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• Songwriter / Palm Bay Music / South East

  07-02-2021 23:25
  Palm Bay Music is a vibrant independent Music Publishing company run by writers, for writers. We offer a fair, flexible, transparent and creatively rewarding publishing option to the makers of music....
  
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• Junior A&R / Palm Bay Music / South East

  07-02-2021 22:40
  Palm Bay Music is a vibrant independent Music Publishing company run by writers, for writers. We offer a fair, flexible, transparent and creatively rewarding publishing option to the makers of music....
  
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• Let Us All Now Praise Christopher Plummer

  07-02-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Look … “He wasn’t just a pro. If there were a fabulous comic-book A-team of character actors — an Expendables, a Wild Bunch, an Avengers Initiative — Christopher Plummer would have been the one you put in charge of it, the Reed Richards or Morpheus of the crew. And he would probably have designed and built the headquarters but wouldn’t have told you he did any of it: He would have just let you find out on your own, by doing your homework, because that’
  
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• Artist, Amateur Artist, Art Enthusiast / NoLabel / London

  07-02-2021 18:41
  NoLabel: A Tree Of Good Memories is an online art exhibition project which aims to exhibit nature inspired art and collect memories that are associated with trees and/or nature.
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• Edinburgh’s Royal High School, With Its Greek Revival Architecture, Was Saved From Development

  07-02-2021 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Or from bad development, anyway. Now it’s up for bids not for sale but for “sustainable longterm uses.” The fight against a luxury hotel development galvanized Edinburgh preservationists. “For campaigners, the fate of the Royal High School, established as a free educational facility for rich and poor children alike with the ethos that all deserved to learn in an unapologetically lavish environment, represents a fight for the heart of Edinburgh, and indeed Scotland.&
  
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• The Last Agency Holdout Agrees To A Deal With Writers Guild In Hollywood

  07-02-2021 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nearly two years after screenwriters fired their agents in a fight against agency actions that were costing TV writers quite a bit of money, the Writers’ Guild Union approved a new deal with WME. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Robert Jones, Film Editor Of Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner And Love Story, 84

  07-02-2021 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jones dropped out of college, and yes, started his career working in the shipping room at 20th Century Fox. “The Los Angeles native scored Academy Award noms for his work on comedy film series It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World and the Katharine Hepburn and Sidney Poitier-starring Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Jones also cut films such as 1973’s The Last Detail, 1975’s romantic comedy Shampoo and 1976’s musical drama Bound for Glory, which scored him his third Osca
  
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• Art school in Australia: amid the cuts and closures, what could the future look like?

  07-02-2021 17:30
  
  The marriage between art schools and universities has always been troubled. Could regional galleries save the day? For anyone who has been watching the recent assault on tertiary art education in Australia, Campbelltown Arts Centre’s offering for Sydney festival, Space YZ, offers not just a time capsule celebrating an art school of the past, but a thought for the industry’s future.It’s a huge show – curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham – featuring the work of more tha
  
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• Sundance Went Virtual This Year, And That Worked OK

  07-02-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The last big film festival from 2020 had its virtual tryout this year. It wasn’t terrible, but, says one critic: “I’m usually whiny and cranky about Sundance. Why are we in the snow? Why January? I could see all you people in Los Angeles. But this year, I was so nostalgic for every bit of the experience. I wanted nothing more than to be packed into a crowded shuttle bus, talking to strangers about tiny movies. I was so craving everything Sundance stands for that I even tuned i
  
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• In Britain, Thousands Protest The Idea Of Closing To The Public A Library That Was Left To The Nation

  07-02-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Wallace Collection “is in internal consultation” about closing the library and archive that was left to the country in 1897. Is that even legal? Will anyone notice during the pandemic? (More than 10,000 people certainly have noticed.) –The Guardian (UK)
  
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• 'We want our riches back' – the African activist taking treasures from Europe's museums

  07-02-2021 16:00
  
  Mwazulu Diyabanza has been fined and jailed for entering museums and forcibly removing ‘pillaged’ African artefacts. He tells our writer why the British Museum is now in his sightsMwazulu Diyabanza makes no secret of why he is in France. If coronavirus had not closed most of Europe’s museums, the Congolese activist would probably be inside one right now, wresting African objects from their displays to highlight what he sees as the mass pillaging of the continent by European col
  
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• Even The Met Is Considering Selling Some Art To Make Ends Meet

  07-02-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Met’s director, Max Hollein: “Every museum in the U.S. is having these conversations. … For us not to discuss this now would be irresponsible.” – The New York Times
  
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• This Indian Comedian Was Thrown In Jail For Jokes He Hadn’t Told

  07-02-2021 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is not a democratic move: “The Muslim comic [was] thrown in a Madhya Pradesh jail on January 1, 2021 with four others on suspicion that he might make some jokes about Hinduism.” – Vice
  
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• Administrator / CAS (Chapel Arts Studios) / South West

  07-02-2021 15:12
  Chapel Arts Studios is recruiting!
  FULL DETAILS on CAS Website:
  https://bit.ly/3a1vwJr
  Chapel Arts Studio located in Andover, is a contemporary arts studio with National Portfolio Organisation...
  
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• If Britain Takes Its Vaccination Strategy From ‘Contagion,’ A Movie, So What?

  07-02-2021 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A lot of science fiction and fantasy predicts the future – so why not a well-researched movie about a pandemic? (It’s worth noting that Britain’s vaccine response has been one of the fastest in the world.) – Irish Times
  
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• No Jobs in the Arts Fringe / No Jobs in the Arts & UK New Artist / East Midlands

  07-02-2021 14:53
  No Jobs in the Arts Fringe is a free digital festival focused on ‘collaboration’ in the visual arts. We have lined up fourteen unique events: a variety of free talks, workshops, and...
  
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• Communications and Impact Coordinator / CAS (Chapel Arts Studios) / South West

  07-02-2021 14:34
  Chapel Arts Studios is recruiting!
  FULL DETAILS on CAS website:
  https://bit.ly/2YWpQcY
  Chapel Arts Studio located in Andover, is a contemporary arts studio with National Portfolio Organisation...
  
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• Anne Feeney, Singer-Songwriter Whose Fiery ‘Have You Gone To Jail For Justice’ Inspired Peter Paul And Mary, 69

  07-02-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Peter Yarrow said Feeney was “joyous and fiery in her determination to use her music to elevate those who are most marginalised and to move towards greater justice in the land.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Executive Director / CAS (Chapel Arts Studios) / South West

  07-02-2021 14:25
  Chapel Arts Studios is recruiting!
  Chapel Arts Studio located in Andover, is a contemporary arts studio with National Portfolio Organisation status, and has reached a very exciting time in its life....
  
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• Director Kelly Reichardt On The Commitment To A Daily Process Of Making Art

  07-02-2021 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The director of Meek’s Cutoff and First Cow is also feeling, well, a bit cynical. “There’s so much celebration of women and people of color this year and I’m thinking ‘that’s great,’ but a cynical part of me is thinking ‘Is this just Covid?’ Are they just thinking ‘Let’s just let women in and give them the awards this year – no one’s actually coming to watch the films’ … I don’t know, we’ll ha
  
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• Producing Lead / Royal Exchange Theatre / North West

  07-02-2021 13:57
  The Royal Exchange Theatre is currently seeking a Producing Lead to join the Making Team. The Producing Lead is responsible for the efficient operation of all the programming and producing...
  
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• Turns Out Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman Was Inspired By Composers

  07-02-2021 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Gorman: “I love Black poets. I love that as a Black girl, I get to participate in that legacy. So that’s Yusef Komunyakaa, Sonia Sanchez, Tracy K. Smith, Phillis Wheatley. And then I look to artists who aren’t just poets. While I was writing the Inaugural poem, I was reading a lot of Frederick Douglass, a lot of Winston Churchill, a lot of Abraham Lincoln. I was also listening to the composers who I feel are great storytellers, but they don’t use words so I try to f
  
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• Ballet Dancers, Getting Real (And Sometimes Really Funny) On TikTok

  07-02-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If Instagram is about selling your moves – and your clothing line, your toe shoe line, your skin care routine, etc. – then TikTok is about being yourself. Kind of. “Casual, confessional and playful, TikTok offers a release for ballet dancers, particularly students, who spend their days chasing impossible perfection. TikTok is a place to laugh about the impossibility, rather than obsess over perfection.” – The New York Times
  
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• Freelance Marketing Manager / Pascal Theatre Company / London

  07-02-2021 12:09
  Pascal Theatre Company is looking for a Freelance Marketing Manager to join us on a fixed term contract to promote current projects.
About Pascal Theatre CompanyPascal Theatre Company was...
  
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• Documentary Filmmaker / Westmeads Community Infant School / South East

  07-02-2021 10:58
  Friends of Westmeads Community Infant School, on behalf of the school, wishes to appoint an experienced filmmaker to make a short, subtitled film documenting the collaboration between our school...
  
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• A picture of domestic bliss: why we've fallen in love with still life

  07-02-2021 10:45
  
  Instagram posts of homely scenes are striking a chord with users taking a renewed interest in their outdoor environmentAt a time when domesticity and what’s inside the home makes up the majority of what most people encounter in their daily lives, the still life is having a resurgence on social media – from influencers sharing their own photographs of satsumas and candles, to posting 18th-century paintings of shells and corals.The still-life hashtag has more than six million Instagram
  
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• Visual Artist in Residence / Westmeads Community Infant School / South East

  07-02-2021 10:43
  Friends of Westmeads Community Infant School, on behalf of the school, wishes to appoint a Visual Artist in Residence to work with our whole school community between April and July 2021. Our vision...
  
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• Inspire the kids: the best culture for children in lockdown

  07-02-2021 10:00
  
  Actors, authors, musicians and Observer critics share tips for filling the after‑homeschool hours – from uplifting family films to creative apps, dance tutorials and sonic journalsWe went out as a family and recorded the sound from the centre of a circle of trees. It’s our sonic journal of life Continue reading...
  
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• Charles Gaines: Multiples of Nature, Trees and Faces; Hardeep Sahota: Bhangra Lexicon – review

  07-02-2021 10:00
  
  Hauser & Wirth, London; Yorkshire Sculpture Park; both online
  Photographs of trees obscured by painstaking mathematical sequences somehow add up in Gaines’s gorgeous abstractionsThe visions of the California artist Charles Gaines (b.1944) are as glorious as they are rigorously principled. He takes vast monochrome photographs of what is inherently beautiful – the human face, the spreading boughs of a tree – and then mounts them behind Plexiglas screens. Each screen is partia
  
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• Skywhalepapa enthrals Canberra crowd – even as winds keep him grounded

  07-02-2021 06:18
  
  Thousands gather before dawn for the official launch of beloved Skywhale’s new companion Many cities have patron saints. In Palermo in southern Italy there is a story that a vision of Saint Rosalia, a young hermit, saved the city from a plague. In Berlin, you can see a black bear everywhere you look: on the city’s coat of arms, on street signs, as statues like teddy bears telling visitors they are welcome.Around the world, part of living in a city is to believe in mythical creatures
  
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