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Ben McKnight

@benmcknight.bsky.social
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Arts and culture comms incl Hull City of Culture, Manchester International Festival, UNBOXED, Paraorchestra, SXSW London, Mayor of London, and more. Let's work towards a common good.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The title really says it all.
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Ben McKnight @benmcknight.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
What a lovely thing to see on my way home last night #london
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Ben McKnight @benmcknight.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is London 🧡💛🧡💛🧡
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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
www.timeout.com/london/news/...
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A major new contemporary arts venue is opening on London’s South Bank this month
It’s just down the road from Tate Modern.
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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
BREAKING NEWS: We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that the Southbank Centre - the Hayward Gallery, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall and skaters undercroft - has finally been Grade II listed by DCMS after a 35 year long campaign. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/southba...
The Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Lambeth – London County Council (LCC) and Greater London Council (GLC) Architect’s Department, 1963-68
Image © Morley von Sternberg
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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
First review of The Story of Documentary Film: theplaylist.net/the-story-of...
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‘The Story of Documentary Film’ Review: Mark Cousin’s Ambitious New Series Celebrates Documentaries’ Power To Connect & Enthrall [Sundance]
'The Story Of Documentary Film’ charts the evolution of nonfiction cinema and how it shapes our view of the world.
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Ben McKnight @benmcknight.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Good news for arts funding. Government announces bumper £1.5 billion package to restore national pride - GOV.UK share.google/AuL5gGhaftvM...
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Government announces bumper £1.5 billion package to restore national pride
£1.5 billion will be invested in cultural organisations over a five-year period – turning the corner on underfunding over the last decade and more
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 21/01/2026
Górecki’s Sorrowful Songs meditative and powerful at Celtic Connections ✍️ David Smythe bachtrack.com/review-kapul...
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Jill Lawless @jilllawless.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
London’s homicide rate is at a record low as mayor says it disproves Trump's 'dystopian' claims apnews.com/article/lond...
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London’s homicide rate is at a record low as mayor says it disproves Trump's 'dystopian' claims
London's murder rate fell in 2025 to its lowest level in decades, officials said Monday. Mayor Sadiq Khan said the figures disprove claims by U.S.
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Ben McKnight @benmcknight.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
❤️❤️❤️🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/01/2026
What the KENNEDY Center used to be… Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.
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James Tansley @tansleyjames.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
#Top31DavidBowie 3 Station To Station | 1976 The epic ten minute long album title track and opening song on his 1976 masterpiece. The intro is spellbinding and when those vocals come in with that incredible opening line, there’s no one finer or cooler around than DB. youtu.be/ZpIhsGg2SJ0
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 09/12/2025
Once more for the haters...
London is #1 graphic.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 10/11/2025
Wikipedia, the online nonprofit encyclopedia, is urging AI companies to stop scraping its pages and to use its paid API instead.
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Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping | TechCrunch
Wikipedia, the online nonprofit encyclopedia, is urging AI companies to stop scraping its pages and to use its paid API instead.
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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
#WeekendSingles starring The Beatles, The Last Poets, Darrell Banks, Jeb Loy Nichols, The Wild Swans, Jane Birkin, The Clientele, Jackie Mittoo, Throbbing Gristle, Blancmange, The Slits and The Pop Group, The Gist, Sandie Shaw, The Exits, and Wire
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🌙Karl D'Silva 🥀 @krldslv.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The way I just SCREAMED when I’ve seen that Chris Watson and Stephen Mallinder are going to do a CABARET VOLTAIRE show IN SHEFFIELD in october to mark CV50 - TEENAGE KARL IS SCREAMING @sensoriafestival.bsky.social
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer’s blistering play about AIDS and AIDS activism, opened in New York on April 21 1985.
A still from the National Theatre revival of the Normal Heart, overlaid with the text, a quote from the play: ‘I belong to a culture that includes Proust, Henry James, Tchaikovsky, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Marlowe, Tennessee Williams, Walt Whitman, EM Forster, Francis Bacon, James Baldwin… These are not invisible men.’
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Ben McKnight @benmcknight.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
@grahamcruickshank.bsky.social hello!
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workculture @workculture.uk · 08/04/2025
Royal Ballet and Opera are offering an Apprenticeship in Props Carpentry #theatrejobs #artsjobs
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Props Carpenter Apprentice  | Royal Ballet and Opera
Application deadline: 9am, Monday 12th May 2025
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The Space @thespacearts.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
💰👀Looking for Arts Council England funding? Future Artists are providing a detailed walkthrough of the ACE Project Grants application process, with a focus on the under 30k funds. Taking place online - April 22nd.
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The Producer and the Arts Council - Strategies for Successful Grant Funding
Are you a Producer or Artist - are you looking to get a grant from Arts Council England of between £1000 and £100,000 to create work?
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Ben McKnight @benmcknight.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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UK Aids Memorial Quilt to go on display at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
Quilt, made in 1980s to raise awareness, to be shown as US cuts raise fears of Aids resurgence in some countries
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Simon Price @simonprice.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Sad to hear of the death of Gang Of Four/Shriekback's Dave Allen. I visited him at home in Phoenix, AZ in 1994 to talk about his World Domination Recordings label, and he was lovely. And what a bassist. I could post so many GO4 tracks but here's a Shriekback banger. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bMM...
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Shriekback - Nemesis (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by ShriekbackVEVO
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This was a dark, but brilliant evening – always a treat to see Vladimir Jurowski back with the @lporchestra.bsky.social. And another chance to hear Lyatoshynsky 3 in concert! bachtrack.com/review-jurow...
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White hot intensity in Jurowski’s Lyatoshynsky
The London Philharmonic welcomes back its Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski for a typically challenging programme of dark Russian and Ukrainian scores.
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Tara Theatre @taratheatre.com · 31/03/2025
An insider look at our INCREDIBLE Season Launch 🎉 A magical night packed with our artist community to celebrate all the STELLAR work we have coming in 2025! There's more than one way to be South Asian at Tara Theatre 🤎
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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Happy birthday to Pete Wylie. Here's Sinful filmed for Wogan in 86. Everything about this is great - Pete and Josie are so cool while the dancing nuns doing the Koyaanisqatsi-style bridge is the icing on the cake youtu.be/Ms8JI4Bc1Qc
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Pete Wylie | SINFUL (Wogan 1986)
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Ben McKnight @benmcknight.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Congratulations to @paraorchestra.bsky.social for being named Best Ensemble at this year's @royalphilsoc.bsky.social Awards 🎶🎶🎶👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 bachtrack.com/fr_FR/news-r...
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RPS Awards announce winners for 2025
Kazuki Yamada, Claire Booth and the Paraorchestra were among the winners announced on Thursday, which also honoured contemporary music record label NMC and Belfast’s Open Arts Community Choir.
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recessed.space @recessedspace.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
You can listen to David Soin Tappeser, half of artist duo Hyzoilic/Desires, discuss their research into salt for this work on BBC Art & Ideas: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
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BBC Radio 4 - Arts & Ideas, A pinch of salt
A key preservative, the subject of taxes, a danger to plant-life - how much salt is good?
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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Brian Eno: Baby's On Fire - from his 1974 debut solo album, Here Come The Warm Jets; guitars by Robert Fripp and Paul Rudolph www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbU1...
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Baby's On Fire (Remastered 2004)
YouTube video by Brian Eno - Topic
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Alternative Classical @alterclassical.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Today at 1pm: a new series on BBC Radio 3 devoted to the music of women composers. "Why women, why now?"
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BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Jenni Murray's Women Composers, Why women, why now?
Jenni is joined by Errollyn Wallen to celebrate the music of women composers
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 05/02/2025
35 years ago today, Depeche Mode released "Enjoy the Silence," the second single from their Violator album, on the way to winning Best British Single at the Brit Awards.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 05/02/2025
The biggest breach of U.S. government data is under way
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The biggest breach of U.S. government data is under way
Elon Musk's DOGE has taken control and accessed large swathes of Americans' private information held by the U.S. federal government. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Arnold Schoenberg's 12 Tone Wheel Chart #composer #serialmusic blogthehum.com/2016/09/12/a...
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Ben McKnight @benmcknight.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Thank you @eastmidrailway.bsky.social @eastmidsrailway.bsky.social for reuniting me with the case I left on the train last Friday. 😊
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Bradford Culture Company @bradfordculture.co.uk · 03/02/2025
David Hockney has drawn the world around him for 60 years – and the Bradford-born artist is now supporting DRAW!, a nationwide drawing project for Bradford 2025. Each month in 2025, a different artist will invite us all to create a drawing inspired by a particular theme…
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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
There are also a bunch of new artistic directors north of the border, including Alan Cumming at Pitlochry, Jemima Levick at Glasgow’s Tron & James Brining at Edinburgh’s Lyceum www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/f...
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Curtain up! Meet the new artistic directors with great plans for British theatre
Our ​theatre critic welcomes inspiring developments at stages across the UK,​ from the Young Vic to the Liverpool Everyman while, below, some of the top new recruits talk about working post-pandemic i...
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Candoco Dance Company @candocodance.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Right now, we’re deep in rehearsals, creating our new commissioned work with Dan Daw Creative Project. Check out our latest 'Postcards from the Studio' for a beautiful overview of Rehearsals Week 5, written by our Co-Artistic Director, Raquel Meseguer Zafe.
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Candoco Dance Company @candocodance.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We are Candoco Dance Company! We've moved from X to Bluesky, and we're excited to connect with you here.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Boom!! That’s how it’s done!! 🇲🇽 🇨🇦
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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Wow, DeepSeek will give us unreliable and biased answers even faster and with less energy consumption!
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Ben McKnight @benmcknight.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
With @bradford2025.co.uk putting on a fabulous opening event last night and tonight, delighted to see the @paraorchestra.bsky.social x Jeremy Deller collaboration The Bradford Progress included as one of five of the year's highlights in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Bradford city of culture: five events to look out for in 2025
Music, dance, theatre and even magic on offer, as Dynamo plans ‘Bradford’s equivalent of Olympic opening ceremony’
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Ben McKnight @benmcknight.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Rise - fabulous opening event for @bradford2025.co.uk Congratulations to Shanaz Gulzar and her brilliant team. Exciting year ahead. 🎉
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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity." - William S. Burroughs #quote
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Ben McKnight @benmcknight.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Great opportunity @wshed.bsky.social 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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afshan d’souza-lodhi @afshandl.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Come join our community cast!
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maxwell museums @maxwellmuseums.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
🟦 as we speak, artist Anselm Kiefer is creating a monumental new work at 24m long, it's been kept under wraps while he creates it in his studio...until now! a preview has been revealed by the Van Gogh and Stedelijk museums in Amsterdam 🇳🇱
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Ben McKnight @benmcknight.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Oldham Coliseum Theatre is looking for people to be part of a community company for new show The Engagement Party which is written by @afshandl.bsky.social and directed by @amandahuxtable.bsky.social and runs 18-22 Feb 2025 at Oldham's Queen Elizabeth Hall theoldhamtimes.co.uk/news/24759680.…
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Couple who find love in Oldham chicken shop told in new Coliseum theatre production
Oldham Coliseum Theatre Ltd has announced its new production for early next year which is about a couple who meet in a chicken shop in Oldham.
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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Brian Eno: Baby's On Fire - from his 1974 debut solo album, Here Come The Warm Jets; guitars by Robert Fripp and Paul Rudolph www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbU1...
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Baby's On Fire (Remastered 2004)
YouTube video by Brian Eno - Topic
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Shahid Iqbal Khan @shahidiqbalkhan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
My play 10 NIGHTS will tour the UK from 8 January to 8 February. Starting off at Riverside Studios in London and then ending the tour at Birmingham Hippodrome. Take a look below for deets on all the theatre stops 👇🏾
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afshan d’souza-lodhi @afshandl.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Announcement Time 💍 💍 💍 You’re all invited to The Engagement Party written by myself and directed by @amandahuxtable.bsky.social for Oldham Coliseum. www.coliseum.org.uk/spektrix/spe...
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Soho Theatre @sohotheatre.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
📣 We're Hiring This just in - we've got four new & exciting entry-level opportunities to join our team ★ Communications Assistant: Marketing ★ Digital Assistant ★ Operations Administrator ★ Front of House Ushers Find out more and apply below 👇 sohotheatre.com/about-us/jobs/
Pink graphic reading: We're Hiring
And a list of jobs, Operations Administrator, Digital Assistant, Communications Assistant: Marketing and Ushers. In large black font it also reads Apply Now!
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