Make100UK

#Make100 celebrates the carers who are still making things no matter how they do it, how little time they have, or how it turns out. Tuesday 26 November 2019

[Make100UK @Make100UK]

Calling all creatives! Today is Make100 Virtual Day! Please share in the💛& therapy through our Art Morning. Directions: 1. set aside a morning moment to enjoy your creativity; 2. fill in this form as you go; 3. post your answers + a photo of your creation w/ tag #make100😌enjoy!

[Sophie Ratcliffe @soratcli]

Slow reading Anna Karenina over here in case anyone is facing reader’s block and would like some gentle companionship https://t.co/cYoCNTfvSV

[Sophie Ratcliffe @soratcli]

Friday news! Loss, A Love Story will be out this April in the US, complete with beautiful words of praise from Margo Jefferson. I'd be thrilled if you would like to pre-order/persuade a local bkshop to do so. Links in my bio. Stateside Media contacts, do DM for a digital galley.

[Sophie Ratcliffe @soratcli]

One for my fellow T’Pau fans https://t.co/59GCtPQZ6O

[Sophie Ratcliffe @soratcli]

Oh, the wonders of Adrian Mole... I did initially put in some bleaker options, including Beckett's 'First Love' and Turgenev, but they didn't make the cut! Comments open - wd love to hear your thoughts - @GuardianBooks https://t.co/fqYZI41FDE

[Sophie Ratcliffe @soratcli]

Niche query. Does anyone have a gps ref or a what three words for Jinty Bell’s cave in Bute? We are hunting right now

[Sophie Ratcliffe @soratcli]

Lovely to see this out in the world… https://t.co/m4hmafQChA

[Sophie Ratcliffe @soratcli]

'Strategic subjects' which are 'priorities of the nation' outlined by Ed. Sec Who gets slashed? Who gets consulted? Aren't arts/social sciences priorities too? This looks absolutely terrifying
@arusbridger @UniofOxford. Answers please
@GavinWilliamson https://t.co/MDLDjkDpZO

[Sophie Ratcliffe @soratcli]

1/3 About to begin online teaching (previously on leave) and am seeking any advice for good activities, and good teaching practice, for small groups that work online. I am going to do as much one-to-one as possible to focus on individual essays &

[Sophie Ratcliffe @soratcli]

620 deaths as of Aug amongst NHS healthcare workers. Where are we now? Will my immunosuppressed GP husband, father of young children, get a 2nd dose? Of a matching vaccine? Sort it out ⁦@MattHancock⁩ or the blood is on your hands. Frightened & angry https://t.co/idcfrWKyk1

[Sophie Ratcliffe @soratcli]

All this show is terrific but if you've only got 15mins, checkout from 50mins in: @julietrosenfeld on ‘the dematerialisation of a human being’ & her raw, brilliant memoir #thestateofdisbelief. AND my audiobook read superbly by @AmyShindler gets a shoutout at 1hr06!!!

[Sophie Ratcliffe @soratcli]

RIP #BillWithers who started my book. I hope the weather's lovely, wherever you are

[Sophie Ratcliffe @soratcli]

For Feb 14 I had the huge pleasure of talking about 1876, fiction, history, invisible labour, women, Tolstoy, trains & time with the brilliant @petermoore (content note - opens with a discussion of suicide real and fictional) https://t.co/0Bq7FjJ8ww

[The Lost Properties of Love @lostpropsoflove]

We exist and make our way to our own truth in the same small fundamental movements, around the tiny portions of our own lives. #ThrowbackThursday

[Sophie Ratcliffe @soratcli]

My book!!! out in paperback & brandnew outfit on Feb 6. What better excuse to head to your local Indy bookshop this w/end, buy yourself something to get over the mid-Jan slump & pre-order a copy of this for Valentine’s Day? With thks for the fab photo to ⁦@excusemereading⁩

[Make100UK @Make100UK]

#make100 celebrates Mary Kelly for her large-scale narrative installations about pregnancy/child raising especially 'Antepartum' + 'Post-Partum Document', a 6yr exploration of the mother-child relationship which caused a scandal in 1979. Rd more here: https://t.co/9CmUVX3zuA

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Celebrating amazing @lenkaclayton
for #make100. Lenka set up #ARiM by deciding to use the 'fragmented mental focus, exhaustion, nap-length studio time and other distractions of parenthood' as her 'working materials rather than obstacles to be overcome': https://t.co/HKCX3ndeJp

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Closing the list of our contemporary artist-carers, writer and critic Sophie Ratcliffe @soratcli, who describes writing through the mess, and in 'fragments of time' in her memoir about love and grief, The Lost Properties of Love https://t.co/6gftgOpZJE #make100

[Make100UK @Make100UK]

@lenkaclayton Lenka Clayton, 'The distance I can be from my son - Park': https://t.co/HuM2XLUq1k

[Make100UK @Make100UK]

A dramatic contemporary artist-carer: celebrating the brilliance of playwright Nina Raine, who transformed her own experience of IVF into the play Stories, combining 'topical immediacy with an ethical intelligence' #make100 https://t.co/nn7NBTGokY

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