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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Really brilliant, clever and smart work. Skilled, crafted, confrontational! That’s more like it! 👏👏👏👏 #tamboandbones

Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Cannot wait for this! Got front row centre circle seats for this! Very very excited!!!! Can’t wait for a theatre refreshment!

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

When you’ve been developing a piece for two years but are a tiny company and some much bigger fully funded company announces the exact same show way before you! Gutted!

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

An excellent blog about the impossible position people are in.

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This is so frightening. It’s so terrifying that someone can leap to such a level of violence. We are not safe.

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Caught Tones @lowrytheatre last night. Still thinking about it this morning but it’s a charming gem of a play. Catch it if you can!

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Hywel Roberts @hywelroberts.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I'm really looking forward to this MASSIVE event in Leeds in April. I'll be talking about #Botheredness as a vehicle of positive disruption! All the details here: www.thenextdecade.co.uk Hurry! @vicgoddard.bsky.social @positiveregard.bsky.social @markfinnis.bsky.social @davewhitaker.bsky.social

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The mighty @ezracollective.bsky.social championing youth workers and youth clubs and the other artists begging for help for grassroots music venues 👍👍👍

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

BBC reporting that yesterday was a shouting “match”. Only one was shouting. The aggressor. And fuck suits. Suits are visual images of the dominant power.

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Can’t tell you the amount of work this has taken! Hugely grateful for the organisations who understand and value children’s lived experiences! There are so many wonderful people trying to make change for children, families and those in prison.

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Some us tanked him when we heard about his treatment of women. But hey ho. Money talks!

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I once received some terrorist training at a teaching establishment. The training told us to show a picture of a cat, specifically a cat, at a door to our colleague teaching and then they would know there was an attack but the kids wouldn’t. I often wonder how much they got paid for that training.

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Doechii, Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, Beyonce, Billy Eilish, Charlie XCX and on and on and on. The women are lighting up the stages at the moment and instead of adoring boy bands my girl gets her pick of amazing women to be role models! Loving this musical era 💪🏻❤️💃👑

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Silas #whereisactiii @silascs333.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Doechii the ICON you are

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The #grammys is a brilliant list of amazing women!

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Melissa @2023chastete.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Marianne Faithfull

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

You work changes lives. Youth workers change lives. Find the youth services. Bring them back as a place of safety and sanctuary for children.

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

My dad made me a feminist. He made me believe I could do anything. The world told me differently. I chose to believe my dad.

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The total cruelty that is making free lancers pay last years tax and payment for the following year in January when December is a wash out for so many people. I am getting too old for this shit now.

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

One PE top and one skirt. From a state school. Absolutely fuming!

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

No one? Just me balding slowly in my own 😭

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Ok women what are you using for menopausal hair loss? It’s so bad and it’s getting progressively worse ! Give me your recommendations based on your experience please! #menopause #hairloss #product #sadface

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All Things Considered Theatre @allthingstheatre.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Invites are out! Thanks to all who applied and your passion for the project. Keep an eye on socials for future opps x

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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

In January 2021, during the third national lockdown, I pulled into this deserted pub car park to turn the van round and found a lamppost and a bin engaged in lively conversation while they thought no one was looking. Incredible.

A photograph of a deserted pub car park surrounded by bare trees on a murky day: wet asphalt, grey sky. In the centre, next to a flumpy yellow cypress tree, are a litter bin and an ornamental lamppost who appear to be sharing a joke together. The head of the lamp is bent at an angle so it appears to be looking down at the bin whose lid has broken given it the appearance of a laughing face.

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Theatre hive: does anyone rem the name of a play around fiveish years old, I think European , with around six young girls and a silent male body builder on stage? Scenes of red riding hood, screaming and marriage. I can’t rem the name of this genius work!

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I used to sit on the sofa huddled, terrified in my dad’s arms while he laughed at me and said he didn’t understand why I would watch something if it scared me. We watched every episode hugging. This news made me sad. Culture is so tied up with memories.

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All Things Considered Theatre @allthingstheatre.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

“People end up in prison for all sorts of reasons. Who they hang around with, where they grow up. And some just make a mistake. Not all people who go to prison are bad people.” The words of the kids we interviewed for 8 Hours hits so hard as we watch #24HoursinPoliceCustody. Poor family.

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This was a heavy weight tonight. A trust that the simplicity of a lost cat, left behind toys and luggage held on a lap would be utterly devastating. To see the images anew, to sit in the longest applause ever was very special. War is shit.

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Trying to explain to my kids that we are the first generation of parents who have had to battle with raising screen time kids in such a way. We are making it up! It’s not the same as the one tv with three channels in a living room. don’t think there’s enough support or acknowledgement of this 😳

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Actual gold dust for teachers, educators and drama practitioners!!!!!

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Honoured to be featured alongside other women fighting for change in the systems of power. This one is about our work highlighting kids experiences of a system that fails them when their parent in sent to prison! Fab magazine as well!!

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Ned Glasier @nedglasier.com · 08/01/2025

Today we launch the Youth Theatre Census report - a summary of everything we learnt from the Youth Theatre Census last summer. If you care about youth arts, it’s one of the most important things you’ll read this year. Download it here: bit.ly/youththeatrecensus Or read on for more.

Youth theatre is important, transformative, vibrant … and fragile.
The youth theatre census. Read the report at bit.ly/youththeatrecensus

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

This poem by two eleven-year-olds becomes amazingly great. (Via this wonderful blog: jacket2.org/commentary/t... )

He'd be black.
He'd be blue.
And I'd ride him
to New York, to see snow again, or to
Australia, to see all there is to see, everything
green and lots of trees
and nobody would know, just me
and the horse.

The horse can find our family a house.
He can turn into trees, lakes, pools
and camouflage himself from people. He can talk.
I'd tell him secrets about love,
then have him do my homework.
The horse can do the chores.

And he could be us! Take over
when I get in trouble—when I want to
go on a date, the horse stays home
looking like me, doing homework.

The horse can do everything first
then show me how, I'd learn
to gallop,
to be an animal, a deer, perhaps,
and how that felt. I'd live in the forest
and drink from the stream
and speak to animals that knew how to hibernate,
I'd ask about the trouble they'd had
and warn them about hunters.
And the horse would be at school
and come home all sweaty.

Over the forest I'd fly, looking for food
and love, looking for the falls in the forest,
half person, half horse, doing
more than we ever do!

Till the magic went out. Slowly
slowly I am becoming a horse, I will be
a horse all my life, I used too much magic,
went too many places, did too many things . . .
I am becoming a horse, the horse is becoming me,
he is forgetting he was the horse. In the little
door of his mind he thinks of
his past of animals, he feels a little bad,
but there's a whole new life ahead for him,
and I am becoming a wild horse, running
with wild horses, traveling the world.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 01/01/2025

Submissions are OPEN for Glow: City at Night Poems! Illuminate urban nightscapes with your work. Accepting submissions all January! Details here: thebrokenspine.co.uk/2024/12/08/s...

thebrokenspine.co.uk

Submit to Glow: City at Night Poems Anthology - Illuminate Urban Nightscapes in Verse for January 2025 - The Broken Spine

Call for Submissions: Glow: City at Night Poems

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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

The cruelty that is self assessment tax owing January 31st each year when most of us artists have had a duff month of earnings as it’s Christmas 😭

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Another crazy year. We are project to project funded. 30% of everything we do is unpaid because that’s the system for getting the projects ready to get funded. Here’s to next year and more of the same. Always hoping for a better and fairer system. #funding #arts #change #sociallyengaged

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All Things Considered Theatre @allthingstheatre.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

ACTOR CALL OUT: see www.allthingsconsideredtheatre.co.uk/callout for all the details! Wonderful women we need you x

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Pay your freelance staff before Christmas please 🤶

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Chat this week with someone doing a dissertation about female directors and space to fail then hear yet another story of a sleezebag famous actor and think FFS men can literally assault women and still have a career and we didn’t even put up some lights in the globe!

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All Things Considered Theatre @allthingstheatre.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

A waiting area that isn’t outside (some wait for 2 hours!), a green space that they can sit with their family member, play a game of football, feel normal. Families ties are the golden thread. This matters for reoffending and for change! Think child! #8HoursThereandBack

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I’m meeting five ex students and one son of a friend this week about funding, bid writing and the hustle! Share the wealth(knowledge) if you have it!!! I should run some seminars 😂

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Emma Bramley @emmabramley.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Oh we loved this peice! Based on our diaries and lots of reminiscing! A chance to celebrate and to belly laugh like we did when we were that age. An age we thought we’d be together forever. Our sleepover friends were special.

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The Afghan Times @theafghantimes.com · 03/12/2024

In Badakhshan, courageous female students protested the Taliban's order to shut down medical institutions for women by singing—a powerful act of defiance, especially since the Taliban have already banned women from singing. #Afghanistan #Women #Education

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