The city of Berlin’s culture budget (population 7m) for 2024 has been set at €947m. The whole of England’s culture budget (population 57m) for 2024 is £458.5m. I know there’s lottery and local authority funding on top, but it doesn’t add up to anything like the per capita spend.
Happy festival day to @artsdepot_ldn! artsdepot Young Company, Saracens High School, JCoSS, Stratford School Academy, QEGS, Nower Hill High School, Kingsford Drama Seniors, MHCHS Theatre Group, & City of London Academy Shoreditch Park all perform this week 🤩
#Connections2023
What a fantastic week at this brilliant venue! So much passion and commitment from the young people and their directors paid off in 7 really different and exciting productions 💫
It’s opening night for @FireStationSun! Bringing their incredible work to Sunderland this week: Curious Connections, Jarrow School, Gateshead College, Stockton Riverside College, The Customs House Youth Theatre, Page2stage youth theatre, and Peanuts Rep! Break a leg, all 🤩
I’m proud to have been his daughter, and I feel confident his activism and his philosophy will have a real legacy. If you have time today, read some of his work to remember him. https://t.co/STMwXsfumh
Just 1 day to go before #QuietRevolutions@BarbicanCentre@barbicanlib! The talks are now sold out but the bookfair is open to all from 10 -4. Browse radical, inclusive books for all ages from London and beyond! Pick up a bookshop print & explore radical bookshop history📚
And here is our equally exciting cast for 'The Ballad of Maria Marten', directed by Lucy Allan. It's playing at @ThePleasance between 17-19 November. Tickets are limited, so book now! Link can be found in bio @rosebruford@ALRABrufordSW
'Explain what you mean by Woke & then we can have the conversation'. Incredibly put by @RakieAyola.
This should be the response to every commentator, Journalist & MP who've become far too comfortable throwing the Term 'Woke' into every one of their dog whistle opinions
@clementspeter@blnensemble no but I’d love to see it- Barrie Kosky is the AD of the @Komische_Oper, which I’ve still never been to. I look forward to hearing about what you see in Berlin!
Berlin, Five Plays in Five Days
Day 1: Draussen vor der Tür (Outside the Door) by Wolfgang Borchert, dir Michael Thalheimer at The Berliner Ensemble @blnensemble.