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• American Academy Of Arts And Letters, Static For More Than A Century, Makes An Attempt To Diversify Itself

  07-03-2021 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Here’s the deal: “Founded in 1898, the institution had capped membership at 250 since 1908; members are elected for life and pay no dues.” Before this year, the only way to add a member was for another member to die – and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the Academy was made up of mostly white men. Poet Joy Harjo, one of the new, expanded membership: ““Every culture has contributed to the restoration, remaking and revisioning of this country. … Together we are
  
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• Social Media Manager (Instagram) / London Contemporary School of Piano / London

  07-03-2021 22:02
  We are looking for a part-time social media manager to strategize and grow our school's Instagram outreach.
  High-quality social media strategy training will be provided, but it is essential you have...
  
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• The Planned V&A Restructuring Will Take Away Most Of The National Art Library’s Librarians

  07-03-2021 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The details of what appears to be an outrageously short-sighted plan: “They are guardians of some of the nation’s most valued treasures, including Dickens’s manuscripts, a Shakespeare First Folio and five Leonardo notebooks. But librarians at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum are feeling far from valued themselves, as two-thirds of them face losing their jobs. Thirty librarians have been told that their numbers are to be reduced to just 10, as part of
  
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• Drummer Needed for Piano Trio for TV Program / TDT / London

  07-03-2021 21:53
  We are looking for a drummer for a jazz trio (sadly our current drummer is in Brazil and unable to leave the country). Looking for a delicate ECM vibe, but with an ability to create interesting...
  
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• Marketing Manager / Box Clever Theatre Company / London

  07-03-2021 21:31
  Box Clever is looking for an enthusiastic and creative freelance Marketing Manager to join our core team as we prepare to move into our new base as part of the cultural hub in the newly constructed...
  
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• Math, Music, And Moby Dick

  07-03-2021 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Three great tastes that taste great together. But seriously: Literature is replete with math (and music), and here’s a professor who can talk about how Melville played with math in Moby Dick – and also disprove “an 18th-century Italian musical board game that promised ‘un infinito numero di minuette trio.’ The object of the game: Players compose a 16-bar minuet by rolling a die and then choosing, bar by bar, which of six musical options, composed by Haydn, should c
  
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• Margaret Atwood Wrote The Words For A New Song Cycle About Murdered Women

  07-03-2021 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The song cycle, with music by Jake Heggie and sung by baritone Joshua Hopkins, was inspired by Hopkins’ sister, who was murdered by her ex-partner on the same day that he murdered two of his other exes. When she got the request, Atwood wasn’t sure she could fulfill it. But “she ended up writing the sequence in one session. ‘I made the ‘sisters’ plural because they are indeed – unhappily – very plural. Sisters, daughters, mothers. So many,’ s
  
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• Pandemic Inspires 1200 New German Words

  07-03-2021 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This truly seems to delight English speakers. “For example, Coronamutationsgebiet is an area where coronavirus mutations are widespread. A Geisterveranstaltung (ghost event) is an event with no people in attendance, usually sports. Live music is allowed, provided the audience remains in their cars, at an Autokonzert.” – NPR
  
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• In Japan, ‘Disaster Art’ Is Saving People’s Lives

  07-03-2021 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While dealing with emotional turmoil after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, artist Kyohei Sakaguchi made a decision to merge his art and his life. First he published his phone number as a suicide hotline, and became more and more adept at helping others. “He wrote practical self-help books and answered phone calls, he painted abstract art and wrote experimental fiction. “I think art is a technique for life. … I do what I do in order to keep living.” – The
  
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• Director of Development / Capital Theatres / Scotland

  07-03-2021 19:53
  Capital Theatres is Scotland’s largest independent theatre charity, operating three iconic venues in Edinburgh: the Festival and King’s Theatres and the Studio Theatre, providing some of...
  
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• Some Are Vaccinated, And Very Ready To See A Movie In The Theatre Again

  07-03-2021 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As New York cinemas open with precautions in place, “what movies are even playing in theaters these days? For those in attendance, the film in question wasn’t the main reason they showed up at their closest multiplex on a chilly Friday afternoon. Rather, audiences were guided more by a desire to get out of the house and sit in a darkened theater with a tub of popcorn at a time when it’s too cold to do anything outside. Cinemas across the city were sparsely populated, but those
  
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• Long Before This Year’s Announcement, Read Across America Was Turning Away From Dr. Seuss Books

  07-03-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Conservatives heard that Loudon County had banished Dr. Seuss and started a backlash about “cancel culture.” But that wasn’t reality. “In fact, the Virginia county hadn’t banned his books but merely released guidance — back in 2019 — suggesting a pivot toward more diverse reading. Read Across America has been issuing the same guidance since 2018. And over the past several years, educators across the country have increasingly concluded that oth
  
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• Freelance Photography and Animation Tutors / The London Lens Project / London

  07-03-2021 18:48
  The London Lens Project Ltd is a photography teaching company that specialises in animation and photography after school workshops for KS2 in primary schools across London.
  We are currently looking...
  
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• Starting Out as a Theatre Producer - Zoom Workshop / Part of the Main Productions / London / Online - Zoom

  07-03-2021 18:38
  Date & Time: Wednesday April 21, 4-6 PM BST
  Ticket Prices: Concession - £12/ Standard - £15
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• Theatre Investment for Dummies - Zoom Workshop / Part of the Main Productions / London / Online - Zoom

  07-03-2021 18:36
  Date & Time: Wednesday April 14, 4-6PM BST
  Ticket prices: Concessions - £12/ Standard - £15
  Book Now: https://www.partofthemain.com/part-of-the-grid/investment
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• Audition Prep for Actors - One-on-one Zoom Sessions / Part of the Main Productions / London / Online - Zoom

  07-03-2021 18:34
  Audition Prep for Actors: Crafting A Contemporary Monologue
  Price: £45 per 90-minute session
  Book Now: https://www.partofthemain.com/part-of-the-grid/auditionprep
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• Tour Booking for Theatre - Zoom Workshop / Part of the Main Productions / London / Online - Zoom

  07-03-2021 18:31
  Date & Time: Saturday April 3, 2:30-4:30 PM BST
  Ticket Prices: Concessions - £12/ Standard - £15
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• Lockdown Repainting In The Louvre Leads To A Lawsuit

  07-03-2021 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Cy Twombly designed an Aegean sea-colored ceiling mural in the Salle des Bronzes at the Paris museum, which is undergoing various renovations while closed to the public – renovations including repainting the Salle des Bronzes’ walls. “A debate about the suitability of the new wall color — precisely ‘Marron Côte d’Azur,’ a reddish and black shade — has been circulating in the French press in recent weeks. On Friday, Twombly Foundation lawyers
  
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• How to Publicise Your Work - Zoom Workshop / Part of the Main Productions / London / Online - Zoom

  07-03-2021 18:29
  Date & Time: Saturday April 17, 11 AM - 1 PM BST
  Ticket Prices: Concessions - £12/ Standard - £15
  Book Now: https://www.partofthemain.com/part-of-the-grid/publiciseyourwork
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• Producing for a Theatre Company - Zoom Workshop / Part of the Main Productions / London / Online - Zoom

  07-03-2021 18:27
  Date & Time: Monday March 22, 2-4 PM GMT
  Ticket Prices: Concessions - £12/ Standard - £15
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• Movement in Digital Theatre - Zoom Workshop / Part of the Main Productions / London / Online - Zoom

  07-03-2021 18:25
  Date & Time: Thursday April 15, 6-8 PM BST
  Ticket Prices: Concessions - £12/ Standard - £15
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• Introduction to Movement Direction - Zoom Workshop / Part of the Main Productions / London / Online - Zoom

  07-03-2021 18:22
  Date & Time: Thursday April 22, 6-8 PM BST
  Ticket Prices: Concessions - £12/ Standard - £15
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• Exploring Your Cultural Heritage Onstage - Zoom Workshop / Part of the Main Productions / London / Online - Zoom

  07-03-2021 18:19
  Date & Time: Saturday April 24, 11 AM - 1 PM BST
  Ticket Prices: Concessions - £12/ Standard - £15
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• Prose to Song: A Lyric-Writing Zoom Workshop / Part of the Main Productions / London / Online - Zoom

  07-03-2021 18:13
  Prose to Song: Let's get Lyrical
  Date & Time: Monday March 22, 5-7 PM GMT
  Ticket Prices: Concessions - £12/ Standard - £15
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• Directing and Developing New Musicals - Zoom Workshop / Part of the Main Productions / London / Online - Zoom

  07-03-2021 18:09
  Date & Time: Thursday March 18, 3-5 PM GMT
  Ticket Prices: Concessions - £12/ Standard - £15
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• Berlin Film Fest Awards Its First Gender-Neutral Acting Award

  07-03-2021 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Women, men, and nonbinary people all compete for the same award starting this year at the Berlin Film Festival – and this year’s award went to a woman. “While some will argue gender-neutral categories are socially progressive, they will also have unintended consequences. It could, interestingly, lead to a battle between two different factions of equality campaigners.” – BBC
  
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• Naomi Rosenblum, Historian Of Photography Who Forced Others To See It As Art, 96

  07-03-2021 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When she started her major scholarship, “histories of photography traditionally focused on England, France and the United States. But Dr. Rosenblum’s … A World History of Photography (1984), provided a true global perspective. The book was translated into several languages and remains a standard text in the field. Her other major work, A History of Women Photographers (1994), traced their accomplishments from the mid-1800s through the late 20th century.” – The New
  
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• Sydney’s Museum Of Contemporary Art Is The Most Visited In The World

  07-03-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, its director of 22 years, is leaving. “When Macgregor took over in 1999, the MCA was just eight years old and already on the verge of bankruptcy. Fewer than 100,000 people each year were visiting the converted Maritime Services Board art deco pile, which commands an imposing presence overlooking Circular Quay. Today more than 1 million visitors – almost half under the age of 35 – pass through the museum each year.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Egon Schiele Gave A Watercolor To His Dentist As Payment, And Then It Was Looted By Nazis

  07-03-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Now the painting, which was in Cologne’s Museum Ludwig, is returning to the dentist’s heirs. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Manchester Project Manager / Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival / North West

  07-03-2021 16:29
  LIFF (UK and Europe's largest Indian film festival) is looking for a Project Manager to launch the new Manchester Indian Film FestivalThe Role
  Contract: March – September 2021 //...
  
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• What It’s Like Singing ‘Strange Fruit’ In 2021

  07-03-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Andra Day, who plays Billie Holiday in the new movie The United States Vs. Billie Holiday, explains how she felt when she heard it as a child. “It’s in my DNA. It’s in our DNA … I think as a nation. And as a people, as Black people. I remember being very quieted by the song, almost sort of prostrated. All I knew was it made me sad. … There was such pain there and it stunned me as a child. It really just struck me.” – NPR
  
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• The Toll This Year Took On The People Responsible For Explaining The Toll This Year Was Taking

  07-03-2021 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s not great. “COVID has led to a sort of existential crisis for me working in journalism. When some of your readers claim that any facts you present that are inconvenient to their personal narrative are proof that you’re embedded in a conspiracy, you can only take so much of that before you start to question whether or not it’s worth it. The predominant emotion here is feeling powerless. … When I am constantly seeing these sorts of messages and realizing that r
  
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• Theatre Marketing 101 - Zoom Workshop / Part of the Main Productions / London / Online - Zoom

  07-03-2021 14:53
  Theatre Marketing 101: A Guide to Selling Tickets and Staying Sane
  Session 1 - How to Find Audiences & Fill Seats | 24th March 5.30pm - 7.30pm GMT
  Session 2 - Marketing a Show on a Shoestring |...
  
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• Adaptation, Translation, and Theatre - Zoom Workshop / Part of the Main Productions / London / Online - Zoom

  07-03-2021 14:49
  Date & Time: Friday March 26, 10 AM - 12 PM GMT
  Ticket Prices: Concessions - £12/ Standard - £15
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• Sponsorship for Theatre - Zoom Workshop / Part of the Main Productions / London / Online - Zoom

  07-03-2021 14:46
  Date & Time: Saturday March 20, 2-4 PM GMT
  Ticket Prices: Concessions - £12/ Standard - £15
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• Experimenting with Sound in the Rehearsal Room - Zoom Workshop / Part of the Main Productions / London / Online - Zoom

  07-03-2021 14:43
  Experimenting with Sound in the Rehearsal Room
  Date & Time: Thursday March 25, 3-5 PM GMT
  Ticket Prices: Concessions - £12/ Standard - £15
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• Building a Career as a Theatre Director - Zoom Workshop / Part of the Main Productions / London / Online - Zoom

  07-03-2021 14:40
  Building a Career as a Theatre Director
  Date & Time: Saturday April 10, 2:30-4:30 PM BST
  Ticket Prices: Concessions - £12/ Standard - £15
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• QLab: Introduction to Sound & Video - Zoom Workshop / Part of the Main Productions / London / Online - Zoom

  07-03-2021 14:37
  QLab: Introduction to Sound and Video
  Date & Time: Sunday April 11, 10 AM - 3 PM BST, with a one-hour break from 1-2 PM.
  Ticket Prices: Concessions - £30/ Standard - £35
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• Being Your Own Dramaturg - Zoom Workshop / Part of the Main Productions / London / Online - Zoom

  07-03-2021 14:35
  Good Writing is Good Editing: Being Your Own Dramaturg
  Date & Time: Thursday April 1, 6-8 PM BST
  Ticket Prices: Concessions - £12/ Standard - £15
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• Writing a Play from a Historical Provocation - Zoom Workshop / Part of the Main Productions / London / Online - Zoom

  07-03-2021 14:31
  How to Create a Play from a Historical Provocation
  Dates & Times: Saturdays March 27, April 3 and April 10, 11:30-1:30 PM GMT/BST
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• Wait, Disney Wants Us To Pay *How Much* For The New Princess Movie?

  07-03-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The economics of it are a bit weird. Mulan was $29.99 for a while, even with a Disney Plus subscription. Then Soul was free, starting on Christmas Day. Now Raya and the Dragon is … also $30? Sure, yes. Why? Well, “entertainment conglomerates are still very much in experimentation mode when it comes to settling the streaming vs. theatrical debate, particularly when it comes to kids’ films. It also underlines just how many kinks still have not been worked out (i.e., with theate
  
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• A Lot Of Black People Already Knew About Dr. Seuss

  07-03-2021 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I assumed most people knew that Seuss, despite the support he expressed for civil rights, was capable of depicting human beings of other races in demeaning ways. Painting Seuss as a victim of rabid ‘wokeness’ is like saying police brutality is a recent epidemic that began when people started uploading cellphone footage. No, it’s in the news because some white people just started noticing.” – The Atlantic
  
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• So, Let’s Talk About The Six Hundred Thousand Dollar Meme Art

  07-03-2021 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  How to explain this “NFT” thing we’re all hearing about in the news? OK, so … if you buy a unique ID number associated with a certain piece of art, then no one else – in theory – can buy that exact art again. “If I sell Picasso.jpeg to James, I can’t then turn around and sell the same Picasso.jpeg (or an exact digital replica of it) to Robin – the blockchain knows that I already transferred the art (and its NFT) to James, so I can’t s
  
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• Artist Studio Co-ordinator / ArtTechSpace Ltd / London

  07-03-2021 13:08
  We are looking for a very organised person to join a busy technical team based within an artist’s studio. 
  You will be reporting to the London head technician and working closely...
  
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• Chloe Zhao Makes History With Her Golden Globe, And China Reacts With Anger At Past Remarks

  07-03-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Zhao, the second woman ever to win a Golden Globe for directing and first Asian woman to win the prize, was at first feted by Chinese outlets – until her old interviews surfaced. Then everything shifted, including toward censorship on the social media platform Weibo, where searches for (hashtag) Nomadland and (hashtag) Nomadland Release Date were blocked. – The New York Times
  
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• Woodwind Teacher (West London) / Learning Music / London

  07-03-2021 12:40
  Location: West London
  Remuneration: £25-30/hour
  Closing Date: 25 March 2021
  Start Date: April 2021
   
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  Learning Music is seeking to appoint a Woodwind Teacher to teach lessons...
  
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• Keyboard Teacher (West London) / Learning Music / London

  07-03-2021 12:39
  Location: West London
  Remuneration: £25-30/hour
  Closing Date: 25 March 2021
  Start Date: April 2021
   
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  Learning Music is seeking to appoint a Keyboard Teacher to teach lessons...
  
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• Guitar Teacher (West London) / Learning Music / London

  07-03-2021 12:38
  Location: West London
  Remuneration: £25-30/hour
  Closing Date: 25 March 2021
  Start Date: April 2021
   
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  Learning Music is seeking to appoint a Guitar Teacher to teach lessons...
  
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• Drum Kit Teacher (West London) / Learning Music / London

  07-03-2021 12:36
  Location: West London
  Remuneration: £25-30/hour
  Closing Date: 25 March 2021
  Start Date: April 2021
   
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  Learning Music is seeking to appoint a Drum Kit Teacher to teach lessons...
  
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• Guitar Teacher (Suffolk Coast) / Learning Music / East

  07-03-2021 12:35
  Location: Suffolk Coast
  Remuneration: £24-28/hour
  Closing Date: 25 March 2021
  Start Date: April 2021
   
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  Learning Music is seeking to appoint a Guitar Teacher to teach lessons...
  
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