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• Theatres Leave LA Theatre Alliance After Awards Show Mis-identifies Asian Award-Winner

  02-04-2021 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “More than 25 Los Angeles area theater companies, including the Geffen Playhouse, the Pasadena Playhouse and the Deaf West Theatre, have revoked their memberships in the L.A. Stage Alliance after the nonprofit organization misidentified and mispronounced the name of Asian actress Jully Lee at an awards show earlier this week.” – Deadline
  
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• AI Pioneer: People Are Mistaking What Ai Is

  02-04-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “People are getting confused about the meaning of AI in discussions of technology trends—that there is some kind of intelligent thought in computers that is responsible for the progress and which is competing with humans,” he says. “We don’t have that, but people are talking as if we do.” – IEEE Spectrum
  
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• Music Of The Millennia: Sound And Music In Evolution

  02-04-2021 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pitch is an abstraction: any given note doesn’t have a real-world referent. The existence of flutes that produce a family of fixed notes, however, suggests a developed tonal system of patterns and scales, a sense of right notes and wrong notes, a cultural and musical identity. This has evolutionary as well as cultural significance. – Literary Review
  
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• Authenticity As An Ideal? Really?

  02-04-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Is authenticity fading away as a personal ethic or is it something everyone wants to be? In fact, both are true – because the meaning of authenticity is changing. – Psyche
  
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• Canadian Theatres Use Lockdown To Upgrade

  02-04-2021 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Venue operators are using their enforced downtime to scrub, buff and do major reconfigurations. In some cases, the work was commissioned and started before COVID-19. Toronto’s iconic Massey Hall, for example, closed in 2018 for a $135-million renovation that was scheduled to be completed as soon as this year, but now there’s not such a hurry. – The Globe and Mail (Canada)
  
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• You’re Teaching Dance To Incarcerated Men. COVID Locks Everything Down. How Do You Keep Teaching Them?

  02-04-2021 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Good old-fashioned letters, it turns out. Choreographer and educator Suchi Branfman has been running her Dancing Through Prison Walls project with inmates of the California Rehabilitation Center at Norco since 2016. She was not going to let the pandemic make her abandon her students, but they didn’t have access to Zoom. So they started writing to each other. Garnet Henderson reports on how they made it work. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Reckoning: The Treatment Of Women In Ballet

  02-04-2021 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ballet is often seen as the glorification of women -but, wherever it stands now, it condoned and encouraged the sexual trafficking of women for most of its history: a factor to which no history of ballet has given enough attention. – Alastair Macaulay
  
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• Museums’ Secret Weapon For COVID Safety: Really Good HVAC

  02-04-2021 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  The standards for heating, ventilation and air conditioning at North American and European museums tend to be quite high: minimizing airborne dust and maintaining consistent air temperature, humidity, and circulation are crucial for keeping the items on display in good condition. So the upgrades necessary to keep airborne transmission of the novel coronavirus low have been relatively simple to implement. – Artnet
  
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• General Manager / National Youth Jazz Collective / London / National activity

  02-04-2021 19:29
  The National Youth Jazz Collective (NYJC) supports the creative and educational needs of the young jazz musician, focusing on small group composition and improvisation within a pathway of...
  
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• A Find In The Middle Of The Kalahari Desert Shows A Remarkably Innovative Culture 105,000 Years Ago

  02-04-2021 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The conclusion from these finds is that people in the African interior weren’t lagging behind coastal cultures at all. Some of the most important innovations in human prehistory happened in multiple areas of the continent at around the same time. – Ars Technica
  
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• She Was The First Englishwoman Ever To Earn A Living Writing. She Was Also A Spy.

  02-04-2021 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  She traveled to the Low Countries and Suriname on missions for King Charles II, and she took up writing to support herself because he never paid her. She went on to become one of Restoration London’s most popular, and most controversial, playwrights and poets, using her work to argue against slavery and forced marriage and for women’s right to sexual pleasure. Here is the story of Aphra Behn. – Narratively
  
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• Online Tours of the Collection led by Hermione Wiltshire / Birth Rites Collection / London / online

  02-04-2021 18:48
  Join us for a virtual tour of the Birth Rites Collection filmed onsite at Guy's Campus, King's College London, and led around over zoom by Hermione Wiltshire (BRC tour leader).
  Dates of...
  
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• 140 Filmmakers Blast PBS For Over-dependence On Ken Burns And Lack Of Diversity

  02-04-2021 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The decades-long interdependence of PBS decision-makers, philanthropists, and corporate funders with one white, male filmmaker highlights the racial and cultural inequities perpetuated by this system. The amount of broadcast hours, financial support (from viewers like who?), and marketing muscle devoted to one man’s lens on America has severed PBS from its very roots,” said Grace Lee. – The Hill
  
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• What A Raga Is, And What It Is Not

  02-04-2021 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I should say that a raga is not a tune. It’s not a note, not a scale, not a composition — although the raga is sung in the framework of a composition. But you can identify the raga from a particular arrangement of notes that have to do with the way they’re ascending and descending; a particular pattern in the ascent and a particular pattern in the descent identifies the raga.” Amit Chaudhuri — an award-winning novelist and nonfiction author and a trained Ind
  
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• A Wilting Critique Of Meritocracy

  02-04-2021 17:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  The story of the concept of ‘meritocracy’ has been well rehearsed in recent times, largely because of the way in which inequality and precarity have exposed its weaknesses. But some are still surprised to learn that the idea was conceived in the spirit of social satire, not the spirit of idealism. – Sydney Review of Books
  
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• ‘Follies’ At 50: Why Sondheim’s Musical May Be The Most Important Flop Ever To Run On Broadway

  02-04-2021 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It was supposed to be a murder mystery: two couples, four motives, one gun. What it became was a different kind of mystery entirely: a musical that got prominent pans, alienated much of its audience and lost most of its investment — yet survived. Not only is Follies, which opened on Broadway on April 4, 1971, still here 50 years later, trailing a string of revivals, revisals and gala concerts, but it is also now recognized as the high-water mark of the serious ‘concept’
  
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• Ian McKellen On Playing Hamlet At Age 81

  02-04-2021 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I can’t pretend I’m 20. No one’s going to believe it. But I can feel that I’m 20. … One advantage is, when I was starting out as a young actor, I often played old men. Well, I didn’t know what it was like to be old, but being old, I do remember what it’s like to be young.” – BBC
  
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• Junior Booker for Film & TV Hire Company / The Classic Prop Hire Co. Ltd / London

  02-04-2021 16:25
  We have a position as a Junior Booker
  In a Film & Television Prop Hire Company
  Full-time £22,500 per annum
   
  Classic Prop Hire is a busy and thriving hire company in Southall,...
  
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• Maybe Public Radio Stations Should Cut Two-Thirds Of Their Weekend Programming

  02-04-2021 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Eric Nuzum: “The average number of unduplicated shows aired over Saturdays and Sundays is 25. Do all those programs help build audience? Station listeners — including even core listeners who love your station and are its heaviest users — usually listen for a total of one or two hours every weekend. By scheduling so many programs, most stations are offering a multiple of 10 times the amount of programming that most listeners will ever hear. If this programming so drastically ov
  
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• Where The Candidates For Mayor Of New York City Stand On Arts And Culture

  02-04-2021 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “New York City is heading into one of its most consequential elections in decades. … For the purposes of this inquiry, we asked eight leading Democratic candidates to spell out their specific proposals for arts and culture in New York City.” – Artnet
  
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• Team expands to support local communities all year round / Festival of Thrift / North East / Yorkshire

  02-04-2021 15:25
  Festival of Thrift has expanded its team to support local communities to share the joy of creative thrifting all year round. Read all about #thriftfest's new Community Development Managers...
  
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• How A Gang Of Wall-Climbing, Web-Slinging Rare Book Thieves Was Brought To Justice

  02-04-2021 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  In January of 2017, a group of skilled, acrobatic robbers began a series of daring break-ins — climbing walls, breaking through skylights and barriers, lowering themselves dozens of feet with ropes, never setting off alarms — to steal shipments of rare books worth millions from storage facilities around London. Here’s the story of how Scotland Yard, working with detectives in Germany and Italy and a pair of heroic law enforcement officials in Romania, solved the case. –
  
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• Eye-popping $2m doodles and genius special effects – the week in art

  02-04-2021 15:00
  
  A taster of Jean Dubuffet’s cartoon-like pictures are online, National Galleries of Scotland gives Ray Harryhausen a ‘virtual experience’ and the British Museum delivers a brief history of the world through objects – all in your weekly dispatchJean Dubuffet: 37 People
  Many commercial art galleries have started publishing prices in online shows, which has eye-popping results here: a cartoon-like painting best described as LS Lowry meets South Park will set you back $2m. Bu
  
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• Head of Marketing and Communications / Stoke-on-Trent Theatres Ltd / West Midlands

  02-04-2021 14:48
  At Ambassador Theatre Group we’re excited to be getting ready to reopen our venues from late summer 2021, in line with UK Government guidelines. As a first step, we’re delighted to...
  
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• Head of Marketing and Communications / New Theatre / South East

  02-04-2021 14:47
  At Ambassador Theatre Group we’re excited to be getting ready to reopen our venues from late summer 2021, in line with UK Government guidelines. As a first step, we’re delighted to...
  
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• Marketing Manager (Comedy) / Berk's Nest / London / UK, remote

  02-04-2021 14:40
  Berk’s Nest is looking for a Marketing Manager to help us rebuild the company in the wake of the pandemic, engaging audiences across the UK as we return to live performance. You’ll be a...
  
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• Fundraising Trustee / CoMA (Contemporary Music for All) / London / UK wide

  02-04-2021 14:39
  A partnership-based biennial Festival established in 2016 has added impetus to CoMA’s programme of ensemble and repertoire development which together serve its aim to encourage and facilitate...
  
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• It Was Inevitable: New NFT Of ‘Salvator Mundi’ Holding Fistful Of Benjamins

  02-04-2021 14:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It sounds like an April Fools joke, and it both is and isn’t. Author and art historian Ben Lewis has created a real non-fungible token (NFT) of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi — and, like the original, he’s hoping to auction it for $450 million. Okay, he’s not really expecting to sell it for that much.” Because it makes total sense in this case, Lewis photoshopped into the Savior’s left hand a bunch of $100 bills. – Artnet
  
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• Head of Facilities & Commercial / River & Rowing Museum / South East

  02-04-2021 14:31
  Are you a skilled and successful Buildings Manager with operational and commercial experience in search of a new challenge? The River & Rowing Museum is a dynamic independent museum approaching...
  
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• Community Wellbeing Officer / Bread + Roses / Yorkshire

  02-04-2021 14:30
  We are looking for an experienced and motivated person for the role of Community Wellbeing Officer at Bradford Co-operative Association; working for Bread + Roses and Chapel Street Studio. This is a...
  
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• Front of House (Casual, Freelance) / Southwark Park Galleries (managed by The Bermondsey Artists' Group) / London

  02-04-2021 14:20
  Southwark Park Galleries (managed by the Bermondsey Artists’ Group) is a non-profit contemporary art gallery and registered charity, set across two contrasting spaces in the heart of Southwark...
  
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• Engagement Artist & Coordinator / Our Big Picture Ltd / East Midlands / Yorkshire & Humber

  02-04-2021 14:20
  One-year full time contract starting May 2021
  Grimsby, NE Lincolnshire
  37.5 hour week with a salary of £20,000 pa
  Our Big Picture Ltd (OBP) is a social enterprise and we...
  
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• Venice Finally Bans Big Cruise Ships From Lagoon And Historic District

  02-04-2021 14:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For years, campaigns to oust cruise ships from the lagoon have been gaining traction, with locals claiming that the ships’ massive structures erode the seabed, effectively turning the lagoon into an offshoot of the Adriatic Sea. And now, finally, the Italian government has agreed with them, passing a decree to ban cruise ships and other large vessels from the lagoon.” For now, the behemoths will be rerouted to the area’s industrial port, Marghera. – CNN
  
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• Trustee at the Leach Pottery / Bernard Leach (St Ives) Trust Ltd (Leach Pottery) / South West

  02-04-2021 14:07
  New Trustees required for our Board. 4 meetings a year plus additional time as required. Volunteer position. For more information, please visit our website...
  
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• Comms & Marketing Manager / Bernard Leach (St Ives) Trust Ltd (Leach Pottery) / South West

  02-04-2021 14:04
  Full time, permanent contract. £23-25K dependent on experience.
  Responsible for the developing and implementing of external and internal communications for the Leach Pottery in line with our...
  
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• Studio Apprenticeship / Bernard Leach (St Ives) Trust Ltd (Leach Pottery) / South West

  02-04-2021 14:00
  The Apprentice Potter is a full-time trainee position in the Leach Pottery Studio aimed at a beginner or entry level candidate with a genuine interest in a future career in production pottery....
  
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• Tickets Released For ShowMe: A Festival For Theatre-Makers / CGO Institute / East / UK

  02-04-2021 13:57
  Tickets are now available for ShowMe. ShowMe is a weekend of practical, online workshops offering ‘tools and rules’ around the different aspects of producing and making theatre and live...
  
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• Freelance Bloggers / blackgayblog.com / London / Online

  02-04-2021 13:29
  Black Gay Blog seeks original, informative, and SEO-friendly blog posts and articles on a range of LGBTQ lifestyle topics.Can you write engaging, well-researched, socially sharable blog posts...
  
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• Build Your Own 3D World Workshop: With Bruce Asbestos / Modern Painters, New Decorators / East Midlands

  02-04-2021 13:01
  Bruce Asbestos is a Nottingham based artist, whose multi-disciplinary practice explores popular culture, folklore and fairy tales. Asbestos’s interest in Japanese, European, and American...
  
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• Front of House Assistants / Criterion Theatre / London

  02-04-2021 12:57
  We are looking to recruit a team of Front of House Assistants for the run of Amélie the Musical at the Criterion Theatre. The production is scheduled to open on Thursday 20th May 2021 and run...
  
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• Gallery Assistant / Beers London / London

  02-04-2021 12:56
  This is a paid position for a gallery assistant/invigilator. 
  Applicants should be fluent in English and have at least basic comprehension of art concepts and entry-level business skills....
  
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• Create Your Own Digital Collage Workshop: With Jagjit Kaur / Modern Painters, New Decorators / East Midlands

  02-04-2021 12:50
  Jagjit Kaur is a Leicester based artist, commonly working in painting and digital collage. Drawing on Indian culture and her Sikh heritage, her practice explores identity, whether that be...
  
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• Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Workshop: With Mateus Domingos / Modern Painters, New Decorators / East Midlands

  02-04-2021 12:43
  ABOUT THE EVENT: Mateus Domingos is an artist and writer based in Leicester. His work utilises games, 3D printing, fictional alphabets, maps and filmmaking to investigate themes of...
  
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• Open Sauce: An Online Talk Night / Modern Painters, New Decorators / East Midlands

  02-04-2021 12:39
  ABOUT THE EVENT: Open Sauce brings together three 20 minute talks by practicing artists; Mateus Domingos, a Leicester-based artist exploring storytelling; Jagjit Kaur, a...
  
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• The Great British Art Tour: one of the most important women in NHS history

  02-04-2021 07:00
  
  With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: Queens University Belfast’s portrait of Professor Mollie McGeown by Laurence Coulter
  The Victorian gothic Great Hall at Queen’s University Belfast is home to more than 60 portraits, from vice-chancellors and academics to medics and poets – and even a circus impresario. Until 2001, however, the only woman represented in t
  
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• Casting Call for Two Actor-Musicians (within 25 miles of Derby) / Front Door Theatre / East Midlands

  02-04-2021 01:34
  Two Actor-Musicians needed for an upcoming co-created show, A Derby Ditty.
  Front Door Theatre is working with Derby Theatre and through Derby CAN (Creative Arts Network) to create a 10-15...
  
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• UK Theatre Returns To Stages, Having Learned Some Things During Lockdown

  02-04-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Shakespeare’s Globe has announced a mid-May reopening, albeit with a capacity of up to only 500 in a popular auditorium that can hold as many as 1,700. The coveted standing places that allow the so-called Globe groundlings to jostle one another, and on occasion the actors, will be replaced by seats; a lack of intermissions will further limit unwanted contact. The idea is to return to normal practice, assuming restrictions ease as the summer season continues. – The New York Times
  
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