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• YouTube Chief Talks About What’s Next, Misinformation, And New Features

  17-02-2021 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  YouTube is planning an official rollout for “Applause,” a feature—already in testing—that lets viewers make cash payments to their favorite creators by initiating an on-screen clapping effect. Like existing features such as Super Chat, “it’s a token of my appreciation of some monetary value.” – Fast Company
  
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• Composers/ Writers for Mini Musicals / Smofa - Skaraborgs Musical and Film Academy Sweden / London

  17-02-2021 23:17
  We are announcing a contest for composers and/ or writers to write scripts and music for Mini Musical Short films. The Mini-Musical shall not be longer than 5 minutes with a minimum 2 original...
  
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• AI Researchers Are Increasingly Worried About The Ethical Implications Of Their Work

  17-02-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just as some computer scientists seem oblivious to ethical concerns, others appear to be trigger-happy with their moral outrage. – The New Yorker
  
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• Can Historians Be Traumatized By What They Study?

  17-02-2021 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The phenomenon of the historian traumatized by history remains unstudied and is not widely known. Yet anyone who has documented depravity knows the symptoms. After writing a book on the Armenian Genocide, a process that took me five years, I found it impossible to slip comfortably into sleep. All kinds of catastrophes visited me—still visit me—in that space before dreams.” – The New Republic
  
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• Study: Are “Minor” Literatures More Nationalistic?

  17-02-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Our data consists of digital editions of 200 works of prize-winning fiction, divided into four subcorpora of equal size: U.S.-American, French, German, and a collection of novels drawn from 19 different “minor” European languages. We ultimately find no evidence to support Casanova’s theory that minor literatures are more nationalistic than literature produced within major cultural capitals. Indeed, the evidence points to the exact opposite effect.” – Cultura
  
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• Woven into Place: Temporary Public Realm Commission Opportunity / Woven in Kirklees / Yorkshire / Kirklees

  17-02-2021 21:35
  WOVEN into Place: Exploring North Kirklees Textile Connections 
  The WOVEN in Kirklees Festival has been supported by funding from Kirklees Council to produce a temporary public realm artist...
  
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• Struggling With The Meaning Of Cultural Appropriation

  17-02-2021 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Your poem was meant to be a complex double portrait of both the Black caregiver and your white grandmother, and the racist logic and history that bound them both. Did you, a young white person, the child of people you freely admitted had been shaped by racist beliefs, have any claim or relationship to this voice? Our workshop worried this question for an hour without resolving it. And while our discussion never devolved, as I was concerned it might, into open hostility, it also didn&rsqu
  
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• Getting A Grip On Australia(s) Through Graphic Novels

  17-02-2021 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Comic creators have been wrestling with contemporary Australia and its identities in a series of publication coming out this year. What they show is a nation divided by racism and on a collision course with dystopia rather than being ‘one and free’.” – ArtsHub (Australia)
  
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• The Five Flavors of Strategy

  17-02-2021 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  As the chaos and confusion of the global pandemic shows distant glimpses of something less chaotic, the question of “strategy” is emerging once again. Now that arts organizations are making space to imagine the “next normal,” it’s worth remembering what “strategy” actually is and does. – Andrew Taylor
  
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• Now We Know What New Orleans Without Mardi Gras Music Is

  17-02-2021 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  His city—our cities—aren’t empty now. They’re just pretty much shut down. There’s a social media campaign attached to the Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s new outreach efforts, asking for posts in response to the question, “Have you ever been saved by a song?” Our answer is and will be, yes. – The Daily Beast
  
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• How The Bay Area’s Hip-Hop Dance Crews Have Kept On Through COVID

  17-02-2021 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When the first COVID-19 lockdown rippled across the Bay Area last March, the dance community reeled. … But as the pandemic unfolded, the crews adapted: leveraging technology to rehearse remotely, dancing outdoors and performing via YouTube or Instagram as live events disappeared. Over the last year, they’ve found ways to keep dancing together, strengthening their community and confronting social justice issues in the process.” – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Martin Scorsese: How Streaming Is Killing The Movie Art

  17-02-2021 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Scorsese acknowledges streamers benefit his career (without Netflix there would be no “The Irishman,” and without Apple there would be no “Killers of the Flower Moon” on the way), but writes “the art of cinema is being systematically devalued, sidelined, demeaned, and reduced to its lowest common denominator” by conceptualization of films as “content.” – Harper’s
  
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• Paul Ganson, Who Saved Detroit’s Orchestra Hall, Dead At 79

  17-02-2021 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Detroit Symphony’s assistant principal bassoonist from 1969-2004, he had been with the orchestra one year when he launched the Save Orchestra Hall campaign, which rescued from the wrecking ball the venue that the DSO had left in 1939 and ended up returning to in 1989. A memorial statement from the orchestra said, “Paul’s extraordinary impact on the DSO cannot be overstated. … We literally would not be where we are today without Paul.” – Detroit Free Pres
  
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• 'We Are Open' Commissions / Wac Arts / London

  17-02-2021 18:49
  Wac Arts are excited to announce the ‘We Are Open’ Commissions –  a creative and healing response to Covid-19 which aims to offer artists, companies, and organisations an...
  
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• How Bang On A Can Changed Contemporary Music

  17-02-2021 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  These days, Bang is a sprawling artistic conglomerate, with an annual budget of $2 million to $2.5 million, a dedicated record label, a virtuoso chamber ensemble (the Bang on a Can All-Stars) to carry its branding internationally, an active commissioning program, a summer residency and a distinctive performance format — the new-music marathon concert — that is practically a trademarked part of the organization’s identity. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Free webinar: Celebrating identity, heritage and the arts / Creative Youth / London

  17-02-2021 18:05
  Join Creative Youth in a free webinar celebrating identity, heritage and the arts.
  We'll explore how the arts and heritage can go hand in hand, how we can explore our cultural identities and the...
  
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• Hollywood’s Hottest Young Director Is A Chinese Woman Who Makes Westerns

  17-02-2021 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chloé Zhao came to L.A. from Beijing to finish high school and go to college, got a poli-sci degree from Mount Holyoke, went to NYU film school, and ended up making three feature films at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. One of those caught the eye of Frances McDormand — and now Nomadland is a major Oscar contender, Zhao has won more awards in a single season than any filmmaker in history, and she’s currently making a Marvel blockbuster. – New York Magazine
  
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• Studio Manager (maternity cover) / artist's studio / London

  17-02-2021 17:43
  STUDIO MANAGER (Maternity cover) required for contemporary artist’s studio in London
  £34,000 – 36,000 p.a. pro rata, depending on experience
  Fixed term contract for 12...
  
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• Event Sales Manager (Maternity Cover) / The Roundhouse Trust / London

  17-02-2021 17:42
  Key to the Roundhouse Business Plan is our unique commercial model of events which generates significant income each year through the hire of the Main Space. All profits generated by the Events team...
  
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• Associate Director / Actors Touring Company and LAMDA / London / Possible tour venues around the UK

  17-02-2021 17:38
  Actors Touring Company in partnership with LAMDA are looking for a new ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR 
  This is an exciting opportunity for an emerging director to join our teams –...
  
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• Free Art for Wellbeing Workshop - Emotional Points / Holloway Neighbourhood Group / London

  17-02-2021 17:36
  A free and relaxed drawing class for anyone living in North - Central London
  On Thursday 25th February 2021 
  1.30 - 3.30 pm ON ZOOMIn this explorative art for wellbeing...
  
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• Indianapolis Museum Staff Demand CEO Resign Over Job Posting

  17-02-2021 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  A group of 85 Newfields employees and members of the Board of Governors released a public letter Tuesday that calls for president Charles Venable to step down after the arts campus apologized for the wording in its job description for a new director. – Indianapolis Star
  
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• Investment Manager / National Lottery Heritage Fund / Scotland

  17-02-2021 17:26
  The National Lottery Heritage Fund is recruiting for a full time Investment Manager on a fixed term contract (12 months) based in any of The Fund’s offices expect London. The primary purpose of...
  
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• Artist Call-Out: Donor Wall Commission / The Courtyard Centre for the Arts, Hereford / West Midlands

  17-02-2021 17:02
  Donor Wall Commission Tender. Help us create something beautiful!
  We are looking for a visual artist to help us pay tribute to all of the donors who helped us to #TransformTheYard!
  Our dreams...
  
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• What Better Use For An Empty IKEA Store Than As An Arts Center?

  17-02-2021 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  That’s what could happen in the English city of Coventry: the Swedish furniture chain closed its store there last year, Coventry is the UK’s City of Culture for 2021, and the big interior space could hold artwork that the current museum can’t. The city council votes on a plan next week. – BBC
  
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• John Malkovich as eerie identical twins: Sandro Miller's best photograph

  17-02-2021 16:57
  
  ‘I wanted to pay homage to work that made my knees buckle. John looked nothing like Diane Arbus’s twins. But on set his spirit left and theirs came in’Ten years ago, I was diagnosed with stage 4 throat cancer. The prognosis wasn’t 100% positive and there were days when I’d lay in bed wondering if I’d ever be able to shoot again. I’m self-taught, and I started thinking about the images that had changed the way I thought about photography – work by I
  
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• Senior Producer / Punchdrunk Enrichment / London

  17-02-2021 16:43
  We’re looking for a highly motivated and creative Senior Producer to support the delivery of Punchdrunk Enrichment’s creative vision.They will be responsible for the delivery of key work...
  
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• Why Disney Really Fired Gina Carano From ‘The Mandalorian’

  17-02-2021 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  It wasn’t just because she likened being a conservative in America today to being a Jew in 1930s Germany on Instagram. “Carano had become a lightning rod among Star Wars fans and a headache for Lucasfilm, … [and] had repeatedly been warned by those around her about her social media behavior.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Brick Project: Transforming unloved public areas into art / www.creativityworks.org.uk / South West

  17-02-2021 16:26
  What is it like to set up a CIC during a pandemic? 
  You are invited to Brick Project’s  presentation on 25th February 2021. We’ll talk you through what it’s like to be a...
  
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• Opera Singers Help Long-Term COVID Patients Get Their Breath Back

  17-02-2021 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Called E.N.O. Breathe and developed by the English National Opera in collaboration with a London hospital, the six-week program offers patients customized vocal lessons: clinically proven recovery exercises, but reworked by professional singing tutors and delivered online.” – The New York Times
  
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• Fundraising Trustee / Military Wives Choirs / London

  17-02-2021 15:43
  The Military Wives Choirs is looking to recruit a trustee with proven fundraising and management experience to join the Board of the Military Wives Choirs.
  As the Fundraising Trustee with a proven...
  
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• Projects Officer (part time) / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / London

  17-02-2021 15:38
  We are looking for someone to join our Projects Team as a Projects Officer on a fixed-term basis from the middle of April for 2-3 days per week over 9 months.  This is an exciting and varied...
  
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• Digital Media & Marketing 1-year Internship in Botanical Art / The Shirley Sherwood Collection / South East

  17-02-2021 15:33
  The Shirley Sherwood Collection is the world’s largest private collection of contemporary botanical art.  It represents over 30 years of collecting by botanist Dr Shirley Sherwood and...
  
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• Second City Has A Buyer

  17-02-2021 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last summer, after the pandemic led to the layoff of two-thirds of the company’s staff and accusations by alumni of color of serious race issues, co-owner and executive producer Andrew Alexander resigned; in October, he put Second City up for sale. Final purchase negotiations are now reportedly underway with private equity firm ZMC, which is owned by the CEO of the video-game company behind Grand Theft Auto. – Financial Times
  
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• Trustee / Sage Gateshead / North East

  17-02-2021 15:24
  We’re looking for probably two trustees to join the Board in 2021. In the wake of the Covid pandemic, and the necessary shutting down of the building, the Board will have to play a vital role...
  
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• Gallery Intern / Departure Lounge / South East

  17-02-2021 15:23
  Part time, 10 hours a week, including Saturdays, until July 2021 
  Closing date: Midnight, Sunday 21 March 2021
  Interviews to be held Monday 12 April 2021
  Departure Lounge Gallery are looking...
  
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• Digital Collections Management Consultant / Bishopsgate Institute / London

  17-02-2021 15:07
  Bishopsgate Institute was "erected for the benefit of the public" in 1894, with the motto "I never stop learning". Our purpose has not changed.
  We continue to be home for ideas and debate, learning...
  
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• San Francisco Opera Is Returning To Live Performance With A Drive-In Show

  17-02-2021 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The company’s first staged presentation, set for April and May, will be a 90-minute English-language adaptation of Rossini’s Barber of Seville on an outdoor stage (repurposing what would have been the set for this season’s opener, Fidelio) before an audience parked in cars in Marin County. The other big event will be free streams of San Francisco Opera’s sold-out 2018 Ring cycle. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Community Curator / Ripon Museum Trust / Yorkshire

  17-02-2021 15:00
  Do you have the drive and ambition to reach out to communities to foster their engagement in our museums to promote creativity, a sense of place and improved mental health and wellbeing?
  Do you have...
  
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• Jina and the STEM Sisters - New Digital Show - 15th March / HMDT Music / ONLINE

  17-02-2021 14:41
  Introducing a digital production of a new multi-media musical show about historical female scientists and mathematicians whose work was so often unrecognised but who contributed in so many ways to...
  
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• French Mayor Ordered Museums Reopened, COVID Be Damned. French Court Orders Them Closed Again

  17-02-2021 14:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  An administrative court in Montpellier ruled that Louis Aliot, mayor of Perpignan (and Marine Le Pen’s number-two in the far-right party National Rally, and also her ex-partner), could not place his orders above those of President Macron, who instituted the latest lockdown. (Note, however, that we have here a far-right politician who has tweeted publicly that “culture is an essential need that asks only to be expressed.”) – Artnet
  
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• Head of Philanthropy / The National Holocaust Centre and Museum / London

  17-02-2021 14:32
  Salary £50,000. Home based with proximity to London and regular visits to NHCM, Nottinghamshire. 90 mins from Kings Cross.
   
  In a beautiful rural location near England’s last...
  
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• JAW and TONGUE workshop / To Move with Voice project / London

  17-02-2021 14:13
  🌸 A Voice & Yoga workshop focused on loosening jaw and tongue tensions
  〰️ Do you suffer from jaw or tongue tension?〰️ Are you someone who is interested in...
  
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• Actress Fired From ‘The Color Purple’ After Anti-Gay Posts Loses Lawsuit

  17-02-2021 14:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  A British employment tribunal unanimously rejected Seyi Omooba’s claims of breach of contract and religious discrimination, finding that “there is no breach of contract because the claimant was in prior repudiatory breach … the contract was empty because the claimant would not have played the part, and her conduct, pulling out at a late stage, had she not been dropped when she was, would have wrecked the production.” – WhatsOnStage (UK)
  
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• Senior Producer Contemporary Music / Sage Gateshead / North East

  17-02-2021 13:59
  The Senior Producer, Contemporary Music sits at the heart of Sage Gateshead’s programme team, working in close collaboration with the Classical Music and Artist Development Senior Producers and...
  
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• Drama and Music Production Technician / Cheadle Hulme School / North West

  17-02-2021 13:42
  Drama and Music Production Technician
  Required September 2021Salary £22-24k (FTE)
  We are looking for an excellent candidate to join our School as a Drama and Music Production Technician.
  The...
  
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• Black and non-Black Artworkers of Colour Advisory Group Member / Visual Arts South West / South West

  17-02-2021 13:24
  We are looking for ten Black and non-Black Artworkers of Colour* to join an Advisory Group focusing on structural challenges in our sector that disproportionately affect Black people and People of...
  
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• Disabled and Neurodivergent Artworkers` Advisory Group Member / Visual Arts South West / South West

  17-02-2021 13:18
  We are looking for ten disabled and neurodivergent artists and artworkers to join an Advisory Group focusing on structural challenges in our sector that disproportionately affect disabled and...
  
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• Young Artworkers` Advisory Group Member / Visual Arts South West / South West

  17-02-2021 13:16
  We are looking for eight young artists and art workers of ages 20–25 to join an Advisory Group focusing on structural challenges in our sector that disproportionately affect young people. The...
  
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• LGBTQI+ Artworkers` Advisory Group Member / Visual Arts South West / South West

  17-02-2021 13:12
  VASW calls for LGBTQI+* artists and art­work­ers in South West Eng­land to join an Advi­so­ry Group as part of its sup­port pro­gramme, Togeth­er...
  
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