by Talking Humanities | Sep 12, 2017 | Bloomsbury Festival, Bloomsbury Festival in a Box, Features, Music, Public Engagement
Vivien Conacher is a professional opera singer (mezzo-soprano), who trained at the Royal College of Music. In 2016 she founded Songhaven, a dementia-friendly concert series based in Bloomsbury. In this blog she reflects on how her involvement in the School of...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 19, 2017 | Events, Music, PotW
When: Thursday 13 July 2017, 7pm Who: Senate House Library Where: Beveridge Hall, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU ‘If there’s a more enterprisingly theatrical vocal group than this one, I’ve yet to encounter it…’ – The Telegraph BBC Proms...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 1, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Events, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Music, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
As part of this year’s Being Human humanities festival, academics from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) and the University of Bristol, have joined forces to form the Archive to Blockbuster four (A2BFour). During an evening event at Senate House on 21...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 4, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Events, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Music, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
L-R: Poland’s Maximilian Maria, South Africa’s Manche Masemola, Uganda’s Archbishop Janani Luwum. West entrance to Westminster Abbey featuring ten Twentieth Century Martyrs © Jean-Christophe Benoist via Wikimedia Commons As part of this year’s Being...
by Talking Humanities | May 3, 2016 | Interviews, Music, Research & Resources, Researcher Series, Training and Research
Dr Fay Hield conducts a burgeoning performance career alongside one as a University of Sheffield academic. The award-winning folk singer explains how a BMus in folk and traditional music gave her the academic bug. Tell us about yourself I am a folk singer and...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 26, 2015 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Languages & Literature, Music, Republished
Swansea University’s series of Being Human festival events utilised a variety of venues on the south-west Wales coast to explore ‘heritage, health and wellbeing’ through a range of media. The team behind these activities explain how drama, debate, poetry, art and...
