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A bittersweet announcement was made by experimental arts organisation Forest Fringe, who will no longer run a venue at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and will instead run a monthly arts club at Somerset House to help develop future projects.
A statement published on their website says the new project could be a film, a new venue or possibly even the beginning of a new political party.
The Nursery Theatre ran a hugely successful crowdfunding campaign to open a new improv theatre space, which opened this month in Broadgate. The team have recently announced that applications for their new Autumn project Nursery Originals are open.
Chris Mead, Co-Artistic Director says:
The Almeida Theatre have an exciting opportunity to join our Marketing Department as an intern for a six month period. You will work with the full team and across a range of marketing functions, including working with databases and social media.
This internship will appeal to you if you have an enthusiasm for theatre and an interest in developing your skills in arts marketing and audience development. We are looking for someone who is friendly and approachable and with a keen eye for detail.
Dead Ink Books is crowdfunding for Know Your Place - a collection of essays about the working class, written by the working class.
Edinburgh International Festival is launching a mentorship scheme for emerging cultural leaders.
Celebrating the festival’s 70th anniversary, the scheme will allow successful applicants to work with festival director Fergus Linehan and managing director Joanna Baker to gain first-hand experience of running EIF.
Almeida Theatre are recruiting for a Press & Media Relations Manager to join their Marketing & Communications team. They are looking for a dynamic individual to manage the theatre’s significant relationships with the media, further establishing the Almeida as a key cultural organisation, shaping their public narrative locally and internationally, and supporting the marketing strategy in delivering sales and audience development objectives.
Further Information: almeida.co.uk
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London-based American composer Ebe Oke is crowdfunding his next EP, the product of years of research and recording. The record is a study of the ways in which different animals communicate, with a particular focus on the musicality of birds and insects. Through this microcosm, Oke’s work interrogates the urban experience, gender, sexuality, and what it is to be human.
WHAT IS THE UNIVERSITY OF THE UNDERGROUND?
With the aim of teaching students how to engineer situations, to design experiences and events, to best support social dreaming, social actions and power shifts within institutions, companies and governments; the University of the Underground promotes unconventional collages of references, interdisciplinary practices and experimentations at the start of any creative processes.
