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Annette Mees @AnnetteMees

Artistic Director Audience Labs - theatre, tech & equitable futures. Visiting Senior Fellow @CulturalKings, Creative R&D @substrakt & Chair @FuturEverything

Joined October 2007
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Annette Mees@AnnetteMees
13 Jan 2022
This week we shared “Future of Arts and Culture: trajectories for the next decade” The report is based on contributions of an amazing 204 leaders, artists & creatives working in arts and culture from across the world. Here is the direct link to the report: futureofartsandculture.org/f…
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Can’t 🧡 this enough!
Royal Court@royalcourt
20 Jul 2023
We are thrilled to announce the appointment of the Royal Court Theatre’s next Artistic Director, David Byrne. David is the founding Artistic Director and CEO of New Diorama, one of London’s most vibrant new work theatres. Read more: bit.ly/3DoNKCp 📷 Tom Jamieson
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I’m joining #NewFrontiers online this afternoon (work is preventing being there the whole day) Meanwhile I’m looking at tweets by @clarered - who is capturing so much inspiring quotes already Thank you!
clarered@clarered
11 Jul 2023
“I no longer want to focus on dismantling the masters house, because doing so gives life and relevancy to something that is on its way out. I want to build a new house that centres abundance and well-being.” Starting the day with Nwamako Agbo’s Restorative Economics #NewFrontiers
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🧡 Be the music
Kara Calavera @karacalavera on the blue butterfly@KaraCalavera
30 Jun 2023
The prologue to Alan Arkin's autobiography "An Improvised Life: A Memoir," in which he describes a revelation he has while discussing talent and art with another dearly departed great, Madeline Kahn:
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Me too @Jaz_KidSis 🙌
Jazlyn Pinckney@Jaz_KidSis
27 Jun 2023
And I'm totally into #CitizenCommisioning as some radical cooperative art funding which is super exciting to me.
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Sounds simple: 2 people build an Arch out of ice, a chorus sings... but Arch by @kaleider was one of the most magic & moving R&Ds I've seen recently They're looking for 2000 Citizen Commissioners to donate £10 & help get it realised ko-fi.com/kaleider Please do, if you can
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This is beyond heartbreaking And deeply irresponsible. It will put so many kids at risk and embed exclusion and transphobia into the curriculum
clarered@clarered
19 Jun 2023
The Tories have bought in something *worse than section 28*. 💔
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One of my references in a current project is Italio Calvino's Invisible cities and I absolutely adore it
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The upcoming session is full but we’ll do one again next month.
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🧡 THIS
Chris Sonnex@ChrisSonnex
16 Jun 2023
My take that no one is asking for. Give each space at the National Theatre to a different Artistic Director.
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This is going to be incredibly inspiring & important All sign up details below. Let me know if you are going - I love having conversation partners to reflect with after and event like this
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FarzanaKhan@khankfarza
31 May 2023
"You can't delegate something that does not yet have a precedence' - @ImmyKaur. Love us be honest on this. Growing capacity takes so much time AND you need the opportunity to emerge the practice first esp for ppls who aren't allow to. Naive 'egalitarian' takes hurts liberation
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Beautiful two days in the motherland with my partners-in-imagination @ClubGuyandRoni @NITE_ensemble & @substrakt Dreaming up the start of our #innovatielab2 project Now on my way to Tilburg - my home town - for an evening of ‘borrelen’ with my parents
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“If there was ever a time when we needed new intellectual maps and new cultural thinking, it is now, if ever there was a time for inspiration, imagination and beauty, it is now” Please join @CassieRobinson & I to explore Collective Imagination if you can eventbrite.co.uk/e/practice-…

Practice Sessions - Community and Collective Imagination

Come and dream together. We are hosting monthly collective imagination sessions with the community so we can shape our shared futures.

eventbrite.co.uk
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This is such a beautiful piece If you have a headset - treat yourself ✨
Anagram@weareanagram
26 May 2023
🎉 Goliath now available on @htcvive XR Elite ⬇️
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👇 This is important. Scary Overton window dangers at play here
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Tony and Gill are both so brilliant. This will be a great talk to tune into over your lunch!
Pervasive Media Studio@PMStudioUK
26 May 2023
Today at 1pm - @TonyBhajam and @wildwoman on approaching Inclusion Tools, what they have found, and what they think it means - vital work! Join us in the building or online 🥧☕️ watershed.co.uk/studio/event…
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Travis@travisalabanza
25 May 2023
Ahhhh None of the Above has won the @jhalakprize . So wish I could be there in person, but what an honour. Thank you! And big up team @canongatebooks ,- it takes a village to make a book. ❤️❤️‍🔥
Jhalak Prize@jhalakprize
25 May 2023
We are delighted to announce our winners for 2023: 1. Jhalak Prize: @travisalabanza for #NoneoftheAbove (@canongatebooks) 2. Jhalak C&YA Prize: #Danielle Jawando for #WhenOurWorldsCollided (@simonschusterUK) CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS! #jhalakprize23
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Jarett Wieselman
@JarettSays
24 May 2023
As a kid, Oprah Winfrey was my biggest star in the world. Then Oprah lost her mind when Tina Turner surprised her for her 50th Birthday Show — that's when I learned who the biggest star in the world was to the biggest star in my world. RIP to the World's Biggest Star
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Incredibly sad news… Absolute queen - love her
Rolling Stone
@RollingStone
24 May 2023
“Tina Turner, the ‘Queen of Rock’n Roll’ has died peacefully today at the age of 83 after a long illness in her home in Küsnacht,” her family said in a statement. “With her, the world loses a music legend and a role model.” More: trib.al/eITNUlB
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The amazing team of Tambo & Bones have been targeted by a bunch of racists in a manufactured outrage… Solidarity to @stratfordeast @Excalibah The show looks amazing. Go see & support it! I’ll go one of the TWENTY EIGHT other evenings it is on.
Stratford East@stratfordeast
22 May 2023
Find out more about the BLACK OUT performance of TAMBO & BONES here: bit.ly/3OHnV7B
Text reads "BLACK OUT night is an initiative which started on Broadway and has been taken up by several London theatres, the spirit of which is congregation, celebration and healing. TAMBO & BONES, staged at Stratford East, is a bold new play, a satire which actively explores race and what it is to be Black. We have chosen to embrace this initiative for one performance, during the play’s month-long run, as a space for Black audiences to experience the play as a community."

ALT Text reads "BLACK OUT night is an initiative which started on Broadway and has been taken up by several London theatres, the spirit of which is congregation, celebration and healing. TAMBO & BONES, staged at Stratford East, is a bold new play, a satire which actively explores race and what it is to be Black. We have chosen to embrace this initiative for one performance, during the play’s month-long run, as a space for Black audiences to experience the play as a community."
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