Ready for Lucia at Opera Holland Park

🎾 Did you know that Wimbledon started as a fundraiser? The first competition was held as a fundraiser for a new pony roller (to keep the grass flat) in 1877 with each competitor paying 1 guinea to enter. It was successful making £10. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZGj...

Grange Park Opera adventures

Matinee day

Itch @operahollandpark.bsky.social fantastic performance by the young artists

Ready for some fun

Siena exhibition at the National Gallery

Time for some local opera

‘Ben and Imo’ was brilliant at the @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social last night. Super to take supporters, meet the playwright and learn more about the creation of ‘Gloriana’

May Day Morris Dancers

Stroll down the red carpet for the glamorous opening night of The Great Gatsby

There’s a deer in my garden

View from here

Animal wall at Cardiff Castle & the cat poking out of the cat flap Today is #NationalPetDay so a celebration of some fundraising history using animals from parrots making the ask to escaping pigs & cockroaches for your ex animals grab our attention & can help our fundraising marinajones.uk/animals/

Sunny Cardiff for some Britten

Time to defy gravity …

Fantastic way to celebrate #WorldTheatreDay with ‘Playhouse Creature’ at @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social

Daffodils

A poem about giving for #WorldPoetryDay

Delighted to have been a guest on @rhodridavies.bsky.social Philanthropisms podcast & talk about fundraising history

For Godot fans .. ‘Waiting for Waiting for Godot’ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Margery Booth – opera singer & spy Born in Wigan in 1905, trained at Guildhall School of Music & sang at Covent Garden, Bayreuth & others. She was contracted to Berlin Opera House and sang there during the WW2 but worked as a spy for the British and even sang for Adolf Hitler

If you go down to Leicester Square today …

‘a source of radiance in the orchestra’ said Leonard Bernstein when appointing Orin O’Brien to the New York Phil in 1966 Great short Oscar winning documentary on her life and trail blazing career

‘There’s a funny little basin you’re supposed to wash your face in’ Caledonian Sleeper adventures with 1,000+miles of trains and highland adventures

Extremely moving to see a standing ovation in the sold-out 2,358-seat London Coliseum for the 96-year-old Thea Musgrave after a thrillingly committed performance of her 1977 opera Mary, Queen of Scots. First-rate cast at English National Opera led by knockout performance from fearless Heidi Stober.

And what a night at the opera. Amazing singing, performances, drama & orchestration. And to have the composer with us this week has been a joy & delight

Mary, Queen of Scots at ENO tonight. A London premiere and wonderful to have the composer Thea Musgrave in the audience. A sprightly 96!

Ready for ‘Mary, Queen of Scots’

Bravo @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social brilliant opening night of ‘Churchill in Moscow’

Composer Thea Musgrave — ‘I’m over 90. I’ll write whatever I want’ - The Times and The Sunday Times

Lunch starting well …

Ready for more Pirates

👀 Here's your first look at CHURCHILL IN MOSCOW in rehearsals - starring @all-allam.bsky.social as Churchill and Peter Forbes as Stalin. 📅 3 Feb - 8 Mar 🎟️ FRIDAY RUSH: Each Friday at midday, a limited number of tickets will be released for the performances in the following week. 📸 Tristram Kenton

Just singing on the stage at the London Coliseum - Gilbert & Sullivan sing a long with our lovely supporters

Ready for Bialystock & Bloom

Well done team @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social 👏👏👏

Walk with the deer this morning in Knole Park

Up in Gateshead for DCMS Creative Industries Growth Summit

Monet’s House of parliament (and all the London paintings) this morning and then the real thing for a meeting at lunchtime

Great to share this blog on the state of arts and cultural legacy fundraising

Twelfth night @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social

Twelfth Night So final outing for the opera Christmas crossword

Looking forward to seeing this next week

Cards against humanity … Godot version