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Stunning photography celebrating albino melanin magic 🖤 Check out more photos here: bit.ly/30n8lE2

Our CEO Kevin Osborne is looking forward to taking part in this conversation about Brilliant Routes for Black, Asian and ethnically diverse leaders. 👇🏿Book your ticket if you're interested in learning about different ways to combat the issue of leadership progression. @sitgmedia

Today we have the pleasure of intro'ing #MeWeMember @YemiTV, founder of LiteSwitch TV: a film production company focused on docs, corporate films & live events. Today, they offer live streaming & socially distant film shoots. In a changing world, they make production simple.

Great to see Claudia Jones celebrated today! An activist, feminist, journalist, orator & community organiser, Jones founded & became the editor-in-chief for the West Indian Gazette & Afro-Asian Caribbean News, a key newspaper for Britain’s Black community. g.co/doodle/shmedw4

There's been some appalling practice from a few orgs recently - thoughtless rejections, bad communication, lack of transparency. Which got me thinking, freelancers & artists: what's the kindest thing an org has done/can do for you? Can we collate some examples of best practice?

🗣CALLING ALL BLACK WOMEN + BLACK NON-BINARY WRITERS AGED 16-21 ☎️ gal-dem + The Guardian are launching a new writing competition on the theme of ‘conversations’ and I am very honoured to be a judge. More info right here right now: theguardian.com/media/2020/oct…

COMING SOON... #TheFloydEffect #HumblebeeCreative

Everything's fine isn't it it's all fiiiiine let's just go to work and go about our days because everything is A-OK and concentrating on budgets is going to be easy peasy because everything is FINE

👀Fantastic opportunity from @JerwoodArts They're looking to support at least 33 creators over 12 months with awards of £20k to adapt their approach to making and sharing live work. 👇

#Opportunity for #BlackBusiness: BBC Three are looking to follow a black-owned business owned by someone under 30 over the coming lockdown. Deadline: 8 Nov. Email Ashni (Producer) on [email protected] Further detail in thread:

UK people, kind reminder that if you earn (pre tax): £37,000 - you're in the 75th percentile of earners £28,400 - you're in the 60th percentile of earners £22,800 - you're in the 50th percentile of earners Anything > 50k = top 7% pre tax. People are VERY poorly paid here.

This week's #MeWeMember intro is to Akin Akinsiku akindele akinsiku - a BAFTA award winning Creative Director & Director who has a history of crafting compelling and bold brand narratives such as with BBC pre-school drama Apple Tree House. akinsiku.com/about #CreativeDirector

TW: sexual assault. last week, a video of a young girl allegedly* being assaulted on her way to school was circulated. for gal-dem, i wrote about how, for many of us, her experience is all too familiar. The long way around to school | gal-dem gal-dem.com/the-long-way-a…

Three bold films by three Black-British writers 🎞️ “This film came out of my desire to flip the trans narrative and reclaim power that often isn’t afforded to trans characters.” - Leah Kirby on the film DUALITY. Humblebee Creative stonewall.org.uk/about-us/news/…

📣 Happy #OpportunityTuesday! 📣 (on Wednesday this week, sorry!) Every Tues I share 10 #artsopps, commissions, open calls & apps closing soon. Here are this week's! Always PAID (or free/cheap for training) & for a range of artists; emerging to mid-career, 16-80+ THREAD👇🏻👇🏽👇🏿

"We need to invest in future-facing enterprises that will create new sustainable jobs, & rebuild our economy while at the same time creating a fairer and more inclusive society" - Kevin Osborne, CEO MeWe360 Read the full piece: bit.ly/39Tyazr @artsculturefin Nesta