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Adam Gent @adam57.bsky.social · 4d

Just seen the very talented Dik Downey in Opposable Thumb’s new show Don Quixote (is a very big book) and it is Very Funny & Excellent .Catch it at Wardrobe Theatre next thewardrobetheatre.com/shows/don-qu...

Don Quixote (is a very big book) - The Wardrobe Theatre

A brand new one-man puppetry and clowning epic loosely based on Miguel de Cervantes' classic, presented by Opposable Thumb Theatre (Coulrophobia, Big Boys Don't Cry) and Nordland Visual Theatre (Norwa...

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Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 7d

R. S. Thomas, ‘The Bright Field’, from Laboratories of the Spirit (1975) #NationalPoetryDay

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Philli Milne @phillimilne.bsky.social · 8d

Spent this morning with lots of great people who are doing lots of great cultural things in Gloucester. Really energising to see the impact ACE funding can have.

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Adam Gent @adam57.bsky.social · 10d

Just started this and really enjoying it - reminds me of David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13d

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘It’ll be fine!’ Meet the visionary who invented the car: the Stephen Collins cartoon

Random members of the public will pilot these things – it’ll be fine

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Gent @adam57.bsky.social · 14d

I’ve had to look up an Arnold Bennet Omelette now and that is a mighty meal! Enjoy.

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Adam Gent @adam57.bsky.social · 16d

This sounds amazing!

Cathy Mager @cathymager.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you Plymouth Culture for this interview! tinyurl.com/3pedeckk

Night Bloom: Deaf-Led 360° Immersive Art Blooms in Plymouth’s Market Hall Dome — Plymouth Culture

Discover Night Bloom, a deaf-led 360° immersive artwork in Plymouth’s Market Hall Dome. Cathy Mager shares the story behind this groundbreaking piece.

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Adam Gent @adam57.bsky.social · 19d

Really lovely get together at Salisbury Arts Centre to remember Jill Low today. Catherine’s piece below is perfect. Jill gave @stephaniejalland.bsky.social and I a home for Hoodwink and the Arts Centre felt like home again today with staff, volunteers and artists all there, so good to see everyone.

Jill Low: "A Force to be Reckoned With" | Wiltshire Creative

Jill Low, news of whose sudden, tragic death has been announced, had a profound impact on the artistic landscape of Salisbury and way beyond. She was a hig

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Adam Gent @adam57.bsky.social · 20d

William Gibson - start anywhere but I loved The Peripheral which is more recent.

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Philli Milne @phillimilne.bsky.social · 20d

“Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles” from the Hayward Gallery has arrived at The Wilson in Cheltenham and it’s a wonderful exploration of textiles in contemporary art. Really want (need) the wallpaper by Marc Camille Chaimowicz.

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Adam Gent @adam57.bsky.social · 22d

Great to see ACE supported work of the best quality getting to our most far flung communities www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...

‘The storm for Lear is inside him’: Crossing choppy seas to bring Shakespeare to Isles of Scilly

RSC touring troupe stage King Lear in a school hall on St Mary’s before continuing to the Isle of Wight

www.theguardian.com

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Phil Gibby @philgibby.bsky.social · 27d

Well done @bsidefest.bsky.social on the launch of The Portland Dress as part of the Big Weekend. Hundreds of local stories embroidered in a very special community textiles project. And beautiful choral work led by Destination Opera to mark the launch at the Old Engine Shed tonight. (1/3)

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Adam Gent @adam57.bsky.social · Sep 8

Enjoyed Pagans by @jamesbluecat.bsky.social very much, highly recommend. Read after the excellent Hild and Menewood by @nicolaz.bsky.social and had a very pleasing historical fiction/alt history continuity

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Adam Gent @adam57.bsky.social · Sep 5

Holiday accommodation lamp winner for all time.

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Adam Gent @adam57.bsky.social · Sep 3

Cycling in Suffolk yesterday, we stopped outside house with an unmanned stall selling jams and marmalades and bought Dark Horse, ‘finely treacled’ marmalade and Oh My God why did I not know about this before?! Absolutely fantastic.

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Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com · Sep 2

Hey UK, my reality-bending mother-daughter-found-family-multiverse novel is on sale on Kobo. It's about being lost, trying to find the best version of you (literally), the mysteries of our parents, neuroparasites, murder and features two of my favourite characters I've ever written in Dom and Amber

NickPheas @nickpheas.bsky.social · Sep 1

Bridge by @laurenbeukes.com

www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

Bridge ebook by Lauren Beukes - Rakuten Kobo

Read "Bridge The dazzling new novel from the author of Apple TV’s Shining Girls" by Lauren Beukes available from Rakuten Kobo. Read the mind-bending masterpiece from the multi-award-winning author of ...

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Mark Ferguson MP @markfergusonmp.bsky.social · Aug 28

This is my flag.

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Adam Gent @adam57.bsky.social · Aug 24

Looks good!

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Sean Sky @sean-sky.bsky.social · Aug 23

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Captain Twinkie Bucket @phimius.bsky.social · Aug 23

I would buy this album in a heartbeat

(@fakemusic_br instagram)

#funk #acdc

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Sandy Leaton Gray @drleatongray.bsky.social · Aug 21

1/ In my Gove thread I showed how reform managed inequality rather than solved it. Here’s why “social mobility” itself is the bigger fiction. Another thread.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · Aug 15

How I would make him fawn, and beg, and seek,
And wait the season, and observe the times,
And spend his prodigal wits in bootless rhymes,
And shape his service wholly to my device,
And make him proud to make me proud that jests!

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Simon Opher @simonforstroud.bsky.social · Aug 10

The Music Works is a Gloucester based outreach charity that works to transform the lives of young people through music. It doesn’t matter what skills you have or what you’re passionate about; as long as you want to make music, they can help you make it happen.

I visited last week and loved it.

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Adam Gent @adam57.bsky.social · Aug 9

Bit of a treat when one of your favourite authors reviews another of your favourite authors.

TonyInterruptor by Nicola Barker review – satire that sees right through you

This brilliantly over-the-top comedy about an unworldly heckler explores art and authenticity – being tripped up by it is part of the fun

www.theguardian.com

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