Experience: I put on the world’s first deaf rave for deaf ravers like me

A new theatre for Hull ⚡ Read our latest update on what's happening in our new space on Humber Street and our ambition to make it the most influential new writing theatre outside of London: www.middlechildtheatre.co.uk/blog/new-the...

Work with us! ⚡ We are looking for a lighting designer, sound designer and stage manager to join the team on the first show in our new space: www.middlechildtheatre.co.uk/news/call-ou...

We are looking to cast three roles in our 2026 production of Isabelle by Marc Graham, the first show in our new theatre space in Hull. Find out more: www.middlechildtheatre.co.uk/news/casting...

Applications are open for the Introduction to Dramatherapy Short Course at Queen Margaret University @qmuniversity.bsky.social buff.ly/YXdIxb5 (deadline - 3 Oct 2025)

So true. Lying in bed after a week of making babies and their parents/grandparents happy with our show Baby, Bird and Bee - I’m very tired but very happy 😊

In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich." A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."

New episode with Mark Stewart on supporting left-handed children! Learn early signs, proper tools, and classroom adjustments that help left-handed children thrive www.earlyyears.tv/episode/m...

The theatre company 7:84 would now be called 1:70!!!!

Welsh born textile artist and knitwear designer Kate Jenkins creates fun crochet/knit creations #WomensArt

New blog: A Look Inside the New Connections Programme ✨ Do it Now Now , the Learning Partner for our New Connections Programme, has shared a new blog exploring the challenges smaller, community-led organisations face in accessing funding. 👉 Read more: www.doitnownow.com/news/feature...

"If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!" -Lewis Carroll

I think it won't hit people for a long time what it a gift it is to have Bowie's archive on permanent free display at the V&A. I went to the travelling exhibit three times. Not just because I love him, because it's like being inside his brain. It throws down a challenge for every artist.

News from Finland. A 9-year-old lost an especially good stick he’d had since he was 2. He hung up 20 posters. A few days later it was returned. It had been found by a 2-year-old, who wanted to keep it for herself, but her mother made her return it. She got toys, flowers and candy as a reward.

Read Amanda Burton Smith's fourth blog in which she discusses her childhood fascination with ponds and her interest in finding out more about how schools can use ponds safely to enable children to observe and care for pond life in what could be termed, ‘pond pedagogy’. bit.ly/4kxAdLV #Froebel

Is it wrong to throw a birthday party for my dog? | Frances Ryan

Anna-Maria Schipper Vermeiren, contemporary quilt artist of Haaften, The Netherlands #UnravellingWomensArt

If you are new to teaching people with profound & multiple learning disabilities check out this playlist youtu.be/AauXGqL0xYE (Just three films at time of posting currently but growing all the while). 3 ifs: If you know someone who is new to this role, or a similar role please share it with them.

If only my darling mum had lived long enough to benefit from this treatment 🥲

Book Review: the best account of the Holocaust I’ve read – a true story of a boy and his dad and how they survived six years in Nazi concentration camps – written in this page turner for children www.harrymottram.co.uk/2025/08/25/b...

Hey, as a librarian I have to tell you You don't have to finish a book that doesn't interest you. Life's too short for that. Not your jam? You have my permission to move on to the next book.

Love this 🩵 @wintersonworld.bsky.social

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

I’m 60 but I’m still not sure if I’m an adult!!! 🤣🤣🤣

#booksky #writingcommunity

Sounds about right to me!

Karen Risby, UK artist creates contemporary ceramic sculpture, wall hangings and porcelain accessories #WomensArt

“Theatre for children is too often seen by the rest of the sector as something lesser, its artists somehow less creative than those who make work for adults. What rot.” Well said, @lyngardnertheatre.bsky.social www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/chil...

Plaque and memorial garden to mark scandal of Britain’s forced adoptions

Happy 75th Birthday, Stevie Wonder. 🎉 To celebrate, here is a list of the soul visionary's best 50 songs

‘New York, ice cream, TV, travel, good times. Norman Wisdom, Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee, good times… These are the things These are the things The things that dreams are made of…’ youtu.be/hwW0pUr-Yv0?...

Teenage Kicks, from the re-release of the Undertones' original debut album which was released on this day in 1979 Undertones - Teenage Kicks - TOTP 1978 #punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #theundertones #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Plaque and memorial garden to mark scandal of Britain’s forced adoptions

Sing with your baby! Research suggests that infants are drawn to singing - with the varying high and low pitches engaging their brains longer and more fully than speech alone. You don’t have to be an American Idol winner for your baby to love it. 🧵

Looking for something to do with your baby this Fri & Sat? Come & relax in #Float 's shimmering world for babies at #Paisley Arts Centre ⏰ No need to arrive at 10am 🎭The show works around you & your baby 💫You are free to come & go as you need during the show 🎟starcatchers.org.uk/work/float

Bjork performing "Army of Me" with Skunk Anansie on Top of the Pops (1995)

I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room.

Jean Marsh has died at the age of 90. Brian Shuel's 1961 photograph of the actor hangs in London's National Portrait Gallery and is one of the most striking images in the collection

One week left if you fancy it www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/cym...

Jean Marsh, co-creator of 1970s TV hit Upstairs, Downstairs, dies at 90

My all-time favourite hamster-themed expression is, of course, the Swedish version of “a few sandwiches short of a picnic” that goes hjulet snurrar men hamstern är död. It means “the wheel is spinning but the hamster is dead” * which, btw, is also the title of my last book...

Meanings of words for a hamster from eight other languages… 8. Cuddle mouse (Afrikaans) 7. Storehouse mouse (Mandarin) 6. Grain piglet (old Swabian German) 5. Earth wolf (Silesian) 4. Squawker (old Polish) 3. One who snores (Serbian) 2. Fat cheeks (Welsh) 1. Screeching rat (Turkish)

The work of Maud Lewis, (1903 – 1970), Canadian folk artist from Nova Scotia #WomensArt #Spring

And an article from me and #TheatrIolo about making baby theatre with them and at #PolkaTheatre and #UnicornTheatre #BabyTheatre

👂 Are they listening? Help shape the future for babies, children & young people in Wales! Tell us what matters most—your views will help create the Children’s Manifesto for #Senedd2026. 📢 Have your say: bit.ly/3XJfITV #ChildrenInWales #SeneddElections2026

Articles in English & Welsh in @childreninwales.org.uk magazine about making theatre for babies & particularly #polkaTheatre #UnicornTheatre & #TheatrIolo - Baby, Bird & Bee/Babi, Aderyn a’r Wenynen issuu.com/childreninwa...

My first train journey later today using my Senior Railcard. I feel old! 🥴 … I am old! 🤣

Spanish artist Raquel Rodrigo from Valencia creates cross-stitching street art #WomensArt

´Fucketyfucketyfuckfuckfuck' by Annie Taylor from PEG - Profanity Embroidery Group, Whitstable, UK, known for their stitching and swearing #womensart