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• Has Substack Created A New A New Medium For News?

  17-11-2020 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  In three years, Substack’s newsletters—covering almost every conceivable topic, from Australian Aboriginal rights to bread recipes to local Tennessee politics—have drawn more than two hundred fifty thousand paid subscribers. The top newsletter authors can earn six figures, an unheard-of amount for freelance journalists. – Columbia Journalism Review
  
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• UK Universities Want Probe Into Inflated E-Textbook Prices

  17-11-2020 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Johanna Anderson said the situation had become so financially serious for university libraries that it was time for MPs and competition authorities to hold publishers to account. She cited the example of an economics book that costs £44 for a print copy but is £423 for a single e-book user and £500 for three users. An employment law book costs £50 for a hard copy, but is £1,600 for three users of the digital version. – BBC
  
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• French Authors Say They’ll Pay COVID Fines For Paris Book Shops That Stay Open

  17-11-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the beginning of the lockdown more than two weeks ago, the Paris mayor, Anne Hidalgo, pleaded – unsuccessfully – for bookshops to be allowed to remain open and asked the public not to use Amazon. The call has been echoed by the former president François Hollande. – The Guardian
  
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• How Will We Protect World Treasures Threatened By Climate Change?

  17-11-2020 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Venice is just one example of the challenges of preserving iconic landmarks that are threatened by the effects of climate change, such as rising seas and recurrent, intensifying droughts, storms and wildfires. In my research as a social scientist, I help heritage managers make tough decisions prioritizing which sites to save when funds, time or both are limited. – The Conversation
  
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• Board Members / STUN / North West

  17-11-2020 22:27
  STUN enables urban stories of 21st century Britain to be experienced across the world, giving voice to stories that would otherwise go unheard. 
  We are entering an exciting period of...
  
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• Simon Woods: Thinking About The Ways Forward For Orchestras

  17-11-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We are currently living through the longest period of uncertainty that any of us has ever experienced in our professional lives, and it feels like an eternity. The more care we spend thinking about our missions in this not-yet moment, the more fully we’ll be ready for the world more embracing that awaits us.” – Simon Woods
  
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• Why The Arts Are Important In Times Of Crises

  17-11-2020 21:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Some people were willing to forego their meagre ration of food and forget their fatigue to attend the artistic performances in the concentration camp. For me this is a potent reminder to challenge crude approaches to ranking basic human needs and the components of a decent human life.” – Aeon
  
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• Artist in residence / St John's Waterloo / London

  17-11-2020 21:17
  We have launched Waterloo Well, a programme of creative and wellbeing activities for homeless and vulnerable people, and we are looking for an artist to work within a local homelessness...
  
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• Political Theater Moves Into Nonfiction — Is It Drama Or Seminar?

  17-11-2020 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me has become “the grandmother of [a] genre” that includes, just this fall, Kristina Wong for Public Office (about Wong’s run for a local commission in Los Angeles), Lessons in Survival (actors repeating, complete with pauses and tics, observations of prominent Black Americans about society), Denis O’Hare’s What the Hell Is a Republic, Anyway? (using the history of the Roman Republic to examine the American one),
  
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• Economic Impact: A Quick and Dirty Critique

  17-11-2020 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Teaching arts policy this fall, I needed a two-page briefing to warn my students off using economic impact studies as an arts advocacy tool. Here’s the result. – Michael Rushton
  
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• “Fraudulent Avoidance of Sales Tax”: NY Attorney General’s Lawsuit vs. Sotheby’s

  17-11-2020 20:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  NY State Attorney General Letitia James has sued Sotheby’s for its alleged role in helping a client to “pose as an art dealer so he could illegally qualify for sales-tax exemptions reserved for the art trade.” – Lee Rosenbaum
  
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• LGBTQ Blogger / Black Gay Blog / South East

  17-11-2020 20:40
  blackgayblog.com is looking for SEO driven, and growth focussed, content creators, to write the kind of blog posts our LGBTQ audiences are searching for online. Working with our Editor, you will...
  
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• Palm Springs Debate Over Hosting Giant Marilyn Munroe Statue

  17-11-2020 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Palm Springs City Council has agreed to give the “Forever Marilyn” statue a temporary home along Museum Way for three years, but the plan with PS Resorts, which has been working to bring the statue back to Palm Springs for sometime, will contain an option that would allow the city to terminate the agreement before it expires should issues arise.” – Desert Sun
  
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• Content Officer / National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain / London

  17-11-2020 20:07
  Full-time, six-month fixed-term contractSalary: Up to £25,000 dependent on experience
  The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain is hiring a Content Officer to attract and engage audiences,...
  
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• Spain’s Language Academy Acknowledges, Then Backs Away From, Gender-Neutral Pronoun

  17-11-2020 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Late last month, the Royal Spanish Academy launched the Observatory of Words, a web portal that discusses terms and expressions which are coming into regular use in Spanish but which the Academy isn’t ready to officially include in dictionaries. The media quickly noticed that among the words indexed in the new Observatory was elle, coined as a gender-neutral alternative to el/ella (he/she). Within four days, elle was gone. Here’s why. – Global Voices
  
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• Broadway Actors Are Losing Their Health Care

  17-11-2020 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  This year, the number of work weeks has plummeted by 65 percent to about 92,000 — including nearly three months of normal work before the shutdown.  The lack of work weeks is pushing somewhere between 200 and 300 union members off their health insurance a month, Actors’ Equity told CNBC. – CNBC
  
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• Bruno Barbey, Famed War Photographer For Magnum, Dead At 79

  17-11-2020 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  He captured some of the most memorable journalistic images of key events of the late 20th century: the 1968 riots in Paris; the Troubles in Northern Ireland; the Biafran war in Nigeria; the Solidarity demonstrations in Poland; the first Gulf War and the burning of the Kuwait oil fields by retreating Iraqi troops. – The New York Times
  
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• Open Call for Arts & Culture Workers Facing Redundancy / Superfluous / London

  17-11-2020 18:49
  Culture Clearance | Deadline 26.11.20
  Are you an Arts & Culture Worker facing redundancy or made newly redundant by a big arts organisation, gallery, museum or educational...
  
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• Designer/Artist commission - Family Resources / Llanthony Secunda Priory Trust / South West

  17-11-2020 18:49
  Llanthony Secunda Priory is inviting proposals by designers and/or artists to create a set of interactive interpretation methods, or Family Resources, for the Llanthony Secunda Priory grounds.
  The...
  
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• Chief Executive / Royal Literary Fund / London

  17-11-2020 18:43
  Chief Executive
  Central London
  £Highly competitive on the basis of a 3 or 4 day week.
  The Royal Literary Fund (RLF) is seeking to appoint a new Chief Executive at an exciting time for the...
  
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• Artistic Director & Co-CEO / Theatre Deli / Yorkshire / Sheffield & London

  17-11-2020 18:42
  Theatre Deli's Board of Trustees are seeking an Artistic Director & Co-CEO to work alongside David Ralf, Executive Director, to shape and lead Theatre Deli’s team and activity across its...
  
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• Social Media Contributor / Studio Nelle / London

  17-11-2020 18:34
  Studio Nelle helps you to celebrate Black culture and heritage by creating unique luxury eco-conscious leather goods. Each product is hand crafted using leather reclaimed from the fashion industry so...
  
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• Finance Manager / Nottingham Castle Trust / East Midlands

  17-11-2020 18:34
  To oversee the day to day financial operations, including month end close and balance sheet reconciliations. Acting as the business partner to the Commercial and Content Directors to ensure budgets...
  
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• The Art Of The Trump Goodbye

  17-11-2020 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Is Trump like King Lear, raging naked on the heath and desperately hanging on to the increasingly diminished trappings of power even as they are stripped from him? Or is he more like Bartleby the Scrivener, the inscrutable model of passive resistance who one day declines to do any more work or indeed leave the building, declaring: “I would prefer not to?” – The New York Times
  
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• Customer Services Supervisor / Nottingham Castle Trust / East Midlands

  17-11-2020 18:31
  Nottingham Castle Visitor Centre is a combined retail and admissions space. The first and last stop in the delivery of a world class experience, welcoming visitors to the Castle and striving to make...
  
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• Explainer Team Leader / Nottingham Castle Trust / East Midlands

  17-11-2020 18:28
  The Nottingham Castle Explainer Team Leaders will support the day-to-day running of the Learning team under the management of the Learning & Visitor Experience Manager. They will lead...
  
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• Lead Teacher - Dance Studies / The Royal Ballet School / London

  17-11-2020 18:17
  The Royal Ballet School is one of the world’s greatest centres of classical ballet training. Our mission is to nurture, train and educate exceptional young dancers for the Royal Ballet...
  
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• Philadelphia’s Count-All-The-Votes Dance Party Was A Deliberate Plan To Avoid Street Violence

  17-11-2020 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It seemed impromptu. It wasn’t entirely. The undeniable joy before, on, and after Election Day was organic. But a coalition of Philadelphia progressive organizations, many of them Black-led, have for months planned for political tension and unrest, determined to turn down the temperature.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Open Online Theatre: Social Transcendence / / London

  17-11-2020 17:36
  A co-creation session with dance artist Reem Naamani, whose work explores the current situation in Lebanon through the lens of the individual and collective interactions that occur when dancing in a...
  
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• Assessing The Art World’s Performance During Trump

  17-11-2020 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The arts exist as a smaller bubble within the larger bubble of liberal media culture. And doubling down on affirming the sense of enlightened cultural superiority has larger potential negative consequences. – Artnet
  
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• Up to Gbp 7,000 grants available for arts and heritage projects / Newham Heritage Month / London

  17-11-2020 17:18
  Newham Heritage Month will return for 2021 and there are grants of up to £7,000 available to support you in creating a project for next year’s programme.
  The theme for 2021 is...
  
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• Gig Buddies Volunteer - Hull / Royal Mencap Society / Yorkshire / Beverley

  17-11-2020 17:17
  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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• Brexit Chat for Craft Businesses / Crafts Council / London / UK wide

  17-11-2020 17:13
  Brexit Chat
  Thursday 26th November at 1pm – 1.45pm
  Yes, Brexit will happen on 31st December this year whether we like it or not. Crafts Council are inviting you to an informal chat on Brexit,...
  
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• Project Curator: Horology / The British Museum / London

  17-11-2020 17:05
  Project Curator: Horology Britain, Europe and Prehistory Full time, 10 months fixed term£25,918 per annum Application Deadline: 12 Noon on 24 November 2020 
  The British Museum is...
  
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• Webinar: Hettie Judah and Thomas Marks on gallery publishing / Mayfair Art Weekend / London

  17-11-2020 16:59
  2020 Mayfair Gallery Publication Award Webinar
  This Friday at 5pm join Hettie Judah (curator, critic and author), and Dr. Thomas Marks (Apollo Magazine Editor) as they discuss gallery...
  
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• Gig Buddies Volunteer - Bradford / Royal Mencap Society / Yorkshire / Bradford

  17-11-2020 16:55
  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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• Head of Drama Directing Course / Bristol Old Vic Theatre School / South West

  17-11-2020 16:29
  Bristol Old Vic Theatre School is seeking an experienced drama director to lead the School’s postgraduate MA in Drama Directing.
  Equipped with substantial experience of teaching drama...
  
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• Marketing and Communications Officer / Bristol Old Vic Theatre School / South West

  17-11-2020 16:27
  Bristol Old Vic Theatre School is seeking an experienced Marketing and Communications Officer to enhance its brand and leading reputation for drama training. Working closely with other members of the...
  
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• Student Recruitment and Outreach Officer / Bristol Old Vic Theatre School / South West

  17-11-2020 16:26
  Bristol Old Vic Theatre School is seeking a dedicated and experienced Student Recruitment and Outreach Officer to help ensure its recruitment and access targets continue to be met.
  You will be...
  
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• Producer / Ensonglopedia / South East

  17-11-2020 15:20
  At Ensonglopedia, we make musical, educational, comic shows and videos.  We’re ACE-funded to complete production on our Ensonglopedia of the Human, and undergo a period of company...
  
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• Video and Multimedia Producer / Royal Institution / London

  17-11-2020 15:06
  Do you have what it takes to bring the work of the Ri to life through videos and podcasts, growing our online audience and engaging more people to understand the place of science in their lives?
  The...
  
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• Trustee / Spitalfields Music / London

  17-11-2020 14:59
  Spitalfields Music is recruiting new trustees, to join our board from January 2021.
  Founded in 1976, Spitalfields Music has been putting music at the beating heart of EastLondon for over 40 years....
  
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• Access Manager. Talking Bodies, Script Development / Hot Coals Productions / London

  17-11-2020 13:59
  Hot Coals Productions is an award winning production company making compelling stories in theatre and film. Formed of core members Clare-Louise English and Jo Sargeant. As a company led by 1 deaf...
  
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• Education Coordinator / Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan / London

  17-11-2020 13:48
  The Bhavan is the largest centre of classical Indian arts education in the UK. It aims to promote the teaching and understanding of Indian art and culture as an integral part of the culture of the...
  
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• Events Marketing & Sales Manager / The Whitworth Centre / East Midlands

  17-11-2020 13:36
  The main responsibility of the role will be to provide support and services to facilitate the effective and efficient management of The Whitworth Centre’s brand and maximising revenue through...
  
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• Free Taster Workshops - join our dance companies / Step into Dance at the Royal Academy of Dance / London

  17-11-2020 13:35
  Step into Dance are recruiting new members for our Step Combine and Step Create & Perform Companies!Recruitment for both companies will be through a taster session on Sunday 6...
  
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• Part-time Hourly Lecturer: Computer Science (Games Development) / Norwich University of the Arts / East

  17-11-2020 13:18
  We are seeking to appoint Lecturers with the skills and experience to join our team of dedicated Games staff to teach on BSc (Hons) Games Development. The successful candidates will possess a...
  
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• Freelance Filmmaking Workshop Leader / Sparks Enfield & Sparks Walthamstow / London

  17-11-2020 13:01
  Are you creative and interested in working with young people? Perhaps you’re an educator looking for a new artistic challenge? Or maybe you’re a filmmaker hoping to inspire the next...
  
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• Freelance Filmmaking Workshop Assistant / Sparks Enfield & Sparks Walthamstow / London

  17-11-2020 12:56
  Are you creative and interested in working with young people? Perhaps you’re an educator looking for a new artistic challenge? Or maybe you’re a filmmaker hoping to inspire the next...
  
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• Club Soda Live: SoDaDa Online Party - Monday 7th December / Club Soda Croydon / London

  17-11-2020 12:50
  Club Soda’s online party showcasing artists with learning disabilities.
  SoDaDa Online is our final event of ‘Club Soda Live’, our Autumn term of online inclusive events.
  On Monday...
  
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