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• Yes, Things Might Look Up, But It Will Be A Long Slow Recovery For The Arts

  08-01-2021 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  For a broad chunk of the population, turning off that switch might not be as simple as being told it is okay to do so. Some local museum officials I’ve talked to think it might be 2023 or 24 before they return to pre-pandemic revenue levels. – Chicago Tribune
  
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• Neil Sheehan, 84, NYT Vietnam Reporter Who Got The Pentagon Papers

  08-01-2021 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Mr. Sheehan, the son of impoverished Irish-immigrant dairy farmers, graduated from Harvard University and served in the Army before joining the United Press International wire service. Reporting from Saigon in the early 1960s, he became known as one of the “fearless threesome” of Vietnam War correspondents.” – The New York Times
  
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• A New “Arts Worker” Movement

  08-01-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Built on the concept of the “arts worker” — an immense labor category representing 8.8 million Americans doing everything from designing clothing to sweeping museum floors — this movement asserts that the arts are as foundational as farming or manufacturing. And its focus is not so much public relations as it is survival, an aim reinforced daily by the financial devastation the coronavirus pandemic has spread throughout the nation’s creative economy. – W
  
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• Why Are A Bunch Of Teens Convinced That Helen Keller Wasn’t Deaf-Blind?

  08-01-2021 20:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Blame TikTok and the pathologies of social media in the age of fake news. A couple of (so-called) satirical videos were posted last year on the app; teens picked up on them and made their own vids joining in; as #helenkellerisfake and #helenkellerhateclub got millions of views, the facts that Keller was world-famous for what she achieved and died only 53 years ago got lost. (“Whaddya mean, this blind and deaf chick went to college and wrote books and flew a plane? Puh-leeze lol lol.&rdquo
  
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• What Dallas Black Dance Theatre Learned About Virtual Performance And Charging For It

  08-01-2021 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dallas Black Dance Theatre envisions and is now developing a full complement of virtual activities. These include conservatory-level dance training at the same professional level as in-studio classes, student matinee/field trips, lecture/demonstrations, in-school dance residency programs, community outreach, and touring programs made available to presenters, as well as a home-school education program for those looking to incorporate dance into their curriculum. – Wallace Foundation
  
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• Earn your M.A. in Arts Administration at Indiana University.

  08-01-2021 20:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Advance your career with an Master of Arts in Arts Administration from the nation’s top school of public affairs. Priority application deadline Jan. 15.It takes more than passion to successfully lead an arts organization. Future arts administrators need business acumen, marketing expertise, and management skills to tackle the challenges facing creative enterprises.As a MAAA student at the Indiana University O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, you’ll learn from
  
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• ‘Now I’m Sounding Like One Of My Characters’ — Suzan-Lori Parks On Playwriting

  08-01-2021 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s like what ‘Michelangelo’ said, right? He’s working with the marble and taking away everything that’s not the sculpture. And let’s put Michelangelo in quotes, ’cause was he really the one who actually said that? But, anyway, the idea still holds. I feel that whatever I’m writing exists already. … Like I’m following something through the woods. Eyes open. Ears open. Heart open. And I’m following a path that is sometime
  
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• We’ve Become Much Nicer At Waging War

  08-01-2021 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  We have, in fact, become nicer and less violent as individuals. We may have domesticated ourselves by our choice of mates and by breeding out those who are most violent, or killing those who are most violent among us, like the way wolves have been domesticated into friendly dogs who sit on your lap. We may have become nicer as individuals, but we’ve also become better at organizing and using purposive violence. That’s the paradox. We’ve gotten better at making war even as we&r
  
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• Musician for dance project / Union of Dance / Yorkshire

  08-01-2021 19:06
  Union of Dance provides active dance experiences for all. Based in Leeds but we have been delivering online projects since the start of lockdown in March 20.
  We are currently looking for a musician/...
  
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• ‘Star Wars’ Fan Fiction Video Is All Over The Place — And Disney Is Fine With It

  08-01-2021 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Such films have existed almost as long as the franchise itself. Early examples were spoofs, like the 1978 short Hardware Wars and a 1997 Stormtrooper-centric sendup of Cops called Troops. Lucasfilm held annual fan-movie contests in the decade before Disney acquired the company in 2012. But Disney’s stewardship, coupled with the wide availability of higher-quality moviemaking tools, has inaugurated a new era of fan creativity.” – The New York Times
  
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• Part-time Administrator / Magma Poetry / London

  08-01-2021 18:38
  Self-employed, living in London and working from home.  Flexible working arrangements.  Up to 500 hours per year at £12 per hour.  Magma, one of the UK’s leading...
  
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• Make a solo performance Course - Online Course / Facciocose / London / Nationwide

  08-01-2021 18:36
  Do you still want to make theatre during Covid-19?
  This Make a solo performance Course is a space to learn dramaturgy and devising methodologies to explore new ways to make theatre during...
  
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• Lorca, Hockney, Byatt, Berger – how Mike Dibb got the greats to open up

  08-01-2021 18:33
  
  He’s revered for shooting Ways of Seeing with John Berger, but Mike Dibb has made films about all the giants of culture – as well as Wimbledon tennis balls. He looks back on a dazzling careerThis morning, like most mornings, Mike Dibb is sitting in his conservatory. “It’s where I spend many, many, many hours,” he says. “And it’s very nice, because I look out into a little garden.” There is a desk, a painting by an old friend, and a vine that twists
  
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• What Does It Actually Mean To Live In The Now?

  08-01-2021 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The singularity of the now might appear to be a deep and profound insight. It’s the springboard for various more practical strategies for achieving enlightenment and self-enhancement. But the claim that it is always now is so trivial that it can’t support any interesting inference, and there are other ways of justifying these same strategies and practices. – Aeon
  
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• David Medalla obituary

  08-01-2021 18:26
  
  Filipino-born experimental artist who had a long-lasting influence on the British avant-garde art sceneHad you been in Cypress Hills cemetery, Brooklyn, one cold January day in 1993, you might have found yourself being handed a chrysanthemum by an elfin figure with soft brown eyes. This was the artist David Medalla, a pioneering figure in experimental and participatory art, who has died aged 82.The chrysanthemums were part of a performance called Mondrian in Extremis – the Dutch painter is
  
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• Programmer / Theatr Clwyd / Wales

  08-01-2021 18:09
  This exciting new post of Programmer is to work closely with the Artistic Director, Executive Director, members of the Senior Leadership Team and the Producer to co-ordinate Theatr Clwyd’s...
  
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• Medieval Silver Hoard Unearthed In Polish Village

  08-01-2021 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Archaeologists from the Polish Academy of Sciences discovered a ceramic vessel containing well over 6,000 coins and rings as well as silver bullion near a village in central Poland, not far from the site of the country’s largest-ever treasure find in 1935. Researchers believe that this hoard may have been the dowry of a 12th-century Kievan princess who married an important Polish noble. – New York Observer
  
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• New year self-care for theatre makers & creatives / Lawrence Batley Theatre / Yorkshire / UK-wide

  08-01-2021 17:41
  New year self-care for theatre makers & creatives Mon 25 - Fri 29 January 2021, 6.45pm FreeOnline via Zoom 
  The Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield have partnered with theatre...
  
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• Group Lead - Criminal Justice Settings / The Reader Organisation / Yorkshire

  08-01-2021 17:41
  The Reader currently works in 35 criminal justice settings across the UK. Some of our work is positioned in specialist units, which aim to give residents space to put new ways of thinking into...
  
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• HR Officer (maternity cover) / Museums Northumberland / North East

  08-01-2021 17:36
  Museums Northumberland is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, flexible, highly motivated and experienced HR Officer to join our Finance and Commercial Team, based at Woodhorn Museum.
  As the HR...
  
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• Finance Officer (maternity cover) / Museums Northumberland / North East

  08-01-2021 17:33
  Museums Northumberland is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, flexible, highly motivated and experienced Finance Officer to join our Finance and Commercial Team, based at Woodhorn Museum.
  As the...
  
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• Connecting Learning Music With Medical Workers

  08-01-2021 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a six-week pilot collaboration between New England Conservatory and Massachusetts General Hospital this fall, the Boston Hope Music Teaching Project connected teaching fellows from NEC with frontline health care workers for weekly private music lessons. The goal wasn’t to teach them skill or technique, but to provide a refuge from day-to-day life on the COVID ward. – Boston Globe
  
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• Dumpling Day / SAN SW / South West

  08-01-2021 17:20
  A few of us at SAN-SW (from our corners in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset & Gloucestershire) are gathering around DUMPLING DAY!    You are warmly invited to celebrate tasty morsels of...
  
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• Venice’s Mayor Wants Museums To Stay Closed, And Half The Town is Furious

  08-01-2021 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The decision by Luigi Brugnaro, the mayor of Venice, to extend the closure of the city’s 11 civic museums — including the Doge’s Palace, the Museo Correr, Ca’ Rezzonico, Ca’ Pesaro and Palazzo Fortuny — until 1 April, the beginning of the tourist season, has provoked a culture war in Venice and beyond. Italy’s museums have been closed since 5 November under national government restrictions, which are currently due to lift on 15 January” &md
  
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• Sandhurst Block Facade Commission / Whitehill & Bordon Regeneration Company / South East

  08-01-2021 17:01
  Whitehill & Bordon Regeneration Company are building a vibrant and rich town on the former Army barracks at Bordon. A key phase of the transformational project is now beginning with the...
  
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• France’s Cultural Venues Will Be Closed All Month

  08-01-2021 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Prime Minister Jean Castex confirmed … [that] museums, cinemas, theaters, concert halls and gyms ‘will not [reopen] in the weeks to come’.” Venues had opened in the late summer with safety measures but closed again on Oct. 30 as COVID’s second wave swelled; planned reopenings announced for Dec. 15 and then Jan. 7 were called off as new cases of the disease kept rising. – Variety
  
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• Digital Communications Officer / Creative Folkestone / South East

  08-01-2021 16:22
  Digital Communications Officer 
  £20,750 per annum
  Deadline for applications Mon 25 Jan, 9am. 
  We are looking for a confident and creative individual to join our growing...
  
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• Trustees / The Henry Moore Foundation / East / Hertfordshire, Leeds and Yorkshire

  08-01-2021 16:09
  The Henry Moore Foundation, a registered charity, is the largest artist-endowed grant-giving foundation in Europe. We have bold ambitions and wish to appoint new Trustees who will help us to deliver...
  
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• Scheduling Coordinator / National Theatre / London

  08-01-2021 16:04
  We are looking for Scheduling Coordinator to join us. 
  The role is responsible for turning performance schedules into General Schedules which break down the hourly activity in...
  
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• Consider The Word ‘Sedition’

  08-01-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Sedition — Merriam-Webster defines it as ‘incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority’ — is a word that echoes across American history, archaic yet familiar. Historically, charges of sedition have just as often been used to quash dissent … as they have to punish actual threats to government stability or functioning. But to many scholars and historians, the use of the word on Wednesday — and the force of condemnation it conjure
  
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• Plotting a Novel (webinar) / in partnership with The British Library / London

  08-01-2021 15:32
  If you want to write a novel but don’t know where to start, or you’ve got part-way through and then got in a muddle, this is the webinar for you. Clear, practical steps to take you from...
  
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• Simon & Schuster Cancels Sen. Josh Hawley’s Book In Wake Of Capitol Riot

  08-01-2021 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  From the company’s announcement: “We did not come to this decision lightly. As a publisher it will always be our mission to amplify a variety of voices and viewpoints: at the same time we take seriously our larger public responsibility as citizens, and cannot support Senator Hawley after his role in what became a dangerous threat to our democracy and freedom.” – AP
  
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• Montreal Symphony’s Next Music Director Is Rafael Payare

  08-01-2021 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  A graduate of Venezuela’s El Sistema, the 40-year-old music director of the San Diego Symphony begins a five-year term at the Maison symphonique in the fall of 2022. Payare’s San Diego contract currently runs through 2025-26; he says he plans to keep both jobs, with 14 to 16 weeks per season in Montreal and 10 per season in San Diego. – AP
  
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• Digital Data Analyst, Frieze / IMG / London

  08-01-2021 15:04
  Frieze is in the process of executing a successful digital pivot. The new position of Digital Data Analyst within the Data Team has been created to harness the huge potential in data from our new...
  
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• Data Coordinator, Exhibitions team, Frieze / IMG / London

  08-01-2021 15:02
  About the Role - This is a Maternity Cover role, to start in January or Early Feb 2021
  Frieze is in the process of executing a successful digital pivot. This role is mission-critical in the delivery...
  
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• A giant vulva, Hockney for kids and the ultimate museum tour – the week in art

  08-01-2021 15:00
  
  We look at how art can help you through lockdown, from virtual tours to Hockney, Oscar Wilde and Top Trumps – all in your weekly dispatchAs much of the nation home educates, there are some stimulating ways art can help. You can even still visit the British Museum – virtually. An easy-to-negotiate walk through of this vast gallery of world art and history with Google Street View is just one of the ways learners can explore it from home, as well as searching the collection, plus plenty
  
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• Artists / Primal Media / North East / UK-Wide

  08-01-2021 14:44
  Primal Media are looking for artists who can design and create epic pieces of public art.
  The winner will receive a money- can't - buy prize: the opportunity to build the next great permanent...
  
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• Nina Ananiashvili Sent To Siberia (For Her New Job)

  08-01-2021 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Once one of the biggest stars at both the Bolshoi and ABT, she returned to her native Georgia in 2004 (at President Saakashvili’s personal invitation) to take charge of the national ballet company. On the condition that she can remain in that job as well, Ananiashvili has now accepted the dance directorship at the opera and ballet theater in Novosibirsk, Russia’s third-largest city. – Agenda.ge
  
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• Zoom Acting Classes / Drama Classes London / London

  08-01-2021 14:31
  Our online acting classes are back! Are you a beginner in acting and want to sharpen your skills? Join us every Monday at 18.15 for 2 1/2 hours of fun and excitement wondering around the world of...
  
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• Virtual event for Creatives / Actors Pro Expo / East / Online Worldwide

  08-01-2021 14:24
  Coming up Feb 11th-13th we'd like to invite creatives to join Actors Pro Expo Virtually.
  This event will give attendees the chance to network with each other and connect with service providers that...
  
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• Freelance Producer / November Club / North East

  08-01-2021 14:19
  ABOUT THE ROLE
  As November Club transitions into a new phase of it’s life, we are looking to expand who the company works with, focussing in particular on working with new producers. We want...
  
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• After A Year Away, Boston Symphony’s Music Director Is Back

  08-01-2021 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Andris Nelsons, who has been in Europe since before the pandemic started, returned to Symphony Hall to record three programs pairing Beethoven symphonies with contemporary music for the BSO’s season of streamed concerts. – The Boston Globe
  
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• Commissions for new work about home / Unreal Estates / East

  08-01-2021 14:03
  Unreal Estates is a project that commissions new work about domestic interiors and ideas of home. We are looking for visual artists (primarily working in 2D) and writers interested in collaboratively...
  
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• Artist Residencies Available / The Island / South West

  08-01-2021 13:42
  The Island is the longest running project of Artspace Lifespace. We offer artist residencyopportunities to develop specific or open-ended projects and to test works in progress.For 2021 we have 9...
  
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• Youth Engagement Assistant / Young Norfolk Arts / East

  08-01-2021 13:23
  Are you passionate about working with young people?
  This is an exciting time for Young Norfolk Arts and we are looking for a Youth Engagement Assistant to join our small, enthusiastic and passionate...
  
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• Marketing and Social Media Manager / Good Chance Theatre / London

  08-01-2021 13:14
  At this crucial moment as Good Chance has just turned 5 years old, this is a fixed term marketing role to boost particular projects (outlined below) and bolster Good Chance’s social media...
  
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• Marketing and Communications Director / Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Scotland

  08-01-2021 12:49
  The Scottish Chamber Orchestra is seeking to appoint a highly motivated Marketing and Communications Director with the skills and potential to lead a high performing team within a world...
  
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• Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer / Stellar Quines / Scotland

  08-01-2021 12:45
  Stellar Quines produce award-winning theatre, collaborate to deliver artist development programmes, creative learning programmes and continually question and campaign to improve women's...
  
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• Image Coordinator (Maternity Cover) / Royal Opera House / London

  08-01-2021 12:06
  Fixed-term contract
  £25,000 p.a. pro rata
  The ROH continues to lead the way in opera, ballet, music and dance both live on stage and through multiple digital platforms, from live streaming...
  
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• 'Sanctuary in Creativity' - Puppetry Film Commission / Beverley Puppet Festival / Yorkshire / UK wide

  08-01-2021 12:00
  For Beverley Puppet Festival (interim programme 2021)Beverley has long been a town of sanctuary since the Middle Ages. Four famous sanctuary stones stand at its edges and a towering Minster at...
  
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