Frontiers: Where Science Meets Art
The launch of our new network for artists, researchers, educators and scientists working in the fields of art, science and wellbeing. Featuring guests Ellie Rose (theatre maker), Jacqui Wood (director, ARC Stockport) and BAFTA-winning writer Debbie Oates in a SciArt Crossovers panel discussion that explores the links between art and science:
how and why science inspires creativity
what is the impact of creative engagement in arts and health settings?
what are the similarities between artists and scientists - exploring unknown subjects and with a shared need to communicate with the public
This inaugural event is a space to meet other practitioners, to share your project and learn how to move your practice or project forward. If you have any questions about the event, please email cit@watersidearts.org
To book your free place, follow this link.
About The Speakers
Debbie Oates
Debbie has written over 20 produced theatre plays, along with plays for Radio 4 and for broadcast television including Coronation Street, Cold Feet, Medici, The Mill, Primeval, Robin Hood, Crusoe, Drop Dead Gorgeous and Fat Friends.
Awards have included a BAFTA and Best Single Episode (Coronation Street) and a Prix Europa and Sony nomination for the radio play ‘Pongo, Sadfish, Blackie & Sid’. In addition she mentors emerging writers including for DANC (Disability Artists Network Community).
She is writing a new theatre production exploring the cutting edge science of cryonics.
Ellie Rose
Ellie is a theatre director, actor and maker based in Manchester, working across theatre for 15 years. She gained an MA at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
The main focus of her creative work is to champion complex, renegade, unseen female narratives and characters, alongside female-led teams. Putting them front row and centre. She is drawn to expanding traditional, naturalistic forms of theatre for example utilising technology, videography and movement. She is drawn to work that crosses science, humanity and the vastness of human experience.
Ellie’s directorial credits include; Meet Me At Dawn (Hope Mill) I Am Not A Robot (Oldham Coliseum), The Looks Department (53Two), Squirrels (Portsmouth Guildhall), Tangled & Wildfires (Hope Mill Theatre), The Well (Waterside Arts).
Ellie Rose website.
Jacqui Wood
Jacqui is director of Arc, one of the UK’s leading arts and mental health charities, based in the Hat Works building in Stockport. Arc provides opportunities for people to celebrate their creativity, connect with each other and learn new skills.
Arc has more than 25 years’ experience of producing transformational arts projects which engage and include marginalised groups, promote wellbeing and recovery from mental ill-health, and reach thousands of people across the North West and beyond.
Arc website.