
Creative Economy Director @audienceagents, Board Advisor @grayswharf, Policy Fellow @itsriodejaneiro All views my own
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"musicians playing smaller venues are facing pitiful fees and frequent losses." - this is true for the independent music ecology from musicians, venues and promoters. Make sure you're supporting amazing artists, go to their gigs, buy their merch!
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UK’s creative industries bring in more revenue than cars, oil and gas – so why is arts education facing cuts? theconversation.com/uks-crea…
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Join us on the 15 May for the launch of UK Arts, Culture and Heritage: Audiences & Workforce.
Using once in a decade 2021 Census data for the first time, the report provides a map of creative practitioners across England and Wales
Register here:
newcastleuniversity.zoom.us/…
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I found a guy who goes around the US asking 70 to 100-year-olds their:
• Biggest Regrets
• Biggest Lessons
• Advice to their younger self
Oddly enough, most of their answers are the same…
Here are my top 8:
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Rowan Atkinson brings to light a powerful message once shared by Charlie Chaplin, reminding us that our perspective on life can truly shape our experience of it.
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A phenomenal 10 mins with Carol Vorderman on 🔥
It begins with an intro, then from 1:23 onwards,
"We've had a Conservative government which is in my opinion corrupt.. During covid we have the VIP PPE lane.. Then we had partygate.."
"I started digging and I just started to scratch the surface on so many Tory issues and Tory contracts. And it's like a fountain of contracts and money that goes back to Tory donors and associates"
"I feel I have a responsibility that if I see something I show it to others"
Patrick Towell retweeted
Being in a bad mood is not a license to be unkind. Being sensitive is not an excuse for being abusive.
Respect is a social responsibility. Treating it as optional reveals a lack of concern for others.
A mark of character is maintaining civility when things don’t go your way.
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“What Peter Jackson did was completely different. He had the whole story for all three films, he was physically capable of shooting it all at once. I can’t imagine doing it myself. It’s one of the great achievements in movies.”
- Christopher Nolan about the comparisons between the making of The Dark Knight and LOTR trilogies
Via @IndieWire
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Here is George Clooney’s response after Trump accused him of being a "Hollywood elite."
"Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years.
So this idea that I’m somehow the “Hollywood elite” and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable.
People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of “coastal elites” living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble?
He lives in a gold tower and has twelve people in his company. He doesn’t run a corporation of hundreds of thousands of people he employs and takes care of. He ran a company of twelve people!
When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction.
He’s never had to do any of that kind of stuff. I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say “Hollywood elite.” Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! Fuck you!"
- George Clooney
actor, philanthropist, humanitarian & activist
Patrick Towell retweeted
This is me at Cambridge University after the Brexit vote in June 2016, when I spent the day naked at work to illustrate what Brexit would do to Britain. At 11pm today we mark 4 years since the UK left the EU, and my message remains the same: #BrexitLeavesBritainNaked
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Cat brings her kittens every night to her human’s bed as a sign of trust.. 😊
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In 1908, the legendary magician and escape artist, Harry Houdini, performed a daring feat at the Harvard Bridge, also known as the Mass. Ave. Bridge. Chained and handcuffed by a Boston patrolman, Houdini stood on the edge of the bridge with his hands bound behind his back and his neck collared. An impressive crowd of 20,000 people gathered to witness the event.
Houdini's intention was to promote an upcoming performance in Boston by showcasing his talent for escaping from restraints. This time, however, he aimed to take it a step further by doing so underwater.
As the signal was given from a towboat, Houdini plunged into the chilly waters below. The crowd waited in anticipation for 40 long seconds before Houdini triumphantly emerged, shackles now in his hands. The Boston Globe reported on this remarkable feat, solidifying Houdini's reputation as the master of the "Impossible Possible."
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A shining example of how arts & cultural practice can draw on research to address social issues in collaboration with local communities
Creative lighting and public art are to be designed by community groups for Woodhouse Moor park in Leeds to try to make it more welcoming for women.
The project follows a recent @Law_Leeds study of women and girls from West Yorkshire, which found that most feel unsafe in parks.
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The Post Office scandal shows the power of television and television drama in particular to channel injustice. If there are any TV writers looking for a subject that could do with the same treatment, the cladding/building safety scandal is just waiting for you…
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The BBC chairman should not be selected by the government of the day. Not now, not ever.
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There's always one.. 😂 xitter.cf/buitengebieden/status/…



























