Job: Digital Communications Assistant, Siobhan Davies Dance
Paid Internship, Fixed Term – 12 months
Deadline for applications is Thursday 17 May at 10am
Mens Exploratory Workshop: Anton Mirto’s The Army - We Want You!
Exploratory Workshop
Sunday May 13th 2018: 6.30-8.45pm, Central London
Booking / Info: email Anton A2company@hotmail.com
Artist Anton Mirto is looking for men with a background/interest in experimental movement to begin exploratory research sessions for a 3rd new version of an ongoing empowering work/practice called: The Army
Mixcloud Online Radio Awards
The 2018 Mixcloud Online Radio Awards are now officially open for submissions. The deadline to submit your nominations is Thursday 26 April and the shortlists will be announced on Thursday 10 May.
More info here: mora.fm
Now in its fifth year, the Mixcloud Online Radio Awards is the biggest celebration of online radio in the world. Their mission is to celebrate the very best independent online radio and to provide an essential platform for presenters, DJs, stations and Podcasters.
Have your say - Draft Culture Strategy for London
More info: london.gov.uk
The Mayor has made culture and the creative industries one of his top priorities. He has set out his policies and commitments for culture and invites all Londoners to support him in the development and delivery of his ambitions for culture in the capital.
The consultation is open until 19 June 2018.
Notice: Culture Seeds. Funding available.
More information here: london.gov.uk
Michel Hazanavicius: Redoubtable
IN CINEMAS MAY 11 2018.
Award-Winning Director of The Artist, Michel Hazanvicius presents a biographical tale of the world’s most iconic filmmaker - the revolutionary director Jean-Luc Godard.
Paris 1967. Jean-Luc Godard, the leading filmmaker of his generation, is shooting La Chinoise with the woman he loves, Anne Wiazemsky, 20 years his junior. They are happy, attractive, in love. They marry. But the film’s reception unleashes a profound self-examination in Jean-Luc. The events of May ’68 will amplify this process, and the crisis that shakes the filmmaker.
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights
Juno Mac and Molly Smith have announced their forthcoming book: 'Revolting prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights' will be published by Verso later this year.
"How the law harms sex workers—and what they want instead.
Former Refugee Ocean Vuong Wins the £25,000 T S Eliot Prize For Poetry
Vietnamese American writer Vuong was presented with a cheque for £25,000 at the ceremony at the Wallace Collection in central London on the 15th of January) for Night Sky With Exit Wounds.
Bill Herbert, chair of the judges, described Vuong as a “significant voice” and his collection as dealing “with the aftermath of war and migration over three generations”. “It is a compellingly assured debut, the definitive arrival of a significant voice,” Herbert said.
Doctor Who Composer Delia Derbyshire Receives Posthumous Honorary PHD
Delia Derbyshire, a key member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, has posthumously received an honorary doctorate from Conventry University. Derbyshire was born in Conventry in 1937 and later attended Cambridge University for math and music with the aid of a scholarship. It was in 1962 that she created the Doctor Who theme from a written score by Ron Grainer, though due to BBC policies and the male-dominated industry, she was not giving a writing credit on the song.