Helen Bryer

He’s a clever guy, is Kev. You should definitely do what he says.

I urge you to go and see A Small Enclosed Room With Alfie Murphy by @aaaprods.bsky.social when it comes to your area. It's proper good stuff. And it is coming to @storyhouselive.bsky.social - my home town!

''Just a wonderful analogy of what it feels like to be a neurodivergent person...''

What a cracking set of voxpops for A Small Enclosed Room with Alfie Murphy - a beautifully chaotic dive into neurodivergence

@aaaprods.bsky.social

13th – 17th May, tix: sohotheatre.com/events/a-sma...

Are you learning disabled or autistic, and thinking about a career in theatre, TV, or film?

Then Access All Areas, Central, and Netflix want to hear from you.

Applications are open until June 24th.

Find out more about the Diploma, and how to apply, at
🔗 bit.ly/AAADiploma

On a black desgined tile, A Diploma Student stand in a dark place. She wears a cream color sequin crop top. She has mid-lenght dark blonde haire. She has her arm spread and her mouth is open as if she was singing. Behind her, projected, a mosaic of muliple portraits of people. Text Read: Performance Making Diploma 2025-2027 Applications Open accessallareasproductions.org with the Access All Areas, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama and "Supported by Netflix" logos

Access All Areas are recruiting artists!

This is a big day for us. As we open applications again for our world-famous Performance Making Diploma, we are delighted to announce that @netflixuk.bsky.social will now support the programme, run with the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama.

A drawing of a haunted looking possum alongside the text I’m tired and my brain is soup

Perpetual mood

Envelope with shamrock and JK kellycaster logo, all on Irish flag background!

Thanks for a great night Manchester Folk Festival...see you at Folk Expo, table 14! Tea n nibbles (i hope xx)

l-r paula, marvus, helen, dave & JK sitting around drumkit in Crown Lane Studio, saxaphone n whistles on floor.

I'm very excited to be back at the Manchester Folk Festival; see you tonight at 11pm at Band On The Wall. I'll also be at Folk Expo tomorrow, table 14, so come and say hello sausages

He’s baaaaaaack! 🦈🦈🦈

Mental health support • Mind runs a support line on 0300 102 1234 as a safe and confidential place to talk openly. It also has an information line, on 0300 123 3393, for details of where to get help near you. And its welfare benefits line – 0300 222 5782 – supports anyone with mental health problems who is navigating the benefits system. • Samaritans is there to talk to you for free 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Call them on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org. • The disability charity Scope has a forum where you can chat in a supportive atmosphere to people going through the same experiences. • NHS England has an online mental health triage service.

Benefits support • The Trussell Trust's Help through Hardship helpline, on 0808 208 2138, is a free and confidential phone service offered alongside Citizens Advice that provides advice to people experiencing hardship. You can also find your local Trussell Trust food bank here. • Benefits and Work provides guides, forums and newsletters to help people navigate the benefits system and get the support they are entitled to. This includes benefit applications and appeals. • Turn2Us provides a free benefits calculator to help you find out what benefits you can claim, as well as a grants search service and a Pip Helper to assist you in applying for the benefit. • The Law Centres website helps people find their local service for benefits support and more, while Advicelocal provides a search directory tool to find your local advice provider.

I know coverage of disability benefits can be very distressing. So, I’ve worked with colleagues to make a range of support visible on The Guardian’s site.

If you click on a relevant news story, you’ll see a “drop box” of signposted mental health help as well as benefits advice.

YouTube video by Access All Areas Audiance Reactions - Not F**kin' Sorry

You've heard enough from us so find out directy from Not F**kin' Sorry's audience on why you shouldn't miss this show!

Tomorrow at @mercurytheatre.bsky.social and across the UK in March and April!

🎟 accessallareasproductions.org/production/n...

▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VKX...

Full dates ⬇️

Get yourselves to Colchester next week for this beautiful lot. Genuinely one of my favourite pieces of performance EVER.

Oh he’s named perfectly 😍

🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏

Thrilled @aaaprods.bsky.social are now on BlueSky so I can repost all the pictures of me looking proud of our artists.

Still so sad about the White Lotus theme tune guys

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Spent my daytime with some brilliant organisations talking inclusion and co-leadership. Spent my evening with my students dreaming up ideas for learning disabled and autistic-led television shows. I’m happy but also my brain is absolutely done.

Guys. It’s 5pm and it’s still a tiny bit light outside. Thank GOODNESS it’s FINALLY HAPPENING.

pink robin

I love him and would die to protect him.

Best post on all of Bluesky

Someone dressed as Hello Kitty in a pink princess dress wielding a sledgehammer standing over a laptop on the ground.

I want to stay informed but also every time I try to read the news

Also got to say hi to @michaelsouthan.bsky.social and had that now-quite-rare thrill of seeing a mostly Twitter(/Bluesky) pal in real life.

Feeling enriched and inspired by a day at @graeaetheatre.bsky.social’s new writing festival. Also maybe, for the first time in ages, a **tiny** bit hopeful about theatre…?

@amybryce.bsky.social Great to meet you today Amy!

Wonderful colleague pointed out today that in our jobs (and lives) we are pretty much always walking into a room where we’re wanted.

I can’t stop thinking about it. What a privilege.

TRUST - that is only tricky thing.

Youth theatre is important, transformative, vibrant … and fragile. The youth theatre census. Read the report at bit.ly/youththeatrecensus

Today we launch the Youth Theatre Census report - a summary of everything we learnt from the Youth Theatre Census last summer.

If you care about youth arts, it’s one of the most important things you’ll read this year.

Download it here: bit.ly/youththeatrecensus
Or read on for more.

Had a couple of drinks this evening and spent the long journey home swaying tipsily on the train.

Some people in my position would text an ex. Make a crazy purchase. Do something wild.

I paid for a podcast subscription so I didn’t have to wait for the next episode.

RECKLESS.

The departures board at Euston station- on the large board which has been empty for months

Joy in 2025 is the Euston departures finally being where they belong 😍

Screenshot of a Guardian article, reading: "Drama schools have been particularly hard hit by the previous government’s decision to cut funding for arts subjects to prioritise Stem subjects, which fall within the disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Top-up funding for creative and performing arts courses, which are expensive to run, was frozen at £16.7m in 2024-25, resulting in a real-terms cut due to inflation. In 2020-21 the grant was worth £36m, before it was cut nearly in half by Gavin Williamson, the then education secretary. Nick Hillman, the director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, said although many of the affected smaller specialist institutions were world leading, a high proportion were struggling. Courses are expensive to deliver because of a high student-to-staff ratio and they lack the economies of scale enjoyed by larger institutions. “It risks becoming a national catastrophe for these institutions that specialise in areas where the UK is traditionally top notch,” Hillman said."

The absurd idea that the arts (or anything for that matter) should somehow be cheap, profitable, and still world-leading at every stage from primary school to post-grad still seems to have a stranglehold on policy-makers despite the damage we're seeing daily