📢 Shifting The Stage networking event
🕠 Tomorrow (21 Jan) | 5:30pm
📍 Tron Theatre, Glasgow
A FREE networking event for disabled, d/Deaf & neurodivergent artists and arts workers, hosted by Imaginate.
BSL, quiet area, food & drink provided.
🎟️ Book here👇
www.imaginate.org.uk/artists/even...
A gorgeous photo of Robert Softley Gale and Prof Dee Heddon. They are smiling to the camera and elegantly dressed, donning their academic gowns. The photo is by the University of Glasgow cloisters.
Congratulations to all our graduates and to @robert-s-gale.bsky.social, who received his Honorary Doctor of Letters at yesterday's ceremony. It was such a pleasure to be able to acknowledge all the brilliant work he has done and continues to do with Birds of Paradise Theatre Company and beyond.
Check out our amazing line-up of playwrights for Drama@TheDepot, we're so excited to be working with them all.
Come along to LeithDepot to see how each have individually interpreted our theme, Up in the Air, on Monday February 3rd at Leith Depot
Tickets tinyurl.com/3m6rc58b
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Rockvilla, the National Theatre of Scotland’s headquarters, brightly lit with a spectrum of rainbow colors.
🌈 Join us at Rockvilla, our Glasgow hub, for a networking event for those within the LGBTQ+ performing arts community
This is an accessible and inclusive event with BSL interpretation
FIND OUT MORE & SECURE YOUR SPOT NOW
www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/whats-on-tem...
"Forty per cent of men under the age of twenty five in prison today were in care. For me they have already been failed by society."
Prison reform campaigner, Matthew Torbitt, explains why early Government intervention could prevent imprisonment and save money.
#Newsnight
A very chilly day in Glasgow. If you are struggling to stay warm, remember that Glasgow Libraries have the heating on and offer free hot drinks. No need for a library card to snuggle up on a seat.
Bar chart shows the % of global fossil fuel emissions occurring in a lifetime with bars of different length for ages from 5 to 100 years. More emissions happen over a longer lifetime. During the life of an 85 year old, 90% of all emissions happened. For someone age of 30 the rate is already 50%
If you're aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime
Denmark spends £1.84b per year, which dwarfs us
FST is pleased that the Scottish Government has committed to increase the culture budget by £34m next year, with almost £54m for Creative Scotland Multi-Year Funding. This is better than expected, and we hope it is a positive sign for the future of the sector.
Haven't shared this on here yet.
Very proud of the work we do and how access can sit at its core
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Yes! That! It does something to the same bit of me that wanted a massive model train set when I was a kid. Which is surely the less violent end of the being a lone assassin
They've pitched it very well imo. Lemme know what you think of it - I've become a bit obsessed
Tell us about your show reports!
From actor mishaps to technical tweaks, we want to hear about your wildest show reports from 2024 to include in a feature by The Stage.
Please reach out to georgia.luckhurst@thestage.co.uk by December 1st.
#TheatreSky #StageManagers #Theatre
Disabled musicians earning all their income from music face an average disability pay gap of £4,400, according to the findings of a new report.
If you belong in this, please give me a shout. If you've asked to be in it and I haven't added you yet please nudge me - I've probably just missed a notification in the flurry!
A list of bands in order of efficacy:
3. Placebo
2. The Cure
1. Prevention
Mother Goose will be The Gaiety’s first in-house production to feature actors performing in BSL, Sign Supported English and spoken English throughout, and Scotland’s first hearing-led pantomime to involve two D/deaf actors
https://theatreweekly.com/ayr-gaietys-mother-goose-features-two-deaf-actor…
A busy EPAD day - Support Surgeries this morning and Disabilities Equalities training with @robert-s-gale.bsky.social and Mairi Taylor from Birds of Paradise Theatre this afternoon.
Building a list of women and people of marginalised genders working in theatre! Interact and we'll add you 💓 go.bsky.app/BhyHv9L
So who else is a little bit obsessed with Eddie Redmayne in the new Day of the Jackall? Not just me then?
“You can take a risk, push it a wee bit, and I like that. It’s always been a bit anarchic and I’m just keeping that tradition alive.”
Johnny McKnight shared with Glasgow Times why Tron Panto is not like any other show at Christmas.
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2472519...
Is film the better form for this story? I imagine you get the landscape in a way that stage can't quite capture
#ScottishTheatre starter pack! If you're a theatre professional in Scotland, comment to be added to it.
Bluesky doesn't have a centralised algorithm like Twitter, so if we want to find each other we have to repost/talk to each other. Likes alone won't cut it, so please share.
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