🚨JOB KLAXON🚨 @kingsmusic.bsky.social is delighted to offer a permanent Lectureship/Senior Lectureship, starting ASAP, in the history of opera and/or music theatre (any timeframe) OR historically European music c. 1780 to1900. SHORT DEADLINE – 31 AUGUST APPLY HERE: tinyurl.com/2t34j665 SHARE!!!

SKIN OF THE CITY: an installation of 3000+ fragments of stony matter that have flaked, chipped or crumbled from the walls, pavements and roads of Glasgow, now forming a lithic map of the city. By our own Minty Donald, w Nick Millar + Malú Cayetano. Ends on Sun! architecturefringe.com/festivals/20...

Skin of the City

Exhibition and public events about the stony ‘skin’ of Glasgow’s built environment.

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Just two more weeks to go! We can't wait to see you at our summer showcase: 26 June, 7pm. Excerpts from 5 brilliant plays written by playwrights from our Playwriting & Dramaturgy MLitt, read by professional actors under Philip Howard's expert direction. Don't forget to book your free tickets! Link 👇

Theatre Studies at University of Glasgow@theatrestudiesuog.bsky.social · last yr.

✨ THE BONDS THAT SHAPE US ✨ is a play-reading showcase of new work by 5 emerging playwrights on our Playwriting & Dramaturgy MLitt programme, feat. professional actors directed by the brilliant Philip Howard. 26 June 7pm. Free but ticketed: please reserve your ticket using the Eventbrite link 👇

For those in/near Glasgow: we're celebrating the work of the fantastic playwrights in our Playwriting & Dramaturgy MLitt with a play-reading showcase on 26 June. We'd love you to join! Excerpts from new plays by Chris Kane, Kilda Kennedy, Sophie Pass, Matthew Taylor & Katy-Valentine Willcocks...

Theatre Studies at University of Glasgow@theatrestudiesuog.bsky.social · last yr.

✨ THE BONDS THAT SHAPE US ✨ is a play-reading showcase of new work by 5 emerging playwrights on our Playwriting & Dramaturgy MLitt programme, feat. professional actors directed by the brilliant Philip Howard. 26 June 7pm. Free but ticketed: please reserve your ticket using the Eventbrite link 👇

Glasgow pals: Maya El Naha & @theatrestudiesuog.bsky.social PhD researcher Gonca Yalcin are leading a workshop for children (5-12 yrs) involving story-telling & puppetry-making inspired by the book Olive Harvest in Palestine. 10 May 2pm CCA. Funds will be donated: www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/ol...

Olive Harvest in Palestine: A Puppetry Workshop

CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts is Glasgow’s hub for the arts, hosting exhibitions, films, music, literature, workshops, festivals and performances.

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The Alfred Fagon Award, the leading award for Black British Playwrights is now open for 2025 entrants. You have until August 31st to enter and have the chance to join winners who include the outstanding Inua Ellams who won last time out…

Geographers! Please join 300 of us — at every career stage — who are urging the Royal Geographical Society to reaffirm its commitment to trans inclusion in the face of Supreme Court ruling, and to oppose the EHRC’s interim update. Sign by WED 30 April 1700 GMT docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Open letter to RGS on Supreme Court and EHRC events April 2025

If you are an academic geographer (broadly conceived) of any career stage, To sign the open letter please fill in this form: https://forms.gle/AmjaJh37xLt4CMwx5. Your signature will be added manually....

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Felicity Callard@felicitycallard.bsky.social · last yr.

We've written an open letter to RGS/IBG re: Supreme Court ruling + EHRC update. If you're an academic geographer (broadly conceived) at any career stage anywhere in the world, please read, consider signing, and share (closes 1700 GMT 30 April) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Our Doctoral Researcher, Liam Young, and the Contemporary Research Group are organising this online event reflecting on the legacy of Fredric Jameson. Confirmed speakers are MP @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social and Dr Patricia McManus, author of Critical Theory and Dystopia (MUP, 2022). Please join us!

Bona diada de Sant Jordi a tothom! My favourite day of the year in Catalunya, when we express love and affection by gifting books and roses 🌹 📖

Lots of opportunities here - including a £2k commission to create a unique piece of artwork marking 25 yrs of advocacy and support in opening up arts and culture to deaf, deafened and hard of hearing audiences. Please share :)

Jobs - Disability Arts Online

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Here two more scholarships for MA studies for students of Gaza at the Uni of Sussex, UK. Due date for applications 1st June 2025. Please share. www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

Palestinian Scholarship

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Rest in power, John Fox. Welfare State was a guiding light to a generation of theatre and performance-makers. 🏮

John Fox obituary

Co-founder of the Welfare State, a street theatre company that later moved on to community-related work

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If you are planning to visit Spain for your holidays, please do consider alternatives to AirBnB - tourist flats are a big driver in the country's housing emergency, together with property speculation. Less flats available for long-term rent at spiralling places: folk simply can't afford to live.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

Thousands in Spain join nationwide march to protest against housing crisis

And this by @alcs.co.uk contains some suggestions on what you can do about Meta's use of LibGen

ALCS@alcs.co.uk · last yr.

Our comment on Meta's use of LibGen, a notorious database of pirated content 👇 www.alcs.co.uk/news/alcs-co...

The @societyofauthors.bsky.social has written to Lisa Nandy, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, demanding that Meta is held to account following allegations that authors’ works have been used without permission/remuneration to train its AI model. You can add your name here 👇

The Society of Authors@societyofauthors.bsky.social · last yr.

Thank you to everyone who has signed our petition, 6,000+! Authors deserve to have a livelihood and compensation from their work, if you haven't signed do so now 👇

If this is for you, get involved. If it isn’t, let someone who might be know…

250,000 more people will face relative poverty after Rachel Reeves’ benefits cuts, DWP says – spring statement live

250,000 more people will face relative poverty after Rachel Reeves’ benefits cuts, DWP says – spring statement live

Department for Work and Pensions says thousands, including children, will be hit by chancellor’s announcement, as OBR forecasts UK growth to halve in 2025

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This looks great & what a brilliant set of guest speakers!

Pleased to have an essay in this new book on Dennis Kelly’s writing for stage and screen. Congratulations to Jacqueline Bolton and Nicholas Holden, who’ve edited the volume with such care and rigour. 👏

Sent off the final round of proofs for my book- out in August so plenty of time to add to modules on playwriting/ feminist theatre/ contemporary drama for next academic year😉 Chapters on plays by Jasmine Lee-Jones, RashDash, Ella Hickson, Alice Birch, Lucy Kirkwood www.bloomsbury.com/uk/radical-r...

Radical Realisms in Contemporary British Theatre

This book offers radical new insights into the relation between realism, feminism and gender identities in contemporary theatre. It maps the theatrical forms em…

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Here's the link to join us on the live stream for 'Making Work Accessible' 🔗 youtube.com/live/25670NB... Come and join us now at The Lowry until 17:00! #transformingleadershipnational #leadershipdevelopment #disabilityemployement #accesstowork #disabilityart

My brilliant colleague Liz Tomlin has just published a short book on staging class conflict in the UK. ✨ FREE ✨ to read/download using this link: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Staging Class Conflict in the UK

Cambridge Core - Drama and Theatre: General Interest - Staging Class Conflict in the UK

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Wonderful to welcome our second Theatre Studies Visiting Fellow to the University of Glasgow- Amanda Cumberbatch, who joins us from the University of the West Indies, Barbados.

If you are a Yorkshire-based artist working in any theatre discipline, take a look at Red Ladder's artist development policy. Wonderful folk.

Red Ladder Theatre Company, Leeds@redladder.bsky.social · last yr.

Hey lovely artists 👋 We've been putting our heads together about how we can support you. Here are the commitments we've made👇 #ArtistDevelopment #theatre www.redladder.co.uk/about/artist...

A reminder that the calls for papers for the 13 working groups of the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA @tapra.bsky.social) are live. We’ll be hosting the event here at Warwick from 27-29 August 2025. The deadline for abstracts is 10 March. Details: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

Morning! Just a quick note to say that Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow is now on Bluesky! Do give us a follow for updates on our Glasgow Theatre seminar series, research events & other news ☺️ @theatrestudiesuog.bsky.social

BOOK LAUNCH!! 🎉 Super excited to launch my monograph Contemporary Performance & Political Economy. Join us on 27 March to hear responses by Shane Boyle (QMUL), Rosalie Doubal (Tate), Marcela Fuentes (Northwestern) & Elena Loizidou (BBK). Chair: Maria X (UaL). Details at: katerinaparamana.com/launch

Deadline approaching!

Cristina Delgado-García@cdelgadogarcia.bsky.social · 2y ago

Theatre Studies @uofglasgow.bsky.social & Scottish Theatre Archive are piloting a Practitioner Residency! Open to self-employed artist practitioners not funded in full by another org to develop a project engaging w/ archive. Fee: £2000. Deadline: 21 Feb. Pass it on! www.gla.ac.uk/subjects/the...

Very much looking forward to sharing some of the details of my new book, a global history of modern dance, courtesy of @rcsofficial.bsky.social Exchange Talks next week. Monday 24 Feb at 6pm (GMT), online and all welcome! events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a0bd2f...

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