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Helen Bryer @hkbryer.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

He’s a clever guy, is Kev. You should definitely do what he says.

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Kevin Walsh @bigkevwalsh.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I urge you to go and see A Small Enclosed Room With Alfie Murphy by @aaaprods.bsky.social when it comes to your area. It's proper good stuff. And it is coming to @storyhouselive.bsky.social - my home town!

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Soho Theatre @sohotheatre.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

''Just a wonderful analogy of what it feels like to be a neurodivergent person...'' What a cracking set of voxpops for A Small Enclosed Room with Alfie Murphy - a beautifully chaotic dive into neurodivergence @aaaprods.bsky.social 13th – 17th May, tix: sohotheatre.com/events/a-sma...

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Access All Areas @aaaprods.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Are you learning disabled or autistic, and thinking about a career in theatre, TV, or film? Then Access All Areas, Central, and Netflix want to hear from you. Applications are open until June 24th. Find out more about the Diploma, and how to apply, at 🔗 bit.ly/AAADiploma

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Access All Areas @aaaprods.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Access All Areas are recruiting artists! This is a big day for us. As we open applications again for our world-famous Performance Making Diploma, we are delighted to announce that @netflixuk.bsky.social will now support the programme, run with the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama.

On a black desgined tile, A Diploma Student stand in a dark place. She wears a cream color sequin crop top. She has mid-lenght dark blonde haire. She has her arm spread and her mouth is open as if she was singing. Behind her, projected, a mosaic of muliple portraits of people. Text Read: Performance Making Diploma 2025-2027 Applications Open accessallareasproductions.org with the Access All Areas, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama and "Supported by Netflix" logos

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rockinpaddy.bsky.social @rockinpaddy.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Thanks for a great night Manchester Folk Festival...see you at Folk Expo, table 14! Tea n nibbles (i hope xx)

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rockinpaddy.bsky.social @rockinpaddy.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I'm very excited to be back at the Manchester Folk Festival; see you tonight at 11pm at Band On The Wall. I'll also be at Folk Expo tomorrow, table 14, so come and say hello sausages

l-r paula, marvus, helen, dave & JK sitting around drumkit in Crown Lane Studio, saxaphone n whistles on floor.

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Helen Bryer @hkbryer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

He’s baaaaaaack! 🦈🦈🦈

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I know coverage of disability benefits can be very distressing. So, I’ve worked with colleagues to make a range of support visible on The Guardian’s site. If you click on a relevant news story, you’ll see a “drop box” of signposted mental health help as well as benefits advice.

Mental health support
• Mind runs a support line on 0300 102 1234 as a safe and confidential place to talk openly. It also has an information line, on 0300 123 3393, for details of where to get help near you. And its welfare benefits line – 0300 222 5782 – supports anyone with mental health problems who is navigating the benefits system.
• Samaritans is there to talk to you for free 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Call them on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org.
• The disability charity Scope has a forum where you can chat in a supportive atmosphere to people going through the same experiences.
• NHS England has an online mental health triage service.

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Access All Areas @aaaprods.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

You've heard enough from us so find out directy from Not F**kin' Sorry's audience on why you shouldn't miss this show! Tomorrow at @mercurytheatre.bsky.social and across the UK in March and April! 🎟 accessallareasproductions.org/production/n... ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VKX... Full dates ⬇️

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Audiance Reactions - Not F**kin' Sorry

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Helen Bryer @hkbryer.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Get yourselves to Colchester next week for this beautiful lot. Genuinely one of my favourite pieces of performance EVER.

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Helen Bryer @hkbryer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Thrilled @aaaprods.bsky.social are now on BlueSky so I can repost all the pictures of me looking proud of our artists.

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Helen Bryer @hkbryer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Still so sad about the White Lotus theme tune guys

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Helen Bryer @hkbryer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Spent my daytime with some brilliant organisations talking inclusion and co-leadership. Spent my evening with my students dreaming up ideas for learning disabled and autistic-led television shows. I’m happy but also my brain is absolutely done.

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winnie the pooh is sleeping in a bed with a sleep mask on his eyes .

ALT: winnie the pooh is sleeping in a bed with a sleep mask on his eyes .

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Helen Bryer @hkbryer.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Guys. It’s 5pm and it’s still a tiny bit light outside. Thank GOODNESS it’s FINALLY HAPPENING.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I love him and would die to protect him.

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Helen Bryer @hkbryer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Best post on all of Bluesky

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I want to stay informed but also every time I try to read the news

Someone dressed as Hello Kitty in a pink princess dress wielding a sledgehammer standing over a laptop on the ground.

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Helen Bryer @hkbryer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Feeling enriched and inspired by a day at @graeaetheatre.bsky.social’s new writing festival. Also maybe, for the first time in ages, a **tiny** bit hopeful about theatre…?

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Helen Bryer @hkbryer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Wonderful colleague pointed out today that in our jobs (and lives) we are pretty much always walking into a room where we’re wanted. I can’t stop thinking about it. What a privilege.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

TRUST - that is only tricky thing.

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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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Helen Bryer @hkbryer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Had a couple of drinks this evening and spent the long journey home swaying tipsily on the train. Some people in my position would text an ex. Make a crazy purchase. Do something wild. I paid for a podcast subscription so I didn’t have to wait for the next episode. RECKLESS.

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Helen Bryer @hkbryer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Joy in 2025 is the Euston departures finally being where they belong 😍

The departures board at Euston station- on the large board which has been empty for months

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Arts Emergency @artsemergency.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The absurd idea that the arts (or anything for that matter) should somehow be cheap, profitable, and still world-leading at every stage from primary school to post-grad still seems to have a stranglehold on policy-makers despite the damage we're seeing daily

Screenshot of a Guardian article, reading: "Drama schools have been particularly hard hit by the previous government’s decision to cut funding for arts subjects to prioritise Stem subjects, which fall within the disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Top-up funding for creative and performing arts courses, which are expensive to run, was frozen at £16.7m in 2024-25, resulting in a real-terms cut due to inflation. In 2020-21 the grant was worth £36m, before it was cut nearly in half by Gavin Williamson, the then education secretary.

Nick Hillman, the director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, said although many of the affected smaller specialist institutions were world leading, a high proportion were struggling.

Courses are expensive to deliver because of a high student-to-staff ratio and they lack the economies of scale enjoyed by larger institutions. “It risks becoming a national catastrophe for these institutions that specialise in areas where the UK is traditionally top notch,” Hillman said."

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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 12/01/2025

“She needed to do the dishes, of course, but that could wait. Potentially forever.”

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Helen Bryer @hkbryer.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Still feels quite a lot like I am shouting into the void on here, so this evening’s shout is that I LOVE DOING CREATIVE ACCESS WORK. Ok thanks bye

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Helen Bryer @hkbryer.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Doing my access work side hustle this week and feeling inspired by @voyager3.bsky.social to put the silliness and storytelling back into my day job. Lovely.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Things have improved - but what dark dreary days.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 26/12/2024

making yourself the centre of attention then leaving without saying goodbye to a single person is actually ideal party behaviour, we should call it Bilbo-maxxing and teach the kids to do it

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Lizard Queen / ragbonehair @ragbonehair.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This has kept me sniggering for over 15 minutes now

A crude pencil drawing of a square with an animal face, two feet and a large bushy tail attached at the corners. Underneath is written "SQUARREL"

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Flo O'Mahony @floomahony.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Okay! Hello, hi! Zoo Co is taking part in The Big Give this week. It's been a decade since we ran one of these. We are on Day 2 of our 7 Day campaign and INCREDIBLY we have reached 43% of our goal already 👀 This funding is to help us make the next show after Perfect Show For Rachel...

Three people sit behind a space age tech desk. Two are waving. Rachel, a Learning Disabled Director, is in the middle grinning.

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Helen Bryer @hkbryer.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Our Access All Areas board away day today had Vietnamese food, sandwich metaphors, a scarily competitive game of Splat and a baby. And some big ideas and amazing support from trustees. Inclusive governance works.

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Beth @bethmccoll.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

i should be able to call the car behind and ask if they’re mad at me

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/11/2024

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Ariana Grande And Cynthia Erivo theonion.com/the-onions-e...

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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 21/11/2024

my candles and my soups

a black and white illustration of moomin (a small hippo bear like creature) sitting by a table with a candle in the middle. a pot of soup is on the stove and a bowl and spoons are floating nearby. the moon in the sky can be seen out of the door

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Helen Bryer @hkbryer.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Was told “put on your elephant ears and listen to me, Helen” by a workshop participant today. And absolutely fair enough.

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a baby elephant is riding a surfboard in the water .

Alt: A baby elephant running through water

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Ned Glasier @nedglasier.com · 17/11/2024

Folks in arts participation, youth theatre, young people’s advocacy, co-creation - who are you? Reply to this thread with a hello - I’ll turn it into a public list and let’s try and build a little community here.

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Helen Bryer @hkbryer.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Got in a lift with Rufus Wainwright. He said “ground floor?” I said “yes”

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Helen Bryer @hkbryer.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Do you know what’s great? Meeting an absolutely giant dog whose owners have decided to name Mouse. Just met a Great Dane. Never not charming and funny.

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