Giancarlo Facchinetti has developed skills as a sound engineer – first through creating recordings of his own music, and then honing these skills in the astrophysics project e-x-p-a-n-d-i-n-g: The History of the Universe in 45 minutes. Before the Maligned Species project he had not had any previous experience of editing podcasts or the spoken word. During […]
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the podcast team – Nadia Kingsley, presenter
When I had the idea for the Maligned Species project I had not thought through how the podcasts would really work. Tom Wentworth, our producer – excelled in his research of different podcasts – then declared, to my horror, that he wanted my voice kept in when it came to the editing. Luckily, I have made several appearances […]
artist Giancarlo Facchinetti on Spiders cover art
I have known Giancarlo Facchinetti now for sixteen years. We first met at a sculpture exhibition: he was exhibiting his second year work along with three other Fine Art students from the University of Wolverhampton. I was surprised, delighted by and deeply moved by his work then, and he has continued to move many with his creativity: […]
Podcast on Poet Emma Purshouse
Welcome ! Here is a podcast with poet Emma Purshouse How would you write about – a butterfly called the Essex Skipper, the fact that astrophysicists can only account for about 4% of the Universe, or the eradication of smallpox? In conversation with Nadia Kingsley, Emma Purshouse reads and discusses some of her poems, and […]
Introducing the Maligned Species team: Nadia Kingsley
Poet, Scientist, Artist, Writer, Nadia Kingsley Nadia Kingsley is a poet and short story writer, as well as being editor of Fair Acre Press. She is part of the poet/musician/astrophysicist team behind e-x-p-a-n-d-i-n-g: the history of the Universe in 45 minutes performance. She is writing a poem a month for a herbal blog www.rootstohealth.co.uk and has […]
e-x-p-a-n-d-i-n-g: the History of the Universe in 45 minutes
Above are Giancarlo Facchinetti, Emma Purshouse, Nadia Kingsley and Professor Trevor Ponman – together they are the e-x-p-a-n-d-i-n-g team and whisked 3 full-domes (instead of full-houses!) of people up into space, at the Birmingham Art and Science Festival 2015 on the 17th March. We would like to thank the University of Birmingham – a […]
e-x-p-a-n-d-i-n-g: The History of the Universe in 45 minutes. Performance dates
Here are some festival dates – in case you want a make a note. They are also on the Fair Acre Press’ events page. Thank you to the festivals so much for hosting us ! And to Arts Council England who has supported the whole project You’ll see that Emma Purshouse and Nadia Kingsley are […]
The Universe and everything
I had never applied for Grants for the Arts funding, from the Arts Council England – until a year ago. I had a crazy idea – and thanks to them, it is now a 45 minute performance – It’s called e-x-p-a-n-d-i-n-g: The History of the Universe in 45 minutes. It involves an astrophysicist, two poets […]
