Marina Jones

Ready for Lucia at Opera Holland Park

Wimbledon: How A Pony Roller Birthed The Championships YouTube video by Baseline Tennis

🎾 Did you know that Wimbledon started as a fundraiser?

The first competition was held as a fundraiser for a new pony roller (to keep the grass flat) in 1877 with each competitor paying 1 guinea to enter. It was successful making £10.

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Grange Park Opera adventures

Matinee day

Yes will be there

Ooh exciting

Itch @operahollandpark.bsky.social fantastic performance by the young artists

Ready for some fun

Siena exhibition at the National Gallery

Time for some local opera

‘Ben and Imo’ was brilliant at the @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social last night. Super to take supporters, meet the playwright and learn more about the creation of ‘Gloriana’

May Day Morris Dancers

Stroll down the red carpet for the glamorous opening night of The Great Gatsby

There’s a deer in my garden

View from here

Animal wall at Cardiff Castle & the cat poking out of the cat flap

Today is #NationalPetDay so a celebration of some fundraising history using animals from parrots making the ask to escaping pigs & cockroaches for your ex animals grab our attention & can help our fundraising marinajones.uk/animals/

And back for Figaro

Sunny Cardiff for some Britten

Time to defy gravity …

Fantastic way to celebrate #WorldTheatreDay with ‘Playhouse Creature’ at @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social

#Blossomwatch

Daffodils

A poem about giving for #WorldPoetryDay

Trump is trying to crush the arts – and he’s starting with the Kennedy Center | Charlotte Higgins Artists might cancel shows, donors withdraw and audiences flee. It all plays into the hands of his authoritarian project, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins

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Delighted to have been a guest on @rhodridavies.bsky.social Philanthropisms podcast & talk about fundraising history

Drama on 4 - Waiting for Waiting for Godot - BBC Sounds A play by Adrian Edmondson. 17 March 2020, and theatres are closing their doors.

For Godot fans .. ‘Waiting for Waiting for Godot’

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with secret papers tucked inside her clothes – Hitler admired her so much he sent her roses wrapped in a swastika flag. She got nicknamed the ‘knicker spy’ after hiding secrets in her underwear to avoid detection.

We should write an opera about her

Margery Booth – opera singer & spy

Born in Wigan in 1905, trained at Guildhall School of Music & sang at Covent Garden, Bayreuth & others. She was contracted to Berlin Opera House and sang there during the WW2 but worked as a spy for the British and even sang for Adolf Hitler