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• General Manager / Workplace Foundation / North East

  01-11-2020 23:31
  Job Title:   General Manager, Workplace Foundation
  Deadline:   Friday November 30th 2020 - 5pm
  Location:    Gateshead, UK
  Type:  Part Time   ...
  
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• Production Manager (part time, freelance) / Paraorchestra / South West

  01-11-2020 22:07
  We are currently recruiting for a freelance Production Manager to support the creation and touring of new projects during 2020-21. We are looking for a flexible and experienced individual, with...
  
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• Assistant Director / Workplace Foundation / North East

  01-11-2020 20:22
  Job title: Assistant Director
  Deadline: Friday November 30th - 5pm
  Location: Gateshead
  Salary: £26,000 Full Time
  Workplace Foundation is a charity founded by WORKPLACE a...
  
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• Blog Writer / ARTtouchesART / London / UK wide

  01-11-2020 16:33
  ARTtouchesART is celebrating filmmaking, music videos and visual art through a revolutionary blog. Our bloggers are writers, filmmakers, musicians and art students who want to advertise themselves...
  
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• Sponsorship and Fundraising Officer / Blue Moose Dance Company / North West

  01-11-2020 16:23
  We are looking for a Sponsorship and Fundraising Officer for a short-term post to work with us on our Making it Happen Podcast series!
  We are currently in the process of applying for funding so at...
  
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• Zoom Life Drawing Classes / Candid Arts Trust / London

  01-11-2020 16:13
  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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• Marketing Officer / Blue Moose Dance Company / North West

  01-11-2020 16:11
  We are looking for a Marketing Officer for a short-term post to work with us on our Making it Happen Podcast series!
  We are currently in the process of applying for funding and at this stage are...
  
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• Britain’s So-Called Equalities Minister Suggested That Some Black Authors Wanted Racial Division

  01-11-2020 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  More than 100 British authors reacted quickly. “The allegation here is not only clearly false but dangerous. It risks endangering the personal safety of anti-racist writers. In recent years progressive writers, politicians and activists across Europe and the United Kingdom have been physically attacked and killed by far-right extremists.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Gallery Assistant / Rebecca Gordon Gallery / London

  01-11-2020 15:56
  We're looking for a Gallery Assistant to help launch a new contemporary art gallery in Hoxton. You will assist with daily operations, front desk duties, invigilating exhibitions, responding...
  
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• Turns Out Universal Accessibility At Museums Can Help During A Pandemic

  01-11-2020 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  For instance, the Guggenheim’s audio guide, “Mind’s Eye,” was designed for the blind and low-vision community. Now it’s also serving the sighted people who miss the musuem. “It’s a vivid escape for those of us stuck inside during the pandemic.” – NPR
  
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• Games Are The New Battleground (State)

  01-11-2020 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Games, and their social context, are where many people shape their political ideas. And, of course, they’re where candidates go as well. “The presidential campaign for Joe Biden took the former vice president’s message to Animal Crossing, where players could visit a Biden HQ island. And on Oct. 19, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) proved to be an affable Twitch personality when she brought a low-key get-out-the-vote effort to indie game sens
  
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• The NEH Will Pay To Erect New Statues Of Columbus And Others

  01-11-2020 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  In an open slap at protesters who took down statues they considered to be celebratory of racism, colonialism, and sexism, Trump’s National Endowment for the Humanities is giving money to rebuild or repair three toppled statues.– The New York Times
  
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• Even Its Founders Couldn’t Figure Out How To Market Quibi

  01-11-2020 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  They tried, sort of. When app downloads dropped, they brought in experts. “The marketing experts pitched multiple ideas to shake up Quibi’s approach. One plan was to heavily promote several marquee shows on the app, similar to how Netflix used House of Cards to legitimize itself.” But the founders weren’t into it. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Jonathan Hughes 'Digital Art Only!' His 6th Solo Exhibition / Hughes Fine Art / North West / North East

  01-11-2020 13:58
  This is Jonathan's 6th solo exhibition. His 2nd virtual art exhibition.
  The exhibition features a selection of his digital paintings and drawings produced during 2020.
  The exhibition is online,...
  
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• Executive Director & Co-Chief Executive Officer / Theatre Troupe / London

  01-11-2020 13:52
  Theatre Troupe changes the lives of the most severely marginalised children and young people aged 9 to 19 through the power of participatory theatre. We currently deliver programmes in South London,...
  
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• What Is Novelist Elizabeth Strout Doing To Stay Culturally Alert During The Pandemic?

  01-11-2020 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The author of Olive Kitteredge (for which she won a Pulitzer) and many other novels, including 2019’s Olive, Again, just fell for the playing of pianist Hélène Grimaud, and continues to find Edward Hopper’s art comforting. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Margate Bookie supports the next generation of event producers / Francesca Baker / South East

  01-11-2020 13:19
  Margate Bookie invites young people from across Thanet to join them as young producers for a series of online literature events to launch early in 2021.Working with leaders in their fields, young...
  
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• Sean Connery, Scottish Definer Of James Bond, 90

  01-11-2020 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Connery was Bond for seven films and embodied him for many Bond fans. He dismayed those fans “by walking away from the Bond franchise and went on to have a long and fruitful career as a respected actor and an always bankable star.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Painter and the Thief review – portrait of a crime

  01-11-2020 12:30
  
  An artist reaches out to a man who stole two of her paintings with unexpected results in this staggering Sundance favouriteFascinating, confounding and continually surprising, this Sundance prize-winning documentary takes a casual crime – the impulsive theft of two paintings from an exhibition by the Czech painter Barbora Kysilkova – and from it knits together the relationship of artist and muse, victim and perpetrator. Addict Karl-Bertil Nordland stole the paintings but claimed he w
  
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• A selfie set in stone: hidden portrait by cheeky mason found in Spain 900 years on

  01-11-2020 11:15
  
  A British art historian’s painstaking study of the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela uncovered a medieval prankHe is a medieval in-joke, a male figure carved in the early 12th century for one of the world’s greatest cathedrals, but no one has known of his existence until now. The figure has gone unnoticed by millions of worshippers who have made the long pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, north-western Spain over the centuries. He has looked down on them from the top
  
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• Joy Labinjo: 'When I’m painting I feel happy and alive'

  01-11-2020 11:00
  
  The young British-Nigerian painter talks about finding inspiration in British black art of the 1980s, the impact of BLM, and what’s getting us through Covid-19“I like coming to the studio and it just being me,” British-Nigerian artist Joy Labinjo says when I ask whether she gets lonely. The 25-year-old’s career has risen rapidly since graduating from Newcastle University in 2017. That year she won the Woon art prize, then in 2019 had a solo exhibition at the Baltic; she n
  
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• Turner's Modern World review – a master out of his element

  01-11-2020 10:00
  
  Tate Britain, London
  For all his greatness, JMW Turner was neither a political satirist nor a social chronicler, yet this show struggles to make him oneThere is a painting in this strangely contradictory exhibition of English labourers gathering turnips in a field near Slough. It is almost as banal as it sounds. A few cows, vague vegetables, the workers cursorily indicated in smeary oil paint: Turner appears comparatively indifferent to this scene of rural life, except as a pretext for his true
  
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