Festival of Pineapples!
Our session for the #PineappleAwards is now live! 💚🌳🍍
Festival of Place The Developer
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Such an amazing day full of creative team meetings! Everyone is invited to the forest
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Our next #EYP2CtW24 session is tomorrow, 18 April, 4pm (UK) & sees us welcome Rolla khaddage &
Dr Penny Hay 🇪🇺🕊💙💚🌳🐝🦋🌹❤️🌈.
Free sign up for this or remaining conf series sessions via: forms.office.com/r/e6pUfg32Bm
RT School of Education British Council Ascend Learning Trust Backdrop Leadership Group David Storey Jane Coley RWBA_ART

Honoured to be part of Rob Hopkins's 'Ministry of Imagination' and this radical policy manifesto, covering climate, equality, economy, peace-building and everything in between. 'An imagination-based manifesto for times that need one'. Enjoy! robhopkins.net/2024/04/15/min…

A beautiful wild orchid (Orchis brancifortii) seen today in the hills of Sicily.

Dr Penny Hay 🇪🇺🕊💙💚🌳🐝🦋🌹❤️🌈 one for you and kin. instagram.com/reel/C4pHk0lsk…

Spoiler: England has not being doing it right for a decade.

I was literally just considering String Theory, and then I see this… thank you.

So, this is as cool as it gets. I’m on a list with the actual Brian Eno 😎 (and 200 or so other brilliant people). My policy-call is to restore children’s freedom to play out. Thank you Rob Hopkins and let’s hope most of these wishes come true! Playing Out

New research from our members Chance UK reveals the long-term impact that exclusions or suspensions at primary school can have on children and young people.

Find out more and read the report ⬇️
chanceuk.com/exclusions/

Had a brilliant visit to Hayward Gallery to see ‘When Forms Come Alive’ - exciting , organic , dynamic , sinister and beautiful sculptures - a great show open till 6th May . Thanks to Laura Gosney for my tour . #art #wildlife Here’s some favourites . . .

Vote for peace. Vote for beauty and diversity. Vote for life. (No stupid old men waging war on this shortlist.) Vote for the UK invertebrate of the year. Polls close at 8am BST tomorrow. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Falling Silent. #Icarus . Coal dust, wax, pewter, pearls.

There is much to be learned from small voluntary organizations ft.com/content/d1a6d4… via @ft

Primrose Hill #watercolour

Cy Twombly’s Tree-peony 🖤

'Painting ... It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening. The line is the feeling, from a soft thing, a dreamy thing, to something hard, something arid, something lonely, something ending, something beginning.'
Cy Twombly ❤️

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Cy Twombly ❤️

'People who grew up in professional families were now four times more likely than those with working-class parents to be in creative work.'

The arts should be accessible to all, yet many individuals still face all sorts of barriers.

#ExpandArtsAccess

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