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Superwomen of Science @ Fossil Festival, Lyme Regis 2017
Superwomen of Science
Minerva Scientifica
Winner of a Three Weeks Editors Award – Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016
Singing with Fossils!
Our expedition to the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival made us many new friends. These included 100 children from Symondsbury Primary School Dorset, St. John’s Primary School Weymouth, Mountjoy School Dorset and Musbury Primary School, Devon, and the 20 adults who accompanied them. They arrived in groups on Friday 28th April at The Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis, and were introduced to the female earth scientists depicted in the “Raising Horizons” exhibition which was displayed in the auditorium. We all got to know the women very well – and the children created some very special work which you can hear them sing here: –
TrowelBlazers – A New Song
On April 29th 2017 at 1.30pm “Superwomen of Science – Minerva Scientifica” was performed at Lyme Regis Fossil Festival in the Marine Theatre by electric voice theatre surrounded by the TrowelBlazers exhibition “Raising Horizons”.
Frances M Lynch created a new vocal work for the occasion, celebrating the scientists depicted in the exhibition and inspired by the Festival theme – Time and Tide and Tectonics.
“TrowelBlazers – Time and Tide and Tectonics wait for no woman”
Raising Horizons
Time and Tide and Tectonics wait for no woman
TrowelBlazers finding footprints of the past
Archaeology, geology, palaeontology that’s us
Mary Anning had a dog, holds a hammer in her hand
found a lot of dinosaur poo, flying dragons corprolytes
“In every outthrust headland, In every curving beach,
In every grain of sand, there is the story of the Earth”(Rachel Carson)
The Earth, what is it? How was it formed?
People, who are we? What have we made?
Creatures of the world, where do they come from?
Minerva Scientifica – Raising Horizons
The work is for a live solo voice with a chorus of recorded voices generously donated by the children of Symondsbury , St. John’s Weymouth and Musbury Primary Schools, and Mountjoy Special and Community School and by Pippa J Redfern, Danielle Barry, Kathryn Holland, Miranda Melville, Colette Milward, Eloise Ward, Fiona McAlister
all other voices are Frances M Lynch
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- TrowelBlazers look on as Frances M Lynch sings their song
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- “Pulsar Superstar” (Jocelyn Bell-Burnell) by Kate Whitley
Events
Minerva Scientifica Birthdays 2024: Adeline Campbell
11th June 2024
Adeline Campbell
Physician and Surgeon
BORN 11th June 1887, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland
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PODCAST SERIES Episode 3: Two Doctors, One Hundred Years
“Women of Science & Music: 30 celebrations”
Science Historian Catherine Booth (Retired Science Curator at National Library of Scotland) and Critical Care Doctor, Thalia Monro-Somerville (St Johns Hospital, Livingston and Royal Infirmary Edinburgh), explore the parallels in their stories, and the importance of the role of women like Adeline Campbell whose courage and dedication laid the foundations for modern health care, and eased the path for those women who wanted to follow in her footsteps.
MUSIC:
“Forgetting To Remember – Adeline Campbell” ( 2019) by Frances M Lynch for a cappella female voices; words by Christina Rossetti, Frances M Lynch, George V, King of England, Women Engineers from WW1; performed, recorded & produced by the composer & Herbie Clarke (click on the blue button below to listen)
The series presenter is Frances M Lynch, Artistic Director of electric voice theatre.
To find out more about Adeline Campbell please go to her page on the Minerva Scientifica Website https://minervascientifica.co.uk/adeline-h-campbell/
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Created by electric voice theatre, Minerva Scientifica is a project that brings together professional performers with community musicians and school children. Together, we raise awareness of the rich heritage and deep connections between music and science, and inspire the next generation of future scientists.