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• Brexit Deal Visa Requirements Stymie UK Musicians

  15-01-2021 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  As it stands, British musicians may be forced to pay for country-specific visas and equipment carnets when touring the continent – a situation that has been decried by the British music industry as prohibitively expensive and laborious, potentially limiting its £5.8bn contribution to the economy. – The Guardian
  
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• Development Officer (Fixed Term Contract) / Whitechapel Gallery / London

  15-01-2021 23:28
  Whitechapel Gallery is looking for a talented and enthusiastic Development Officer to join our dynamic Development team. The role will be responsible for providing a range of support across the...
  
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• Lessons From 40 Years Performing Online

  15-01-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Everything about the experience of using a computer is still flat, everything uses these windows, but then we also have high-speed processes that allow for these windows to actually be functional.” – Howlround
  
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• Call for Art - The Portrait Within / / South West

  15-01-2021 22:37
  We all have an outward self/selves, the one(s) that we present to the many worlds we inhabit: external manifestations of life experiences, influences that have surrounded us to this moment, and as a...
  
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• Why Conspiracy Theories Are So Attractive To So Many

  15-01-2021 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Experts say that the majority of people do not easily fall for falsehoods. But when misinformation offers simple, casual explanations for otherwise random events, “it helps restore a sense of agency and control for many people,” says Sander van der Linden, a social psychologist at the University of Cambridge. – National Geographic
  
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• Why Have Sea Shanties Become A TikTok Sensation?

  15-01-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Why sea shanties, and why now? I do not have any concrete ideas about this; all I can tell you is that it’s happening. Apparently we’re doing sea shanties now. It makes as much and as little sense as anything else. – The Cut
  
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• Ten Takeaways From Variety’s Entertainment Summit

  15-01-2021 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A common misconception is that niche shows geared toward specific audiences will not fare as well as more universal programs, but Lucinda Martinez, executive vice president of HBO and HBO Max brand marketing, says fan marketing is more focused on quality of connection rather than quantity.” – Variety
  
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• This Old Dutch Master’s Art Is Totally Homoerotic — How Did Everyone Miss This For 400 Years?

  15-01-2021 20:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Powerfully muscled backs, piston thighs, meaty buttocks you could bounce quarters off for days. “In a flare of lusty creativity, from the late 1580s until the early 1590s, this underappreciated Mannerist [Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem] produced some of the greatest — and strangest — homoerotic paintings of all time. And … this glaringly obvious fact [has] been studiously ignored in almost all the art historical commentary on his work.” – T — The New
  
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• Participatory Artists' Forum / Small Things Creative Projects / London / National

  15-01-2021 20:43
  Due to the popularity of our first forum group we are now setting up a second forum for participatory artists.
  It has always taken a certain degree of tenacity and bravery to earn your living as a...
  
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• Head of Inclusion / The Old Vic / London

  15-01-2021 20:35
  The Head of Inclusion is a newly created position, reinforcing our commitment to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion at The Old Vic. Equality, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) is key to the...
  
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• Learning How Not To Read Like A Critic

  15-01-2021 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “One of the first lessons you learn in grad school is to hide your personal taste or risk being shamed for liking the wrong sorts of things. Scholars have been conditioned to respond to talk of likes and dislikes with embarrassment, if not outright contempt. The facade of critical detachment may be on the way out, however.” – Public Books
  
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• When Yiddish-Speaking Puppets Roamed The World

  15-01-2021 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Puppetry had never been part of the Yiddish theater tradition, but in 1920s America, they were all the rage. So in 1925-26, a pair of writers created aPurim shpiel (the Jewish equivalent of a Christmas panto) with puppets. It was such a smash success that the two men ended up creating a puppet company that put on Yiddish shows nine times a week year-round in New York City and toured the Eastern Seaboard and Midwest, Cuba, Britain, France, Poland, and, ultimately, the Soviet Union. Yet the whole
  
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• 'Human etch-a sketch': GPS art, burbing and my attempt to recreate the Guardian masthead

  15-01-2021 20:00
  
  GPS art, or GPX, is a fitness and artistic activity where your movements, traced by GPS signals, become the paint on a city-sized canvasHenry David Thoreau once wrote: “This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” More than 150 years later, a new generation of artists tracing their movements via GPS to create sketches are proving Thoreau’s words remarkably prescient.That’s what Strava art is at its core. Named after the fitness tracking app that has previously helped r
  
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• Will Self: How Should We Be Reading?

  15-01-2021 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There’s always this quality of endeavor about reading—and at the same time, in cognitive terms it’s hard work. When someone reading complex passages of prose—ones, say, that attempt to convey human lives in all their manifold sensuous and intellectual complexity—is placed in a MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scanner, we can see on the machine’s visual display that almost all of their brain is lit up like the proverbial Christmas tree. Not only that, b
  
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• Empower artists to get Britain back on its feet | Letters

  15-01-2021 19:22
  
  Tony Haynes thinks creative artists and artist-led companies are well placed to help develop a strategy for cultural regeneration, Simon Tait says the government must provide wholehearted support, and Katie Beardsworth points out the contribution the arts make to the UK economyOne of your correspondents observes of the education system that “there have [always] been plenty of fresh ideas” (Letters, 8 January). That is equally true of the arts, discussed in your editorial (The Guardia
  
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• Micro-commissions for d/Deaf and disabled artists / CEDA (Community Equality Disability Action) / East / National

  15-01-2021 19:13
  CEDA is offering two micro-commissions for d/Deaf and disabled artists.
  Through its arts programme and creative network, CEDA (Community Equality Disability Action) supports a range of disabled...
  
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• How Paris Theatres Keep Putting On Plays While The Pandemic Has Stopped Public Performances

  15-01-2021 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Shows were running in the French capital for a few months last year, before a big new wave of COVID infections led to a new lockdown and a crop of new productions were going to waste. But not anymore: leave it to Parisians to find an inventive way to break the rules while officially obeying them. – The New York Times
  
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• Fully funded bursaries for the Learning Marathon / Enrol Yourself / London / Online

  15-01-2021 18:50
  Enrol Yourself have 20 fully funded bursaries for people impacted by Covid-19 to join the Learning Marathon in 2021.
  The Learning Marathon is for adults from across sectors who want to create,...
  
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• Guggenheim Museum Names Its First Black Deputy Director

  15-01-2021 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Naomi Beckwith, 44, who since 2018 has served as senior curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, will oversee collections, exhibitions, publications, curatorial programs and archives in her new position, which starts in June. She will also provide strategic direction, the museum said. – The New York Times
  
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• Building Officer / Rich Mix / London

  15-01-2021 18:17
  The Building Officer will support the Building Manager in overseeing the general upkeep of the building through the Planned Preventative Maintenance...
  
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• Graeae launches free CPD & wellbeing programme / Graeae / London / UK wide - online

  15-01-2021 18:08
  **EMBARGOED UNTIL 10AM WED 20 JAN** 
  In association with Beyond, launched last year, Graeae are now delighted to announce Beyond: Develop, a series of FREE online CPD (Creative Professional...
  
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• This Broadway Chorus Boy Is Dancing TikTok Duets With The Great Tap Stars Of Yesteryear

  15-01-2021 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Cory Lingner … [is] using the app to tap alongside some of the most iconic movie stars, including Gene Kelly, Gregory Hines, Ann Miller and Shirley Temple. And, no, he doesn’t have a time-traveling device. Lingner has perfected the use of the app’s duet feature. On one side of the video is a clip of the tap-dancing icon and on the other is Lingner, dancing in unison.” – Dance Spirit
  
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• Do We Want Uplifting Entertainment In These Difficult Times? Not Me!

  15-01-2021 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The temptation to simplify morality when social injustice is rife is understandable, but reading Dostoevsky makes me impatient with the schematic bent of our age. To be fully human is to acknowledge, as Prospero puts in “The Tempest,” “this thing of darkness” as our own.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• 3 x Artists - Inside Out 2021 / Magic Me / London

  15-01-2021 17:31
  At Magic Me, we believe in the vital role of arts and creativity in care settings to support wellbeing, build community and reduce loneliness and social isolation. We are committed to supporting...
  
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• Finance & Admin Role (Maternity Cover) / FutureEverything / North West

  15-01-2021 17:24
  Established in Manchester since 1995, FutureEverything is a non-profit creative media organisation who initiate, curate and deliver critical artistic projects – in Greater Manchester, the UK...
  
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• Fundraising Manager / Midlands Arts Centre / West Midlands

  15-01-2021 17:21
  Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) is an exciting, ambitious arts centre which offers a wide array of free exhibitions, theatre, music, cinema and comedy performances as well as creative learning and...
  
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• A Glimmer - Artist Support Programme / Drunken Chorus / London / UK wide

  15-01-2021 17:16
  ‘A GLIMMER’ is the pilot of a new artist development programme that will support artists to look to the future by addressing the barriers faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  FULL...
  
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• Management Accountant / LW Theatres / London

  15-01-2021 17:11
  Are you a qualified Accountant looking for a new challenge? We are looking for a bright and motivated Management Accountant to join our team. This role sits within our diverse Finance function and...
  
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• Writers Commissions for The Full Harvest Audio Stories / Applause Rural Touring / South East

  15-01-2021 17:10
  Applause Rural Touring is an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation based in Kent, a rural touring scheme that supports communities throughout Kent, East Sussex and West Sussex to access...
  
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• With Michael Apted Gone, Can His ‘Up’ Documentaries Keep Going?

  15-01-2021 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Beginning in 1964 with Seven Up!, Apted made a series of nine films, shot at seven-year-intervals, following the lives of a group of 14 Englishmen and -women from ages 7 through 14, 21, 28, etc. (63 Up was released in 2019.) After his death last week, the 12 remaining subjects and several longtime crew members are considering whether to proceed on to 70 Up, and, if so, how. – The New York Times
  
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• Oldham Coliseum Micro Commissions 2021 / Oldham Coliseum Theatre / North West

  15-01-2021 16:42
  Oldham Coliseum Theatre's Micro Commissions 2021 offer investment, support and a virtual platform for three artists/companies from the region to create work for and about the world as we...
  
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• Howard Johnson, Pioneering Virtuoso Of Jazz Tuba, Dead At 73

  15-01-2021 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Before Johnson, in instances wherein the tuba was part of a jazz arrangement, it was typically confined to bass parts. Johnson demonstrated a prowess that allowed him to play melodic lines, even lead parts. … He was a featured player in the Mingus, Carla Bley, and Gil Evans big bands; he also put in time with Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra (of which Bley was the music director). In 1975 he became a founding member of the Saturday Night Live Band.” – J
  
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• Amazon Sued For Colluding With Big Five Publishers In E-Book Price-Fixing

  15-01-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The suit, filed in the Southern District of New York on January 14 by Seattle-based firm Hagens Berman, … currently names only Amazon as a defendant. However, it labels each of the Big Five publishers — Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and Penguin Random House — as ‘“co-conspirators’ in an alleged scheme … to squelch consumer price competition and keep e-book prices artificially high.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Webmaster / Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI) / London

  15-01-2021 15:33
  We are looking for a talented and ambitious Webmaster to work on our highly successful HowTheLightGetsIn Festival website. The role is supported by a team of developers, designers and digital...
  
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• Two Baritones Learned That Where They Were Working When The Pandemic Hit Made All The Difference

  15-01-2021 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jarrett Ott and Steven LaBrie met in music school in Philadelphia and remained friends as they moved to New York and their careers grew. In 2018, Ott took a salaried singing position at the opera house in Stuttgart, while LaBrie remained in the U.S. with a busy freelance schedule. When COVID brought public performances to an abrupt end, each man’s choice proved crucial. – The New York Times
  
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• Lead Maker / International Centre For Life / North East / Newcastle upon Tyne

  15-01-2021 15:29
  Life has an exciting vacancy for a creative and highly-motivated individual to lead development in Life’s Making Studios. As someone with a passion for learning, making and tinkering you will...
  
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• Politics Research Intern / Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI) / London

  15-01-2021 15:28
  We are looking for bright and enthusiastic Research Intern to join our editorial production team on our Politics desks. Each desk is responsible for the programming and delivery of ideas for our...
  
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• Jacksonville Symphony seeks Vice President & Chief Advancement Officer

  15-01-2021 15:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jacksonville Symphony seeks Vice President & Chief Advancement Officer to work in close collaboration with President & CEO, Senior Leadership Team, Board of Directors, and Music Director to help enrich the human spirit through symphonic music.RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE POSITION:The Vice President & Chief Advancement Officer (CAO) is responsible for planning, implementing, overseeing, and assessing Jacksonville Symphony’s development plans in support of the organization’s str
  
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• Atlanta’s High Museum Receives Major Gift Of 19th-Century French Art

  15-01-2021 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The gift, from Atlanta collectors Irene and Howard Stein, which includes sculptures, prints and posters, is part of a larger bequest made by Steins, the museum announced on Wednesday. Included in the bequest are: 41 prints and posters and 10 sculptures by Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Gauguin and Desjardins; a drawing by Degas; and an oil painting by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  
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• Graphic Goya, perverse Lucas and the man who christened pop art – the week in art

  15-01-2021 14:35
  
  The Spanish artist’s macabre images appear at a perfect time in the US, while Sarah Lucas creates a hurricane and Richard Hamilton gets a well-deserved survey – all in your weekly dispatchThis Is Where We Meet
  Discover some talented young painters including Michael Chance, Joana Galego, Melissa Kime and more in this virtual pop-up show in a West End shop.• Carousel Next Door, London, until 31 January.Continue reading...
  
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• In Ontario, Even Livestreamed Performances Without Audience Are Now Banned

  15-01-2021 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  As the number of COVID cases continues to spike, “organizers behind a number of livestreaming concerts and theatre shows in Ontario say the province’s stricter stay-at-home orders have forced them to sideline an array of upcoming virtual events. … The changes come after Premier Doug Ford introduced a new directive which, as of Thursday, requires residents to stay home, unless their activities fall under a list of ‘essential’ reasons.” – Yahoo! (Canadia
  
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• After High-Profile Robberies, Germany To Spend Millions On Security For Arts Venues

  15-01-2021 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The German government has announced that it will hand out €32 million ($38 million) this year to national cultural institutions undertaking modernization projects, including updating security systems. More than 73 cultural venues across Germany” — and outside the big cities in particular — “will benefit from the grant.” – Artnet
  
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• LB x a-n Artist Bursaries | In association with Open Culture / Liverpool Biennial / North West

  15-01-2021 13:47
  As part of a shared commitment to supporting artists across the UK, Liverpool Biennial 2021, a-n The Artists Information Company and Open Culture are joining forces to offer five support and research...
  
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• Production Coordinator (Film Fund) / British Film Institute / London

  15-01-2021 13:09
   Salary £29,637 - £35,025 plus generous benefits package
  We support flexible working
  The British Film Institute (BFI) is the UK’s lead organisation for film, television and...
  
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• Business Development Manager / ExhibitaPro / South East

  15-01-2021 13:09
  We create world class 3D Visualisation, Virtual and Augmented Reality solutions that engage and enrich people's lives. Our flagship software solution, ExhibitaPro, continues to be leading in its...
  
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• Admin Team Manager (Intensive Courses) / The Royal Ballet School / London

  15-01-2021 12:49
  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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• Writer Commission, People-Powered, Lights & Lullabies / SpareParts Festival / North West

  15-01-2021 12:47
  SpareParts is delighted to bring Lullaby, by internationally renowned artist Luke Jerram, to Sandbach in April 2021 in association with Sandbach Transport Festival.To accompany the work, we are...
  
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• Group Conservation Manager / Science Museum Group - National Collections Centre at Wroughton / South West

  15-01-2021 12:39
  Do you have strong experience in conservation, with an ability to plan and manage large projects? Are you able to lead and influence colleagues across different sites?
  We are now seeking a Group...
  
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• Creative Technologist (Freelance) / The egg, Theatre Royal Bath / South West

  15-01-2021 12:32
  This year The Egg, Bear Trap Theatre, Oxford Playhouse and Wales Millennium Centre are premiering a new show, Josephine, for young audiences (aged 8 to 12), based on the life of...
  
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• Arvon at Home: Writing for Performance with Communities / / East / Online - Zoom

  15-01-2021 12:31
  Applications are now open for the Writing for Performance with Communities course as part of the Arvon at Home programme. 
  This is a course for writers, performers and theatre makers who...
  
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