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• Festival Director / StAnza / Scotland

  17-10-2020 19:58
  We are looking for someone creative, dynamic and hard-working, with a passion for poetry, to fill the freelance role of Director of StAnza, Scotland’s annual international poetry festival,...
  
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• Trans Talk Industry Day! / SHOUT Festival / West Midlands

  17-10-2020 18:19
  SHOUT Festival invites you & your organisation to our Trans Talk Industry Day!  
  Friday 6th November 10am – 2pm 
  As a part of SHOUT: At Home festival 2020,...
  
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• Thrills and spills: vintage beer mats – in pictures

  17-10-2020 18:00
  
  When he was young, designer Adam Kimberley would often wake up with beer mats stuffed in his pockets after a night out. When he went on to study graphic design he found his drunken souvenirs inspiring, and two years ago, he began Instagramming a daily mat at @beerstainedpulp. “They’re a great source of visual communication,” he says, “part of the history of design, print and advertising and a record of popular culture.”Continue reading...
  
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• On my radar: John Cooper Clarke's cultural highlights

  17-10-2020 16:00
  
  The poet on vintage TV, elegant writing about architecture and Dylan’s endearing take on the Great American SongbookJohn Cooper Clarke is a performance poet, comedian and presenter who rose to fame in the 1970s as one of the first “punk poets”. He was born in Salford in 1949 and his third album, Walking Back to Happiness, released in 1979, featured the UK top 40 song Gimmix! (Play Loud). Clarke has toured with Linton Kwesi Johnson, and performed alongside the Sex Pistols, Joy D
  
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• Helen Schell: The Human Spaceship - Off Balance / Vane / North East

  17-10-2020 15:39
  Until 31 October 2020, Wednesday – Saturday 12 noon – 5pm
  Humanity is witnessing the most astounding change in ‘being-human’ through cutting edge astronomy and space...
  
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• Final call: Submissions - Extinction Rebellion related work / The Rebel Zine / London

  17-10-2020 15:26
  SEEKING COLLABORATORS
  Are you a creative person with a connection to / interest in the work of Extinction Rebellion?
  We are a group of XR rebels from Newham (East London) seeking creative work...
  
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• Zine Workshop with Teresa Williams / Photo Oxford / South East

  17-10-2020 12:31
  Zine Workshop with Teresa Williams
  Wednesday 4th November 6pmSaturday 7th November 10amTuesday 10th November 6pmSunday 15th November 3pm£20 - OVADA Galley - Book your place here
  Zine making...
  
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• Anna Atkins: Botanical Illustration and Photographic Innovation / Photo Oxford / South East

  17-10-2020 12:29
  Tuesday 10th November, 5-6pm
  Free online 'in conversation' hosted by TORCHVisit the Torch Website
  Join us for an online in-conversation with Prof Geoffrey Batchen and Dr Lena Fritsch, discussing...
  
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• Curator Anstice Oakeshott & artist Femke Dekkers in conversation / Photo Oxford / South East

  17-10-2020 12:19
  Friday 6th NovemberLive Zoom In Conversation6.30pm
  Join Curator Anstice Oakeshott and artist Femke Dekkers for a Live Zoom conversation to examine the photographs presented in the exhibition 'Open...
  
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• Photography Question Time: Hundred Heroines (via Zoom) / Photo Oxford / South East

  17-10-2020 12:15
  Photography Question TimeHundred HeroinesFree online Event Via Zoom, 3rd November 6pm
  Reserve your place here
  Hundred Heroines are delighted to host Photography Question Time, chaired by Madeline...
  
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• Online talk with Rose Teanby: The First Women of Photography / Photo Oxford / South East

  17-10-2020 12:12
  Online talk with Rose Teanby: The First Women of Photography 1839-1860
  27 October at 7pm
  Free online talk in collaboration with Royal Photographic Society
  Book your place here
  This talk focuses...
  
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• Conference LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS WOMEN: Female Photographers / Photo Oxford / South East

  17-10-2020 12:08
  24th October 9:30 - 14:30Online: Register here
  A free, one-day online conference hosted by the Bodleian Library, and convened by Taous Dahmani (Panthéon-Sorbonne/ Maison Française...
  
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• Paper Lithography (Xerox Lithography) Workshop with A M Hashmi / Photo Oxford / South East

  17-10-2020 12:03
  Paper Lithography (Xerox Lithography) Workshop with Asmaa M Hashmi
  10am - 4pm, 24th October 2020Oxford City College Campus
  Paper lithography is an approachable printmaking technique that allows you...
  
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• Introduction to Adobe Lightroom 24th - 25th October / Photo Oxford / South East

  17-10-2020 11:59
  24th & 25th October 2020, 10am-4pmCourse at Film Oxford
  Adobe Lightroom is a family of image organisation and image manipulation tools for Windows and macOS. It allows viewing, organising and...
  
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• Choirs and comedians among recipients of £76m Covid arts aid

  17-10-2020 09:42
  
  Almost 600 cultural groups across England to benefit from latest funding round
  Comedy clubs, circuses, choirs and theatres across England are in line to receive a share of £76m of government funding for the cultural sector.The Military Wives Choirs, Somerset House and Kneehigh Theatre in Cornwall are among the 588 organisations that will share the latest round of grants of up to £1m as part of the £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund. Related: 'We have £52 left': the dire future
  
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• Not all doom and gloom: UK cultural highlights for autumn

  17-10-2020 09:00
  
  From books to ballet, from big to small screen, from art to theatre, there is much to enjoy despite the pandemicAutumnal days are drawing in and Covid-19 restrictions are tightening. But it is not all doom and gloom. The world of culture is fighting back, aiming to boost the spirit of a nation. Here are just a few highlights to look forward to. Continue reading...
  
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• How Henry Ford’s Production Model Shaped Our Politics

  17-10-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality-politics/justin-h-vassallo-world-henry-ford-madeHenry Ford would likely find his relevance to the current crisis of globalization a testament to his “producerist” philosophy. But as historian Stefan J. Link writes in his new book, Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order, Ford’s peculiar ideals “projected a political (and moral) economy that hardly anticipated the American con
  
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