Can someone please create a trigger warning so I don’t have to read any more articles by posh old white men who don’t like trigger warnings.

Friends ! I’ve set up my two times a week FREE newsletter of 101 Playwriting Exercises (more words than my 101 Playwriting Tweets). Once I’ve got a few hundred subscribers I’ll start sending ‘em. Please share so I can start sending soon. Many thanks. buttondown.email/MarkRavenhill

🎤 Llenwch y ffurflen isod os hoffwch perfformio yn y Gymraeg fel rhan o'n noson Chwarae'r Chwedlau.
🎤 Fill in the form below if you would like to be considered to perform as part of our Welsh-language night, Chwarae'r Chwedlau The Queer Emporium 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈. (1/3)

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Planet has played a big role in offering an early platform to Welsh artists & art historians, on our covers and in our pages -everyone from Peter Lord & Osi Rhys Osmond to Shani Rhys James, Sue Williams, Iwan Bala & Rabab Ghazoul. Here's a snapshot of covers from the 1990s. 🧵👇

“Show me a child who doesn’t want to hear a story and tell it back. We put them through a utility education and say that the arts are a luxury. The arts develop our natural creativity. If creativity is a luxury, then being human is a luxury.”

Jeanette Winterson, being brilliant.

Dyma eiriau Neges Heddwch yr Urdd eleni a gafodd ei chreu gan ferched ifanc Cymru dan arweiniad Casi Wyn. 🕊

On #IWD2024 , we're proud to reveal the words of the 2024 Peace Message created by the young women of Wales and Casi Wyn.

📆 Fideo i ddod ar Mai 17 | More to come on 17 May

If you’re going to be at Mach Comedy Fest please come and see my new hour Wonky.

Amongst other things, you can find out how I’ve been to airport jail 4 times by the age of 28.

🎟️ : machcomedyfest.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/sh…

A statement on the Afghan Youth Orchestra's planned concert at the Southbank Centre this Thursday:

It’s honestly heartbreaking what is happening to the arts in Birmingham.

Geordan Burress from Cleveland, Ohio taught herself Welsh online after falling in love with Welsh language music.

BBC Cymru Fyw caught up with her as she visited Wales for the first time.

They can live with genocide and climate breakdown.

They cannot live with peaceful protest against genocide and climate breakdown.

theguardian.com/world/2024/feb…

Dauson Environmental Group, who were fined £10k & then £202k for illegally dumping waste on a conservation site, gave a political donation of £200,000 to Vaughan Gething for his campaign to be First minister (even though he’s only allowed to spend £54k)

To the staff writers at The Guardian: The US airforce serviceman who burned himself alive in front of the Israeli Embassy did not, as you wrote, die 'shouting about Palestine'. No, he died heroically shouting Free Palestine. OK?
theguardian.com/us-news/2024/f…

Amdani - dyddiad cau: 1 Mawrth 🎬 🌼

Cofiwch mai dydd Gwener yma, 1 Mawrth, ydi dyddiad cau'r gystadleuaeth stori fer gyffrous yma!

Thema: #Hunaniaeth / #Rhyddid .

Am fwy o wybodaeth: amam.cymru/sebra/cystadle…

Ewch amdani - wir yn edrych ymlaen at ddarllen y straeon fydd yn dod i law'r Sebra!

Rhannwch ogydd🤗

If you’re in London this Friday, why not come and celebrate St David’s Day how Dewi Sant would have wanted: At a gig with myself Kiri Pr'chard-McLean Anna Thomas Esyllt Sears Priya Hall at London Welsh Centre 🌼

📅 This Friday
📍London Welsh
🎟️ londonwelsh.org/events/st-davi…

🌟Calling all supporters of Valleys Kids!🌟

We need your help to show RCT Council just how important the work of Valleys Kids is in our community. By signing this petition, you can help us secure vital funding to continue our programmes and support local families in need.

The arts are not frivolous. For people living in poverty or working class people they can offer a view to a world that is readily available to most middle class kids.
Film and theatre and books shine a light and show you the pathway sometimes.
Value the arts and artists 💕

This is simply epic. 😆

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
His last piece of art, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.