Really brilliant, clever and smart work. Skilled, crafted, confrontational! That’s more like it! 👏👏👏👏 #tamboandbones

Cannot wait for this! Got front row centre circle seats for this! Very very excited!!!! Can’t wait for a theatre refreshment!

When you’ve been developing a piece for two years but are a tiny company and some much bigger fully funded company announces the exact same show way before you! Gutted!

An excellent blog about the impossible position people are in.

This is so frightening. It’s so terrifying that someone can leap to such a level of violence. We are not safe.

Caught Tones @lowrytheatre last night. Still thinking about it this morning but it’s a charming gem of a play. Catch it if you can!

I'm really looking forward to this MASSIVE event in Leeds in April. I'll be talking about #Botheredness as a vehicle of positive disruption! All the details here: www.thenextdecade.co.uk Hurry! @vicgoddard.bsky.social @positiveregard.bsky.social @markfinnis.bsky.social @davewhitaker.bsky.social

The mighty @ezracollective.bsky.social championing youth workers and youth clubs and the other artists begging for help for grassroots music venues 👍👍👍

BBC reporting that yesterday was a shouting “match”. Only one was shouting. The aggressor. And fuck suits. Suits are visual images of the dominant power.

Please sign to save this much needed community space. www.change.org/p/save-l8-ca...

Can’t tell you the amount of work this has taken! Hugely grateful for the organisations who understand and value children’s lived experiences! There are so many wonderful people trying to make change for children, families and those in prison.

Some us tanked him when we heard about his treatment of women. But hey ho. Money talks!

I once received some terrorist training at a teaching establishment. The training told us to show a picture of a cat, specifically a cat, at a door to our colleague teaching and then they would know there was an attack but the kids wouldn’t. I often wonder how much they got paid for that training.

Doechii, Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, Beyonce, Billy Eilish, Charlie XCX and on and on and on. The women are lighting up the stages at the moment and instead of adoring boy bands my girl gets her pick of amazing women to be role models! Loving this musical era 💪🏻❤️💃👑

Doechii the ICON you are

The #grammys is a brilliant list of amazing women!

Marianne Faithfull

You work changes lives. Youth workers change lives. Find the youth services. Bring them back as a place of safety and sanctuary for children.

My dad made me a feminist. He made me believe I could do anything. The world told me differently. I chose to believe my dad.

The total cruelty that is making free lancers pay last years tax and payment for the following year in January when December is a wash out for so many people. I am getting too old for this shit now.

One PE top and one skirt. From a state school. Absolutely fuming!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/... in world run by crazy kings look for the queens 👏

No one? Just me balding slowly in my own 😭

Ok women what are you using for menopausal hair loss? It’s so bad and it’s getting progressively worse ! Give me your recommendations based on your experience please! #menopause #hairloss #product #sadface

Invites are out! Thanks to all who applied and your passion for the project. Keep an eye on socials for future opps x

In January 2021, during the third national lockdown, I pulled into this deserted pub car park to turn the van round and found a lamppost and a bin engaged in lively conversation while they thought no one was looking. Incredible.

Theatre hive: does anyone rem the name of a play around fiveish years old, I think European , with around six young girls and a silent male body builder on stage? Scenes of red riding hood, screaming and marriage. I can’t rem the name of this genius work!

I used to sit on the sofa huddled, terrified in my dad’s arms while he laughed at me and said he didn’t understand why I would watch something if it scared me. We watched every episode hugging. This news made me sad. Culture is so tied up with memories.

“People end up in prison for all sorts of reasons. Who they hang around with, where they grow up. And some just make a mistake. Not all people who go to prison are bad people.” The words of the kids we interviewed for 8 Hours hits so hard as we watch #24HoursinPoliceCustody. Poor family.

This was a heavy weight tonight. A trust that the simplicity of a lost cat, left behind toys and luggage held on a lap would be utterly devastating. To see the images anew, to sit in the longest applause ever was very special. War is shit.

Trying to explain to my kids that we are the first generation of parents who have had to battle with raising screen time kids in such a way. We are making it up! It’s not the same as the one tv with three channels in a living room. don’t think there’s enough support or acknowledgement of this 😳

Actual gold dust for teachers, educators and drama practitioners!!!!!

Honoured to be featured alongside other women fighting for change in the systems of power. This one is about our work highlighting kids experiences of a system that fails them when their parent in sent to prison! Fab magazine as well!!

Today we launch the Youth Theatre Census report - a summary of everything we learnt from the Youth Theatre Census last summer. If you care about youth arts, it’s one of the most important things you’ll read this year. Download it here: bit.ly/youththeatrecensus Or read on for more.

This poem by two eleven-year-olds becomes amazingly great. (Via this wonderful blog: jacket2.org/commentary/t... )

A shout out to let you know that the script submissions window is now open at @mercurytheatre.bsky.social. Details here 👇🏾 www.mercurytheatre.co.uk/taking-part/...

Submissions are OPEN for Glow: City at Night Poems! Illuminate urban nightscapes with your work. Accepting submissions all January! Details here: thebrokenspine.co.uk/2024/12/08/s...

Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…

The cruelty that is self assessment tax owing January 31st each year when most of us artists have had a duff month of earnings as it’s Christmas 😭

Yes yes yes!!!!!!!!

Another crazy year. We are project to project funded. 30% of everything we do is unpaid because that’s the system for getting the projects ready to get funded. Here’s to next year and more of the same. Always hoping for a better and fairer system. #funding #arts #change #sociallyengaged

ACTOR CALL OUT: see www.allthingsconsideredtheatre.co.uk/callout for all the details! Wonderful women we need you x

Ordinary men.

Pay your freelance staff before Christmas please 🤶

Chat this week with someone doing a dissertation about female directors and space to fail then hear yet another story of a sleezebag famous actor and think FFS men can literally assault women and still have a career and we didn’t even put up some lights in the globe!

A waiting area that isn’t outside (some wait for 2 hours!), a green space that they can sit with their family member, play a game of football, feel normal. Families ties are the golden thread. This matters for reoffending and for change! Think child! #8HoursThereandBack

I’m meeting five ex students and one son of a friend this week about funding, bid writing and the hustle! Share the wealth(knowledge) if you have it!!! I should run some seminars 😂

Oh we loved this peice! Based on our diaries and lots of reminiscing! A chance to celebrate and to belly laugh like we did when we were that age. An age we thought we’d be together forever. Our sleepover friends were special.

In Badakhshan, courageous female students protested the Taliban's order to shut down medical institutions for women by singing—a powerful act of defiance, especially since the Taliban have already banned women from singing. #Afghanistan #Women #Education