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• EU Green New Deal Includes Building A New Bauhaus

  05-02-2021 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In September the EU launched “an ambitious and historic initiative to fund innovative scientific and artistic endeavours to abate climate change and allow Europe to meet its goal of zero net carbon emissions by 2050. The Commission intends to bring the European Green Deal to life by creating ‘a collaborative design and creative space, where architects, artists, students, scientists, engineers and designers work together (…) to combine sustainability with good design&rsqu
  
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• New Feature Film On Twyla Tharp

  05-02-2021 23:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The documentary will feature interviews alongside select footage of Tharp’s more than 160 choreographed works, “including 129 dances, 12 television specials, six major Hollywood movies, four full-length ballets, four Broadway shows and two figure skating routines.” – IndieWire
  
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• Junior Content Producer Apprentice / Sing King / London

  05-02-2021 23:03
  Role:
  This role requires creation and editing skills and as part of the Content Team, you will be responsible for upholding the visual identity and visual content creation of Sing King’s...
  
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• The Book Pirates Loved Voltaire

  05-02-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Booksellers often distrusted Voltaire, because by modifying his texts and multiplying the editions, he alienated their customers. No one wanted to pay good money for a slightly new version of a book that one had already bought. And some booksellers had become disenchanted with his endless variations on the same themes. – Lapham’s Quarterly
  
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• Ennio`s Muse. Cinematic Sounds of Sea and Sardinia / WhiteLabRecs / East Midlands

  05-02-2021 21:45
  Ennio’s Muse is a digital compilation album released by British record label Whitelabrecs, as a means to generate funds and interest into an ambitious project called Return to Sea and Sardinia....
  
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• Why Sherlock Holmes Has Become One Of Our Most Enduring Literary Characters

  05-02-2021 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There are the endless literary takes. There are Anthony Horowitz’s sequels, or Andrew Lane’s tales of a teenage Holmes. Star basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has written novels about Holmes’s older brother Mycroft; Nancy Springer wrote the Enola Holmes books, giving Holmes and Mycroft a younger sibling. James Lovegrove has combined the worlds of Holmes and HP Lovecraft in the Cthulhu Casebooks. Nicholas Meyer’s forthcoming The Return of the Pharaoh is drawn “f
  
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• Why Quarterbacks Say ‘Hut’ And ‘Hike’

  05-02-2021 20:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Back in 2009, the NFL itself was wondering about that very question. So they asked Ben Zimmer, America’s most famous lexicographer, to look into it. Turns out that “hut” in particular is very practical, and it has a pedigree that seems obvious once you think about it. – Mental Floss
  
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• The Guy Who Moves Orchestras For A Living

  05-02-2021 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Guido Frackers is the guy. “So I’ve seen the environment at least one year before. And we have a “bulldozer” who goes in 24 hours before the orchestra arrives to pave the way, to line every hotel up, so when the musicians arrive at the hotel, checking in is basically as quick as it takes them to pick up an envelope from a table with their room key.” – Van
  
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• Director of Marketing and Communications, Celebrity Series

  05-02-2021 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Celebrity Series of Boston (CSB) seeks a Director of Marketing and Communications to provide leadership, strategic direction, and overall management for the daily operations of the marketing and communications efforts of the organization. The Director is responsible for maintaining and growing the CBS audience through the design, measurement and management of the marketing, communication, graphic design, ticketing, and revenue strategy, and oversees box office functions.Director of Marketing &a
  
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• While Bela Lugosi Slept, They Made A Whole Other ‘Dracula’ On The Set — And It’s Better

  05-02-2021 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Shot in half the time the Lugosi vehicle was allotted, and on a much smaller budget, Drácula” — yes, it’s the Spanish version — “contains revealing differences. It’s 29 minutes longer than the [Tod] Browning film, with more dialogue – we see more of Dracula’s castle; and the framing of shots are arguably superior – thanks to [director George] Melford’s crew having access to Dracula‘s dailies when they arrived at nig
  
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• Piano / keyboard tutor / Orchestras for All / London

  05-02-2021 19:59
  Orchestras for All (OFA) are seeking a piano / keyboard tutor to join our National Orchestra for All (NOFA) tutor team. The NOFA orchestral tutor team play a pivotal role in developing NOFA members...
  
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• Bassoon tutor / Orchestras for All / London

  05-02-2021 19:57
  Orchestras for All (OFA) are seeking a bassoon tutor to join our National Orchestra for All (NOFA) tutor team. The NOFA orchestral tutor team play a pivotal role in developing NOFA members skills by...
  
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• Digital Visual Artist / Orchestras for All / London

  05-02-2021 19:55
  Orchestras for All is seeking a Digital Visual Artist to collaborate with the National Orchestra for All (NOFA) to create a new 3-5 minute piece of audio-visual art. The Digital Visual Artist...
  
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• Head of Visitor & Audience Operations / Shakespeare's Globe / London

  05-02-2021 19:50
  Shakespeare’s Globe is currently seeking a Head of Visitor & Audience Operations to lead the Visitor and Audience Operations team. 
  As the Globe emerges from a period of unprecedented...
  
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• Head of Wardrobe (Maternity Cover) / Shakespeare's Globe / London

  05-02-2021 19:47
  Shakespeare’s Globe is currently seeking a Head of Wardrobe to join our Theatre department. This is a temporary role covering maternity leave which will see the successful candidate joining the...
  
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• Workshop - Lover / Embodied Archetypes / London / ONLINE

  05-02-2021 19:33
  LOVER workshop
  Sunday 14th February 1-4pm (London/Dublin time)
  3hrs online with Dr Lewis BarfootAwaken your LOVER energy. This workshop invites you to feel related, connected, enthusiastic,...
  
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• All The Work Went Away: TV People Talk About Careers During COVID

  05-02-2021 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At the start of the pandemic, no one had any work, so it wasn’t so much of a problem. At times it was even nice not to be working. But when you’re freelance, you wonder whose doing what and doubt yourself, and when shoots opened up again, it was difficult not being out and about and having a purpose.” – The Guardian
  
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• Video Opera And ‘Relevance’: Where They Meet And Where They Miss

  05-02-2021 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Recent case histories are alternately breakthroughs and models of artistic self-defeat. Which was which?” asks David Patrick Stearns. “The reverse of what I expected.” The key: the message and the material have to fit each other. – Classical Voice North America
  
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• Attacks On The Merits

  05-02-2021 18:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The idea that the world is corrupt and unfair was the subject of medieval morality plays and sermons. They taught a vast population to reconcile itself to misery and subjugation by promising rewards in the afterlife. But in a democracy, everyone is moderately free and potentially subject to rewards in this life, though few receive the rewards they think they deserve. Thus, the perspective of the medieval morality play—that the world is hopelessly corrupt—gets deployed to rationalize
  
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• How Do Great Cities Die? So Slowly That Most People There Barely Notice

  05-02-2021 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s not usually after a disaster: in those cases, great cities tend to rebuild and often become grander. (Think of London and Chicago after great fires, Lisbon and San Francisco after earthquakes, Berlin and Tokyo after bombing.) “Mismanagement and inertia are more formidable foes than cataclysm, though they administer less dramatic death.” – Curbed
  
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• FINAL CALL for miniature pieces of work inspired by Restriction / Correspondence Collective / East / UK wide

  05-02-2021 17:54
  Inspired by the Mail Art movement and by the restrictions many of us have experienced due to covid-19, new work is sought for an exhibition of miniature pieces of art which will be displayed in a set...
  
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• Sabbatical Cover: Senior Installation Technician / Southbank Centre / London

  05-02-2021 17:46
  This sabbatical Cover is a fantastic opportunity to join the dedicated Technical team responsible for helping the Southbank Centre realise its ambitious visual arts programme. You will participate in...
  
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• Development Officer / Clean Break / London

  05-02-2021 17:41
  Clean Break is a women's theatre company, founded in 1979 by two women prisoners who believed in the power of theatre to transform lives. Our vision is of a society where women can realise their full...
  
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• Project Producer (Heritage Treasure Hunt) / Stanley Arts / London

  05-02-2021 17:34
  Short Term Contract (Feb 2021 - May 2021) 
  £3000 fee (25 days f.t. equivalent)We are seeking a Project Producer to:
  Deliver an engaging, immersive heritage-focused treasure hunt...
  
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• Want To Understand People Better? Scientists Look To Dogs

  05-02-2021 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a recent study of 217 Border collies that ranged in age from 6 months to 15, the team, together with the Clever Dog Lab in Austria, found similarities with humans in the dogs’ personality traits as they age. – Nautilus
  
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• Who Was Mike Nichols When He Wasn’t Playing Mike Nichols? It’s Not An Easy Question

  05-02-2021 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Making stories was how Nichols coped with the world. The biographical question is: why was there a need to cope? The answer is not mysterious. Nichols was unusually self-aware, and he liked to talk about his life. To some extent, the Mike Nichols story is a story by Mike Nichols.” – The New Yorker
  
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• From masked lovers to Captain Tom: UK cities embrace Covid street art

  05-02-2021 16:56
  
  Across the country, artists are using walls as canvases to brighten up areas – or make political statementsSince lockdown began last March, the UK has undergone a revolution in its public spaces. With city centres deserted and galleries closed, artists have used urban walls as their canvases, producing a new generation of political street art.While street art has traditionally been the scourge of local authorities, much of it is now being either embraced by councils seeking to preserve art
  
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• From masked lovers to Capt Tom: UK cities embrace Covid street art

  05-02-2021 16:56
  
  Across the country, artists are using walls as canvases to brighten up areas – or make political statementsSince lockdown began last March, the UK has undergone a revolution in its public spaces. With city centres deserted and galleries closed, artists have used urban walls as their canvases, producing a new generation of political street art.While street art has traditionally been the scourge of local authorities, much of it is now being either embraced by councils seeking to preserve art
  
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• New video series on Bach's 48 Preludes and Fugues / Clare Hall, University of Cambridge / East

  05-02-2021 16:49
  Patrick Hemmerlé, Musician-in-Residence at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, is going to share a series of videos analysing each of Bach's 48 Preludes and Fugues (Well-Tempered Clavier)...
  
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• With Their Theatres Closed, The French Turn To Puppet Shows

  05-02-2021 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Performances for kids in schools are the only ones allowed under current COVID restrictions, so puppet shows are the only live theatre happening in France now. “The situation for French puppeteers is bittersweet. While it constitutes a return to their roots, as children remain their most faithful fans, many of them have worked hard to position the form as more than family-friendly fare.” – The New York Times
  
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• Wrecked! Exhibition design commission / Lakeland Arts / North West

  05-02-2021 16:34
  Lakeland Arts are excited to announce the commission of an exhibition installation, forming a part of our Wrecked! programme of events and activities at Windermere Jetty Museum. 
  The Wrecked!...
  
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• Head of Education / ICTheatre / North West

  05-02-2021 16:04
  Person Specification
  You will be a highly experienced, dynamic professional with a strong background in Performing Arts and in education who will take responsibility for the leadership, creative...
  
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• Senior Lecturer / Lecturer / London Studio Centre / London

  05-02-2021 16:03
  London Studio Centre is an internationally recognised Higher Education conservatoire, which prides itself on training dancers, singers and actors for the profession. LSC delivers a range of...
  
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• Intimacy Coordinator Says She Gets More Resistance From Female Actors And Directors

  05-02-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘My hunch is that, for some women, having me present means they have to examine their past experiences on set without an intimacy coordinator,’ said Mia Schachter, intimacy coordinator on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy and HBO shows such as Insecure and Euphoria.” – The Guardian
  
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• Edvard Munch works up for auction amid renewed interest in artist

  05-02-2021 16:00
  
  Sotheby’s expert says pandemic has been good for Munch, lending his work ‘a whole new meaning’Two works by Edvard Munch that the Nazis classified as degenerate before selling them for profit are to be offered at auction in London next month, at a time when interest in the Norwegian artist has never been bigger.A self-portrait painted in 1926, the first formal portrait of Munch to come to auction for 15 years, and Embrace on the Beach, painted for a children’s nursery in 1
  
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• ‘Salvator Mundi’ May Be by Leonardo, But Its Hand May Not Be

  05-02-2021 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Two different studies — one by the Louvre, the other by an independent art historian and her AI researcher husband — find that the Christ figure’s hand raised in blessing was added to the otherwise finished painting after the fact. The image recognition algorithm developed by the couple indicates that the hand was not by Leonardo (probably by an assistant), while the Louvre says it could have been added by the artist himself. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Food and Beverage Manager / Stockton Globe / North West

  05-02-2021 15:21
  We're proud to announce that The Stockton Globe will open in 2021, with a packed programme of world-class live performance.
  The Food and Beverage Manager is a senior management position,...
  
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• Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Has A New Director (And She’s An Alum)

  05-02-2021 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell dropped out of Juilliard at age 19 to join the company, where she danced for three years before moving on to 13 years with Ailey. After retiring from the stage in 2005, she got a graduate degree and went home to Baltimore to teach. Now, as HSDC’s artistic director, “she is tasked with culling an artistic identity that gradually moved Hubbard Street away from its audience base as the company increasingly delved into experimental works.” – Dance
  
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• Open Call: London Creative Network at Four Corners / Four Corners / London

  05-02-2021 15:01
  Calling London-based photographers!
  The London Creative Network at Four Corners is a unique, free career development programme for creatives in the city.   
  Aimed at emergent &...
  
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• Rodin meets the Chapman Brothers and we go inside The Dig – the week in art

  05-02-2021 15:00
  
  Rachel Kneebone’s surreal sculptures, the British Museum shows us how film-makers researched The Dig and working from home, 18th century style – all in your weekly dispatchRachel KneeboneSensual and surreal sculptures that look like the outcome of an unholy marriage between Rodin and the Chapman brothers.
  • White Cube online until 14 March. Continue reading...
  
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• Online Talk: Revisiting Radical Community Photography / Four Corners / London / Southwark

  05-02-2021 14:56
  Four Corners' new online talks series explores how photography archives can both document the past and inspire the present. 
  On 11 February we will be taking a closer look at the radical,...
  
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• Community Development Officer / Rotherham Theatres / Yorkshire

  05-02-2021 14:54
  Rotherham Civic Theatre would like to commission a Community Development professional as part of a programme of work funded by the Cultural Recovery Fund to explore possibilities in reshaping the...
  
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• Marketing Manager / The Met / North West

  05-02-2021 14:52
  The Met is an innovative and rapidly growing organisation situated in the GM 2021 Town of Culture, Bury in Greater Manchester. We are unique in the breadth of work we present and our ability to...
  
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• A Pixellated Crust of White Noise / TACO! / London

  05-02-2021 14:43
  A Pixellated Crust of White Noise
  Laura Yuile
  Thurs 11th Feb, 8pm
  Instagram Live
  To mark the launch of new publication A Pixellated Crust of White Noise, Laura Yuile has invited two shop...
  
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• Remember That Fake Gauguin The Getty Bought? They Were Warned

  05-02-2021 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles was privately warned in 2002 that a Gauguin sculpture it had just bought for around $4m was a fake. A few months later the museum sent a researcher from Los Angeles to Paris to investigate, but she failed to resolve the question — so the matter remained unpursued with the Wildenstein gallery, which had sold them the work. A year ago, the museum finally admitted that Head with Horns is not an authentic work by Gauguin — and it was banish
  
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• The more satirical street murals are, the less they resemble great art

  05-02-2021 14:15
  
  Street art that we share online tends to be inspiring – not strange, enigmatic or challengingWhatever you think of street art, there’s no denying its pedigree. The paintings done on cave walls 30,000 years ago are today acknowledged as the first creative triumph of the human mind. But before their modern recognition as prehistoric wonders, these pictures of mammoths and bison were dismissed by Renaissance cavers who came across them as crude contemporary graffiti. That’s becaus
  
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• Digital Marketing Manager - Freelance / Wimbledon BookFest / London

  05-02-2021 14:13
  Wimbledon BookFest is a not for profit charity promoting arts, culture and education. It runs an annual festival with live literary events, alongside a year round education programme, Word Up! for...
  
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• Furloughed Staff To Waterstones: Please, At Least Pay Us Minimum Wage! Waterstones: That ‘Would Not Be Prudent’

  05-02-2021 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Britain’s relief package for businesses closed by COVID provides 80% of a furloughed employee’s salary, even if that salary is only minimum wage. Workers at the country’s most popular bookstore chain, most of whom only make minimum wage or a bit more in normal times, are publicly begging the company to top up the government aid. Management says they’d love to, but with all stores closed until god-knows-when, they just can’t. – The Guardian
  
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• Indian origin actress/dancer 30-50 / Tanzlar Theatre / London

  05-02-2021 14:04
  Looking for an actress/dancer of Indian origin, playing age 30-50,for a new performance based project centering on the theme of “Freedom”  opening in Spring. Must be confident...
  
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• Backlash as Wallace Collection considers closing library to public

  05-02-2021 13:46
  
  More than 10,000 people have signed petition against proposal, which is currently at consultation stage at the museum bequeathed to the nationMore than 10,000 people have signed a petition calling on the management of London’s historic Wallace Collection to reject proposals to close its library and archive to the public.The active petition was launched by archivists and trade unionists working with staff at the Wallace Collection, in response to senior management’s decision to put th
  
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