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• The Serious Calculations Behind Allowing Performances Right Now

  15-10-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Serious,” of course, is a cheater word that adds latitude to any discussion. At what point does a risk cease to be manageable and become serious? Many Canadians, pummeled by tendentious headlines and frightened by news anchors who have mastered the art of sounding ominous, have come to believe that there is no such thing as a COVID risk that fails to meet this threshold. The statistics bear looking at. – Scena Musicale
  
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• Freelance Producer / Creative Academies Network & Co-Creating Change Network / West Midlands

  15-10-2020 22:55
  Creative Academies Network/HomeGrown31 and Co-Creating Change Network are excited to be commissioning a freelance producer to initiate a sector led co-creation group to foster new...
  
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• This Year’s Most Unusual Tony Nominations

  15-10-2020 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  This year’s awards may go down in history as the taken-with-a-grain-of-salt Tonys. The pandemic that shut down Broadway on March 12 meant that some of the most interesting shows of the season could not be considered. – Washington Post
  
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• Do Cells Have Cognition?

  15-10-2020 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The witty philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser once asked B F Skinner: ‘You think we shouldn’t anthropomorphise people?’– and we’re saying that biologists should chill out and see the virtues of anthropomorphising all sorts of living things. After all, isn’t biology really a kind of reverse engineering of all the parts and processes of living things? Ever since the cybernetics advances of the 1940s and ’50s, engineers have had a robust, practical science of
  
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• Altruism Is Cool. But…

  15-10-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The effective altruism movement, which aims to help others as much as possible as effectively as possible, has a certain undeniable logic. So why hasn’t it caught on? A key reason is that it clashes with basic human morality. – Psyche
  
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• Musical Composers / The Composer Platform / London

  15-10-2020 20:50
  We are a composer agency seeking composers for upcoming short film projects. If you compose music to picture and can work to briefs, keep to deadlines, we want to hear from you. Simply send in your...
  
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• Chair of Trustees / Streetwise Opera / London / UK wide

  15-10-2020 19:58
  Streetwise Opera, the award-winning performing arts charity and opera company for people affected by homelessness, is looking for a new Chair of Trustees to help lead the organisation as it embarks...
  
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• Hip Hop: Research Space with Matthew Harding / Independent Dance / London

  15-10-2020 19:18
  Saturday 31 October - Sunday 1 November 
  Matthew draws on his experiences to unpick the histories of Hip Hop, interrogating his knowledges of its rhythmic forms, codes and attitudes. The aim is...
  
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• Create our heritage mural / Be First / London

  15-10-2020 19:16
  Be First has joined forces with The National Lottery Heritage Fund to offer a £20,000 commission to an artist, or artists, to create a heritage mural in Short Blue Place, Barking.
  The plans to...
  
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• PA/ Studio Assistant / Hugo Grenville / South West

  15-10-2020 19:09
  Part time PA/ Studio Assistant for established Bridport based artist.
  Renowned figurative painter Hugo Grenville seeks a local, part time PA/ Studio Assistant. Responsibilities include:managing...
  
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• Old Frame New Picture - how ageing is represented in the media / Macc and Greater Manchester Older People's Network / North West

  15-10-2020 18:58
  Old Frame New Picture: how older people are represented in the media and what we can do about itWednesday 28th October 2020, 10am - 12pm
  Book your free ticket via:...
  
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• Future of the Art Market: Redefining Value in the Art Market / Creative United / East

  15-10-2020 18:35
  Creative United is excited to announce the full programme for FOTAM 2020: Redefining Value in the Art Market, a programme of events and discussion taking place online 19 - 30 October 2020.
  Following...
  
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• Creative Workspace Manager: Contracts (Maternity cover) / Creative Folkestone / South East

  15-10-2020 18:12
  Who are you?We are really interested in working with people who can bring their life experiences, skills and interests to this role. You will be able to demonstrate an interest in the arts and in how...
  
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• New Trustees / Directors wanted / Women and Theatre (Birmingham) ltd / West Midlands

  15-10-2020 18:04
  Women & Theatre is a professional theatre company based in Birmingham with over 35 years’ experience of working with diverse groups to create exciting drama projects about things that...
  
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• Free career mentoring for folk artists / The Mentors / South East

  15-10-2020 17:51
  With support from Arts Council England, The Mentors offer career mentoring to artists from the folk, roots and acoustic music genres.  A team of music industry professionals with decades of...
  
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• Outreach Coordinator Barnsley (freelance) / Good Chance Theatre / Yorkshire

  15-10-2020 17:41
  Good Chance are launching a new Change the Word poetry and performance programme online in the new year of 2021, which will be rooted in Barnsley.
  We are recruiting a freelance coordinator /...
  
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• Artists Specialising in Visual Contemp Arts - Secondary Schools / Arts Connect / West Midlands

  15-10-2020 17:34
  Call for: A West Midlands based artist/arts organisation specialising in visual contemporary art to work with secondary schools.
  Submission deadline: 13 November.
  The fee, inclusive of travel is up...
  
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• Chair of the Board / The RISE Collective / London

  15-10-2020 17:32
  We are a small charity looking for an experienced and talented advocate of youth development and the arts to chair RISE’s board at an exciting time for our organisation. We are an inclusive and...
  
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• Artist/Arts Organisation Specialising in Visual Contemporary Art / Arts Connect / West Midlands

  15-10-2020 17:25
  Call for: A West Midlands based artist/arts organisation specialising in visual contemporary art to work with SEND school  
  Application deadline: Friday 13th November.
  The fee is up to...
  
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• Freelance Digital Artist / 20-21 Visual Arts Centre/ North Lincolnshire Council / Yorkshire / North Lincolnshire

  15-10-2020 16:57
  Scunthorpe Town Centre Art TrailFrom 28th November 2020 to 6th January 2021 Scunthorpe town centre will host a festive artists’ trail, utilising the new market front windows, other shop windows...
  
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• Development Manager / National Centre for Circus Arts / London

  15-10-2020 16:52
  £28,000pa full time (35 hours pw)
  This is a new post for an exceptional Development Manager who will be responsible for taking forward and delivering NCCA’s fundraising strategy and...
  
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• New Trustees wanted / MK Gallery / South East

  15-10-2020 16:38
  MK Gallery seeks highly motivated people who are passionate about arts and culture to join its Board of Trustees to play an important strategic role in increasing MK Gallery’s impact and reach...
  
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• Temporary Arts Consultant / Hosking Houses Trust / West Midlands

  15-10-2020 16:28
  Hosking Houses Trust (HHT) is a registered charity providing residencies for women aged 40+ completing innovative work in literature and a suite of artistic genres. The secretary and founder of HHT...
  
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• Festival Producer x4 / Festival UK* 2022 / West Midlands

  15-10-2020 16:26
  Festival UK* 2022 are looking for four Producers to join the team and be an integral part in the Creative Programme. In this role you will produce, and project manage a highly collaborative programme...
  
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• Festival Producer / Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games / West Midlands

  15-10-2020 16:26
  Festival UK* 2022 are looking for four Producers to join the team and be an integral part in the Creative Programme. In this role you will produce, and project manage a highly collaborative programme...
  
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• Polly Morgan: a gloriously nasty nest of vipers – review

  15-10-2020 16:18
  
  The Bomb Factory, London
  Taking in squirming snakes, raw flesh and dripping gunk, the artist’s stomach-churning sculptures delight as much as they disturbWhat’s the opposite of ASMR? The antidote to lulling, whispering comfort? There may not be an elegant term for the jangling, queasy, uncanny chills induced by certain combinations of materials and textures, but by God does Polly Morgan understand the territory. Her exhibition How to Behave at Home is gloriously discomfiting: a multi
  
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• Curator - Contents & Collections / Compton Verney Art Gallery & Park / West Midlands / Warwickshire

  15-10-2020 16:00
  Compton Verney is an outstanding cultural venue where diverse audiences engage with art, culture and nature, promoting engagement through creativity, wellbeing, learning and participation through...
  
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• North Yorkshire Musicians and Artists Open Call / Bloom Sessions / Yorkshire / North Yorkshire

  15-10-2020 15:55
  What are Bloom Sessions?
  Bloom Sessions is a creative project dedicated to young women and those of marginalised genders in North Yorkshire. We aim to battle against the odds of gender disparity and...
  
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• Governance Now 2020 / Clore Leadership / East / Online

  15-10-2020 15:53
  Governance Now 2020 is now on sale with keynote speakers Nina Simon, Vyla Rollins, Damian Hebron and Sir John Tusa! 
  Join Clore Leadership and the Cultural Governance...
  
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• Contemporary Arts Producer / Compton Verney Art Gallery & Park / West Midlands / Warwickshire

  15-10-2020 15:48
  Compton Verney is an outstanding cultural venue where diverse audiences engage with art, culture and nature, promoting engagement through creativity, wellbeing, learning and participation through...
  
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• Head of Content & Audience Engagement / Compton Verney Art Gallery & Park / West Midlands / WARWICK

  15-10-2020 15:42
  Compton Verney is an outstanding cultural venue where diverse audiences engage with art, culture and nature, promoting engagement through creativity, wellbeing, learning and participation through...
  
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• Head of Fundraising / Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park / West Midlands

  15-10-2020 15:36
  Compton Verney is an outstanding cultural venue where diverse audiences engage with art, culture and nature, promoting engagement through creativity, wellbeing, learning and participation through...
  
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• Associate Producer / Unity Theatre / North West / Liverpool

  15-10-2020 15:31
  Unity, Liverpool
  Associate Producer
  https://www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk/opportunity-associate-producerhttps://www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk/opportunity-associate-producer
   
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• Artist`s Assistant / Personal Assistant / Dominic Harris Studio Ltd / London

  15-10-2020 15:26
  Dominic Harris Studio is seeking an Artist’s Assistant / Personal Assistant to work at their London studio.You will be working directly with Dominic Harris, on a variety of roles....
  
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• Museum Manager / Museum of Dartmoor Life / South West / Okehampton

  15-10-2020 15:22
  The Museum of Dartmoor Life is looking for a new Manager to work with Trustees, Volunteers and external consultants to tell the changing story of people living on Dartmoor from prehistory to the...
  
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• Education Manager (P/T) / The Nursery Theatre / London / Nationwide

  15-10-2020 15:07
  EDUCATION MANAGERPart-Time: 10-15 hours per week initially
  £600 PCM
  Flexible working hours, hours and fee under ongoing review.
  Duration: 6 months maternity cover (starting late...
  
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• Student Services Assistant / Point Blank Music School / London

  15-10-2020 14:58
  Point Blank is a leading, specialist Music Production School in the UK. Awarded TEF Silver recognition for excellence in higher education teaching, we have a reputation for giving our students a...
  
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• Credit Controller / Point Blank Music School / London

  15-10-2020 14:55
  Point Blank is a leading, specialist Music Production School in the UK. Awarded TEF Silver recognition for excellence in higher education teaching, we have a reputation for giving our students a...
  
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• Admissions Assistant / Point Blank Music School / London

  15-10-2020 14:47
  Point Blank is a leading, specialist Music Production School in the UK. Awarded TEF Silver recognition for excellence in higher education teaching, we have a reputation for giving our students a...
  
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• Assistant Music Leader - Youth Music Project / Sunderland Music Hub / North East

  15-10-2020 14:36
  Role description
  To work with the lead music leader to deliver inclusive and high quality music making activities to young people who are living in an area of higher than average socio-economic...
  
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• Artist Development Administrator / Graeae Theatre Company / London

  15-10-2020 14:28
  Artist Development Administrator £13,200 pro rata (£22,000 FTE) – Part Time, Fixed Term (3 days per week, 12 month contract)
  Join Graeae in supporting a bold new initiative to...
  
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• Mahlia Amatina free online visual arts workshop / Free Space Project / London / UK wide

  15-10-2020 14:21
  Free Space Project has commissioned Mahlia Amatina to run a workshop over zoom on Tuesday 20 October from 2-4pm. Book your free place here:...
  
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• Spring Residencies 2021, open call for Bristol-based artists / Watershed / South West

  15-10-2020 14:16
  We are delighted to re-start our artist residency programme - you can apply now for our Spring 2021 Residencies.
  This opportunity is open to creative practitioners of any discipline, career stage...
  
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• Programme Coordinator / Blue Cabin Community Interest Company / North East

  15-10-2020 14:11
  Blue Cabin is a Community Interest Company. We improve the experience and relationships of children and young people who are (or have been) care experienced through participation in creative...
  
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• Inspiring People: Skills and Knowledge Exchange Manager / National Portrait Gallery / London

  15-10-2020 13:46
  The National Portrait Gallery houses a unique collection of all forms of portraiture of the people who have made or are currently contributing to British history and culture; the collection is the...
  
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• Marketing and Functions Administrator / Llanthony Secunda Priory Trust / South West

  15-10-2020 13:44
  Llanthony Secunda Priory in Gloucester is recruiting for a Marketing and Functions Administrator.
  The Llanthony Secunda Priory Trust is searching for a personable, enthusiastic, and organised...
  
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• Creative Writing submissions / The Creative Pandemic / London

  15-10-2020 13:29
  The Creative Pandemic is a site dedicated to sharing engaging, imaginative, and well written pieces of creative work with the public. 
  We accept: short story submissions; poetry or spoken word;...
  
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• Event: Representing disability in Shakespeare`s world / Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester / East Midlands

  15-10-2020 12:56
  Our online event, Representing Disability in Shakespeare’s World, will explore social attitudes towards disability in the context of military life, in the seventeenth century and today. At the...
  
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• Arts Project Manager / Lime / North West

  15-10-2020 12:51
  As one of the largest acute Trusts in the UK, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) employs more than 20,000 staff working across nine hospitals and in the community, providing care for...
  
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• New Career Coaching programme for the Arts Sector / Career Catapult Programme / London

  15-10-2020 12:28
  The Career Catapult programme has been designed specifically for people from the arts sector who want - or need - to find a new job or change career.It has been created by Kym Bartlett - an...
  
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