Day 3 at the stunning Gripsholm Castle with its Royal Theatre at the top of a tower (having replaced the chapel!)
Scott Palmer
@drscottpalmer.bsky.social
Professor of Light and Performance. Scenography, Audience Experience, XR. #CFC Views my own. https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/performance/staff/391/dr-scott-palmer
Day 2 of the Conference by Candlelight in Stockholm at the lovely Confidencen Theatre - real candles in wings, footlights and suspended over the front of the stage #theatrelighting #stagelighting
Return visit a decade on to Drottningholm Theatre (1766) as part of the Stockholm Conference by Candlelight - here with a demonstration of what happens when the window shutters at the rear of the auditorium are opened #stagelighting
Today marks the end of our production of Here’s the story… our 1st year performance at stage@leeds created through a rich period of devising and experimentation at @universityofleeds.bsky.social
It’s #lightday2026 Here’s our anthology Contemporary Performance Lighting: experience, creativity and meaning @methuendrama.bsky.social We are very proud of championing a wide range of new thinking about the creative use of light www.bloomsbury.com/uk/contempor... @unesco.bsky.social
Published today ! @methuendrama.bsky.social a timely contribution and a great addition to our Performance + Design series #XR
Lovely back projections for #MaisiePeters Before the Bloom launch event - an ‘intimate’ performance at EartH
Creative health programmes are helping to improve the UK's health & wellbeing, providing new work opportunities for creatives & saving the NHS money. Read our new report, from the CIC & @artscouncilengland.bsky.social. www.thecreativeindustries.co.uk/download-hub/health-wellbeing-forum-report
CIC Health & Wellbeing Forum 2025 Report - Download Hub: The Creative Industries
A cross sector group of experts advises greater use of innovative creative health approaches to help the UK meet long-term challenges. Download now in the Download Hub.
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@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social Trying to make contact but all emails to Bloomsbury colleagues are currently bouncing back
90 years ago today. Great grandfather Albert was instrumental in the early days of Chelsea Football Club and also father to Olympian, world record holding sprinter and radical champion for women’s sport Vera Palmer/Searle
Chelsea Graves Society@chelsea-graves.bsky.social · 12mo agoRemembering former CFC assistant secretary Albert Palmer who passed away OTD in 1935. Albert is buried in Mortlake Cemetery. buff.ly/KwO0y5m
#RIP Robert Wilson 📷 Annie Leibovitz The Watermill Center, Water Mill NY, 1994 “Nobody walks away from working with Robert Wilson without having completely changed.” - Tom Waits
Congratulations to Emilie Morin on the publication of her biography of Suzanne Beckett, offering the first full portrait of this elusive figure. It is free to download for the next two weeks tinyurl.com/54n3ztmv
Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1900-1945 - Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett
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Our permanent German lectureship now has an extended deadline of 21st July. Apply here: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer (Teaching & Research) in German Studies
Are you an academic with proven abilities to carry out cutting-edge teaching and research in German Studies?We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated individual with expertise in German ...
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Emma Cayley 谷曦@emmacayley.bsky.social · last yr.A rare opportunity for a permanent lectureship in German in our fabulous School! Please circulate to your networks. @ucfl-eca.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social
Out now: 'Research and Development in British Theatre' edited by Tom Cantrell, @katherinegraham.bsky.social, Karen Quigley & Mark Love-Smith explores how R&D is used in contemporary British theatre-making and how you can use it in your own theatre-making. bit.ly/4iXKr7i
"Without a clear vision for culture in a post-Brexit context, the UK risks leaving large parts of its creative sector without the support they need to survive." ✍️ Kirsty Warner and @husseinkassim.bsky.social explore the impact of Brexit on the creative industries ukandeu.ac.uk/how-uk-creat...
How UK creative industries are navigating Brexit alone - UK in a changing Europe
Kirsty Warner and Hussein Kassim explore the impact of Brexit on the UK creative industries.
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Still recovering from that amazing finish yesterday
A day full of memories. Fabulous to catch up with ex-colleagues and students at our event today - trying to trace the ethos and legacy of Bretton Hall College…
Delighted to share this piece I’ve written for The Stage, which explores how we might better centre and value design-led performance within the UK’s theatre ecology.
The Stage@thestage.co.uk · last yr.Theatre must put design at its heart to meet the needs of modern audiences, argues David Shearing 👇
Planning a show for #EdFringe 2025? Join Theatre Green Book for a free 1-hour webinar on how to make your production more sustainable. Tools, tips, inspiration, and space for questions. Thurs 29 May, 2–3pm Thurs 19 June, 10–11am 👉 theatregreenbook.com/events1/edin... #GreenBook
👀 Lecturer post and new degree programme at RCSSD www.cssd.ac.uk/jobs-at-cent...
Lecturer in Performance Design | The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Central is looking for an imaginative educator‑practitioner to teach on —and help steer— the new BA (Hons) Performance Design in the Department of Producing. Apply by 12 June.
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Last night of our relational performance following a semester of experimentation and devising. The Cherry Orchard at stage@leeds
🎉 Hello World 🌎🌍🌏 Today marks the 8th edition of the @unesco.org #lightday2025 celebrating the profound impact of light science, innovation and technology in society. How will you celebrate the brilliance of light today? Tag us on socials. #lightday2025✨ lightday.org
Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.
Major news story that strangely doesn’t seem to have been noticed by our mainstream media - tells you all you need to know about the UK right now…
Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social · last yr.🚨BREAKING @libertyhq.bsky.social HAS WON ITS CASE TO #DefendDemocracy! The Court of Appeal has ruled anti-protest laws which completely ignored will of Parliament are UNLAWFUL Today’s judgement sends a powerful message to the government. It must now do the right thing youtu.be/ZZxEUkEU5Lc?...
Can’t believe that it’s exactly a decade since @davidshearing.bsky.social and me staged The Dreaming - a devised 1:1 experience based on Peer Gynt. Ambitious, risk taking and dramaturgically bold- the best work I’ve seen by students @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Today, we publish ‘Higher Education and the Arts and Culture Sectors’ the latest report in our State of the Nations series. The report is written by Dr Siobhan McAndrew, Dr Mark Taylor and Dr Ruoxi Wang from the University of Sheffield with Prof Dave O’Brien from the University of Manchester.
I am hiring :-). I look for a PhD student & a postdoc for my new Digital Lives team at the U of Basel. Looking for 2 who are excited to study our everyday digital lives with me in the next years. Please share with your network. jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell... jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
Universität Basel: PhD in Media Psychology (100%)
The Faculty of Psychology is one of seven faculties of the oldest university in Switzerland. With our core focus on Society & Choice and Health & Interventions, we are successful both nationally and i...
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Pennies are essentially worthless. But if I stole 7 billion of them from Mark Zuckerberg, I think he’d call that theft. If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in busiess — you’re in organized crime.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last yr.Nasty work. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...
