Farage: epic grifter

Fuel is hiring! 🌟 We’re looking for a Senior Development Manager to lead our fundraising strategy and help us champion bold, diverse new theatre across the UK and beyond. 💰 £35–40k | 🗓️ Apply by 24 Nov Full job pack ➡️ fueltheatre.com/get-involved/ #ArtsJobs #Theatre #Fundraising #Fuel

Jimmy Kimmel's comeback monologue is very well judged, passionate and smart and with some punchy gags.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... #Savethechildren #SaveGaza #FreePalestine Thank you 🙏🏼 @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social ❤️

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

🎶 Open Call! 🎶 £2500 paid opportunity for early-career composers or music directors to join us as an associate on a new project. Funded by PRS Dev Network. Full info here: fueltheatre.com/fuel-new-tal... #ComposerOpportunity #MusicDirector

Fuel is thrilled to bring Khalid Abdalla’s ★★★★★ solo show Nowhere to Oxford Playhouse 📅 22–24 Jan 2026 🎟 Tickets on sale 12th September: www.oxfordplayhouse.com Also touring: Geneva (Sept 2025) & Dublin (Oct 2025). #Nowhere #OxfordPlayhouse #Fuel

The Guardian has featured The 419 exhibition by Inua Ellams & Oluwamuyiwa ‘Logor’ Logo, exploring Lagos, 419 culture & money. Free to attend at West Wing Gallery, Somerset House, 9–14 Sept. Read the article here: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #The419 #FreeExhibition #SomersetHouse

Will Adamsdale & Fuel are running a crowdfunder for AI, AI, Oh... (or how I wrote a hit sitcom with ChatGPT but we’re not talking now), Will’s show about AI, technophobia & mid-life crises. 🤖We're at 11% of our £5375 target so far - your support would mean the world! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/aiaioh

‘This important casting director took one look at me and thought I was destined to be typecast’ With his solo show for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe underway, actor Khalid Abdalla talks to Fergus Morgan about wrestling with typecasting and activism 👇

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

🚨 This morning we turned the street outside Labour Party Headquarters in London into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. Listen to @ahmedmasoud02.bsky.social talking about what the Israeli army did to his neighourhood and family.

Summer is a time of connection, abundance and creative energy, but also one where freelancers can feel overstretched. The Creative Freelancer’s Climate Almanac is a free resource designed to support artists, producers, and independent creatives to take climate action in seasonal, sustainable ways.

The UK must immediately recognise Palestinian statehood. There can be no two state solution if there is no viable state left to call Palestine.

The 419, a new exhibition created by Inua Ellams & Logor, produced by Fuel, opens in September at Somerset House. It’s free - come along! Info below.

Exciting new programme klaxon! Huge thanks to all partners and to ACE for backing this new collaboration with 6 amazing partners to tour new theatre on the mid-scale across England. More info below!

Keir Starmer says Labour is the party of work, equality and fairness, but less than a year after the election, changes at the Department for Work and Pensions have forced me to stop doing the job I love. The full video can be found here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxpq... #AccessToWork

“According to Unicef, by January this year 14,500 Palestinian children in Gaza had been killed by Israel; 17,000 are separated from their parents or orphaned; and Gaza has the highest percentage of child amputees in the world.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Thrilled that #Nowhere by Khalid Abdalla, commissioned and produced by Fuel (@fueltheatre.bsky.social) is now on sale for performances 12-24 August @traversetheatre.bsky.social. #Edinburgh pals, #Theatre pals, please join us & spread the word! 💖

Jess Thom, co-artistic director of Touretteshero, can no longer do her job after a 61% cut to her #AccessToWork support. This is not a unique case - disabled people across the UK are being hit hard. Read @graeaetheatre.bsky.social here and consider writing to your MP: graeae.org/resource/gra...

🎤 If the government wants national renewal, they should invest in the arts and culture 🎤 Today, we're launching a petition to remind Rachel Reeves: the arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them 🌱 www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp... 🧶👇

Want to become a museum trustee? This free online event from the Association of Independent Museums could be super helpful for you aim-museums.co.uk/events/aim-m...

Following its sold out premiere in October, Nowhere - Khalid Abdalla’s powerful solo show - is heading to Edinburgh this August. 🎭 Catch it at Traverse Theatre as part of the Here & Now Showcase. Tickets on sale 21 May! 📸: Manuel Vason #Nowhere #EdFringe25 #TraverseTheatre

Fuel announces a number of free events for May to June 2025, including the latest project from Inua Ellams, Stained Metal, and three public conversations @fueltheatre.bsky.social

The number of plays and musicals staged by the UK’s main subsidised theatres has fallen by nearly a third over the past decade according to research by the BBC 👇

Royal Shakespeare Company co-artistic director Tamara Harvey has revealed how she was told she would not be able to do the job while having children by a man who was "very connected with the theatre" just before she started officially in the role 👇

A reminder for these times.

What topics should the UK's Culture, Media and Sport committee examine this year? Let DCMS know by filling in this survey, live until 21 February committees.parliament.uk/work/8784/st...