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):-

 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

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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

A semi-staged BSL Interpreted concert, performed by an electric voice theatre acapella quartet