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The University of Manchester's MA in Arts Management, Policy and Practice is recruiting for its 2010 intake.

This vocational programme is designed for those wanting to develop their career in the arts and cultural sector. Through its balance of practical and theoretical content, the course has been designed to prepare graduates as managers and policy-makers, leaders and producers in a variety of branches of the arts, cultural and creative industries.

Project Worker
Cumbria Paid
Closes 18 Jan 2010

Lanternhouse International seeks an experienced Project Worker to work on an exciting young-person-led project.

The role will involve working closely with film makers/animators and Lanternhouse team, co-ordinating all aspects of the project including recruitment, mentoring of young people, application of health and safety and child protection legislation, reporting, evaluation, monitoring and promotion.

Interesting new online project:

http://turbulence.org/Works/stalkingsocial/statusgrabber/

The post lasts for a period of 9 months, starting at the beginning of January 2010. The post-holder will be an artist/creative technologist applying their knowledge and understanding as a practitioner to generate new opportunities for practitioners in the form of ! clinics, workshops and commissions across North Wales.

Salary: £10,700 on a freelance basis

Location: Glyndŵr University office at Technium CAST (Centre for Advanced Software Technology), Bangor

CREATIVITYWORKS  Opportunity

If you have experience in the visual arts, are well organised, experienced at applying for funding and can negotiate between and co-ordinate a group of diverse organisations, individuals and local authorities to work towards a collective plan then you're who we're looking for!

http://www.http.uk.net/diwodarkmountain

"A Mail-Art project across physical and digital networks towards an open exhibition at HTTP Gallery.

We live in a time of social, economic and ecological unravelling. All around us are signs that our whole way of living is already passing into history.- Uncivilisation, The Dark Mountain Manifesto.

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Interesting approach to informal get-together/share/work events, for people who work from home. Space in London have started hosting Jelly events, of which there are apparently over 100 worldwide.

Surprisingly positive findings from a survey into creative graduates' careers here from the Institute for Employment Studies.

Some key points:

Really sorry to have missed this at AND over the weekend. Not being much of a film-person, this was the element of the festival's extensive film programme (although interestingly it was listed as an "event" rather than a "screening" in the brochure/website), that I would have been most interested in, with the focus on community engagement, shared memories and experience.
 
www.asmallcinema.co.uk
 

As part of AND, four artists were commissioned to create new online work in a programme called From Now On This Blog Is Going To Be