Selina Busby

Shout out today for BA and ground staff/ assisted travel at Gatwick and Funchal for making navigating the airports with a recently broken foot so easy.

Yes it was great! Its always a joy to be at their events. Just sad not to see more of the performances.

Absolutely gutted in the rush to leave the brilliant Assitej Artistic Gathering y’day to get to The Future of UK Youth Theatres symposium I broke my foot. Now I am going to miss a fantastic day of conversations with some really wonderful practitioners and researchers @Rachelhann.bsky.social

Sun set view of Notre-Dame de la Garde from a very long way away.

Narrow street in Marseille with sunset in the background.

It’s been a joy to be at ASSITEJ International artistic gathering surrounded by theatre makers and researchers who really care about performance made for and with young people. As ever learning more than sharing!

A tough moment today… in a school observing two drama workshop leaders from the Donmar. One of them told the year eight group, that I had been their university teacher before any of drama class were even born! I now feel very very old!

Have been spending time in schools with year 8 & 9 students with fantastic workshop leaders from @donmarwarehouse.bsky.social as part of a Donmar Local project. It has been an utter joy to see young people throwing themselves in to drama, doing critical thinking & having fun.

It’s probably bad to admit this… but I have three Hector’s House books on my shelves… and they are not going anywhere.

I know it’s irrational but I can’t let go of even one of them.

A sliding ladder! Be still my beating heart!

Brick building with a red sign on the side with white writing saying Donmar.

Just spent a glorious morning with the folks from the Donmar Local’s fabulous artistic team for an R&D session. Thinking about ‘bringing the joy’, theatre in schools, devising with young people and climate change
@donmarwarehouse.bsky.social

Removed floor boards, revealing a pipe, lagging and tools.

Hurray after a full of exploring our plumber just found our leak! My weekend just got so much better!

Many students in academic robes, throwing their hats in the air.

It was graduation day for Central’s class of 2024 this week. It was utterly gorgeous to see those who made it for the ceremony. Excellent speeches from Cush Jumbo and our principal Josette Bushell-Mingo and lovely to spend time with my wonderful colleagues at the Royal Festival Hall.

Spending today researching theatre for young audiences in Spain and am so excited by the work I am looking at on websites I just want to get on plane and spend the next few weeks watching it.

White boxes stacked on top of each other in a corridor.

Row of red bound hard copies of MA Applied Theatre dissertations with gold lettering.

Office move! 23-ish years of MA Applied Theatre Dissertations, alphabetical stored by year in 15 boxes … with another five boxes to go! Huge thanks to our fabulous estates team @cssdLondon.

Four students sat on the floor in front of a tablet. Three wearing black, the fourth in jeans and a green jacket and matching cap.

On Monday it was win, win. The MA Applied Theatre @cssdlondon students were thinking about combining digital technology & drama teaching with @candttheatre.bsky.social and then @paulsutton.bsky.social and I had time do some plotting for new projects. A great start to the week!

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Witcher - Wild Hunt expansion 🤣

Table set up for a board game with board, player maps, several piles of cards, tokens and plastic figures.

A wet and miserable Sunday … it’s time to lock the doors, and indulge our inner geeks, in this house.

Two actors of British-South Asian Ethnicity, hugging each other, standing under captions projected on to a screen. The words in blue are in English, those in yellow are Punjabi. They read: Jindan: and I have prayed for you every morning and every night from the moment I fell pregnant with you Duleep Jindan: teh main teri layi saware shaam ardaaas kardi si jadun da tun meri khukh ch si Duleep

Spent time this week with Vital Xposure exploring creative captioning in Punjabi and English. And have been totally energised by discussions around theatre access, words, translation & power. Deeply grateful to the team at VX, @aprecious.bsky.social @cssdLondon & our PTEQ lab.

Just received an email as co-editor of RiDE asking “How much plagiarism is acceptable to the journal, 15% or 20% ?”

Young working-class people being ‘blocked’ from creative industries, study finds Sutton Trust calls for improved access to creative education and industry dominated by upper middle-class

Sutton Trust report: 'The charity said access to creative degrees in subjects such as music and art was skewed towards those from upper middle-class backgrounds at the most prestigious institutions. ' Link to report is: www.suttontrust.com/our-research...

Another month… testing another new platform… maybe this is the one that sticks 🤞🏻