Electric Voice Theatre

Registered charity no:1194881

An award-winning contemporary music-theatre acappella ensemble, commissioning, creating, researching and performing vocal music by women composers for theatrical performance, participating in creative multi-disciplinary collaborations, and delivering workshops connecting children and adults to their local creative and cultural environment.

September Songs at Conway Hall

Our website picture showing the sepia sketch of Eliza Flower's head set against the backdrop of a misted out colourful landscape with the words

The Eliza Flower Website Launch
Thursday 26th September 2024
7pm – 8.30pm
Join the EVT Flower Quartet of voices
with music historian Oskar Jensen
for conversation, music, art,
archival material & an interactive guide
to our new website
dedicated to Eliza Flower (1803-1846)

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Misfolding Exhibition

A colourful coil of fibre - which becomes a string of dots with letters referring to the TAU protein which becomes a series of musical notes on a stave

Five audio-visual works that draw inspiration from scientific research to explore the biology behind Alzheimer’s disease

“Miss Amy-Lloyd Folding” 

by
Frances M Lynch
and
Hannah Fox

Performed by
Frances M Lynch – Soprano
Margaret Cameron & Samantha Houston – Mezzos

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News

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September Flower of the Month goes LIVE!

Great News – the September Song will be performed live on Sept 26th at Conway Hall, London as we launch our Eliza Flower website – for now here’s the recording!

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Flower of the Month – August

The words of this song, “The Harvests of Time” are by Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) who formed a powerful protest song writing partnership with Eliza Flower….

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Seasons of Change

“Seasons of Change” has been on tour and we’re bringing you a flavour of some of the performances in this video of the complete new work….

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Conway Hall Partnership Highlights

We are delighted to celebrate our very special partnership with Conway Hall Ethical Society – see what we’ve been up to during the 2023/2024 season

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Minerva Scientifica

September Birthdays 2024

Nora Miller
Zoologist, Marine Biologist
BORN 7th September 1898

Madeleine Dring
Composer, Actress, Pianist, Singer
BORN 7th September 1923

Mary, Duchess of Bedford 
Ornithologist, Radiographer, Pilot
BORN 26th September 1865

Doris Mackinnon
Zoologist, Protozoologist
BORN 30th September 1883

Minerva Scientifica Podcasts 

“Women of Science & Music: 30 celebrations”
Featuring the lives of women in music & science,
past and present,
who were born or work(ed) in the UK.

Episode 22: Misfolding

“The Franklin Effect”

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MINERVA SCIENTIFICA

Minerva Scientifica sets out to shine a light on Women Scientists and Composers in history and the present day, telling remarkable stories of women who have succeeded against the odds, inspiring the next generation of women to smash through the glass ceiling.

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ECHOES is an ever-growing touring project with and for local communities which focuses on the lives and work of women scientists and composers from each area we visit. New music is created with school groups, community choirs, instrumental ensembles and orchestras in collaboration with local scientists and the evt composers and performers. Contact us now to discuss how to bring the project to your area.

Minerva Scientifica has developed a wide range of flexible performance and lecture recital programmes perfect for Music and Science Festivals, Concert Venues, Theatres, Exhibitions, Conferences, Rural Touring, Schools, Universities and anywhere women in music and science are celebrated.

Audience Workshop British Science Week 2016

Minerva Scientifica has created a series of outreach projects associated with the Performance Programmes in collaboration with the Museum of Life Sciences – King’s College London, and with individual composers and scientists. Have a look at our contribution to British Science Week 2016.

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Minerva Scientifica is currently developing a number of new projects featuring women scientists past and present in collaboration with institutions, composers and scientists. If you would like to find out more about developing a new project with us please contact us now.