Creation Theatre’s Friends Coordinator Sarah Mayhew Craddock is happy to admit it: She is in love with Twitter...

As round-robin mail shots clutter up my inbox, flyers and programmes get shoved through our letterbox, and posters vie for my attention on the walls of coffee shops, I’m guilty of sweeping them all out without so much as a cursory glance and going into GET OUT OF MY FACE cultural shut-down. I’ll consume culture on my own terms, thank you very much!

It’s always struck me that Oxford is a bit of a cultural Tardis. There is a heck of a lot going on in this city for the size of it, and that’s great, but no-one seems to have a grip on it or be able to tie it all together… so where to turn for a snapshot of the interesting stuff that is taking place on our doorstep?

Enter, stage right, my love affair with Twitter. A really exciting area of discovery, an online platform that one can dip in and out of in a flash, a place where one can happen across the unexpected, an invaluable source of contemporaneous, on the pulse information.

Creative endeavour that really gets my pulse racing includes site-specific work, be it art, performance, or theatre, and cross-disciplinary work. Better still if accessing it allows an insight into pastures new in this handsome city.

I’ve recently set up a Twitter account called @OxfordTardis to share some of the interesting stuff that crosses my path and spread the word about work and happenings that I feel deserve a shout-out.

I discovered OxLOrk (Oxford University’s Laptop Orchestra) on Twitter about 18 months ago, I was looking to see what Oxford’s cultural staples (Oxford Playhouse, OCM etc) were up to for Christmas Light Night, then I spotted that this curious ensemble of live electronic and electroacoustic musicians were playing at the Holywell Music Room and decided to add that to my schedule for the evening.

In January, I discovered an exhibition, The space of literature, by Lucas Dupin at Oxford Central Library. The exhibition derived its title from a book by the French writer Maurice Blanchot. Despite its connection to the literary practice, Dupin’s artworks invite viewers to enter into an experience, to explore an understanding of a place where time and space are absent. Dupin is interested in creating transportative experiences that enable the viewer to enter a space where one belongs to the imagination… I love this! Turning the quotidian on its head, and asking people to reassess their surroundings.

Similarly transportative, I stumbled across early-career artist Luke Stratford on Twitter this week. One click and I was on www.lukestratfordart.com absorbed in an online audio visual world of his works, LIFE SUN and Water, acrylic on canvas geometric paintings with accompanying audio art that’s available to listen to online.

Still on that theme of discovering new spaces (be them online or offline), I’ve been following Creation Theatre’s Tweets with great interest over the last few weeks, and I’m really looking forward to stepping back in time to the First World War, and seeing their production of The Scottish Play in the stunning surrounds of Lady Margaret Hall, squirreled secretly away at the end of Norham Gardens in North Oxford.

All the world really is a stage, isn’t it!?