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Michelle Kelly retweeted
😍 250+ Fringe shows centring Performers of Colour, across the full spectrum of genres, now listed on the Fringe of Colour Database! Don't plan your Fringe without it 👇🏽
docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
Michelle Kelly retweeted
According to this database, fewer than 8% of shows and events at this year's @edfringe centre People of Colour (calculated using the criterion that 50% or more of the performers or speakers on a particular stage are People of Colour). That's just 256 shows out of 3,317.
Michelle Kelly retweeted
With the @edfringe programme launched, it's a good time to present...
📢The 2024 #FringeOfColour Database!📜 A comprehesive list of all of the shows/events at this year's Fringe that centre People of Colour. Take a look at these incredible productions!👇🏾
docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
Today we're thrilled to launch the 2024 #edfringe programme! 🤩
Prepare to be amazed as artists and performers from nearly 60 countries will light up Edinburgh with over 3,300 shows this August! 🌍
Theatre, dance, comedy, circus, music, physical theatre, cabaret, opera, children's shows...you name it...we've got you covered! 🤸🏼♂️ 💃
Book tickets and #UnleashYourFringe 🎭
eu1.hubs.ly/H07GvNn0
Michelle Kelly retweeted
To fellow actors: The race to the bottom is real. The more we accept jobs like that, the less likely we will be able to make this career livable for many. Especially with AI on the rise. Value yourself, the industry, and your community of actors more.
Michelle Kelly retweeted
Yes, it’s increased my hate for the government that has pushed these poor workers into obscene levels of hardship that they’re forced to strike
Tell us: have you been affected by the strikes? theguardian.com/uk-news/2022…
Michelle Kelly retweeted
Trying to plan your August? Check out the newly updated #FringeOfColour Database, which lists over 170 shows and events by Black, Asian, Indigenous and Latine creatives taking part in the @edfringe, @edintfest and @edbookfest! docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
Michelle Kelly retweeted
today's one page rpg is about a prime minister who won't resign, and it's called The Prime Minister Won't Resign
Michelle Kelly retweeted
Why do we do the #FringeOfColour spreadsheet? At the Fringe, shows by Artists of Colour have made up only about 6% of the programme in previous years. At the 2020 International Festival, less than 10% of all the performers were People of Colour. So it can be hard to find them...
Michelle Kelly retweeted
The season three cast grows ever more with the addition of the fantastic @Michellicopter! Michelle can be heard in @TheKilda, @TwoFlatEarthers and the upcoming 'Connections' podcast by @WeTalkofDreams.
Another northern voice to help us tell more northern stories!
Michelle Kelly retweeted
starting today with a teach out on #anticasualisation #precarity in #neoliberalacademy I will also be part of together with @kirstyegraham & @racheljmchung - sign in for this and subsequent events at the zoom link in the tweet below.
🧵UCU SCOTLAND STRIKE TEACH-OUTS - Pls RT!
Starting next week UCU members are running online teachouts which anyone can join. All welcome - members, non-members, students, supporters!
Details below, register here (just one link for all of them): us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
Michelle Kelly retweeted
You can support our international efforts by campaigning here in the UK. Ask @BorisJohnson to protect trans people’s long-established rights under the Equality Act. Take action 🚨 bit.ly/EHRC-action
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Michelle Kelly retweeted
So much talent in one room! Thank you to everyone who made it along to our casting workshop with @cast_scot this week, it was wonderful to meet you all 🎭🥧🍺🧑🤝🧑
🎭👩🏽🤝👨🏻👨🏾🤝👨🏼👭🧑🤝🧑🧑🤝🧑👭👨🏾🤝👨🏼👩🏽🤝👨🏻🎭
Massive thank you to the 96 actors who attended @PlayPiePint open casting workshop and to the PPP team for organising this. It is so exciting to see a company be so open to meeting new talent and diversifying their pool of actors.
Michelle Kelly retweeted
1) If you’re a person of privilege who claims to be an ally and you’re told you’re being harmful, then the correct reaction is to listen, learn, apologise and do better. It really is that simple.
If you’re defensive then the question is ‘were you ever trying to help?’
Michelle Kelly retweeted
There's a phenomenon I actually see extremely commonly when literature is used to teach history to middle school and high school students. Let's call it "pajamafication."
Michelle Kelly retweeted
The incredible 22-year-old Alice Jackson co-founded @StrutSafe after the murder of Sarah Everard in London. It’s a service that keeps people company as they walk alone and helps get them home safe. You can call anywhere in the UK. Take a listen :
Michelle Kelly retweeted
I really dislike the “we feel fools for following the rules” narrative - as if the rules were wrong, not the fact Johnson broke them. No one should feel stupid for following public health guidance, all at a time of no vaccine and immense NHS pressure. Your actions saved lives.
Michelle Kelly retweeted
Can the public view things like canes/crutches/etc like glasses please.
Glasses help millions SEE every day. We think nothing of it anymore. To the point people forget they're an accessibility device, not fashion. Yet. If the majority lost their glasses, they'd be incapacitated.