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COMMUNICATE '06 12 - 13 October 2006, Bristol, UK ARE YOU INVOLVED IN COMMUNICATING ABOUT CONSERVATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT? Looking for inspiration, practical advice and invaluable contacts on shaping and winning your communication campaigns? Don't just sit there.... come to Communicate '06 and......... * HEAR from leading speakers including Lawrence McGinty - Science Editor, ITN, John Leaman - MORI Environmental Unit, Chris Rose - Author of ‘How to Win Campaigns’, Benedict Southworth - Director, WDM (Make Poverty History), Dirk Hendricks - Communications Manager, IUCN, Martin Hiller - Communications Manager, Global Climate Change Programme, WWF International and Jim Burt, Head of External Relations, English Nature. * LEARN from researchers and leading campaigners about the essential ingredients for creating the dream communication mix to inspire behaviour change. * QUESTION those working in the international communications arena. * EXPLORE new technologies and the future for communications. Find out how we can best use broadcast, wikis, blogs and podcasts to our advantage. * DISCUSS issues including global climate change, species decline and habitat loss, marine conservation and sustainability & modern living. * INTERACT with like-minded delegates from the worlds of broadcasting, conservation charities, NGOs, academia, business and government agencies. * ENJOY Communicate's light touch approach to conferencing with eco-comedy from Britain's premier scientific stand up comedian, dance choreographed by The Rambert Dance Company, poetry..... and our free life-coaching surgeries ? get professional advice about achieving your dreams! * BECOME a star with Test Tube TV and one of the first to enjoy a preview screening from the next series of the BBC's Planet Earth. What's more......Communicate offers social activities guaranteed to promote networking, alongside an informal exhibition area for delegates to showcase and promote their own work. Can you afford not to be there? Join us for this informative, entertaining and practical event - to view a full programme and book your place now for 225 (GBP) + VAT = 265.00 (GBP) go to www.communicatenow.org or call 0117 915 0177 for more information. SPECIAL OFFER: Organisations booking 3 or more delegates are offered the special rate of 150 (GBP) + VAT = £176.25 per delegate. Communicate 06 is sponsored by: Natural England, DEFRA, HP Labs and WWF Sam Burkey Director Bristol Natural History Consortium Watershed, 1 Canon's Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX, UK Tel: +(44)0 117 915 0177 Fax: +44 (0)117 915 7105 Bristol Natural History Consortium is a collaboration between At-Bristol, Avon Wildlife Trust, BBC, Bristol City Council, Bristol Zoo Gardens, University of Bristol, The University of the West of England, Wildscreen and WWF-UK. Communicate 2006 (12 - 13th October 2006). 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You should carry out your own virus checks before opening the attachment. >From: Wendy Sadler <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: "psci-com: on public engagement with science" ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: [PSCI-COM] >Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:28:55 +0100 > >I am attaching a message below from an artist we have done some work with, >she is interested in making contacts with people who may like to stage her >installation at their centre or as part of a festival perhaps. > >Please get in touch directly with Roswitha if you are interested, and tell >her that I sent you! >Cheers >Wendy Sadler >Director, science made simple >---------- > >ROSWITHA R. GERLITZ >Visual arts/performance/installation >18 downside crescent flat 3 london nw3 2ap 02074358561 >[log in to unmask] > > >My purpose in writing to you is to find a performance venue for my >science/art project “ Stumbling over Infinity” which has been in >development for the last two years. > >The initial workshop period will end on 16th February 2007 - on that day >we need a suitable venue to show part of the performance to an invited >audience of around 60 people. The performance would last about 30 – 40 >minutes. For this initial showing I am looking within the London area. > >Regarding a future production of this project, I would like to see the >work shown in site-specific, non-conventional settings, particularly in >the context of the scientific community/environment. >Would you have a suitable space at your institution? > >Requirements: The setting is circular, the audience sitting in a semi- >circle watching. The performance space should be high enough (minimum 4 >to 5 meters) to hang a rope for the aerial artist involved. The set is >minimal otherwise: a chaise longue and a very light weight, 2 meter >diameter metal circle of 2 meters diameter also suspended. Ideally we >would like to use basic lighting equipment providing light/shadow play. > >About the project: >Essentially this is a personal inquiry into the universal question of the >“Why?”,the many Why’s? of childhood experiences and later in life, the >ultimate question Why? of our mortal being. The initial impetus for this >project emerged from my interest and scientific research into how sound >affects matter, my artwork with shadows and the death of my sister. >Being an interdisciplinary project, we are delighted that we will have a >small, selected audience of both creative and scientific professionals, >friends, colleagues, and supporters entering into this private >presentation by OperaGenesis. >The initial research and development of Stumbling Over Infinity included >scientific collaboration at Cardiff University and a four- week workshop >period, funded by the Arts Council of England, the Gulbenkian Foundation >with the further encouragement and support of Arts Admin and Laban. >Presently the musical and artistic development is supported by >OperaGenesis at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden as part of their ROH2 >project, the showing is presented under their aegis. > >Concept: Stumbling over Infinity is a project combining science and art to >explore our comprehension of the term Nothing. It is a >scientific/artistic investigation into shadow, sound, movement and >narrative. >The performance produces a site-sensitive, circular installation/ >performance, which includes elements of storytelling, silence, sound, >light, shadow, and a demonstration of the shape of sound: It will give >insights into the life and work of Florence Friedrich Chladni presenting >his discovery to the public and showing the Chladni figures just as he did >in 1787, using a violin bow to strike a metal plate. > > >Stumbling over Infinity >Cast: Singer: Marie Vassilou Arial Artist: Charlotte Mooney >Mucisian/Violinist: TBC actor: Joseph Attenborough >Artistic team: Composer: Harvey Brough Director/Movement- Director: >Gary Rowe >Director: Roswitha Gerlitz Dramaturge/director’s assistant: >Cathriona Bourke >Scientific collaboration: Dr. Mike Greenhough Lighting designer : >TBC >Idea/Development/visuals/libretto: Roswitha Gerlitz > >----- >Wendy Sadler >Director, science made simple > >www.sciencemadesimple.co.uk > >2005 - Young professional physicist of the year >2004 - Welsh Woman of the Year >2004 - WISE excellence award > >Queens Buildings >14-17 The Parade >Cardiff CF24 3AA >Tel +44 29 2087 6884 >Fax +44 29 2087 4056 > > > > >********************************************************************** >1. 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