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regardless of todayβs outcome, it is morally indefensible to have a court ruling on something that affects a population, using evidence and findings that did not consult a single member of that population.
Yo, who's accepting speculative CVs?
Worked in arts 10+ years. I'm an EDI, inclusion & wellbeing facilitator, specialising in supporting orgs to establish robust, intersectional & authentic access & inclusion policies & engagement initiatives. Background is PR and comms & I've lots of board exp.
https://culturecounts.scot/s/Harry-Mould.pdf
https://culturecounts.scot/s/Harry-Mould.pdf
https://culturecounts.scot/s/Harry-Mould.pdf
https://culturecounts.scot/s/Harry-Mould.pdf
For #WorldTheatreDay, here's something I wrote a while ago.
Originally commissioned by Culture Counts and Equal Media and Culture Centre for Scotland, with support from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, it was written in response to the theme 'Dreaming of a Fairer Future for Culture'.
Part 1 of 2.
https://culturecounts.scot/s/Harry-Mould.pdf
https://culturecounts.scot/s/Harry-Mould.pdf
https://culturecounts.scot/s/Harry-Mould.pdf
Part 2 of 2
https://culturecounts.scot/s/Harry-Mould.pdf
https://culturecounts.scot/s/Harry-Mould.pdf
https://culturecounts.scot/s/Harry-Mould.pdf
https://culturecounts.scot/s/Harry-Mould.pdf
For #WorldTheatreDay, here's something I wrote a while ago.
Originally commissioned by Culture Counts and Equal Media and Culture Centre for Scotland, with support from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, it was written in response to the theme 'Dreaming of a Fairer Future for Culture'.
Part 1 of 2.
(...obviously not preaching to 'merica, here...)
Please do also *pay* people to do 'EDI'/inclusion roles! Diversity at trustee level is crucial, but just seemingly prioritising diverse insight in unpaid positions is shallow & often abandons critical viewpoints from folk who sit at the intersection between working class & other marginalised groups.
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Tweet from Yuval Abraham: "A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since."
BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach β and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
A gentle reminder that putting age limits on opportunities for 'emerging' artists is, among other things, super fucking classist.
Might swap out conman for trickster, Jen! Gives a certain mythological energy.
591 people murdered by Israel in 72 hours.
Men, women, children and babies. 591 innocent souls.
Murdered.
Didn't cry. Went dead well. Rewarded self with 6 pack of welsh cakes on train home. Now might cry due to sugar crash.
Genuinely gobsmacked by it. Such dangerous, irresponsible language, now more than ever. Clicks above all else, eh?
Hi quick question what the fuck is this headline?
Not to be that dickhead, but I wrote & proposed a policy regarding this YEARS ago and the theatre I was working with at the time said it was unnecessary. It isn't.
Platforming marginalised people without centring their safety & wellbeing isn't inclusive - it's performative. We can do better, pals.
HONESTLY.
Honestly a bit grossed out by the 'you/ your loved ones could become disabled, so we should care about disability rights' posts, you know. We should care about disability rights because there *are* disabled people. That should be all it takes.
See also 'what if that was your child getting bombed?'
My dog, a little black and white staffie, sat on my lap looking shellshocked.
One of those days where self care looks like me pressing my face into my dog's face & muttering 'you've no idea, do you? You don't even know what the word budget means. You don't know what countries or genders are or anything. You're so lucky. I wish I was you. Don't ever die.' while she just:
I β€οΈ YOU.
Sorry, I know there's bigger shit happening, but at a time when safety feels so tenuous for so many, now more than ever we need play-houses to offer sanctuary to more people than just those who already know they belong.
Tidy the fuck up before you have people round your house.
Don't know how to do this? Pay people who do. You know who they are. You googled them so that you could reference them in your MYF applications.
While we're at it, if you're an org that's made a commitment to welcoming underrepresented folk into your building, in whatever capacity, you need to get supportive practices & policies in place first, to enable any engagement to be authentic, long term, safe and MUTUALLY beneficial. In short:
I was commissioned by Culture Counts to write something responding to the theme 'dreaming of a fairer future for culture', which I'll be reading at their core members meeting next week.
It'll be my first time reading work aloud & I'm genuinely worried I'm going to ruin my whole ~vibe~ by crying.
Just begging theatre orgs to commit to ringfencing a percentage of programming funds to commission writers who otherwise simply cannot afford to write.
The canon can't always fire backwards, babe. Show faith in your contemporary community.
Ok buckle up, rant incoming. I am very tired of organisations, big and small, talking endlessly about our industry and how we can make it fairer, better, not as mental health damaging and then adapting the same old shite practices we've had for over a decade now. Some examples:
Come on, Cinderella - get in by midnight!
Horrified by news of our friend & fellow bookseller Mahmoud being arrested by Israeli forces alongside his nephew.
A tireless campaigner for the power of literature, Mahmoud was in Edinburgh with us just months ago - please join call for their release!
#Booksky
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