BREAKING NEWS: We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that the Southbank Centre - the Hayward Gallery, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall and skaters undercroft - has finally been Grade II listed by DCMS after a 35 year long campaign. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/southba...

First review of The Story of Documentary Film: theplaylist.net/the-story-of...

Good news for arts funding. Government announces bumper £1.5 billion package to restore national pride - GOV.UK share.google/AuL5gGhaftvM...

Górecki’s Sorrowful Songs meditative and powerful at Celtic Connections ✍️ David Smythe bachtrack.com/review-kapul...

London’s homicide rate is at a record low as mayor says it disproves Trump's 'dystopian' claims apnews.com/article/lond...

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What the KENNEDY Center used to be… Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.

#Top31DavidBowie 3 Station To Station | 1976 The epic ten minute long album title track and opening song on his 1976 masterpiece. The intro is spellbinding and when those vocals come in with that incredible opening line, there’s no one finer or cooler around than DB. youtu.be/ZpIhsGg2SJ0

Once more for the haters...

Wikipedia, the online nonprofit encyclopedia, is urging AI companies to stop scraping its pages and to use its paid API instead.

#WeekendSingles starring The Beatles, The Last Poets, Darrell Banks, Jeb Loy Nichols, The Wild Swans, Jane Birkin, The Clientele, Jackie Mittoo, Throbbing Gristle, Blancmange, The Slits and The Pop Group, The Gist, Sandie Shaw, The Exits, and Wire

The way I just SCREAMED when I’ve seen that Chris Watson and Stephen Mallinder are going to do a CABARET VOLTAIRE show IN SHEFFIELD in october to mark CV50 - TEENAGE KARL IS SCREAMING @sensoriafestival.bsky.social

The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer’s blistering play about AIDS and AIDS activism, opened in New York on April 21 1985.

@grahamcruickshank.bsky.social hello!

Royal Ballet and Opera are offering an Apprenticeship in Props Carpentry #theatrejobs #artsjobs

💰👀Looking for Arts Council England funding? Future Artists are providing a detailed walkthrough of the ACE Project Grants application process, with a focus on the under 30k funds. Taking place online - April 22nd.

Sad to hear of the death of Gang Of Four/Shriekback's Dave Allen. I visited him at home in Phoenix, AZ in 1994 to talk about his World Domination Recordings label, and he was lovely. And what a bassist. I could post so many GO4 tracks but here's a Shriekback banger. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bMM...

This was a dark, but brilliant evening – always a treat to see Vladimir Jurowski back with the @lporchestra.bsky.social. And another chance to hear Lyatoshynsky 3 in concert! bachtrack.com/review-jurow...

An insider look at our INCREDIBLE Season Launch 🎉 A magical night packed with our artist community to celebrate all the STELLAR work we have coming in 2025! There's more than one way to be South Asian at Tara Theatre 🤎

Happy birthday to Pete Wylie. Here's Sinful filmed for Wogan in 86. Everything about this is great - Pete and Josie are so cool while the dancing nuns doing the Koyaanisqatsi-style bridge is the icing on the cake youtu.be/Ms8JI4Bc1Qc

Congratulations to @paraorchestra.bsky.social for being named Best Ensemble at this year's @royalphilsoc.bsky.social Awards 🎶🎶🎶👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 bachtrack.com/fr_FR/news-r...

You can listen to David Soin Tappeser, half of artist duo Hyzoilic/Desires, discuss their research into salt for this work on BBC Art & Ideas: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Brian Eno: Baby's On Fire - from his 1974 debut solo album, Here Come The Warm Jets; guitars by Robert Fripp and Paul Rudolph www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbU1...

Today at 1pm: a new series on BBC Radio 3 devoted to the music of women composers. "Why women, why now?"

35 years ago today, Depeche Mode released "Enjoy the Silence," the second single from their Violator album, on the way to winning Best British Single at the Brit Awards.

The biggest breach of U.S. government data is under way

Arnold Schoenberg's 12 Tone Wheel Chart #composer #serialmusic blogthehum.com/2016/09/12/a...

Thank you @eastmidrailway.bsky.social @eastmidsrailway.bsky.social for reuniting me with the case I left on the train last Friday. 😊

David Hockney has drawn the world around him for 60 years – and the Bradford-born artist is now supporting DRAW!, a nationwide drawing project for Bradford 2025. Each month in 2025, a different artist will invite us all to create a drawing inspired by a particular theme…

There are also a bunch of new artistic directors north of the border, including Alan Cumming at Pitlochry, Jemima Levick at Glasgow’s Tron & James Brining at Edinburgh’s Lyceum www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/f...

Right now, we’re deep in rehearsals, creating our new commissioned work with Dan Daw Creative Project. Check out our latest 'Postcards from the Studio' for a beautiful overview of Rehearsals Week 5, written by our Co-Artistic Director, Raquel Meseguer Zafe.

We are Candoco Dance Company! We've moved from X to Bluesky, and we're excited to connect with you here.

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Wow, DeepSeek will give us unreliable and biased answers even faster and with less energy consumption!

With @bradford2025.co.uk putting on a fabulous opening event last night and tonight, delighted to see the @paraorchestra.bsky.social x Jeremy Deller collaboration The Bradford Progress included as one of five of the year's highlights in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Rise - fabulous opening event for @bradford2025.co.uk Congratulations to Shanaz Gulzar and her brilliant team. Exciting year ahead. 🎉

"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity." - William S. Burroughs #quote

Great opportunity @wshed.bsky.social 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Come join our community cast!

🟦 as we speak, artist Anselm Kiefer is creating a monumental new work at 24m long, it's been kept under wraps while he creates it in his studio...until now! a preview has been revealed by the Van Gogh and Stedelijk museums in Amsterdam 🇳🇱

Oldham Coliseum Theatre is looking for people to be part of a community company for new show The Engagement Party which is written by @afshandl.bsky.social and directed by @amandahuxtable.bsky.social and runs 18-22 Feb 2025 at Oldham's Queen Elizabeth Hall theoldhamtimes.co.uk/news/24759680.…

Brian Eno: Baby's On Fire - from his 1974 debut solo album, Here Come The Warm Jets; guitars by Robert Fripp and Paul Rudolph www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbU1...

My play 10 NIGHTS will tour the UK from 8 January to 8 February. Starting off at Riverside Studios in London and then ending the tour at Birmingham Hippodrome. Take a look below for deets on all the theatre stops 👇🏾

Announcement Time 💍 💍 💍 You’re all invited to The Engagement Party written by myself and directed by @amandahuxtable.bsky.social for Oldham Coliseum. www.coliseum.org.uk/spektrix/spe...

📣 We're Hiring This just in - we've got four new & exciting entry-level opportunities to join our team ★ Communications Assistant: Marketing ★ Digital Assistant ★ Operations Administrator ★ Front of House Ushers Find out more and apply below 👇 sohotheatre.com/about-us/jobs/

Oldham Coliseum Theatre announces The Engagement Party, a new production written by afshan d’souza-lodhi, with @amandahuxtable.bsky.social as Creative Director. It runs from 18-22 February at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Oldham. Details via the link. 🎭🎉🥳🪩🎶 www.coliseum.org.uk/spektrix/spe...

From earlier this evening @rte.ie - Charles Hazlewood talking about @paraorchestra.bsky.social who are performing Górecki, plus Mahler's take on Schubert at National Concert Hall in Dublin on Saturday. He also talks about Death Songbook, their collab with Brett Anderson. 🎶 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Marc Brew and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's an Accident / a Life opens in Berlin tonight as part of No Limits Festival This semi-autobiographical piece unravels moments in our lives, exploring difficult things with and without words using storytelling, film, music, dance and a car

Excited to be joining the team of contributing writers! (And continue over-intellectualising UK regional theatre)