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Guy O’Donnell

@guy8.bsky.social

Director, Get The Chance. https://getthechance.wales/ Communities Engagement Partner RWCMD.

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Launching the Get The Chance, Cultural Impact Awards, 2025 - Get The Chance The Get The Chance, Cultural Impact Awards, 2025 supported by Tempo Time Credits and Porters Cardiff, Launch this month! The Get The Chance, Cultural Impact Awards, 2025 celebrate high quality, cultur...

Why not nominate your group in the GTC, Cultural Impact Awards 2025
Awarded to a community, participatory or education project e.g. choir, dance, theatre, visual arts or heritage group which provides regular, inclusive access to culture for local people. getthechance.wales/2025/02/12/l...

22.02.2025 10:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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CALLING ALL PLAYWRIGHTS🚨

Got a script? Wondering what’s next? Do you need an agent? What do they do? How do you reach out?✍️

Join us for a Zoom Q&A with Casarotto agents 🎭

📅 Monday 10th March
⏰ 7 PM
🔗Sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

21.02.2025 20:43 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

Agree, a great article but a real lack of UK coverage.

22.02.2025 10:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn Exclusive: Analysis by the Guardian shows a third of major arts leaders were educated privately

Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn,

"Perceptions of the sector as inaccessible to working-class people and the rising cost of being an artist were discouraging a generation from trying to establish themselves."
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

22.02.2025 10:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Launching the Get The Chance, Cultural Impact Awards, 2025 - Get The Chance The Get The Chance, Cultural Impact Awards, 2025 supported by Tempo Time Credits and Porters Cardiff, Launch this month! The Get The Chance, Cultural Impact Awards, 2025 celebrate high quality, cultur...

The Get The Chance, Cultural Impact Awards, 2025 supported by Tempo Time Credits & Porters Cardiff, Launch this month! The Awards, 2025 celebrate high quality, cultural activity that reaches a broad range of the public & its positive impact on their quality of life getthechance.wales/2025/02/12/l...

15.02.2025 13:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A pleasure to be asked to discuss Inclusive Programming with Music students today at Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama - Coleg Brenhinol Cerdd a Drama Cymru. Thanks to Writer, Owen Thomas for sharing your creative process on the Welcome to Wales project.

04.02.2025 13:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thanks to Sharon and Louise from Sight Life for sharing their creative process on the RWCMD ‘Welcome to Wales’ exhibition with our visitors from Cardiff Steiner School today.
It was a fascinating insight, into their thoughts on Wales and tactile art works.

31.01.2025 18:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
National Youth Arts Wales calls on Welsh Government to act now to prevent crisis Stephen Price National Youth Arts Wales has raised the alarm about the “shameful” state of youth arts funding in Wales, calling on the Welsh Government to address the ‘urgent’ situation and ensure eve...

National Youth Arts Wales has raised the alarm about the “shameful” state of youth arts funding in Wales, calling on the Welsh Government to address the 'urgent' situation and ensure every young person can access the ‘transformative power’ of the arts
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21.01.2025 08:01 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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We, the undersigned organisations, welcome the Senedd culture committee’s report and recommendations on the state of funding of the arts in Wales. Arts spending in Wales per head is now the lowest in ...

I imagine if you follow me on here, you care about the arts. Some of you will be based in England and some in Wales. Either way, please consider reading this short letter to Welsh government and signing if you agree…

docs.google.com/forms/d/1bfc...

19.01.2025 19:43 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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FREE and paid performances at Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama - Coleg Brenhinol Cerdd a Drama Cymru this week
More information 👉🏼 www.rwcmd.ac.uk/whats-on/our...

20.01.2025 09:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Tempo Time Credits | Uniting Volunteers, Businesses & Charities Volunteers earn Tempo which can be used for a variety of services. We unite charities, volunteers & businesses through Tempo Time Credits.

The new performance season at @rwcmd.bsky.social will begin next week.
Great to say that we have already had 60 Tempo Time Credits bookings for live performances.
You can find out more about Tempo Time Credits Cymru and supporting volunteering and access to culture at the link below wearetempo.org

03.01.2025 15:07 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Bristol Old Vic theatre school to stop its undergraduate courses Renowned drama school says ‘unprecedented funding challenges’ make degrees unviable from September 2025

In the latest blow for arts education provision, we're devastated to learn that Bristol Old Vic Theatre School will stop its undergraduate courses later this year, citing financial pressures.

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...

07.01.2025 15:08 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Meta to replace 'biased' fact-checkers with moderation by users Meta says its platforms will instead rely on

The slope gets slipperier and steeper.

‘Independent fact-checkers’ do exactly what the title suggests. They check and verify facts.

To say that bias is a concern is bizarre because a fact is a fact, regardless of your viewpoint.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

07.01.2025 16:10 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content Mark Zuckerberg says company will ‘dramatically reduce censorship’ across Facebook, Instagram and Threads

Looks like FB and Insta are going the same way as X/Twitter
Support independent journalism
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

07.01.2025 17:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Tempo Time Credits | Uniting Volunteers, Businesses & Charities Volunteers earn Tempo which can be used for a variety of services. We unite charities, volunteers & businesses through Tempo Time Credits.

The new performance season at @rwcmd.bsky.social will begin next week.
Great to say that we have already had 60 Tempo Time Credits bookings for live performances.
You can find out more about Tempo Time Credits Cymru and supporting volunteering and access to culture at the link below wearetempo.org

03.01.2025 15:07 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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UCAN: ZOO Story A Cardiff park, on a Sunday afternoon in the Summer. Sitting on a bench, reading a book, is Peter, a 40-year-old man dressed in tweeds wearing horn-rimmed…

UCAN: ZOO Story.

Sat 11 Jan 2025 7.15pm

Bute Theatre, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff.

Book at the link below

www.rwcmd.ac.uk/events/ucan-...

03.01.2025 11:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Workers Gallery – 10 years of celebrating artists in the Rhondda People tend not to associate the arts with the communities of the South Wales Valleys. But Art is community and art is for everyone. Or it certainly should be

People tend not to associate the arts with the communities of the South Wales Valleys. But Art is community and art is for everyone. Or it certainly should be | Shaun Thomas

22.12.2024 18:21 — 👍 96    🔁 21    💬 3    📌 1

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