Rebecca Gould
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P/T Senior Programmer, Theatre and Dance, British Council. Theatre, theatre, theatre (and a little bit of dance). Cats. And supporting refugees.
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‘they wanted a strike.. to change the political landscape away from collectivism to deregulated market forces..to achieve it they needed a war, they needed, and I quote, to provoke a strike in the nationalised industries’ Brilliant prescient writing
#JamesGraham
#Sherwood
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Please share this message from the Muslim Council of Britain following last nights brutal horrific attack on London
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Peeps, an announcement, I’m off to the
#Barbican
in London (or not as probs still working at home with different folks on zoom but...) On secondment from
@BCouncil_Wales
for one year from the 15th Feb. Very excited.
#justthroughthedoor
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Ok Pawb, Proud Welsh woman, solid working class Cardiff roots. Cymraeg possibly spoken by miner grandfather, but never part of my life in the ‘diff. Somewhere a long forgotten GCSE
@cantonianhs
circa 1989
#Goingforit
#weekintensive
#NantGwrtheyrn
#dwinbarod
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On
#InternationalWomensDay
I feel honour bound to say -leading the arts in Wales for 20 years? All lovely and brilliant, but might it be time for a change?
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@JamesCleverly
Are you equating mass murder with fair pay - you are a member of parliament and supposed to be responsible for your words?
@BBCNews
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Big announcement! Starting next year, I'll be bidding farewell to
@BCouncil_Wales
and joining
@UKTheatreDance
on a part-time basis. Although I'll miss the incredible artists and creative companies in
#Wales
, I'll forever remain their advocate.
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Cottage Retreats have just said they will go ahead with our booking for July 13th. I’ve not been this excited since Radnor Road primary announced we were going to Alton Towers this year instead of penscynor wildlife park- again.. I’m going to see the sea - oh my!!
#Pembrokeshire
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Perhaps we need to recognise sport will only take us so far and give the arts and culture a proper go?
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It is possible to love where your from; the people, culture and history, and not think that it’s better than anywhere else
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This breaks my heart. Scotland, Ireland and even England would not have to make a case to protect something so central to the nation’s scholarship and identity. So sad National Library of Wales: Ministers accused of 'lack of political will' - BBC News
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Bloody Welsh plays are like bloody buses-
(You wait for about a year. And as soon as one approaches your stop, loads of others appear)
#Excitingtimes
new
#Welshtheatre
come visit us in next few months
#Pigeon
#RomeoandJulie
#Sorter
#TheBet
#TheCostofLiving
#esandflo
What else?
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If you're depressed watch this, every couple of seconds the number of signatures whizzes upwards, I was mesmerised - it's been a long day .
Here's where you sign the petition to stop the Trump state visit . Over 770,000 already.
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When folks from different backgrounds are visible in yr theatre, a greater diversity of people feel welcomed, at home, and hopefully happier about their tax being spent on the arts. To make this work you need to offer paid employment. Volunteering isn’t a viable shortcut IMHO
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Met first when he was 17 incredibly cheeky & utterly disarming. I am so grateful for his insight & wisdom over the years & that we always laughed. When he rang me to tell me about Tara, I was in Lidl, he said ‘I’ve got something even more exciting than the middle isle!’ RIPCariad
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I remember feeling such pride and a deep joy watching the
@London2012
Olympic opening ceremony and seeing the great Windrush celebrated. Seems like a life time ago.
BBC News - 'Windrush' migrants facing deportation threat
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Going to bed. I need to think about how we can make people as angry about the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in our atmosphere being the highest it’s been in human history, as they are about not being able to buy a birthday card in Tesco Western Avenue!!
#walesinlockdown
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Some shocking, hate and fear induced comments aimed at
@Arts_Wales_
new appointment. Now, before the election and Andrew starting, not just on here, but in every single thing we do, is the time to show our solidarity with Wales; a fair nation, committed to anti-racism in the arts
🔶Arts Council of Wales appoints ‘Agent for Change’ to support the transformation of its approach to equality and diversity.
Andrew Ogun is a 23-year-old musician, writer, designer and activist from Newport, Wales. More: .
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William Dalrymple ‘India has made me more open-minded than would have been possible living in Europe. India is a true multiculture — it’s massively pluralistic in every sense: racially, religiously, climatically, geographically. It’s a living lesson against dogmatism’
Why we travel: William Dalrymple on how living in India has changed him
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#Rant
I’ve recruited enough people in the sector to notice a marked difference on how men and women negotiate contract terms and fees. Men ask for more generally, and when women do same, they are often immediately batted away or seen as greedy and unreasonable.
#Makesmemad
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This obviously terrible for music and the arts but it’s so much more than that, it squashes the hope and optimism that comes with international exchange and dialogue, and the possibility of inspiration and curiosity
UK ‘rejected offer’ of visa-free tours by musicians in EU, despite blaming Brussels for permit blow
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So admiring of freelance artists, I’ve spoken to a few today making big hard decisions to cancel travel and gigs at huge personal cost to them and their livelihoods, but determined to lead the way and be responsible. Total legends
#COVID_19uk
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Done. Seamless system in Splott and the staff were extremely kind. Diolch
@WelshGovernment
and all bless the NHS x
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Slightly disrespectful by Norton, and so with incredible dignity, apparent ease and immense focus she moves the fizz swirling around him to a world she magics out of air.
#DameJudiDench
Judi Dench was on Graham Norton last night to push her new book about her life and work with Shakespeare. After making the point we quote Shakespeare daily without knowing it, this happened:
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‘a party of Welsh miners from the Rhondda valley...the great working-class army routed during what the poet Idris Davies called the “summer of soups and speeches” – general strike of 1926.‘
How Paul Robeson found his political voice in the Welsh valleys
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An emptiness in the pit of my tummy about the NTW news. I am thinking back to all thinking, excitement, possibilities,back and back over generations, way before the company was formed, and then it was THERE and now it might not be ..devastating.
We are pleased to announce the outcome of our Investment Review, the process that decides how £29.6m of public money will be distributed to various arts organisations in Wales.
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Celebrating the launch of David’s book ‘Early Twentieth Century Welsh Plays in English’
@parthianbooks
@davidcottis
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When I was 13 I was suspended from school for pushing over a racist bully. Ms Williams, Deputy Head, said ‘if you want to fight injustice you’re going to have to be cleverer than that’. Essentially you don’t defeat bullies by being a bully, no matter how righteous.
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This isn’t news to anyone who has worked in the industry but good have it confirmed :-(
“The largest subsidy for the arts comes not from governments, patrons or the private sector, but from artists themselves in the form of unpaid or underpaid labour.”
#UNESCO
@LPolivtseva
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Just found CultureCase site- massive array of research from around the world, edited into easily accessible summaries and providing empirical evidence to support activities across the arts. Probably late to the party but it’s very exciting!
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Devastated by this, went to nursery school there, saw my first band, set up my first youth theatre, directed first play...an Integral part of
#Canton
. Even if you’re a philistine but own property in Canton, the value of if relies on
@chaptertweets
so pls give now
#Chapterfactor
Help us
#SaveChapter
. Whilst closed and unable to trade, our losses are escalating quickly. We urgently need your support to ensure Chapter’s survival. It's our 50th birthday in 2021, let's ensure we get there. More:
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The very brilliant
@allewismusic
hosting a Singalong outside my front door.
#Northumberlandstreet
is indeed singing along. What a treat. Next week it’s
@ghbonello
down your way on
#penypeelroad
@el_schmitz
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The Welsh Government Freelance fund for Cardiff closed in less than 30 mins. It’s undignified, inequitable and unacceptable can you do anything to help?
@JoStevensLabour
@KevinBrennanMP
@AnnaMcMorrin
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My short term memory is the thing most impacted by the menopause. It’s never been great to be honest, but now it’s non existent. I’ve come to recognise younger colleagues looking at each other with the ‘didn’t we agree this’ look. We should talk more
#Menopause
#killtheshame
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As a freelance artist there is no way I could have survived this. There wasn’t a safety net and I was living month to month. When my dad died it took me two years to recover from the lost income and I had to move out of my lovely flat. Which is why I’m supporting
#gigsaid
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We need a Federal Theatre Project - ‘established during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal to fund live performances created not as a cultural activity but as a relief measure to employ artists, writers, directors, and theater workers’ Wikipedia
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I did not get the
#alevels
I hoped for and I did not secure a place at Bristol to study Drama. I’m alright now. Congratulations if you did, but if you didn’t, it will be OK, promise x
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Here’s a thing peeps. Its really tough, and it’s tough on zoom all the time, I know we all get frustrated and forget where the buttons are and people wang on, but be just KIND. Some of the things I’ve seen over the last couple of days.. shameful.
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Wales sets up its own Erasmus programme | Education | The Guardian
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So proud of
#Cardiff
for producing a uniquely daring and truly international company in
@NoFitState
#ShowcasingWales
with the extraordinary, anarchic
#Lexicon
in London
@RoundhouseLDN
last night. Audiences wowed.
@walesintheworld
@Arts_Wales_
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We do not have a refuge crisis in the Uk. Only 1% of the worlds refugee population are in the UK. Refugees make the treacherous journey in rubber dinghys because the water is safer than where they started, and the ONLY difference between us and them is, luck.
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35 yrs on, I remember
@ShermanTheatre
main, being full a handful of times. Ed’s GasStation, Frank Vickery, Charlie’s Black Hill, Ash on a Young Man’s Sleeve, Everything Must Go and tonight. Not scientific, but all the proof I need that we need more new Welsh Plays for that space
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Including 50 million earmarked for Wales
The show must go on.
We’re introducing a world-leading £1.57 billion rescue package to help cultural, arts and heritage institutions weather the impact of coronavirus.
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Big day for many in the arts in Wales. Sending love and here if you need a chat.
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Waking up in New York. 4 years today since I started working
@BCouncil_Wales
Still miss an opening night but have had incredible opportunities to work with artists in
#Wales
and with amazing colleagues across the world. Diolch o Galon Pawb.
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What was surprising and lovely about the
#CreativeConersation
session hosted by
@NTWtweets
today. Was the number of people who wanted to talk about how we as a community support each other better, how we can be kinder and more generous.
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He’s home!! His humans are delighted.
Missing Cat: Howie (friends cat) has gone missing from Canton. Went out last night and hasn’t come back, it’s very unlike him. Grateful if you could keep an eye out, especially in the Llandaff Road, Springfield Place, Glynn Street area.
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Loving all these shout outs for the importance of Youth Theatre - now if we could just go back to funding them properly...
"Putting on a play teaches you teamwork like nothing else"
Russell T Davies on his youth theatre days
#DesertIslandDiscs
@laurenlaverne
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KLAXON: Phil George, Chair of
@Arts_Wales_
talking about the centrality of Arts and Culture to making transnational partnerships for Wales and to eliciting curiosity and an understanding of being connected for folks inside Wales. Da Iawn. A great week for this.
Dr Phil George, Chair of Arts Council of Wales,
@Arts_Wales_
says it's crucial for artists in Wales to engage with artists from around the world.
#EinLlaisYnYByd
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End of a long week. West Wales and I’m going in despite the rain :-)
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Bore da
#Paddington
. Take me to
#Swansea
for a day of
#Circus
and
#OutdoorArts
with the one and only
@NoFitState
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Solidarity with all my freelance arts friends. I am also working on a bank holiday! Lots of coffee and malted milk biscuits!
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Lots of calls for this in Wales. Here is a model from Denmark of dark cultural institutions being used as inventive, creative, global classrooms - Lets do it!
@GetTheChance4U
@theatriolo
@sargent65
@Culture_SwanUni
@walesintheworld
@NTWtweets
“It’s already happening in Denmark, where museums are being used not just as overspill classrooms but to deliver a different kind of education with creativity at its heart.”
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Meeting on a boat in the Mekong Delta. Might wear this hat for all my meetings in future.
#Vietnam
@parthianbooks
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Maybe now more than ever it’s time to work together - things won’t be the same again, the past will likely be a foreign land - so if as makers, watchers and supporters of art we share more collaborate more and support one another, we could be mighty? Or that’s what I reckon
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Good news from
@Arts_Wales_
They’re obviously working their socks off on behalf of the sector. Huge gratitude! They don’t have resources that England has, but neither do they have the large number of orchestras, theatre, ballet & Opera companies, so it will go further we hope...
@sargent65
Really great news. We're in discussions with the Welsh Government now, and we'll share an update as soon as possible. We're determined to find practical ways of supporting artists and arts organisations in Wales.
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At last. We need plenty more articles like this. The Creative Industries in Wales employ many more people than farming but all we hear about is the impact on Agriculture...
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Excellent supportive clear statement from ACW including welcome news they’re postponing the investment review for 1 year. Now we all need to come together and lobby Welsh Government to support all artists in Wales
Responding to Coronavirus (Covid-19): Our latest update, including information for those working as artists, freelancers and in publicly funded cultural organisations
#covid19
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My Facebook has been hacked. Please don’t open anything from me- it’s not me :-(
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Emails from folks I taught in youth theatre or on RSC projects who are struggling at the mo; careers in theatre abruptly halted. Feeling helpless, want to get a huge blanket, wrap them up, feed them soup, home made cakes, reread
#JohnMcGrath
and work out new future together.
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I did a rip of useless degree at post 92 university. I’ve worked in the arts since the day I left 29 years ago, all the time paying my taxes and contributing to society. But total waste of time apparently. 😠
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Since 2010, enrolment in arts GCSEs has fallen by 40% and the number of arts teachers has fallen by 23%. This shift is most pronounced among state schools in deprived areas, where pupils are far less likely to sing in a choir or play in an orchestra.
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I’m so sad and disappointed about the way this has been handled.
@WNCardiff
@TaskForceCymru
and numerous individual and organisations asked
@welshgocreative
not to go with a first come first served basis, it was absolutely clear that this would lead to a total lack of fairness
We are responding to queries about
@WelshGovernment
freelance fund today. Check our feed for all updates. Please send any comments to us and we will feedback to
@welshgocreative
and government. Thank you.
walesfreelancetaskforce
@gmail
.com
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And that’s a wrap for me. Thanks to brilliant
#LBF18CymruWales
partnership team
@WAICymruWales
@Arts_Wales_
@WelshBooks
@LitWales
@walesliterature
and Pen Cymru A productive and successful few days. Special thanks to
@wgmin_culture
for supporting and for such an inspiring speech.
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Clare Williams formerly of
@HijinxTheatre
is currently making
#Wales
very proud - and many from elsewhere very envious - as she introduces Fred, and all the brilliant actors from Hijinx Wales, to
@ISPA_global
@BCouncil_Wales
@walesintheworld
@Arts_Wales_
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It’s been a sad week, but at least there’s this.
'I'm very much looking forward to being back in the building.' ❤
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Thanks for the likes, it’s quite terrifying speaking out, and yet I fear if we don’t it will go unnoted and the opportunity to look at why there aren’t more women at the top will pass and on we go.
#IWD2022
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Currently womanning the books stall
@chaptertweets
. This was how my life was meant to be, talking to people about books, especially little people :-)
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Brilliant short plays by brilliant Welsh women what’s not too like?
@Summerhallery
22.35 Thursday
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One to watch. I suspect it’s the first but…
Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch (
@QueensTheatreH
) is to scrap its artistic director model, with the creative aspects of the venue to be run by a series of people and organisations, including
@graeae
and
@maiseybawden
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This is amazing and it’s all of the UK not just England thanks to
@Arts_Wales_
The Weston Jerwood
#CreativeBursaries
is back and this time arts or cultural organisations can apply to host a creative Fellow and support the development of a new generation of talent. Deadline 30 January!
#WJCB2022
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Rainy afternoon on the Southbank, perfect day to revisit a play that had a massive impact on me in my teens and led to my volunteering for the amazing Cardiff AIDS Helpline in the very early 90’s.
#NormalHeart
@NationalTheatre
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🤩 Nesaf
@CamFolkFest
llais gwych
@Lleuwen
. Audience stunned by the beauty of the sound, as she summons the spirit of Brân the Blessed (Bendigeidfran) and reminds us of the importance building bridges, internationally and at home!
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‘In a public health crisis it’s really important to lead by example, so modelling good behaviour’.. except when it’s inconvenient to….when you have a shed more privilege than anyone else… and when there is a letter y in the day.
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Great to hear this from one of our AM’s
Arts and culture are integral to our lives. We listen to music as we travel to work, we go to the cinema on the weekend, we sometimes go to the theatre, a gallery. It HELPS our health and wellbeing. It's not a fluffy add on.
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Absolutely Devastating. A deliberate and sinister act of vandalism to destroy a liberal arts culture in the Uk. Funding cuts to go ahead for university arts courses in England despite opposition | University funding | The Guardian
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Irked again yesterday by a comment that Wales doesn’t have a playwrighting tradition. Up early rereading some Welsh plays.
#timetoreimagine
#Onbearridge
didn’t appear from a vacuum, but a tradition that lacks proper support and critical reflection maybe...
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Great night out
@ShermanTheatre
joyous, funny. What a show from
@HijinxTheatre
we danced, we sang, we laughed our socks off and we stood and cheered at the end. A wonderful
#Cardiff
story
#Housemates
Tonight is Press Night! ⭐ Best of luck to the Housemates team. We're looking forward to a very special night!
Our co-production with Hijinx is here at the Sherman until Saturday, don't miss it:
#MadeAtSherman
#HousematesCardiff
📸 Mark Douet
(1/4)
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Minor prob of recent times and everything going on in the sector, is I’ve stopped talking about art - rather than how to support it, make it more equitable, resilient, sustainable. All V. important, arguably more,but I miss discussions coming from making or responding to work
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Big day; visit from British Council chairman
@steviespring1
, launch ‘Connections Through Culture’
#IndiaWales
at
#Diwali
#Cardiff
with
@inBritish
AND the opening of the Photography season
@Museum_Cardiff
in
@BCouncil_Wales
is supporting Bernd and Hilla Becher: Industrial Visions
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Preoccupied by
#Tomatoes
as I travelled about Europe on the train this week. I bought some from plentiful counters in Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, Austria and Italy. Funny that…
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Someone just said to me, ‘come on where’s your sense of humour’ in relation to my early comment on this. For avoidance of doubt, the is gendered, offensive nasty propaganda it is NOT funny.
#InCaseYouMissedIt
@YesCymru
uploaded a video this evening. They’ve taken it down now after a really bad backlash: if you’re interested, check it out here 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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@laurenpattison
First assistant director job I was sent to make the coffee. Searched for ages couldn’t find it, came back ‘ur sorry where’s the coffee?’ Director looks up from script, ‘isn’t it in the fridge?’ IN THE FRIDGE - What the actual.. in the bloody fridge!!
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Beautiful. We will miss him but we will remember him. Othniel Smith obituary | Theatre | The Guardian
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Nation’s theatre royalty out for a celebration of the late great Siôn Eirian
@rwcmd
today. An extraordinary revisiting of his work and friendships; a deeply political life intertwined with a brilliantly creative one, leaving a canon that could have filled 5 lives & not just one.
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MISSING CAT: Folks of Canton, I’d be so grateful if you could keep a look out for GUS, check sheds etc. He’s a bit blind, has one wonky eye, and so trips over/ fall off things a lot. Super friendly though, and loves people especially people with food!
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