Today’s office! Come along to see “Call of the Mountains” this evening at @queens_hall with @DrakeMusicScot and Eegeru ensemble - get your tickets at https://t.co/snmbwN0ria
Unmissable one of a kind concert! Clare Johnston’s Call of the Mountains in rehearsal with the fabulous Eegeru ensemble from Kazakhstan for Sunday’s concert @queens_hall 🇰🇿🏴 Tickets here: https://t.co/1F77X5lhZK
"Books read us back to ourselves... The escape into another story reminds us that we too are another story. Not caught, not confined, not predestined."
Jeanette Winterson on why we read https://t.co/Wb4hPfgO0D
“Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence… a way of being fully human.”
Susan Sontag's magnificent letter to Borges, born on this day in 1899 https://t.co/M9GyVkik5D
50+ of us - as authors and chairs set to speak at @edbookfest - have written and signed a collective statement calling on the festival to drop all sponsorship investing in the fossil fuel industry.
You wouldn't burn books #DropBaillieGifford
Week 261. Now marks 5 years since the first school strike for the climate. For 5 years, every week we've demanded climate justice. Some Fridays we've been millions flooding the streets of the world, other Fridays we've been a few dozen braving the cold outside our Parliaments. 🧵
“One of the best first person documentaries about disability ever"
Do check out this excellent piece by The Curb about Is There Anybody Out There? by @Ella_Bee_G, who we're excited to welcome to #EIFF2023!
https://t.co/CZb74T0bDF
If you're worried about climate and want to make a difference,
🎙️ start a conversation
🤲 join a climate action group
💰 make your $ count
💡spark ideas at work & school
🗳️ hold politicians accountable
🏡 reduce your 👣 AND amplify by talking about it
https://t.co/bsu280GT2P
Mary's Room – a mind-bending animated thought experiment about the limits of our knowledge and the ongoing mystery of consciousness https://t.co/4zBVSIl8Of