Breakthrough! A Research Cabaret

As part of Being Human Festival 2022 (10-19 November 2022) the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University will be hosting this evening of entertainment at the Old Cinema Launderette in Durham City.

Expect song, stand-up, and more as this event takes invisible experiences of health, illness, and disability, and makes them visible. The researchers work on a diverse range of topics, including hearing voices, breathlessness, anxiety, dreams, neurodiversity, trauma, menopause, medically unexplained symptoms and spirituality, all of which will feature in this cabaret line up. 

It’s research, but with added jazz hands! 

So, as Liza Minnelli once said, "what good is sitting alone in your room? […] come to the [research] cabaret old chum, come to the [research] cabaret!" 

This event is part of the Being Human festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities, taking place 10–19 November 2022. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, with generous support from Research England, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy.

For further information please see beinghumanfestival.org.