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Please please please sign this. Children must not go hungry. There is no excuse in our wealthy country.
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On 22 July @ace_national will be open again for applications, with a budget of £59.8 million. The programme is reopening to help fund independent organisations, creative practitioners & freelancers as quickly as possible. artscouncil.org.uk/projectgr… #freelancersmaketheatrework
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There's still time for theatre workers and #freelancers to apply for a grant from the #TheatreArtistsFund who have now doubled their initial fund. Find out more and apply here: theatreartists.fund #freelancersmaketheatrework
So there is more to do - and more money needed - but share widely so those in need can apply tomorrow. theatreartists.fund/
Incredible news. Thank you so much to all who worked so hard to make this happen. Thank you for listening @RishiSunak @OliverDowden Now we must work together to support the freelancers, ensure inclusion is meaningful, learn from this time. And make great shows for our audiences.
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A glimmer of good. National Lottery Project Grants is returning. On 22 July they will be open again for applications, with a budget of £59.8 million available until April 2021. Add yourself to the mailing list & find out more: artscouncil.org.uk/projectgr… #freelancersmaketheatrework
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Vicky Featherstone retweeted
84 years ago the New Deal Federal Theater Project funded Orson Welles' "Voodoo Macbeth" in Harlem's Lafayette Theatre with an all-black cast. Government support during the Depression kept US theatre alive & enabled it to be an agent of social progress. I hope our Govt takes note.
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Terrible Rage...
Drowning in bags + envelopes + gratitude + admiration for our incredible, indispensable freelance community. We run the show, yeah. TerribleRage.co.uk
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Amazing, brilliant, beautiful freelancers making theatre with their hearts and souls to excite and thrill us. Mercurial magicians. They must be cherished, nurtured, protected and championed. And paid. Properly paid.
As it's #NationalFreelancersDay and it's our 3rd day of existence, wouldn't it be great if we got to 3,000 followers? Whether you're an opera singer, a desk operator, a producer or a prop maker, please share and get your networks to join up with us #freelancersmaketheatrework
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Vicky Featherstone retweeted
As the statue of colonialist Cecil Rhodes came down at the University of Cape Town in 2015, seven students wrote #TheFall. The play goes to the heart of how race, class, gender, power and history’s voices intersect. Watch it online here: bit.ly/2UUrri1
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Vicky Featherstone retweeted
Please share this far and wide, people. This is brilliant work - as always - from @racheal_ofori. And so many incredible artists collaborating on it. Big love and respect to @racheal_ofori & all involved. ❤️
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Omg get emailing people..
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Vicky Featherstone retweeted
Catch Jess Tom’s (@touretteshero) film #MeMyMouthAndI on @BBCiPlayer. Jess asks us to radically reconsider issues of disability, representation and social exclusion as she prepares to perform the role of Mouth in Samuel Beckett's Not I. #WeShallNotBeRemoved
#WeShallNotBeRemoved is a day of social media action celebrating #DisabilityCulture. The UK's #DisArtScene gave me the confidence to start #Touretteshero a decade ago touretteshero.com our film #MeMyMouthAndI is on iPlayer: tinyurl.com/ycgb26l7 #EndAbleism #AccessIsLove
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Vicky Featherstone retweeted
Rockets and Blue lights tonight 8pm Radio 3. Me and associate director ⁦@Mumba_Jasmine⁩ feeling almost like it’s a real life press night... nerves and bubbles. #LockdownTheatreFestival #Redcarpet
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So here it is - right there. This disgusting racism. The fascists, the football tops, the Nazi -salutes. This is our work white people. We need to understand and expose the institutional racism deep in our DNA which results in this. We have urgent work to do. #BlackLivesMatter
Parliament SQ, #RiotPlotExposed & police response has been good so far. #BLACK_LIVES_MATTER #TommyRobinson
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Vicky Featherstone retweeted
Tonight at 8pm @winsome_pinnock powerful play ROCKETS AND BLUE LIGHTS, directed by @MirandaCromwell airs on @BBCRadio3 as part of this weekends @TheatreLockdown #LockdownTheatreFestival Tune in for an incredible night of theatre >> rxtheat.re/RABL3
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Incredible work.
There’s honestly tears in my eyes. 12 days of fighting. Our document has been accepted. @CSSDLondon welcome to the future. You can view on the Central website home page. #BlackLivesMatter
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If the police did their jobs, everyone woud trust them. Ain’t no song called Fuck The Fire Department.
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