Gill Simmons
LightNews LightNews
banner
gillmsimmons.bsky.social
Gill Simmons
@gillmsimmons.bsky.social
220 followers 260 following 150 posts
Co-AD Brave Bold Drama
linktr.ee/bravebolddrama | 👀 also companyofinternationalartists.com | theatre | sound design | musician | community arts | working class | neurodiverse | Equity member | 100% freelance | she/her
Posts Replies Media Videos
gillmsimmons.bsky.social
Improv is for everyone, everywhere!
bravebolddrama.bsky.social Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · Aug 8
We’re enjoying improvising seaside stories with Bamfield Lodge residents at the moment!

Just back from another session today where we created a story about fizzy-wine flavoured sticks of rock!

One more session to go with the current funding, but we hope to return to this work before too long.
A photograph taken in the lounge of a care home with a low white ceiling and pink chair surrounding the edge of the room. Older people are sitting on the chairs. In the foreground on the left a tall white man in his 30s wearing a dark green T-shirt and turquoise shorts holds a small fishing rod from which is dangling a silver fabric fish. On the right a smaller white woman in her 40s with dark hair tied up in a bun wearing black framed spectacles and a long black T-shirt is holding a printed artwork of a rock pool on a beach. A colour photograph taken in the living room of a care home with low white ceilings and walls pink chair around the edge of the room and older people are sitting on the chairs. In the foreground on the left a white woman in her 40s with dark hair tied into a bun wearing black framed spectacles and a long black T-shirt Plays a large ukulele. On the right a tall white man in his 30s wearing a dark green T-shirt and turquoise shorts is in the act of singing whilst mining playing a trombone with his hands.
August 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Reposted by Gill Simmons
agentskahlodali.bsky.social
SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW FRIDA KAHLO? Part 3

Bite-sized bio introduced by Agent Kahlo, art detective & Frida Kahlo's biggest fan!

#fridakahlo #art #bio #detectives
August 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Reposted by Gill Simmons
agentskahlodali.bsky.social
SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW FRIDA KAHLO? Part 2

Bite-sized bio introduced by Agent Kahlo, art detective & Frida Kahlo's biggest fan!

#fridakahlo #art #bio #detectives
August 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Reposted by Gill Simmons
agentskahlodali.bsky.social
SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW FRIDA KAHLO? Part 1

Bite-sized bio introduced by Agent Kahlo, art detective & Frida Kahlo’s biggest fan!

#fridakahlo #art #bio #detectives
August 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Reposted by Gill Simmons
agentskahlodali.bsky.social
SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW YOUR ARTISTS?

New series of artist bios starts today, presented by Agents Kahlo & Dali.

#fridakahlo #art #bio #detectives
August 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
gillmsimmons.bsky.social
Please follow Company of International Artists. We can’t get paid work if no one sees what we’re doing, and we don’t have enough money to pay for marketing, so we’re asking you to press some buttons now and again to help us. Thank you!
agentskahlodali.bsky.social Company of International Artists @agentskahlodali.bsky.social · Jul 24
>> INCOMING INTEL >>

Agents Kahlo & Dali have just released this. There’s talk of “niche trivia, fancy words and Being In The Know.”

Can’t say more at this stage, but best mark your diaries for 1st AUGUST.

>> OVER AND OUT <<

#newcontent #embargo #topsecret #artdetectives
July 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Reposted by Gill Simmons
agentskahlodali.bsky.social
OFFICIAL LAUNCH DAY!

Redstart Radio, Chard’s newest radio station written & performed by art detectives from Redstart Primary is live!

10 free episodes, each inspired by a different artwork, are all around Chard, just in time for the summer holidays!

companyofinternationalartists.com/events
July 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Reposted by Gill Simmons
acornunion.bsky.social
If you have rented as a single parent in the last 5 years in the UK, fill in the survey below 👇 to add your voice and inform renters’ rights. forms.office.com/pages/response…
July 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
gillmsimmons.bsky.social
We’re not exactly rammed for festival bookings this summer, but glad for this one today!
bravebolddrama.bsky.social Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · Jul 13
Thanks Exmouth Festival for hosting our seaside family improv show The Keepers today!

There was metal-detecting, a shark attack and two people abseiled off a cliff, all inspired from seaside postcards written by the audience.

With thanks to these lovely audience members who joined us for a photo.
Two photographs stacked one on top of the other. Both show a vertical striped red and white lighthouse structure in a very yellow dry festival field with a band stand and a banner saying Exmouth festival beyond. In front of the lighthouse in the top photo a group of five people. Left to right: a white woman in her 40s wearing a black cap, cream dungarees and a pale blue T-shirt stands in a warrior pose holding a green children’s fishing net aloft. Next to her a black woman in her 40s wearing a black tunic and dark shorts stands smiling. Next to her a white man in his 30s in a black cap pale Ollie blue T-shirt and cream dungarees crouches down smiling. Next to him a white woman in her 30s wearing a pale bucket hat and a navy sundress crouches smiling next to a small white child in a navy bucket hat, navy dress with floral print and pink leggings in the act of looking through a plastic telescope. The photograph below is almost exactly the same except the white woman in her 40s with the black cap pale blue T-shirt and cream dungarees is now holding a navy sailor scarf with a white stripe around the edge and is speaking to a white child who is aged around 10. They have long blonde hair in a plat and are wearing a pale blue cap, a dark navy T-shirt, pale blue shorts and have a pair of black binoculars around their neck. White text top right of the top photograph says the keepers today at Exmouth festival.
July 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
gillmsimmons.bsky.social
Looking forward to this! If you’re going to Exmouth Festival this weekend, maybe see you there!
bravebolddrama.bsky.social Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · Jul 11
We are all set for Exmouth Festival!

Catch our improvised storytelling show THE KEEPERS there this Sunday.

Pop along, write us a postcard and you never know, your ideas might be pulled out the lobster pot to be turned into a brand new story!

bravebolddrama.co.uk/theatre/the-...
July 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Reposted by Gill Simmons
bravebolddrama.bsky.social
Here’s us testing our newest sound walk in Chard!

It goes live on 21 July. It’s called Redstart Radio.

It features the creative writing & voices of Yr 5 students from Redstart Primary who created radio dramas inspired by 10 different artworks.

More here
companyofinternationalartists.com/events
A colour photo of a white man and woman both wearing headphones standing in the Sun outside a pale stone building with a blue sign saying in yellow letters chard museum. On the left the man is tall with short ginger hair and a neat moustache wearing sunglasses blue over ear headphones and a dark green T-shirt. On the right a small woman with dark curly shoulder length hair and sunglasses wears a black vest top and has white in ear headphones with cables hanging down. Both are smiling.
July 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
gillmsimmons.bsky.social
This has been a lovely project to sound design.
agentskahlodali.bsky.social Company of International Artists @agentskahlodali.bsky.social · Jul 7
We have been working with top notch art detectives from Year 5 at Redstart Primary in Chard to investigate 10 intriguing artworks.

The agents will be sharing their findings as a free sound walk.

Visit Chard to hear all 10 episodes of Redstart Radio!

Launches 21 July!

Funded Chard Town Council
A composite image. Teal border. Black and white street map of the town Chard. Top left-hand corner a circular teal logo with the words CIA company of international artists in white. Next to the logo a buff top secret case file with the words top secret stamped in red and the words redstart radio coming soon to Chard. Underneath the case file vintage dark red radio with the words red start radio in white and the same circular teal CIA logo attached to the speaker.
July 7, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Reposted by Gill Simmons
agentskahlodali.bsky.social
Feliz cumpleaños a Frida Kahlo!

With love and respect from everyone here at The Company of International Artists. We celebrate how her work and life continues to inspire so many.

#birthday #fri̇dakahlo #celebrate
July 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
gillmsimmons.bsky.social
I know first hand exactly this situation. It’s hugely problematic and this is very important work.

If you work with single parents in a professional capacity or if you know one personally, please share this survey link with them.

Link here: forms.office.com/e/JwxbbjqdXW
July 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Reposted by Gill Simmons
agentskahlodali.bsky.social
When FISH remind you of ART…
June 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
gillmsimmons.bsky.social
If you don’t follow this account yet ⤵️ doing so would be a great way to support me and get more quirky, accessible art history (and more!) into your life.
June 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
gillmsimmons.bsky.social
No pasarán!
Colour photo of a statue of a woman on a pedestal in a long dress, standing firm with legs apart and two fists raised above her head, face turned to the sky. Under the pedestal it says Better to die on your feet than live forever on your knees. Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionarí). Under that on the supporting pillar it says THE CITY OF GLASGOW AND THE BRITISH LABOUR MOVEMENT pay tribute to the courage of those men and women who went to Spain to fight Fascism 1936・1939 2.100 VOLUNTEERS WENT FROM BRITAIN 534 WERE KILLED, 65 OF WHOM CAME FROM GLASGOW Trees and a light grey sky beyond.
June 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
gillmsimmons.bsky.social
This is an incredible documentary about women war artists from the Second World War to the present day.

www.conic.film/films/warpaint
Colour photo of a postcard on a pale wooden table. On the postcard a black and white photo of an Iranian woman in a black hijab with Arabic text written across her face and holding a long rifle directly in front her nose so it bisects her face. Yellow text superimposed says WAR PAINT WOMEN AT WAR A MARGY KINMONTH FILM
June 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
gillmsimmons.bsky.social
Cubist Gnomes
Colour photo of two square white plastic bollards on a road junction. Each bollard has a red traffic cone balanced on top. Green trees beyond.
June 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Reposted by Gill Simmons
bravebolddrama.bsky.social
June 2025: new ventures - read our latest newsletter here!
mailchi.mp/2b1d59d1a0a8...
A composite image. Two different images both slightly transparent are overlaid. Background image the torso of a white man wearing a dark suit holding a small wooden gavel is in the act of auctioning art. Overlaid is an oil painting by artist Vermeer featuring a young white woman sitting writing a letter wearing a large 16th century yellow dress. White text overlaid said June 2025
June 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
gillmsimmons.bsky.social
Presented at an international conference today. Not bad going.
bravebolddrama.bsky.social Brave Bold Drama @bravebolddrama.bsky.social · Jun 18
1/3
“Really inspiring! Never seen anything like this before. This has been so interesting. The best workshop I’ve been to!”

We had a great time presenting the @agentskahlodali.bsky.social at the University of Bristol International Child and Family conference today.
A colour photo of two people standing in front of a long vertical banner. On the left a tall white man in his 30s wearing an orange Fedora hat a large fake bushy black handlebar moustache a short sleeved navy shirt with red lobster print and orange shorts. He is smiling and pointing excitedly at the banner. The banner is white and says in blue international child and family conference. In front of the banner leaning slightly on a table is a small white woman in her 40s. She is wearing an orange head scarf tied in a bow on top of her head, white plastic framed sunglasses and a short sleeved purple tunic with white embroidery on the front over a leopard print jumpsuit. A colour photograph of a seminar room in a university. In the foreground on a white table resting on a table top easel is a teal circular logo with white writing saying CIA company of international artists. Next to the logo on the right black old-fashioned telephone with a lobster attached to the handset. Also on the table several plastic magnifying glasses in red yellow and blue. Slightly out of focus on the wall behind a PowerPoint presentation with the same circular teal logo in the centre and the words top-secret in red can just be seen.
June 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Reposted by Gill Simmons
bravebolddrama.bsky.social
1/3
“Really inspiring! Never seen anything like this before. This has been so interesting. The best workshop I’ve been to!”

We had a great time presenting the @agentskahlodali.bsky.social at the University of Bristol International Child and Family conference today.
A colour photo of two people standing in front of a long vertical banner. On the left a tall white man in his 30s wearing an orange Fedora hat a large fake bushy black handlebar moustache a short sleeved navy shirt with red lobster print and orange shorts. He is smiling and pointing excitedly at the banner. The banner is white and says in blue international child and family conference. In front of the banner leaning slightly on a table is a small white woman in her 40s. She is wearing an orange head scarf tied in a bow on top of her head, white plastic framed sunglasses and a short sleeved purple tunic with white embroidery on the front over a leopard print jumpsuit. A colour photograph of a seminar room in a university. In the foreground on a white table resting on a table top easel is a teal circular logo with white writing saying CIA company of international artists. Next to the logo on the right black old-fashioned telephone with a lobster attached to the handset. Also on the table several plastic magnifying glasses in red yellow and blue. Slightly out of focus on the wall behind a PowerPoint presentation with the same circular teal logo in the centre and the words top-secret in red can just be seen.
June 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Reposted by Gill Simmons
bravebolddrama.bsky.social
We’re proud to be presenting at this conference!

Delegates can find us on Wed 18 June, 4-6pm as we lead a workshop exploring how our project @agentskahlodali.bsky.social is breaking cultural barriers and giving agency to children through theatre and beyond.

More here: bristol.ac.uk/sps/news/202...
A screenshot of a website. At the top of the words, university of Bristol beneath that School for policy studies. Beneath that Bristol hosts First International child and family conference. Beneath that a photograph of a brown child’s hands spread out on top of a large coloured pencil drawing of the globe with coloured pencils scattered all around.
June 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Reposted by Gill Simmons
agentskahlodali.bsky.social
We love these fabulous badges designed by creative agents young and slightly older who visited our stall at The Art of Knowle West on Saturday.

Thanks to Filwood Community Centrefor organising!

#badges #badgemaker #communityart
June 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Reposted by Gill Simmons
gillmsimmons.bsky.social
“Art in school EVERY DAY!”
Agent Kahlo of the @agentskahlodali.bsky.social found this quotation in a children’s manifesto in the Filwood Times and just HAD to turn it into a badge!
June 15, 2025 at 8:02 AM