Flora Emily Thomson

Aimlessly wandering through life one embarrassing anecdote at a time. Director @ScottishOpera Young Company. Facilitator @mortalfoolsUK

[Flora Emily Thomson @FlotoFlora]

FINALLY went and got myself a website!

Soo if you:
- need a lead/associate/assistant/movement director on a show
- are looking to collaborator to make a show
- need someone to lead some cool youth/community based stuff

HIT ME UP. Pls & thx 🙏🏻

https://t.co/RoPAc9Iy99

[Mortal Fools @mortalfoolsUK]

Our upcoming Future Ready employability programme at YMCA Northumberland is recruiting participants!
It's for 16-30yr olds & is about unleashing new skills, confidence & career aspirations across an empowering, supportive, creative week.
Info & register: https://t.co/7BJnAp8KzX

[Flora Emily Thomson @FlotoFlora]

Went out to watch the Perseid Meteor Shower and got a bonus light show 🤩

In Devon on the edge of Dartmoor 🌌
#northernlights #perseid

[Flora Emily Thomson @FlotoFlora]

Iiiiiiiiit’s dress day!

[Scottish Opera @ScottishOpera]

📣 Join us this summer for the world premiere of RED, a darky comic tale written by award-winning composer Karen MacIver and Jane Davidson MBE, performed by Scottish Opera Young Compan‍y 🔴👩‍🦰

🎟 Book your tickets now: https://t.co/5bsq17rTn9

[Flora Emily Thomson @FlotoFlora]

🗳️ Voting Day 🗳️

[Tim Key @timkeyperson]

❌

[Flora Emily Thomson @FlotoFlora]

Ahh that time of year has come again, for the mighty pastime of my home county 🙌🏻 all worship the wheel 🙌🏻 🧀 🧀🧀 https://t.co/KUAOkF7iqc

[Hussain “Hoz” Shafiei @HussainShafiei]

Thank you @BernieSanders for saying this as a Jewish politician.

[Jason Pedlow 💙 @JasonPedlow]

Dear @bbcnews, I've just been looking at your election results tracker.

It seems Reform won 2 seats.

The Greens won 181 - NINETY times more seats.

Can I assume that from now on we'll see the Greens represented 90 times more often than Reform on your shows?

For balance.

[Flora Emily Thomson @FlotoFlora]

Phoar, it’s been a tough few days. But today I also got to direct 14 trainee young performers as they absolutely nailed the brief, and then some. And how can you not find joy in that? What a brilliant bunch.

[Flora Emily Thomson @FlotoFlora]

Bloomin bloody brilliant. This is leadership 🙌🏻👏🏻🙌🏻👏🏻

[The Stage @TheStage]

.@royalcourt boss @mrdavebyrne has appointed four associate playwrights – including @RyanCalaisC and Mike Bartlett – in a move that will mean they become part of a "collective leadership" model and develop the venue’s artistic programme.

Find out more 👉 https://t.co/B0204cmQi6

[Adele Thomas @__AdeleThomas__]

Welsh performers - I need you.

I am looking to cast an ensemble of 5 actors/ performers for my upcoming production of Verdi's opera, Rigoletto. The show is for WNO and will be opening in the WMC in July.

Details in thread below:

[Curious Arts @CuriousArts]

📣 Calling all LGBTQIA+ performance artists in the Tees Valley!

Don't miss the chance to showcase your talent at Pride events across the region with our Pride Stages Commissions 2024! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Learn more: https://t.co/SqQk4ZjQmK

Deadline: May 1st

@PrideInTV @TeesValleyCA

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

If only you really supported the creative industries. If only you hadn’t slashed their funding. If only you hadn’t denigrated arts and creative courses. If only you hadn’t overseen a dramatic fall in music and drama teaching and the closure of music venues.
If only…

[Flora Emily Thomson @FlotoFlora]

Everyone stop what you’re doing right now. SISTER ACT 3 IS IN PREPRODUCTION.

I’ve been waiting 30 years for this, and I’m only 32.

[Flora Emily Thomson @FlotoFlora]

Oh my, the Assembly on BBC - I’m probably way behind the curve but wow. What a wonderful display of great participation work and high quality television coming together. In an increasingly dire landscape, we need stuff like this 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

https://t.co/Gm0oqfvEMY

[Flora Emily Thomson @FlotoFlora]

This is. I mean…what?! Jeeez, stop the bus, I want to get off.

[Ned Glasier @nedglasier]

This is the most succinct and articulate expression of something I felt so many times about young people @company_three

[Red Ladder @redladder]

“Seeing poverty and people like me, my life and my family on the screen, I recognised myself. See, representation matters…You see, the stories we tell matter. They have the power to change people’s lives.” Samantha Morton👏

[Flora Emily Thomson @FlotoFlora]

And as an EA freelancer, watching institutions try and manage this on their own islands, with short term panic actioning, is painful.

[Flora Emily Thomson @FlotoFlora]

Following on from yesterday: THIS. The current model is crumbling and yet there seems to be no industry wide, solution based, cross pollination task force exploring ways to rebuild in a long lasting meaningful way.