Dr Penny Hay
@penahay.bsky.social
Artist, Researcher, Professor of Imagination Bath Spa University, National Teaching Fellow, Cofounder Forest of Imagination, FRSA, FCCT 💚🦋 https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/penny-hay/
If you have time to look (very) closely you’ll notice 2 sleeping sparrows in the rose bush 💖
“Arts education isn’t an optional extra; it’s how children develop confidence, curiosity, creativity and a sense of agency. If we truly value those qualities, we need to make arts education a priority for every child.” www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/leading...
Leading figures call on Burnham government to 'fully restore' arts subjects in schools - Arts Professional
Arts and education organisations have called on new Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Education Secretary Lucy Powell to "go further" in order to ensure the
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AND! we opened for submissions of fiction, essays and experimental texts ... all details here: minorliteratures.com/submissions/
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We are open for submissions of reviews, interviews, extracts, beefs, and textos en español/textes en français year round. Please read submissions requirements carefully before sending your work. Fi…
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Far northern Scottish midsummer sunsets, painted around midnight. Watercolour on Two Rivers paper 290x190mm
Wonderful to meet Dianne Regisford at the Fellowship Dinner (+amazing home grown figs ;) @hawkwoodcft.bsky.social
Where Do They Live? Bath Spa University Saturday 8 & 9 August 2026 @forestofimaginatn.bsky.social www.ticketsource.com/booking/sele...
The Arts and Humanities improve the quality of all our lives. The Creative Industries bring in revenue as well as massive benefits to all society ❤️
Creative & performing arts subjects received £16.8 million SPG 2024-25; £12.9 million in 2025-26; £ O million in 2026-27. The University of Creative Arts will thus lose half of its government funding this year; Art University Bournmouth 40.7%, Norwich U of Arts 40.4% and Leeds Arts U 30.3%. 1/2
Arts institutions hit hard as OfS details teaching grant cuts
University for the Creative Arts loses more than half of its funding after support for creative subjects reduced to zero
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Dear lovely bluesky people, if you love nature, arts and imagination, please donate if you can and please share widely! 💚🍀🌈 @forestofimaginatn.bsky.social localgiving.org/fundraising/...
Calling all UK artists & educators. Please sign! 💖🌈 @campaignforthearts.org www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/
Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts
Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.
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Save the arts - in all phases of education! www.culturallearningalliance.org.uk/latest/
Latest – Cultural Learning Alliance
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The UK is getting a "10-year plan". The arts should be in it. 🎶💃🎭🎨✍️📸🎥🧵🏛️
Campaign for the Arts@campaignforthearts.org · 2w agoThe new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. @andyburnham.bsky.social the arts and culture MUST be part of it. We've launched an urgent petition to make sure the arts can play their part in revitalising the nation 🌱 Add your name ✏️ www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10...
Funded PhD: Civic Imaginary civicimaginaries.gla.ac.uk/funded-phd-o...
» Funded PhD Opportunity: Exploring Civic Feelings and Emotional Governance in Place-Based Policy
this four-year project brings together communities, policy makers, researchers and artists to ask what being civic means in the United Kingdom right now
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Please share our new animation @forestofimaginatn.bsky.social created by graduates supported by Juno House 🩵🦋 vimeo.com/1212618194?f...
Forest of Imagination 2026 by Bath Spa University's Juno House
Forest of Imagination, in collaboration with Bath Spa University's Juno House, has published a brand-new short film animation. Created by Bath Spa University Graduates, Olivia Howard, Dylan Cox and Bl...
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This weekend marks the anniversary of the very first WOMAD Festival in 1982. "Because WOMAD was unique in its focus on music and art from around the world, and mixing it up with rock and jazz, no-one knew how many people might turn up and we had seriously overestimated our appeal.“
