Excited to be presenting Careful at the Aesop Conference on the 19th April. This is the second year of this high profile event which introduces arts and health projects to healthcare decision-makers. Headliners include Bobby Baker, Darcey Bussell, Patsy Rosenberg and the wonderful Performing Medicine.
a lovely performance today at the Rose Theatre, with a post-show discussion featuring nurse educator Sally Richardson, nurse historian Dr Sue Hawkins and director Alex.
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Delighted to share Careful with its first audiences in the Darwin ward at Kingston University. We put our audience members – nursing staff and students; leading experts in theatre and in theatre and health and to friends and family IN THE PATIENT BEDS!
Huge thanks to everyone who came and who gave us feedback.
Please put the Performing Science conference in your diaries: 23rd – 25th April at the University of Lincoln. Alex (Chimera’s PI) has been helping conference organiser, Andy Jordan, with the programming – and I can reveal that there is an amazing line-up, including special events, performances, workshops and presentations. I’m particularly excited that playwright MICHAEL FRAYN will be there – his play Co
enhagen is a major landmark in the emergence of more alternative forms of science plays. We also have CARL DJERASSI, the father of the contraceptive pill and probably the most prolific writer of and about theatre and science. His latest production will be launched at the conference. Presentations spread the gamet from the history of ‘traditional’ science plays to post-dramatic/post-human engagements with, for example, bioscience and the latest developments at CERN. We’re bringing Bloodlines to the event (Thursday 6.30pm), and Alex is chairing a panel on performance and the biomedical.
You can get a booking form by emailing: conferences@lincoln.ac.uk and get more information from Andy on ajordan@lincoln.ac.uk
We are so pleased to see a wave of upcoming events happening around science and performance/art. Here are a few we wanted to share. April is going to be a busy month!
In other news, the December 2013 edition of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews is a special issue on ‘new directions in theatre and science’ edited by Carina Bartleet and Kirsten Shepherd-Barr. Further details here.
On the partitioner side of things, there are also a number of new calls for performances and residencies. Here are a few we’d thought we’d share:
Bloodlines will be presented on Jan. 7th at 6:00pm at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, followed by a post-show discussion.
Bloodlines is a performance based on the creators own experiences of being treated for a life-threatening disease. Through sound, digital media and dance, the performance traces the microscopic drama that plays out between Leukaemia and medical treatment in the human body. It draws on composer Milton Mermikides’ experience of Leukaemia and his treatment through a bone marrow transplant donated by his sister, Alex Mermikides (director), exploring both the subjective experience and science of the disease.
Bloodlines emerges as the practice as research strand of the Chimera Network, exploring collaborative and compositional strategies of science-engaged performance. It has been performed at the Science Museum London and the Rose Theatre Kingston. More information at Bloodlines.
Following the performance there will be a post-show discussion with the creators, composer Milton Mermikides and director Alex Mermikides.
To book free tickets please register on the event’s Eventbrite page.
See more at: http://cssd.ac.uk/events/research-events/bloodlines-practice-research-performance-and-seminar
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