Annette Mees

Artistic Director Audience Labs - theatre, tech & equitable futures. Visiting Senior Fellow @CulturalKings, Creative R&D @substrakt & Chair @FuturEverything

[Annette Mees @AnnetteMees]

This week we shared “Future of Arts and Culture: trajectories for the next decade”
The report is based on contributions of an amazing 204 leaders, artists & creatives working in arts and culture from across the world.
Here is the direct link to the report: https://t.co/XTJv4pjYLW

[Annette Mees @AnnetteMees]

Can’t 🧡 this enough!

[Royal Court @royalcourt]

We are thrilled to announce the appointment of the Royal Court Theatre’s next Artistic Director, David Byrne.

David is the founding Artistic Director and CEO of New Diorama, one of London’s most vibrant new work theatres.

Read more: https://t.co/xOs9oHGP8N

📷 Tom Jamieson

[Annette Mees @AnnetteMees]

I’m joining #NewFrontiers online this afternoon (work is preventing being there the whole day)
Meanwhile I’m looking at tweets by @clarered - who is capturing so much inspiring quotes already
Thank you!

[clarered @clarered]

“I no longer want to focus on dismantling the masters house, because doing so gives life and relevancy to something that is on its way out. I want to build a new house that centres abundance and well-being.” Starting the day with Nwamako Agbo’s Restorative Economics #NewFrontiers

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@clarered @shock @annastarkey @thanks Wonderful - would love to know what bit you pulled out.
I need to reread it because I feel like I just inhaled it so quickly.

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Can I have some novel recommendations please?
Recent reads: Earthlings by Sayaka Murata, Babel by RF Kuang, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke & Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
What should I be reading next?

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@changeist @hauspa 🧡 this!

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@iotwatch Might be a bit of a track for you but love to see some of this tried in our space in Greenwich 🌿

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@DrDaveOBrien @UoMSALC @ArtHistoryUoM @UoMICP @UoMCreativeMCR @MCRSociology Great news 🙌
Maybe interesting to explore collaborations with @FuturEverything
So much resonance there.

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🧡
Be the music

[Kara Calavera @karacalavera on the blue butterfly @KaraCalavera]

The prologue to Alan Arkin's autobiography "An Improvised Life: A Memoir," in which he describes a revelation he has while discussing talent and art with another dearly departed great, Madeline Kahn:

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Me too @Jaz_KidSis 🙌

[Jazlyn Pinckney @Jaz_KidSis]

And I'm totally into #CitizenCommisioning as some radical cooperative art funding which is super exciting to me.

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Sounds simple: 2 people build an Arch out of ice, a chorus sings...
but Arch by @kaleider was one of the most magic & moving R&Ds I've seen recently
They're looking for 2000 Citizen Commissioners to donate £10 & help get it realised
https://t.co/BcRo5l32Jd
Please do, if you can

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@StellaKanuWORDS @stratfordeast It’s so special isn’t it???
Saw it in preview on Tuesday and each consecutive act just blew me away more.

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This is beyond heartbreaking
And deeply irresponsible.
It will put so many kids at risk and embed exclusion and transphobia into the curriculum

[clarered @clarered]

The Tories have bought in something *worse than section 28*. 💔

[Annette Mees @AnnetteMees]

One of my references in a current project is Italio Calvino's Invisible cities and I absolutely adore it

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The upcoming session is full but we’ll do one again next month.

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🧡 THIS

[Chris Sonnex @ChrisSonnex]

My take that no one is asking for. Give each space at the National Theatre to a different Artistic Director.

[Annette Mees @AnnetteMees]

This is going to be incredibly inspiring & important
All sign up details below.
Let me know if you are going - I love having conversation partners to reflect with after and event like this

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🙌

[FarzanaKhan @khankfarza]

"You can't delegate something that does not yet have a precedence' - @ImmyKaur.
Love us be honest on this. Growing capacity takes so much time AND you need the opportunity to emerge the practice first esp for ppls who aren't allow to. Naive 'egalitarian' takes hurts liberation

[Annette Mees @AnnetteMees]

Beautiful two days in the motherland with my partners-in-imagination @ClubGuyandRoni @NITE_ensemble & @substrakt
Dreaming up the start of our #innovatielab2 project
Now on my way to Tilburg - my home town - for an evening of ‘borrelen’ with my parents

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“If there was ever a time when we needed new intellectual maps and new cultural thinking, it is now, if ever there was a time for inspiration, imagination and beauty, it is now”

Please join @CassieRobinson
& I to explore Collective Imagination if you can
https://t.co/aUNxUQbfP2

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@Owencl Missed a train but used the extra time to pick up a copy of this book.
Started reading it 30min ago & already ADORE it!
Thank you so much for the recommendation