Cristina Delgado-García

🚨JOB KLAXON🚨

@kingsmusic.bsky.social is delighted to offer a permanent Lectureship/Senior Lectureship, starting ASAP, in the history of opera and/or music theatre (any timeframe) OR historically European music c. 1780 to1900.

SHORT DEADLINE – 31 AUGUST

APPLY HERE: tinyurl.com/2t34j665

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Skin of the City Exhibition and public events about the stony ‘skin’ of Glasgow’s built environment.

SKIN OF THE CITY: an installation of 3000+ fragments of stony matter that have flaked, chipped or crumbled from the walls, pavements and roads of Glasgow, now forming a lithic map of the city. By our own Minty Donald, w Nick Millar + Malú Cayetano. Ends on Sun! architecturefringe.com/festivals/20...

Just two more weeks to go! We can't wait to see you at our summer showcase: 26 June, 7pm. Excerpts from 5 brilliant plays written by playwrights from our Playwriting & Dramaturgy MLitt, read by professional actors under Philip Howard's expert direction. Don't forget to book your free tickets! Link 👇

A brilliant problem to have! 💫

Book your free ticket here: playreading-showcase.eventbrite.co.uk

...Directed by Philip Howard, featuring professional actors. Produced by Sam Houston, Fiona Radbourne & Linsey Vipond (also in our Playwriting & Dramaturgy MLitt) with @theatrestudiesuog.bsky.social and Partnerships Team @uofgculture.bsky.social. Hope to see you there! 💫

For those in/near Glasgow: we're celebrating the work of the fantastic playwrights in our Playwriting & Dramaturgy MLitt with a play-reading showcase on 26 June. We'd love you to join! Excerpts from new plays by Chris Kane, Kilda Kennedy, Sophie Pass, Matthew Taylor & Katy-Valentine Willcocks...

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That makes two of us! Wonderful.

Spain clamps down on Airbnb as tourism backlash returns for summer The Spanish government calls for the removal of almost 66,000 property listings saying they breach tourism rules.

Not a recommendation but a small plea to consider not using AirBnB if you travel to Spain due to its impact local housing availability, overall rental costs and local services in neighbourhoods...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Congrats, Hannah! Sounds brilliant!

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Have you tried archiving it?

Olive Harvest in Palestine: A Puppetry Workshop CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts is Glasgow’s hub for the arts, hosting exhibitions, films, music, literature, workshops, festivals and performances.

Glasgow pals: Maya El Naha & @theatrestudiesuog.bsky.social PhD researcher Gonca Yalcin are leading a workshop for children (5-12 yrs) involving story-telling & puppetry-making inspired by the book Olive Harvest in Palestine. 10 May 2pm CCA. Funds will be donated: www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/ol...

Congrats! 🎉🎉 (I am sorry to hear you were ill, sending long-lasting good health wishes with the congratulations!)

The Alfred Fagon Award, the leading award for Black British Playwrights is now open for 2025 entrants.

You have until August 31st to enter and have the chance to join winners who include the outstanding Inua Ellams who won last time out…

Geographers! Please join 300 of us — at every career stage — who are urging the Royal Geographical Society to reaffirm its commitment to trans inclusion in the face of Supreme Court ruling, and to oppose the EHRC’s interim update. Sign by WED 30 April 1700 GMT docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Our Doctoral Researcher, Liam Young, and the Contemporary Research Group are organising this online event reflecting on the legacy of Fredric Jameson. Confirmed speakers are MP @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social and Dr Patricia McManus, author of Critical Theory and Dystopia (MUP, 2022). Please join us!

Bona diada de Sant Jordi a tothom! My favourite day of the year in Catalunya, when we express love and affection by gifting books and roses 🌹 📖

Also in Spanish: "blanco y en botella" ("white and in a bottle" - obvs milk!)

Jobs - Disability Arts Online

Lots of opportunities here - including a £2k commission to create a unique piece of artwork marking 25 yrs of advocacy and support in opening up arts and culture to deaf, deafened and hard of hearing audiences.

Please share :)

Here two more scholarships for MA studies for students of Gaza at the Uni of Sussex, UK. Due date for applications 1st June 2025. Please share.
www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

Palestinian Scholarship

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

John Fox obituary Co-founder of the Welfare State, a street theatre company that later moved on to community-related work

Rest in power, John Fox. Welfare State was a guiding light to a generation of theatre and performance-makers. 🏮

Spain tackles housing 'social emergency' as rents double The Spanish government is moving to make renting more affordable and boost the supply of homes.

See also: BBC News - Spain tackles housing 'social emergency' as rents double in a decade
www.bbc.com/news/article...

If you are planning to visit Spain for your holidays, please do consider alternatives to AirBnB - tourist flats are a big driver in the country's housing emergency, together with property speculation. Less flats available for long-term rent at spiralling places: folk simply can't afford to live.

And this by @alcs.co.uk contains some suggestions on what you can do about Meta's use of LibGen

The @societyofauthors.bsky.social has written to Lisa Nandy, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, demanding that Meta is held to account following allegations that authors’ works have been used without permission/remuneration to train its AI model. You can add your name here 👇

If this is for you, get involved.
If it isn’t, let someone who might be know…

250,000 more people will face relative poverty after Rachel Reeves’ benefits cuts, DWP says – spring statement live Department for Work and Pensions says thousands, including children, will be hit by chancellor’s announcement, as OBR forecasts UK growth to halve in 2025

250,000 more people will face relative poverty after Rachel Reeves’ benefits cuts, DWP says – spring statement live