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Jazmine Linklater

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Poet etc. North West Editor @corridor8.bsky.social // Publicity @carcanet.bsky.social linktr.ee/jjhlinklater

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Jazmine Linklater @jjhlinklater.bsky.social · Mar 26

I wrote about this show which I bloody loved! I thought a lot about money and failure and censorship and community and misogyny and care and making and institutions and something like beauty. I cried a lot in the galleries. I visited three times already! Let's go again there's so much to see!

Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · Mar 26

'So much of the show’s work arises from the creation of communal modes of living, alternative family structures and the collective provision of childcare.'

@jjhlinklater.bsky.social on Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990 at The Whitworth, Manchester, open (and free!) until June:

Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990 — Corridor8

Over the last few weeks, I’ve wondered about the little construction that’s appeared on the forecourt of The Whitworth as I’ve been cycling past. The

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Joe Devlin @joedevlin.bsky.social · 7d

A Letraset drawing.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
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Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9d

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 22d

Led By Donkeys: “We’ve done, I reckon, 25 or 30 projections since we’ve been going. Often the police come along and we have a chat to them, and they even have a laugh with us and occasionally tell us to not do it. But no one’s been arrested before” - for your “Actually worse than Tories” folder

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 22d

Led By Donkeys has responded after four people were arrested for projecting images of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein onto Windsor Castle

'Orwellian': Led By Donkeys respond after 4 arrested over Windsor Castle projection

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 22d

I rarely share organizations in Gaza because it’s too hard to verify that they are doing the work they say they are but I know multiple people who were able to evacuate through the people working on this fund who are funding trips out of Gaza City (it’s $2100 a trip for 16 people).

Vulnerable Families Urgent Evacuation Fund

We are a group of Gazans and international activists (Palestinian/SWANA/Allies) who have been supporting Gazans for the past 2 years and beyond. We are now working to coordinate crisis evacuations for...

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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 22d

In this month's long read, Sally Button writes via the underground, the city and the landscape to reflect on moving from London to the northwest of the northwest, finding fragmented artistic community in and around Lancaster and Morecambe, exposing interiority and accessing space:

LANDSCAPE, INTERIORS, ART, UNDERGROUND: London to Lancaster

By Sally Button

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Jazmine Linklater @jjhlinklater.bsky.social · 23d

Another beautiful exhibition that I got to write about for Corridor8

Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 29d

Our regional editor @jjhlinklater.bsky.social reviews Pippa Eaon's solo show, Four-fold Reverie, at PINK, which comes out of an @artscouncilengland.bsky.social DYCP-funded period of experimentation with ceramics, film and sound, and research into neurodivergence, selfhood, sensation and perception:

Pippa Eason: Four-fold Reverie — Corridor8

With a quarter of an hour to go before her exhibition opens, Manchester-based artist Pippa Eason is moving slowly around PINK’s second floor gallery,

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · Aug 29

Splendid news! It’s the 73rd anniversary of the premiere of John Cage’s 4'33", guaranteed, even now, to make people very, very angry

Front page of sheet music for John Cage's 4'33". The document reads I TACET, II TACET, III TACET. NOTE: The title of this work is the total length in minutes and seconds of its performance. At Woodstock, N.Y., August 29, 1952, the title was 4'33" and the three parts were 33", 2'40", and 1'20". It was performed by David Tudor, pianist, who indicated the beginnings of parts by closing, the endings by opening, the keyboard lid. However, the work may be performed by any instrumentalist or combination of instrumentalists and last any length of time. FOR IRWIN KREMEN. The document is signed by John Cage'

A blank piece of sheet music, from inside the document

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · Aug 29

Kenneth Rexroth

(I memorized this poem when I was young. I can still recite it.)

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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · Aug 24

'To write about a biennial from this perspective is a step outside of the tempo and often placeless perspective of the art reviewer who jets into a city and takes from it only what they need.'

Read Liverpool resident Laura Harris, reflecting on the civic, emplaced and social nature of biennials.

The Lithic Biennial

By Laura Harris

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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · Aug 22

Extract from ‘Cow’ – six poems by Uruguayan poet Claudia Magliano in @mptmagazine.bsky.social tr. Jesse Lee Kercheval & Jeannine Marie Pitas. Have a look! 🐄

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · Aug 21

It's disgusting that this even needs to be said, but there is no law compelling Americans to have any form of ID on them while walking the streets.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Aug 21

NEW—Earlier this evening agents from ICE/other fed agencies were outside Rhode Island Ave metro in DC asking people exiting the station for their IDs, per someone who experienced it. When the person presented their Real ID license, an agent said that wasn't sufficient. Luckily they had secondary ID.

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · Aug 21

thanks so much to everyone who's signed - 300 signatures in less than 3 days and climbing. this programme is one of the best things about UoB and the very least of what the university owes the broader region

Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · Aug 21

Please help. Please sign. I work on a part-time degree for mature students to study for a BA in English Literature & Community Engagement. Its direct access and designed for those who didn't or couldn't go to Uni at 18. Bristol plan to close it. We want to save it.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol

19 August 2025 Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students) The School of Humanities has ...

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · Aug 21

The UK government will evacuate nine of the 40+ students in Gaza with scholarship at UK universities. My PhD student Shaimaa isn't included. We must now make sure they help the other students - email your MP today. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK to evacuate nine Gaza students with university scholarships

Move follows months of pressure from MPs, academics and campaigners, with dozens of other students still stranded

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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · Aug 2

Came across this MacCaig poem by chance and bloody hell, amazing

Incident

by Norman MacCaig

I look across the table and think
(fiery with love)
Ask me, go on, ask me to do something impossible, something freakishly useless, something unimaginable and inimitable

Like making a finger break into blossom or walking for half an hour in twenty minutes or remembering tomorrow.

I will you to ask it.
But all you say is
Will you give me a cigarette?
And I smile and, returning to the marvelous world of possibility I give you one with a hand that trembles with a human trembling.

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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · Jul 30

'Paz’s works, some completed, some in fragments, were strange, shimmering, mutable forms, as though the images were conjured from memory — part-seen, part-imagined.'

Susannah Thompson responds to Alicia Paz's Women in Print residency at Artlab Contemporary Print Studios in Preston 🧜‍♀️ 🐚 🐟

Paper Goes Swimming: Alicia Paz’s Women in Print Residency — Corridor8

On my way to meet Alicia Paz on a hot morning in late June, Preston seemed to be cast in magic realism, as though priming me for the artist’s fixations

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Paulo da Fonseca @paulodafonseca.bsky.social · Aug 3

Morton Feldman. Intersection +, 1953

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Jul 24

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

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Jazmine Linklater @jjhlinklater.bsky.social · Jul 23

Wait @abrackenbury.bsky.social is literally here

Jazmine Linklater @jjhlinklater.bsky.social · Jul 23

Yes can you email me tomorrow? [email protected] I'd like to say I'll simply email you but alas I will forget

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · Jul 23

Amtssprache

So what would you pay to have your family safe
In that house with the garden and the clean running water -
And you walk in and hold them and kiss their faces?
Your life? Too easy, and nobody’s asking.

How about the life of an Afghan child,
A city, the birds in the sky?
Would you turn a blind eye? Would you turn off the news?
Would you run the trains to death camps?

Of course you would. You do.
You do these things.

(Poem by Clare Pollard)

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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · Jul 23

Every diaspora Palestinian I know has been living with survivor’s guilt for 655 days. Guilt & shame for every glass of water, every bite of food, every shower, every daily annoyance, every moment of joy, every booboo we can kiss better, every sleep in our own beds. Our people are being slaughtered.

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Joy @joyfromghazza.bsky.social · Jul 18

Starving people is in itself a #massacre.

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