🎉 Congratulations to Ismael Mansoor, our 2024-2025 Deaf BSL Poet Laureate!

Your creativity and expressive BSL poetry captivated the judges.

Celebrate #NationalBSLDay by enjoying Ismael's winning video!

#BSLPoetLaureate

Join PRS Foundation Grants Manager Beka Bee for this free online webinar for The Oram Awards 2024, covering top tips, a walkthrough of the application form and a live Q&A.

Wednesday, May 1st - 12 - 1 pm BST
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Great opportunity! ⬇️

Inspired by the efforts of the Handwritten Letter to encourage actual letter writing, I've now got a PO Box where you can write to me, should you wish to, and ask musicky questions. And also, I may stop replying to AI emails ... 😉💙🎹

Michael Price
PO Box 1709
Berkhamsted
HP4 9FN

🌎 Two weeks left to apply to round six of our British Council Arts Unlimited Micro Awards!

What could you do with up to £3,000 to explore your artistic practice and collaborate with a disabled artist internationally?

🔗 Apply by Tuesday 23 April, midday: bit.ly/4ajkITA

Luminous: ⁦Paraorchestra⁩ creating an electric storm at ⁦Southbank Centre⁩

We are delighted to reveal the #InternationalBooker2024 shortlist, featuring six books ‘that interweave the intimate and political in radically original ways’.

➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2024

Anyone offered mixing desk/speakers or know of anything #woking Can’t believe our volunteers worked so hard, had all the hurdles behind us & some great things planned. We have so much to do & will be back but this is very very hard to deal with for all of us

I had a fun and wide-ranging conversation with Rick Rubin, link below & in bio. We talked about the roles of fungi in the living world, ancient alcohol brewing practices, jazz as a metaphor for evolution, improvisation and imagination in the arts and the sciences, and much more.

Brilliant idea!

Wow, that was a set of invigorating, elegant magic, Manchester Collective & Fergus McCreadie - also I think I may have forgotten to breathe during Anna Meredith’s Honeyed Words 🤩

1st cover story on fungi in @natgeo's +130 year history! Edition features 4 articles on fungi & commitment by @insidenatgeo to fungal research grants. It also includes a story on the 3F Initiative led by @FungiFoundation NYU MOTH Rights & Merlin Sheldrake So proud of this 🍄✊🏾😊

Today ⁦National Trust⁩ announced that new trees are growing from seeds rescued at Sycamore Gap. The BBC’s made some lovely telly at our plant conservation centre but this little film by one of our team made me cry. Would love to credit them if I had their name.

Join Grants Coordinator Beka Bee for this free online funding workshop for The Open Fund for Music Creators for grant support of up to £5,000 for projects involving new music creation/performance 🎶💥 #FundedByPRSF

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Enjoyable day at The Linnean Society of London x Kew Gardens Tree Cultures conference with fascinating upstairs exhibition. Met people I hoped to meet, discovered names completely new to me and caught up with music folk I didn’t expect to bump into! #planthumanities

Fantastic news! ✨

I should have said that this is for people 35 and older. Thanks everyone who has reposted/liked/taken part so far!

What does it mean to 'own’ something that has grown and been used for thousands of years? At this year's Brighton Festival, Trigger serves us a 3-course meal, revealing the tangled histories of patenting #plants
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Zheng Bo: Bamboo as Method - A large scale new commission from Hong-Kong based artist Zheng Bo, transforming ⁦Somerset House⁩ courtyard into a bamboo garden somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/zheng…