ON METROMIX.COM: The Hard Lessons play Arts, Beats & Eats and Encore Friday night (Detroit Free Press) Touring six months out of the year and covering the country with more than 600 shows since their debut, it's a safe bet to say that the Hard Lessons are the hardest working band in town. And now the trio is set to perform a Pontiac doubleheader Friday night at the Chrysler Arts, Beats & Eats festival and the Encore after party. |
Fairfax staff to strike over job cuts (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) says journalists at several Fairfax newspapers, including the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the Australian Financial Review have agreed to go on strike until Monday. |
Union to talk job cuts with Fairfax (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) The Media, Arts and Entertainment Alliance (MEAA) will hold talks with Fairfax Media today over plans to cut 550 jobs. |
Summer Arts Safari next week (Crookston Daily Times) For the eighth year, the touring children's theater program Summer Arts Safari will be working with kids in Crookston the week of Ox Cart Days. After presenting a fun-filled week's worth of workshops and rehearsals, the troupe and the children will present "Tom Sawyer" in a public performance on Saturday, Aug. 16. |
Clothesline Fair to feature handcrafted items, entertainment (NWAnews.com) Part of Jennifer Pease’s job is to ensure handmade wares are featured at the arts and crafts show during the Clothesline Fair in Prairie Grove. (Northwest Arkansas Times) |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe director quits after sales drop (The Herald) The director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe today announced he is to step down. Jon Morgan, who has been in the role just over a year, leaves the job only days after it was revealed ticket sales for the arts festival dropped 10% this year. |
Firehouse Center for the Arts director resigns (The Daily News of Newburyport) NEWBURYPORT and mdash; After serving for 2 and not;½ years as executive director of the Firehouse Center for the Arts, Greg Smith officially gave his resignation yesterday, saying an exceptional job opportunity had presented itself out West and he had decided to accept it and relocate. |
Arts center restarts search for director (Lawrence Journal-World) The Lawrence Arts Center has reopened its search for an executive director. Dan Sabatini, the architect chairing the search committee, said this week that negotiations had ended with the lone finalist for the position and that the committee again was accepting applications. |
Education Diary: Bichard takes over as director of Institute of Government (Independent) Sir Michael Bichard, who has had a long and illustrious career in the public sector as permanent secretary of first the Employment Department and then the Department for Education and Employment as was, has retired from the top job at the University of the Arts London. But he isn't striding off to spend the rest of his life on the golf course. Oh, no. Next month he takes over as director of a ... |
Nigeria: AFAC - Arts And Crafts Journeying Towards Wealth Creation (AllAfrica.com) THE commitment of the present leadership of the Federal Ministry of Culture and Tourism under the ministerial leadership of Prince Adetokunbo Kayode to keying the activities of the ministry into that aspect of Federal Government's seven- point agenda that has to do with employment and job creation, received further boost early last week as the National Council for Arts and Culture, NCAC at the ... |