Glorious

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

Nearly six in 10 (58%) people who would vote in a second referendum said they would cast their ballot to return to the EU. The finding in a Deltapoll survey for The Mirror comes ahead of the 10th anniversary of the 2016 Brexit vote this year www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Majority of Brits say they want to reverse Brexit and rejoin EU

Nearly a decade on from the Brexit vote, six in 10 (58%) people who would cast their ballot in a second referendum said they would support the UK rejoining the EU

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Polling basics is you don’t let your cohort self select like this. More appalling bullshit journalism laundering government bullshit form the BBC

It's panto season! But make it Exeunt... and today we have playwright and director Jude Christian on how pantomime helped her crack Shakespeare's tonally trickiest plays, from Titus Andronicus to The Taming of the Shrew

‘It’s behind you, sirrah!’ What panto taught me about how to stage Shakespeare

Jude Christian on how pantomime unlocked Shakespeare's trickiest plays

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Please support Cambridge Handel Opera Company’s #crowdfunder for Imeneo if you can. They are taking brave steps into youth voice. Arts provision is being slashed in schools arts companies are stepping up. Support a young person’s confidence, empathy, self-understanding, belonging. lnkd.in/eES_5ups

Introducing 🔬 MEMORY UNDER THE MICROSCOPE 🔬- our new series examining the powerful history of vaccination and the cutting-edge immunology research behind Dangerous Matter - created by Zakiya Leeming, with libretto by @sredway.bsky.social, performed @rncmlive.bsky.social @rncmprism.bsky.social ➡️

At our demonstration today, I'm holding a placard stating "I support Palestine. Action must be taken." My aim is to highlight the absurdity of the government dictating what can and cannot be said by peace-seeking people

Jasmine Crockett with the real talk!

🎤 OPERA PREMIERE | 7pm, 24 June, RNCM Theatre ⏱️ Dangerous Matter - a powerful reflection on the role of memory in medicine & human progress, after Lady Mary Montagu Wortley. Zakiya Leeming (composer / libretto) @sredway.bsky.social (director / libretto) 🎟️ www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...

'Dangerous Matter': an opera by Zakiya Leeming & libretto by @sredway.bsky.social & Leeming, inspired by the science of immunology and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who advocated for the Turkish practice of inoculation in C18th England | RNCM Theatre | 7pm, 24 June 🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...

Dangerous Matter: A New Opera on Medicine, Memory and Innovation - Royal Northern College of Music

Dangerous Matter is a new opera on a medicine, memory and innovation

rncm.ac.uk

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...

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Genuinely haven’t done anything to enhance this photo I call it Light

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

A #learning day for me today! Bamboozle’s #TheEnabledSpace conference on #Theatre and #arts practice with learning disabled young people. Very excited to meet and learn and bring back to #TheSparkArtsForChildre #director #facilitator #dramaturg #buildingbravespaces #listening #SEND #Leicester

Mariann Edgar Budde doing the good work Someone protect her now

I won’t lie. Tonight’s banishment hurt. I wanted them to go to the end #traitors

When the young 9 year olds you’re cocreating with get sad if you turn up in jeans, you listen #childvoice #cocreation #youthvoice #clown #funkytrousers #fancypants #theatre #youthvoice #donttellmetwice #anyexcuse

Great to see play and joy in action at the Small Wonders kick off conference on EYFS co-creation with The Spark Arts for Children #cocreation #youth #arts #RadicalListening

We don’t often think about pet consent. But particularly with anxious ones it’s important to. Stopping and holding a hand nearby gives anxious Amis a chance to ask for more or leave when she’s done. And then less anxious Poppy gets involved! #pet #consent #anxiety #care #compassion #kindness

Fuck. This guy is also this guy 🤯 And he’s amazing in both

Describing a witch-hunt as “unamerican” shows a disturbing ignorance of history

Oooh Just read a couple of plays which are tickling my ethical, personal, geopolitical, fantastical/allegorical, philosophical, practical, and dramatic glands Love being a dramaturg sometimes

After he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, Albert Camus wrote a letter of thanks to his favorite childhood teacher, whom he'd never forgotten. It's beautiful.

First rejection of 2025! Gotta be a record?

Okay #TheatreSky, do your thing. - JOB ALERT - We're looking for a Technical Stage Manager to support our newest show The Cost of Everything for two weeks in February. £1275 for ~10 days work. Please share around! #Theatre #UKTheatre #TheatreJobs www.artsjobs.org.uk/jobs/search/...

Technical Stage Manager | Job

Hidden Track are looking for an experienced Technical Stage Manager to support a remount of their interactive theatre show 'The Cost of Everything'

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SIGNPOSTING REQUIRED: I’m working in Leicester schools on performing arts and child voice & agency. Looking for Midlands based, child voice/co-creation interested: #clowns #PerformanceGames makers #dancers / #choregraphers #puppeteers #PerformancePoets #singer #SongWriters TIA #dance #puppetry

New Year - let's go! First up, please join the >56,000 signatures on this petition. It's easy to get distracted by the Elon-Trump-Tommeh-Tate froth, which is all worth engaging - but we should not lose sight of driving our own drives for what we want. Sign and share please. 👇👇

This is Erasmus

Erasmus+ empowers students through opportunities to study, work, and grow across Europe. Join us in bringing this programme back to the UK

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Here is the key section of that train wreck of an interview by Robert Jenrick on #r4today. Robinson: Did you raise it when you were Home Office minister? Jenrick: We talked about it... I wasn't... My portfolio... But we talked about it. Only a minute, if you can bear it. ~AA