I had to drag myself out of bed (Manasse is getting far too boisterous lately) and into the office this morning, there to find an e-mail waiting for me in my inbox, and now I'm off to London for the weekend: SQUEEEEE!!!!
My artist friend Anneke has made it to the finalists of the 'international jewish artist of the year award' with her video 'Kreplach' -- the work of all 27 finalists can be seen in the Ben Uri Gallery in St. John's Wood from...next week, I suppose (so if you're at a bit of a loose end and you're in the neighbourhood...by all means, drop in!) -- and the private viewing is being held there this Sunday evening, so I'm going! Booked my plane for Saturday morning, back Monday night...Ah! something to look forward to, at last!
And, I've also found quite an interesting job opening at the NGO Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) in The Hague, which sounds like it might be perfect for me...or will be once I've finished re-writing my cv to suit it ;-). It will involve travel to New York on a regular basis...
My artist friend Anneke has made it to the finalists of the 'international jewish artist of the year award' with her video 'Kreplach' -- the work of all 27 finalists can be seen in the Ben Uri Gallery in St. John's Wood from...next week, I suppose (so if you're at a bit of a loose end and you're in the neighbourhood...by all means, drop in!) -- and the private viewing is being held there this Sunday evening, so I'm going! Booked my plane for Saturday morning, back Monday night...Ah! something to look forward to, at last!
And, I've also found quite an interesting job opening at the NGO Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) in The Hague, which sounds like it might be perfect for me...or will be once I've finished re-writing my cv to suit it ;-). It will involve travel to New York on a regular basis...
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I believe there's actually quite an interesting exhibition of (what's left of) Charles Saatchi's collection of modern art on in the Tate at the moment; I may be able to fit that into my schedule somehow.
And, provided shabbos ends early on Sunday, and Anneke hasn't seen it yet, perhaps I can persuade her to go see Fahrenheit 9/11 with me. I'm sure it must be in circulation in London already...
And have fun this weekend. Art shows and a movie with friends sounds great.
And I will keep my fingers crossed about the CICC position - hope it pans out. Of course, the part about It will involve travel to New York on a regular basis... caught my eye right off the bat! Whoo hoo!
Well, of course that was the part that swung it for me! Starbucks, here I come! ;-)
But seriously, I think I could do this job, which involves the supporting of "projects and activities of the CICC through general programme administration and coordination", as well as "producing and distributing newsletters", "developing and maintaining communication with relevant NGOs"; and a bunch of other stuff that requires a lot of organisational skills...which will be fine as long as 'ordered chaos' is a style my prospective employer will feel comfortable with. They ask that whoever applies for the position has a certain affinity with the goals of the CICC and motivation to work in the non-profit sector; a good command of English and Dutch; political sensitivity and basic computer skills.
They do, however, seem to require no less than three references...and I'd be hard put to think of one (Jobsworth's certainly not going to give me a glowing report as it's in his best interest to keep me here). Oh well, I've got a couple of days still to think of some ;-)
So - are you all booked up for this trip? Any free time on Monday?
Any free time on Monday?
Why? You want to come up?
Actually, I'll probably be doing the museum run or something equally culturally inspired/inspiring with Anneke; it would be great if you could join us -- or we could just go shopping or something...Give me your number and I'll give you a call on Sunday!