Polling basics is you don’t let your cohort self select like this. More appalling bullshit journalism laundering government bullshit form the BBC

It's panto season! But make it Exeunt... and today we have playwright and director Jude Christian on how pantomime helped her crack Shakespeare's tonally trickiest plays, from Titus Andronicus to The Taming of the Shrew

Please support Cambridge Handel Opera Company’s #crowdfunder for Imeneo if you can. They are taking brave steps into youth voice. Arts provision is being slashed in schools arts companies are stepping up. Support a young person’s confidence, empathy, self-understanding, belonging. lnkd.in/eES_5ups

Introducing 🔬 MEMORY UNDER THE MICROSCOPE 🔬- our new series examining the powerful history of vaccination and the cutting-edge immunology research behind Dangerous Matter - created by Zakiya Leeming, with libretto by @sredway.bsky.social, performed @rncmlive.bsky.social @rncmprism.bsky.social ➡️

At our demonstration today, I'm holding a placard stating "I support Palestine. Action must be taken." My aim is to highlight the absurdity of the government dictating what can and cannot be said by peace-seeking people

Jasmine Crockett with the real talk!

🎤 OPERA PREMIERE | 7pm, 24 June, RNCM Theatre ⏱️ Dangerous Matter - a powerful reflection on the role of memory in medicine & human progress, after Lady Mary Montagu Wortley. Zakiya Leeming (composer / libretto) @sredway.bsky.social (director / libretto) 🎟️ www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...

'Dangerous Matter': an opera by Zakiya Leeming & libretto by @sredway.bsky.social & Leeming, inspired by the science of immunology and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who advocated for the Turkish practice of inoculation in C18th England | RNCM Theatre | 7pm, 24 June 🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

Genuinely haven’t done anything to enhance this photo I call it Light

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

A #learning day for me today! Bamboozle’s #TheEnabledSpace conference on #Theatre and #arts practice with learning disabled young people. Very excited to meet and learn and bring back to #TheSparkArtsForChildre #director #facilitator #dramaturg #buildingbravespaces #listening #SEND #Leicester

Mariann Edgar Budde doing the good work Someone protect her now

I won’t lie. Tonight’s banishment hurt. I wanted them to go to the end #traitors

When the young 9 year olds you’re cocreating with get sad if you turn up in jeans, you listen #childvoice #cocreation #youthvoice #clown #funkytrousers #fancypants #theatre #youthvoice #donttellmetwice #anyexcuse

Great to see play and joy in action at the Small Wonders kick off conference on EYFS co-creation with The Spark Arts for Children #cocreation #youth #arts #RadicalListening

We don’t often think about pet consent. But particularly with anxious ones it’s important to. Stopping and holding a hand nearby gives anxious Amis a chance to ask for more or leave when she’s done. And then less anxious Poppy gets involved! #pet #consent #anxiety #care #compassion #kindness

Fuck. This guy is also this guy 🤯 And he’s amazing in both

Describing a witch-hunt as “unamerican” shows a disturbing ignorance of history

Oooh Just read a couple of plays which are tickling my ethical, personal, geopolitical, fantastical/allegorical, philosophical, practical, and dramatic glands Love being a dramaturg sometimes

After he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, Albert Camus wrote a letter of thanks to his favorite childhood teacher, whom he'd never forgotten. It's beautiful.

First rejection of 2025! Gotta be a record?

Okay #TheatreSky, do your thing. - JOB ALERT - We're looking for a Technical Stage Manager to support our newest show The Cost of Everything for two weeks in February. £1275 for ~10 days work. Please share around! #Theatre #UKTheatre #TheatreJobs www.artsjobs.org.uk/jobs/search/...

SIGNPOSTING REQUIRED: I’m working in Leicester schools on performing arts and child voice & agency. Looking for Midlands based, child voice/co-creation interested: #clowns #PerformanceGames makers #dancers / #choregraphers #puppeteers #PerformancePoets #singer #SongWriters TIA #dance #puppetry

New Year - let's go! First up, please join the >56,000 signatures on this petition. It's easy to get distracted by the Elon-Trump-Tommeh-Tate froth, which is all worth engaging - but we should not lose sight of driving our own drives for what we want. Sign and share please. 👇👇

Here is the key section of that train wreck of an interview by Robert Jenrick on #r4today. Robinson: Did you raise it when you were Home Office minister? Jenrick: We talked about it... I wasn't... My portfolio... But we talked about it. Only a minute, if you can bear it. ~AA

Morning walk in Macclesfield It’ll do #morning #sunrise #frenchies #pets #walking #snow

Lovely walk up from Rydal

The coldest dip yet and we've already made 101% thanks to some late game donations! 2.9ºC at Buckstones Jump in the Lake District. A beautiful day walking up there and having a mince pie! Still time to donate to this amazing cause if you can! www.justgiving.com/page/sam-wel...

#HappyNewYear all! I jumped into a freezing Grasmere lake for @wwf.org.uk If you can support their restoration of nature and fight against climate change, please send anything you can! www.justgiving.com/page/sam-wel... #fundraising #charity #climatechange #environment #sustainability

#HappyNewYear all! I jumped into a freezing Grasmere lake for @wwf.org.uk If you can support their restoration of nature and fight against climate change, please send anything you can! www.justgiving.com/page/sam-wel... #fundraising #charity #climatechange #environment #sustainability

Begin, begin, begin. Starting my year by naming my intention to commit my work to the meeting point of arts and the planetary emergency. More on my plans below, but if you think we might work together please do get in touch. www.linkedin.com/posts/amber-...

Old year weighs on the new Shoulders heavy Spine stooped Scored with misfires, fails, falls, and missed opportunities Effort of will Forgive the indulgence of a summary of my year Straighten spine and focus on what was achieved 1/14

Old year weighs on the new Shoulders heavy Spine stooped Scored with misfires, fails, falls, and missed opportunities Effort of will Forgive the indulgence of a summary of my year Straighten spine and focus on what was achieved 1/14

It’s not just Musk - we need to stop British billionaires bankrolling our politics Keir Starmer needs to introduce new laws to cap individual donations and bar corporate political funding before it’s too late democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-not-ju...

Been a while of cold showers but I’m back to it now for the #BigChill #bravethecold for WWF Today at #BognorRegis Please donate if you can! We’re 75% there! #charity #fundraising #wildswimming #coldwaterswimming www.justgiving.com/page/sam-wel...

She just climbs on me and goes to sleep now. So that’s Christmas cancelled #rescuepup #trust

Christmas loaf and mince pies ready for heading to the family to celebrate the light coming back #baking #christmas #jazzatthelincolncentre #cakes #baker #dairyfree #homemade #wintersolstice

Ah! Blasted through the first draft! Highlighters and cutting tools out! Let’s see if there’s a story here! #librettist #writer #opera #theatre #DangerousMatter

Fuck What a day Freedom Studios Coney National Theatre Wales Hang on to each other The storm is starting

I reckon if he is a spy, he’d tell us

Thank you to @MiradorDesign for today's autumnal #FoxOfTheDay !

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says the public want to leave the ECHR Let him know he’s wrong by sharing this widely

Getting there with the 50% wholewheat spelt rise #baking #sourdough #hombaking #bread

Why is the government not capable wiping the floor with Nigel Farage every single day like this? Alastair Campbell effortlessly destroys him over his Brexit legacy which by almost every economic and financial measure has been disastrous for the country

After a day of #writing (an act in a day🫠) who am I to deny her her favourite snuggle spot? #writer #librettist #pets #doggo #sleep #frenchie #rescue #opera

Loves a deadline! Wrote a first/vomit draft of a whole act today! #opera #writing #librettist #writer

Day #4 Quick atmospheric dip in River Dovefor the #BigChill for @wwf-uk.bsky.social ! 8° water! Some baffled tourists visiting from Pakistan was a particular highlight! Please donate if you can! www.justgiving.com/page/sam-wel... #Fundraising #Charity #WWF #ColdWaterSwim #WildSwimming

Day #4 Quick atmospheric dip in River Dovefor the #BigChill for @wwf-uk.bsky.social ! 8° water! Some baffled tourists visiting from Pakistan was a particular highlight! Please donate if you can! www.justgiving.com/page/sam-wel... #Fundraising #Charity #WWF #ColdWaterSwim #WildSwimming