shakira newton 🌻
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(she/her) Actor/Writer/Director/Producer/Dickhead rep’d by @VLA_Talent & @sn_voices , Co-Artistic Director of @POC_prod
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Please sign this petition and help ensure Fran and all of the Black/Global Majority cast members on this production are getting the protection and support they need and deserve.
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Hey gang, I’m looking to connect with other neurodiverse directors - both stage and screen.
Being neurospicy is all very new to me and I’m trying to put together an access rider without a clue on what should go on there 🤘🏾🤪.
Any/all help appreciated!
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V chuffed to announce that
@ace_national
have awarded me with a DYCP grant.
With this funding I will be developing my practice as a storyteller via classes, workshops & 1-2-1’s both in London &
#Barbados
.
A huge thank you to
@laurajsweeney
for their help with applying 💫💕
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Started this in my tiny one-bed student room on my ones. We’re now a growing team, working out of Somerset House, selling out events, screenings and theatre shows all whilst upholding the Black and Global Majority creative peopledem.
Love these guys. Love this life.
💫💚🍰
🫶🏽 The POCP fam has been extended 🫶🏽
We’ve been hard at work gearing up for the blessings 2024 is about to bring - meet the bakers making it all happen behind the scenes 👋🏽
Scroll to get to know them cos you’ll be seeing their gorgeous faces a lot more 👇🏾
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Word on the street is there’s a class one-person play written by an extremely talented and super humble gyal named Shakira Newton on there!
The
@NationalTheatre
has launched their new digital platform for the Black Plays archive. 🫶🏿
The new website contains a catalogue of over 850 Black British, African, and Caribbean plays produced in the UK from 1909 to today.
Find out more here:
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Cozzy livz has got me in a headlock so I’m renting out my spare room!
Any theatre folk looking for a room to rent and very cool flatmate?
Check out my ad:
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Oi, you. Yeah, YOU!
Anything you get done today is enough.
It’s only January.
The Monday of the year.
The animals and the plants are still sleeping.
Save that energy.
Abundance is on route.
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I’M MAKING A FILM!!!
I’ve been struggling to keep this one under wraps. I feel so blessed.
Check out this thread for more info:
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Wrote a think piece on being half Black and half queer and not feeling like either for
@QXMagazine
!
I’m super proud of it and would love to hear what you guys think.
In my Carrie Bradshaw era 📝
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Please share this casting for my upcoming project!
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Beaming with pride today!
Last night was a movie ✨🍿. We’ll be posting more RUSH HOUR content throughout the week, for now have a look at the beautiful people involved in creating this showcase in just under 2 DAYS!!
A million thanks to
@NYTofGB
for the continuous support & opportunities.
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‼️ PAID JOB OPPORTUNITY ON A BFI FILM 📢
Please share. Would love to connect with anyone who fits the bill!
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From my journal this morning:
“I want to be inspired by something that evokes a fire in me with the same passion as Sisqó felt when he discovered the thong.”
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Sleep on this show at your own peril.
I’m telling you. I was overwhelmed with how entertained and affirmed it made me feel.
I fucking love theatre man.
Press Night for 'Is Dat U Yh?' is tonight!
We know the cast and the team
@DKFash
@Initiativedkf
are going to smash it!
🎟️
@ToniLay
@AdeolaRayDee
@WofaiJE
📸
@aliwrightphoto
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💫 Ms Burnout will not get me this year.
💖 I refuse to feel negatively about work.
🦋 I get to do what I’ve always wanted to for a living, I’m not gonna let it feel like ‘work’ anymore.
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Anyone selling a
#Glastonburyfestival
ticket needs to slide in my DMs ASAP.
That line up is BRAZY.
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This has shaken me.
Rest in Power. A genuine legend. 🕊️
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I will debuting some new poetry at the
@Iamblirish
event on 29th.
Roll thru if you’re about 🫶🏾
Day 20
#BHM
🌟 Celebrating Shakira Newton Actor, Writer, Director 🎭 A Rising Star in Theater! 🌠
In 2022, she earned nominations for "Best Female Actor" and "Best Production Play" at the Black British Theatre Awards. 🏆
#ShakiraNewton
#BBTAwards2022
#BlackExcellence
#IamIrish
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It’s the two actors with no producing background killing it in the game for me.
All the love to
@ace_national
for granting us funding for our upcoming musical showcase/day festival Along The Coast.
Let the party begin 💃🏾🪩🕺🏾🌞🌊
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Debuted my poetry at 5yffe and Friends @ Soho House White City on Friday night and had everyone in their exes DMs after.
More poetry pending.
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We’ve got until May to reach £5k. Please donate what you can and share with your rich connects.
#workingclassfilm
#emergingfilmmaker
#blackfilm
#shortfilm
#BFIshort
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We officially only need £105.00 more to reach our goal of £5k.
Please donate if/what you can, and share the link around with anyone who you think could/would donate too.
🤞🏾💫🫡
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Yes yes, our annual showcase of Black and Global Majority talent on the South Coast is back again this summer and fully funded by
@ace__london
for the 2nd year in a row.
GASSED!
We've been sitting on a bad boy piece of information - we’ve secured funding from Arts Council England for Along The Coast 2024 🔥
Show us some love & follow
@alongthecoastfest
on IG for more exciting announcements coming VERY soon!
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We're at £2.5k on the public funding link & have received a generous private donation meaning that there is only £500 left to raise for our film!!
We are SO close to the end goal.
Please donate what you can & share!
Thank you for the support so far!
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Hey everyone. Please share!
I’m recording an audiobook over the next fortnight and a couple of the characters have accents that aren’t in my repertoire.
Any English-speaking people from Fiji and Norway (or anyone that can do these accents) please get it in touch.
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Hey team,
We hit 25% of our target yesterday. I’m so grateful to every1 who has donated so far.
Please keep sharing on socials & in group chats. Let’s smash that £5k target!
#SupportIndieFilm
#supportblackartists
#blackfilm
#queerfilm
#workingclassfilm
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Who wants to join the fam?
We’ve said it before & we’ll say it again…big tings are on the way from POCP; but we need to extend the fam to make them happen.🫱🏿🫲🏽
👇🏾 If you’re a Global Majority creative that wants to support the collective by donating time/skills.
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I’ve been craving tubby toast since 97
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The warm feeling I get in my chest when I think bout this evening man. I cannot wait for the next one. ❤️🔥
We kicked Piece of Cake’s Vintage Film Club
#POCPVFC
this month and it was a roaring success.
Thank you for everyone who came and shared that space with us. Everyone was heard. Everyone was held. Everyone was inspired.
Our next screening is mid-Sept!
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Sometimes work is stressful. Other times you get to hang out with your fave podcast (
@90sBabyShow
) and their members at the theatre.
Sitting in gratitude today fr.
Last night we linked up with the guys from
@90sBabyShow
to watch
@RedPitchPlay
. They brought some of their members with them and a time was had by all! 🤝🏿
Wanna come on a POCP theatre trip? Make sure you're signed up to our newsletter:
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I’ll be debuting some new poetry at this event on the 29th. Roll thru if you’re free!
IamIrish x ICC Black History Month Celebration - Irish Cultural Centre. We are super excited for this scratch night , click the link for tickets
#AllWelcome
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This has pissed me off so much
Tributes to ‘sword lad’?
Who from The Sun thought this was a good idea?
His name is Daniel Anjorin not ‘sword lad’…
Someone tell me they didn’t actually print this …
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Our newest project:
Piece of Cake’s Vintage Film Club - a space to pay homage to those who came before us.
If you’re not following
@POC_Prod
yet, make sure you do to keep up to date on all of the unreal stuff we have in the pipeline!
Last night was a movie… literally.
We’ve kicked off our new ongoing project - Piece of Cake’s Vintage Film Club - at Soho House on Dean Street last night and we couldn’t be happier with the result.
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“There’s a difference between having goals, and being consumed by everything you’re not.”
I couldn’t sleep so I hopped on TikTok. Normally I’m not phased by this kind of “things I wish I knew” content but this woman really delivered MESSAGES.
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“Woohoo”-ing all of my neighbours on Sims.
10 years old boy writing program in python...what were you doing at his age?
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This is way bigger than just sole keyboard warriors saying some mean things online.
Black/GM performers regularly recieve death threats, and in some cases, dangerous “gifts” are sent to the theatre/rehearsal space.
Their safety needs to be number 1 priority!
Please sign this petition and help ensure Fran and all of the Black/Global Majority cast members on this production are getting the protection and support they need and deserve.
RT and share around!
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I love women fr.
Vintage Film Club 🎥🎞️
A week ago, we celebrated international women’s day with a screening of the Black Feminist classic Foxy Brown. Girl power was def in the room as
@ShakiraNewton
sat down with
@audreythefinest
&
@tolly_t
from
#TheReceiptsPodcast
to discuss the themes ✊🏾💅🏾
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!!!!GUYS!!!!
Please share & donate. Every little helps.
Dela is an amazing Ghanaian/Canadian theatre maker & new member of the
@POC_Prod
team. She needs help covering the extortionate costs to update her visa & stay here to change the face of theatre!
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Piece of Cake are finally launching our monthly newsletter this week.
Sign up for job opportunities, FREE THEATRE TICKETS, and interviews with emerging and established creative of colour.
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We’ll be raising the funds for the final chunk of my debut film’s budget up until we shoot it in Springtime.
Please keep sharing and donate as and when you can.
Every little helps. Thank you in advance! 🫶🏾
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You guys!!
We only need to raise £200 more and then we’ve hit our £5k target. 🎯
We are SO CLOSE. 🤏🏾
Please donate if you can and share if you can’t. 🙏🏾
Love to everyone who has chipped in already. I’m making this for us 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾
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Na having to continually look your op in the eye after you’ve killed him is crazy.
Deer gets into fight and it’s pretty clear who won…
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#DYCP
stats for those who are interested...
Round 19
2,294 eligible applications
434 awards
£4,942,780 distributed
**18.9% success rate**
More competitive than previous rounds.
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Happy PRIDE month 🌈
Here’s an article I wrote (which I’m super proud of) about being half gay, and half black and not really feeling like society’s perception of either.
Check it out and lemme know what you think xxx
Black, Gay, Other.
Shakira Newton is a working class, mixed race and queer performer-writer from Portsmouth living in South London. Opinion – Being a queer person of colour in the theatre industry, by
@ShakiraNewton
.
#queerart
#queertheatre
#POC
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Knock knock!
Who’s there?
It’s me!
Me who?
Me who is getting fatigued trying to raise money for my project on my own.
Please share the video and crowdfunding link far and wide. Not long now until we need to reach our target but there’s still 70% to go!
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Look at the guest panelists. I’m SO gassed for next Vintage Film Club
#POCPVFC
FREE EVENT - TUES SEPT 19TH - SOHO HOUSE MEMBERS
First come first served for spaces at our next Vintage Film Club.
For Soho House members (if you haven’t got a membership hound your mates that do have one to book on. They can bring up to 3 guests)
This is a free event.
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Happy
#InternationalWomensDay
It’s the perfect day to support two emerging female filmmakers.
Support the gyaldem today 💸💸💸
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We’re hiring!
Please share this around.
We can’t wait to meet and work with some wicked Global Majority creatives on our annual music festival.
Fancy joining the ATC 24 creative team? 🤔
We’ve just opened two very exciting new roles that will be key to making the project a success!
💥 Event Project Manager
💥 Project Admin Coordinator
Deadline: Midnight 15 Mar | Apply below 👇🏾
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For those asking about the Piece of Cake tickets.
They’ll be released this afternoon. Here is all of the info we have.
Please give my DMs a breather 😂🫶🏾
Wow you lot really came in your hundreds!
We’re loving seeing how keen everyone is to grab tickets to see this show.
Please see below for more information on the tickets we have had allocated for us from ATG:
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All I’d like for Christmas is your support on my first ever film. Pretty please!!💖
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It’s a wonderful day to support indie film!
Please donate what/if you can and share far and wide.
Love u. Hope u’ve done something kind for u today. 🫶🏾
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Getting stressed about the clean up.
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I’m so excited about every single one of these shows.
What a season!
@mrdavebyrne
Ten Royal Court debuts. One Artistic Director. Nine writers.
Join us for a truly unmissable season of new theatre.
David Byrne’s first season sees nine playwrights make their Royal Court debuts - across nine months filled with homegrown talent, international collaborations and
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Read that again.
most men are cowards when it comes to confronting their male friends about mistreating women, because they value male approval more than female safety
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This is legit me each of the 4 weeks of the menstrual cycle.
1. Inner summer (ovulation)
2. Inner autumn (PMS)
3. Inner winter (🩸)
4. Inner spring (time off?)
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Harry Belafonte was a pioneer in the game and someone crucial in paving the way for us Black and Global Majority actors/creators to do what we do today.
I know that wherever we go when we pass on, Sidney was there to meet him with open arms.
Rest in Power.
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These events fill me with joy man. I’m so grateful for this life.
Round 2 of POCP’s Vintage Film Club.
We watched BABYLON (1980) just before Ibraheem had the pleasure of sitting down with one of the actors from the film
@1Trevorlaird
& the legend who is changing the face of Black British filmmaking
@theadjani
.
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If 18 people donate £10 each over the next 48 hours it would take this ting to £1k before next week starts & I just think that would be super rad. Wbu?
Please & thank you.
Okay bye.
Love u.
Have u eaten 2day?
When was the last time u drank water?
Look after urself.
Proud of u.
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Donation number 11 for
@GiveBloodNHS
.
Black folk, other Black folk need our blood.
3% of people in the UK have an Ro subtype & that goes directly to sickle cell patients.
If you’re thinking about donating but have some Q’s, please drop me a DM!
#ProudDonor
🩸
#ProudThiccums
😂
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Whacking this on my vision board.
Can't believe my view on the plane
It was like this the whole 4 hour flight. 😆😆
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I’m having so many amazing & fruitful meetings about this film.
When you guys see what casting director, DOP, fight choreographer & cast we have locked in for this so far you are gonna scream.
Donate & share to be a part of bringing this film to life:
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Our FREE day festival celebrating the Global Majority artists and businesses on the south coast is very soon.
15 days to be exact.
We can’t wait to party with you all in the sun by the sea!🌊🌞🕶️
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Just listened to this crossing over Waterloo bridge with the sun bouncing off the buildings and I feel like both Mary-Kate and Ashley rn.
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I’ve said it many times. I would be the Bonnie to this man’s Clyde.
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This year we at Piece of Cake are leaning into community even more by collaborating with theatres around the city to create opportunities for Global Majority creatives to gain free/very cheap access to theatre shows.
Follow
@POC_Prod
to get involved!
We kicked off the new year with a POCP linkup to see
@kwame_8
's beautifully crafted Dreaming and Drowning, performed stunningly by Tienne Simon.
Massive shout out to our
@bushtheatre
fam for the invite - what a way to shake off the cobwebs & get the 2024 creative juices flowing!
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A single jelly bean. I’ve got actual tears streaming down my face on the TFL. This is too funny.
New details on the Willy Wonka Experience disaster
• Script was '15 pages of AI-generated gibberish'
• Made up a villain called The Unknown — 'an evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls'
• Event had no chocolate — kids were given a single jelly bean & a cup of lemonade
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PURRRR.
Get the date in your diaries.
C U @ the C side. 🌊
This is not a drill - the full ATC24 lineup is here! 🔥
Feeling the bank holiday blues? Mark your calendars - 1-4pm Saturday 15th June, Castle Field.
Along The Coast is a free event, so just bring yourself and good vibes, we’ll handle the rest 🤝🏽
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📣📣📣 Paid opportunity for Global Majority performers in LDN this Friday the 13th October, at our sold out event!
Drop
@POC_Prod
a DM with a link to your work! 📣📣📣
Global Majority Performers CALL OUT!!
As part of our annual Global Majority Networking Link Up X
@NYTofGB
on Friday 13th October 7pm, we are looking for performers for the night!
If you are a musician, poet, dancer / movement artist send us a DM and a clip of your work!
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This is my fave guy on the World Wide Web rn.
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This is what happens inside my brain when plans change last min or I’m suddenly overstimulated by loud noises and too many things to look at.
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I reckon I could do this if I wanted to. I don’t want to so don’t ask me to. But I reckon I could, still.
Carmen Amaya was considered "the greatest Flamenco dancer ever" and was one of the first woman to master the intricate footwork that was often reserved for the best male dancers. Here she is dancing in 1944 at around 30 years of age.
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This is what I picture my retirement looking like.
attracting hummingbirds by wearing a flower costume she's ahead of her time
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Na have a look at this cast 🤩
THE ARCHITECT commemorates the 30th anniversary year of the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence by bringing together a collective of prolific Black theatre-makers to explore and celebrate Black lives and the dreams that accompany them
@actorstouringco
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We made a mini documentary on how we made RUSH HOUR in just two days.
Chuffed to have you all get a sneak peek into our rehearsal room.
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Last year was amazing. We had to bring it back.
It sold out FAST last time so don’t play yourself.
Share with your Global Majority mates.
Yes, YES peopledem.
We’re throwing another networking shubz on Friday the 13th.
Come party and meet some likeminded creatives.
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we did it!!! We got to £1k before Monday.
Thank u. Thank u. THANK U!!
We’re trying raising £5k in total by the time we start shooting in Spring.
Please keep sharing and donating!
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Very excited for this!
The rehearsal room has been soo good we had to make our private showing public!
The Hivvy centres around a young black gay man after receiving an HIV diagnosis.
Join us this Friday 22 Sept at Hackney Showroom, London. Spaces are limited so DM us to reserve your seat(s).
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They’ve got alarms on bog roll in Tesco now.
Call me mad but if we’re in a world where people have to steal to be able to clean their ass maybe you could just, like- reduce the price of the item?
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I would go to war for her
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It’s giving superstar.
I just opened as my DREAM ROLE to a sold out audience, with a standing ovation✨
It’s a pinch me moment for sure!!!!
Thank you to my gorgeous agent
@ellishebden
at
@TCGArtist
for making the visit to Belfast☘️
#RomeoAndJuliet
@LyricBelfast
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Link to get access help for neurodiverse folk!
@ShakiraNewton
No worries at all, do DM me too if it’s useful to talk through anything in more detail. I don’t know if you know about access to work for example but if you wanted to know more happy to explain & there’s this guide for the arts sector that might be useful:
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Anyone that does donate money will get:
• my eternal love 💘
AND
• a “special thanks to *insert legend donating money to support black, working class and queer art here*” in the film’s end credits. 🍿
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I have this thought at least six times a day
if I don’t go on a holiday in the next 10 seconds I will scream x
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Not sure on how much to donate? De nada! We’ve got you covered with our very apt, and very Pompey donation suggestions.
@ShakiraNewton
just bought you a packet of fags 🤣
sounds like an amazing project - can't wait to see the end result!
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🤑Happy payday to my PAYE peopledem!! 🤑
If you’ve got a few bob spare after you’ve paid off Rishi and them man, please put it towards our film’s budget!
SUPPORT AN EMERGING BLACK, QUEER AND WORKING CLASS FILMMAKER 🗣️
Please RT far and wide.
Every little helps. Word to Tesco.
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June had to be bitter so July can be sweet. All is already well.
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