CBE FRSA. #Author ‘How to Age Joyfully’ @AgeingBetter. National Assessor Kings Award for Voluntary Service,Trustee @flourishlives. Former #CEO. Love #dance!
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Proud and happy that my well-reviewed #book #HowToAgeJoyfully 📔still helping us #livelongerbetter (with huge thanks to Dame #JudiDench, Prof Sir #MuirGray…)
And now being translated into #Arabic
50% royalties go to @Open_Age #charity
Take a look: amazon.co.uk/How-Age-Joyfull…
#WhoPutTheBomp by Keith Strachan is a joyful, warm-hearted show packed with classic #DooWop hits of the 1950s and 1960s currently @TheatreAtTabard in #Chiswick
Congratulations on their Award nominations 👏🏻🎶
The Fringe Theatre Awards congratulates Charlie Stace (Video), Joy Silweya (Newcomer), Carole Todd (Choreography/Movement), Marissa Landy (Musical Director) and Take Note Theatre (Production) for the play “Who Put the Bomp?” at the Tabard Theatre.
tabard.org.uk/production/who…
Brilliant panel at #CheltLitFest on Who Runs Britain - @AnthonySeldon @jessphillips & Hannah White @instituteforgov chaired by @LOS_Fisher
Depressing (AI, economy, climate, education …) but also optimistic ( ‘a fantastic country’, young people…)
Seldon & Phillips get my vote!
‘#Fiction is where my heart beats….#books change us…#literature is an antidote to numbness and apathy…’
@Elif_Safak riveting as always talking about writing and her 14th #novel about Flaubert at #CheltLitFest
#ElifShafak is such an incredible person and #author
Yet another great event listening to #VirginiaEvans talking about her life and wonderful #book #TheCorrespondent with @HackettLaura at #CheltLitFest
Hugely enjoyed listening to both Victoria Hislop on her new #book #TheWineDarkSea and then Ian Hislop on 40 years as Editor of Private Eye (among other things) talking to @ayeshahazarika at #CheltLitFest
What a couple!
A joyous hour hearing the multi talented ‘lollapalooza’ & #author #SandiToksvig at #CheltLitFest talking about #books & #writing
Everybody should be able to write - but a ‘successful’ book sells 3-5000 copies and only 5% achieve that!😳
So I’m a successful #author Who knew!!😀
Wonderful to hear -and finally meet -a favourite #author #KateAtkinson at #CheltLitFest talking about her new #book ‘Our Noble Selves’ and happily more in the pipeline
‘I work at the level of the word…a good day is a good sentence’
And every sentence in her 16 books is good! 📚
‘Nothing you ever write or learn is wasted’ so said wonderful #author #MaggieOFarrell at #CheltenhamLiteraryFestival talking about her latest #book Land - her 14th! Can’t wait to read it. Such a lovely and talented person - sold 8 million copies to date in 40 languages 👏🏻
Fascinating hearing investigative journalist/New Yorker #writer #PatrickRaddenKeefe talking to Johanna Thomas-Corr about his amazing new #book #LondonFalling @CheltLitFest - shortlisted for the #nonfiction Baillie Gifford Prize
A thriller, about grief, parenting, corruption…
A #CentenaryCelebration @rbo_org was the perfect showcase for the impact of @RoyalBalletSch on generations of #choreographers and #dancers
Huge variety of #dance - and ages! And what a Finale by @ValZucchetti
Wow!
#RoyalBalletSchool 👏🏻👏🏻
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100 years, one extraordinary evening ✨
A Centenary Celebration opens tonight, with a programme that traces a century of ballet through the artists and works that have shaped The Royal Ballet School’s story.
From Ninette de Valois’ Checkmate and Frederick Ashton’s Birthday Offering to MacMillan, McGregor and three new works created for the occasion, past and present meet on our Main Stage in a celebration made for this once-in-a-century moment.
🎟️ A Centenary Celebration runs from 8-10 October: bit.ly/4xDF84o
📸 by Tristram Kenton: The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and The Royal Ballet School.
ALT A large group of ballet dancers perform on stage, arranged in concentric rows extending into the distance. They are elegantly posed in mid-performance with arms outstretched. The stage is well-lit against a dark backdrop.
Maggy Pigott retweeted
Happy #InternationalDayOfOlderPeople
We’re great!
Increasing #longevity is a cause for celebration if we enable #olderpeople age well and not just live longer
#health #happiness #howtoagejoyfully
Improve #healthspan
End #ageism
#quentinblake #judidench
Maggy Pigott retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: UK national museums & galleries "will remain free, to all of us, forever".
Speaking at Tate Liverpool yesterday, Culture Sec Lisa Nandy put the debate to bed, pledging to defend free access for everyone 🏛️ 🌍
Enjoyed #RhythmRiot wonderfully performed by #EnglishNationalBallet especially the exhilarating and exciting Bow Out by Micaela Taylor @Sadlers_Wells
Maggy Pigott retweeted
And these related tips might help!
From ‘How to #Age Joyfully’
Don’t underestimate the value of small steps. The path may not be clear yet but you’re still making progress
Image: instagram.com/ashevillish
Excellent event at #Chelsea Arts Festival with Prof Daisy Fancourt & #author @emmagannon on the need for and power of #creativity and the #arts for #physical & #mental #health at all ages
‘Everybody is creative’
So true - only discovered joy of #dancing and #writing in my 60s!
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Lessons in Chemistry author Bonnie Garmus returns next month with Peck & Peck, a witty yet heartwarming novel about identity, ambition and the power of the written word. But what should we know about its protagonist, Batter Gray? Preorder SIGNED copies: waterstones.com/book/peck-an…
Wonderful event in Chelsea #Arts Festival, curated by amazing #BernadineEvaristo with other great #authors including @KadiatuKM and #BonnieGarmus (can’t wait for her imminent #book!) plus #music from two of 7 #KannehMason children
#Creativity & the arts must be forever protected!
Looking forward to hearing Professor Daisy Fancourt and Emma Gannon at the #Chelsea #Arts Festival tomorrow @saatchi_gallery
#creativity #health
Thrilled to see Alvin Ailey #Dance company @Sadlers_Wells again at the start of their European tour
Their New Works programme ending with 5star Revelations was wonderful and looking forward to upcoming Legacy evening
What a company ! 🤩❤️Number 1 fan 👏🏻
Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ New Works – Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in London
@GWDanceWriter sees the first programme from the "world’s elite dance phenomenon", Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, on tour in London.
gramilano.com/2026/09/review…
