Laura Ager
@lauraager.bsky.social
Here for old cinemas, all kinds of films and assorted festivals. Melbourne based. Organiser for @melbcinematheque and @radfilmnet
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www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/at-gails-w... (free to read)
At Gail's, what is the human cost behind a £5 loaf of bread?
The economics and migration behind the Gail's expansion. Words by Sasha Patel and Ben Jacob. Illustration by Kruttika Susarla.
www.vittlesmagazine.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/at-gails-w... (free to read)
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RALLY TO SAVE MEANJIN
Thursday 11 Sep 9am
Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton.
A number of Australian writers and editors will speak in support of this vital cultural institution
Thursday 11 Sep 9am
Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton.
A number of Australian writers and editors will speak in support of this vital cultural institution
September 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
RALLY TO SAVE MEANJIN
Thursday 11 Sep 9am
Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton.
A number of Australian writers and editors will speak in support of this vital cultural institution
Thursday 11 Sep 9am
Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton.
A number of Australian writers and editors will speak in support of this vital cultural institution
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This paper was just made open access. I wrote it just as the new UK Labour government was elected. Some people thought I was being too pessimistic. I'll let you decide.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Creating growth: Labour’s plan for the arts, culture and creative industries
Published in Cultural Trends (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
June 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This paper was just made open access. I wrote it just as the new UK Labour government was elected. Some people thought I was being too pessimistic. I'll let you decide.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Co-Op is now boycotting Israel
Co-op joins growing list of brands boycotting Israel
The decision follows an earlier move in to stop selling Russian products after the invasion of Ukraine.
leftfootforward.org
July 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The Co-Op is now boycotting Israel
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📢 Our friends at bookhaus have built one of the country’s most vital radical bookshops—a cultural hub rooted in activism, community & resistance.
Now the shop is up for sale. Support the crowdfunder and keep bookhaus in radical hands: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...
Now the shop is up for sale. Support the crowdfunder and keep bookhaus in radical hands: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...
June 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
📢 Our friends at bookhaus have built one of the country’s most vital radical bookshops—a cultural hub rooted in activism, community & resistance.
Now the shop is up for sale. Support the crowdfunder and keep bookhaus in radical hands: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...
Now the shop is up for sale. Support the crowdfunder and keep bookhaus in radical hands: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...
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@bookhaus.bsky.social’s owners are retiring, and the manager - the brilliant Darran McLaughlin (alongside the equally brilliant Phil Wrigglesworth) are crowdfunding to buy the bookshop - they deserve all your support: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...
bookhaus - Bristol's radical home
I have managed bookhaus since the beginning. The owners have decided to retire, and I am raising the funds to buy it and carry on our legacy
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
June 27, 2025 at 8:29 AM
@bookhaus.bsky.social’s owners are retiring, and the manager - the brilliant Darran McLaughlin (alongside the equally brilliant Phil Wrigglesworth) are crowdfunding to buy the bookshop - they deserve all your support: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...
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For 26 years, Senses of Cinema has made uncompromising film criticism free and accessible to global audiences, connecting us through a shared love of cinema. Supporting us with a donation helps keep us free and independent (donations over $2 tax deductible for Australian residents) buff.ly/btcHgEC
June 11, 2025 at 5:49 AM
For 26 years, Senses of Cinema has made uncompromising film criticism free and accessible to global audiences, connecting us through a shared love of cinema. Supporting us with a donation helps keep us free and independent (donations over $2 tax deductible for Australian residents) buff.ly/btcHgEC
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Artists/Illustrators/Designers! We need YOU!
Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair returns 6-9th of November 2025 : we need a poster!
This year’s theme is ‘Ecosystems of change’ or ‘Constellations of Change’. As an artist, we invite you to respond to whichever of the two speaks to you most.
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Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair returns 6-9th of November 2025 : we need a poster!
This year’s theme is ‘Ecosystems of change’ or ‘Constellations of Change’. As an artist, we invite you to respond to whichever of the two speaks to you most.
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May 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Artists/Illustrators/Designers! We need YOU!
Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair returns 6-9th of November 2025 : we need a poster!
This year’s theme is ‘Ecosystems of change’ or ‘Constellations of Change’. As an artist, we invite you to respond to whichever of the two speaks to you most.
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Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair returns 6-9th of November 2025 : we need a poster!
This year’s theme is ‘Ecosystems of change’ or ‘Constellations of Change’. As an artist, we invite you to respond to whichever of the two speaks to you most.
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If you make chapbooks, pamphlets, zines, artists’ books, mail art; publish editions of fine press work; run a small- to mid-sized independent press; or edit a literary journal in Ireland, the UK, mainland Europe, or farther abroad, we would love you to be part of the Fair.
dublinsmallpressfair.com
dublinsmallpressfair.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If you make chapbooks, pamphlets, zines, artists’ books, mail art; publish editions of fine press work; run a small- to mid-sized independent press; or edit a literary journal in Ireland, the UK, mainland Europe, or farther abroad, we would love you to be part of the Fair.
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Belfast folk! Don’t miss your chance to catch Glasgow’s finest, The Tenementals first Belfast show at the Black Box 31st May!
Bringing earthy Scottish working class culture to Ireland!
Don’t miss it!
Bringing earthy Scottish working class culture to Ireland!
Don’t miss it!
May 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Belfast folk! Don’t miss your chance to catch Glasgow’s finest, The Tenementals first Belfast show at the Black Box 31st May!
Bringing earthy Scottish working class culture to Ireland!
Don’t miss it!
Bringing earthy Scottish working class culture to Ireland!
Don’t miss it!
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A new edition of Making & Breaking, re-imagining psycho- Geography for a digital age.
makingandbreaking.org
makingandbreaking.org
Making & Breaking
Issue 04 Out Now! Psychogeographies of the Present
makingandbreaking.org
May 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
A new edition of Making & Breaking, re-imagining psycho- Geography for a digital age.
makingandbreaking.org
makingandbreaking.org
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Join us Wednesday 7 May for the first week of our tribute to ‘the Queen of Scream’, Barbara Steele (1937–). At 7pm we’ll be screening Mario Bava’s BLACK SUNDAY (1960), followed at 8:45pm by Roger Corman’s THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM (1961). Full details of the program available on our site.
May 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Join us Wednesday 7 May for the first week of our tribute to ‘the Queen of Scream’, Barbara Steele (1937–). At 7pm we’ll be screening Mario Bava’s BLACK SUNDAY (1960), followed at 8:45pm by Roger Corman’s THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM (1961). Full details of the program available on our site.
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‘It is one of those unaccountable facts of modernity: Nasa launched a chimpanzee into space before women had access to reliable, frog-free home pregnancy testing.’
@erinmaglaque.bsky.social on the history of pregnancy and conception: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@erinmaglaque.bsky.social on the history of pregnancy and conception: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Erin Maglaque · Frog-Free: Conception Stories
I can take a home pregnancy test only eight days after ovulation and discover that I have conceived, the wondering...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 30, 2025 at 10:13 AM
‘It is one of those unaccountable facts of modernity: Nasa launched a chimpanzee into space before women had access to reliable, frog-free home pregnancy testing.’
@erinmaglaque.bsky.social on the history of pregnancy and conception: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@erinmaglaque.bsky.social on the history of pregnancy and conception: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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‘The Easter bunny was a hare long before he was a rabbit; the hare was sacred to Eostre, the Saxon goddess of spring – no rabidly cute bundle of fluff.’
Katherine Rundell considers the hare: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Katherine Rundell considers the hare: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Katherine Rundell · Consider the Hare
‘The cat of the wood,’ Heaney calls them. ‘The stag of the cabbages.’ If there is magic in this world, some part...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
‘The Easter bunny was a hare long before he was a rabbit; the hare was sacred to Eostre, the Saxon goddess of spring – no rabidly cute bundle of fluff.’
Katherine Rundell considers the hare: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Katherine Rundell considers the hare: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Raise a glass to the hugely talented director Ted Kotcheff, who has died at 94. He might have been Canadian born, but he made what is still one of the best Australian films ever, WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971), among his many other screen achievements. Gone to that great Yabba in the sky.
April 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Raise a glass to the hugely talented director Ted Kotcheff, who has died at 94. He might have been Canadian born, but he made what is still one of the best Australian films ever, WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971), among his many other screen achievements. Gone to that great Yabba in the sky.
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#SaveThePCC
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat!
We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
you.38degrees.org.uk
January 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
#SaveThePCC
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
The Quest for a New Narrative on Culture: Foundations, infrastructures, Public Goods (and Bads).
New article for Culture Policy Room by Justin O'Connor @oconnorjustin13.bsky.social
www.culturepolicyroom.eu/insights/the...
New article for Culture Policy Room by Justin O'Connor @oconnorjustin13.bsky.social
www.culturepolicyroom.eu/insights/the...
The Quest for a New Narrative on Culture: Foundations, infrastructures, Public Goods (and Bads) — Culture Policy Room
Justin O’Connor argues that we need a radical repositioning of culture as a core area of public policy, moving away from the technocratic pursuit of ever more impact metrics and advocacy efforts desig...
www.culturepolicyroom.eu
April 3, 2025 at 6:19 AM
The Quest for a New Narrative on Culture: Foundations, infrastructures, Public Goods (and Bads).
New article for Culture Policy Room by Justin O'Connor @oconnorjustin13.bsky.social
www.culturepolicyroom.eu/insights/the...
New article for Culture Policy Room by Justin O'Connor @oconnorjustin13.bsky.social
www.culturepolicyroom.eu/insights/the...
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We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham
March 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham
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Reposted by Laura Ager
Great to see our co-curators Adrian Danks and @cinemelo.bsky.social quoted in this article in today's edition of THE AGE newspaper on the importance of the in-person cinema experience & Melbourne Cinematheque's role in helping to keep it alive. Long live cinema!
www.theage.com.au/culture/movi...
www.theage.com.au/culture/movi...
An Oscar winner urged us to keep cinemas alive. These Australians already are
More Australians are swapping the small screen for the cinema, embracing the big-screen experience that faces an existential challenge in the age of streaming.
www.theage.com.au
March 8, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Great to see our co-curators Adrian Danks and @cinemelo.bsky.social quoted in this article in today's edition of THE AGE newspaper on the importance of the in-person cinema experience & Melbourne Cinematheque's role in helping to keep it alive. Long live cinema!
www.theage.com.au/culture/movi...
www.theage.com.au/culture/movi...
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Join us Wednesday 5 March for the start of our season of Roberto Rossellini films, co-presented with Italian Cultural Institute of Melbourne. At 7pm we screen ROME, OPEN CITY (1945), followed at 9:05pm by IL GENERALE DELLA ROVERE (1959). Full details of the program are on our website.
March 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Join us Wednesday 5 March for the start of our season of Roberto Rossellini films, co-presented with Italian Cultural Institute of Melbourne. At 7pm we screen ROME, OPEN CITY (1945), followed at 9:05pm by IL GENERALE DELLA ROVERE (1959). Full details of the program are on our website.
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Meta could have solely funded the ENTIRE WORLD'S 2022 CLIMATE FINANCE GOAL instead of this
February 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Meta could have solely funded the ENTIRE WORLD'S 2022 CLIMATE FINANCE GOAL instead of this
On Thursday 6th March I will be at Preston library, North Melbourne, talking about why some of us go to incredible lengths to save old cinemas.
It's free, and I am hoping to meet lots of lovely 'cinema people', so please come along 📽️.
It's free, and I am hoping to meet lots of lovely 'cinema people', so please come along 📽️.
February 20, 2025 at 7:52 AM
On Thursday 6th March I will be at Preston library, North Melbourne, talking about why some of us go to incredible lengths to save old cinemas.
It's free, and I am hoping to meet lots of lovely 'cinema people', so please come along 📽️.
It's free, and I am hoping to meet lots of lovely 'cinema people', so please come along 📽️.
A very thorough and satisfying long read on the innovative work of British cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene, by Peter Domankiewicz
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
A very thorough and satisfying long read on the innovative work of British cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene, by Peter Domankiewicz
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....