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A CHAOS OF LIGHT
New Writing Scotland 43
Ed. by Kirstin Innes, Chris Powici & Niall O’Gallagher
“writing that unsettles and challenges, that questions assumptions… A rich, boisterous, tender, charming, angry, sorrowful, gleeful mix”
Aug 2025 – available for preorder!
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Heatwave got you dreaming of snow? Well we’ve got you covered as today we’re announcing the first of our Cinderella Company with Kat B and George Heyworth starring as your favourite Ugly Sisters this festive season!
Opening 22 Nov and tickets are from £10, www.hackneyempire.co.uk/events/cinderella
This summer, the game begins with you!
We’re busy installing your summer of fun ☀️ Get ready for Make It! Play It! and explore the making that powers play with our brand new exhibition.
Launching 24th July with @claymatic.games, @lego-group.bsky.social and more!
thenvm.org/make-it-play...
The North Sea Poets logo is on the right next to the course description. In the background is a photo of grass blowing in the wind and stormy seas beyond.
Tickets are available for the #NorthSeaPoets autumn course 'Writing With ...'
This seven-week course will cover everything from landscapes to ghosts, from Heaney to Plath and is suitable for both experienced and emerging writers.
Get all the details: buff.ly/lJv4Fbp
#PoetrySky #PoetryWorkshop
🪄🔥 Magic, mayhem, and a touch of mischief!
Kathryn Haywood brings her hilarious new show Magic & Sex to @alphabettitheatre.bsky.social for Newcastle Fringe.
🎟️ Don’t miss it: July 31, 5pm
📍 Newcastle
👉 Preview: www.northeasttheatreguide.co.uk/2025/07/prev...
The Dymphna Bursary
is awarded annually to a poet resident in Scotland who identifies as neurodivergent or has a learning disability. The award will be £2000.
Applications are open until Fri 15 Aug.
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/dymphna-burs...
Next Tuesday (15th) I'm in Liverpool interviewing Kevin Rowland at this event at Rough Trade marking the publication of his autobiography - July 15th. £29 a ticket includes the book (cover price £25), which Kevin will sign at the end of the event www.visitliverpool.com/event/kevin-...
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#TheWomanInBlack casting and more tour dates announced
Read more: www.westendtheatre.com/301800/news/...
Susan Hill's chilling thriller is back on tour
Stars #JohnMackay as Arthur Kipps & #DanielBurke as The Actor
London: Alexandra Palace Theatre 8 - 25 Oct & Richmond Theatre 25 - 29 Nov
Photo of Mark Thomas sitting at a table in a rehearsal room, reading aloud from a script on the table in front of him. He's holding both arms up in the air in a gesture of emphasis.
Photo of members of the production team sitting around a table in the rehearsal room, having a discussion.
Photo of members of the production team sitting around a table reading from scripts.
Photo of Mark Thomas in profile, sitting at a table reading aloud from a script. Members of the production team are visible in the background, sitting on chairs and listening in.
A few more pics from the rehearsals of #MarkThomas & Ed Edwards brand new play 'Ordinary Decent Criminal'!
We've got a work-in-progress performance this Friday 11 July, be the first to see this funny, moving & illuminating story. Find out more: whatsonreading.com/ordinary-dec...
#rdguk #theatre
Thought Bubble Comic Convention is the largest convention in the UK that focuses solely on comic creators and their fans!
Come and meet the people making your current favourite comic, and find your next!
Get tickets here: thoughtbubblefestival.com/tickets
What has been surprising the cast of Make It Happen? Watch to find out 👀
With sold out previews at Dundee Rep & tickets going fast for the Edinburgh International Festival run, you don’t want to miss your chance to catch this bitingly funny satire written by James Graham & dir. by Andrew Panto
One week left to enter the Young Scots Writer o the Year Award 2025! 🗓️
Are you someone with stories to share? Or a teacher working with young writers we should know about? Then there is still time to enter:
Joshua Howgego on space rocks. Isabel Losada on hopeful rebellion. Tom Phillips on history’s funniest meltdowns.
Sip, laugh, think, repeat with Berwins Salon North this July 🥂
Find out more 👇
https://bit.ly/BSNJULY25
@isabel-losada.bsky.social @tom-phillips.com @berwins.bsky.social
Infographic with the event's title, date, time and ticket prices in large modern white text, superimposed on the top-half of the famous 1596 portrait of Joan Alleyn, the step-daughter of The Rose's owner Philip Henslowe, and the wife of its leading actor Edward Alleyn, that hangs in Dulwich Picture Gallery in London. In the painting, she wears a tall broad-brimmed black hat with a black hatband, that is tied onto her head with black ribbon over the white linen coif that covers most of her hair. She wears a very large cream-coloured ruff trimmed with lace. She wears a black gown, with very large shoulders that point upwards, which is open to show a cream stomacher underneath, with delicate floral blackwork embroidery. She stands against a plain background, has fair hair, pale skin and red lips, and looks serious as she displays her status through the fashionable and expensive clothing that she wears.
Sat 2 Aug @ 1pm & 3pm onsite
DISCOVERY DAY: COSTUME
Discover how a fashionable middle-class lady dressed in mid-1590s London.
You'll be shown a replica of the clothing that Joan Alleyn, step-daughter of The Rose's owner Philip Henslowe, wears in her famous portrait.
£7 / £5 - Book: bit.ly/407BAJS
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is 💥IMPORTANT!💥
Chichester is getting its own Monopoly board and you have until the 21st July to nominate the Fishbourne Roman Palace to be one of the squares.
Don't let us down, people! 🙏 Just email chichester@winningmoves.co.uk, and then share this post!
“Find nature near you. Download WILDLING today for free,” with logos for the App Store and Google Play. Below, a photo shows two people walking through tall summer grass towards a wooded trail, surrounded by greenery. A dotted trail line curves across the corner of the graphic.
Well this is exciting!
Wildling, a new, free mobile app, launches today. 😍🍃
From secret woods to riverside trails to *stunning* RSPB reserves (not that we’re biased), it brings wild places & hidden green spots together in one simple place.
Download now & get into nature: brnw.ch/21wU0ga
The Roald Dahl Story Company has announced a major 2026 UK tour of The Enormous Crocodile The Musical, bringing the mischievous jungle adventure to theatres across the country
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Starting tomorrow! Alexei and Talal record an episode of Alexei's podcast. Each show will be distinctly different and interaction will be mildly encouraged.
🎧 https://loom.ly/AJGQXyQ 🎧
Heads-up, playwrights! We just made all submissions 50% OFF through the remainder of July! Submit your one-act and full length plays at: scribeplaywriting.weebly.com #summersavings #playwriting #playwright #playwrights #theater #dramaturgy #theatre #writingcommunity #writing #writersky #theatersky
06.07.2025 01:34 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Three vertical panels display distinct artistic styles: the left panel features prehistoric hand stencils in reddish-brown pigment on a cave wall, overlapping to form a dense pattern; the centre panel shows a swirling night sky in vibrant blues and yellows from Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night,” with a village and cypress trees below; the right panel displays a vintage floral wallpaper pattern with intricate black flowers and vines on a tan background, evoking a classical decorative style.
🎨 Art is everywhere—let your pupils discover it!
Our Art in a Day workshop at Christchurch Mansion gives pupils the chance to explore art in all its forms: drawing, design, drama, writing, even detective work!
Badger dressing up
Photo cut out
recording wildlife
LAST FEW HOURS!
You've still got time to visit 'Wild about Hertfordshire' exhibition today (open until 4pm)...where you can:
🦋 Dress-up
🐭 Find all 6 mice
📸 Go wild
🥰 Learn how to record wildlife
With @hnhsoc.bsky.social
https://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/wild-about-hertfordshire
Ringmoor Down: On the top of the open moor that is Ringmoor Down, to the north of the better-known Brisworthy and its stone circle #StandingStoneSunday , this tremendous cairn circle and associated stone row are to be found, although they were "restored" in 1909 by Rev.
06.07.2025 09:33 — 👍 59 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Copy of children’s mystery book Friends and Traitors, magnifying glass, pen, London A-Z, torch, coded message.
Last chance to book! ⬇️
Join me at Finchley Church End Library on Sat 12th July at 11am. Writing tips, Q&A, and an interactive WW2 mystery to solve!
Find out the inspiration behind Friends and Traitors and crack an MI5 cold case!
Ages 7 up.
Book tickets at t.co/6Tk6pEryy6
@nosycrow.bsky.social
Cheque out the cast of Make It Happen in the rehearsal room at Dundee Rep making it happen 💥
With sold out previews at Dundee Rep & tickets going super fast for the run Edinburgh International Festival you better get your tickets now 👇
📸 Mihaela Bodlovic
Librarians! Join us to explore the best new children's and YA books at our upcoming Book Discovery event.
02.07.2025 14:40 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Paul Keating @arcolatheatre.bsky.social
We sat down with Paul to talk about CLIVE, who will play Thomas in this strange, funny, and heartbreakingly human play by Olivier and BAFTA award-winning playwright Michael Wynne.
wp.me/pdXz8Y-61j
#interview #london
⚠️ Low ticket warning: Preview tickets for THE PILLOWMAN ⚠️
🎟️ gatetheatre.ie
📻 Listen back to Fra Fee on RTÉ Radio One Arena: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
#ThePillowman #MartinMcDonagh #GateTheatre #IrishTheatre #GateTheatre2025
Things to do at the Bodleian this summer: www.tiktok.com/@bodleianlib...
03.07.2025 13:47 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Nottingham Playhouse and the Sky Mirror with a purple overlay. Text reads: Jobs and Opportunities Head of Commercial & Operations. Deadline Sun 13 Jul Stage Manager on the Book. Deadline Sun 13 Jul Chaperones. Deadline Sun 13 Jul
We’re recruiting for three exciting roles to be part of the team here at Nottingham Playhouse.
Applications for the Head of Commercial & Operations, Stage Manager, and Chaperones will close on Sunday 13 July.
Find out more and apply today: bit.ly/NPJobOpp
