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• Marketing Manager (part-time, 3month contract) / The Crick Crack Club / London / Remote working

  05-04-2021 23:45
  The Crick Crack Club is seeking an experienced part-time freelance Marketing Manager to support their work over the next three months.
  The Crick Crack Club is England’s premier programmer of...
  
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• Does The Identity Of A Translator Matter?

  05-04-2021 23:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lawrence Venuti’s watershed book, The Translator’s Invisibility (1995), argued that the practice of ignoring the identity of the translator, to the point of being in denial that a work was even a translation at all, was part of an unhelpful hierarchical mindset that erroneously attributed absolute value to the original, ignoring the fact that each new translation was itself a new work of art. – New York Review of Books
  
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• Ken Burns Does Hemingway

  05-04-2021 22:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Let’s talk about the Burns Method: the frowning pan across the blotchy manuscript page, the dreamy plunge into the old photograph, the smatters of ambient sound, the talking head who is not so much a talking head as a deeply invested witness. How do you dramatize the interior life? How do you dramatize writing? If you’re Ken Burns, by talking to writers, by watching their faces and bodies register the Hemingway-shocks. – The Atlantic
  
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• A Hollywood Plan To Make More Movies About Older People

  05-04-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  A study released in 2017 by the Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism looked at 1,256 films released between 2014 and 2017 and found that characters 60 and over were under- and misrepresented. While that demographic represented 18.5% of the U.S. population, it was reflected in only 11.8% of the films, the study found. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• How The Values Of Theatre Move Forward

  05-04-2021 21:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The American theatre is a very slow-moving ship, especially when I think about how quickly culture moves, and particularly now that we are in what’s called the digital age. It’s not just in the way we consume work, but also what the work is. And I think that’s a major, major issue. It’s part of the reason why we have systems and canons that are built on ideals that are hundreds of thousands of years old, whether we’re talking about ballet or opera. We’
  
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• Savage Beauty

  05-04-2021 20:53 via feedproxy.google.com
   A generation of important Chinese composers, paradoxical beneficiaries of enforced rural relocation, wound up studying in the West. For many, Bela Bartok became a lodestar for his way of retaining the spontaneity and savage beauty of folk elements. And so they discovered a middle ground between Chinese and Western instrumental performance. – Joseph Horowitz
  
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• 46-Year-Old LA Stage Alliance Disbands After Awards Mistake

  05-04-2021 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last week, more than 25 Los Angeles area theater companies, including the Geffen Playhouse, the Pasadena Playhouse and the Deaf West Theatre, revoked their memberships in the 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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• Zaha Hadid’s Influence Has Only Grown Since She Died

  05-04-2021 19:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Her presence continues to be felt across the contemporary design and architecture worlds. With around 1.2 million Instagram followers, Zaha Hadid Architects is now the most followed architectural practice in the world. Her sinuous lines and captivating shapes have been referenced by set designers on trendsetting movies including Black Panther. – The Conversation
  
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• She-Oak and Sunlight: women of Australian Impressionism emerge from the shadows

  05-04-2021 19:30
  
  By drawing out lesser-known works by women who painted alongside now-famous men, NGV’s new exhibition tells a fuller story
  About one third of the way into She-Oak and Sunlight, there is a room off to one side filled with images so vibrant, so unexpected, it throws me completely.All of the pictures in it are small – they’re referred to as the 9 by 5s due to the size, in inches, of the panels they’re painted on – many of them on the lids of cigar boxes. This is as clo
  
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• For Some Artists, Quarantine Has Been A Gift

  05-04-2021 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The open secret among anyone who enjoys the pleasure of their own company, however, is that the public health strategy of sheltering-in-place to combat COVID-19 was never a burden. It was a breath of fresh air. – ArtsATL
  
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• Why Withdrawing Dr. Seuss Books Is Just A Distraction

  05-04-2021 18:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Given these serious—and growing—problems, it’s not whataboutism to wonder why these old books get so much attention. Is it because attacking old books is easier than making the social and economic changes that would improve the actual lives of real children and their parents?” – The Nation
  
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• How Our Concept Of Work Has (Is) Evolved

  05-04-2021 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Work, and the way it fits into one’s life, can be and often has been, less rigid and routinized than is common today. In modernized societies, work is organized around the clock, and most jobs are shoehorned into the same eight-hour schedule. In the past, and in some cultures still today, other factors–the seasons, the weather, tradition, the availability of light, the availability of labor–determine which tasks are done when.” – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Stage Manager / HER Productions / North West

  05-04-2021 17:05
  We are a small company, with big ideas. We are founded by a close-knit team of Manchester-based, female theatre makers.
  HER Productions are seeking a female Stage Manager to join our upcoming...
  
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• The Archaeologists Of New York

  05-04-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Urban archaeologists can unearth 300-year-old trash, and turn it into narrative (and historical) treasure. “The biggest thing for me is saving something that would not have been saved if I didn’t take action,” one says. – Aeon
  
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• Maydays Present an Online Improv Super-Elective / The Nursery / South East

  05-04-2021 16:56
  Your English is good enough! Improv course for people with lower English level!
  Do you love improv, but have not tried it in English yet?
  You would love to, but it also scares you?
  Or maybe you...
  
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• Trustees & Youth Trustees / North Craven Building Preservation Trust / Yorkshire

  05-04-2021 16:40
  Would you like to play your part in developing an exciting future for a remarkable museum? 
  The North Craven Building Preservation Trust (NCBPT) cares for the Zion Chapel and The Folly, an...
  
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• Is Hollywood Trapping Women Directors In The Franchise Machine?

  05-04-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Or are Chloé Zhao, Emerald Fennell, and others just getting their due like their young male counterparts? Hm. “Marvel, DC and co have awoken to the viability of female-led stories, which has meant a demand for women to direct them. Patty “Wonder Woman” Jenkins was an early example, but there are others. Cate Shortland, purveyor of thoughtful, female-centred stories such as Somersault and Berlin Syndrome, has directed Marvel’s Black Widow. Cathy Yan went strai
  
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• People Love Their Physical Music

  05-04-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Or at least, a Hollywood record store shuttered for many months by the pandemic: “‘We’ve been waiting for a year,’ said Silver Lake resident Kerri Barta, who was near the entrance on the cusp of access. Until COVID-19, a visit to Amoeba was part of the weekly ritual for her and companion Jason Yates. ‘It’s been a big hole in our life.'” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Cafe-Bar Manager / Omnibus Theatre / London

  05-04-2021 15:57
  Omnibus is an award-winning theatre housed in a converted Victorian library overlooking Clapham Common, London SW4. The building is home to a 90-seat studio theatre, café/bar and two...
  
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• Slow Art Is More Than Just Taking Time With A Painting Or Sculpture

  05-04-2021 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Slow Art Day, April 10, is about a lot more than getting lost in a Lee Krasner or a Betye Saar. Though that might be a first step: “Studies suggest that the average museumgoer looks at an artwork for less than 30 seconds. And with crowds that seem to push you from one piece to the next, overwhelmingly large exhibitions, and a dismal lack of seating options, museum spaces sometimes seem to encourage this ‘more is more.'” – Washington Post
  
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• The Hospitality Industry, Hard Hit By The Pandemic, Wonders If It Can Change Again

  05-04-2021 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  What’s going to happen as more and more people are vaccinated to the industries that supported thousands of aspiring actors, musicians, and others in the arts? “There’s a reckoning in the hospitality industry right now as these workers — and their bosses — contemplate how much of the old normal they’re are willing to return to. The restaurant trade has a reputation for grueling work and long hours, wildly uneven pay for workers, and a sometimes hostile e
  
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• Keeping Ancient Music Alive, No Matter What

  05-04-2021 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Ashti Peace Choir, at the Yazidi refugee camp in northern Iraq, is trying to keep music alive despite the desperate history and circumstances of the women in the choir. The group, founded by a 22-year-old who has lived in the refugee camp since 2014, “has become part of an effort to preserve a vital part of Yazidi culture, in which little is written down, and history and religion are contained within songs.” – NPR
  
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• While We Wait For The Oscars, Ranking The Best Picture Nominees From The Past Five Years

  05-04-2021 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  With 43 to choose from, which movie will win? And which one can best be described as “self-conscious Scorsese imitation”? – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Citizen Lane review – dashed hopes of a visionary art dealer

  05-04-2021 15:00
  
  This drama documentary makes the case for the return to Dublin of dozens of impressionist masterpieces held by London’s National GalleryThis Irish drama documentary feels like a contribution to ongoing efforts to guilt-trip the National Gallery in London into returning to Ireland more than three dozen French impressionist masterpieces bequeathed by the Irish art dealer Hugh Lane. When he wrote his will in 1913, stung by the Dublin authorities’ refusal to grant him planning permission
  
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• Voiced Bodies workshop / / North West / Online

  05-04-2021 14:10
  This is a workshop for actors, dancers, singers, creatives, and anyone who is interested in enriching their creative and/or personal practice by working with the body and voice. The workshop will...
  
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• Administration and Production Assistant / Iford Arts / South West

  05-04-2021 10:49
  Iford Arts is a small, independent opera company based in Bradford on Avon near Bath, now in its 27th year of consistent evolution. We produce work of the highest quality and without comparator in...
  
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• The Great British Art Tour: the post-pandemic protests that echo into today

  05-04-2021 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: Robert Koenig’s After the Uprising sculpture in EssexIn the past year, people have had their freedoms and liberties curtailed in ways not seen since the second world war. It is not surprising that in this context of repressed emotion there has been an increase in the number of mass protests as people struggle to have their voices he
  
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