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Kate Mason
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#CreativeNewham #artseducation #creativeindustries #art #craft #design #heritage #charityleadership / experienced #CharityCEO #Trustee & #NED / 30 yrs experience / a Mother
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katejmason.bsky.social
☀️🌳🐝🌱🦢🩶 #eaglepond #hollowponds @EppingForestHT @CoLEppingForest #coleppingforest @eppingforestht @coleppingforest #heron #forest #nature #theoldways #woodlands
Music credits: ‘Magpie’ - The Unthanks
July 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
katejmason.bsky.social
🤩👀🪨 The Giant’s Causeway - somewhere I’ve always wanted to visit & finally made it last weekend! It’s a truly magical & humbling place 💫🙏
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#thegiantscauseway #basalt #basaltcolumns #volcanic #countyantrim #causewaycoastalroute #northernireland #worldheritagesite #unescoworldheritagesite
May 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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💥😍💫 V&A East Storehouse yesterday evening and it was AMAZING!!! 💜💚🧡🩵💛❤️
TOTAL game-changer in so many ways!
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➡️ www.vam.ac.uk/east
🗓️ Opens: 31 May 2025
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⚡️ A pleasure & privilege to attend yesterday evening to represent Creative Newham
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@vamuseum #V&AEastStorehouse #HereEast #EastBank
May 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
katejmason.bsky.social
💥😍💫 V&A East Storehouse yesterday evening and it was AMAZING!!! 💜💚🧡🩵💛❤️
TOTAL game-changer in so many ways!
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➡️ www.vam.ac.uk/east
🗓️ Opens: 31 May 2025
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⚡️ A pleasure & privilege to attend yesterday evening to represent Creative Newham
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@vamuseum #V&AEastStorehouse #HereEast #EastBank
May 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
katejmason.bsky.social
💥😍💫 V&A East Storehouse yesterday evening and it was AMAZING!!! 💜💚🧡🩵💛❤️
TOTAL game-changer in so many ways!
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➡️ www.vam.ac.uk/east
🗓️ Opens: 31 May 2025
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⚡️ A pleasure & privilege to attend yesterday evening to represent Creative Newham
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@vamuseum #V&AEastStorehouse #HereEast #EastBank
May 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
katejmason.bsky.social
👀💫🏺🏟️ London’s Roman Amphitheatre at Guildhall Art Gallery 🤗
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#londonsromanamphitheatre #archaeology #romanlondon #romanhistory #guildhallartgallery #cityoflondoncorporation
April 29, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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tomdoust.bsky.social
Social impact is always better together 🤲 Thrilled to share the latest Institute of Imagination Impact Report 🚀 a celebration of collaboration + partnership! Working with The LEGO Group, Save the Children UK, BBC Education, @thefea.bsky.social + many more! Read more: bit.ly/4jYn6DL
April 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
katejmason.bsky.social
🤗🧡☕️🐕💫 In the best company 😘 @sazzzleb
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#Windsor #berkshire - pic credit @sazzzleb
April 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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💥👀🩵💜🩶 Noah Davis - @barbicancentre.bsky.social
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What a beautiful, shimmering, evocative and often unsettling exhibition- loved it! 🤗 especially enjoyed the gently ‘off-kilter’ and timeless feel throughout.
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🗓️ Sun 11 May ‘25
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➡️ www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
April 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
katejmason.bsky.social
😍💫💥 ‘Any Other Business’ - exhibition by PRISM @prismtextiles #prismtextiles 💚🩵💙
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➡️ closes 14 April showing at @thepavilionsmileend #mileend #london #textiles #textilesart #craft #design #making #designercraft #art
April 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
katejmason.bsky.social
💚☕️🌼 Lovely to visit St. Margaret’s House @st.margarets.house in sunny #BethnalGreen ☀️
Gorgeous garden & fab ‘The Garden Cafe’ @the.gallery.cafe #talithaartsgarden
Mosaic @alexmchallam Sculpture @teucerwilson
#stmargaretshouse #creativity #communityarts #creativearts #wellbeing #creativehealth
April 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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daisyturnell.bsky.social
The IPO has published a new survey aimed at designers, design businesses, legal professionals and anyone interested in design, to help to shape the future of the UK designs system.

More info: ipo.blog.gov.uk/2025/03/13/d...
Design Protection Survey: helping to shape the future of UK design rights
We've launched a survey to understand how well this design protection system serves the UK's vibrant design community, and we need your insights to help shape its future.
ipo.blog.gov.uk
March 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
katejmason.bsky.social
💫💚💗🩵 Thank you to Poppies Fish & Chips, Camden for helping making my Mum’s birthday #fishandchips meal last weekend memorable 😍

#poppiesfishandchips #camden #fishandchips #traditionalfishandchips #london #camdentown
March 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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'Department for Education confirms launch of natural history GCSE.
Campaigners have been calling for the qualification for years but plan stalled despite a curriculum being drawn up'

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Department for Education confirms launch of natural history GCSE
Campaigners have been calling for the qualification for years but plan stalled despite a curriculum being drawn up
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
katejmason.bsky.social
💜💚🧡 Not every London borough (if any) has its own coat,but Newham has!
💫 Thank you to Christopher from Arts in the Docks for allowing me to try on the beautiful ‘The Place I call Home’ Newham Coat.

⚡️Each square was carefully & lovingly created by Newham residents, then crafted together.
March 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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nsead.bsky.social
⬩NSEAD’s response to the Curriculum and Assessment Interim Review⬩

The Curriculum and Assessment Review (CAR) interim report published today sets out the key findings from consultations and the open call for evidence carried out in autumn 2024.

Read NSEAD’s response: link in bio
March 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Reposted by Kate Mason
beckyfrancis.bsky.social
The next stage of the Curriculum and Assessment Review will look to create a more inclusive and fair system, address subject-specific challenges, and assess available pathways beyond GCSEs.

Find out more ➡️ www.gov.uk/government/p...
Curriculum and Assessment Review: interim report
An independent review of the curriculum and assessment system in England, with statistical analysis.
www.gov.uk
March 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
katejmason.bsky.social
💙💛💚 Loved attending 'The Line Community Gathering' last week🤗

💫Great hearing about fab work The Line are doing. Featured here Juma Harding Dimmock &
Charlotte Hodes

➡️ the-line.org

#TheLine #Sculpture #walking #WalktheLine #PublicArt #OutdoorArt #EastLondon #PublicArtTrail #art #nature #heritage
March 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
katejmason.bsky.social
'Zandra Rhodes urges youngsters to draw every day'

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@theartcriminal.bsky.social @accessart.bsky.social #drawing
Zandra Rhodes urges Kent youngsters to draw every day
Kent-born Zandra Rhodes hopes her Colourful Heritage project will inspire local youngsters.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
katejmason.bsky.social
'Children and young people are being asked by the government to give their views on what matters to them.

For those aged 10-21 years old, and up to 25 years old for those with special educational needs and disabilities.

SURVEY LINK: ➡️ www.iwill.org.uk/NYS-Deliver-...

www.bbc.com/newsround/ar...
March 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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newhamheritage.bsky.social
⏳ The countdown is on - just under 3 weeks left to apply to be part of #NewhamHeritageMonth 2025!

💷 Got questions about how to get up to £8,000 funding to create a festival project?

👇Let us know below and we'll answer them!

Find out more + apply now at www.newhamheritagemonth.org/blog/newham-...
Newham Heritage Month 2025 Launch
Newham Heritage Month is back for a sixth year. This year the festival will take place in September 2025 with the theme 'Newham At 60', celebrating our borough's sixtieth anniversary.
www.newhamheritagemonth.org
March 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
katejmason.bsky.social
💥⚡️🎭 Animal Farm #AnimalFarm - incredible, visceral recent production at Theatre Royal Stratford East @stratfordeast.com on tour now going to Leeds Playhouse & Nottingham Playhouse @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social
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#stratfordeast #theatreroyalstratfordeast #georgeorwell
March 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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‘Co-creation of cultural projects boosts socio-economic inclusion, DCMS study finds
Research identifies a combination of strategies to increase engagement in culture among lower socio-economic groups.’ Jonathan Knott @artsprofessional.co.uk

www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/co-crea...
Co-creation of cultural projects boosts socio-economic inclusion, DCMS study finds - Arts Professional
Co-creation and participatory practices are one of the most effective ways to engage audiences from lower socio-economic backgrounds with culture, research commissioned by the Department for Culture M...
www.artsprofessional.co.uk
March 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM
katejmason.bsky.social
“Art deco designers shared a desire for an aesthetic appropriate for a modern world.”
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‘One hundred years ago this April, the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs introduced art deco to the world.’ @dezeen.com #artdeco

www.dezeen.com/2025/03/03/a...
"Art deco designers shared a desire for an aesthetic appropriate for a modern world"
One hundred years ago this April, the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs introduced art deco to the world. To kick off our Art Deco Centenary series, Kathleen Murphy Skolnik gives an overvi...
www.dezeen.com
March 9, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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'Paper tigers: how Kandinsky, Kokoschka and Klee sparked an artistic revolution
A new show of visceral, violent and anxiety-strewn drawings reveals a history of expressionist artists seeking to make the world a better place'.

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Paper tigers: how Kandinsky, Kokoschka and Klee sparked an artistic revolution
A new show of visceral, violent and anxiety-strewn drawings reveals a history of expressionist artists seeking to make the world a better place
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM