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• Why Have Tony Nominations Now?

  16-10-2020 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In theater, timing is everything, and the timing of these nominations is just plain embarrassing.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• How Much Does It Cost To Operate A Shut-Down Movie Theatre? About £20,000 A Month

  16-10-2020 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Heating bills so the four-screen cinema does not get damp, water rates, insurance, monthly servicing projector costs, card reader machine contracts, IT costs and staff tax and national insurance have all contributed to the huge monthly outgoings. – BBC
  
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• Toronto Indie Movie Theatres Resort To Non-Profit Tactics To Stay Alive

  16-10-2020 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  From offering patrons the chance to have their names grace cinema walls for a price, to selling concession stand staples at the front door, the theatres say they’re doing what they can to stay afloat. – Toronto Star
  
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• Ireland Gives €50M To Commercial Arts Venues

  16-10-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The new €50 million support for live events in 2021 (as well as funding for music and equipment grants) for next year in Irish venues, announced in this week’s budget, is the first time the commercial entertainment sector has received state support. – Irish Times
  
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• Is Earning A Living From The Arts No Longer Possible?

  16-10-2020 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  It has always been hard to make a living in the arts; what is new, William Deresiewicz contends, is that even moderately successful artists — who publish, show, or perform frequently — often struggle to lead a middle-class life. – Los Angeles Review of Books
  
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• The AOL Decision That Ruined The Internet, Way Back In 1993

  16-10-2020 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For nearly 30 years, the internet’s culture has been defined by a corporation’s move that seemed to, without any care about what was left behind, ensure that a sense of order would never again drive the growth of this series of tubes. This phenomenon is, in many ways, the central tension on which the modern internet is built. And it’s a tension that most people aren’t aware of, even though it is an undercurrent secretly framing our online interactions.” &nda
  
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• Casey Jenkins v Australia Council: when controversial art loses funding, what does it mean for culture?

  16-10-2020 21:00
  
  The artist intended to self-inseminate over a live stream, in a work that could demystify queer parenthood. But after news got out, the grant was revokedOn 1 May 2020 the Australian performance artist Casey Jenkins received a $25,000 grant from the Australia Council to present a work, titled Procreate, at festivals in the UK and Chile.But as the pandemic spread, international borders closed, and Jenkins – who uses they/them pronouns – sought a variation to the funding, proposing a ne
  
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• Footnotes Are A Pain. But For Historians, Essential

  16-10-2020 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Proper referencing is important; it creates a breadcrumb trail for your reader so that your footsteps can be followed. It means providing your academic genealogy and giving credit for ideas you’ve adopted. It means that your factual assertions can be verified and it works to keep us all operating in good faith. If you make an honest mistake, it means that your reader can steadily work their way back along the path to find out where you took the wrong fork. – History Today
  
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• BLUEPRINT: Housing & Wellbeing Commission / Bristol Photo Festival & Arnolfini / South West

  16-10-2020 20:09
  Bristol Photo Festival joins forces with Arnolfini to offer a commission opportunity for a Bristol based artist or artist collective to work together on a short project that uses photography to...
  
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• Brigstow Research Commission / Bristol Photo Festival & Brigstow Institute / South West

  16-10-2020 20:06
  Bristol Photo Festival is delighted to be able to work with the Brigstow Institute to offer the opportunity for one research team to work together on a project that uses photography as a research...
  
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• Re:Build - six-month attachment for two theatre companies / Paines Plough / London / UK-wide

  16-10-2020 20:01
  At Paines Plough we are actively finding ways that we can support underrepresented voices from the artists we work with to the audiences we engage. We are currently offering a package...
  
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• How Do You Teach A Kids’ Choir Class When You Can’t Let Them Sing?

  16-10-2020 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Music teachers in Canada are being forced to improvise. Choir classes, for example, either must meet outdoors to rehearse or they simply hum and chant their way through class. Host Marco Werman speaks with Toronto-based Anita Elash about how music teachers are managing to keep music programs alive during the pandemic.” (audio) – PRX’s The World
  
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• Re:Assemble professional development opportunity for dramaturgs / Paines Plough / London

  16-10-2020 19:52
  At Paines Plough we are passionate about writers and the work they make, about sharing their stories with audiences from every corner of the UK. Our ambition is for our writers and audiences to be...
  
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• Admin Assistant / York Music Hub / North East

  16-10-2020 19:46
  Admin Assistant - Job Description
  Salary: £19,500 pro rata (0.2 FTE/8 hours per week). 
  Please note that this is a fixed term post up to the end of March 2021 with a...
  
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• Framing The Guston Show Postponement

  16-10-2020 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  ‘Clearly, there are a host of factors at play here, not all of which I am qualified to talk about. I want to add two concepts to the discussion of the competing new pressures museums are under: “context collapse” and “paranoid reading.” ‘ – Artnet
  
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• Business Development Manager / Helix Arts / North East / Newcastle upon Tyne

  16-10-2020 19:13
  Helix Arts are recruiting for a proactive Business Development Manager who can bring their motivated attitude and new ideas to a recently refreshed team. This is an excellent opportunity to join the...
  
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• This Movie Theatre Is Closed. It Still Costs $25,000 A Month To Run

  16-10-2020 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  What are the owners of the Dominion cinema in Edinburgh paying £20,000 for each month? “Heating bills so the four-screen cinema does not get damp, water rates, insurance, monthly servicing projector costs, card reader machine contracts, IT costs and staff tax and national insurance have all contributed to the huge monthly outgoings.” – BBC
  
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• Common Ground Assistant / Norfolk & Norwich Festival / East

  16-10-2020 18:57
  Common Ground Assistant– 18 month fixed term contract January 2021 – June 2022
  Common Ground is project designed to connect young people with their local heritage through the creative...
  
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• Production and Programme Assistant / Norfolk & Norwich Festival / East

  16-10-2020 18:51
  Production and Programme Assistant– 18 month fixed term contract January 2021 – June 2022
  Norfolk & Norwich Festival takes place in Norwich and around Norfolk for 17 days each May....
  
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• Communications and Development Assistant / Norfolk & Norwich Festival / East

  16-10-2020 18:47
  Communications and Development Assistant– 18 month fixed term contract January 2021 – June 2022
  Norfolk & Norwich Festival takes place in Norwich and around Norfolk for 17 days each...
  
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• Woodwind Teacher - Leeds / YMES / Yorkshire

  16-10-2020 18:46
  Location: LeedsRemuneration: £23-26/hourClosing Date: 28 October 2020Start Date: January 2021
  The Role
  YMES is seeking to appoint a Woodwind Teacher to teach lessons for one of our clients, a...
  
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• Drum Kit Teacher - Leeds / YMES / Yorkshire

  16-10-2020 18:44
  Location: LeedsRemuneration: £23-26/hourClosing Date: 28 October 2020Start Date: January 2021
  The Role
  YMES is seeking to appoint a Drum Kit Teacher to teach lessons for two of our clients,...
  
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• Events and Marketing Assistant / Lauderdale House / London

  16-10-2020 18:38
  Lauderdale House is a registered charity and runs a vibrant arts and education centre based in a Grade II* listed 1582 heritage house in Waterlow Park, Highgate.  Each year we host a packed...
  
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• The Science Of Wisdom

  16-10-2020 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Really? Science? Just how do you even define what wisdom is (as opposed to knowledge). Yet some have attempted to quantify it. – Psyche
  
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• Senior Producer (Communications), London Borough of Culture 2022 / London Borough of Lewisham / London

  16-10-2020 18:04
  Lewisham is gearing up to be London Borough of Culture 2022.  Join us to help deliver our ambitious programme of CULTURAL ACTIVISM.
  The role
  Our London Borough of Culture programme, CULTURAL...
  
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• Company Stage Manager (on book) / Paines Plough / London

  16-10-2020 18:03
  Everyone knows that Stage Managers make the world go round. They are the all-knowing, indefatigable, unflappable superheroes without a cape that make everything feel alright.
  We are on the lookout...
  
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• The 25 Most Influential Works of American Protest Art Since World War II

  16-10-2020 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The list includes comments on each work by the panelists who did the choosing: artists Dread Scott, Catherine Opie and Shirin Neshat, journalist Nikil Saval and Whitney Museum of American Art assistant curator Rujeko Hockley. (First on the list, which is in no particular order, is the now-graffiti-bombed and co-opted statue of Robert E. Lee on Richmond’s Monument Avenue.) – T — The New York Times Style Magazine
  
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• Senior Producer (Programme), London Borough of Culture 2022 / London Borough of Lewisham / London

  16-10-2020 17:53
  Lewisham is gearing up to be London Borough of Culture 2022.  Join us to help deliver our ambitious programme of CULTURAL ACTIVISM.
  The role
  Our London Borough of Culture programme, CULTURAL...
  
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• Local Dancer / Tom Dale Company / East Midlands

  16-10-2020 17:53
  URBAN EXPLORERS 2020/21
  Tom Dale Company is looking for 2 confident, versatile and local contemporary dancers for Urban Explorers 2020/21. We are keen to widen the pool of regional dancers we work...
  
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• Chris Killip: recognition for a great photographer | Letter

  16-10-2020 17:51
  
  Mark Haworth-Booth on ‘a remarkable talent and a very special human being’Your article (Chris Killip, hard-hitting photographer of Britain’s working class, dies aged 74, 14 October) says “Killip was not given the recognition he deserved by major British art and photography institutions.”On the contrary, Chris Killip’s first book – on the Isle of Man – was published in 1980 with support from the Arts Council. The master set of 69 photographs from wh
  
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• Pastoral Support Assistant / Finchley Children`s Music Group - London`s Children`s Choir North London / London

  16-10-2020 17:39
  FCMG, founded in 1958 with Benjamin Britten as its President, is London’s leading children’s choir with over 190 singers aged between 4 and 18 across five choirs. The choirs are well...
  
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• How The NYT’s 1619 Project Ignited An Ideological Fight

  16-10-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the nation’s most significant moment of racial reckoning since the 1960s, it’s become one of the hottest culture-war battlefields, where the combatants include turf-guarding academics, political ideologues angling for an election-year advantage — and the fearlessly spiky journalism superstar who willed the entire thing into existence. All of this can make it easy to forget what the 1619 Project was — basically, a collection of smart, provocative magazine articles abou
  
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• This Dance Company Director Thinks The Shutdown Has Done Some Good

  16-10-2020 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Zenetta Drew, executive director of Dallas Black Dance Theater: “The arts were dying as far as how you reach new audiences, how you create new revenue streams and how you reach underserved communities. Being forced to deal with COVID has changed all that.” And she doesn’t think audiences seeing dance for free online will keep them from coming to the theater later. Why? Look at football on TV. – SMU Data Arts
  
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• Zoom Life Drawing Classes / Candid Arts Trust / London / worldwide

  16-10-2020 17:03
  Candid Arts Life Drawing is back Through the wonder of Zoom
  2 Hour Classes, Tuesday – SaturdayModel & tutor live from the Candid SkylabChoose from 3 camera angles full pose &...
  
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• 40 Black Playwrights Talk About The Confounding Racism They Face In American Theater

  16-10-2020 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Theatermakers from Lynn Nottage and Robert O’Hara to Jocelyn Bioh, Radha Blank and Dominique Morrisseau “share their own experiences with insidious racism — sometimes subtle, other times blatantly cruel even amid the Black Lives Matter statements issuing forth industrywide.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Curator - Humber Street Gallery / Absolutely Cultured / Yorkshire / Hull

  16-10-2020 16:19
  Absolutely Cultured is a registered charity which started life as the organisation set up by Hull City Council to deliver Hull’s year as UK City of Culture, known during this time as Hull 2017....
  
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• San Francisco Will Give Shutdown-Affected Artists ‘Universal Basic Income’

  16-10-2020 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The policy, billed as the Basic Income Pilot for Artists, outlines details including directing almost $6 million in funding to arts organizations, artists, art teachers, and cultural workers, in addition to a Universal Basic Income program. Under the basic income, 130 artists will be selected to receive the [$1,000] monthly stipend for at least six months, beginning in early 2021.” – Artnet
  
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• Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians Accept Further Pay Cuts

  16-10-2020 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The deal, approved this week by the orchestra’s members, ties pay in part to the fortunes of the organization. Compensation for musicians will be reduced to 75% of normal pay retroactively to Sept. 12 and through the middle of March. Then, between March 15 and Sept. 12, 2021, pay could be lowered or slightly increased depending on the condition of the orchestra’s COVID-battered finances.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Andrea Luka Zimmerman In Conversation with Philip Davenport / Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre / North West / London

  16-10-2020 15:30
  Artist and filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman will be joined by poet Philip Davenport to discuss her latest film Here for Life, which is currently on show in the Moving Image Gallery at Bury Art Museum...
  
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• Shocking news from the 70s and a chilling message from the far north – the week in art

  16-10-2020 15:19
  
  Gilbert & George’s images of a divided Britain reveal an enduring immediacy, while the British Museum takes an immersive tour of the Arctic – all in your weekly dispatchArctic: Culture and Climate
  Human beings have interacted with the Arctic ice for millennia. This immersive journey into an extreme and endangered ecosystem reveals it is a part of ourselves, as well as our planet, that we stand to lose as the ice melts.
  • British Museum, London, from 22 October. Continue read
  
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• Baltimore Museum Of Art Stakeholders Ask State Of Maryland To Stop Sale Of Artworks

  16-10-2020 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Former trustees, committee members, donors and docents of the Baltimore Museum of Art have asked Maryland officials to halt the institution’s plans to sell paintings by Andy Warhol, Clyfford Still and Brice Marden, and to investigate what they describe as irregularities and conflicts of interest surrounding the sales.” – The Washington Post
  
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• Professional website development services (Invitation to Tender) / The Wiener Holocaust Library / London

  16-10-2020 14:56
  Professional website development services required for The Wiener Holocaust Library's Refugee Family Papers Interactive Map
  Summary of Requirements
  The Wiener Holocaust Library requires a...
  
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• Officer for Buddying, Advocacy and Transitions (BAT) / Wac Arts / London

  16-10-2020 14:42
  Officer for Buddying, Advocacy and Transitions (BAT)
  (0.8 fixed term to 30 September 2021)
  We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced administrator and Special Educational Needs (SEN) youth...
  
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• Arts Groups Say UK Gov’t Requires Them To Advertise Bailout Program In Order To Get Funds

  16-10-2020 14:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  A formal complaint filed with Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority charges that Boris Johnson’s government is insisting that all organizations receiving rescue money from the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund promote the Fund on their social media accounts. – The Independent (UK)
  
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• Access Worker / Second Hand Dance / South East

  16-10-2020 14:08
  Second Hand Dance are a disabled-led dance company driven by Artistic Director Rosie Heafford and Executive Producer Claire Summerfield. Our mission is to create aesthetic and sensory dance...
  
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• Mahmoud Yassin, Star Of Egyptian Cinema’s Golden Age, Dead At 79

  16-10-2020 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[He] had over 150 films to his name, with diverse roles ranging from romantic to serious, and from emotionally disturbed to upbeat and patriotic. His films included several based on stories by renowned Egyptian novelists, such as Nobel Prize laureate Naguib Mahfouz and Ihsan Abdel Quddous.” – AP
  
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• Development Officer / National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance / West Midlands / Home based, with option of office space in Birmingham (depending on Covid-19 restrictions)

  16-10-2020 13:57
  The National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance (NCJAA) is the leading national network supporting the arts and creative practice in criminal justice settings. Our aim is to ensure the arts are used...
  
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• Art, Culture & Heritage Project Director / Sheffield City Region Mayoral Combined Authority / Yorkshire

  16-10-2020 13:55
  The Sheffield City Region requires capacity and capability at a senior level to support Mayor Dan Jarvis' ambition to create a step change in the region’s arts, culture and heritage offer.
  To...
  
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• Development Officer / Turner Contemporary / South East

  16-10-2020 13:50
  Turner Contemporary is seeking a Development Officer to join the gallery team. This role is pivotal in our ambitions for sustaining and growing philanthropic income generation at Turner...
  
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• Freelance Development Manager/Fundraiser / Arts Territory / London

  16-10-2020 13:37
  Arts Territory is currently seeking an experienced Freelance Development Manager/Fundraiser to develop its fundraising activity. The successful candidate will be responsible for identifying and...
  
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