Wanted: a biomedical scientist who may be interested in collaborating on a 'Creative Ageing' project

Grand Gestures, Gateshead's elders dance company, want to work with a biomedical scientist in the devising of their new performance work, 'Croak', which will explore the art and science of breathing. They'll be making an application to the Wellcome Trust for an Arts Award, designed to 'Support imaginative and experimental arts projects that create new artworks to investigate biomedical science.' It's a public engagement opportunity for a friendly and open-minded scientist, ideally someone with an interest in breathing. I'll be working with the project as an ethnographer.

Here's a link to some to a video of Grand Gestures:
http://vimeo.com/53155129

And the Wellcome Trust Arts Awards:
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Public-engagement/Funding-schemes/Arts-Awards/index.htm

If you know of anyone who might be interested in discussing this, please do forward this email on. They can contact me in the first instance.

Trish

Dr Trish Winter
Senior Lecturer

Winter, T. and Keegan-Phipps, S. (2013, in press) 'Performing Englishness: identity and politics in a contemporary folk resurgence'. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

http://www.crmcs.sunderland.ac.uk/research-staff/trish-winter/