Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Concert: 'A response'. Wed 21st Jan 7pm St Nicholas Priory Exeter Sarah Small viola da gamba, Emma Welton violin Two cycling string players! www.ticketsource.co.uk/nicholasprio...

A little of Ruth Molins and Alex Wilson's performance of my new piece 'Silver & Spruce (& Here)' at Ashburton Arts Centre on Thursday night. For flute, piano and seed sowing. Such care. Catch it again this evening at St Luke's Chapel Exeter where Duo Tutti will be launching their new CD.

In our latest ClimateCultures blog post, researcher and writer @julespretty.bsky.social's climb to Bhutan's Taktstang mountain temple reveals a nation's story of hope and regeneration through its common focus on Gross National Happiness. climatecultures.net/cultural-cha...

Duo Tutti, Ruth Molins (flute) & Alex Wilson (piano), commissioned a new piece from me for their album Dances & Dreams. 'Silver & Spruce (& Here)' will be performed on 27th & 29th Nov in Ashburton Arts Centre and St Luke's Chapel Exeter. Flute & piano dream their origin stories. Come and listen.

Then they came for the talk show hosts and I was like yeah whatever... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

Exeter Sound Walks I’m thinking of leading Sound Walks in Exeter every couple of months from October. Listening together through the seasons is intriguing and revealing. I love it. If this appeals to you, please send me a sentence of support. This will help me raise some funds for the series.

Slow Ways for everyone who🚶🏃🏾‍♀️👩🏻‍🦽🚴‍🏇🏾! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways?u...

If you can watch this and then think ‘I won’t share because that might be putting myself on the line’ then you know what you’d have done if you were in Germany when your Jewish neighbours were being loaded into to cattle trucks. Nothing. Please share - it’s our ‘I’m Spartacus moments

It gets worse - apparently some people have been adding comments like this when explaining their reason for proposing #StormBP, #StormEquinor, #StormExxon, #StormShell and #StormBigOil on this Met Office form: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...

So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms. And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell... This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...

The Earthlings Family Orchestra has been creating music to, with & about the accompanying ambiences of Exeter's Lower Hoopern Valley. It's been interesting and surprising. I'll write it up soon. In the meantime, these silent pics show a little of the space we shared & the space we made.

I'll never tire of reading about what Sarah Finch and her colleagues have achieved with unshowy commitment, care & tenacity.

Hugh Nankivell brings 'Fallow' to Lost and Found (keyboards revoiced) with Exeter Contemporary Sounds tomorrow 2.30 Exeter Library #ECSLostandFound #artweekexeter25 'Fallow' is formed of duets between electric pipe organ and pianet, harmonium & melodica. Book via artworkexeter.org.uk/projects/art...

the final piece of the jigsaw. The #peppapig drone machine. Want to hear what it sounds like? Come to our concert on Saturday 14th @exeterlibrary tinyurl.com/mrp9hyu2 #JuneBoom #Exeter #InExeter #VisitExeter #artweekexeter @involvingmusic.bsky.social #experimentalmusic

ON OUR RADAR // Lost and Found (Keyboards Revoiced) 🎹🎶 Exeter Contemporary Sounds and Ian Summers perform works on rescued, repurposed and reimagined instruments. 🗓️ Sat 14 June 🕝 2.30pm 📍 Exeter Library exeterobserver.org/2025/05/27/l...

Little update on Facebook's decision to shut my account.

‘Fallow requires things to emerge in their own time’ says Hugh Nankivell whose ‘Fallow’ duets between pipe organ and pianet, harmonium and melodica. The pianet, a poor-man’s Fender rhodes, is small but heavy, and all but obsolete. Sat 14 June. #ECSLostandFound artworkexeter.org.uk/event/lost-a...

Happy #WildSalmonDay! You can help us put on the Salmon Run to raise awareness of the plight of wild salmon in the River Exe - AND fund habitat improvements in their spawning grounds - with a donation to our appeal. Aviva will double all donations. www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/salmon-run...

ORGANS! clavichord, bon tempi organ, pipe organ, Venta organ, stylophone - Simon Belshaw has been 'converting pieces written to be played by a computer into pieces playable by musicians.' for our ECS concert 14/6. #ECSLostandFound #artweekexeter #artweekexeter25 #awe25 substack.com/home/post/p-...

'...the keys of the organs become worn with the finger fall of those who have played them like the wear of footsteps on stone steps over centuries or the cutting of desire paths... a record of the use of the instrument over several hundred years...' Paul Whitty about his music for ECS on 14th June.

Calling people who love rivers! Please help us put on the Salmon Run! to tell communities along the Exe about the plight of the Salmon, and fund river restoration projects. www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/salmon-run... @tweedpipe.bsky.social ‬ @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @sophiepavs.bsky.social

My Wet & Dry Musical Life mussels, sea lamprey, pipe organs, fiddles… and an actual concert from Exeter Contemporary Sounds on Sat 14th June emmawelton.net/news/

You forgot 'lost and found (keyboards revoiced)' concert, Sat 14th June Rougemont Room! Giving new life to rescued organs, dusty keyboards, salvaged circuits. Music by Simon Belshaw, Hugh Nankivell, Emma Welton, Paul Whitty with voices of Jez Winship and Alison Sweatman. #ECSLostandFound

Don’t let this fly past you! The early bird catches the worm! 🕊️ Have you started your Lark Music-Making Competition entry yet? The Competition is open to all amateur instrumentalists (18+). There are three age categories,18–24, 25-39 and 40 plus.

With this funding we aim to make a real difference in Devon - watch this space! www.librariesunlimited.org.uk/libraries-un...

Tickets are now available for lost and found (keyboards revoiced) at Exeter Library, Exeter. www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/exe... #experimentalmusic #contemporarymusic #noisemusic #musicsky #electronicmusic #coding #music

Lost & Found, keyboards revoiced. Dusty organs, salvaged circuitry...Exeter Contemporary Sounds, Saturday 14th June, 2.30, Exeter Central Library. Part of Art Week Exeter. Music by @simonbelshaw.bsky.social, Hugh Nankivell, Emma Welton, @paul-whitty.bsky.social. #ECSLostandFound @artworkexeter

The @tyndallcentre.bsky.social report re: the super low carbon footprint of the band Massive Attack's Bristol 2024 show is #Music4Climate #ClimateInfluence. What IF more events, film productions, corporate and city policies followed their exciting lead? documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx...

Calling all scientists, science postgrads & anyone who’s ever worked in a scientific discipline! Can you spare even just half an hour next Tues 12pm to join me, Chris Packham & 100+ scientists to urge for government policy to be informed by science? Let’s fill Parliament Square with scientists! 💪

You really wouldn't know it...

I won't play violin in Icebreaker's 15/3/25 performance at Bradford Science & Media Museum to protest SM's greenwashing sponsorship by Adani & BP, & Adani's complicity in violence by Israel against people in Gaza. @cultureunstained.bsky.social @pscupdates.bsky.social Explanation emmawelton.net/news/

Sat 8 March 7.30 ST LAWRENCE CHAPEL Ashburton, Devon TQ13 7DD. My 'already finished' for organ and pipe-ist will happen during this IWD concert curated by Gabi Mills. I’ll also play violin in Ethel Smyth's Chrysilla, for mezzo & ensemble. £12/£6 (£5 u18s) cash on door. wegottickets.com/event/608440

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Last week, the new owners of the Observer wrote to tell me they would *not* be issuing me with a new contract. 🤷‍♀️ So...I want to say publicly that it was an absolute privilege to speak on behalf of my Observer colleagues during our strike. I don't regret doing so. And I learned so much from it. 1/

HOT RESEARCH NEWS! Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor... Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵

Siri, how do you define “greenwashing”? 🤔 👇👇👇

BREAKING | Now @thetimes.com reports on our investigation finding that trustees at the @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social raised concerns when Adani’s indictment was announced! 📑👀 And in spite of the growing opposition, the museum has taken *more* dirty #Adani money! 😮💰 www.thetimes.com/uk/arts/arti...

The FT reports on the briefings disclosed by the Cabinet Office which now reveal how much #Adani paid to sponsor the @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social - and Gautam Adani’s ambitions for his conglomerate to become the ‘BAE Systems of India’! www.ft.com/content/631b...

Glad to hear that this is now on the record.

I pulled out of today's Icebreaker concert at London Science Museum to protest SM’s greenwashing sponsorship by Adani & BP and Adani's complicity in violence by Israel against people in Gaza. Giving fees received to @cultureunstained.bsky.social Palestine Solidarity Campaign @pscupdates.bsky.social.

💥 BREAKING 💥 A thousand people have come to London today to sit on the Strand outside the Royal Courts of Justice. This is to signal to the justice system against imprisoning peaceful protesters who are acting to defend planetary and public health. 🧵

When maximum sentence for chaining yourself to railings is over twice maximum sentence for racially aggravated assault, anyone who cares about justice should be appalled. This is a dangerous, undemocratic & disproportionate attack on longstanding right to peaceful protest in UK #DefendOurJuries

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What a lovely prospect this concert offers! I'm bringing my piece for portable electric organ & speaking pipe-ist. It's called 'already finished' and is a strange beast. I'm trying to remember how it goes... www.eventbrite.com/e/chamber-mu...

We're creating an Exeter Broad Bean Flock! Thank you Dan Fox of Two Acre Farm in Somerset and Exeter Seed Bank for the invitation to be part of this fascinating community project. Can't wait to get planting! #adaptiveagriculture #josephlofthouse #communitygrowing #exeterseedbank #allotments