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Natural History Public Engagement Bootcamp

The Natural History Public Engagement Bootcamp is a four week course tailored specifically to supporting early career researchers and postgraduate students who carry out research on the natural environment and are interested in public engagement. The four sessions that comprises the course will be interactive and provide practical opportunity to explore the variety of ways in which researchers can interact and involve public groups. The Natural History Public Engagement Bootcamp aims to:Increase and develop postgraduate students’ skills relevant to public engagementDevelop postgraduate students’ knowledge and attitudes to enable them to embed public engagement into their research activityBuild a community of peer support between students attending the courseEnable the creation and enhancement of internal and external networks between students, staff and organisationsCreate and enable opportunities to experiment with, reflect on, evaluate and learn from different types of public engagementThe course is developed in collaboration with the Discovery and Learning team at ZSL. Course outline:Session one will provide a background of what public engagement with research and context for developing participants’ skills around public engagement. Session two will allow participants to meet practitioners and hear first-hand experiences of public engagement and understand the importance of communication and practical tips on public speaking.Session three will revolve around critical reflection of examples of public engagement with research and will provide practical skills looking at activity formats.Session four will provide practical skills where participants can plan and implement their ideas around public engagement with their research and understand the importance of evaluation. Deadline for applications close on Sunday 21 January 2018. If you would like to join in the training please fill out the application form and return it to Dean Veall

Performing Planet Activism

Performing Planet Activism is a strand of intimate UCL performances, workshops and interactions exploring some of the pressing environmental issues of the climate crisis. Events and activities bring together UCL research, climate activism and artistic interpretation in unique ways that inspire action and create space for dialogue.Performing Planet Activism launched with a 10-day series of events in January and February 2023, engaging with topics including the possibilities of a better Earth future, the science behind the declining UK farmland pond, the heritage and mythology of the river Fleet, the ways in which British bat species use echo, public participation in urban spaces, colonial capitalist mining practices, and the challenges and potential of island nations.Participants included Shybairn Theatre; composer Heloise Tunstall-Behrens, UCL climate scientists Professor Ilan Kelman and Dr Peter Irvine, Fleet Primary School and writer Robert Macfarlane; poets Chris Redmond, Madi Maxwell-Libby and Amina Atiq, musicians Alice Boyd, Tom Fisher and Dot.i. and scientist Helen Greaves; artist Oliver Cloke; Global Generation Fellows of Story Garden; activist and researcher Nikolett Puskás and artist Hector Dyer; Echo Choir director Sarah Latto and artist/anthropologist Hermione Spriggs; writer/performer Meg Hodgson and London Mining Network; and Hot Poets (Chris Redmond and Liv Torc) and educator/researcher Catalina Spataru.Watch the filmYouTube Widget Placeholderhttps://youtu.be/KCB2pKTf4ec Full list of past eventsTheatre Making & Climate Activism Workshop - Tuesday 31 January 2023, 9.30am (free - PhD students and early career researchers only)This free workshop for PhD students and early career researchers will be led by ShyBairn Theatre, who will share their practice of collaborating with UK climate activists and academics.Read our Q&A with the 'Theatre Making & Climate Activism' teamThe Work of Many Hands - Wednesday 1 February, 7.30pmThis three-act performance seeks to imagine the possibilities of a better Earth future, and has been co-created by composer Heloise Tunstall-Behrens, UCL climate scientists Professor Ilan Kelman and Dr Peter Irvine, and writer Robert Macfarlane.The Secret Life of Ponds Workshop: Creating Water-Inspired Poetry - Thursday 2 February 9.30amWorking with performance poet Chris Redmond and scientist Helen Greaves, this introductory workshop will introduce the science behind the declining UK farmland pond and offer creative routes in to these ideas through poetry.The Secret Life of Ponds Workshop: Creating Music from the Sounds of the Pond - Thursday 2 February 2pmLed by sound artist Tom Fisher and scientist Helen Greaves, this workshop inspired by underwater pond sounds will introduce the Borderlands Granular iPad app to create dynamic and organic 'sound environments' and compositions.The Secret Life of Ponds Performance: Poetry, Music and Freshwater Science - Thursday 2 February 7pmJoin us for an evening of poetry, music and freshwater science in an exploration of the declining UK farmland pond and their extraordinary biodiversity.Family Event: Creativity around Climate Change: Wind Power - Saturday 4 February (free)How do we understand the changing world around us? Working in small groups, families will be on a search and find mission for ways to creatively harness wind energy.Hidden Rivers of London - Tuesday 7 February 7pmJoin Global Generation Fellows of Story Garden, a thriving community garden behind the British Library, as they share personal water-based memories, reveal the heritage of the river Fleet, and explore its mythology. The performance is followed by a creative writing workshop.Our Place in the Game: Public Engagement through Live Performance Workshop - Wednesday 8 February 9.30am (free - PhD students and early career researchers)This workshop for PhD students and early career researchers interested in the climate crisis and public participation in urban spaces will explore Our Place in the Game, an on-site performance project.Read our Q&A with the 'Our Place in the Game' teamEcho Sounding in the Grant Museum: a bat-based voice and listening workshop - Wednesday 8 February 6pmThis experimental workshop explores the medium of echo. Beginning with simple vocal exercises and scores for deep listening, and inspired by British bat species, we will work together to open our senses.Moonface - Thursday 9 February 6.30pmThis live solo theatre show uses clowning to explore colonial, capitalist mining practices and how the models created on Earth are being utilised to inform the future of interplanetary travel. The performance is followed by a series of short talks.The World Is an Island - Friday 10 February 7pmPart performance, part exhibit, part exploratory poetry workshop, The World Is an Island is a transformative 90-minute adventure into science fact and poetry power.Family Event: Creativity around Climate Change - Flower Power and Petal Prints - Saturday 11 February (free)How do we understand the changing world around us? Learn about the power of the sun for plant life and make petal prints from leaves and flowers.

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Queer Zoo

The human desire to classify is perhaps at its strongest when it comes to natural history, as we group and order the world around us into discrete categories. However, the way we organise and display nature is unnatural and at odds with the blurred edges and continuous variation of real nature. How does this relate to practices in which LGBTQ+ people self-classify?Co-produced between the UCL Urban Lab, Queer Zoo used the Grant Museum's collection, taxonomic practice of natural history and George Mazzei's 1979 article 'Who's Who at the Zoo' - that first introduced an animal naming system for gay men- as inspiration for an evening that looked at the way in which LGBTQ+ people order themselves. In a series of performances, readings, interventions and provocations from artists and academics, Queer Zoo interogated the practice of classification in more detail. Over the course of the evening with an audience of over 200 people we looked at the history and the development of categories of sexual orientation and gender identity/roles—‘homosexual’, ‘LGBT’, ‘queer’, ‘dissident’ etc. and discussed the use of ordering systems that are increasingly reductive and based on physical attributes and sexual preferences reflecting.Queer Zoo sought the help of Dr. Sharon Husbands and her irrepresible style, to invite the audience to participate in discussions of how the changing conceptions of the body, social media, cultural and societal pressures are impacting and shaping both individual LGBTQ+ community identity.As the inaugural event of the newly formed LGBTQ+ Research Network, Queer Zoo asked participants to debate and name the inititaive,

Sculpture Season

Sculpture Season saw 13 emerging artists from the UCL Slade School of Fine Art be invited to re-curate the Museum’s spaces with their own sculptures, interpretations and installations and presented an exhibition like none other seen before in the Museum. Sitting alongside the Museum’s historic skeletons, skulls and specimens preserved in jars, the new works engage with animal/human encounters through re-animated flesh, tunnelling rats and mice, giant worms and body bags. The artists have responded to the physical spaces and specimens of the Museum, creating music technologies, phantom occupations of the Museum’s iPad apps, hand-knitted internal organs and explorations of the excessive masculinity of giant deer antlers. Specimens have been re-ordered, re-labelled and reimagined.

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