Lara Parmiani

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Our beautiful show The Flowers of Srebrenica will play again at Teatro Nuovo Pisa tonight and tomorrow
DONT MISS!!

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it has given in | Jane Martinson The corporation should have stood up to the Telegraph, Trump and the Tories. Now, its enemies know how little it takes for it to fold, says Jane Martinson, professor of financial journalism

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I think the people that suspected the bias would get worse - are probably right.
I will continue to not watch.

First the flag. Now the poppy A sombre display of remembrance is being weaponised and policed by nationalists

Flags don’t mean what they used to just months ago. I’ve written about how I think the same is happening to the poppy.

One thing I noticed today on that topic: so many people are wearing poppies that look nothing like the various ones the Royal British Legion sells…

Thank you @verityrhealey.bsky.social for this thoughtful and beautifully written review of @legalalienstheatre.bsky.social The Flowers of Srebrenica inspired by @aidanhehir.bsky.social book!

REVIEW: The Flowers of Srebrenica A haunting, poetic act of remembrance that blends ritual, testimony and humanity to confront how easily history repeats

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Very proud of @legalalienstheatre.bsky.social

And @laravp8.bsky.social in particular commited to making art in pursuit of enlightenment and better world.

Rhoda Dakar cancellation poster

Sad to see Rhoda Dakar has had to cancel her Scottish tour - non mainstream artists have more and more of a battle to sell tickets - our world is becoming banal and tediously fascistic (because that has the simplicity of lazy thinking)

Yep same here.

For the first time in my life I'm hearing the Green Party mentioned on Lbc radio at least once day if not more.

30th Anniversary of Srebrenica Genocide marked with theatre production The Flowers of Srebrenica Inspired by Aidan Hehir’s illustrated novel, drawing on his experience of travelling from Sarajevo to Srebrenica, the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide is marked by a new theatre production ...

Thanks Hinton magazine for this interview about The Flowers of Srebrenica!
Have you booked your tickets?
www.hintonmagazine.com/post/30th-an...

Two weeks to go to The flowers of Srebrenica!
It's been an honour to adapt @aidanhehir.bsky.social beautiful book.
Come see it!

If you believe our society isn't immune from violence and we should all unite and remember what happens when we allow the worst of humanity to prevail come to see this show.
It had audiences in tears throughout the Balkans. But it's not just about the past. It's about the present

This is what Farage wants in the UK and most of his mates on @lbc.co.uk would cheer.

History will look at all of them like we look at the SS...

Ferrari is completely ok with Farage's fascism and promotes his xenophobic agenda every single day

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

True. Silo is the same. I get they're underground but after 100 years you'd think they'd manage to have stronger bulbs!!

Migrants in Theatre doesn’t have an account (yet) on bluesky but this is the latest statement to put together. We are all concerned with what’s going on in this country and need the solidarity of our peers from the theatre industry. Feel free to follow us on Instagram.

Join us this autumn in London, Oslo and Pisa for a series of panel discussions curated as part of
@legalalienstheatre.bsky.social
production of Flowers of Srebrenica. Dates and more info at:
www.newtidesplatform.org/srebrenica-p...

Book your tickets!
www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/the-f...

I totally agree. Clues were either random/absurd or too easy. And all based on cliches. The bus pretty much only went up and down and sideways from Italy and tbh it could have just been parked outside the bbc building since contestants never really interacted with locations... Very boring

It was really boring. The "cues" were either so random it was impossible to get them or so obvious there was just no surprise. The challenges were also random and had nothing to go with the locations... the contestants could have been in a studio in the U.K. and it would have made no difference

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Fuck social media read books

"Zach, how can you address the fact that 80% of the UKs politics and media coverage is driven by one man's obsession over a cohort that only comprises of 0.0005% of the UKs population"

UK is fucked.

Text of Q&A

His answer was hugely impressive and it’s what Labour could have said years ago .

Press/MSM, especially BBC, has found it impossible to accept that their one-time mates, the Tories, lost GE last year.
They now have a new "hero," Farage, of course, and have "decreed" that he will be PM, asap.
Labour must be hammered daily, and other progressive parties, eg Greens, swatted away.

Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement:

"Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?"

Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.

And the U.K. is still planning to roll out the red carpet for this deranged troll right?

When the world is torn apart by the nasty forces of division and hate, theatre can be a force for cohesion and empathy.