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Culturally active: arts mentoring, city creativities, and the arts underbelly: community tweets from cultural activists

[Robert Saunders @redhistorian]

It's often said that cutting corners for political contacts speeds up govt in a crisis. It doesn't. The "VIP lane" left civil servants "drowning" in "non-credible offers"while “suppliers personally recommended by ministers" "jump to the front of the queue" https://t.co/ReH3OMFjGX

[Ruskin To-Day ('There is no wealth but life') @RuskinToday]

Happy St George's Day. 150 years after Ruskin founded the Guild of St George (an educational charity inspired by his words 'There is no Wealth but Life') here are 4 depictions of St George from the Ruskin Collection @SheffMuseums - Ruskin (after Carpaccio), Dürer & Frank Randal

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

🚨Right guys, we have a challenge🚨
This “let’s blame Dom” story has probably been timed to push the PPE scandal articles off the front pages. We need everyone to understand what happened in court yesterday against the government.
💙Pls RT this thread.
🤞Can we hit 1000 RTs?🤞

[St Bride Foundation @stbridefdn]

Braille is French (devised by Louis Braille from 1829) but it serves as the basis for many other reading aids for the blind, including many non-Latin alphabets. This example is from a Christian charity, working on the Indian sub-continent.

[mySalisbury @My_Salisbury]

Join @MfWB_CIC for a week of Lung Friendly Salisbury sessions

https://t.co/4ZNMo949Hb

[The Bridport Prize @BridportPrize]

Great to hear @JoWestn, part of our Bridport Prize family, has her debut #poetry pamphlet published in May. It’s a ‘recognition of what everyone has faced in the light of COVID-19’ and is definitely on our reading list.

Congrats!

#poetrycollection #amwriting #writingcommunity

[Carl Woodward @mrCarlWoodward]

Leopoldstadt, winner of Best New Play at the 2020 Olivier Awards returns to Wyndham’s Theatre for 12-weeks: runs 7 Aug – 30 Oct

[jean cameron @jeanmcameron]

At this time of vulnerability for so many in our sector, what we hear this morning feels so important #culturehustings

[@justRMJ💙😷🌻💉🌱🌎 @JustRMJ]

. @BorisJohnson can’t answer one thing he would have changed. Feels like a thread. #Covid19UK Mine is: he should have worn a mask and not shaken hands. Take your pick.

[Lucy Neal @lucyhneal]

On Oliver Dowden's directive to fly Union Flag on all government buildings, I can only refer you to Arundhati Roy's quote on this subject.
“Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead."

[BBC Woman's Hour @BBCWomansHour]

'I just want to have a coffee with my mates.'

Actor Sheila Hancock told @Emmabarnett what a year in lockdown has been like for her and why she thinks we need a revolution https://t.co/iznJIlg1Gx

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

Does anyone else think there should be a rule that politicians have to do a normal, real-world job before entering politics?

The politicians we work with who have had normal lives seem so much better at understanding constituents’ concerns.

[Alan Wylie @wylie_alan]

Women Library Workers know all about being hassled and abused by men, they have to deal with it every day.
Everything from creepy/sexist comments to being stalked after work.
It’s something I’ve been told and witnessed for decades 🤬

[J. @cultureactive]

Given recent events, retaining the right to peaceful protest seems important: https://t.co/UOR97b8SXU via @38_degrees

[The Guardian @guardian]

Jess Phillips reads out names of women killed in Britain in the last year – video https://t.co/4tkv12UO5u

[The Guardian @guardian]

Allow school trips in summer term, UK outdoor education centres say https://t.co/7cnQ74A3eF

[Great Bustard Group @bustardgroup]

As the Covid social restrictions are slowly eased we can now announce individuals may now book a morning visit to one of the the GBG photographic hides. Bookings are taken for Mondays and Fridays only at the moment. https://t.co/i5mHBIYyTP

[J. @cultureactive]

Unbelievably out of touch

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Absolutely beyond belief that in 2021 - three days after #InternationalWomensDay - Health Minister @NadineDorries just suggested on @BBCWomansHour
that nurses' 1% pay offer is somehow made OK by their husbands' pay.

The underlying sexism is breathtaking.
https://t.co/Cha3730oSI

[Susan Hollingworth DUniv BEM @SusanHollingwo1]

Looking forward to Louise Stewart coming to talk @scun_choral this evening, talking about Multitude of Voices, compositions by women composers. @amybebbs1 @MulofVoyCIC @abcdtweets @isupportwita @ChoralWomen @Donne_UK @SWomenOrganists @WikiWomenInRed @HHconductor @femaleconductor