my piece for @artukdotorg.bsky.social up now - on jenny saville and motherhood artuk.org/discover/sto...

second week overseeing news on the @artsprofessional.co.uk team - here's my interview with roy luxford of @edintfest.bsky.social

Luckhurst joins Arts Professional as news editor buff.ly/5CdGnNP #ChangingFaces

it's official! i'm joining @artsprofessional.co.uk to head up the news desk as news editor. excited doesn't cover it. arts and culture workers: message me if you have stories to share, or fancy a coffee! www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fac...

please can i come to the party tonight? i promise won't do the spoken word poetry banking advert bit again (three beers later) Here's to the kitchen thinkers. The M&S tinnie drinkers. The bathroom queue winkers. The champagne flute clinkers. Here's to the people that make this gathering, a party.

this is lovely! i didn't study at UEA, but understand the course is brilliant. but as someone who did a creative writing MA, i can vouch for how lovely it is to spend a year focusing on poetry (or whatever *your* vibe is) with a group of people who care about it as much as you do. apply apply!

The number of Freedom of Information requests the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has decided to "fully withhold" relevant information from has soared by 14 percentage points in the past year, government statistics reveal 👇

The Southbank Centre is aiming to champion home-grown talent with a series of live events dedicated to independent British artists working within dance, live art and cabaret. Read more 👉 www.thestage.co.uk/news/sou...

Kathy Bourne has vowed to speak up for British theatre’s "immense economic, social and educational value" as she begins her term as president of UK Theatre 👇

The Barbican has announced its autumn season, in what marks a shift towards "ideas-led" and cross-disciplinary programming 👇

@thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/article/3b7e...

A sad loss, far too soon. I am very grateful to Mr Lachmann's family for speaking with me for this @thetimes.com story: www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

the outlook for drama schools continues to look distinctly tough... me for @thestage.co.uk

More than 80% of those working in the performing arts feel their job security has diminished since the rise of generative AI, a report has claimed 👇

Really Useful Group chief executive James McKnight has revealed immersive theatre is only going to grow as a "really, really big" priority for the company 👇

Hundreds of people have protested the forecast closure of Northern Ireland’s Riverside Theatre in Coleraine, the oldest operating professional theatre outside Belfast 👇

updated my website (by which i mean tinkered vainly with a few photos.) if you're interested in learning more about my creative writing/poetry work as well as my journalism, take a look here! www.georgialouiseluckhurst.com

The government has suffered a fourth defeat in the House of Lords over its plans to allow technology companies to train artificial intelligence on artists’ work 👇

bumping this again because it is worthwhile reading on a WFH friday!

made me smirk at my desk. a good one if you need to wake up an office day

My piece for @thetimes.com

hello! front of house workers at london theatres... are you being paid london living wage? i'd love to speak to you for @thestage.co.uk if you aren't! message me here

Hear from @bridgecommand.bsky.social's Artistic Director Owen Kingston on today's announcement of their next season 🚀 in this lovely piece with @georgialouluck.bsky.social @thestage.co.uk You can also catch him today if you're at @londongamesfest.bsky.social 👾 www.thestage.co.uk/news/parabol...

hello! i am looking to speak to british theatre leaders with thoughts on trump's interventions into the american arts sector (e.g. at the kennedy center) and if they're worried about the impact it could have here. reply to this if you have thoughts! #journorequest

People keep sharing this Sam Fender quote from the Sunday Times and while I think there is something in this – it feels bizarre that, in the midst of what is fundamentally a backlash against feminism + LGBT rights, everyone is so eager to dance around the obvious answer, which is primarily misogyny

University drama departments and the African Theatre Association are among the groups demanding that the UK education secretary prevent “cold spots across the country” for the study of the arts 👇 #TheatreNews #TheatreSky

A controversial playwriting contest that was criticised for encouraging the "myth that anybody can write a play" is to return this year 👇 #TheatreNews #TheatreSky

arts and culture PRs - my diary is looking quite quiet so i'd love to arrange some coffees (based around central london)! if that's you, please do reach out (sorry for being needy etc etc)

over the absolute moon to be made a senior reporter at @thestage.bsky.social. best job i've ever had (a dream job, in fact) with the nicest team of people around. here's to theatre's long life in 2025 💞⚡🚨‼️

My life would be so much easier if I had an Aran Island sweater as baggy as Rory Gilmour’s. I could weather all sorts of despairs, all of them, would that I had an Aran Island sweater as baggy as Rory Gilmour’s

still looking for BOV graduates - please reach out if that's you!

looking to speak to anyone who attended bristol old vic theatre school on news the institution will be shuttering all of its undergraduate training - if that's you, please message me or reply to this tweet! #journorequest

got a lot of goals for this year, happy to share they're all competing for my time, financial resources and brain space so probably i'll be paralysed into achieving not even one

gender is a construct except for when it comes to the Big Light (only women understand the scourge of overhead illumination)

Trying bluesky on for size … very lucky to be a reporter on @thestage.bsky.social’s news team, so theatre makers/lovers please give me a follow! 🦋🎭

sidebar: looking to speak to theatremakers who are making work in britain responding to putin/russia's invasion of ukraine. if that's you, please get in touch! #journorequest

sidebar: looking to speak to theatremakers who are making work in britain responding to putin/russia's invasion of ukraine. if that's you, please get in touch! #journorequest

props to adam leyland of the grocer for standing up for his then 26-year-old reporter in wake of alleged sexual harassment by gregg wallace. leyland told the guardian: "this isn’t just middle-class women of a certain age. it’s also younger women, like my reporter, who was much more junior than him"

words feel totally devoid of both force and meaning when thinking about the gisèle pelicot trial

Guardian and Observer journalists have asked people not to click on the Guardian website or share Guardian stories on Weds and Thurs, to respect their strike and the virtual picket line

Number crunching: Parliamentary petitions From the new Private Eye, out now.

why is saying the word 'ekphrastic' aloud so embarrassing. not as embarrassing as saying 'i write poetry' aloud but up there

2/ ..it leaves it more vulnerable to private takeover. This is NOT the best future for one of Britain’s last independent newspapers. I urge The Scott Trust to look again at their £1.3bn endowment and think how they can best support one of the UK’s oldest and most respected papers.

1/ Support today for journalists fighting for the future of The Observer, threatened by The Scott Trust’s plan to sell to Tortoise Media. Tortoise, though respected, is a small, loss-making venture and the sale risks The Observer becoming a stripped-down website behind a paywall. Worse..

Are you a Pauline, a Petrova or a Posy? Few assignments invoke this kind of nostalgia in me, but it was a treat to interview the team behind the National Theatre's production of Noel Streatfield's Ballet Shoes. www.thetimes.com/culture/thea...

We need your help! We're running our State of Arts PR survey again in 2025 to get a snapshot of how arts communication professionals are feeling as we go into the new year. If your job involves PR in the arts, please do complete the survey and spread the word to colleagues: bit.ly/4i80NeH

the last year, i've been following the situation at universities - redundancies and course cuts will impact routes into the arts. if you're working at a university or drama school and you're affected, DM me or email [email protected] #journorequest www.thestage.co.uk/news/univers...

The new Makar is the excellent Peter McKay. I could not be more pleased. He’s a fine poet and delightful person. This is a great day for Gaelic culture and literature. I wish him every success. www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/scotl...

Fantastic piece on leaving X in @thestage.bsky.social by @georgialouluck.bsky.social "Managing director @rfitzm.bsky.social said the decision to leave was 'both moral and practical... X has become toxic – especially to marginalised groups, including many artists we work with.'" bit.ly/49c2P9n