker Prize, the world’s most prestigious architectural prize. And when you take a deeper look into the work of the architects behind these transparent restrooms, the source of such creativity becomes more than obvious.” – Metropolis (Tokyo)
  
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• Why Conservatives Should Support Aid For The Arts

  06-10-2020 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Arts audiences are passionate and, especially in turbulent times, hunger for the fulfillment that a transcendent performance can bring. Even skeptics of government funding for the arts should support making those experiences possible again. As no less a conservative than Winston Churchill once said, “The arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them.” – Washington Post
  
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• Mezzotint Masterclass with Master Printmaker Ali Yanya / Morley College London - Chelsea Centre / London

  06-10-2020 19:23
  Among many printmaking techniques and processes, mezzotint (half-tone) in particular stands out when it comes to creating rich, velvety blacks, and delicate, soft mid-greys. It is a perfect medium...
  
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• The 100 Most Influential Sequences In The History Of Animation

  06-10-2020 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We chose the deliberately flexible element of a ‘sequence’ because it felt the most focused: It is often in one inspired moment, more so than a single frame or entire work, that we are able to see the form progress. … This list is not intended to be comprehensive. One hundred is a crushingly compact number of slots with which to encapsulate the totality of a medium. That isn’t to say we didn’t try.” – Vulture
  
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• The School of Broadcasting: Call for Participants / Arts Catalyst / Yorkshire / Online

  06-10-2020 18:58
  As part of Radio Arts Catalyst, Arts Catalyst is excited to launch an opportunity to participate in the School of Broadcasting - an audio-centric space for listening, mapping and...
  
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• Partnership Manager, Greater London / Creative & Cultural Skills / London

  06-10-2020 18:54
  Creative & Cultural Skills works to create a fair and skilled cultural sector by shaping skills, education and employment best practice. We provoke action and enable learning opportunities...
  
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• Report: Arts Engagement In UK Same As It Was 15 Years Ago

  06-10-2020 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  This despite campaigns to increase engagement. Older people are least likely to engage, say the data. – Arts Professional
  
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• Death Of Young Bollywood Actor Has Completely Obsessed India

  06-10-2020 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “News outlets have focused on every twist in a tale” — the apparent suicide of 34-year-old Sushant Singh Rajput, and the blame and abuse that have been hurled at his girlfriend — “that … has puzzled and infuriated social critics. With hard proof lacking, they say, the investigation and coverage appear to be fueled by institutional misogyny, a taboo against discussion of mental health issues and an increasingly partisan news media.” – The New York
  
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• Astronomy Education Assistant (Maternity Cover) / Royal Museums Greenwich / London

  06-10-2020 18:04
  The Science Learning & Public Engagement department at the Royal Observatory Greenwich (ROG) is looking for a creative and diligent individual to take on the role of Astronomy Education Assistant...
  
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• Damien Hirst review – just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water

  06-10-2020 17:33
  
  Newport Street Gallery, LondonShark tanks, cow’s heads, feasting flies and pill bottles … Hirst’s death-obsessed early work hits home just as hard now disease is all around usThere was widespread disgust a couple of years ago when Damien Hirst unveiled paintings consisting of thousands of butterflies trapped in acrylic. All I can say is, if you share that revulsion at the use of dead animals to make art, you may want to avoid this spectacular survey of his early work.It begins
  
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• Adam Smith On The Perils Of Sympathizing

  06-10-2020 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sympathy, Smith believed, was inseparable from imagination and from reasoning. We can’t access what other people feel. Instead, we imagine what other people must be feeling, or rather what we believe that we would feel if we were in their position. – Psyche
  
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• Yes, Reading Is Important, But It’s Not A Moral Good In Itself

  06-10-2020 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Katherine Gaudet on trying to make children into lifelong readers: “I teach humanities courses to undergraduates; I facilitate reading groups at public libraries; I have seen over and over how engagement with literature leads to understanding, empathy, and exploration. What I don’t believe in anymore is the moral undertone of reading promotion: that people who read for pleasure are more good and more deserving than those who don’t.” – Literary Hub
  
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• Chair to Board of Trustees / Phoenix Art Space / South East

  06-10-2020 16:56
  Phoenix Art Space wishes to appoint a new Chair to our Board of Trustees.
  Phoenix Art Space is a charitable (not-for-profit) arts organisation based in the heart of the City of Brighton & Hove....
  
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• 'They called her a crazy witch': did medium Hilma af Klint invent abstract art?

  06-10-2020 16:53
  
  Years before Kandinsky, the Swedish artist was painting circles, sunbursts and looping lines – instructed, she believed, by spirits. Now, over 75 years since her death, she is being recognised as a pioneer In 1971, the art critic Linda Nochlin wrote an essay called Why have there been no great women artists? The question may be based on a false premise: there have been, we just didn’t get to see their work.The visionary Swedish artist Hilma af Klint exemplifies this clearly, argues H
  
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• Learning & Engagement Apprentice / Warwick District Council / West Midlands

  06-10-2020 16:46
  Point 1 = £4.55 an hour, £168.35 a week, £8,778 a year – initial salary for all new starters for the first 12 months of the apprenticeship Progression of pay after 12...
  
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• How Online Theatre And Its Audience Are Changing Each Other

  06-10-2020 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Our great crisis, the coronavirus, forces us to watch plays alone, in the crannies of our homes, instead of drawing us into proximity with strangers. Our current government, unlike that led by Franklin Roosevelt, doesn’t see a connection between economic privation, social estrangement, and the kind of nourishment that can come only through an encounter with art — and has no sense of responsibility to encourage the flourishing of art and public life. And so, in a very real way
  
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• Playing In The First Post-COVID Rehearsal Of A Socially-Distanced Orchestra

  06-10-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As live music begins to make a cautious comeback, Matthew Bain, a freelance violinist with the London Philharmonic and Philharmonia amongst other ensembles, shares his experience of returning to orchestral playing.” – The Strad
  
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• CHASM programme / CLAY: Centre for Live Art Yorkshire / Yorkshire

  06-10-2020 15:43
  CHASM programme: Live artworks and performances searching for intimacy in a time of social isolation
  Remote artworks that you can experience in your own home from Amy Lawrence, Ellie Harrison,...
  
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• Using Limestone Remnants Of Ancient Greek Sculptures To Make New Reproductions: Okay Or Not Okay?

  06-10-2020 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  2,600 years ago, the world’s largest Doric temple to Zeus stood in southwestern Sicily, and its façades incorporated 38 towering statues of Atlas, seeming to hold up the roof the way the Titan held up the sky. All but one of those statues have long since fallen to pieces, but the monument’s director wants to use pieces of the ruins to reproduce eight of the ancient Atlas figures and incorporate them into a contemporary sculpture. Archaeologists are appalled. – The New Y
  
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• Workshop Manager / Teamleader / Circulum Art Services Ltd / London

  06-10-2020 15:31
  Circulum Art Services is a leading supplier of bespoke and production based resin cast sculpture and interior design products, based in West London. We also specialise in providing support services...
  
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• Violin Teacher / Learning Music / East

  06-10-2020 15:11
  Location: Between Cambridge and Norwich
  Remuneration: £24-26/hour
  Closing Date: 21 October 2020
  Start Date: 2 November 2020
   
  The Role
  Learning Music is seeking to appoint a Violin...
  
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• Guitar Teacher / Learning Music / East

  06-10-2020 15:09
  Location: Between Cambridge and Norwich
  Remuneration: £24-26/hour
  Closing Date: 21 October 2020
  Start Date: 2 November 2020
   
  The Role
  Learning Music is seeking to appoint a Guitar...
  
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• Boston Symphony Gives Andris Nelsons Evergreen Contract

  06-10-2020 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Boston Symphony Orchestra and music director Andris Nelsons have agreed to a three-year contract extension, … ensuring he will lead the symphony through the 2024-25 season and possibly beyond: An evergreen clause allows his commitment to stretch well beyond the new term. … Nelsons has signed a similar contract extension with the BSO’s sister orchestra, the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig.” – The Boston Globe
  
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• Paris Opera Ballet Finally Starts Reconsidering Blackface And Other Racial Issues

  06-10-2020 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Following a manifesto signed by nearly one-fourth of its employees, the world’s oldest ballet company, and perhaps its most tradition-bound, has invited a pair of outside experts to write a report and make recommendations about matters onstage (eliminating blackface, dying tights to match dancers’ skin tones, reworking the traditional ballets blancs that use only white tutus) and off. – France 24 (AFP)
  
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• Performing Sonnets, an online acting class / Theatre Gym / Online

  06-10-2020 14:20
  “To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
  For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
  Such seems your beauty still…”Poetry was meant to be read and enjoyed aloud. Its...
  
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• Introduction to puppetry, an online class / Theatre Gym / London / Online

  06-10-2020 14:20
  How big of a child are you?In this puppetry workshop, you’ll get to play with stuff you are around the house, and create your own world of things.We will learn how to make puppets, and...
  
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• A free online acting class for beginners / Theatre Gym / Online

  06-10-2020 14:16
  We meet every Tuesday for an hour of playing, being silly, meeting new people, laughing and creating together.You can think of it as an acting class taster.The session is free and open to all...
  
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• Scottish Gov’t Orders Edinburgh Int’l Festival To Diversify Artists It Presents

  06-10-2020 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The government has revealed that the festivals has ‘accepted’ there were a lack of ‘female artists, artists with disabilities and artists from non-white backgrounds’ in [this year’s] online programme, which was announced in early August. … The event is to be closely monitored in future to ensure it makes improvements and meets official ‘obligations’ on equality, diversity and inclusion.” – The Scotsman
  
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• GM Artist Hub launch funding streams for region`s artists / / North West

  06-10-2020 13:57
  GM Artist Hub has launched two new funding opportunities to support independent artists and creative freelancers in Greater Manchester.
   
  The Revive Fund offers a £500 hardship bursary...
  
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• Writers Commissions: This Is Who We Are / Arch 468 / London

  06-10-2020 13:55
  We want to commission 5 writers based in or with meaningful links to the Royal Docks to write a series of audio micro dramas inspired by the Royal Docks area, its history and what it means to live...
  
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• Project Manager - Freelance / The Roundhouse / London

  06-10-2020 13:45
  The Roundhouse is looking for a freelance project manager to oversee the delivery of Transmission Roundhouse’s programme of audio production and creative learning. You would work within our...
  
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• Social Media Placement @ a Tabletop Game Design Company / Collage Works, N17 Creative Callings / London

  06-10-2020 13:37
  One of our Creative Businesses registered with the N17 Creative Callings program is now recruiting!! 
  Please note that the placement is unpaid and would suit a recent...
  
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• The Etching Year / Morley College / London

  06-10-2020 13:20
  This year long etching course is suitable for students of all levels. Each half term will focus on a different specialist technique within etching leading to a project in the final two half terms....
  
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• Membership Coordinator (Systems) Maternity Cover / The British Museum / London

  06-10-2020 13:00
  Membership Coordinator (Systems)DevelopmentFull-TimeFixed-Term (Maternity Cover)£26,394 per annumApplication Deadline: 12PM on 28 October 2020
  The British Museum is seeking a Membership...
  
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• Call for Proposals: Artist Commission Brentwood / Essex Cultural Diversity Project / South East

  06-10-2020 12:48
  Call For Proposals: Brentwood Dunton Hills Garden Village Artist Commission 
  Essex Cultural Diversity Project has teamed up with Brentwood Borough Council to create a new opportunity for...
  
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• Communications and New Business Assistant / Caruso St John Architects / London

  06-10-2020 12:38
  Caruso St John Architects is an architectural practice with offices in London and Zurich. The practice works across a range of sectors in the UK and Europe and is well known for its cultural projects...
  
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• Retail Manager (25.5 hours per week) / South London Gallery / London

  06-10-2020 12:35
  The South London Gallery is seeking a part-time Retail Manager (25.5 hours per week). The successful candidate will manage the SLG Bookshop, a relaxed and inspiring shop selling books, gifts...
  
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• Chairperson / The Unicorn Theatre / London

  06-10-2020 12:31
  The Unicorn Theatre, the UK’s leading theatre for young audiences, is seeking to appoint a new Chair to its Board from early 2021.
  The Theatre is subsidised by Arts Council England and is a...
  
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• CYM Administrative Manager (London) / Guildhall School of Music & Drama / London

  06-10-2020 12:20
  1 Years Fixed Term Contract (maternity cover), full time
  Salary Range: £36,060 - £40,750 (including London Weighting) per-year depending on experience/performance during an...
  
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• Artists' Talk Series / SLAUGHTERHAUS Print Studio / London

  06-10-2020 12:00
  Tuesday 6, 13 & 27 October 2020
  Online via Zoom
  A series of free Artists' Talks during the month of October. Join us on Tuesday evenings at 6.30pm to find out more about how artists work, their...
  
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• Drypoint Taster Class / SLAUGHTERHAUS Print Studio / London

  06-10-2020 11:56
  Saturday 10 October 1.30-4.30pm
  Tutor: Chris Christodoulou
  Cost: £54. Acrylic printing plates, paper and inks included.
  Location: at SLAUGHTERHAUS
  Learn drypoint techniques with artist...
  
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• Local actors - theatre roles, walkabout and street theatre / Rhubarb Theatre Company / East Midlands

  06-10-2020 11:38
  Local actors required for casual theatre roles, walkabout and street theatre. Must be based around Lincoln area (Sleaford, Newark, Grantham).
   
  Skills required: comfortable playing different...
  
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