14 November 2023 - 14 November 2023
7:00PM - 10:00PM
Radisson Blu Hotel, Durham Frankland Lane Durham DH1 5TA
FREE
When it comes to health, what is ‘reasonable’? How can poetry and music help us to understand our lived experiences? What even is ‘reason’ when we think about mental health? Our research cabaret will explore these issues and present research in a way that you’ve probably never seen before!
This event is part of Being Human Festival.
For one night only, researchers from Durham University’s Institute for Medical Humanities will be partnering with RT Projects, a local mental health arts charity, to bring you an evening of live performance, poetry, stories, comedy, music, and chaos. Together on the cabaret stage academics, local musicians, and persons with lived experience of illness will share their insights in a variety of performance styles. 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 Being Human Festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities, taking place 9–18 November 2023. 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.
Accessibility: step-free access, disabled toilets, free parking (must be validated by reception), full event schedule with content warnings, private bar for the event outside of main performance space accessible at all times
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