Equity Birmingham and West Midlands Branch
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Official Blue Sky account for the Equity Birmingham and West Midlands Branch. Post by @traceybriggs1.bsky.social Actor, Equity member and branch committee officer.
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Our next branch meeting Tuesday 18th November 2025 at 7:30pm. Zoom Only. We will be talking about AI with guest speaker Liam Budd our Equity Industrial Official, Streaming Platforms. Check your mail for the Zoom link sent out 11/11/20205.
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Our next branch meeting Tuesday 18th November 2025 at 7:30pm. Zoom Only. We will be talking about AI with guest speaker Liam Budd our Equity Industrial Official, Streaming Platforms. Check your mail for the Zoom link sent out 11/11/20205.
November 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Our next branch meeting Tuesday 18th November 2025 at 7:30pm. Zoom Only. We will be talking about AI with guest speaker Liam Budd our Equity Industrial Official, Streaming Platforms. Check your mail for the Zoom link sent out 11/11/20205.
Our next branch meeting Tuesday 18th November 2025 at 7:30pm. Zoom Only. We will be talking about AI with guest speaker Liam Budd our Equity Industrial Official, Streaming Platforms. Check your mail for the Zoom link sent out 11/11/20205.
November 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Our next branch meeting Tuesday 18th November 2025 at 7:30pm. Zoom Only. We will be talking about AI with guest speaker Liam Budd our Equity Industrial Official, Streaming Platforms. Check your mail for the Zoom link sent out 11/11/20205.
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Walk with the Women of Walsall. Unity walk. Stop the Hate. Sunday 6th November 3pm - Sister Dora Bridge, Walsall WS1 1LG
November 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Walk with the Women of Walsall. Unity walk. Stop the Hate. Sunday 6th November 3pm - Sister Dora Bridge, Walsall WS1 1LG
Walk with the Women of Walsall. Unity walk. Stop the Hate. Sunday 6th November 3pm - Sister Dora Bridge, Walsall WS1 1LG
November 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Walk with the Women of Walsall. Unity walk. Stop the Hate. Sunday 6th November 3pm - Sister Dora Bridge, Walsall WS1 1LG
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Next BWM Branch Meeting Tuesday 21st October 2025
7:30pm in the Artist Lounge at @ Birmingham Hippodrome
Guest speaker is Leah Swain-Heath, a young Brummie actor, writer, presenter, founder of the Sisters of the Screen community and two time Royal Television Society award winner.
7:30pm in the Artist Lounge at @ Birmingham Hippodrome
Guest speaker is Leah Swain-Heath, a young Brummie actor, writer, presenter, founder of the Sisters of the Screen community and two time Royal Television Society award winner.
October 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Next BWM Branch Meeting Tuesday 21st October 2025
7:30pm in the Artist Lounge at @ Birmingham Hippodrome
Guest speaker is Leah Swain-Heath, a young Brummie actor, writer, presenter, founder of the Sisters of the Screen community and two time Royal Television Society award winner.
7:30pm in the Artist Lounge at @ Birmingham Hippodrome
Guest speaker is Leah Swain-Heath, a young Brummie actor, writer, presenter, founder of the Sisters of the Screen community and two time Royal Television Society award winner.
Next BWM Branch Meeting Tuesday 21st October 2025
7:30pm in the Artist Lounge at @ Birmingham Hippodrome
Guest speaker is Leah Swain-Heath, a young Brummie actor, writer, presenter, founder of the Sisters of the Screen community and two time Royal Television Society award winner.
7:30pm in the Artist Lounge at @ Birmingham Hippodrome
Guest speaker is Leah Swain-Heath, a young Brummie actor, writer, presenter, founder of the Sisters of the Screen community and two time Royal Television Society award winner.
October 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Next BWM Branch Meeting Tuesday 21st October 2025
7:30pm in the Artist Lounge at @ Birmingham Hippodrome
Guest speaker is Leah Swain-Heath, a young Brummie actor, writer, presenter, founder of the Sisters of the Screen community and two time Royal Television Society award winner.
7:30pm in the Artist Lounge at @ Birmingham Hippodrome
Guest speaker is Leah Swain-Heath, a young Brummie actor, writer, presenter, founder of the Sisters of the Screen community and two time Royal Television Society award winner.
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It's on a Thursday as requested!! Next Equity Birmingham & West Midlands Branch @equitybwm.bsky.social meeting Thursday 18th September 2025 at 7:30pm in the Lloyds Room of the Hippodrome. If you can't make it to the room email with zoom link sent today.
September 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
It's on a Thursday as requested!! Next Equity Birmingham & West Midlands Branch @equitybwm.bsky.social meeting Thursday 18th September 2025 at 7:30pm in the Lloyds Room of the Hippodrome. If you can't make it to the room email with zoom link sent today.
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Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us?
YouTube video by The Guardian
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September 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM
It's on a Thursday as requested!! Next Equity Birmingham & West Midlands Branch @equitybwm.bsky.social meeting Thursday 18th September 2025 at 7:30pm in the Lloyds Room of the Hippodrome. If you can't make it to the room email with zoom link sent today.
September 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
It's on a Thursday as requested!! Next Equity Birmingham & West Midlands Branch @equitybwm.bsky.social meeting Thursday 18th September 2025 at 7:30pm in the Lloyds Room of the Hippodrome. If you can't make it to the room email with zoom link sent today.
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We don't mean to brag but not only is the NW Drag Network taking Manchester by storm but @equityuk.bsky.social membership is also up and MOST IMPORTANTLY Equity is now a fashion statement on Canal Street - performers are wearing our socks in support of their union! Check out these hot models! 🔥🔥
September 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
We don't mean to brag but not only is the NW Drag Network taking Manchester by storm but @equityuk.bsky.social membership is also up and MOST IMPORTANTLY Equity is now a fashion statement on Canal Street - performers are wearing our socks in support of their union! Check out these hot models! 🔥🔥
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Excited to be representing @equityuk.bsky.social at the Girls in Dance Festival 2025 in Birmingham.
July 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Excited to be representing @equityuk.bsky.social at the Girls in Dance Festival 2025 in Birmingham.
Excited to be representing @equityuk.bsky.social at the Girls in Dance Festival 2025 in Birmingham.
July 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Excited to be representing @equityuk.bsky.social at the Girls in Dance Festival 2025 in Birmingham.
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📰EQUITY NEWS: Equity has recommended to DCMS that Arts Council England (ACE) introduce a network of national theatres across England.
Check out the full story below tinyurl.com/EquityACErecs 👇
Check out the full story below tinyurl.com/EquityACErecs 👇
June 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
📰EQUITY NEWS: Equity has recommended to DCMS that Arts Council England (ACE) introduce a network of national theatres across England.
Check out the full story below tinyurl.com/EquityACErecs 👇
Check out the full story below tinyurl.com/EquityACErecs 👇
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Nothing rotten in the state of Denmark when it comes to this – just a level-headed policy that gives people ownership over what is rightfully theirs 👏
It’s a huge achievement and something similar here would go a long way to ensure Equity members have the protection they need!
tinyurl.com/v9vftvfw
It’s a huge achievement and something similar here would go a long way to ensure Equity members have the protection they need!
tinyurl.com/v9vftvfw
Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features
Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities, government says
www.theguardian.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Nothing rotten in the state of Denmark when it comes to this – just a level-headed policy that gives people ownership over what is rightfully theirs 👏
It’s a huge achievement and something similar here would go a long way to ensure Equity members have the protection they need!
tinyurl.com/v9vftvfw
It’s a huge achievement and something similar here would go a long way to ensure Equity members have the protection they need!
tinyurl.com/v9vftvfw
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📣Standing room only to save Square Chapel for the people!
Over 2,000 have signed the petition, and last night’s packed meeting proved it: Halifax won’t let this vital arts space go without a fight. ✊
Sign the petition now: tinyurl.com/SaveSquareChapel
#SaveSquareChapel
Over 2,000 have signed the petition, and last night’s packed meeting proved it: Halifax won’t let this vital arts space go without a fight. ✊
Sign the petition now: tinyurl.com/SaveSquareChapel
#SaveSquareChapel
July 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
📣Standing room only to save Square Chapel for the people!
Over 2,000 have signed the petition, and last night’s packed meeting proved it: Halifax won’t let this vital arts space go without a fight. ✊
Sign the petition now: tinyurl.com/SaveSquareChapel
#SaveSquareChapel
Over 2,000 have signed the petition, and last night’s packed meeting proved it: Halifax won’t let this vital arts space go without a fight. ✊
Sign the petition now: tinyurl.com/SaveSquareChapel
#SaveSquareChapel
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Results of the Equity Committee Elections 2025 are in 🗳️
Check them out live on our website: tinyurl.com/EquityCommitteeResults25
Congratulations to everyone who won. A huge thank you to everyone who has completed their term and to everyone who stood.
Check them out live on our website: tinyurl.com/EquityCommitteeResults25
Congratulations to everyone who won. A huge thank you to everyone who has completed their term and to everyone who stood.
July 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Results of the Equity Committee Elections 2025 are in 🗳️
Check them out live on our website: tinyurl.com/EquityCommitteeResults25
Congratulations to everyone who won. A huge thank you to everyone who has completed their term and to everyone who stood.
Check them out live on our website: tinyurl.com/EquityCommitteeResults25
Congratulations to everyone who won. A huge thank you to everyone who has completed their term and to everyone who stood.
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🚎Well done Liverpool 👏👏👏
First coach booked.
Is your area organising travel to #Megapicket II?
Let us know and how many are coming, via strikemap@gftu.org.uk
Build the pickets 🪧
#StrikeMap
First coach booked.
Is your area organising travel to #Megapicket II?
Let us know and how many are coming, via strikemap@gftu.org.uk
Build the pickets 🪧
#StrikeMap
July 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🚎Well done Liverpool 👏👏👏
First coach booked.
Is your area organising travel to #Megapicket II?
Let us know and how many are coming, via strikemap@gftu.org.uk
Build the pickets 🪧
#StrikeMap
First coach booked.
Is your area organising travel to #Megapicket II?
Let us know and how many are coming, via strikemap@gftu.org.uk
Build the pickets 🪧
#StrikeMap
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This is terrific news for those who’ve never seen @TheBearFX
and a fascinating new development in the TV landscape in the UK. The key question remains: how can local British stories that don’t sell globally still find funding to be made end up on these platforms too?
and a fascinating new development in the TV landscape in the UK. The key question remains: how can local British stories that don’t sell globally still find funding to be made end up on these platforms too?
First for the streaming age in the UK.
Disney+ and ITVX have entered a new partnership, whereby big shows from both platforms will be shown on each others.
Disney+ and ITVX have entered a new partnership, whereby big shows from both platforms will be shown on each others.
July 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
This is terrific news for those who’ve never seen @TheBearFX
and a fascinating new development in the TV landscape in the UK. The key question remains: how can local British stories that don’t sell globally still find funding to be made end up on these platforms too?
and a fascinating new development in the TV landscape in the UK. The key question remains: how can local British stories that don’t sell globally still find funding to be made end up on these platforms too?
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It's a special moment when a co-operator, as a Minister of State, gets to introduce new legislation that fulfils such an important priority of our movement.
Here's our Chair, Jim McMahon, on why today's English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill is so crucial. It's why we're in politics.
Here's our Chair, Jim McMahon, on why today's English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill is so crucial. It's why we're in politics.
July 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It's a special moment when a co-operator, as a Minister of State, gets to introduce new legislation that fulfils such an important priority of our movement.
Here's our Chair, Jim McMahon, on why today's English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill is so crucial. It's why we're in politics.
Here's our Chair, Jim McMahon, on why today's English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill is so crucial. It's why we're in politics.
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We're breaking down the barriers to community ownership.
With the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, local sports facilities will be automatically registered as assets of community value in a first-of-its-kind new arrangement.
Catch up with Emma Foody MP 👇
With the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, local sports facilities will be automatically registered as assets of community value in a first-of-its-kind new arrangement.
Catch up with Emma Foody MP 👇
July 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
We're breaking down the barriers to community ownership.
With the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, local sports facilities will be automatically registered as assets of community value in a first-of-its-kind new arrangement.
Catch up with Emma Foody MP 👇
With the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, local sports facilities will be automatically registered as assets of community value in a first-of-its-kind new arrangement.
Catch up with Emma Foody MP 👇
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BREAKING: Cambridge Shakespeare Festival has agreed to pay its performers following a campaign led by Equity activists
Festival committed to negotiations with us for a union agreement 🙌
www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/ca...
Festival committed to negotiations with us for a union agreement 🙌
www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/ca...
Cambridge Shakespeare Festival agrees to pay performers | Equity
Festival agrees to pay its performers following a campaign led by Equity activists.
www.equity.org.uk
July 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
BREAKING: Cambridge Shakespeare Festival has agreed to pay its performers following a campaign led by Equity activists
Festival committed to negotiations with us for a union agreement 🙌
www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/ca...
Festival committed to negotiations with us for a union agreement 🙌
www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/ca...
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📢🗣️SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT
Join @redrunswick.bsky.social at #Megapicket2 on 25 July as @bma.org.uk resident doctors begin their own action.
Tell strikers you are coming:
bit.ly/RSVPMegapicketII
5 sites. One Day!
#StrikeMap #Birmingham #BrumBinStrike #BirminghamBinStrike #Solidarity
Join @redrunswick.bsky.social at #Megapicket2 on 25 July as @bma.org.uk resident doctors begin their own action.
Tell strikers you are coming:
bit.ly/RSVPMegapicketII
5 sites. One Day!
#StrikeMap #Birmingham #BrumBinStrike #BirminghamBinStrike #Solidarity
July 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
📢🗣️SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT
Join @redrunswick.bsky.social at #Megapicket2 on 25 July as @bma.org.uk resident doctors begin their own action.
Tell strikers you are coming:
bit.ly/RSVPMegapicketII
5 sites. One Day!
#StrikeMap #Birmingham #BrumBinStrike #BirminghamBinStrike #Solidarity
Join @redrunswick.bsky.social at #Megapicket2 on 25 July as @bma.org.uk resident doctors begin their own action.
Tell strikers you are coming:
bit.ly/RSVPMegapicketII
5 sites. One Day!
#StrikeMap #Birmingham #BrumBinStrike #BirminghamBinStrike #Solidarity
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Attacking workers has consequences Angela Rayner.
#WriteToRayner here: bit.ly/WriteToRayner
#BirminghamBinStrike #BrumBinStrike #StrikeMap
#WriteToRayner here: bit.ly/WriteToRayner
#BirminghamBinStrike #BrumBinStrike #StrikeMap
🚨 BREAKING. THIS IS BIG! 🚨 Unite conference votes to suspend Angela Rayner & Birmingham Council leader John Cotton from Unite membership & to re-examine relationship with Labour over Birmingham bins dispute
July 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Attacking workers has consequences Angela Rayner.
#WriteToRayner here: bit.ly/WriteToRayner
#BirminghamBinStrike #BrumBinStrike #StrikeMap
#WriteToRayner here: bit.ly/WriteToRayner
#BirminghamBinStrike #BrumBinStrike #StrikeMap
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Too hot? It's only going to get hotter 🥵
14-20 July is #HeatStrike week of action. Record your workplace temperature & use our heat mitigation checklist to make sure venues are suitably adapted for high heat
Order a thermometer & use the checklist 👇
tinyurl.com/2H2WEquity
14-20 July is #HeatStrike week of action. Record your workplace temperature & use our heat mitigation checklist to make sure venues are suitably adapted for high heat
Order a thermometer & use the checklist 👇
tinyurl.com/2H2WEquity
July 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Too hot? It's only going to get hotter 🥵
14-20 July is #HeatStrike week of action. Record your workplace temperature & use our heat mitigation checklist to make sure venues are suitably adapted for high heat
Order a thermometer & use the checklist 👇
tinyurl.com/2H2WEquity
14-20 July is #HeatStrike week of action. Record your workplace temperature & use our heat mitigation checklist to make sure venues are suitably adapted for high heat
Order a thermometer & use the checklist 👇
tinyurl.com/2H2WEquity
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These videos explaining the work of @equityuk.bsky.social are excellent filming Equity members who are active in our trade union. Getting involved know what's going on be an activist. Demand better in film and TV. Don't be a passive member of your union it's all of us!
DEMANDING BETTER IN FILM AND TV🎥📺
We’re negotiating with indie film and TV bosses to get a better deal for performers including higher pay and royalties, protections from #AI, no more last minute #selftapes and fairer contracts.
Find out more: tinyurl.com/PACTEquity
We’re negotiating with indie film and TV bosses to get a better deal for performers including higher pay and royalties, protections from #AI, no more last minute #selftapes and fairer contracts.
Find out more: tinyurl.com/PACTEquity
May 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
These videos explaining the work of @equityuk.bsky.social are excellent filming Equity members who are active in our trade union. Getting involved know what's going on be an activist. Demand better in film and TV. Don't be a passive member of your union it's all of us!