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• Record Intact: Boston’s H&H Extends Its Streak To 167 Years Of Messiahs. Here’s How

  18-12-2020 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The period-instrument orchestra first performed the resplendent “Hallelujah” chorus during its inaugural concert in 1815, presenting the American premiere three years later. In the centuries since, H+H has often performed the storied oratorio, including, for the past 166 years uninterrupted, annual holiday performances that have sustained Bostonians through the Great Depression, two World Wars, 32 presidencies, the Civil War, and the Spanish Flu pandemic. – Boston Globe
  
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• Regrets About The Life You’ve Lived?

  18-12-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The thought that I might have become someone else is so bland that dwelling on it sometimes seems fatuous,” the literary scholar Andrew H. Miller writes, in “On Not Being Someone Else: Tales of Our Unled Lives” (Harvard). Still, phrased the right way, the thought has an insistent, uncanny magnetism. – The New Yorker
  
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• Late-Night TV’s Trump Problem

  18-12-2020 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Trump has been a singular challenge for writers in the late-night landscape. An obvious target as a candidate—with his verbal gaffes, body language, and appearance contributing to facile impressions and shallow punchlines—he killed the joke when he won the White House. As president, he placed traditional late-night shows in “a rock-and-a-hard-place situation. – The Atlantic
  
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• Theatre That Steps Outside The Theatre

  18-12-2020 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We are all here because we believe in the power of theatre, right? We think it has the power to change minds, to catalyze conversations, to shift narratives. But we most often limit that to what’s on our stages, with the goal that our mostly wealthy, mostly white patrons might see our groundbreaking show and say, “Wow, I never knew that.” But if we approached theatremaking as cultural workers, we wouldn’t be measuring success only by the number of tickets sold, an
  
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• Laid-Off Publishing Pros Reject Corporate Publishing To Start Their Own Press

  18-12-2020 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  In its revamped form, Spiegel & Grau will produce 15 to 20 books a year, as well as original audiobooks and podcasts. It will also work on television and film adaptations and already has signed a first-look deal with Amazon Studios to develop projects from its titles. – The New York Times
  
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• Robert Musil As Playwright

  18-12-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The author of The Man Without Qualities worked in the theaters of Vienna as both critic and playwright. Author Genese Grill looks at how Musil’s two completed plays fed his most famous novel. – Literary Hub
  
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• What It’s Like To Be A Trans-Gender Opera Singer

  18-12-2020 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I couldn’t acknowledge that I was transgender or even queer until 2010, when I was studying voice at St. Olaf College. I was confronted with difficult realizations about who I am that I couldn’t reconcile with my plan to become a classical singer. Suddenly I was caught between two options: to live an authentic life or to keep studying voice. Maybe I was offering myself excuses, but I wasn’t willing to stop singing, so I didn’t change course. It wasn’t until
  
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• Artist Residency - Newcastle Common Residency 2 / Appetite, New Vic Theatre / West Midlands

  18-12-2020 20:23
  Appetite are delivering The Newcastle Common, a three year programme in the centre of Newcastle-under-Lyme, which will look at the changing use of the town centre. It will test empty shops as sites...
  
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• 2020 Is The Year TikTok Started Transforming The World

  18-12-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Now, at the end of 2020, TikTok is the most downloaded app of the year – and it’s changed an awful lot more than just how we consume media online.” Among other things, the app and the brief little videos on it have altered the way online comedy, activism, meme culture, and collaborative art. – BBC
  
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• NGV Triennial: a bold and urgent artistic intervention, studded with beauty and calm

  18-12-2020 20:00
  
  The National Gallery of Victoria’s colossal second Triennial is an exhibition that engages the heart as well as the headThe Residences at NGV International promises high quality fittings and top of the range brand name appliances. But the walls are flimsy, the ceilings too low and the appliances are grotesquely outsized – there’s even a toilet seat you need to climb a ladder to reach.It’s not a suite for a new inner city development, though you may initially be fooled; it
  
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• The Complicated Career Of Louis Armstrong

  18-12-2020 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Meeting culture in the middle meant Armstrong could change things from within. The list of firsts he oversaw is staggering. Knockin’ a Jug, which featured black and white musicians, was one of the US’s first integrated recordings. That same year, he cut the first integrated vocal duet, Rockin’ Chair, with white singer Hoagy Carmichael. Black and Blue, a 1929 B-side on Okeh Records’ “popular music” listings (a label that had previously marketed him for “
  
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• Head of Learning & Participation / Brixton House / London / London

  18-12-2020 19:27
  Welcome to our House
  In 2021 Brixton House (formally Ovalhouse) will open its doors to welcome everyone to enjoy theatre and art in the heart of Brixton. A brand-new venue dedicated to...
  
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• Senior Producer & Dramaturg / Brixton House / London / London

  18-12-2020 19:22
  Welcome to our House
  In 2021 Brixton House (formally Ovalhouse) will open its doors to welcome everyone to enjoy theatre and art in the heart of Brixton. A brand-new venue dedicated to...
  
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• Chief of Staff / Brixton House / London / London

  18-12-2020 19:18
  Welcome to our House
  In 2021 Brixton House (formally Ovalhouse) will open its doors to welcome everyone to enjoy theatre and art in the heart of Brixton. A brand-new venue dedicated to...
  
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• Marketing Manager and Digital Marketing Manager / English Touring Opera / London

  18-12-2020 19:13
  English Touring Opera are recruiting two entrepreneurial, creative and sales driven individuals to join our Marketing team. The roles will work across a number of opportunities post-Covid, including...
  
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• Dorothy Gill Barnes, Sculptor In Wood And Tree Bark, Dead Of COVID At 93

  18-12-2020 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “From strips of mulberry tree bark, she produced an intricate vase. To make a stout bowl, she folded hunks of poplar bark. She once wove a basket on a loom with lichen. She also created sculptures from wood, like a hollowed-out oak tree she encased with apple suckers and a work featuring branches of cherry and paulownia linked together like a necklace with glass and wire.” – The New York Times
  
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• Artist Residency - Newcastle Common Residency 1 / Appetite, New Vic Theatre / West Midlands

  18-12-2020 18:56
  Appetite are delivering The Newcastle Common, a three year programme in the centre of Newcastle-under-Lyme, which will look at the changing use of the town centre. It will test empty shops as sites...
  
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• Director / Yorkshire and North East Film Archive / Yorkshire / North East England

  18-12-2020 18:34
  The Board of the Yorkshire and North East Film Archive is seeking an inspirational leader to succeed its founder Director when she retires in 2021 after over thirty years in the post. 
  This is...
  
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• How To Deal With Offending Classics?

  18-12-2020 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The art of dance is distinct in being the single art in which the body is the most easily decontextualized from the surrounding work—in order to be consumed as if it existed in and for itself. Yet, in the present controversies that swirl about nineteenth-century ballet classics such as La Bayadère, those which display the racial stereotypes of Orientalism, the problem is more complex than that of bodies alone.” – MassReview
  
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• Public art commission / Sevenoaks District Council / South East

  18-12-2020 18:30
  Sevenoaks District Council Public Realm Commissioner is seeking an experienced artist/designer to design, install and deliver a new public art at the Marks and Spencer site, located in the heart of...
  
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• Development Manager / Towner Eastbourne / South East

  18-12-2020 18:25
  We are seeking an accomplished communicator with excellent written and interpersonal skills to tell compelling stories that encourage donors and funders to support Towner’s mission and vision....
  
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• Freelance Online Festival Coordinator / Ignite Imaginations / Yorkshire / Sheffield

  18-12-2020 18:09
  We are looking for someone to work alongside over 50’s across the city to co-design, co-produce and co-deliver a relevant and meaningful online arts and culture festival that connects people to...
  
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• Executive Director / Forward Arts Foundation / London

  18-12-2020 18:05
  We are seeking a new Executive Director, who will be responsible for developing Forward Arts Foundation’s role as the national charity that promotes knowledge and enjoyment of poetry. We now...
  
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• How The New Yorker Got Tricked In One Of Its Best-Known Articles

  18-12-2020 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This week, The New Yorker attached its own extraordinary editor’s note to a National Magazine Award–winning 2018 article by staff writer and novelist Elif Batuman about Japan’s so-called rent-a-family industry, in which desperate and lonely people hire actors to play their absent fathers, wives, children, and so on. The New Yorker reported that three central figures in the story had ‘made false biographical claims to Batuman and to a fact checker,’ undermini
  
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• Film Production Manager and Video Editor / ImageNova / East Midlands / Leicester

  18-12-2020 17:47
  ImageNova is a young and exciting film production company based in the Cultural Quarter of Leicester city centre. As part of ImageNova's expansion moving forward, we are looking for a new, core...
  
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• Graduate Videographer (Fixed term contract until 31/07/2021) / Forest School / London

  18-12-2020 17:42
  Forest School has an exciting new vacancy for a Graduate Assistant (Videographer). You will need to be skilled and creative, with an enthusiastic approach to the filming and editing of videos for...
  
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• 'Dock Lands People' - window exhibition / Trinity Art Gallery & Michele Turriani / London / Royal Docks

  18-12-2020 17:42
  DOCK LANDS PEOPLEwindow exhibition
  When? 18th Dec-31st January 2021Where? 3-4 Lower Dock Walk, London, E16 2GTnearest station: Gallions Reach
  Michele Turriani and Trinity Art Gallery...
  
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• A (Detailed) Account Of How Mozart Composed His First Symphony

  18-12-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are surprisingly few strikeouts or corrections in the London Notebook; probably he worked out the pieces at the clavier and then copied them down, relying on a remarkable memory for music, whether his own or works by others. – LitHub
  
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• Archive Project Officer / Brass Bands England / Yorkshire

  18-12-2020 17:26
  Full-time post - 35 hours per weekSalary - Fixed-term project fee of £4,700 for a 2-month period
  Based the BBE’s National Office (Barnsley) this role is to manage the arrangement and...
  
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• Research Support Librarian / Imperial War Museums / London

  18-12-2020 17:18
  Imperial War Museums are currently recruiting for a Research Support Librarian. This exciting position will help to facilitate access to the collections, support our users’ research projects...
  
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• Venice’s €6 Billion Flood Barrier Probably Won’t Be Enough

  18-12-2020 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For all its exquisite engineering, MOSE is essentially a stopgap, a $6 billion duct-tape fix that could work just long enough to induce complacency. The fact that it took so long to design and build means that the technology predated the latest science. … A 2011 UNESCO report concluded that MOSE ‘might be able to avoid flooding for the next few decades, but the sea will eventually rise to a level where even continuous closures will not be able to protect the city from floodi
  
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• Creative Producer Role / Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios / London

  18-12-2020 16:52
  We're looking for a creative producer to join the team!
  Role description: 
  -To assist festival director and producer in coordinating efforts with key partners-To support the...
  
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• Director / Bloc Projects / Yorkshire

  18-12-2020 16:34
  Freelance Fee, equivalent to £26,000 pa (pro rata).
  3 days/ week.
  Fixed term contract until 31/12/21.
  Contract extension subject to successful fundraising.
  Established in 2002, Bloc...
  
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• It’s Been Six Months, And Australian Arts Organizations Still Haven’t Gotten Any Rescue Fund Money

  18-12-2020 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The $250m rescue package to arts and cultural organisations affected by Covid was announced in June, … [yet] in October it emerged in budget estimates that still no emergency funding had been disbursed.” Now the government says that some money has been designated for specific organizations, but those groups say no cash has actually arrived. – The Guardian
  
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• Teaching and Research Fellow / Shakespeare's Globe / London

  18-12-2020 16:24
  Shakespeare’s Globe is currently seeking a Teaching and Research Fellow to join our Higher Education and Research team.The role:
  The Teaching and Research Fellow will conduct and supervise...
  
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• Lead Marketing and Communication Manager / Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios Ltd. / London / Remote

  18-12-2020 16:21
  Nelly Ben Hayoun studios are looking for Lead Marketing and Communication Manager to join their team as a part of a bid to develop and deliver innovative and effective marketing, brand and...
  
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• Humans who draw: Drawing and Painting course for adults / Serena Nassini / East Midlands

  18-12-2020 16:09
  4th January - 22nd February 2021From Monday 4th January 20217-9 pm (UK time )8 Weekly sessions on Zoom (On Mondays)
  Humans who draw is a personal and collective artistic journey focused on drawing...
  
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• Pay Cuts At U.S. Orchestras May Last Beyond The Pandemic

  18-12-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While musicians at some major ensembles, including the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, have agreed to steep cuts that would have been unthinkable in normal times, others are resisting. Some unions fear that the concessions being sought could outlast the pandemic, and reset the balance of power between management and labor.” – The New York Times
  
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• Film-maker/Facilitator / Kettle's Yard / South East

  18-12-2020 15:57
  Kettle’s Yard is looking for a freelance film-maker/facilitator to collaborate with a class of year 9 students to create a film about our upcoming exhibition: UNTITLED: Art on the...
  
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• Artist Facilitator / Kettle's Yard / South East

  18-12-2020 15:55
  Kettle’s Yard is looking for a freelance artist facilitator to take a lead role in delivering the second phase of Story Space, a visual arts project supporting literacy in early years...
  
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• Secrets of the Solent - Wall Mural Artist / Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust / South East

  18-12-2020 15:51
  Secrets of the Solent, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund aims to increase awareness, appreciation, and action in support of the local marine...
  
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• Festival Producer (Fixed term, maternity cover, full time) / Wiltshire Creative / South West

  18-12-2020 15:39
  The Festival Producer will work closely with the Artistic Director on planning and delivery of the 2021 artistic programme across all platforms (not just the Festival) including our digital...
  
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• Classical Music’s Real Heroes Of 2020? Video Engineers

  18-12-2020 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Crowds of listeners gathering in front of crowds of musicians has been all but impossible, so ensembles have rushed to replace in-person performances with online programs — often well produced and sometimes more daring than the live concerts that had originally been planned. In the process, media departments, now much more than promotional supplements, have been the linchpins.” – The New York Times
  
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• Marketing Manager / Hall For Cornwall / South West

  18-12-2020 15:21
  Our Marketing Manager will create and implement effective marketing and PR strategies and devise innovative campaigns to drive the success of our stage programme and audience development objectives,...
  
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• Operations Support and Logistics Manager / The British Museum / London

  18-12-2020 15:13
  Operations Support and Logistics Manager Capital Planning and Programme Management   Full time; 41 hours per week Fixed term for 8 months£34,789 per annum Application Deadline:...
  
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• Why Would You? Film Actors (3 roles with playing age 16-20) / Barbican Theatre, Plymouth / South West

  18-12-2020 15:09
  Application deadline: 10am Wednesday 6 January 2021
  We’re looking for 3 actors to play the parts of Ashley, Cameron and Liam in a film version of our Theatre In Education production of Why...
  
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• Upcycling crafts person with video editing skills / Wychavon District Council / West Midlands

  18-12-2020 15:08
  Wychavon District Council are working in partnership with Bikeaway Ventures on their event Blossom Bikeaway 2021. We would like to encourage more young people to take part and are therefore...
  
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• Artist in Residence / Lealands High School / South East

  18-12-2020 15:08
  Are you a practising artist with a passion for creativity?
  Do you want to be able to share your love of creativity with others?
  Do you agree that creativity can change outcomes for young...
  
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• Unknown Shirley Jackson Short Story Published For First Time

  18-12-2020 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Adventure on a Bad Night,” brought to print by the magazine The Strand, “shows a microcosm of the racism and sexism in US society through a dissatisfied woman’s trip to a corner shop … [where] a pregnant immigrant … is being verbally abused by a shop clerk after asking for help.” – The Guardian
  
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• Beyond the greeting card: alternative nativities from art-world mavericks – the week in art

  18-12-2020 15:00
  
  A looming Virgin Mary takes centre stage and Tracey Emin distills the Madonna’s raw emotion – all in your weekly dispatchThe Nativity With Two Angels, possibly c 1490s, by Filippino Lippi
  Mary is the main character in this nativity, revering her baby son at the centre of a stable that is, in effect, a theatre to stage her soulful absorption. Joseph watches from the sidelines. In fact, he’s separated from her by one of the angels who attend her and Jesus – and whose small
  
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