Beatrix Potter
FUNGI SONG COMPETITION
Oct 3rd – 31st 2021
Winners Announced Nov 10th
We made a MEGASONG from the best entries
Play the video to hear them all!!
THE WINNING VERSES
are on Beatrix Potter’s website profile page
https://minervascientifica.co.uk/beatrix-potter/
Our judges were:
Judith Weir, Master of the Queen’s Music
Professor Lynne Boddy, Mycologist
THE WINNERS (pictured right):-
- Chose their favourite fungi – with some help from this FUNGUS DETECTIVES PAGE
Found out as much as they could about it, with some help from the MYCOKIDS page here - Made up their verses & sent them in!
Autumn 2021 Season
in association with our Artistic Director
Frances M Lynch
A huge range of EVENTS and ACTIVITIES online featuring music by women composers from the UK past & present.
Voices for the Future Virtual Choir
Training Programme for Young Singers
Primary School Projects in Cumbria, Devon, Wiltshire & Bucks
BEATRIX POTTER Song Writing Competition
LIVE & ZOOM Performances
ZOOM Performances 2021 included:
Sept 11th – Yorkshire Fossil Festival Mary Anning (1799-1847) Palaeontologist
Oct 2nd – UK Fungus Day Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) Mycologist and Author
Oct 17th – Sidmouth Science Festival – Mary Anning
Nov 10th – Beatrix Potter Fungi Song Competition Finale
Nov 18th – Marine Biological Association Isabella Gordon ( 1901-1988)
Dec 7th – St Columba’s Women -Sacred music by women composers
LIVE & ONLINE EVENTS
JAN 2022 – APRIL 2022
DETAILS COMING SOON!
Our first live performance since 2019 was on September 3rd 2021
for Stroud Green Festival
celebrating music by women composers
ETHEL SMYTH (1858-1944), ELIZA FLOWER (1803–1846),
MARY MAXWELL CAMPBELL (1812-1886), IMOGEN HOLST,
NICOLA LEFANU and FRANCES M LYNCH
