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• Canadian Artists Debate Universal Basic Income

  10-02-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If we artists had a basic income, that stress and fear over basic necessities would no longer weigh over our heads and we could be much more productive. It would help grow the economy, because when people have the means to do more than just get by, they put more back into the economy.” – The Tyee
  
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• Long Overdue: Breaking Gender Norms In Ballet

  10-02-2021 21:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Christopher Rudd’s creation is the first romantic same-sex pas de deux in ABT’s history, and one of the first—if not the first—to celebrate queer lust so explicitly in ballet. Such a feat, while to be applauded, is long overdue for a world in which more than half of the men who perform in and champion the artform are members of the LGBTQ2S+ community, according to Dance Magazine. Maybe times are finally changing. – Xtra
  
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• Why This Afghan-Born Poet Is ‘The Father Of Uzbek Literature’

  10-02-2021 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alisher Navoiy was born in 1441 in Herat, now in Afghanistan but historically a Persianate city. He wrote in Arabic, Persian, and Chagatai, the Turkic literary language used all over Central Asia in the Middle Ages and considered the ancestor of modern literary Uzbek. In one of his most famous treatises, he compared Persian (with a centuries-old literary tradition even back then) with Chagatai and found the latter superior — which made him a key figure in constructing an Uzbek identity in
  
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• When Keith Urban And Nicole Kidman Went To The Opera (The Police Were Called)

  10-02-2021 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It started with a standing ovation. “At this point, allegedly, the gentleman swatted Academy award-winning Kidman with his program, prompting Urban to accuse the man of assaulting his wife. Quick as a flash, Urban summoned his burly security to escort the couple and Kidman’s mum out of the audience, while Opera House security were sent in to retrieve the aggrieved opera lover.” – Sydney Morning Herald
  
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• Collect: International Art Fair for Contemporary Craft & Design / Crafts Council / London / Online

  10-02-2021 20:11
  Collect takes place online from 26 February - 2 March 2021
  Founded in 2004 by the Crafts Council, Collect has established itself as the preeminent art fair for craft and has been instrumental in...
  
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• George Washington Carver Wasn’t Just A Food Scientist, He Was A Gifted Painter

  10-02-2021 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In fact, he was a very promising art student, excelling at plants in particular, but a professor who worried that he couldn’t support himself as an artist suggested he go into botany — and the rest is history. His career came full circle: one of the 300 uses he came up with for peanuts was to make inexpensive paints. – Forbes
  
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• In the Absence of Light: celebrating the history of black artists in America

  10-02-2021 19:40 via theguardian.com
  
  In a compelling new HBO documentary, film-maker Sam Pollard speaks to prominent creatives to tell the struggle and success of African American art“I get up at 7.30 in the morning and then I’m at my computer working, thinking about new ideas, pushing along the projects that I’m involved in,” 70-year-old Sam Pollard explains. The documentary film-maker, as an editor, frequently collaborated with Spike Lee on films such as Mo’ Better Blues, 4 Little Girls and Bamboozle
  
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• Central, Eastern European Governments Take Aim At Museums

  10-02-2021 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hungary, Poland, and now Slovenia are assembling and executing a “playbook” to shift cultural institutions to the right. Often, the rhetoric around this has blended fears of anti-communism with populist, nationalist, anti-immigrant, and, in some cases, anti-LGBTQ rhetoric. In the process, political memory has become a flashpoint in Europe’s so-called culture war. – Artnet
  
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• RSL International Writers - recommend a non-UK writer / Royal Society of Literature / London / UK wide

  10-02-2021 19:24
  Celebrating the power of literature to transcend borders and bring people together
  To mark its 200th birthday, the Royal Society of Literature is launching RSL International Writers. The programme...
  
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• Viral Dance of 2050 - callout for young people / Victor Fung Dance / London / UK wide

  10-02-2021 19:12
  Think you've got what it takes to create the next RENEGADE? We want YOU to show us the Viral Dance of 2050 by creating dance videos of your own.
  This choreographic challenge is opened to anyone...
  
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• Foundation and Step Up Music Language Tutor / Sage Gateshead / North East

  10-02-2021 19:08
  Job Title: Foundation and Step Up Music Language Tutor
  Department & Team: Creative Learning / Young People’s Programme / Young Musicians Programme  
  Location: North East
  Working...
  
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• The Cyclical and The Linear - Kate Carr / TACO! / London

  10-02-2021 18:59
  A new performance by Kate Carr
  Sunday 28th February, 14:30GMT
  Streamed online at https://www.outlands.network/the-joyous-thing-2The Cyclical and The Linear is a new speculative...
  
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• Bass Mids Tops Online Talk / TACO! / London

  10-02-2021 18:56
  Free online Talk
  Tues 23rd February, 7pm GMT
  Zoom WebinarDance music writer Joe Muggs, author of Bass Mids Tops talks about sound system culture and its intergenerational impact with...
  
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• Videographer & Editor (Contract) / Barbican Theatre / South West

  10-02-2021 18:32
  Key information and application datesFixed term project contract (with the potential for other content creation work)
  Fee:  £1890 + travel
  Location: Plymouth 
  Dates: 19...
  
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• Composer Anthony Davis At 70

  10-02-2021 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Awards don’t help us quantify these qualities, but for a composer who burst onto the operatic scene so spectacularly with X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X at the New York City Opera in 1986, it’s an acknowledgement of his eminence in a world, classical music, that has usually struggled to deal honestly with Black musicians and Black experience. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Copyright Assistant / Sentric Music / North West

  10-02-2021 18:26
  Location:                         LiverpoolContract terms:              Full-time,...
  
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• Youth Worker / The NewBridge Project & Dwellbeing Shieldfield / North East

  10-02-2021 18:23
  Salary: £12/hour
  Hours: Part time, 16 hours per week
  Contract: Beginning April 2021; contract until March 2023
  Deadline for applications: Monday 8 March 2021,...
  
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• Website and Rebrand (one-off contract) / Scarborough Museums Trust / Yorkshire

  10-02-2021 18:21
  Scarborough Museums Trust is inviting tenders from qualified organisations or individuals to create a new brand and website for Scarborough Museums Culture and Creative Trust. Scarborough Museums...
  
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• Foundation and Step Up Strings Cello Tutor (Maternity Cover) / Sage Gateshead / North East

  10-02-2021 18:12
  Job Title: Foundation and Step Up Strings Cello Tutor (Maternity Cover)
  Department & Team: Creative Learning / Young People’s Programme / Young Musicians Programme  Location: North...
  
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• Freelance Visual and Digital Artists / QUAD / East Midlands / National

  10-02-2021 18:09
  QUAD is an international centre for engagement in contemporary art and film, based in Derby.
  QUAD is a charity focused on intercultural dialogue through supporting diverse audiences to engage,...
  
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• Female model - interior/still life photo-shoot / Elisa Franceschi Photography / London

  10-02-2021 18:09
  Hello, I am looking for a female model for a post-lockdown still life/interior 1-day photo-shoot. This will probably happen in my home studio in South West London, near Hampton Court. Paid...
  
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• Chair of Trustees / Ensemble Reza / South East

  10-02-2021 18:07
  As a small and agile arts organisation, we have adapted well to the Covid Crisis, rapidly creating an ongoing series of successful virtual programmes including weekly live streamed concerts,...
  
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• Last Summer, Museums Made Promises About Diversity. What Are They Actually Doing?

  10-02-2021 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Many workers regarded it as a positive step this summer when numerous leading institutions released detailed diversity, equity, and inclusion issues (DEI) plans. But more than six months later, employees are still waiting for progress reports. Artnet News surveyed more than a dozen museums across the country, none of which agreed to share the full amount of money they have dedicated toward DEI initiatives, even as they delineated ambitious timelines for creating diversity departments, im
  
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• Marketing and Communications Manager / The Grand Appeal / South West

  10-02-2021 17:58
  Multi-award-winning Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal works in partnership with Aardman Animations to support Bristol Children’s Hospital and the region’s Neonatal Intensive Care...
  
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• The Comedy Industry’s Alt-Right Problem

  10-02-2021 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The mobs that descended on Washington, D.C., last month have intellectual roots in many places, going back to the bloody beginnings of this country. But they also have roots in specific areas of modern culture, including Facebook, BuzzFeed, and the increasingly online world of comedy. All the forces that incubated the rioters are still there, unchanged, chugging along as normal. The rot goes much deeper than you might expect.” – The New Republic
  
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• Open Call: Ampersand/Photoworks Fellowship / Photoworks / London / UK

  10-02-2021 17:29
  We are pleased to launch a new opportunity in collaboration with The Ampersand Foundation for a mid-career photographer living in the UK. The Ampersand/Photoworks Fellowship will provide a...
  
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• Open Call: Writer in Residence 2021 / Photoworks / South East / Remote Working

  10-02-2021 17:19
  Applications for the 2021 Photoworks Writer in Residence are now open.
  Each year we appoint a writer in residence to contribute to five editions of Photography+, our online magazine. This popular...
  
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• Art Trainee / Bold Tendencies / London

  10-02-2021 17:14
  The Bold Tendencies Art Trainee Programme was founded in 2014 by Diana Córdoba Barrios, our Managing Director. Since then the Working and Learning Programme has been completed by 215 Trainees,...
  
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• Arts Administration Assistant / Somerset Art Works / South West

  10-02-2021 17:10
  We are looking to recruit an intern to assist our core team in aspects of Arts Administration. There will be a range of tasks designed to provide you with valuable work experience. You will work...
  
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• New National Museum Of African-American Music Open In Nashville

  10-02-2021 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The museum tells a chronological story of Black music starting in the 1600s through present day and framed around major cultural movements including the music and instruments brought by African slaves, the emergence of blues through the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights movement. … And while there are museums around the country that focus on certain aspects of Black music, this museum bills itself as the first of its kind to be all encompassing.” &
  
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• On Belonging Commission Call Out / Lancaster Arts / North West / North of England

  10-02-2021 17:03
  On Belonging is a new artist commission to explore what belonging means to us in 2021, seeking new perspectives on identity and place that have been underrepresented in our programme. On...
  
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• Online Talk: Photographers in the Archives / Four Corners / London

  10-02-2021 16:36
  Four Corners' Out of the Archives online talks programme is exploring how photography archives can both document the past and inspire the present. 
  On Thursday 18 February we are...
  
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• Flory Jagoda, Living Storehouse Of Sephardic Song, Dead At 97

  10-02-2021 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A Bosnian-born guitarist and accordionist, [she] brought the traditional ballads of her Sephardic [Jewish] ancestors and the melodies of the Ladino language to American audiences through performances and recordings.” – The Washington Post
  
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• Lead Artist - Saturday Art Clubs / DMU Local (De Montfort University) / East Midlands

  10-02-2021 16:29
  De Montfort University is an institution committed to the public good – and its public engagement work through DMU Local is an important part of that commitment.
  The DMU Local Saturday Art...
  
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• Cris Hoare obituary

  10-02-2021 16:27 via theguardian.com
  
  My friend Cris Hoare, who has died aged 72 of cancer, was a British artist whose paintings captured the spirit and essence of Spanish rural life in Andalucia.Often referred to as the “quiet magician”, he had a shy and humble manner that belied the colourful character of his work, which earned him the reputation of being one of the finest artists in the region. Continue reading...
  
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• Creative Writing and Walking Retreat with Alinah Azadeh / Writing Our Legacy / South East

  10-02-2021 16:24
  Alinah Azadeh welcomes you to a creative writing retreat for writers - or artists/performers using writing creatively in their practice - who are based in or have a clear connection to Sussex or the...
  
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• Poetry Commission / Manchester City of Literature and Manchester Poetry Library / North West

  10-02-2021 16:08
  Poets are invited to respond to the theme of the door as a portal. During the ongoing pandemic, many doors are closed to people but poetry can help open them in different ways and can inspire people...
  
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• Writers & Creatives of Colour Social with Katy Massey / Writing Our Legacy / South East

  10-02-2021 16:07
  Join Writing Our Legacy and special guest Katy Massey for an online social and networking event. This is a space for writers and creatives of colour to come together, share experiences and discuss...
  
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• Producer / Forest Tribe / North West / UK

  10-02-2021 16:05
  Forest Tribe is seeking a producer with knowledge of the digital, inclusive and immersive landscape. The producer will be supporting the new projects that will be created during and post-pandemic....
  
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• Raising Our Voices workshop with Olumide Popoola / Writing Our Legacy / South East

  10-02-2021 16:03
  Raising Our Voices is a creative writing workshop by Olumide Poopola for experienced writers who identify as BIPOC. This event is part of a wider digital programme of activity produced by Writing Our...
  
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• Paramount Battles Truman Capote Estate For Right To Remake ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’

  10-02-2021 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Paramount has a screenplay for a new movie, according to court papers. But Alan Schwartz, Trustee of the Truman Capote Literary Trust, has been shopping a television series, and has gotten seven-figure offers from multiple interested buyers. Early last year, both sides pursued settlement with the idea that Paramount would be involved in the TV production, but in May, negotiations were halted when Paramount chief Jim Gianopulos decided to opt for a feature instead. Now they’re fussi
  
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• Bar & Catering Manager / The Common Room of the Great North / North East

  10-02-2021 15:45
  The Common Room of the Great North Limited (CRGN) is a new limited company and registered charity, created to take forward the restoration and redevelopment of its Grade 2* listed 19th Century...
  
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• New L.A. Arts Recovery Fund Has $38.5 Million For Small And Midsize Nonprofits

  10-02-2021 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The J. Paul Getty Trust initiated the fund, to be officially announced Tuesday, and the California Community Foundation is administering it. Struggling arts organizations with an annual operating budget of under $10 million prior to the pandemic are eligible to apply for unrestricted funds that can go toward programming or operating expenses such as rent, utilities and staff compensation starting this spring.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Head of Acting / Identity School of Acting / London

  10-02-2021 15:30
  IDSA is a multicultural and vibrant acting school, which provides ongoing training of the highest quality whilst also preparing actors from all backgrounds for the reality of becoming a working...
  
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• Editor (Philosophy and Science Desk) / Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI) / London

  10-02-2021 15:30
  Described by the Guardian as 'the return to big thinking' and by Total Politics as 'Europe's answer to TED', the IAI is leading the way in bringing cutting edge ideas to a global audience with...
  
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• Editor (Politics and Arts Desk) / Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI) / London

  10-02-2021 15:29
  Described by the Guardian as 'the return to big thinking' and by Total Politics as 'Europe's answer to TED', the IAI is leading the way in bringing cutting edge ideas to a global audience with...
  
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• IT and Website/Marketing Manager / Associated Studios Performing Arts Academy / London

  10-02-2021 15:25
  Associated Studios Performing Arts Academy are looking for a Website Manager. We are currently hosted on Word Press. We are looking for someone who can: re-size and insert images/ add video...
  
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• Trustees / Kala Sangam / Yorkshire

  10-02-2021 15:20
  Kala Sangam is Bradford’s Intercultural Arts Centre.
  Despite the current impact of the Coronavirus pandemic, the company has ambitious plans for the future. To help us deliver these plans, we...
  
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• Junior Drawing School - Mandalas / RWA / South West

  10-02-2021 15:03
  Suitable for 7-12 year olds
  With reference to the Mind, Body and Soul theme of LGBTQ+ History month, this is a reflective workshop for young artists wishing to spend time thoughtfully and patiently...
  
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• Junior Drawing School - The Art of Taking Away / RWA / South West

  10-02-2021 15:02
  This workshop, delivered by artist Jessica Bartlett, will explore 'negative space', the term given to describe the spaces between things.
  This is a fun way to investigate light and shadow,...
  
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