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• Oh My But It’s Tempting To Hope Science Can Explain Life (Can It?)

  22-10-2020 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  By cracking the genetic code, we have become able to harness the machinery of living cells to do our bidding by assembling new macromolecules of our own devising. As we have gained an ever more accurate picture of how life’s tiniest and simplest building blocks fit together to form the whole, it has become increasingly tempting to imagine that biology’s toughest puzzles may only be solved once we figure out how to tackle them on physics’ terms. – Nautilus
  
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• Project Worker (x2) / The Exchange Creative Community CIC / North West

  22-10-2020 23:13
  This is an exciting opportunity to help develop the timely work and social impact of The Exchange CIC (rebranding as the Good Things Collective) supporting and delivering a range of projects and...
  
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• At Issue Over The Hirshhorn’s Plan To Remake Its Gardens

  22-10-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The opinion of Hirshhorn officials about whether the sculpture garden is a work of art is central to their stewardship and decision-making about the sculpture garden’s proposed redesign. – Cultural Landscape Foundation
  
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• Business Support Role / The Exchange Creative Community CIC / North West

  22-10-2020 22:59
  This is an exciting opportunity to help develop and streamline business administration for our small but growing creative community enterprise. A brand new role focussed on providing essential...
  
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• Adobe Is Using AI To “Fix” Video Of You Dancing (So You Look Better)

  22-10-2020 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Like autotuning in music, which corrects your pitch, the dance AI adjusts your images in video so you’re actually keeping up with the beat. – Protocol
  
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• Shonda Rhimes On Leaving Disney/ABC: Her Disneyland Pass Didn’t Work

  22-10-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rhimes proceeded to call a “high-ranking executive” at the company to figure out the issue, but he showed no interest in giving television’s most prominent showrunner a $154 ticket to the park. “Don’t you have enough?” he allegedly responded. Rhimes collected herself, hung up, and called her lawyer with a simple directive: She was going to move to Netflix, and she’d “find new representatives” if that couldn’t be accomplished. – T
  
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• Marge Champion, Dancer, Choreographer, And Live Model For Disney’s Snow White, Dead At 101

  22-10-2020 20:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Fame arrived in the late 1940s, when she and Gower Champion began a professional dance partnership that continued through the next decade. … In television appearances and a slew of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie musicals including Show Boat (1951), they produced a chemistry that recalled for many viewers … the earlier performances of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire.” And yes, as a young woman she modeled movement for Walt Disney’s animators, not only as Snow White but
  
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• 48 Artists Reimagine The “I Voted” Stickers

  22-10-2020 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  In addition to the New York Magazine covers, 500,000 stickers will be distributed for free at retail locations including Crate and Barrel and CB2, who, along with Warby Parker and EHE Health, are supporting the project’s printing costs. The sticker sheets will also be distributed by book stores and museums across the country, and at nonprofit organizations including the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, as well as official polling sites such as the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the
  
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• Youth Development Brass Specialist (x5) / Brass Bands England / England

  22-10-2020 20:25
  Brass Bands England is seeking to appoint five Brass specialists from across England to provide tuition and training resources for their local community.
  Part Time: 14 hours per...
  
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• Digital Training Resource Co-ordinator / Brass Bands England / Yorkshire / Home-working

  22-10-2020 20:21
  Brass Bands England is seeking to appoint a talented individual to support the development of educational resources.
  Part Time: 21 hours per week
  Salary: Freelance project fee of £10,800...
  
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• Finance and Administration Manager / Parents and Carers in Performing Arts / Anywhere in UK

  22-10-2020 20:20
  We are excited to be recruiting a new member of the core PiPA team. The Finance and Administration Manager is a key role in the team, working alongside the joint CEOs providing effective support in...
  
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• Aaron and Julia at The Space Theatre / On Point Productions / London

  22-10-2020 20:11
  TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
  We have new show dates for 'Aaron and Julia' at The Space London from the 16th of March 2021
  Highly recommend booking now to for the 20% off early bird offer:...
  
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• Digital Marketing, Communications and PR Manager / Brass Bands England / Yorkshire / Home-working

  22-10-2020 20:10
  Brass Bands England is seeking to appoint an experienced marketing professional to join our expanding team.
  Working as a key member of the BBE team, the post holder will be responsible for raising...
  
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• Carlos Acosta’s Genius Idea: Socially-Distanced Tutus

  22-10-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  For Lazuli Sky, the first new work Acosta has presented at Birmingham Royal Ballet since becoming artistic director at the beginning of this year, “we wanted a piece where nobody would touch each other and so the dancers will be wearing elongated structures” — in this case, more than six feet wide — “that are not static but are constantly moving and creating different shapes, evoking your imagination.” – BBC
  
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• Landscape Architects Unveil Plan To Save National Mall’s Tidal Basin

  22-10-2020 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Tidal Basin connects centuries of American history and includes memorials to Thomas Jefferson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. Some 1.5 million people walk along the basin’s rim during the annual Cherry Blossom Festival each spring. But with increased car and foot traffic, the ground underneath is dipping. As sea levels rise, the walkways flood daily. – NPR
  
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• Communications and Content Producer / Orchestras for All / London / London

  22-10-2020 19:11
  After a decade of pioneering activity, Orchestras for All wants to share our story with the world far more widely, bring young people’s voices to the fore, and in turn catalyse even greater...
  
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• Christmas Elves / Merlin Entertainments / West Midlands

  22-10-2020 19:02
  We are the National SEA LIFE Centre and LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Birmingham and we are part of the magical Merlin Entertainments!
  As a Christmas Elf you will be based in a...
  
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• Don McLean Explains ‘American Pie’

  22-10-2020 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  That’s not to say he finally tells us what the lyrics mean: “Carly Simon’s still being coy about who ‘You’re So Vain’ was written about. So who cares, who gives a fuck?” But he does discuss the song’s structure as a fusion of folk, rock, and old-school popular song and about the roots of its inspiration in his suburban New York upbringing and family tragedies. – The Guardian
  
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• Sky Writes Writers-in-Residence and Coordinators / New Writing North / Yorkshire

  22-10-2020 18:44
  New Writing North and Sky Studios are working together on Sky Writes, a new talent development programme which seeks to identify and nurture television writers from under-represented groups who...
  
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• Sky Writes Writers-in-Residence and Coordinators / New Writing North / North West

  22-10-2020 18:43
  New Writing North and Sky Studios are working together on Sky Writes, a new talent development programme which seeks to identify and nurture television writers from under-represented groups who...
  
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• Sky Writes Writers-in-Residence and Coordinators / New Writing North / North East

  22-10-2020 18:41
  New Writing North and Sky Studios are working together on Sky Writes, a new talent development programme which seeks to identify and nurture television writers from under-represented groups who...
  
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• Queen Arthur? 8-Year-Old Swedish Girl Pulls Ancient Viking Sword From Lake

  22-10-2020 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I felt something in the water and lifted it up. Then there was a handle and I went to tell my dad that it looked like a sword,” Saga told the broadcaster Sveriges Television. – BBC
  
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• Head of Young Associates Programme / Open School East / South East / Margate

  22-10-2020 18:21
  Head of Young Associates Programme
  Contract: 1 year fixed term contract (extension subject to funding)Hours of work: 4 days a week, 9am – 5pmOccasional evening and weekend work will...
  
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• Venue Technicians / The Stoller Hall / North West

  22-10-2020 18:15
  The Stoller Hall requires skilled, experienced Venue Technicians to facilitate the smooth delivery of concerts and events. This role is ideal for a someone who is looking to be involved with a varied...
  
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• Ruth Falcon, Soprano Who Became Leading Voice Teacher, Dead At 77

  22-10-2020 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  From the mid-1970s through the ’90s, she had a career at most of the world’s top opera houses, but in 1991 she began the job for which she’ll be remembered: teaching singing at the Mannes College of Music in Manhattan. Among her students, there and in her private studio, were Deborah Voigt, Sondra Radvanovsky, Nadine Sierra, Kate Lindsey, and Danielle de Niese. – The New York Times
  
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• The Beautiful Octopus Club Festival runs throughout November / Heart n Soul / London

  22-10-2020 18:03
  The Beautiful Octopus Club Festival will be taking place online throughout November! Over 4 weeks and across 8 events, it will be a chance for everyone to come together for a one-of-a-kind...
  
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• Frank Horvat, groundbreaking French photographer, dies aged 92

  22-10-2020 17:52
  
  Horvat captured the seamy underside of Paris in the 1950s before taking his reportage style into fashion, art and interviews Frank Horvat, one of the founding fathers of French fashion photography, has died aged 92.His reportage style, incorporating bustling street life into his shots of models and designers, helped shake up the genre and had a lasting effect on the fashion industry – even if this work disappointed his early mentor Henri Cartier-Bresson, who labelled it “pastiche&rdq
  
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• Frank Horvat, groundbreaking fashion photographer, dies aged 92

  22-10-2020 17:52
  
  Horvat captured the seamy underside of Paris in the 1950s before taking his reportage style into fashion, art and interviews Frank Horvat, one of the founding fathers of French fashion photography, has died aged 92.His reportage style, incorporating bustling street life into his shots of models and designers, helped shake up the genre and had a lasting effect on the fashion industry – even if this work disappointed his early mentor Henri Cartier-Bresson, who labelled it “pastiche&rdq
  
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• Sidewalk superstars of New York: Frank Horvat's fabulous farewell – in pictures

  22-10-2020 17:50
  
  The great photographer, who has died aged 92, loved the bustle of the Big Apple. Sidewalk, his love letter to its street life, was published this month• Frank Horvat, groundbreaking French photographer, dies aged 92 Continue reading...
  
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• Marketing Manager / Unexpected Places / South East

  22-10-2020 17:47
  What You Will Do
  Coordinating and overseeing all marketing and communication activities 
  Create content for and manage our multiple website and social media channels, ensuring that...
  
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• Theatres Remain Dark In The US – Some Are Blaming The Actors Union

  22-10-2020 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Some theater professionals say Equity’s lockdown could effectively kill off the entire industry — an industry that generated about $17 billion in ticket sales in 2017, according to a March study from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the National Endowment for the Arts.” – Fort Myers News-Press
  
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• Creative writing Group, Monday eves / with Lucy Popescu / London / online

  22-10-2020 17:16
  Writing Group meet via ZOOM alternate Mondays Eves 6:30pm - 8.30pm Dates 2 November 2020 to 25 January 2021 (inclusive)Price £120 for 12 weeksIf you are working on a specific writing...
  
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• Head of Finance / The Reader Organisation / North West

  22-10-2020 16:22
  We are looking for a leader who works well with others, and wants to take part in the ongoing development of a successful social business. If you are the successful candidate you will:- Inspire your...
  
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• Patrons Officer / National Gallery / London

  22-10-2020 16:08
  The Patrons Officer is responsible for the administration of the George Beaumont Group and Circle patron schemes and the monitoring of income from those patrons’ programmes. This part of the...
  
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• 90% Off Selected Scribble Online Creative Writing eCourses / Scribble Ink Story Consultancy / London

  22-10-2020 15:56
  Can you believe we are a community of 6,885 beautiful people in 130 countries?! Such exciting news has inspired my generosity, and as such, I'd like to offer 90% off a selection of nano courses so...
  
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• Digitally Enhanced Learning (DEL) Assistant / Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance / South East

  22-10-2020 15:31
  The Digitally Enhanced Learning (DEL) Assistant post is an important role within the small DEL team. The DEL team aims to serve Trinity Laban’s online learning needs, and the DEL Assistant will...
  
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• Ray Harryhausen's art raid: where the effects genius found his terrifying monsters

  22-10-2020 15:26
  
  From his sword-swinging skeletons to a horn-headed cyclops, a new show reveals how the gruesome godfather of special effects plundered antiquity for ideas – and his own art collectionThe skeletons rise up from the scorched earth, lithe yet lifeless arrangements of loose yellow bones that leap over ruins to advance into mortal combat with Jason and the Argonauts. Swords swinging and shields held high, they are the perfect warriors, dispensing death with no fear of it themselves. But are the
  
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• Box Office, Front of House & Customer Service Assistant / Yvonne Arnaud Theatre / South East / Guildford

  22-10-2020 15:25
  As we adapt to changing customer habits and streamline our services, we are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic all-rounder to support our box office, front of house and administration functions in...
  
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• Seeking new trustees / Mahogany Opera / Nationwide

  22-10-2020 15:18
  Mahogany Opera is seeking to invite four new trustees to join our board. We are at a crucial stage in our strategic development and are looking for trustees who can broaden our horizons, champion and...
  
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• Updated - Window Wanderland Artist Commission / Appetite / West Midlands

  22-10-2020 14:59
  Appetite and Stoke-on-Trent Centre BID are commissioning artists to turn local shop windows into works of art as part of illuminated trail Window Wanderland taking place in...
  
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• A Spooky Special: Free Creative Writing Workbook / Scribble Ink Story Consultancy / London

  22-10-2020 14:41
  Hey friends,
  For many of us, trick or treating won't be on the cards this year, but that's no reason to forgo Fright Night completely. Grab your mask, stuff yourself silly with sweets and download...
  
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• Development Manager / Opera Rara / London

  22-10-2020 14:39
  Opera Rara is seeking a motivated and experienced Development Manager to implement our fundraising strategy which includes major gifts and individual giving, corporate donations, grants...
  
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• Part Time Curator / Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation / South West / Salisbury

  22-10-2020 14:23
  Arundells has an exciting opportunity for an experienced individual to join its dedicated team. As Curator, you will be responsible for the on-going care and management of the collections, as well as...
  
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• Fundraising Officer / Z-arts / North West

  22-10-2020 13:33
  Join Z-arts for this exciting opportunity to support the the CEO and Senior Management Team in developing and implementing a strategic fundraising plan to meet a challenging income-generation target...
  
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• High Streets Heritage Action Zone Project Officer / Croydon Council / London

  22-10-2020 12:49
  This is an interesting new fixed-term role, joining a team delivering a comprehensive regeneration programme which is underway in South Norwood. This role will be supporting a heritage-led element of...
  
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• Arts & Culture PR Intern / Lisa Baker Associates Ltd / London

  22-10-2020 12:36
  Lisa Baker Associates is offering a two month PR internship from Nov-Dec. The successful candidate will be a graduate with excellent written and verbal communication skills and an interest in the...
  
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• Marketing and Media Officer / Loud In Libraries CIC / North West / wigan

  22-10-2020 12:35
  This is an exciting opportunity for a talented, early career marketing professional to join our small team. The successful candidate will play a key role in positioning and raising the profile of...
  
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• Artistic Director / MAST Mayflower Studios / South East

  22-10-2020 12:25
  MAST Mayflower Studios will open in spring 2021 as a multi art form performance space and a creative hub. We are recruiting for key roles who will help form the artistic programme and deliver the...
  
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• Creative Producer / MAST Mayflower Studios / South East

  22-10-2020 12:22
  MAST Mayflower Studios will open in spring 2021 as a multi art form performance space and a creative hub. We are recruiting for key roles who will help form the artistic programme and deliver the...
  
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• Trustee / Yorkshire Artspace / Sheffield

  22-10-2020 12:16
  With a newly appointed Director and an agenda for change, Yorkshire Artspace are seeking energetic and diverse charity Trustees to help steer our strategic direction for the future. Previous...
  
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