Jay Farley
@bluejayfarley
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Filmmaker, aspiring poet, Winner Creative Future Writers Award for Poetry, Non Binary, Everton sufferer, One Love. Works @wearefirsttake insta: @jayfarleypoet
North West, England
Joined July 2010
SHIT! Brilliant! I won an award!! with my poem 'I wish We'd won the Miners Strike' for the (@CreativeF_uture) Writers’ Award! #CFWA
#DiverseVoices thanks judges i'm buzzing :) @JTaylorTrash @saralaestruch @AkiSchilz @DorothyKoomson
Jay Farley is an award-winning non-binary, queer, neurodiverse filmmaker & digital artist. Jay performs Spoken Word & was runner up at their first Poetry Slam. They will be published as part of @queerbods‘Queer Icons’ & the Hot Poets 'Sparks’ anthology. They live in Liverpool.
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📣 QUEEROVISION NEEDS YOUR VOICE!📣 🏳️🌈 Do you have an LGBTQ+ business? Safe space? Event? Is there something you want filmed coverage of? Would you like to be added to our roster of all things queer? Get in touch with becky@firsttake.org.uk and let us know what you're up to!
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John Barnes is incredibly articulate. I love him to bits
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🚨 We really need your help! Today we're launching an urgent Crowdfunder appeal to ensure the survival of our vital Open Call programme for 2023! Your donation will provide a life-changing opportunity to even more incredible Merseyside artists! https://t.co/r71CKxOw8q
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All the readings from the @CreativeF_uture showcase at the Southbank Centre are now live! Get sending in your writing to the Award’s 10th anniversary here (now accepting #nonfiction submissions!) https://t.co/ZsZOt4e5BE
https://t.co/xKRCpwKkM6
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#BarelyVisible tour 2023 kicks off this week @ArtsCentreEHU 9 Feb tickets https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/event/barely-visible/ Next stop @TheDukesTheatre 16 Feb https://t.co/EVx4fmXNNf Playful, authentic, bold... an exploration of what it is to be a #barelyvisible gay woman
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Submissions are open for the whole of February! Retweets appreciated 🦆
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Touch by @floodtheatreco makes its much-anticipated debut on the Unity stage this month! This beautiful work looks at the ways we find love, create intimacy, experience loneliness, and ultimately find our home. 🗓️ Thu 26 Jan, 7:30pm 📍Unity 🎟️👇 https://t.co/4noLLGbpxy
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Nurses & Ambulance workers are not striking for better pay. They’re striking because the NHS is being decimated by a government that wants to privatise it.
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Yaaay a book with hope and not just baseless hope but real things that are happening and could happen! …and poetry 😍 catch one on my poem’s about the brilliance of mushrooms too 🍄
INTRODUCING... Hot Poets - SPARKS 44 Poems About Saving the World Featuring over 40 incredible poets, highlighting hopeful climate change innovations from nuclear fusion to tiny forests. Edited by @Chris_Redmond_ @LivTorc Thanks to @ace_national
https://t.co/yzHp684SwW
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Do you book a poetry night?! I’m looking for dates March- September 2023 for my book tour! DM me! All locations considered! Pubs- arts centres- libraries I’m your mon! RT PLS
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The Ginkgo Prize (@ginkgoprize), the world’s largest prize for ecopoetry is open for submissions!! 🎉. They close on 25 Mar 2023. 1st prize £5,000, 2nd £2,000, 3rd £1,000 🌿 Submit here: https://t.co/3cPBTVwZID
#AmWriting# WritingCommunity
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I had an absolutely amazing day filming for the Queer inSIGHT project!! I can't wait for my piece to be shared💃🏽🥰 thank you again @WeAreFirstTake @bluejayfarley @BeckyDowning7 @LynneHarwood #Liverpoolspeaks
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Magical mystery bus tour 🚌 now comes with donuts from @Bagelpool🍩 Explore dyke history and the representation of queer women in popculture. This year it’s ‘The Trans Ally Edition’ 🏳️⚧️ ft. @Billie_Gina, Jess Shannon @MarcellaRick Lynn Harwoods' @WeAreFirstTake @MarkAnthonyDrag
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Drop 3 of Unity Online is here! Watch 14 brand-new shows on Unity Online now 🍿 Continuing our commitment to bringing incredible Liverpool-based art to everyone, we are delighted to add these shows from our live programme, for you all to enjoy https://t.co/uQJJTYCNfF
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Argggh!On Friday night I gave my master copy to @ashleylister coz I'd not taken enough books to sell to that Blackpool book-hungry audience! Ok. I now realise I've accidentally posted my MasterMaster copy to someone- with all performance scribblings inside. Where are you, book?🧐
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This was brilliant last night, funny, clever, joyous, affirming 🙌✊🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Did a bit of filming for this, gonna be great !
This Saturday at @unity_theatre comedian Sian Davies brings you an exploration of masculinity, gender & identity, from a self-identifying butch woman with an unhealthy obsession with The Smiths. There are VERY few tickets left for this event, don’t miss out! 🎟️ @morriseysquiff
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