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• Extended Dates >> Nicole Prior: Data Rooms / Castlefield Gallery: New Art Spaces Wigan / North West

  28-10-2020 23:29
  Due to its popularity, Data Rooms by Castlefield Gallery Associate Nicole Prior will remain at Castlefield Gallery New Art Spaces Wigan to Thursday 24 December 2020.
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• How Learning Pods Are Picking Up The Education Slack

  28-10-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  San Francisco has set up free hubs. So far, 1,100 students are enrolled in the free hubs, where community groups provide full-time academic support and activities at 55 city sites, including recreation centers, libraries and other locations. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Where Music Comes From, According To Anthropologists

  28-10-2020 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  In warfare, rhythm and melody allow tribal groups to signal their strength, numbers, and coordination across far distances, to both allies and foes. This is not unlike how animals commonly use vocalizations to signal their territory or scare off others. “If we study music in traditional societies, we see it used consistently to form political alliances.” – Fast Company
  
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• Study: Why It’s Tougher To Make It Big In Older Age

  28-10-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  An older person might be extremely passionate, but lacking conviction that he’ll ever be any good; or a septegenarian might maintain fire in her belly, but find her passion waning. – Fast Company
  
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• Spotify Defends Promoting Alex Jones On Podcast

  28-10-2020 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  In public, Spotify is staying quiet about an appearance by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones yesterday on its flagship podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, despite banning Jones’ own podcast last year. But in an internal email sent from a top executive, the company is defending the booking. – Buzzfeed News
  
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• Arts Festival Sues San Francisco Over COVID Rules

  28-10-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Originally posited as a “suit over artistic freedom,” the case quickly turned into a question of equal protection (performances vis-a-vis church services and political protests), and then into a debate over logistics. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• How Crisis Leadership Works

  28-10-2020 20:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Swarm intelligence in people occurs when all the members of a group come together to create a synergy that magnifies their individual capabilities. It’s the kind of unselfish behavior that one sees on the battlefield, when soldiers know that they depend on one another for their lives. Swarm intelligence is more instinctual than coöperation, in which people work deliberately together to achieve a common goal; it’s an emotional and reactive behavior, not a plan that can be writte
  
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• Nico Muhly’s New Piece For San Francisco Symphony Would Be Impossible To Perform Live

  28-10-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  With no live concerts since March and no prospect of restarting them soon, the orchestra commissioned Muhly to write a work specifically for virtual performance. The result is Throughline, “a piece of big-girl music that has big-girl stuff in it” (as Muhly put it) that involves the orchestra and all eight of the creative partners Esa-Pekka Salonen engaged when he was appointed SFS music director. – The New York Times
  
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• 15 Past Presidents of AAMD Sign Letter Calling for Baltimore Museum to “Reconsider” Planned Sales

  28-10-2020 19:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Can you stop a speeding freight train before it crashes? (Update: in this case, turns out the answer is yes.) – Lee Rosenbaum
  
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• Online Drawing Social / Fabiola Retamozo / London

  28-10-2020 19:35
  Online Drawing Social
  Is a social space for lovers of drawing, you do not need experience or skills, just
  the willingness to draw and share your experience with others.
  We will explore different...
  
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• What Will The Opus 3/San Francisco Conservatory Deal Mean For Classical Music?

  28-10-2020 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Any such acquisition would be without precedent, but the size and history of Opus 3 makes the announcement headline news not only in the world of music and art but also among business executives and attorneys. Few details are contained in the original announcement and the source of financing what must be a multimillion-dollar acquisition remains confidential — at least for the time being. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Artistic Director & Chief Executive / Dance Umbrella / London

  28-10-2020 19:15
  Dance Umbrella is seeking an Artistic Director & Chief Executive who will provide inspiring, enterprising and experienced artistic leadership to oversee all programming activities. The successful...
  
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• ‘Unmitigated Disaster’: Why Vice Media Appears Headed Toward A Bad End

  28-10-2020 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After being perceived as the red-hot center of Millennial-based media culture for the past decade or so, Vice’s place is harder to pinpoint now. Some of it is still edgy and provocative. But increasingly the impact of its work feels more like the proverbial trees falling in the forest. … Top executives at Vice tell you the present is pretty damn fabulous, while the best is yet to come. Former employees — or at least those willing to speak out despite confidentiality pr
  
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• Who Gets Credit For Art Created By AI?

  28-10-2020 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Researchers at MIT Media Lab and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development are wondering how people decide who gets credit for art that was created using artifical intelligence. After all, there would have been many different people involved in producing and selecting the original art used as the AI’s training data, in creating the program, and in curating the final output. In a recently published paper they showed that who gets credit for AI-generated art all depends on how we think
  
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• Data Manager / Britten Pears Arts / East

  28-10-2020 18:15
  Britten Pears Arts was founded in April 2020 when Snape Maltings and the Britten-Pears Foundation merged. It exists to ensure that the legacies of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears continue to be...
  
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• Why Comedy Should Be Treated As The High Art It Is

  28-10-2020 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Crafting laughs is the most high-stakes form of creation. It is intrinsically difficult, as ‘funny’ varies from person to person in a way that ‘sad’ or ‘romantic’ just doesn’t. Plus, it is a medium that demands success, because a failed gag is excruciating, like OK-ish results in other artforms never will be.” – The Guardian
  
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• Artist commission: In Memoriam Tribute Sculpture / Treetops Hospice Care / East Midlands

  28-10-2020 18:02
  We are seeking a Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire-based artist to design and create a bespoke In Memoriam tribute sculpture.  This will be sited in the grounds of Treetops Hospice Care in Risley,...
  
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• Studio Manager / Studio Pottery London / London

  28-10-2020 17:46
  Studio Pottery London, a ceramics studio that is utterly unique, is looking for an experienced Studio Manager to join our friendly team! Opened on the 11th September 2019 it is the first such space...
  
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• Brussels Re-Closes Its Museums As COVID Cases Surge; Other European Museums To Follow

  28-10-2020 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Museums and galleries around Europe are bracing for further restrictions as the infection rates rise to their highest levels yet. Institutions in Wales have been closed as the country implemented a two-week national “firebreak” lockdown that began October 24. Meanwhile, museums and galleries in Northern Ireland were asked to close on October 16 for four weeks. – Artnet
  
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• Poet Diane di Prima, Feminist Beatnik, Dead At 86

  28-10-2020 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[She] dropped out of college to join the poetry swirl in New York’s Greenwich Village in the 1950s. She arrived in San Francisco in 1968, too late for the North Beach Beats, but she established herself as a singular force, a feminist in a poetry culture that was overwhelmingly male. Her publishing career spanned more than 60 years and 40 books.” – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Podcast: Bo Lanyon - A St Ives Legacy / Bricks / South West

  28-10-2020 16:23
  Bricks has commissioned 6 Bristol artists to create podcasts, inspired in some way by living and working in the South West.
  In our first episode Bo Lanyon explores how artists working now have...
  
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• Call out to expand pool of practitioners / Shooting Fish Theatre Company / South West

  28-10-2020 16:22
  Shooting Fish Theatre Company are looking to expand their pool of practitioners after relocating from Lincoln to Bristol. 
  Shooting Fish are a professional new-writing theatre company who are...
  
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• Fundraising Officer / Colchester + Ipswich Museums / East

  28-10-2020 16:15
  Despite the challenges posed by Coronavirus, Colchester + Ipswich Museums remain aspirational and keen to develop new and creative initiatives that will help us to better engage with our communities,...
  
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• Union jack swastikas and space-age braids: Thirteen Ways of Looking – review

  28-10-2020 16:03
  
  Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, CoventryFrom an AI interaction with a deceased black artist to a Punjabi granny making a sandwich, this show explores identity through the generations
  Keith Piper’s THIRTEEN DEAD remains relatively unknown. Yet the 1982 work was one of the earliest artistic responses to the previous year’s fire at a house party in New Cross, south London, that took the lives of 13 young black people.Handwritten words appear with pictures of the victim’s face on a
  
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• Dirty pretty things: air pollution in art from JMW Turner to today

  28-10-2020 15:44
  
  Born just before the steam engine was invented, Turner gloried in the smog and grime of the industrial revolution – but today’s artists reveal the damage emissions causeOn 10 April 1815, the Tambora volcano in Indonesia erupted with colossal force. The largest volcanic eruption of the last 10,000 years sent, more than 36 cubic miles worth of shattered rock into the atmosphere. Average temperatures dropped worldwide, turning 1816 into the “year without a summer”.Because po
  
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• Corey Arnold's best shot: a horse and a cat go fishing for crab

  28-10-2020 15:40
  
  ‘Kitty was seven months old but fearless. She’d saunter out on deck in a storm, and hunt seagulls bigger than she was’This was shot in my third season crab fishing on a vessel called Rollo. King crab season in the Bering Sea, off Alaska, usually starts mid-October and lasts for several weeks, but it can be as little as one week – it depends on weather, luck and skill. When the season is finished, everyone goes in to Dutch Harbor and waits to offload their catch. There can
  
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• Development Manager / The National Horse Racing Museum / South East

  28-10-2020 15:23
  NHRM is looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic, well-organized, self-directed and motivated fundraiser to help us exploit the Museum’s considerable potential as our Development...
  
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• Open Space Producer (part-time, 3 days/week) / Improbable / London

  28-10-2020 15:22
  Improbable is recruiting an Open Space Producer to shape and produce our Open Space events, including our Devoted & Disgruntled (D&D) programme, Open Space for Hire and Open Space...
  
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• The Launch Pad ! Time? Where are those hours hiding? / Guildhall Coaching Associates / London

  28-10-2020 13:27
  The Launch Pad #4 - November 4th 2020"If only I could find the time! Where are those hours hiding?"What would you do with a bonus 2 hours each week? Read a book? Finish that paperwork? Play...
  
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• Casting Call: The Time of Our Lives / Wassail Theatre / South West

  28-10-2020 12:52
  Casting Requirements:
  THE TIME OF OUR LIVES features 18 characters plus additional ‘voices’.  We are looking for ten actors experienced in the development of new plays and...
  
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• Managing Director / Arcadia Spectacular / South West

  28-10-2020 12:49
  Arcadia is a global brand (With a global audience of more than 2 million people and worldwide media connections)
  Further growth opportunities have created the need for the key role of Managing...
  
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• Freelance Workshop Teachers (painting, drawing, crafts) / Hackney Arts / London

  28-10-2020 12:12
  Hackney Arts is an arts organisation with a social mission, we aim to drive meaningful change through the power of the arts, exploring the connection between arts, wellbeing, mental health, community...
  
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• AV Manager / Science Museum / London

  28-10-2020 12:09
  Do you enjoy leading technical teams and carrying out continuous improvement works? Are you interested in delivering high quality technical services in a museum environment?
  The Science Museum draws...
  
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• Artistic Director / Theatre Centre / London

  28-10-2020 11:55
  Theatre Centre brings world-class theatre straight into the heart of schools. Our vision is that children and young people are empowered in their activism and leadership through theatre, using their...
  
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• Poetry Class | Revisiting Death of a Naturalist / Irish Cultural Centre / London / Online

  28-10-2020 11:42
  Seamus Heaney’s first collection with Faber and Faber, Death of a Naturalist (1966) marked the start of one of the most significant artistic legacies of the 20th and 21st centuries. Winner of...
  
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• Business Development Placement at a Social Enterprise / N17 Creative Callings, Collage Works / London

  28-10-2020 11:35
  Business Development Placement at a UK not-for-profit Social Enterprise, based in Tottenham.  
  One of our Creative Businesses registered with the N17 Creative Callings program is...
  
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• Programme Coordinator (2 posts) / Make Some Noise / West Midlands

  28-10-2020 11:23
  Make Some Noise is excited to be growing its Programmes Team by offering two new Programme Coordinator roles.  Each post will be required to coordinate our pioneering flagship programmes that...
  
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• Community and Corporate Fundraiser (freelance contract) / Make Some Noise / West Midlands

  28-10-2020 11:15
  We are delighted to be offering a commission for a freelance Community and Corporate Fundraiser to join us at Make Some Noise.
  We are looking for an outstanding, highly experienced and innovative...
  
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• 10-13 Dec 2020 Alchemy of Archetypes - voice, body, imagination / Peta Lily Company / London

  28-10-2020 10:15
  The Alchemy of Archetypes course is open to beginners as well as those with some theatre or performing experience. The Archetypes are unique yet universal expressions of humanity,...
  
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• Art Sampling Online Workshops: Brent 2020 / Brent Biennial / JAYKOE / London / Online

  28-10-2020 08:19
  Join us for a free online workshop: create images to add to the exhibition Culture Move (Sampled History) on display at Brent Museum & Archives in The Library at Willesden Green and forming part...
  
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• 'It’s got a lot of sweat in it': Reg Mombassa on his three most useful objects

  28-10-2020 01:15
  
  As you would expect from a rock star and artist, the most helpful items in his life involve grubbiness and a little bit of dangerReg Mombassa has had a busy digital life lately. The artist, musician and man behind the surfwear brand Mambo’s beloved “farting dog” image has been playing regular concerts on Facebook and YouTube with his band Dog Trumpet; has collaborated with the knitwear brand WahWah on an ultra-Instagrammable charity sweater, and will be speaking online for Ted
  
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