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• Training Development Manager / Artswork Ltd / South East

  06-12-2019 16:45
  Artswork empowers children and young people through arts and culture to find their voice, become skilled leaders and achieve their aspirations. We are now looking to appoint a Training Development...
  
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• How Has India Managed To Develop Over 100 Litarary Festivals?

  10-02-2026 21:01 via theguardian.com
  “The answer is that festivals in India are only partly about books. They are a ‘spectacle’ offering music, dance, handicraft sales and food. Even the T.rex of them all, the Jaipur literature festival (which attracted 400,000 visitors last month according to its marketing team), would almost certainly attract fewer people without these extras.” – The Guardian
  
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• Can English National Opera’s New Leader Revive The Company’s Fortunes?

  10-02-2026 20:31 via theguardian.com
  “I like this construction of London and Manchester,” he tells me, at the Coliseum. “And I like the spirit of pioneering, of becoming an opera company in a city that previously hasn’t had a resident opera company.” – The Guardian
  
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• American Tap Dance Meets Indian Kathak — And The Rhythms And Sparks Fly

  10-02-2026 20:03 via nytimes.com
  “In Speak, American tap dancers collaborate with their counterparts in kathak, a classical Indian percussive dance form. While these genres have been crossed before, rarely have the participants been such masters of their art.” – The New York Times
  
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• If I Can Write A Novel In A Day With AI And It Takes You Six Months, Who Wins?

  10-02-2026 19:44 via gizmodo.com
  Through Hart’s teaching business, Plot Prose, she’s working on a proprietary piece of software that can “generate a book based on an outline in less than an hour, and costs between $80 and $250 a month.” – Gizmodo
  
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• Report: Enrollment At Australian Art Schools Has Plummeted

  10-02-2026 19:31 via theguardian.com
  New research published in the Australian Journal of Education this week found fewer students in high school and university were choosing to study the creative arts. At the same time, it found, dozens of tertiary courses were being slashed. – The Guardian
  
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• A Campaign To Prohibit UK Police From Using Lyrics As Evidence In Court

  10-02-2026 19:15 via theguardian.com
  Campaign groups want a change to the victims and courts bill, which is currently making its way through parliament, to stop police from being able to present lyrics as evidence except when they are “literal, rather than figurative or fictional”. – The Guardian
  
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• Master Cinematographer Roger Deakins On His Half-Century Behind The Camera

  10-02-2026 19:04 via theguardian.com
  “Deakins – cinematographer to the Coen brothers, Martin Scorsese and Sam Mendes, whose work has earned him 14 Oscar nominations and two wins, five BAFTAs, a knighthood and a reputation for being the greatest practitioner of his craft alive – is struggling to explain just exactly what he does.” – The Guardian
  
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• The Enormous Power Of Small Book Shops

  10-02-2026 18:44 via lithub.com
  How, against all odds, has City Lights managed to remain a vital symbol of literary dissent and free speech? How, after more than seventy years, has City Lights survived economic and industry changes? How, decade after decade, has it managed to respond to the forces that threaten to silence us? – LitHub
  
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• Hollywood Unions Begin New Contract Negotiations

  10-02-2026 18:34 via nytimes.com
  The sides will be negotiating in a Hollywood far different from 2023. Production has slowed significantly industrywide, as many entertainment companies struggle to adjust to the streaming world. Work has dried up for many actors, writers and directors. At the same time, the rise of generative artificial intelligence has become more central. – The New York Times
  
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• Indians Don’t Buy Books. So Why Do They Have So Many Literary Festivals?

  10-02-2026 18:15 via theguardian.com
  If most middle-class homes are devoid of book– if you can sit in an airport departure lounge or train all day and not see anyone reading–then why, come winter, do more than 100 literature festivals bloom every year, even in the smallest and unlikeliest of towns? – The Guardian
  
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• Letterboxd Has Become For Movie Fans What GoodReads Was (At Its Best) For Lit Lovers

  10-02-2026 18:02 via nytimes.com
  “Browsing Letterboxd, you find an eclectic range of tastes, tones and approaches to movie-watching, a buffet of high and low, mainstream and esoterica. … If Rotten Tomatoes has become a tool of Hollywood’s homogenizing marketing machinery, Letterboxd is something else: a cinephilic hive buzzing with authentic enthusiasm and heterogeneous tastes.” – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• AI Is Working on It

  10-02-2026 17:54 via artsjournal.com
  <a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2026/02/ai-is-working-on-it.html" title="AI Is Working on It” rel=”nofollow”>Do you remember January 6?
  
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• A Worldwide Shortage Of Tenors?

  10-02-2026 17:44 via economist.com
  When men do join singing groups, they often avoid the tenor section. The tenor voice is “a cultivated sound”, says John Potter, author of a book on the subject. A man with no vocal training is more likely to have the range of a baritone (a high bass). – The Economist
  
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• Report: Canadian Artists Have Multiple Jobs

  10-02-2026 17:31 via statsinsights.hillstrategies.com
  One in every 10 employees in the arts, culture, and heritage had multiple jobs in 2025, compared with just 5.6% of all Canadian employees. In other words, the multiple job holding rate is 77% higher in the arts, culture, and heritage than for other workers. – Statistical Insights on the Arts
  
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• We’re Not Ready For The Ways AI Will Disrupt Jobs

  10-02-2026 17:15 via theatlantic.com
  The immediate risk to employment may not be AI itself, but the way companies, seduced by its promise, overinvest before they understand what it can actually do. – The Atlantic
  
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• After $41 Million Renovation, San Francisco’s Castro Theater Reopens As Performing Arts Center

  10-02-2026 17:07 via yahoo.com
  “It was as if nothing had changed about the historic Castro district landmark. Except that nearly everything has.” The new removable chairs and flattened floor with motorized risers were quite controversial, but they make the theater usable for stage performances and concerts as well as film screenings. – San Francisco Chronicle (Yahoo!)
  
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• Broadway Musical Fans Are Recreating Favorite Dance Numbers On TikTok

  10-02-2026 16:35 via nytimes.com
  “These content creators are not just copycats; they are attempting and sometimes mastering the complicated dance moves and distinctive performances of shows they may never see live, let alone be cast in. Sharing the result with the world, they are making TikTok a theater of their own.” – The New York Times
  
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• Antiquities-Trafficking Prosecutor Wins Art History Award

  10-02-2026 16:03 via artnews.com
  Matthew Bogdanos, founder and chief of the Antiquities Trafficking Unit in the New York District Attorney’s office, has been awarded the Marica Vilcek Prize in Art History, which is usually given to curators or scholars and includes a $100,000 purse. – ARTnews
  
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• Three Sexual Assault Lawsuits Against Author Neal Gaiman Are Dismissed

  10-02-2026 15:36 via apnews.com
  “Scarlett Pavlovich filed a lawsuit against Gaiman and his wife, Amanda Palmer, in Wisconsin in February 2025, accusing Gaiman of multiple sexual assaults while she worked as the family’s nanny in 2022. She filed lawsuits against Palmer in Massachusetts and in New York on the same day she filed the Wisconsin action.” – AP
  
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• Philadelphia Museum Of Art’s Chief Of Staff And CFO Resign

  10-02-2026 15:04 via msn.com
  “Maggie Fairs, who was promoted to chief of staff last year by former director and CEO Sasha Suda, will leave the museum at the end of the month. CFO Valarie McDuffie has also resigned, with her last day this Friday. Previously, the museum parted ways with its marketing chief Paul Dien.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• Troubled San Antonio Philharmonic Loses Its Music Director

  10-02-2026 14:32 via sacurrent.com
  “The departure of the respected conductor, pianist and educator (Jeffrey Kahane) comes as the orchestra, formed from the ashes of the San Antonio Symphony, finds itself without a regular place to perform and has canceled at least four set of concerts dates since December.” – San Antonio Current
  
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• Buffalo’s Classical Radio Station Plans To Go Commercial

  10-02-2026 14:00 via current.org
  “Buffalo Toronto Public Media has filed an application with the FCC to convert WNED-FM to commercial status, a move which would allow it to sell advertising on the classical station. The application, filed Jan. 30, is part of BTPM’s efforts to diversify its revenue streams following the loss of its (federal) funding.” – Current
  
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• “& Juliet” — How A Jukebox Shakespeare Musical That Flopped In Britain Became An Unlikely Broadway Hit

  06-02-2026 20:01 via variety.com
  “Today, (after almost four years in New York,) the musical is still packing in crowds, a feat for a show that isn’t a revival or a movie adaptation and lacks big stars or Tony wins. It’s … one of only four new musicals since the pandemic to recoup their investments.” – Variety
  
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• San Francisco’s Top Arts Official Retires As Mayor Rethinks Arts Policy

  06-02-2026 19:44 via yahoo.com
  The exit, announced Monday, Feb. 2, comes just days after Mayor Daniel Lurie posted a job description for an executive director of arts and culture to oversee all three of the city’s arts agencies, which includes Grants for the Arts and the Film Commission, in addition to SFAC. – San Francisco Chronicle (Yahoo)
  
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• What Trump’s Kennedy Center Fiasco Shows Us Abut MAGA’s Culture Wars

  06-02-2026 19:31 via salon.com
  What’s even fascinating is what this whole debacle tells us about the MAGA movement as a whole, and how Trump is the perfect symbol for their failed culture war aspirations. – Salon
  
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• Whitewashing History In Philadelphia

  06-02-2026 19:15 via nytimes.com
  To many Philadelphians who having been coming daily ever since to leave protest messages, it felt like an attack on a hard-won monument, and even on the city itself. Within hours of the removal, the city filed a lawsuit in federal court contesting it. – The New York Times
  
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• Pianist And Conductor Tamás Vásáry Has Died At 92

  06-02-2026 19:02 via yahoo.com
  “The Hungarian pianist … was one of the finest interpreters of Liszt and Chopin in the second half of the 20th century. He also achieved renown as a sensitive and insightful conductor, eventually combining both roles to direct many of the world’s leading orchestras … from the keyboard.” – The Telegraph (UK) (Yahoo!)
  
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• We Think Cooperation Is The Ideal. In Fact A little Deceit Might Be Good

  06-02-2026 18:44 via aeon.co
  We evolved not to cooperate or compete, but with the capacity for both – and with the intelligence to hide competition when it suits us, or to cheat when we’re likely to get away with it. Cooperation is consequently something we need to promote, not presume. – Aeon
  
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• Reimagining Shakespeare In Shanghai

  06-02-2026 18:31 via nytimes.com
  Instead of Venice and Cyprus, Shakespeare’s setting for “Othello,” the Shanghai version takes place on an island at the mouth of the Yangtze River, where an American has been hired to help fight the Taiping rebellion, a bloody revolt in the 19th century. – The New York Times
  
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