Frankie Collier

Slightly nerdy Theatre/Film Designer.
She/her.

[Frankie Collier @FrankieCollier]

Did my first craft Market this weekend! Thank you so much to everyone who came along and bought something from me!

[Omar Shakir @OmarSShakir]

Dire warning from @UNReliefChief: "I fear that the worst is yet to come... The past week has been a test for humanity & humanity is failing."
World leaders must act to protect civilians from large scale atrocities before it's too late.

[Chris Brookmyre @cbrookmyre]

Keep seeing people talking about "robbing Peter to pay Paul" and "making tough choices" re arts spending. All this does is underline how the arts are seen as a luxury, which is the essence of problem. If a culture doesn't value its arts, it won't just be the arts that atrophy.

[Kevin P. Gilday @KevinPGilday]

Absolutely brutal closures that will only hurt the worst off. Used to go to Stepps library as a kid and played 5s at the Iain Nicolson Centre. It’s a big council, you can’t just go somewhere else. You’re shutting people out of exercise and culture.

https://t.co/RV6cB4Hte7

[Heather Parry @HeatherParryUK]

To add: the arts in Scotland already relies of ludicrous amounts of free labour; on artists creating opportunities, spending weeks writing funding applications, going through endless bureaucracy to be allowed to beg for a tiny budget on which they're supposed to move mountains.

[Kathleen Jamie @KathleenJamie]

Arts funding is Scotland is dire. I wrote a poem ‘Shoestring’ because that’s how it is.

[Helen Logan @HelenLogan71]

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The Scottish Government is breaking its promise on arts funding, and trying to reimpose a £6.6 million cut to Creative Scotland. Scotland's arts and culture needs backing, not broken promises. Please join me in signing the @_CFTA petition. https://t.co/cN4RiGKRpo

[Frankie Collier @FrankieCollier]

@molliekatie Hello! Have you started washing the dishes yet? I need to make sure you do before I go to bed 😊

[Cora Harrington @CoraCHarrington]

Starting off with the technicalities, the Lendbreen Tunic is actually from the Iron Age, not the Stone Age. As far as I know, we don’t have any Stone Age clothing still in existence. The oldest garment we have is from the Bronze Age and is called the Tarkhan Dress.

[Frankie Collier @FrankieCollier]

To quote the great philosophers-
"Well... duh"

[New Scientist @newscientist]

The idea that men hunt while women stay at home is at the root of many gendered assumptions about the way societies operate, but a review of the data shows this is wrong. https://t.co/806Xl4NtkY

[Yilin @ The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter]

- Please donate to hold the British Museum accountable for the erasure of Chinese feminist poet Qiu Jin -

I want to talk about the importance of poetry in a Chinese cultural context and why this makes the removal of Qiu Jin's poetry especially problematic. Please boost!
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[Future Transformation @Future_T_org]

Congratulations to @RuthAmos 👏🚀
Ruth Amos, co-founder of @KidsInventStuff is to receive one of the Royal Academy of Engineering's most prestigious awards: The Rooke Award for public promotion of engineering.
https://t.co/eC2Nsmvpqs
#Engineering #STEM

[Jake Orr @jakeyoh]

The Big Freelancers Report by @FreelancersMake is a shocking read:

- Av salary of theatre freelancers £22.900
- That’s 17.5% below national av salary
- Av salary of male: £32,600
- Av salary of female: £20,400
- that’s 37% pay gap
- 21-30 years experience? It’s 47.7% gap

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

The Titanic sub billionaire rescue mission is entering final hours of hope to find survivors.

Meanwhile in Italy & Greece, search & rescue to save people at sea is criminalised.
Pia Klemp is among those facing jail for rescuing migrants #r4today #FreePia https://t.co/RD730mB8g4

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

Less than 90% (with @_MissingTheMark).
The rhetoric on school attendance gets ever stronger. Banners are posted in schools, telling YP that every minute missed will damage life chances. Parents are sent scales which equate low school attendance with blighted lives.1/

[Mike Blackmore @Blacky_Himself]

Another example.

People understand water quality 💩
They understand abstraction 🚰

But there’s little public understanding of just how badly, how thoroughly we’ve physically changed our rivers, and what that means.

We can change it back, but we’re running out of time to fix it

[Phoebe Plummer @ziggystardyke]

After release from custody today I was given bail conditions not to protest on any road in the UK. Marching is a legal form of protest and has always been a part of our democratic process. Our freedom and democracy is under threat from this government.

[ Claire Boardman @boardman_claire]

PSA: Keeping cultural tourism income/benefits local.

If you're visiting the Scottish Isles pls consider booking accommodation through 'Isle Holiday'. Works like Airbnb but is community-owned w/ all profits retained and reinvested locally.

RTs 🙏
https://t.co/GifeYqrV9S

[Tomiwa Folorunso @tomiwa_]

HELLO 👋🏾 Looking for a Black or PoC Social Media Assistant based in #Edinburgh or #Glasgow for a paid freelance role. Send your recs or if this is you please get in touchhhh!

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

CRITICAL
Baroness @GreenJennyJones has tabled a rare "fatal motion" to stop a Tory amendment to Public Order Bill.

Tories are changing ‘serious disruption’ of other people’s day-to-day activities to mean ‘anything more than minor’.

Lords opposed it. Tories using secondary legislation to get it back in without change.

If they win, imagine authoritarian Britain in a short space of time
https://t.co/BIawxwnOTr