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@drscottpalmer.bsky.social
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Professor of Light and Performance. Scenography, Audience Experience, XR. #CFC Views my own. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/performance/staff/3…

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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Day 3 at the stunning Gripsholm Castle with its Royal Theatre at the top of a tower (having replaced the chapel!)
Courtyard seen through stone archway. Castle with towers and red brick walls. Blue sky with wispy white cloudsTheatre interior mirrored walls with reflecting candle chandeliers. Part of stage on right with proscenium opening and scenic flats in a perspective setting. Domed ceiling with hidden windows for the servants to watch from high above
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Day 2 of the Conference by Candlelight in Stockholm at the lovely Confidencen Theatre - real candles in wings, footlights and suspended over the front of the stage #theatrelighting #stagelighting
A row of eight costumed characters stand at the front of stage. Painted trees on flats in the wings. Whole scene illuminate by hidden candles
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Return visit a decade on to Drottningholm Theatre (1766) as part of the Stockholm Conference by Candlelight - here with a demonstration of what happens when the window shutters at the rear of the auditorium are opened #stagelighting
Perspective scene on an 18th century ornate court theatre with four lit chandeliers hanging above the forestage. Orchestra pit in foreground. Cool white Daylight seen to be intruding into stage area washing out the warm stage lighting in the scene.
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Today marks the end of our production of Here’s the story… our 1st year performance at stage@leeds created through a rich period of devising and experimentation at @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Brightly lit stage with a line of performers in a range of odd costumes trying to dance the can can. Live camera shows the chorus line on a big screen behind them.
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
It’s #lightday2026 Here’s our anthology Contemporary Performance Lighting: experience, creativity and meaning @methuendrama.bsky.social We are very proud of championing a wide range of new thinking about the creative use of light www.bloomsbury.com/uk/contempor... @unesco.bsky.social
Book cover for Contemporary Performance Lighting  with theatrical scene of hanging strings of lightbulbs creating a warm orange light with scattered blue rocking chairs in foreground
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Published today ! @methuendrama.bsky.social a timely contribution and a great addition to our Performance + Design series #XR
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Lovely back projections for #MaisiePeters Before the Bloom launch event - an ‘intimate’ performance at EartH
Stage setting with back projected shadows of foliage seen against opaque screen with single central light. Drum kit and mic stands visible in silhouette
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Creative Industries Council @cicuk.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Creative health programmes are helping to improve the UK's health & wellbeing, providing new work opportunities for creatives & saving the NHS money. Read our new report, from the CIC & @artscouncilengland.bsky.social. www.thecreativeindustries.co.uk/download-hub/health-wellbeing-forum-report
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CIC Health & Wellbeing Forum 2025 Report - Download Hub: The Creative Industries
A cross sector group of experts advises greater use of innovative creative health approaches to help the UK meet long-term challenges. Download now in the Download Hub.
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social Trying to make contact but all emails to Bloomsbury colleagues are currently bouncing back
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
90 years ago today. Great grandfather Albert was instrumental in the early days of Chelsea Football Club and also father to Olympian, world record holding sprinter and radical champion for women’s sport Vera Palmer/Searle
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The system is broken
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
#RIP Robert Wilson 📷 Annie Leibovitz The Watermill Center, Water Mill NY, 1994 “Nobody walks away from working with Robert Wilson without having completely changed.” - Tom Waits
Wilson holds a bright orb in his outstretched hand, in a dark forest
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Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Congratulations to Emilie Morin on the publication of her biography of Suzanne Beckett, offering the first full portrait of this elusive figure. It is free to download for the next two weeks tinyurl.com/54n3ztmv
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Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1900-1945 - Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett
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Emma Cayley 谷曦 @emmacayley.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Our permanent German lectureship now has an extended deadline of 21st July. Apply here: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer (Teaching & Research) in German Studies
Are you an academic with proven abilities to carry out cutting-edge teaching and research in German Studies?We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated individual with expertise in German ...
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Methuen Drama @methuendrama.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Out now: 'Research and Development in British Theatre' edited by Tom Cantrell, @katherinegraham.bsky.social, Karen Quigley & Mark Love-Smith explores how R&D is used in contemporary British theatre-making and how you can use it in your own theatre-making. bit.ly/4iXKr7i
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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
"Without a clear vision for culture in a post-Brexit context, the UK risks leaving large parts of its creative sector without the support they need to survive." ✍️ Kirsty Warner and @husseinkassim.bsky.social explore the impact of Brexit on the creative industries ukandeu.ac.uk/how-uk-creat...
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How UK creative industries are navigating Brexit alone - UK in a changing Europe
Kirsty Warner and Hussein Kassim explore the impact of Brexit on the UK creative industries.
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Still recovering from that amazing finish yesterday
Looking down on Headingley cricket pitch from high in the stands. Green grass and tiny players in white Clouds above
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
A day full of memories. Fabulous to catch up with ex-colleagues and students at our event today - trying to trace the ethos and legacy of Bretton Hall College…
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David Shearing @davidshearing.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Delighted to share this piece I’ve written for The Stage, which explores how we might better centre and value design-led performance within the UK’s theatre ecology.
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Freelancers Make Theatre Work @freelancersmake.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Planning a show for #EdFringe 2025? Join Theatre Green Book for a free 1-hour webinar on how to make your production more sustainable. Tools, tips, inspiration, and space for questions. Thurs 29 May, 2–3pm Thurs 19 June, 10–11am 👉 theatregreenbook.com/events1/edin... #GreenBook
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
👀 Lecturer post and new degree programme at RCSSD www.cssd.ac.uk/jobs-at-cent...
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Lecturer in Performance Design | The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Central is looking for an imaginative educator‑practitioner to teach on —and help steer— the new BA (Hons) Performance Design in the Department of Producing. Apply by 12 June.
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
LA fire footage to transform the meaning of the song’s lyrics …and Lopahkin as Musk…also some personal counter narratives with students offering their own experience of climate change in discussions with audience…
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Not easy to take good photos but this is Act3 partying to Pink Pony Club while the world burns - and the whole audience are implicated…
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
First year undergraduate project and we devised a relational design-led experience that used Chekhov’s text to highlight climate change- the destruction of the orchard representing our treatment of the world….
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Last night of our relational performance following a semester of experimentation and devising. The Cherry Orchard at stage@leeds
White confetti falls upon audience and cast members who are looking up at the falling material caught in the theatre lighting
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Happy International Day of Light ! #lightday2025
Book cover for Contemporary Performance Lighting with theatrical space showing orange and yellow lighting and multiple hanging light bulbs and scattered empty blue rocking chairs
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International Day of Light @idlofficial.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
🎉 Hello World 🌎🌍🌏 Today marks the 8th edition of the @unesco.org #lightday2025 celebrating the profound impact of light science, innovation and technology in society. How will you celebrate the brilliance of light today? Tag us on socials. #lightday2025✨ lightday.org
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Major news story that strangely doesn’t seem to have been noticed by our mainstream media - tells you all you need to know about the UK right now…
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Can’t believe that it’s exactly a decade since @davidshearing.bsky.social and me staged The Dreaming - a devised 1:1 experience based on Peer Gynt. Ambitious, risk taking and dramaturgically bold- the best work I’ve seen by students @universityofleeds.bsky.social
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Creative PEC @creativepec.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Today, we publish ‘Higher Education and the Arts and Culture Sectors’ the latest report in our State of the Nations series. The report is written by Dr Siobhan McAndrew, Dr Mark Taylor and Dr Ruoxi Wang from the University of Sheffield with Prof Dave O’Brien from the University of Manchester.
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Lara Wolfers @larawolfers.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I am hiring :-). I look for a PhD student & a postdoc for my new Digital Lives team at the U of Basel. Looking for 2 who are excited to study our everyday digital lives with me in the next years. Please share with your network. jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell... jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
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Universität Basel: PhD in Media Psychology (100%)
The Faculty of Psychology is one of seven faculties of the oldest university in Switzerland. With our core focus on Society & Choice and Health & Interventions, we are successful both nationally and i...
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Pennies are essentially worthless. But if I stole 7 billion of them from Mark Zuckerberg, I think he’d call that theft. If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in busiess — you’re in organized crime.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/04/2025
Decline of drama at school prompts UK training drive for backstage work
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Decline of drama at school prompts UK training drive for backstage work
The National Theatre is worried about a shortage of skills from costume designers, to set creators, to computer technicians The decline of drama as a school subject has had a serious knock-on effect on the live entertainment business. While it is harder now for a budding star to imagine a stage career, the more immediate impact is on theatres’ skills and craft departments. The problem is a top priority for Indhu Rubasingham, two weeks into her high-profile job as artistic director at National Theatre. Now she and the NT’s executive director, Kate Varah, are announcing a move to boost the supply of skilled workers across the country, from costume designers and makers to set creators and computer technicians. Continue reading...
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Her chapter Storytelling with Light encompasses some of her previous award-winning productions www.bloomsbury.com/uk/contempor...
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Contemporary Performance Lighting
This is the first major collection of critical responses to performance lighting and includes contributions from award-winning lighting designers, researchers a…
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
A key contributor to our Contemporary Performance Lighting volume is the most-lauded individual in #Olivier awards history. Paule Constable has received 17 nominations, and won her 6th award tonight for Oliver! (shared with Ben Jacobs) & announced her retirement from theatre earlier this year.
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Exeunt Magazine @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Theatre-loving followers, could you help us out - what are your favourite ever show posters? Current, recent, or historic… specific productions or designers… we’d love to hear, for an upcoming piece!
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Always a pleasure! Difficult to convey how experimental that work was 20 years ago and even 8 years ago…
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Happy #WorldTheatreDay youtu.be/US9zDDwcyhw?...
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Film Presentation of the World Theatre Day Message by Theodoros Terzopoulos (English Subtitles)
YouTube video by International Theatre Institute ITI
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Komorebi - Japanese word that describes dappled sunlight filtering through the leaves of trees
Sunlight filtering through overlapping branches - green leaves against a deep blue cloudless sky
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Sneaky photo from the balcony of tonight MA Performance Design students’ performance of The Sixth Extinction stage.leeds.ac.uk/events/the-s...
Elevated view from theatre balcony of Projections of white text onto black walls, floor and large black  balloons floating in the air. A bare tree covered in brightly coloured plastic bags centre stage
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The lighting drum hanging just outside of the proscenium gave it away!
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Public higher ed ys the infrastructure of democracye. It ys tyme for a movement to re-invest yn public higher ed as a common goode. Excellent college educacioun shoulde be accessible and affordable to everye student who doth choose to pursue it.
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Leeds PhD student finally released after 4 years in detention for posting tweets on holiday in support of women’s rights
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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
"To be gripped by his statements is precisely the aim of their utterance. We are in some ways in its thrall when it captures and paralyzes us. While there is every reason to be outraged, we cannot let that outrage flood us and stop our minds." (Judith Butler reminds us why the performative matters.)
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Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler
Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The Arts and Theatre Institute in Prague is under imminent threat of closer/merger. Please sign this petition to support our colleagues and demonstrate the international cultural significance of this organisation eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Na podporu Institutu umění – Divadelního ústavu | In support of the Arts and Theatre Institute, CZ | e-petice.cz
====== ČESKÁ VERZE [English text follows] =====  PETICE na podporu Institutu umění – Divadelního ústavu   Od minulého týdne přichází od kolegů z...
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 02/02/2025
Charing Cross Road, pedestrianised today. Glorious. Because whenever you take cars away, cities get better.
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
It’s now been two years since publication of Contemporary Performance Lighting: experience, creativity, meaning @methuendrama.bsky.social We are very proud of championing this range of new thinking about light www.bloomsbury.com/uk/contempor...
Book cover for Contemporary Performance Lighting  with theatrical scene of hanging strings of lightbulbs creating a warm orange light with scattered blue rocking chairs in foreground
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The Czech Arts & Theatre Institute (ATI) in Prague is under threat of closure by the end of June - a public announcement is planned next month. Solidarity with Czech theatre researchers www.idu.cz/en
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En | Arts and Theatre Institute
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