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A pink opalescent background behind the words "Words Without Walls by Katy Naylor"

A pink opalescent background behind the words “Shaping a solo show by Ben Macpherson"

A pink opalescent background behind the words “Making the Story Manifest by Tim Ralphs"

Free dramaturgy workshops coming up!

As part of our 2026 Dramaturgy Department, we have a monthly workshop series exploring all the different facets of dramaturgy for different types of theatre and performance.

Supported by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social

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Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Please ask your MP to attend the secondary breast cancer debate in parliament this Thursday and speak up for people affected by the disease. You can use this hand link. It only takes a moment 🙏

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Arts Council England - an independent review by Baroness Margaret Hodge

DCMS has published it's policy paper on the independent review into Arts Council England

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Photo of a row of five smiling Bolivian women in colourful tops and skirts holding mountajn climbing equipment while standing on ice with a mountain ridge behind them

In 2019 a group of Bolivian indigenous women aka the “Climbing Cholitas” summitted Mount Aconcagua, Argentina (highest point - Southern Hemisphere) The women had previously worked for years as cooks for mostly rich male mountaineers. They climbed in traditional dress #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman sitting sideways on a patterned armchair dressed in a dark jacket and skirt and with her hand raised to her face

I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.

- Virginia Woolf
#Womensart

It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

😭

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Photo of a young smiling girl in an orange top, head and shoulders, standing in front of a pink mural featuring children's drawings of an octopus and fish

Young Syrian refugees paint murals at Zataari camp Jordan, to overcome trauma and memories of violence #womensart

Artwork featuring tlbunches of stylised red flowers in two clear glass vases

Rachel Heller, UK artist with Down's Syndrome, who creates figurative and abstract works mostly in pastel #WomensArt

“Are the Tates really that bad, though?”

I fucking despair

Arts Council England Project Grants – Major Concerns  | ITC Independent Theatre Council Earlier this year ITC wrote to ACE to express concerns about leaked plans to change ACE Project funding in very unhelpful ways. ACE put these plans on hold, planning to revisit them in September after...

ITC's summary statement of recent ACE issues:
www.itc-arts.org/arts-council...

Portrait of a woman, head and shoulders, with long dark hair, wearing a red dress with gold pattern, in front at the bottom is a scroll with handwriting

"Here I painted myself, Frida Kahlo, with my reflection in the mirror. I am 37 years old and this is #July, 1947. In Coyoacan, Mexico, the place where I was born".
The inscription on Frida's
Self Portrait with Loose Hair, 1947
#WomensArt

Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu’s 'Camo series', photographic portraits cloaking models in patterned fabric #WomensArt #FridayFeeling

‘This isn’t a U-turn’: disabled people react to passing of watered-down welfare bill Campaigners call government’s climbdown on personal independence payments ‘desperate’ and vow to fight on

“It’ll take days bedbound to recover, but if we don’t fight our own corner, who will?”

I spoke to disabled people fighting the welfare bill - and got their reaction on last night’s chaotic vote. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Northumbria police destroy Battle of Orgreave and other miners’ strike files Force says it disposed of papers last year despite forthcoming inquiry into scenes of violent policing in 1984 Police have destroyed documents relating to the Battle of Orgreave in 1984 during the miners’ strike, which is the subject of a forthcoming official inquiry. Northumbria police disposed of the papers less than a month before Rishi Sunak called last summer’s election, which brought the Labour party into government with a longstanding manifesto pledge to hold an inquiry into the scenes of violent policing at Orgreave. Continue reading...

Northumbria police destroy Battle of Orgreave and other miners’ strike files

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

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Monochrome photograph featuring a sitting white woman facing left looking outwards wearing a long dress, with hair swept acoss part of her face and hands together neatly at her knees, in an interior dark room

“Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.”

- Dorothy Parker,
US poet, writer and wit #WomensArt

Things which can be true at once:

A) It's entertaining

B) It's deeply dysfunctional which the Trump court always was/was always going to be

C) This happens when a political project is about vibes/personality cults rather than actual convergent beliefs

D) It's pathetic

E) They could make up

A plague a’ both houses!

Red flyer with graphic elements shows main points of the new WGGB and ITC deal 24% uplift in minimum fees over three years New terms covering recording and digital rights Terms for playwrights around textual integrity, credits, publicity, rehearsal attendance, casting and more www.writersguild.org.uk/itc-new-agreement

Playwrights working in the UK independent theatre sector are to gain new rights for the digital exploitation of their work and a 24% uplift in minimum fees over three years, following a major update to the existing agreement between WGGB + @itc-arts.bsky.social

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Beige background with Graeae logo in red. Text reads, We Are Working - Allow Us To Continue

We have released a statement on the impact of recent proposed policy changes & benefits reform within the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper.

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Our community cannot & should not take this further assault on civil liberties!

Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

To mark the 1st day of my 4th year without Alice I have an announcement:
I’ve joined up with a determined group of women working to change the narrative around trans people. Women standing in solidarity with our trans siblings.

Our first step is to ask cis women to read and sign our open letter ⬇️

Stylised painting featuring a village scene with a group of houses in different colours and figures, two adults and three chilsren and a white dog, in the foreground are cacti plants and shrubs

Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973), considered to be one of the leading South American modernist painters #womensart

Petition: Make the arts part of UK National Renewal | Campaign for the Arts The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. The arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them.

🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...

Gaza kitchens warn food running out after two-months Israeli blockade Many Palestinians depend on community kitchens, but one says they have only two weeks of supplies left.

Gaza community kitchens say food is running out after two months of Israeli blockade.

“We used to receive more than 100 trucks every week - trucks of food parcels and hygiene kits. Now we don't have anything.”

UN warns of starvation if blockade holds.

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A person dancing out in the open. At the bottom of the image is a text graphic which says GET FUNDING to develop your practice.

📣 Applications are now open for Round 23 of Developing Your Creative Practice!

🌟 Ready to take your practice to the next stage? Start your application 🔗https://buff.ly/hVVi126

🗓️ Deadline for applications 12pm on 22 May 2025!

#LetsCreate

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Photo of a square cream coloured plate with orange decoration in each corner and and orange and black border and with tbe text in caputals 'aways trust your inner witch" in the middle

By UK anarcho-craftivist artist Carrie Reichardt #womensart

linkedin post screenshot: Ken Cheng - I want to connect with you, emotionally) Al will never be able to write like me. Why? Because | am now inserting random sentences into every post to throw off their language learning models. Any Al emulating me will radiator freak yellow horse spout nonsense. 1 wiite all my emails, That's Not My Baby and reports like this to protect my data waffle iron 40% off. 1 suggest all writers and artists do the same Strawberry mango Forklift. The robot nerds will never get the better of Ken Hey can | have whipped cream please? Cheng. We can tuna fish tango foxtrot defeat Al. We just have to talk like this. All. The. Time. Piss on carpet

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy