JayneWilliams
@MrsJayneW
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Freelance Writer | Community Theatre Maker | Participation Director @NPtheatre Producer @FlyHalfThePlay Own hair/teeth/opinions
East Midlands, England
Joined March 2012
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🧠 Mental health matters. Check out our free wellbeing resources, from peer support to low-cost counselling, at https://t.co/Yh7ghHNTT4.
#FreelancersMakeTheatreWork
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Now more than ever there is a need to address the question of Freelancer’s well-being. Use our Wellbeing resource to help find the right path for you.
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Need specific help or support? Find out who you should you be talking to. We have a great list of Unions, Groups, Associations and Networks listed on our website here: https://t.co/F9CU1WZh0Z
#FreelancersMakeTheatreWork
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📢 Don't miss this Friday's Playwrights Flashmob at New Perspectives✍️💻 📅Friday 24 October 2025 Free, just drop by between 1pm and 4pm New Perspectives #PlaywrightsFlashmob #SupportPlaywrights #ArtistsForArtists
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For this year's Big Freelancer Survey, we asked arts freelancers to estimate what percentage of the hours involved in their freelance work were unpaid. 32% of respondents reporting that more than half of their working hours were unpaid. https://t.co/z7I04KpSiw
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Today especially remember #Aberfan- working class children have never been valued by the State. And their lives have always been dispensable.
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Come along to one of our test performances of BLACK SHUCK an immersive Folk Horror, coming to venues in the East Midlands just in time for Halloween🎃See Black Shuck, just don't look into it's eyes! Book Now https://t.co/xextHzvAAg 🙏Thanks to @ImmersiveArtsUK @VIPStudioUoN
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👀Check out our latest New Perspectives Newsletter.📖 https://t.co/q95Fj5T3O6 ✍️Sign up and don't miss an issue, be the first to find out we have coming up! https://t.co/xPLH4WVV76
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🖊️Playwrights Flashmob🎭 Join us on Friday 24 October, 1-4pm FREE drop-in for writers, artists & makers hosted at New Perspectives. We’ll be joined by writers @JanieU @LarryLambourne Tea, coffee and cupcakes provided. No pressure, no booking, just turn up.
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Announcing: the longlist for the 2025 Women’s Prize Playwriting 💜 It’s a joy to have read and advocated for these long-listed writers, and we can’t wait to keep these writers close as we invite them to join the Future Light development scheme.
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We’re here to help you navigate the challenges of freelancing in the arts. From workshops & resources to financial & mental health support, we’ve got you covered. Explore the tools & advice available to you - click on ‘Support’ & take the next step. 👉 https://t.co/8Grwz5JvCQ
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Daniel Day Lewis: “Theatre essentially relies on people having had the privilege of an education that allows them to believe that they’re entitled to go to the theatre… It’s a relatively small group of people that is available to, and that is just quite wrong.”
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🎙️ Just Get A Real Job is back this Wednesday. Kicking things off with TV’s Mick Lynch @PhilipRalph9 for a powerful conversation about class, creativity, and how the crisis in TV is shaping who gets to work and who can afford to take risks in such a high-risk industry.
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If we've ever helped you with owt like an arts funding application, advice or creative support, or you simply enjoyed a New Perspectives production, this is a fab opp to chuck us some love. Please vote for us and please share.
📢New Perspectives have the chance to be awarded £5,000 if you nominate us for @benefactgroup Arts & Culture Special Draw before 19 October 2025. 🙏Help us bring theatre into communities, support emerging artists and spotlight unheard voices. Nominate us
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📢New Perspectives have the chance to be awarded £5,000 if you nominate us for @benefactgroup Arts & Culture Special Draw before 19 October 2025. 🙏Help us bring theatre into communities, support emerging artists and spotlight unheard voices. Nominate us
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We could receive £5,000 in the Movement for Good draw.
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This year’s BFS report tells us not only that severe cuts to arts funding are impacting the whole sector, but it also highlights that it is the industry’s lowest paid and most precarious workers who are taking the biggest hit - its freelancers. https://t.co/z7I04KpSiw
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Morning .@MrsJayneW & myself would like to bring our play to you. Especially deindustrialised areas. Any council, charity, philanthropist want to help make this happen. Its about working class girls, deindustrialisation in 1984 but where are we now https://t.co/qrarpC1KA9
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'It’s not opera that’s elitist but the idea that art is too complex for the working class.'
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The myth that culture has not been for the masses is debunked in a new book
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'Who tells the story determines the story that is told. And it is bloody obvious that economic growth would be increased, risk-taking enhanced and consumers better-served if arts organisations had more staff from less privileged upbringings.' 👏👏👏
BLOG: British Theatre Is Failing The Working Class
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Curious Minds are facilitating another fab free online space for Freelancers this Friday! https://t.co/XvkmymVFY3
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Come join us in a space to reflect, recharge and connect with your peers navigating a freelance career.
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💥Join us this Weds 3-4.30pm BST for our online reading group!💥 We'll be discussing storytelling & classism by reading some of @redrumlisa's Getting By, which tells the story of people living on the St Ann's estate in Nottingham. Sign up below👇 https://t.co/ssqlkg7Qvb
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