#IMA21 ⭐️ Let’s never stop progressing mental health awareness & action. Thank you to everyone who has supported us and a big thank you to Denise Welch, @hopemilltheatr1, The Grad Fest LTD and all of our sponsors for making our 2021 ceremony worth the wait.

Big news from Slung Low HQ 🎺🎺🎺 The Club On The Edge of Town: A Pandemic Memoir by our own Alan Lane is now available as an audiobook! Narrated by Alan Lane himself. Available now on Audible and Amazon. Exciting!

Schemes come, and initiatives go. But there’ll always be a Sprint and a Starting Blocks, those stalwart twin pillars of CPT’s commitment to new artists making bold new work. Applications are now open to emerging theatremakers! We'd love to hear from you: cptheatre.co.uk/news/Sprint-an…

📢We want to meet some fabulous Stage Managers based in Yorkshire to work on our wonderfully ridiculous Xmas show this year. The dates are 14th Nov- 18th Dec. Whose about for a chat? DM us or email Adam at [email protected]

have each others backs today yeah. Talk, listen, share stories, be gentle. #WMHD2022

Fittingly it's #WorldMentalHealthDay2022 & #WorldHomelessnessDay2022 today. The two are inextricably linked says Chris Sonnex as he writes about the power of art to make us better bit.ly/3Mi5mDC

Sometimes systems break before it activates enough people, creativity and deeper change happens. There's an invitation. Crystals, fish & trees are experts. It’s never been a more important time to be an artist. Time to invite, ask questions and dance. #ecology #transition

80% of disabilities are invisible. #InvisibleDisabilitiesWeek. Making space to listen & share stories this week with pals. some new dialogue of understanding, how living with a difference can affect work, relationships & what supports. #InvisibleDisability #arts #performingarts

Sending big love into the universe today for the beautiful company of My Neighbour Totoro. Thank you for helping The RSC to find our spirit. Here’s to friendship, ingenuity & courage @openspacer Improbable and to everyone who believed.

A play about the Value of freedom, forgiveness, reckoning & redemption. Few shows left. Watch Ferdy soar as Prosepero @filtertheatre The RSC #theglobe #theatre #shakespeare

Thank you Polly Bennett and Joan Lyiola for creating this pod for the industry. Actors & directors worth a listen for monos, stories & speeches. open.spotify.com/show/2nz4kaHpC… #theatre

Movement & meaning. Dance Base Scotland sharing some of their joyful studio work with communities & participants this week, Dancing for connection. check out their new Vid. #Health #participation #dance

*Out today* The new Actors' and Performers' Yearbook is fully updated for 2023 and includes a new foreword from @SyrusLoweDown. Save yourself hours of research with this essential directory of contacts for stage, screen & radio. bit.ly/3SFat2d

#NPO Big love to those cut this week. Cheering you on, those still alive in the arts focussing on new ways through outside the portfolio.

Theatre makes meaning, brings hope, value & shared spaces to understand & "(level up?)" through story. It's never been a more important time to tell them, hear them & see what's possible through collective experiences. Congratulations to you pals who remain. #NPO #NPOLove x

excitable smug forward mapping for 2024-2025. Friday theatre date with wordsmith Lemn lemn sissay OBE FRSL and Frantic Assembly Co production of Metamorphosis Lyric Hammersmith Theatre sharpied in. Very happy Curve franticassembly.co.uk/productions/me…

We need more quiet, warm & free spaces in cities where artists can work, connect & create meaning for the world. YES to stockroom for nurturing writers & independent theatre makers offering FREE space post loss of NPO gov funding. well done @martingderby #theatre

Thank god someone said it aloud. “The future of work needs creative skills & creativity, not just knowledge” Lucy Powell MP . A stellar EG of devolving power locally in action is Tracy Brabin WY 🌹 West Yorkshire leading the fruitful Culture for all Strat 👏 #creativecoalitionfestival

Yesterday we opened You Bury Me by Ahlam at the glorious @lyceumtheatre in Edinburgh. A packed performance on a main stage, for a new play by a woman writer. Can we celebrate #IWD2023 by HAVING A LOT MORE OF THIS ALL THE TIME PLEASE?!