Our Writers’ Lab programme is an entry-level course designed to support new writers to create a play over 9 months, with workshops led by our very own @La_kee_sha and Jules Haworth 🌈she/her, and Dr. Sharmila Chauhan. 🙌 sohotheatre.com/project/writer…

A screening of Tron (1982) in an Unnamed Dublin Cinema. Start time comes and goes. Eventually the lights go down and the warning about not playing this movie in schools, oil rigs etc. appears on the big screen. Crowd as one realises they’re showing the DVD. Huge cheers erupt.

I wish everyone on Earth knew how genuinely "off the charts" key planetary trends are right now, and how abnormal and critical it is. Things like atmospheric CO2 fraction, heat extremes on land and ocean, biodiversity loss and extinction rates. All alarms should be going off

Love that roughly two thirds of these FancyCats are names like ships Iain M. Banks’ Culture novels

Hundreds of classic Polish films have been made available to watch online for free, all with English subtitles. Among them are works by famed directors Andrzej Wajda and Krzysztof Kieślowski. The website also features thousands of communist-era newsreels notesfrompoland.com/2022/07/18/hun…

New meme format just dropped

Britain got so hot today their currency collapsed

Liz Truss on apples vs Liz Truss on cheese

Frightful Business

So this tweet is obviously the kind of bait that can only be produced by a person who desperately desires any sort of attention, even if at the expense of their own reputation…but this story is actually really interesting and mostly ignored because of how it’s…good.

Good morning to writers in Ireland and abroad! Our 2022 Script Submission Window is now OPEN Please send us your scripts, we'd love to read them Here's everything you need to know: bit.ly/3v3Sl9s

Applications for the Next Stage 2022 are now open! Presented in partnership with Dublin Theatre Festival, this artist development programme gives participants access to a host of Festival shows, as well as a curated series of talks, workshops and interviews. Info: bitly.ws/sXZW

Tripolas Cage

As an activist from a vulnerable country to climate change. I want to tell you that drought, famine ,starvation, water crisis is our reality. It’s too late for the broken promise, time to act together

Calling all neurodivergents in Ireland to share their experiences! forms.gle/CbfHZJSoef7SKz… Very grateful to have received funding from Creative Ireland SDCC Arts Office Incubation Award and support from axis Ballymun Axis Assemble for this project 💜 #ActuallyAutistic

okay hold up so Robert Altman filmed Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter with Tom Conti and JOHN TRAVOLTA and I’m only finding out about this NOW? youtu.be/fW5xYQyXScA

How different might things be if Irish public got unvarnished truth about #ClimateEmergency instead of just sectoral BS & consumerist ads? How about a GoFundMeIE to finance some *honest* adverts in our media? I'll start with €1,000 of my own cash. Any takers out there?

📣Bursaries 📣 Professional writers can apply for the Jack Harte Bursary irishwriterscentre.ie/opportunities/… Underrepresented writers can apply for the new Lacuna Bursary irishwriterscentre.ie/opportunities/… Both opportunities are 1 week fully resourced Writer-in-Residence Bursaries at The Tyrone Guthrie Centre

New role Pavee Point: Arts and Culture Coordinator, an exciting opportunity to build on Pavee Point’s previous work in the area of Traveller arts and culture. Developed as part of a Partnership between Pavee Point and The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. Apply by 18th Aug: bit.ly/3cBjVEm