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• A Grand Unifying Theory Of Culture?… (Meh)

  24-11-2020 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the same way that Darwin’s theory explains how life follows pathways of adaptation via natural selection, cultural evolution proposes that human cultures develop and transmit deep understandings and values across generations. There are many pathways of cultural evolution, Henrich contends, and no single human culture. To better understand the world and Europe’s influence on it, we need to recognise that European culture is, in Henrich’s key acronym, “weird&rdqu
  
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• Why Do So Many Books With Trump In Them Not Name Trump?

  24-11-2020 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Why are novelists not naming this man? The reasons will naturally vary author to author, but it is not fear or superstition, as far as I can tell. – The Guardian
  
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• Men’s Books, Women’s Books… Where Do Readers See Themselves?

  24-11-2020 23:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Men and women both write every possible kind of book—and yet, when you toss a book out into the marketplace, it will generally find more readers of one sort than the other. Publishers know this and market accordingly. And, if I’m honest, I did get some early indications of where on the spectrum my own book would fall. Over the years, I noticed who brightened up when I described what I was working on and whose eyes tended to glaze over.”– The American Scholar
  
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• Filmmaker / Showtown, Blackpool / North West

  24-11-2020 21:39
  Showtown is seeking an individual or a company to plan, record and edit a suite of films documenting four of Showtown’s public engagement events and projects.
  1. Open Up the Mic project...
  
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• Theories abound over mystery metal monolith found in Utah

  24-11-2020 21:27
  
  Structure compared to monolith featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey while John McCracken gallerist says object is not sculptor’s workA giant, metal mystery slab has captured the attention of millions, as people speculate over how such a structure came to be in a remote part of southern Utah.The object was first spotted last week by a helicopter pilot and wildlife officers who were flying above the rugged area to conduct an annual count of bighorn sheep for the state. It immediately drew compa
  
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• Fools at Fawlty Towers 05/02/2021 Watford / Comedy Dining / London

  24-11-2020 20:49
  Comedy Dining are pleased to bring together two iconic shows, after our success with Only Fools and 3 Courses and Fawlty Towers, we now have Fools @ Fawlty Towers!Four professional actors will...
  
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• Does Nudging Someone Really Change Behavior?

  24-11-2020 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Nudge theory has taken the world by storm (with organizations and governments using these techniques), and so you might be forgiven for thinking that these behavioural interventions get it right most of the time. Well, as is often the case, things do in fact go wrong in the world of nudging.” – 3QuarksDaily
  
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• Fools at Fawlty Towers 06/02/2021 Durham / Comedy Dining / North East

  24-11-2020 20:28
  Comedy Dining are pleased to bring together two iconic shows, after our success with Only Fools and 3 Courses and Fawlty Towers, we now have Fools @ Fawlty Towers!Four professional actors will...
  
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• ‘The Inheritance’ Playwright To Pen Major Biopic Of Tennessee Williams

  24-11-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Matthew López has been engaged by Searchlight Pictures to write a screen adaptation of Leading Men, the Christopher Castellani novel about Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo. López’s The Inheritance won four Olivier Awards in London in 2019 and garnered eleven Tony nominations this year. – Variety
  
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• Associate Producer / Punchdrunk / London

  24-11-2020 19:46
  Punchdrunk is looking for an Associate Producer to support Sleep No More in Shanghai and a new project due to launch in the UK next year.
  Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More (SNM)...
  
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• Josh Kosman: My Encounters With Classical Music

  24-11-2020 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If you think of Classical Music as a vast and imposing monolith, with both words capitalized, it isn’t an easy thing to take on within a single encounter. Individual pieces, on the other hand, are like people — each one quirky and distinctive, and each one carrying the promise of a lifelong acquaintance.” – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Drama Worker / The Young Women's Film Academy CIO / North East

  24-11-2020 19:13
  We are seeking a creative and enthusiastic individual to join our team to devise and deliver engaging drama workshops for young women in Newcastle upon Tyne.  
  The post will initially be a 4...
  
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• A talk between Gallerist Jennifer Gilbert & artist Tony Heaton / Jennifer Lauren Gallery / London

  24-11-2020 19:05
  Join Jennifer Gilbert from the Jennifer Lauren Gallery for a live conversation with artist and sculptor Tony Heaton OBE, to hear how his disability has informed his work over the years.
  This talk is...
  
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• My Grandpa Was Part Of The Nazi Language Police

  24-11-2020 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Martin Puchner, Harvard comp lit professor and editor of The Norton Anthology of World Literature, writes about Rotwelsch — an amalgam of colloquial German, Yiddish, and Romani spoken for centuries by itinerant people in Central Europe and incomprehensible to outsiders — and about how he discovered that his grandfather, a historian named Karl Puchner, had worked with the Nazi regime to suppress Rotwelsch and keep the German language pure. – Literary Hub
  
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• Gallery Associate (Assistant to Director and Senior Director) / Thomas Dane Gallery / London

  24-11-2020 18:55
  Thomas Dane Gallery is seeking a Gallery Associate to join its operations in London. Working directly with the Director and Senior Director on artist liaison, production, exhibition coordination and...
  
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• Metal Monolith Discovered In The Utah Desert

  24-11-2020 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Wildlife officials spotted the “unusual” object while counting sheep during a flyover in a remote south-eastern area of the US state. They said the structure had been planted in the ground between red rock.There was no indication who installed the monolith, which was about 10 to 12ft (3.6m) tall. – BBC
  
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• Apocalyptic goo and Detroit in beats: Jarman award 2020 is shared

  24-11-2020 18:30
  
  Whitechapel Gallery, London
  Jenn Nkiru’s standout film of Detroit’s techno history evokes the rhythm of fractured black lives in a show with no winner but plenty to mull overA tsunami of black, computer-generated goo rushes along ancient streets, floods a courtyard and inundates a chapel. Fires break out, smoke and flame billowing around minarets and churches. The opening scenes of Larissa Sansour’s 2019 film In Vitro are gripping enough, before you realise that the city in que
  
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• Freelance Research Artist Facilitator / Groovy Art Workshops / London

  24-11-2020 18:17
  Groovy Art Workshops is an educational provider designing and delivering educational creative activities and events to children and young people. Teaching the academic subjects using art through the...
  
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• Is This The Dream Sheet Music App We’ve Been Waiting For?

  24-11-2020 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Artificial intelligence experts working with musicologists at a Berlin startup have spent years gathering hundreds of thousands of published scores and creating digital editions of each of them. The Enote app will give musicians the chance to interact with sheet music by instantly transposing it, switching between movements or measures, turning pages, changing the size of scores, and printing them on the go.” – The Guardian
  
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• Contemporary Dancers / Eleesha Drennan Dance / London

  24-11-2020 17:58
  Award winning choreographer Eleesha Drennan is seeking dance artists who have a high level of training in contemporary & ballet technique with professional performance experience including...
  
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• Be part of The Faculty - North! / Heart of Glass / North West

  24-11-2020 17:46
  Heart of Glass and In-Situ are inviting applications from individuals to join our second iteration of The Faculty - an alternative learning space for practitioners working at the intersection of arts...
  
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• Studio Business Development Director / Studio Wayne McGregor / London

  24-11-2020 17:41
  We are looking for an experienced, entrepreneurial and keen Studio Business Development Director to join our Senior Management Team to build our rental, event and rental activities by...
  
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• What Intellectual Thought In Silicon Valley Looks Like

  24-11-2020 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  In an erudite new book, “What Tech Calls Thinking,” Adrian Daub, a professor of comparative literature and German studies at Stanford, investigates the concepts in which Silicon Valley is still staked. He argues that the economic upheavals that start there are “made plausible and made to seem inevitable” by these tightly codified marketing strategies he calls “ideals.” – The New York Times
  
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• Casual Visitor Experience Assistant / The Design Museum / London

  24-11-2020 17:16
  The Design Museum is the world’s leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form from furniture to graphics, and architecture to industrial design. 
  The Visitor Experience...
  
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• Remember Those ‘Very Special’ TV Series Episodes? Some Of Them Really Did Change People’s Lives

  24-11-2020 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Very Special Episodes — i.e., the ones in which a TV series would take a break from its regularly scheduled programming to deal with a difficult or controversial subject (like The Next Generation‘s two-part school shooting arc) — are as old as television itself. Case in point: Leave It to Beaver grappled with divorce, and The Andy Griffith Show tackled alcoholism. But they really took off in the 1970s when TV legend Norman Lear wove the social issues of the era into his
  
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• Piano Coach and Accompanist / HMDT Music / London

  24-11-2020 16:34
  HMDT Music seeks an experienced musician to teach piano, and accompany choirs. The role is based in Hackney, at HMDT Music’s Saturday Programme, which enriches the lives of young people through...
  
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• Fred Hills, Legendary Editor At McGraw Hill And Simon & Schuster, Dead At 85

  24-11-2020 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “During his four decades in publishing, Mr. Hills brought to market both commercial hits and literary prizewinners and edited more than 50 New York Times best sellers. His stable of authors encompassed an eclectic assortment from multiple genres — Heinrich Böll and Jane Fonda, Justin Kaplan and William Saroyan, Raymond Carver and James MacGregor Burns, Sumner Redstone and Joan Kennedy, Phil Donahue and David Halberstam.” – The New York Times
  
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• As Book Reviews Disappear From Mainstream Outlets, A Tennessee Nonprofit Fills The Gap

  24-11-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Humanities Tennessee [has] created something called Chapter 16: a part-digital, part-print publication that covers literature and literary life in the state by doing what almost any other outlet would — running reviews, profiles, interviews, and essays — but also by doing what almost no other outlet could afford to do: giving away its content for free, not only to readers but to any publication of any kind that wants to reproduce it.” – The New Yorker
  
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• Social Media Manager (freelance) / Mimosa House / London

  24-11-2020 15:57
  Mimosa House is an independent non-profit art space in central London, dedicated to supporting experimentation, collaboration, and dialogue between intergenerational female and queer artists, and...
  
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• Christmas Panto In The Pandemic

  24-11-2020 15:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  It seems you can’t keep England’s antic, anarchic holiday tradition down, even as disease stalks the land. Chris Wiegand talks to producers who are putting their pantos on film and in car parks. – The Guardian
  
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• Fundraising Manager (maternity cover) / Black Country Living Museum / West Midlands

  24-11-2020 15:33
  £26,000 per annum
  6 month fixed-term contract
  Black Country Living Museum is one of Europe’s most successful open-air museums. The Museum is regularly used for TV and Film locations,...
  
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• Open Call for Workshop Participants / Ignite! (Nottinghamshire) / East Midlands

  24-11-2020 15:21
  Artist Ryan Heath, Ignite! and BACKLIT Gallery are looking for 6 young people to take part in a series of four online workshops exploring creativity, conservation, and tech. These sessions are for...
  
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• Fools at Fawlty Towers 05/02/2021 Gloucester / Comedy Dining / South West

  24-11-2020 15:14
  Comedy Dining are pleased to bring together two iconic shows, after our success with Only Fools and 3 Courses and Fawlty Towers, we now have Fools @ Fawlty Towers!Four professional actors will...
  
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• Learning Administrator / Collective Encounters / North West

  24-11-2020 15:12
  Collective Encounters is a professional arts organisation specialising in Theatre for Social Change working with marginalised and disenfranchised communities in Merseyside since 2004. We deliver...
  
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• As Philadelphia’s Arts Sector Closes Up For Second Time, Fears About What Might Not Survive

  24-11-2020 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After initial COVID-19 shutdowns in March, many organizations made significant investments in reopening this summer or moving activities online, … ‘and now it appears they won’t be able to reap any impact from that investment, at least for quite a while.’ … For groups that showed resourcefulness in moving operations online and making attendance safe for visitors, the new restrictions feel like a step backward. More critically, the new constraints threaten
  
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• MK Skate - new book about skateboarding / Milton Keynes Council / South East

  24-11-2020 14:53
  MK Skate, a history of skateboarding in Milton Keynes is the culmination of a unique two-year heritage programme led by creatives and the community of local skateboarders.
  The book...
  
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• Children & Young People Producer / Royal Exchange Theatre / North West

  24-11-2020 14:50
  The Royal Exchange Theatre is currently seeking a Children & Young People Producer to join the Connecting Team.
  This role will be vital in the planning, management and support of the delivery of...
  
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• Why I Steal From Museums: Mwazulu Diyabanza Makes His Case

  24-11-2020 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “These artefacts belong to me, because I am African and Congolese. But also because I am a descendant of Ntumba Mvemba, one of the royal families that founded the Kingdom of Kongo in 1390. … People have to understand that if someone stole their heritage they would react as I am now. Many of my ancestors died protecting these items: they were beheaded. … Their pain is inside me.” – The Guardian
  
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• Instinctive acting - online acting workshop for beginners / Theatre Gym / East / Online

  24-11-2020 14:31
  In our day-to-day lives, we are taught to not follow our instincts but the rules of society. It usually serves us in life but if we follow these same rules when we perform we will be...
  
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• Acting for Screen - beginners workshop / Theatre Gym / East / Online

  24-11-2020 14:30
  How do you bring real-life details into every role on screen?
  In this practical class, Lucy will share her personal techniques with you and give you a chance to try and get feedback.
  You’ll...
  
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• Spanish Plays - online acting workshop for beginners / Theatre Gym / East / Online

  24-11-2020 14:28
  "What is life? A fantasy?
  A prize we seek so eagerly
  That proves to be illusory?
  I think life is but a dream
  And even dreams not what they seem."
  / Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la...
  
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• Monologues - Online acting class for beginners / Theatre Gym / East / Online

  24-11-2020 14:27
  Have fun talking to the world – that’s all a monologue is.
  Learn how to read, make sense of, and perform written monologues.Find the joy of creating conflict and drama all from your...
  
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• Music Tutor or Therapist / Share Community / London

  24-11-2020 14:21
  The Music Tutor or Therapist delivers music training or therapy to disabled adults, most of whom have learning disabilities and autism. The sessions enable individuals to develop their musical...
  
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• Free Online Play Session (A zoom acting class for beginners) / Theatre Gym / East / Online

  24-11-2020 14:16
  We meet every Tuesday for an hour of playing, being silly, meeting new people, laughing and creating together.You can think of it as a taster for an acting class.The session is free and open...
  
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• France’s Anti-Colonialist Art Thief-Activist Acquitted On Free-Speech Grounds

  24-11-2020 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mwazulu Diyabanza and three accomplices were found not guilty of attempted theft by a judge at Marseille’s High Court over a July 30 incident in which the four men took a ceremonial ivory spear from its perch in the city’s Museum of African, Oceanic, and Amerindian Arts, carried the object to the museum’s courtyard, denounced the “plunder” of African art by European colonials during the 19th and 20th centuries, and awaited the arrival of the police. – Artnet
  
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• Caribbean Carnival Development Worker / EMCCAN / East Midlands

  24-11-2020 14:00
  EMCCAN seeks a Caribbean Carnival Development WorkerJanuary to March 2021
  Salary £29,000 pro rata (Full time or 4 days a week)
  East Midlands Caribbean Carnival Arts Network seeks to...
  
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• Painting Specialist Teacher / Hackney Fine Arts / London

  24-11-2020 13:51
  Hackney Fine Arts is a traditional techniques drawing and painting art studio based at Hackney City Farm. We offer classes for children, teenagers, and adults. We run weekday, weekend & holiday...
  
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• The Idle Index online artist screensaver exhibition / Phoenix / East Midlands

  24-11-2020 13:06
  The Idle Index is an exhibition and online project featuring screensavers created by artists based in, or with links to, Leicester.Preview the screensavers here.
  Screensavers have persisted as...
  
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• Fund Executive (YACF) / British Film Institute / North West

  24-11-2020 13:02
  Fixed Term Contract January 2021 – March 2021, with the possibility of extension for 1 year
  Salary £45,585 to £53,844 plus generous benefits package
  We support flexible...
  
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• Art + Critique: Critical and Contextual Studies in Art Practice / videomole.tv / London / International

  24-11-2020 12:51
  This online course integrates practice and theory in a programme of lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials. The lectures survey the histories and discourses of contemporary art, demystify the...
  
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