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There is a free public event at Brunel University taking a critical look at Tween Girl Culture (and celebrity 'role models'). It is an illustrated lecture by performance artist Bryony Kimmings on Thursday 10th July from 6pm-7:30pm. There's more information on this below. Although there is no charge, places are limited so you need to book here: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebyouth-bryony-kimmings-performance-tickets-8880647255<https://cas1.brunel.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=lAC5D0OvmUeRYOEk3vwZsun86kljPdEIYfpRYA1ay5Y8PFCjsSttrhDH-wbBOqT09lWMdyvx2sg.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.eventbrite.co.uk%2fe%2fcelebyouth-bryony-kimmings-performance-tickets-8880647255> More information: A year ago performance artist Bryony, sick of the sexualised pop offer available to tweens, decided to create her own alternative pop star for kids. To do this she put her 9 year old niece Taylor at the helm, arguing that kids creating their own popular culture was better than the corporations and record labels infiltrating and commodifying childhood for them. Bryony wanted to prove to Taylor that anything was possible if you put your mind to it; that their family's could be activists and that 9 year old opinions were important! They created Catherine Bennett together; a tuna pasta eating pop star and part time paleontolgoist who sang about things other than love, fame and money and they went on a incredible journey together. Bryony became Catherine Bennett, Taylor her manager. This is an illustrated lecture performance by Bryony, expect tales of being invited to the houses of parliament, meeting Yoko Ono, visiting Woman's Hour, being on Sky News across the world AND played as real pop on Radio 1!