Published today ! @methuendrama.bsky.social a timely contribution and a great addition to our Performance + Design series #XR

Stage setting with back projected shadows of foliage seen against opaque screen with single central light. Drum kit and mic stands visible in silhouette

Lovely back projections for #MaisiePeters Before the Bloom launch event - an ‘intimate’ performance at EartH

CIC Health & Wellbeing Forum 2025 Report - Download Hub: The Creative Industries A cross sector group of experts advises greater use of innovative creative health approaches to help the UK meet long-term challenges. Download now in the Download Hub.

Creative health programmes are helping to improve the UK's health & wellbeing, providing new work opportunities for creatives & saving the NHS money.

Read our new report, from the CIC & @artscouncilengland.bsky.social.

www.thecreativeindustries.co.uk/download-hub/health-wellbeing-forum-report

@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social Trying to make contact but all emails to Bloomsbury colleagues are currently bouncing back

90 years ago today. Great grandfather Albert was instrumental in the early days of Chelsea Football Club and also father to Olympian, world record holding sprinter and radical champion for women’s sport Vera Palmer/Searle

The system is broken

Wilson holds a bright orb in his outstretched hand, in a dark forest

#RIP Robert Wilson
📷 Annie Leibovitz
The Watermill Center, Water Mill NY, 1994

“Nobody walks away from working with Robert Wilson without having completely changed.”
- Tom Waits

Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett Cambridge Core - English Literature 1900-1945 - Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett

Congratulations to Emilie Morin on the publication of her biography of Suzanne Beckett, offering the first full portrait of this elusive figure. It is free to download for the next two weeks tinyurl.com/54n3ztmv

Our permanent German lectureship now has an extended deadline of 21st July. Apply here: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Out now:

'Research and Development in British Theatre' edited by Tom Cantrell, @katherinegraham.bsky.social, Karen Quigley & Mark Love-Smith explores how R&D is used in contemporary British theatre-making and how you can use it in your own theatre-making.

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How UK creative industries are navigating Brexit alone - UK in a changing Europe Kirsty Warner and Hussein Kassim explore the impact of Brexit on the UK creative industries.

"Without a clear vision for culture in a post-Brexit context, the UK risks leaving large parts of its creative sector without the support they need to survive."

✍️ Kirsty Warner and @husseinkassim.bsky.social explore the impact of Brexit on the creative industries

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Looking down on Headingley cricket pitch from high in the stands. Green grass and tiny players in white Clouds above

Still recovering from that amazing finish yesterday

A day full of memories. Fabulous to catch up with ex-colleagues and students at our event today - trying to trace the ethos and legacy of Bretton Hall College…

Delighted to share this piece I’ve written for The Stage, which explores how we might better centre and value design-led performance within the UK’s theatre ecology.

Planning a show for #EdFringe 2025?

Join Theatre Green Book for a free 1-hour webinar on how to make your production more sustainable. Tools, tips, inspiration, and space for questions.

Thurs 29 May, 2–3pm
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Lecturer in Performance Design | The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Central is looking for an imaginative educator‑practitioner to teach on —and help steer— the new BA (Hons) Performance Design in the Department of Producing. Apply by 12 June.

👀 Lecturer post and new degree programme at RCSSD www.cssd.ac.uk/jobs-at-cent...

LA fire footage to transform the meaning of the song’s lyrics …and Lopahkin as Musk…also some personal counter narratives with students offering their own experience of climate change in discussions with audience…

Not easy to take good photos but this is Act3 partying to Pink Pony Club while the world burns - and the whole audience are implicated…

First year undergraduate project and we devised a relational design-led experience that used Chekhov’s text to highlight climate change- the destruction of the orchard representing our treatment of the world….

White confetti falls upon audience and cast members who are looking up at the falling material caught in the theatre lighting

Last night of our relational performance following a semester of experimentation and devising. The Cherry Orchard at stage@leeds

Book cover for Contemporary Performance Lighting with theatrical space showing orange and yellow lighting and multiple hanging light bulbs and scattered empty blue rocking chairs

Happy International Day of Light ! #lightday2025

🎉 Hello World 🌎🌍🌏
Today marks the 8th edition of the
@unesco.org #lightday2025 celebrating the profound impact of light science, innovation and technology in society. How will you celebrate the brilliance of light today? Tag us on socials. #lightday2025✨
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Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.

Major news story that strangely doesn’t seem to have been noticed by our mainstream media - tells you all you need to know about the UK right now…

Can’t believe that it’s exactly a decade since @davidshearing.bsky.social and me staged The Dreaming - a devised 1:1 experience based on Peer Gynt. Ambitious, risk taking and dramaturgically bold- the best work I’ve seen by students @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Today, we publish ‘Higher Education and the Arts and Culture Sectors’ the latest report in our State of the Nations series. The report is written by Dr Siobhan McAndrew, Dr Mark Taylor and Dr Ruoxi Wang from the University of Sheffield with Prof Dave O’Brien from the University of Manchester.

Universität Basel: PhD in Media Psychology (100%) The Faculty of Psychology is one of seven faculties of the oldest university in Switzerland. With our core focus on Society & Choice and Health & Interventions, we are successful both nationally and i...

I am hiring :-). I look for a PhD student & a postdoc for my new Digital Lives team at the U of Basel. Looking for 2 who are excited to study our everyday digital lives with me in the next years.

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Pennies are essentially worthless. But if I stole 7 billion of them from Mark Zuckerberg, I think he’d call that theft.

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in busiess — you’re in organized crime.

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

Decline of drama at school prompts UK training drive for backstage work The National Theatre is worried about a shortage of skills from costume designers, to set creators, to computer technicians The decline of drama as a school subject has had a serious knock-on effect on the live entertainment business. While it is harder now for a budding star to imagine a stage career, the more immediate impact is on theatres’ skills and craft departments. The problem is a top priority for Indhu Rubasingham, two weeks into her high-profile job as artistic director at National Theatre. Now she and the NT’s executive director, Kate Varah, are announcing a move to boost the supply of skilled workers across the country, from costume designers and makers to set creators and computer technicians. Continue reading...

Decline of drama at school prompts UK training drive for backstage work