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'Confetti' bucket challenge in support of MND Scotland 🎊 It's been 10 years since the Ice Bucket Challenge so we made this wee video to mark this milestone. Please donate to this extraordinary charity here ⬇️ mndscotland.org.uk/donate/

Brilliant ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review for our amazing Annie Grace’s performance in Greg Hemphill’s whip smart #PokerAlice - revived this week 20 years after premiering in the legend David MacLennan’s first ever A Play, A Pie and A Pint season - doing him proud again. last day tomorrow!

Saying you would deal with Vladimir Putin by getting along well with him only means that Vladimir Putin has already dealt with you.

BIG NEWS for Scottish theatre: Alan Cumming named as artistic director of Pitlochry Festival theatre, Scotland's ‘theatre in the hills’ theguardian.com/stage/2024/sep…

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 After a disastrous decade for broken Brexit Britain, independence can offer the hope and optimism Scotland needs. ✍️ Stephen Flynn MP reflects on the independence referendum ten years on, and the path ahead. yes.scot/building-hope-…

👉 Strengthen our economy 👉 Improve public services 👉 Regain EU membership 👉 Action on the climate crisis 👉 Build a fairer society 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 These are the opportunities independence for Scotland can bring. yes.scot/five-key-thing…

“Let us talk ourselves up – and never allow ourselves to be talked down.   Let us pass on that sense of hope to our fellow Scots through the hands of solidarity and friendship.   Let us inspire them with a vision of what is possible.” John Swinney

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Baffling bit in Anas Sarwar's conference speech; 'Scotland led the way in delivering the change the UK needs.' Is that the massive expansion of onshore wind while England had 10 year ban? The pioneering Scottish Child Payment? Nationalising Scotrail? Settling pay disputes early?

Yesterday The Scotsman. No time to joke. Now, western leaders like Keir Starmer have to acknowledge the full scale of the horror unfolding in Gaza & beyond; or forfeit all credibility as serious defenders of a rule-governed international order. .scotsman.com/news/opinion/c…

Creative Scotland’s multi-year funding decisions delayed by three months until end of January, due to ongoing uncertainty over its own funding, which will hopefully be clarified in Dec budget. Yet more uncertainty for Scotland’s struggling culture sector… More soon The Stage

🚨Scotland’s theatres, festivals, arts venues & organisations have been left in limbo over their future Scottish Government funding until the end of January after ministers refused to earmark a budget for the next Creative Scotland multi-year programme.🚨 scotsman.com/arts-and-cultu… The Scotsman

Want to learn some tips for writing a show for us? 🖊️ Join brian logan, our Artistic Director, and playwrights Lesley Hart 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺, jamesleyplay and Uma Nada-Rajah for a discussion on writing for our unique format. 📆 Wed 16 Oct, 7pm 📍 Òran Mór playpiepint.com/panel-discussi…

Anxiety can make you fear the worst, but don’t let it ruin your life theguardian.com/science/2024/o…

Float takes home the win for Television Scripted at the #BAFTAScotAwards 😍

Dipping toes in bsky now this pool too toxic to swim in… see you there?

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