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• How We Make Language

  06-04-2021 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Today, our world has over 7,000 languages, each with its own words and particular grammar. These languages are so mindbogglingly different that you might think, “anything goes!” But in reality, there are countless possibilities in sound patterns and grammars that never occur. – The Conversation
  
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• “Godzilla” Is A Hit — And It Could Change How Movies Are Distributed

  06-04-2021 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s the kind of hybrid release that would have seemed impossible to pull off prior to the pandemic. Today, it’s the clearest indication yet that COVID-19 has forever changed how movies will be distributed. And the results have left Hollywood questioning what the film’s success means for the future of moviegoing. – Baltimore Sun
  
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• Machines Will Save Us/Machines Will Kill Us — Time To Figure It Out

  06-04-2021 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We once obsessed about how to restrain machines we could not predict or control — now we worry about how to use machines to restrain humans we cannot predict or control. But the old problem hasn’t gone away: How do we know whether the machines will do as we wish?” – The New Atlantis
  
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• Franchise Support Manager / Jigsaw Performing Arts Schools / London / Remote Working plus site visits

  06-04-2021 22:09
  Since 2014, Jigsaw Arts, building on 25 years of success, started franchising.
  We now have over 30 schools in England and Wales. We are seeking a Franchise Support Manager as part of this ongoing...
  
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• Why Is Shakespeare Still Such A Big Part Of Our School Curriculum?

  06-04-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  This has serious consequences for what ought to be the primary function of high school study: developing a love of reading that will last a lifetime. This is next to impossible when your major contact with literature is a guy from the 1500s who wrote with a quill in what might as well be a second language. And when your teachers aren’t theatre people who can bring the works from page to stage, for which they were intended and where they shine. – The Walrus
  
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• They Tell Aspiring Writers To Read Read Read. What If That’s Wrong?

  06-04-2021 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Now that I am a published writer, it is against this backdrop, of limited exposure to books in my adolescence, that I find the advice of established authors given to aspiring writers to “read, read and read books” lacking in nuance, unimaginative, and ignorant of the realities of those from backgrounds of scarcity, displacement, and war, like myself.” – Lithub
  
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• Morris Dickstein, Cultural Historian And Literary Critic, Dead At 81

  06-04-2021 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A self-described ‘freethinking intelligence yet a child of the ghetto,’ … [he was] a public intellectual who examined such topics as the cultural ferment of the 1960s, the artistic legacy of the Depression and the evolution of the American novel in works that were both penetrating and penetrable, offering a model of what he regarded as the ideal role of the critic in modern society.” – The Washington Post
  
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• Senior Development Manager [Fixed Term] / Sage Gateshead / North East

  06-04-2021 20:44
  This role is a key position within the External Relations and Strategic Development department, working directly with the fundraising and strategy and reporting teams.
   
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• Venice Passes New Rules Restricting Biennale Business — Will They Help Or Hurt?

  06-04-2021 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  It may be a hasty measure in which practical consequences have not been thought through, or it may, as some suggest, be an indirect boost to the ­Biennale, which looks with some suspicion upon those who want to ride its jet stream by setting up ancillary exhibitions in the city. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Latvia’s Huge Body Of Traditional Poetry Is Finally Appearing in English

  06-04-2021 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The verses, typically four lines long and metrical, are called daina. Thanks to an effort to transcribe them in the 19th and 20th centuries, there are now about a million of them collected at the national library in Riga. “Aficionados say this canon of folk poems is as significant as any body of classical literature. … For the past 22 years, Ieva Szentivanyi has been rendering dainas into English. Her first volume was published in 2018 and the second is ready for the press.”
  
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• Administrator / Bedfordshire & Luton Community Foundation / South East

  06-04-2021 20:03
  To work as part of the Grants & Programmes Team to manage the administration and enquiries relating to applications through the Foundations grants programme. The post holder is...
  
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• Grants and Programmes Manager / Bedfordshire & Luton Community Foundation / South East

  06-04-2021 20:01
  BLCF is a leading local grantmaker, striving to be a catalyst for positive change in the community. The Foundation distributes millions of pounds locally each year and is establishing a national...
  
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• Singing Teacher in Brentwood / Razzamataz Brentwood / South East

  06-04-2021 19:53
  We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated Singing Teacher to join our Razzamataz Brentwood family in delivering our unique curriculum of musical theatre and commercial styles.
  Razzamataz...
  
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• Professional Dance and Rehearsal space available for hire in E16 / House of Mass / London

  06-04-2021 19:40
  Professional Dance Studio, House of Mass, at the Silver Building in London’s Royal Docks is available for hire.
  This functional, pared-back studio is ideal for photo shoots,...
  
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• Audience Experience Managers / Liverpool & Merseyside Theatres Trust (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse) / North West

  06-04-2021 19:39
  The Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse theatres are a local artistic force with national significance and an international reputation. Our two theatres are united by our passion for our art-form, our...
  
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• American Museums Versus Looted Art — They’re Failing

  06-04-2021 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In 2008, the AAM admirably pledged to fight the trade in looted antiquities by passing a set of guidelines for its member institutions that own or acquire archeological material and ancient art. We recently put AAM member museums to the test to see whether they were actually complying with these guidelines. What we found is gravely concerning, not just for these museums, but for the United States’ ability to fight the global black market in looted art.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Newcastle Common Project Manager / New Vic Theatre / West Midlands

  06-04-2021 19:24
  Full time: 40 hours per week, Fixed term contract: 12 months, Salary £22,547 per annum
  Do you have excellent project management and communication skills? Are you a problem solver...
  
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• Project Support / Steps / London

  06-04-2021 19:21
  Steps is a global behaviour change consultancy with almost 30 years’ experience in creating facilitated, interactive learning and development programmes that inspire people to act...
  
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• How Do You Become A Broadway Choreographer? It’s Not Easy, But It’s Fairly Straightforward

  06-04-2021 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In much of the dance world, the process of becoming successful as a choreographer can seem frustratingly oblique. On Broadway, however, that path is surprisingly linear and well defined. Most people end up following a sequence of positions that includes becoming dance captain of a show, then assistant choreographer, then associate choreographer and, finally, main choreographer. What boosts you from one rung of the ladder to the next is a combination of initiative, networking and, of cour
  
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• Associate Producer (fixed term) / Queens Theatre Hornchurch / London / South East

  06-04-2021 18:34
  Queen's Theatre Hornchurch is a ‎vibrant producing theatre, focused on Outer East London and South Essex.
  The Associate Producer will work with QTH full time for 12 weeks, from Monday...
  
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• The Arts Went Online During COVID — What Happens When Theatre Audiences Return?

  06-04-2021 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Right now, a streamed concert that sells well will just about cover the cost, and we have to proof every second of the video. Even once live performances come back, I highly doubt we could offer livestreams because of our small staff.” – Chicago Tribune
  
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• Sales and Marketing Executive / Schott Music Ltd / London

  06-04-2021 18:28
  The Schott Music Group today ranks among the leading classical music publishers in the world, over 250 years old the company has branches in major international markets in 10 countries.
  We are...
  
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• Liverpool Cultural Collaboration Project Manager / The Liverpool Arts Regeneration Consortium (LARC) and Creative Organisations of Liverpool (COoL) / North West

  06-04-2021 18:20
  In 2019, with support from Arts Council England and Liverpool City Council, LARC and COoL commissioned Augere Consulting to explore potential future ways of collaborative working.
  With further...
  
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• Trustees / UK New Artists / East Midlands / National

  06-04-2021 18:17
  UK New Artists is seeking passionate, diverse and dedicated individuals to join our Board of Trustees.
  UK New Artists champions the next wave of creativity, supporting collaboration and...
  
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• Salman Rushdie: India Is No Longer The Country I Wrote About In ‘Midnight’s Children’

  06-04-2021 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When I wrote this book I could associate big-nosed Saleem with the elephant-trunked god Ganesh, the patron deity of literature, among other things, and that felt perfectly easy and natural even though Saleem was not a Hindu. All of India belonged to all of us, or so I deeply believed. And still believe, even though the rise of a brutal sectarianism believes otherwise. … Right now, in India, it’s midnight again.” – The Guardian
  
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• 'My Creative Life' talk with author Diana Evans / / London / East

  06-04-2021 17:58
  Award-winning novelist Diana Evans joins Write & Shine for a springtime morning talk called 'My Creative Life' on Tuesday 11 May (7.30-8.30am, £5, via Zoom). 
  She'll...
  
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• HR Business Partner / The British Museum / London

  06-04-2021 17:54
  HR Business PartnerHuman ResourcesFull-TimePermanent£37,210 - £41,479 per annumApplication Deadline: 20 April 2021, Midday
  The HR department at the British Museum is evolving. We...
  
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• HR Engagement and Diversity Manager / The British Museum / London

  06-04-2021 17:51
  HR Engagement and Diversity ManagerHuman ResourcesFull-TimePermanent£37,210 - £41,479 per annumApplication Deadline: 20 April 2021, Midday
  The HR department at the British Museum is...
  
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• Carpenter/Joiner / Visual Architects / North West

  06-04-2021 17:43
  We are an organisation of creatives, artisans, builders, thinkers and riggers, and together we possess an array of skill sets which allow us to tailor every aspect of an event. We were formed in 2013...
  
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• Think Tank Schools Producer (Freelance) / Theatre Centre / London / Nationwide

  06-04-2021 17:39
  Following our successful application to the Cultural Recovery Fund Round 2, we are looking to recruit for a number of roles to support the delivery of our Future Makers Think Tank, a new...
  
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• Think Tank Consultant (Freelance) / Theatre Centre / London / Nationwide

  06-04-2021 17:31
  We are looking for a Consultant to lead on strategy, methodology, analysis and evaluation of  Future Makers Think Tank, a new fixed-term project with Secondary...
  
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• A Supreme Court Ruling On Computer Code Has Hollywood Worried

  06-04-2021 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While a copyright dispute about computer code might not seem like a subject of particular consequence for them, an opinion from Justice Stephen Breyer concluding that Google made fair use of copyrighted material will very likely be discussed for quite some time and be invoked in other contexts. As such, a few lines in particular from today’s opinion regarding public benefits and public harms could have many in Hollywood quite tense about a future staked on intellectual property.&rd
  
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• General Manager and Deputy General Manager / Ambassador Theatre Group / London

  06-04-2021 17:22
  The Ambassador Theatre Group is a world leader in live entertainment; we operate venues, run major ticketing platforms and produce award-winning shows. Our ten iconic London venues will re-open later...
  
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• Learn & Earn Collaborative Business Trainee / Everyone Everyday / South East

  06-04-2021 17:21
  Are you a young person that would like the opportunity to build skills and craft a collaborative business from the ground up?
  Do you know someone aged between 20 and 24 with a desire to get involved...
  
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• Finance Officer / St Pauls Carnival / South West

  06-04-2021 17:19
  St Pauls Carnival CIC is looking for a new in-house Finance Officer to focus on the day-to-day running of the function. A key legacy component of the Carnival is its maintaining financial stability...
  
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• Dutch police arrest man over £18m theft of Van Gogh and Hals paintings

  06-04-2021 17:11
  
  Search continues for Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring and Two Laughing Boys, stolen last year
  Dutch police have arrested a 58-year-old man on suspicion of stealing paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals with an estimated value of £18m during night-time raids on museums in the Netherlands last year.The unnamed man was arrested on Tuesday morning at his home in the central town of Baarn over the thefts of Van Gogh’s The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring and Hals’s Tw
  
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• Employability Coordinator / 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning / London

  06-04-2021 17:10
  198 is hiring an Employability Coordinator to work as part of our education and engagement team. Our Employability Coordinator will build a network within Lambeth and across London to recruit...
  
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• Foundry Technician / Cox Workshops Ltd / London

  06-04-2021 17:04
  Role: Foundry Technician Company: Cox London, Furniture and Lighting Salary: 23-28k Location: London N17 Hours: 40 hrs per week
  At Cox London we design and fabricate individual pieces and...
  
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• The Spectacular Golden Parade Of The Mummified Pharaohs

  06-04-2021 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Crowds gathered on Saturday to witness the multimillion-dollar spectacle of 18 kings and four queens making the 7km journey (four miles) from the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo’s Tahrir Square to … their new home in the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation.” – Al Jazeera
  
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• Musician in Residence / Changing Tunes / West Midlands

  06-04-2021 17:00
  Changing Tunes, a faith inspired music charity, is recruiting a new Musician in Residence for our work in HMP Swinfen Hall. You will deliver a number of sessions per week in HMP Swinfen Hall, where...
  
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• Systems Engineer: Infrastructure / The British Museum / London

  06-04-2021 16:57
  Systems Engineer: Infrastructure Information Services Full-Time Fixed Term for 12 months £35,485 per annum Application Deadline: 12pm on 20th April 2021
  Do you want to work at...
  
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• Part-time Programme & Communications Coordinator / Arts Catalyst / Yorkshire

  06-04-2021 16:57
  Arts Catalyst is recruiting for a Programme & Communications Coordinator to become part of a dynamic team during an exciting, evolutionary period for the organisation. 
  Arts Catalyst...
  
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• Marketing and Events Assistant / Little Wing Film Festival / London

  06-04-2021 16:53
  When: Start ASAP
  Salary: National Living Wage
  Location: Walthamstow/Camden, London UK
  Closes: April 12th (apply ASAP as applications may close sooner)
  Website:...
  
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• Production Manager / Mercury Theatre / East

  06-04-2021 16:48
  As one of the most ambitious producing houses in the East we are seeking a Production Manager to manage our ambitious, skilled and innovative production team and launch our re-opening season of...
  
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• Think Tank Artists (Freelance) / Theatre Centre / London / Nationwide

  06-04-2021 16:46
  Following our successful application to the Cultural Recovery Fund Round 2, we are looking to recruit for a number of roles, including 5 freelance artists, to support the delivery of our Future...
  
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• Part-time Finance & Administration Assistant / Arts Catalyst / Yorkshire

  06-04-2021 16:44
  Arts Catalyst is looking for a Finance & Administration Assistant to work with us on a part-time basis, during an exciting, evolutionary period for the organisation. 
  Arts Catalyst is...
  
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• Deputy Head of Lighting / Young Vic / London

  06-04-2021 16:41
  The Young Vic is looking for a Deputy Head of Lighting to join our Production department.
  A registered charity and theatrical powerhouse, the Young Vic is synonymous with inclusivity, accessibility...
  
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• Project Manager / Troubadour Theatres / London

  06-04-2021 16:40
  Troubadour Theatres is a company specialising in large-scale pop-up film studios, theatre and event venues in London with plans to expand throughout the UK and worldwide. These venues house major...
  
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• Art Handler Technician / Cox Workshops Ltd / London

  06-04-2021 16:40
  Role: Art Handler Technician
  Company: Cox London
  Salary: 23k – 27k
  Location: London N17
  Hours: 40 hrs per week
  At Cox London we design and fabricate individual pieces and...
  
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• Nonclassical Associate Composers Scheme 2021-22 / Nonclassical / London / Nationwide

  06-04-2021 16:37
  ARE YOU A COMPOSER LOOKING TO TAKE THE NEXT STEP IN YOUR CAREER?
  Our Associate Composers Scheme supports the artistic development of unsigned and unpublished composers, who are creating exciting new...
  
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