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• Making It! Online Mosaic Forum presentations now available / British Association for Modern Mosaic / London / Nationwide

  26-10-2020 22:07
  BAMM's highly acclaimed Mosaic Forum was held on October 10th, bringing together mosaic artists from all over the globe.   The presentations are now available for exclusive viewing for six...
  
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• Producer / Dynamite Island / Flexible

  26-10-2020 20:12
  Performance company Dynamite Island is looking for an experienced, proactive producer to work with us over the next few months to help us take our next steps as a company,...
  
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• Chair of Board of Trustees / Society of Designer Craftsmen / South East / nationwide

  26-10-2020 19:11
  MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN CRAFT!
  The Society of Designer Craftsmen is seeking a new Chair to lead our board of Trustees in its exciting and ambitious growth and development plan, while ensuring the...
  
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• Administrator / Seenaryo / London

  26-10-2020 18:59
  3 days per week, in London, ideally starting from Dec 2020 (with some WFH due to Covid-19)
  £22,000-£24,000 per annum (pro rata), depending on experience
  1-year contract (with 3-month...
  
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• General Manager/Producer / Hackney Showroom / London

  26-10-2020 18:09
  Hackney Showroom is a small but ambitious company which is now expanding to deliver our new 5 year business plan. This senior role marks a significant new step for the company and the post holder...
  
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• Simon Rattle: Pandemic Is Forcing Many Musicians Out

  26-10-2020 17:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  “My worry is that so many musicians will be forced to leave the profession that we will not be able to return to anything like the cultural life that we enjoyed previously. And that this exodus is happening right now, and that it will not be noticed until it is too late,” said Rattle. – The Guardian
  
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• Head of Marketing / Tate / London

  26-10-2020 17:16
  Tate is one of the world's exciting brands, with an ambition to be the most artistically adventurous and culturally inclusive global art gallery. We are looking for an outstanding creative leader to...
  
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• Finance & Operations Manager / Pop Up Projects / London

  26-10-2020 17:12
  Pop Up Projects is a non-profit Community Interest Company and ACE National Portfolio Organisation with a growing international reputation established in 2011. We deliver imaginative, collaborative...
  
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• Creative Youth Worker / Creative Youth Network / South West / BRISTOL

  26-10-2020 16:52
  We're looking for a creative professional with a youth work background and / or experience of working with young people.
  The post will engage young people from across the city through outreach and...
  
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• Personal Assistant to Director / New Art Centre / South West

  26-10-2020 16:50
  The New Art Centre is looking for a highly experienced, efficient and organised individual to provide support to the Gallery Founder and Director and be a linchpin in overseeing activities across the...
  
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• Rock and Pop Music Teacher - Cambridge / Rocksteady Music School / East Midlands

  26-10-2020 16:48
  Are you an enthusiastic, experienced musician looking for a full-time permanent role in music, which also leaves you time to play in your own band? Do you see yourself operating in a positive working...
  
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• Michael Govan Responds To Criticism Of LACMA Redesign

  26-10-2020 16:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Far from representing a reduction in exhibition space, LACMA’s new building designed by Peter Zumthor, the David Geffen Galleries, is the final piece of a two decades-long expansion plan that effectively doubles the museum’s gallery space and replaces its ailing, nonfunctional facilities.” – New York Review of Books
  
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• Submissions wanted for online December Exhibition, free to enter / The Dragonfly Gallery / East / All

  26-10-2020 16:20
  Looking for submissions for our online December exhibition, Drawing The Year To A Close.The Deadline to submit work is Thursday 26th November. Free to enter.
  Submission forms can be downloaded from...
  
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• Head of Communications (maternity leave cover) / English PEN / London

  26-10-2020 16:14
  We are looking for a creative communications professional to work with us, building English PEN’s profile for our centenary in 2021. We have extensive international and UK wide networks;...
  
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• JMW Turner sketch for The Fighting Temeraire on display for first time

  26-10-2020 16:13
  
  Restored draft will accompany the final work in Tate Britain exhibition in LondonA once filthy, fungus-covered preparatory sketch by JMW Turner for one of his most glorious paintings has been restored and gone on display for the first time next to the finished work.Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire has been lent by the National Gallery to Tate Britain for a landmark exhibition exploring what it meant to be a modern artist during his lifetime. Related: Turner’s Modern World review &ndas
  
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• Designer - Visual Identity Development / Troy House Art Foundation / London

  26-10-2020 16:03
  About Troy House Art Foundation: In 2017, Fortress Contemporary Art Foundation was established in London by internationally renowned contemporary artist Yuan Gong, who also serves as its...
  
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• Seattle Chamber Music Society Says Its Online Festival Went Surprisingly Well

  26-10-2020 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  What, cheerful classical music news right now? Yes. Adding comments such as “filled my life with joy,” hundreds of patrons responded to a survey aboutthe Chamber Music Society’s Virtual Summer Music Festival. The festival “rated 8.4 on a scale of 10. It brought in 389 new ticket purchasers (32% of patrons) and 92 first-time donors, many international patrons, and 300 more subscribers than usual — likely because there were no constraints on the size of the conc
  
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• Festival Manager / Ryedale Festival Trust Ltd / Yorkshire / Pickering

  26-10-2020 15:58
  Ryedale Festival - Festival Manager
  The Ryedale Festival is one of the country's most exciting and enterprising classical music festivals, shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards...
  
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• Studio Assistant / Troy House Art Foundation / London

  26-10-2020 15:56
  THAF is seeking a studio assistant for Yuan Gong, THAF's Director. The role involves project managing/assisting the production of Yuan Gong’s artistic practice and documenting his works. The...
  
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• Community Arts Worker (Broadcasting) / Chapel FM Arts Centre (Heads Together Productions) / Yorkshire

  26-10-2020 15:53
  Chapel FM Arts Centre (a project of Heads Together Productions) is searching for a Community Arts Worker (Broadcasting) to develop participation programmes for young people and adults from...
  
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• Artist Commission Call Out / Harrow Arts Centre / UK Wide

  26-10-2020 15:51
  Harrow Art Centre are thrilled to be offering a second round of commissions for artists, arts companies and creatives of all disciplines to create new pieces of work for our #HACfromhome strand...
  
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• Letterpress: Create Your Own Printed Words / Clayhill Arts / South West

  26-10-2020 15:39
  10-12 March, 2021
  Grab your apron and get messy by immersing yourself into the art of Letterpress! Over the two days, The Letterpress Collective will teach you how to set lead type in a...
  
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• The Arts Bailout In The UK Gives Hope, And A Few More Months, To Some

  26-10-2020 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The bailout came to more than 2,000 arts organizations and venues in Britain (and U.S. arts groups are feeling quite jealous). But: “For many, the joy might not last long. The terms of the grants state that they must be spent by Mar. 31 next year. After that, on Apr. 1, if institutions can’t operate profitably with social distancing limiting numbers, many will again face the prospect of layoffs or closing.” – The New York Times
  
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• Visitor Experience Intern / Petersfield Museum / South East

  26-10-2020 15:01
  Petersfield Museum is looking for a Visitor Experience Intern to join our small team at an exciting point in our ambitious NLHF supported project, transforming the Museum’s buildings,...
  
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• Freelands Artist Programme Leader / Freelands Foundation / London / UK

  26-10-2020 15:00
  The Freelands Foundation’s mission is to support artists and cultural institutions, to broaden audiences for the visual arts and to enable all young people to engage actively with the creation...
  
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• A Comic Artist Has To Earn His Sources’ Trust Just Like Any Other Journalist

  26-10-2020 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Joe Sacco is famous in certain circles for his comics journalism books that recount complex tales in places readers might not know well. And accuracy – even in a cartoon-like book – is key. His new book might be his most detailed. “It’s about indigenous people who say that the land owns them and they are part of the land. So in a way, drawing them as accurately as possible, drawing their clothing, drawing their tents, their dogsleds correctly, and drawing the land itself
  
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• Finance Manager / Victoria Baths / North West / Manchester

  26-10-2020 14:53
  Victoria Baths Trust seeks a Finance Manager (permanent position)
  Salary              £18,271  (pro-rata of a full-time...
  
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• Learning & Participation Programmer / Milton Keynes Arts Centre / South East

  26-10-2020 14:52
  Learning & Participation ProgrammerSalary: £21,450 pro rata, 3 days pwReports to: Director
  Working closely with the Director and other Learning & Participation Programmer, thepost...
  
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• LandEscape Now! Open Call for Artists, 15th Edition / LandEscape / London

  26-10-2020 14:48
  LandEscape is launching the 15th edition of “LandEscape Now!”, an open art event that will once again introduce nine artists in various fine arts disciplines, with the goal of discovering...
  
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• Donors Claim To Rescind 50 Million In Gifts To Baltimore Museum Over Warhol Sale

  26-10-2020 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  But, plot twist: Did those gifts ever exist in the first place? The “chairwoman of the board of trustees, said in an email that the museum has no record of a $50 million pledge or any pledges totaling that amount.” – Washington Post
  
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• Robert Howard's God So Loved the World premiere / / North West

  26-10-2020 14:34
  On Sunday 1st November at 10am, tenor David Kernick will premiere Robert Howard’s God So Loved the World as part of Sung Eucharist for All Saints and All Souls at Prescot Parish Church, Church...
  
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• Misty Copeland Thinks That After George Floyd, The Ballet World Is Listening

  26-10-2020 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Copeland says that “for the first time in her 20-year career, people are starting to listen to her about the problem of diversity within the global ballet industry.” – BBC
  
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• Head of Programme Strategy / Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange / South West

  26-10-2020 14:26
  The Head of Programme Strategy will work with the Director and the Gallery’s Arts Council Collection Programme Team to consolidate our learning from the three-year Arts Council Collection...
  
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• The Nuns Singing, And Recording, Through The Pandemic

  26-10-2020 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  On the eve of lockdown in March, the Poor Clares of Arundel “were in the final stages of recording their debut album. The sisters hope it will bring some of the simple, balanced principles of cloister life to those struggling with the fallout from Covid.”  – The Observer (UK)
  
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• A Counter-Lawsuit In The City Ballet Scandal Presents The Photo Sharer As The Real Victim

  26-10-2020 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chase Finlay is the dancer who remains out of the dance world after his sharing of intimate photos of his then-girlfriend, fellow dancer Alexandra Waterbury, with others at City Ballet. He now claims “it was he who had been the victim of abuse at the hands of Ms. Waterbury.” – The New York Times
  
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• Junior Press Officer / British Film Institute / London

  26-10-2020 13:49
  Junior Press Officer
  Salary £24,345 – 28,245 per annum plus generous benefits package
  We support flexible working
  We are seeking a Junior Press Officer to support press and public...
  
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• Plus Commission / Sussex Dance Network / South East

  26-10-2020 13:46
  In line with the Equality Act 2010 and Government Guidance on Positive Action recruitment we are launching our Plus Commission which forms part of our Together Programme. The Plus Commission will...
  
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• The LA Phil Was Born During A Pandemic, But Will It Survive This One?

  26-10-2020 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  The monetary losses are staggering. But far worse was what happened during the first months. Mark Swed: “The L.A. Phil publicly demonstrated little leadership. One minute it was in the midst of a revolutionary and radically prescient ‘Power to the People’ festival; the next minute, the power was summarily turned off.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• American actors / non-actors needed for a short film / Sueprflux / London

  26-10-2020 13:31
  Superflux are searching for Americans living in London to take on paid speaking roles in a speculative film about the future of technologies.
  We will need roughly 1 day of your time for COVID-secure...
  
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• The Coronavirus Olivier Awards Went Off Surprisingly Well

  26-10-2020 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  But the British theatre awards were still filled with pain. Marianne Elliott, joint winner of best director: “This is a happy day and this is a sad day, because of what theatre was, and because none of us know when it will properly return.” – BBC
  
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• Production Manager / Phoenix Art Space / South East / Brighton

  26-10-2020 13:10
  Phoenix Art Space is seeking a Production Manager. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the public programme in our Mainand Window galleries, as well as venue hire and...
  
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• Loughborough Christmas Markets / Loughborough Town Hall & Loughborough Markets / East Midlands

  26-10-2020 13:06
  This Winter 2020, Loughborough Town Hall and Loughborough Markets are holding four days of outdoor Christmas Markets in Market Place, Loughborough.
  Would you like to be involved?
  We are looking for...
  
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• Tour Booker / Production Associate / Icarus Theatre Collective and Independent Drama / London / Virtual, South East, East

  26-10-2020 13:03
  Thanks to a DCMS/ACE grant, Icarus Theatre Collective and Independent Drama are looking for a full time staff Tour Booker / Production Associate, splitting their time 1/2 with Icarus and 1/2 with...
  
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• Gig Buddies Volunteer - East Riding / Royal Mencap Society / Yorkshire

  26-10-2020 13:01
  Gig Buddies has been matching young people with learning disabilities with members of their local community to take part in life after 5pm, whether that is gigs, clubs, going to the cinema or...
  
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• Weston Jerwood Creative Fellow / Creative Folkestone / South East / Folkestone

  26-10-2020 13:00
  As a host of the Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries programme, we want to work with an early career creative professional looking to develop their career as a producer, programmer, event manager or...
  
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• The Sisters Who Have Transformed The Piano Duo

  26-10-2020 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Katia and Marielle Lèbecque “for over 50 years have been playing — and enlarging — the two-piano repertory. They have interpreted traditional classical and Romantic works, to brilliant effect, but have also ventured into jazz, Baroque, modernist and experimental genres — commissioning scores, inventing projects and testing their limits.” – The New York Times
  
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• Fundraiser (30 hours) / Icarus Theatre Collective and Independent Drama / London / Virtual, South East, East

  26-10-2020 13:00
  Thanks to a DCMS/ACE grant, Icarus Theatre Collective and Independent Drama (ID) are looking for a part time staff Fundraiser, splitting their time 2/3 with Icarus and 1/3 with Independent Drama. If...
  
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• Gig Buddies Volunteer - Hull / Royal Mencap Society / Yorkshire

  26-10-2020 12:59
  Gig Buddies has been matching young people with learning disabilities with members of their local community to take part in life after 5pm, whether that is gigs, clubs, going to the cinema or...
  
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• Three Extraordinary Memoir Writers On The Art Of Memoir

  26-10-2020 12:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Laymon: “That word memoir, in some way it distracted me from the hard shit that I was writing. … Having the memoir title helped me sort of get through the heart work, in this fucked up way.”  – LitHub
  
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• Art Psychotherapist (12 month fixed term contract) / Family Action / London

  26-10-2020 12:44
  Art Psychotherapist (12 Month Fixed-Term Contract) London, N1About UsWe are Family Action, a national charity committed to building stronger families and brighter lives by delivering innovative...
  
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