Aimlessly wandering through life one embarrassing anecdote at a time. Director @ScottishOpera Young Company. Facilitator @mortalfoolsUK
Glasgow/London/West Country
Joined May 2009
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FINALLY went and got myself a website!
Soo if you:
- need a lead/associate/assistant/movement director on a show
- are looking to collaborator to make a show
- need someone to lead some cool youth/community based stuff
HIT ME UP. Pls & thx 🙏🏻
floraemilythomson.com
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Our upcoming Future Ready employability programme at YMCA Northumberland is recruiting participants!
It's for 16-30yr olds & is about unleashing new skills, confidence & career aspirations across an empowering, supportive, creative week.
Info & register: mortalfools.org.uk/connect-f…
Went out to watch the Perseid Meteor Shower and got a bonus light show 🤩
In Devon on the edge of Dartmoor 🌌
#northernlights #perseid
Iiiiiiiiit’s dress day!
📣 Join us this summer for the world premiere of RED, a darky comic tale written by award-winning composer Karen MacIver and Jane Davidson MBE, performed by Scottish Opera Young Company 🔴👩🦰
🎟 Book your tickets now: scottishopera.org.uk/shows/r…
Ahh that time of year has come again, for the mighty pastime of my home county 🙌🏻 all worship the wheel 🙌🏻 🧀 🧀🧀 bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cd11qv…
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Thank you @BernieSanders for saying this as a Jewish politician.
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Dear @bbcnews, I've just been looking at your election results tracker.
It seems Reform won 2 seats.
The Greens won 181 - NINETY times more seats.
Can I assume that from now on we'll see the Greens represented 90 times more often than Reform on your shows?
For balance.
Phoar, it’s been a tough few days. But today I also got to direct 14 trainee young performers as they absolutely nailed the brief, and then some. And how can you not find joy in that? What a brilliant bunch.
Bloomin bloody brilliant. This is leadership 🙌🏻👏🏻🙌🏻👏🏻
.@royalcourt boss @mrdavebyrne has appointed four associate playwrights – including @RyanCalaisC and Mike Bartlett – in a move that will mean they become part of a "collective leadership" model and develop the venue’s artistic programme.
Find out more 👉 thestage.co.uk/news/royal-co…
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Welsh performers - I need you.
I am looking to cast an ensemble of 5 actors/ performers for my upcoming production of Verdi's opera, Rigoletto. The show is for WNO and will be opening in the WMC in July.
Details in thread below:
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📣 Calling all LGBTQIA+ performance artists in the Tees Valley!
Don't miss the chance to showcase your talent at Pride events across the region with our Pride Stages Commissions 2024! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Learn more: shorturl.at/emn46
Deadline: May 1st
@PrideInTV @TeesValleyCA
ALT A performer on an outdoor stage with long dyed hair, wearing a patterned top and yellow skirt holding an acoustic guitar and talking into a microphone. On the right hand side in an orange circle text reads ‘Pride Stages Call-out’. At the bottom in an arch shape are the Curious Arts, Pride in Tees Valley and Tees Valley Combined Authority logos.
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If only you really supported the creative industries. If only you hadn’t slashed their funding. If only you hadn’t denigrated arts and creative courses. If only you hadn’t overseen a dramatic fall in music and drama teaching and the closure of music venues.
If only…
The @OlivierAwards are a celebration of everything that makes our outstanding theatres world class.
Through our Creative Industries Vision we plan to grow that status further & build a pipeline of talent so our theatres can retain their greatness for years to come.
Everyone stop what you’re doing right now. SISTER ACT 3 IS IN PREPRODUCTION.
I’ve been waiting 30 years for this, and I’m only 32.
Oh my, the Assembly on BBC - I’m probably way behind the curve but wow. What a wonderful display of great participation work and high quality television coming together. In an increasingly dire landscape, we need stuff like this 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
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This is the most succinct and articulate expression of something I felt so many times about young people @company_three
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“Seeing poverty and people like me, my life and my family on the screen, I recognised myself. See, representation matters…You see, the stories we tell matter. They have the power to change people’s lives.” Samantha Morton👏
And as an EA freelancer, watching institutions try and manage this on their own islands, with short term panic actioning, is painful.
Following on from yesterday: THIS. The current model is crumbling and yet there seems to be no industry wide, solution based, cross pollination task force exploring ways to rebuild in a long lasting meaningful way.
Really good piece saying what needs to be said. What does Kwame Kwei-Armah's departure tell us about arts leadership today? thestage.co.uk/opinion/what-…
