Also Prof Abi Gilmore Ben Walmsley and my new edited collection "Pandemic Culture: The impacts of COVID-19 on the UK cultural sector and implications for the future" is just £10 from Manchester University Press manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526168351/…

Oh this is exciting. Dossor did so much to set the foundations of the Everyman project, commissioning work about politics and place and collaborating with John McGrath. We still see his influence on the city’s theatre now

RiP Carl Gustav Jung (26th July 1875 - 6th June 1961) and happy birthday to his very strange influence on Liverpool, which started on this day in 1976 with the first of 3 annual Jung festivals. Here's footage of the bust being carved, picked up and unveiled. The Pool of Life

🧵 with great suggestions on the class crisis in the arts. Unis are especially important- as Dr Orian Brook mark taylor & I show in some forthcoming work, it’s Post-92s doing the heavy lifting on widening participation, but as Creative Diversity APPG shows, industry aren’t recruiting from them

The 2024 Youth Theatre Census is now LIVE. If you run a youth theatre, drama project, or any other group involving young people and theatre, join in and get yourselves on the map! Spread the word! bit.ly/YTCensus

Fabulous hearing Jon Savage discussing his fabulous history of #LGBTQ musicians & performers in his latest book #TheSecretPublic Waterstones Liverpool. Great questions from Colin Fallowes and the audience

Such sad news. What an impact she made

Had a sneak preview of @jeffyoungwriter’s #WildTwin and it’s beautiful, a dream kaleidoscope of time and place. Old projector scenes flicker to reveal hilarious anecdotes, degenerates and renegades. It’s tender and poignant and made me cry. Preorder littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/lit…

Read about our new Cultural Engagement Strategy and hear myself and my brilliant University of Leeds colleagues and cultural partners explain why it matters spotlight.leeds.ac.uk/cultural-engag…

Fuelled by coffee I’ve just packed almost 100 proofs of @jeffyoungwriter’s superb new book #WildTwin Heading to the PO now. If your on our list then they should land on Monday and boy are you in for a treat! Tabitha Pelly

Always judge a book by its cover; it is, after all, what they’re for. And the cover of #WildTwin is as beautiful as what’s inside ❤️ My proof copy has arrived! Wonderful work by @jeffyoungwriter. Thanks to Little Toller 🇺🇦🇵🇸 and Tabitha Pelly xxx

Thanks to the Goldsmiths Press as ever amazing colleagues ....

This will be wonderful, a verbal dérive through the world of #WildTwin with two of the best literary storytellers and lyrical flâneurs. I hope Horatio Clare brings his hip flask. Get tickets while you can. Little Toller 🇺🇦🇵🇸 Sarah Hughes Tabitha Pelly

👀 Department for Culture, Media and Sport are recruiting new members for its College of Experts civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?j…

‘luminous prose’ that makes Wild Twin ‘utterly absorbing’. Superb and utterly deserved first review of @jeffyoungwriter’s Wild Twin 👏👏👏

This is fantastic news. Following the retirement of the fabulous Paddy, the Pen Factory will be in safe hands with Fiona and Dom ❤️❤️ (sigh of relief heard across the city)

Fab - the misfits and renegades of the Everyman Youth Theatre, featuring Roger Hill, Ian Hart, and Gerry Potter Poetry. What a time and place it was, making us who we are & allowing us to blossom, while somehow preserving us as misfits and renegades ❤️🧡💜 liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/nostalgia…

In other words, have we wasted the crisis?

Our @jeffyoungwriter being beautifully introduced by Horatio Clare for the Liverpool launch of his beautiful memoir #WildTwin