Festival2022 100342 (Final Submitted)

Festival UK* 2022

Applicant: Spooner, Jon

FESTIVAL2022\100342 LEAD APPLCANT DETALS

Title Mr Name Jon Surname Spooner Website (Work) https://unlimited.earth Tel (Work) 07930547729 Email (Work) j@unlimited.earth Address Yorkshire Dance, St Peter's Buildings 3 St Peter's Square Leeds West Yorkshire LS9 8AH United Kingdom

TEAM MEMBER DETALS

Role Team member 8 Role Team member 2

Title Mr Title Ms Name Matt Name Nina Surname Wright Surname Dunn Tel 07734471356 Website https://somethinggraphic.net/ Email (Personal) [email protected] Tel (Mobile) 07984802968 Address 13 Hanover Street Tel (Mobile) 07984802968 Cardiff Email (Work) [email protected] CF5 1LS Address 19 Bond Street United Kingdom Brighton BN1 5PD United Kingdom

Role Team member 3 Role Team member 4

Title Ms Title Mr Name Ellie Name Mark Surname Carter Surname Mon-Williams Website (Work) https://sgaproductions.com/ Tel 01274 386878 Tel (Mobile) 07790139854 Email (Work) [email protected] Tel (Work) +44 (0)207 186 5101 Address Temple Bank House, Bradford Royal Email (Work) [email protected] nfirmary Address 30 Maltings Place Duckworth Lane London Bradford SE1 3JB BD9 6RJ United Kingdom United Kingdom Role Team member 5 Role Team member 6

Title Ms Title Ms Name Victoria Name Sophia Surname Amedume Surname Busch Tel 07939027444 Tel 07810252494 Email (Work) [email protected] Email (Work) Address Upswing, Rich Mix [email protected] 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd Address Young Academics Manchester, London University of Manchester Students' Union E1 6LA Oxford Road United Kingdom Manchester M13 9PR United Kingdom

Role Team member 7

Title Ms Name Francesca Surname Troiani Tel 02075940701 Email (Work) [email protected] Address Next Generation Neural nterfaces Lab, The Faculty Building mperial College London, Exhibition Road London SW7 2AZ United Kingdom Section 1 - Lead organisation details - Team member 1

Type of team Applicants can come from across the UK or as team representing England, Northern reland, Scotland or Wales.

UK-wide teams are made up of Team Members who together represent more than one nation of the UK.

Nation-led teams are made up of Team Members who represent one of the four nations because they are based there, or primarily make work there.

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LEAD APPLCANT DETALS

Title Mr Name Jon Surname Spooner Website (Work) https://unlimited.earth Tel (Work) 07930547729 Email (Work) [email protected] Address Yorkshire Dance, St Peter's Buildings 3 St Peter's Square Leeds West Yorkshire LS9 8AH United Kingdom

TEAM MEMBER DETALS

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Lead Organisation's details Each Creative Team must nominate a single Lead Organisation as a central point of contact for the Creative Team throughout the R&D project. Please enter their details.

Name of organisation Unlimited Theatre

Website address unlimited.earth

Registered trading address C/o Yorkshire Dance, St Peter's Buildings, 3 St Peter's Square, Leeds, LS9 8AH

Which area of STEAM do you feel most closely describes your field of work? Arts

Jon Spooner 3 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Company biography Unlimited is an award-winning theatre company and Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation, based in Leeds. We are a group of UK artists and producers making and telling inspirational stories for live performance in public spaces - theatres, festivals, galleries and museums, the streets of your city, on the internet and for broadcast, since 1997.

We specialise in collaborating with scientists and telling stories inspired by leading edge developments by researchers at the forefront of their fields.

“...fearlessly going where few other companies have gone before in exploring the metaphysical and everyday impact of scientific advances on our lives” The Guardian

A significant and dedicated strand of our work is aimed at families and young people and delivered through the Unlimited Space Agency's Space Shed. UNSA's patron is the British astronaut Tim Peake and partners in our mission to inspire the next generation of poet-scientists and space explorers have included Science Museum, Royal Observatory, the Met Office, the British Science Association and the European Space Agency.

UNSA and Unlimited have been awarded a series of prestigious prizes, including: National Charity Award; Sir Arthur Clarke Award; Wise Champion Award; global 'Best Mission Concept' from NASA and two Fringe Firsts.

Number of employees 0-20

Type of organisation Charity or Trust

Registration number of organisation (if applicable) 05050868

Lead organisation (team member 1) participants

A 'Participant' is any individual person taking part in the R&D project.

Each Team Member can have a maximum of 3 participants, with a maximum of 12 participants overall.

f you are filling out this section of the form on behalf of an organisation, you should complete the information for each of your colleagues participating in the project starting with the Lead.

Participant 1 details As the nominated Team Member, please complete this section using your details.

First name Jon

Surname Spooner

Jon Spooner 4 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Email address [email protected]

Telephone number (daytime) 07930 547 729

Employment status Employed

Please provide a short biography or summary of the Participant’s career highlights (including personal website links etc.) Jon is a writer, producer, director and Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Unlimited Theatre - specialising in collaborations with scientists. He has deep experience of working with high-profile researchers from major institutions and in co-production with many of the UK’s leading cultural organisations. For over 20 years, Jon has created live events of all scales for both adult and family audiences across the world.

Recent highlights include: ‘You Have Been Upgraded’- sell-out headline performance event for Manchester Science Festival ‘The Astro Science Challenge’- live/online interactive adventure developed with the UK Space Agency, Royal Observatory Greenwich and Met Office among others ’How To Save the Planet’- a show for festivals made with the Priestley nternational Centre for Climate

Jon is a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University’s Wolfson College, working with The Quantum Hub to tell the story of their work towards a Theory of Everything. Beyond his work with scientists, since 2013 Jon has co-written and directed all CBeebies' Christmas shows - broadcast on BBC One on Christmas Day.

Awards include: WSE Champion for inspiring girls in STEM; Sir Arthur Clarke Award for Achievement in Space Education & Outreach; NASA 'Best Mission Concept’; Cuprinol Shed of the Year

https://unlimited.earth https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonspo

Does the Participant have any specialisms or special interests relevant to the project? didn’t study science at school. was told it wasn’t for me. t was never explained to me how ‘science’ was relevant to, or impacted on, my life. was “creative”. liked books, music, performance and so was pushed towards the arts and became an artist. studied and practiced making shows and events and dedicated myself to learning how to get better at it. met a lot of other brilliant artists and loved creating opportunities for us to all work together. And one day met ‘a scientist’. We needed to understand something and they helped us understand that thing in a way that fundamentally changed our perception of the universe. was 31 years old and for the first time understood why science was for me and how it related to and impacted on my life. And so for the last 15 years have dedicated my work to developing relationships with scientists and their institutions in many fields (quantum physics, neuroscience and psychology, space exploration, climate change, human enhancement and biotechnologies), bringing their work to audiences in accessible and engaging ways so they can have similarly life enhancing experiences.

Jon Spooner 5 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 What skills, qualities and experience this Participant will bring to the Creative Team? have spent over 20 years studying and practising not only my craft as an artist and storyteller, but also as a leader. 'm passionate about creating truly collaborative creative environments where everyone feels safe, valued and trusted and is therefore able to do their best work.

'm skilled in doing this with both small and large teams. At Unlimited lead a permanent team of 4 staff that regularly expands to between 10-30 for projects – many of whom return to work with us on multiple projects. For the BBC was the lead artist and director in a team of over 100, invited back to the role for seven shows.

have extensive experience of running projects with multiple, cross-sector partners. For ‘Astro Science Challenge’ led a co-design process with teams from Royal Observatory, Met Office, UK and European Space Agencies, British Science Association and Science Museum as well as our own team of artists, designers, education consultants and software developers. have subsequently worked with all the partners again on other projects, cementing my reputation as a respected science communicator.

This demonstrates my key contribution – creating environments that people from many backgrounds enjoy working in.

Participant 2 details (Optional) Complete this section for your colleague participating in the project.

First name Nickie

Surname Miles-Wildin

Email address [email protected]

Telephone number (daytime) No Response

Employment status Freelance

Jon Spooner 6 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Please provide a short biography or summary of the Participant’s career highlights (including personal website links etc.) Nickie is Associate Director at Graeae Theatre Company where she leads their new writing programme. Throughout lockdown she has created an online programme of work entitled Crips Without Constraints to highlight the voices of disabled creatives during this time. Previously she has worked at The Royal Exchange Theatre as Young Company Programme Leader and prior to that as Resident Assistant Director, part of the Regional Theatre Young Directors Scheme.

Online work includes: Crips Without Constraints (Graeae), MMXX and ConnectFest (Royal Exchange Theatre)

Theatre directing credits include: CUTTN’T (Royal Exchange Theatre) The RON MAN Library Tour (Graeae/Spark Arts), RFT NEW WRTNG FESTVAL (Leeds University/West Yorkshire Playhouse), THE FOREST OF FORGOTTEN DSCOS (Contact/Jackie Hagan), THE TEMPEST AT ABRAHAM MOSS (Royal Exchange Theatre), BUCK A BRENDA & BNGO LNGO (co-director/Wild N Beets); DSABLTY SEX ARCHVES, TWO CAN TOUCAN (TwoCan Theatre), NANA'S JUMBLE (Kazzum).

Assistant Director credits at RET include: MOTHER COURAGE & HER CHLDREN, DEATH OF A SALESMAN, FRANKENSTEN, GUYS AND DOLLS and THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA (partnered with Graeae).

n 2014 Nickie co-founded TwoCan, Gloucestershire’s first professional disabled-led theatre company. As an actor Nickie is best known for her role as Miranda in the Paralympics Opening Ceremony, London 2012.

http://bit.ly/nickiemileswildin http://bit.ly/nickiem-w

Does the Participant have any specialisms or special interests relevant to the project? Being a disabled woman who has spent most of 2020 indoors shielding, Nickie understands the importance of disabled voices being heard and is incredibly interested in the language that has been used to describe disabled people during this time. She is highly experienced in engaging with communities and creating original, unique and accessible work which promotes change. Nickie is keen to embrace science in a way that could change societal barriers faced by disabled people and not medicalise individuals. On the focus of accessibility, she is also eager to explore how theatre can make science accessible for all, using new and developed forms of technology such as VR.

What skills, qualities and experience this Participant will bring to the Creative Team? As a theatre maker, Nickie has vast experience of making work in unusual spaces – both indoors and outdoors - and will bring forward developed skills from working as both a director and performer at festivals such as GDF, SRF and Milton Keynes. Her work has creative access embedded, with proven success in using audio description, captioning, British Sign Language or sign supported English, easy read synopsis and more. Nickie will bring her creativity of how to embed access to reach new audiences.

As an established facilitator, Nickie will be able to devise and deliver accessible workshops for individuals of any age, creating an inclusive participatory programme. She brings unique expertise on the social model of disability and what it means to create work which challenges preconceptions, and will be able to share this with the team.

Participant 3 details (Optional) Complete this section for your colleague participating in the project.

Jon Spooner 7 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 First name No Response

Surname No Response

Email address No Response

Telephone number (daytime) No Response

Employment status Freelance Self-employed Employed Unemployed

Please provide a short biography or summary of the Participant’s career highlights (including personal website links etc.) No Response

Does the Participant have any specialisms or special interests relevant to the project? No Response

What skills, qualities and experience this Participant will bring to the Creative Team? No Response

Each Team Member must read and agree to the following statement before the application is submitted: / we are aware of the time commitment required to participate in the Festival UK* 2022 R&D project including: Attending 8 mandatory days of facilitated workshops run by Festival UK* 2022 between 16 November and 8 December 2020 (2 days per week, Monday and Tuesdays)

Undertaking 6-8 weeks of self-directed work as a Creative Team to develop a concept between 9 December 2020 and 31 January 2021

Presenting this concept to the Festival UK* 2022 team, with a 1 day commitment during W/B 1 + 8 February 2021

/ we are aware that at the end of the R&D project, up to 10 Creative Teams will be given the opportunity to develop their concept into a fully realised commission as part of the Festival UK* 2022 project.

/ we acknowledge that, should our concept be selected as one of the 10 commissions, this will require significant additional commitment and capacity throughout 2021-2022

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/ we are aware this is a collaborative creative process and that any work or ideas which we share with other creative teams during the R&D project may be freely used by the other creative teams both in the R&D project and in the future life of their projects.

/ we are aware that a key purpose of the R&D project is to share with the public the results of the process and, if selected,/ we agree that all material generated by our Creative Team will be made public under the terms of a Creative Commons licence (Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 nternational Creative Commons licence (CC BY-NC 4.0))

/we confirm that we have read and understood the section in the Applicant Guidelines headed ‘ntellectual Property and Creative Commons’ (on page 23) and that, if selected, we agree to participate in the R&D project on the basis outlined in that section.

/ we have the permission of the organisation to apply to participate in this R&D project

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Section 2 - Team member 2

Are you representing an organisation and completing this section of the form on their behalf? f you are not representing an organisation, for example if you are a freelancer, select No. No

Participant 1 details As a nominated Team Member, complete this section using your details.

First name Nina

Surname Dunn

Email address [email protected]

Registered trading address 19 Bond Street, Brighton

Postcode BN15PD

Telephone number (daytime) 07984802968

Jon Spooner 9 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Which area of STEAM most closely describes your field of work? Arts

Employment status Freelance

Please provide a short biography or summary of the Participant’s career highlights (including personal website links etc.) Award winning Video & Projection Designer Nina Dunn uses light technologies to augment narratives and environments. Her work is predominantly in Theatre where she prides herself on bridging scenic, narrative and lighting disciplines using the infinitely flexible medium of integrated live video. She is the UK’s most prominent female video designer and founded the Video and Digital Design module at RADA where she continues to lecture as an associate tutor.

She also works in public and community art, live events, immersive and museums. These fileds of work drive the innovation side of her practice where new systems and technologies are evolving to tell stories and reach communities in increasingly compelling ways.

Over the past ten years, she has created work for ATG, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The National Theatre, English National Opera, Cameron Mackintosh, The Royal Opera House, Bill Kenwright, Edinburgh nternational Festival and Durham Lumiere among many others both in the UK and internationally.

Website: www.somethinggraphic.net

Does the Participant have any specialisms or special interests relevant to the project? Nina knows how to join up technology and translate this into magical experiences. She has access to a broad network of technology innovators with whom she collaborates and works with these resources to evolved a variety of tech solutions into a dynamic creative application that speaks on a human and individual level. She is used to combining both existing and new technologies in the service of presenting an accessible message that seamlessly integrates technology so that it remains discreet in the service of storytelling whilst engaging on a new level. All of this is done with a highly creative and aesthetically discerning approach.

All of this requires research, openness and collaboration at every step. She embraces working with new teams and actively seeks to promote new and diverse voices when bringing teams together to enable the best possible end result.

What skills, qualities and experience will this Participant bring to the Creative Team? Nina’s work has a very broad reach from high level, large-scale projects that have an international reach to smaller projects that touch local communities. Through her extensive community and educational work, Nina has the ability to connect with new voices and promote new and relevant approaches with sensitivity and openness. Her experience has proven to her that involvement in art and storytelling is a healing force for communities and individuals.

At the other end of the scale, Nina has over ten years of experience participating in world class events such as international opening ceremonies, light festivals and high level fashion events, most recently consulting for Coventry City of Culture 2021. She knows how to plan a workflow to successful delivery for her and her team. She has an extraordinary work ethic and shows unfailing dedication to the delivery of an idea to the highest possible standard.

Jon Spooner 10 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Each Team Member must read and agree to the following statement before the application is submitted: / we are aware of the time commitment required to participate in the Festival UK* 2022 R&D project including: Attending 8 mandatory days of facilitated workshops run by Festival UK* 2022 between 16 November and 8 December 2020 (2 days per week, Monday and Tuesdays)

Undertaking 6-8 weeks of self-directed work as a Creative Team to develop a concept between 9 December 2020 and 31 January 2021

Presenting this concept to the Festival UK* 2022 team, with a 1 day commitment during W/B 1 + 8 February 2021

/ we acknowledge that, should our concept be selected as one of the 10 commissions, this will require significant additional commitment and capacity throughout 2021-2022

/ we have the permission of the organisation to apply to participate in this R&D project Checked

Section 3 - Team member 3

Jon Spooner 11 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Are you representing an organisation and completing this section of the form on their behalf? f you are not representing an organisation, for example if you are a freelancer, select No. Yes

Organisation details This section is about the organisation you are representing.

Name of organisation SGA Productions

Website address https://sgaproductions.com/

Registered trading address SGA Productions Ltd, 30 Maltings Place, 169 Tower Bridge Road, London

Postcode SE1 3JB

(Business) contact telephone number 07790139854

Which area of STEAM do you feel most closely describes your field of work? Arts

Company biography SGA is an events and creative agency founded in 2002. SGA specialises in producing high-value live shows, high-profile exhibitions, impactful events, innovative family programming for festivals and seasonal events for the world’s top brands, venues and attractions.

SGA has a core annual turnover of £1.5m and regularly manages project budgets in excess of £1m and up to £25m. SGA is based in London Bridge and is part of the MGA Group.

We create for...

SGA are the leading creative-led production experts in the family events industry. Experts in creative consultancy, design and aesthetic, strategy, internal communication, planning and operations, H&S, event production and touring or permanent projects.

Team member 3 participants

A 'Participant' is any individual person taking part in the R&D project.

Each team member can have a maximum of 3 participants, with a maximum of 12 participants overall.

Jon Spooner 12 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 f you are filling out this section of the form on behalf of an organisation, you should complete the information for each of your colleagues participating in the project starting with the Lead.

Participant 1 details As a nominated Team Member, complete this section using your details.

First name Ellie

Surname Carter

Email address [email protected]

Registered trading address SGA Productions Ltd, 30 Maltings Place, 169 Tower Bridge Road, London

Postcode SE1 3JB

Telephone number (daytime) 07790139854

Which area of STEAM most closely describes your field of work? Arts

Employment status Employed

Please provide a short biography or summary of the Participant’s career highlights (including personal website links etc.) As the Creative Director of a creative events agency, with a turnover of £1.5m a year, we deliver a diverse range of large-scale projects including events, exhibitions and shows for families. This includes multi-million-pound touring exhibitions, such as PO and Aardman's Wallace & Gromit: A World of Cracking deas, created for the London Science Museum and subsequent tenures at Glasgow, Newcastle and onto Australia. Working on the creative and subsequent UK/nternational tours were definite career highlights. have since designed two Aardman exhibitions, Shaun the Sheep Experience and Aardman Presents: A Grand Experience, to critical acclaim. was a Creative Producer for LolliBop Festival at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park which saw 45,000 visitors over 3 days. Since 2019 have led the team, working as producers, on multi-million-dollar projects for the theme park industry.

also have a background as a Writer for family shows (BBC/Tree Fu Tom Live, Pinkfong/Baby Shark Live, BBC/Hey Duggee Live, Aardman/Shake it with Shaun the Sheep), Production Manager (National Theatre Wales, Volcano Theatre) and award-winning creative endeavours (co-founder of ACW funded Dirty Protest Theatre, co-founder of Rave-A-Roo - 'Best Event in London' at the Hoop Awards 2018 with over 34,000 votes cast).

Jon Spooner 13 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Does the Participant have any specialisms or special interests relevant to the project? am on the board of trustees of registered charity Scary Little Girls. SLG is an inclusive, feminist production company committed to messages of hope and truth for new, wide and diverse audiences. SLG operates all over London and Cornwall and employs over 100 artists a year. t is my aim to help SLG to seek out visionaries in many industries and foster artists from all ages, backgrounds and fields of interest. SLG has a passion for stories which are historically and culturally excluded.

co-founded Dirty Protest in 2006, which was originally run in our spare time and has become a successful Arts Council of Wales funded company which employs several new members. Our original aim was to make exciting and original theatre for the cost of a pint in places where people from all worlds would naturally accumulate such as festivals, pubs, clubs and even kebab shops. We would come to work with over 200 playwrights in the UK with a focus on Welsh talent (Tim Price, Gary Owen, Ed Hime, Jack Thorne, Lucy Kirkwood, Chloe Moss) and ensure each hour-long show had a totally new writer with a focus on diversity.

What skills, qualities and experience will this Participant bring to the Creative Team? Our tag line at SGA is that we have 'Real magination’. t is important to aim to be an unbridled visionary and then get real about the impact of that vision. have worked hard to hone skills in both creative fields and production. Working on both sides is something that is not normally celebrated. have embraced the challenge of not “belonging” to get a place at each table. When became a Production Manager less than 10% of Production Managers were female. Now am a Creative Director, of a successful London-based events agency, and feel have a role to play in ensuring that positive messages in our ‘Business-to-Business' projects reach the public and how we make up our teams.

achieved my A-Levels from Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College then in higher education (BA Hons and PG Diploma from University of Sheffield’s Dept of English) whilst also working and gaining crucial theatre work experience. have an ambitious drive which centres around knowing that it is the whole team on any project that drives the achievement. believe in people and motivation - two of the most important aspects of any creative team.

Participant 2 details (Optional) Complete this section for your colleague participating in the programme.

First name No Response

Surname No Response

Email address No Response

Telephone number (daytime) No Response

Jon Spooner 14 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Employment status Freelance Self-employed Employed Unemployed

Please provide a short biography or summary of the Participant’s career highlights (including personal website links etc.) No Response

Does the Participant have any specialisms or special interests relevant to the programme? No Response

What skills, qualities and experience this Participant will bring to the Creative Team? No Response

Participant 3 details (Optional) Complete this section for your colleague participating in the programme.

First name No Response

Surname No Response

Email address No Response

Telephone number (daytime) No Response

Employment status Freelance Self-employed Employed Unemployed

Please provide a short biography or summary of the Participant’s career highlights (including personal website links etc.) No Response

Does the Participant have any specialisms or special interests relevant to the programme? No Response

What skills, qualities and experience this Participant will bring to the Creative Team? No Response

Each Team Member must read and agree to the following statement before the application is

Jon Spooner 15 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 submitted: / we are aware of the time commitment required to participate in the Festival UK* 2022 R&D project including: Attending 8 mandatory days of facilitated workshops run by Festival UK* 2022 between 16 November and 8 December 2020 (2 days per week, Monday and Tuesdays)

Undertaking 6-8 weeks of self-directed work as a Creative Team to develop a concept between 9 December 2020 and 31 January 2021

Presenting this concept to the Festival UK* 2022 team, with a 1 day commitment during W/B 1 + 8 February 2021

/ we acknowledge that, should our concept be selected as one of the 10 commissions, this will require significant additional commitment and capacity throughout 2021-2022

/ we have the permission of the organisation to apply to participate in this R&D project Checked

Section 4 - Team member 4

Do you require Team Member 4?

Jon Spooner 16 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Yes

Are you representing an organisation and completing this section of the form on their behalf? f you are not representing an organisation, for example if you are a freelancer, select No. Yes

Organisation details This section is about the organisation you are representing.

Name of organisation Centre for Applied Education Research

Website address https://caer.org.uk/

Registered trading address Temple Bank House, Bradford Royal nfirmary, Duckworth Lane, Bradford

Postcode BD9 6RJ

(Business) contact telephone number 01274 38 34 18

Which area of STEAM do you feel most closely describes your field of work? Science

Company biography The Centre for Applied Education Research (CAER) was created by the Department for Education via the Bradford Opportunity Area. CAER is housed within the Wolfson building in the Bradford Teaching Hospital NHS Trust and is committed to using research to empower schools to provide the best possible education and start in life for their children and young people. CAER is a partnership between the Bradford Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the Universities of Leeds and Bradford, Leeds Trinity University, the Department for Education, the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, the Bradford Research School and the Educational Endowment Foundation.

CAER is at the heart of two major UK government projects tackling the global non-communicable disease epidemic by improving education outcomes in children: the healthy learning strand of the Medical Research Council’s ActEarly programme and the healthy schools strand of the Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaboration (NHS funded).

Team member 4 participants

A 'Participant' is any individual person taking part in the R&D project.

Each Team Member can have a maximum of 3 participants, with a maximum of 12 participants overall.

Jon Spooner 17 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 f you are filling out this section of the form on behalf of an organisation, you should complete the information for each of your colleagues participating in the project starting with the Lead.

Participant 1 details As a nominated Team Member, complete this section using your details.

First name Mark

Surname Mon Williams

Email address [email protected]

Registered trading address Temple Bank House, Bradford Royal nfirmary, Duckworth Lane, Bradford

Postcode BD9 6RJ

Telephone number (daytime) 01274 386878

Which area of STEAM most closely describes your field of work? Science

Employment status Employed

Please provide a short biography or summary of the Participant’s career highlights (including personal website links etc.) Professor Mon-Williams (MMW) started his post-doctoral career with Fellowships at the Universities of Edinburgh and Queensland before taking up his first faculty position at the University of St Andrews in 1999. n 2002 he moved to the University of Aberdeen where his laboratories received funding from a large number of national and international grant awarding bodies. He was appointed to a personal Chair at the University of Leeds in January 2009 and was Head of the School of Psychology from 2011-2014.

MMW is now Professor of Psychology at the Bradford nstitute of Health Research, holds a Chair in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Leeds, and is Professor of Paediatric Vision at The Norwegian Centre for Vision. He is also a Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing nstitute (the UK’s National data analytics and A Centre).

MMW is the University Academic Director for the Wolfson Centre for Applied Health Research and has responsibility for ensuring societal impact arises from research conducted within the Faculty of Medicine and Health. MMW is the Founder Director of the Centre of Applied Education Research (CAER). MMW sits on a number of local and central government committees in his role as Director of CAER.

Jon Spooner 18 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Does the Participant have any specialisms or special interests relevant to the project? Professor Mon-Williams is a recognised international expert in human movement and its disorders. He has contributed to our understanding and definition of disability. He leads a large internationally renowned research group who use their fundamental scientific contributions in sensorimotor control and learning to address applied issues within surgery, rehabilitation, and childhood development. Thus, he is well positioned to bring specialist knowledge about the "power of what humans can do when their bodies and minds are fused with enhancement technologies".

MMW is a psychologist by background and studies the control of human action in general and reach- to-grasp behaviour in particular. His research has explored normal and robotic assisted arm movements in humans with and without neurological disability. This work has led him to promote the importance of perceptual-motor education within primary schools – the idea that teaching children fundamental skills will benefit their physical and mental health as well as their educational outcome.

MMW has exploited technological advances to allow health research within school environments. He has pioneered techniques that assess a child’s motor behaviour and determine how motor skills underpin cognitive capabilities. He has designed motor skill intervention programmes, including the use of robotic guidance systems to enhance learning.

What skills, qualities and experience will this Participant bring to the Creative Team? Professor Mon-Williams is an extremely experienced scientist with major leadership roles in a number of Universities and research institutions. His experience of delivering some of the world's largest research projects will be invaluable to the consortium.

MMW is committed to improving the health and education of children. He is a Founder Member of the Priestley Academy Trust (a multiple academy trust that includes the first school known to provide free meals to children), and sits on the Bradford Opportunity Area partnership board. His experience in co-producing projects with communities and across stakeholders (including children and young people) will be essential as we seek to make the Festival accessible to the widest possible population.

MMW has several UK government roles including being a Digital Futures Commissioner, sitting on the scientific advisory board for the Social Mobility Commission, being a member of the cross-Whitehall Security Pillar committee, and leading a National project on the use of data to identify and support children with vulnerabilities. MMW's ability to ensure that the consortium can lever a wide range of partners to implement our final vision will be a major advantage to our group.

Participant 2 details (Optional) Complete this section for your colleague participating in the project.

First name Katy

Surname Shire

Email address [email protected]

Jon Spooner 19 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Telephone number (daytime) 01274 386878

Employment status Employed

Please provide a short biography or summary of the Participant’s career highlights (including personal website links etc.) Dr Katy Shire is the Programme Manager for the Centre for Applied Education Research (www.CAERBradford.org). Katy’s research focuses on supporting schools to identify children with difficulties, developing interventions and supporting schools to integrate research into practice. Katy currently holds a Senior Research Fellow position within the Bradford Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Katy has a background in Psychology and graduated from the University of Leeds before commencing her PhD at the University (graduating in 2016). Katy's PhD was undertaken in partnership with the Bradford nstitute of Health Research. Her research focused on identifying and supporting children with movement and handwriting difficulties, within primary schools in Bradford.

Following Katy's graduation, she was appointed as a Research Fellow within the Bradford nstitute of Health Research where she was project manager for a number of different studies. She was rapidly promoted to her current role as a Senior Research fellow and programme manager.

Does the Participant have any specialisms or special interests relevant to the project? Dr Shire is a specialist in the use of robots to support skill acquisition in children. Her previous studies have developed haptic robotic training in children and shown the impact of an intervention on children’s manual coordination skills – in children with and without impairment. This approach was supported by the intervention showing transferable benefits as measured by improvements in children’s drawing skills

Katy's work has led to major advances in our understanding of motor development and the use of robotic technology to accelerate skill acquisition. This knowledge and expertise will support our group when bringing the latest technological and scientific innovation with human body mechanics to push our understanding and perception of ‘disability’ and the future of ‘normal’.

What skills, qualities and experience this Participant will bring to the Creative Team? Dr Shire is an extremely experienced programme manager and her organisational abilities will be key to the successful delivery of the event. n particular, Katy has organised a number of mass participation events that have been targeted at children and young people. These events have been co-produced with communities and Katy's skills and experience in co-production and engagement will contribute greatly to the Creative Team.

Katy will also bring her scientific skills to the consortium - especially her work in delivering robotic interventions within school settings. Katy's work has driven forward design principles for haptic systems and this will link with our plans around exploring augmentation of the human: Katy will bring expertise in training and rehabilitation of driving skills after stroke, minimally invasive surgery training and accelerating motor learning.

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Jon Spooner 20 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 First name No Response

Surname No Response

Email address No Response

Telephone number (daytime) No Response

Employment status Freelance Self-employed Employed Unemployed

Please provide a short biography or summary of the Participant’s career highlights (including personal website links etc.) No Response

Does the Participant have any specialisms or special interests relevant to the project? No Response

What skills, qualities and experience this Participant will bring to the Creative Team? No Response

Undertaking 6-8 weeks of self-directed work as a Creative Team to develop a concept between 9 December 2020 and 31 January 2021

Presenting this concept to the Festival UK* 2022 team, with a 1 day commitment during W/B 1 + 8 February 2021

Jon Spooner 21 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 / we acknowledge that, should our concept be selected as one of the 10 commissions, this will require significant additional commitment and capacity throughout 2021-2022

/ we have the permission of the organisation to apply to participate in this R&D project Checked

Section 5 - Team member 5

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Are you representing an organisation and completing this section of the form on their behalf? f you are not representing an organisation, for example if you are a freelancer, select No. Yes

Organisation details This section is about the organisation you are representing.

Name of organisation Upswing. (trading as UPSWNG AERAL LTD)

Website address www.upswing.org.uk

Registered trading address Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd London

Jon Spooner 22 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Postcode E1 6LA

(Business) contact telephone number 07939027444

Which area of STEAM do you feel most closely describes your field of work? Arts

Company biography UPSWNG is an award-winning contemporary circus company that uses circus to tell new stories in extraordinary ways, amplifying and celebrating the skills, creative talents and stories of diverse artists and communities. Our work is presented in a range of contexts from theatres and festivals to libraries, care homes and other public spaces, taking shows beyond theatres to meet people in the places they live, work, learn and play.

A lean organisation, Upswing is still a leader in contemporary circus on the national and international stage. n 2019 we reached 24,610 live audiences in the UK and nternationally. Our Creative Engagement Programme reached over 300 older people; over 2,000 children and young people. We supported 41 professional artists through our Artist Development Programmes - which primarily focus on those underrepresented in mainstream circus.

Highlights for 2018/19 include: - Sold-out run of 24 performances at Hong Kong nternational Arts Carnival - HOME Coventry broadcast of aerial and projection performance in collaboration with Highly Sprung as part of Coventry’s Great Places programme and Coventry 2021 reached 25,000 online audience. - Launch of a 3-year partnership with Brent Libraries to reach 6000 families with world-class live circus performances in their local libraries

Team member 5 participants

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Each team member can have a maximum of 3 participants, with a maximum of 12 participants overall.

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Participant 1 details As a nominated team member, complete this section using your details.

First name Amelia

Surname Cavallo

Email address [email protected]

Jon Spooner 23 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Registered trading address 55 Belmont Rd. South Norwood London

Postcode SE25 4QG

Telephone number (daytime) 07950911229

Which area of STEAM most closely describes your field of work? Arts

Employment status Freelance

Please provide a short biography or summary of the Participant’s career highlights (including personal website links etc.) Amelia Cavallo is a blind, USA born theatre practitioner, academic and workshop facilitator. They work as a multi-disciplinary performer, musical director, lecturer and consultant on access and audio description. Currently, they are a Phd candidate at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama studying intersections of gender, disability and sexuality. They have also performed with disability led theatre companies such as Extant, Graeae and Birds of Paradise as well as with regional theatres such as The New Wolsey, Theatre Royal Stratford East and The Royal Exchange Manchester. Amelia was an aerialist and sway pole performer in the 2012 Paralympic opening ceremony and has since worked nationally and internationally as a circus performer. n 2019, Amelia co-founded Quiplash with their partner. Quiplash is a performance project that takes space for disabled people across the LGBTQQA+ spectrum. Some of Amelia’s recent publications include a co-written chapter with Maria Oshodi in Theatre in the Dark: Shadow, Gloom and Blackout in Contemporary Theatre, and Seeing the Word, Hearing the mage: The Artistic Possibilities of Audio Description in Theatrical Performance in RDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre.

Does the Participant have any specialisms or special interests relevant to the project? " am always interested in creating work that lifts up marginalised individuals. My focus is often on Deaf and disabled and LGBTQQA+ people given that come from both of these communities, but with a focus of also expanding beyond this to be as intersectional and inclusive as possible. also hold accessibility at the core of my practice and would want to explore ways of embedding multiple types of access creatively into a large scale piece of work. am very interested in pushing different performance mediums to sit in sensory spaces that they do not normally sit in - such as circus being a primarily auditory experience via audio description. Following my PhD, am really interested in looking at ways of creatively archiving practice in ways that are accessible, and looking to the past to make commentary on the present and the future. think in relation to this festival, that would be a really interesting idea to explore. What does it mean to hold history in a body? n a community? How does it change when the environment around you is out of your control? Where do you find the good, the hopeful, the empowering?"

Jon Spooner 24 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 What skills, qualities and experience will this Participant bring to the Creative Team? Amelia’s most unique professional and creative skills are around their experience and understanding of embedding and integrating creative access into performance - particularly audio description. They have done this for years with companies such as Extant and in their own performance practice. They also work regularly as an access consultant, with a specialism in making spaces accessible and welcoming to both the Deaf and disabled and LGBTQQA+ community.

As a performer Amelia is multi-disciplinary with years of professional experience as an actor, singer, multi instrumentalist, circus aerialist, burlesque artist and drag king.

For other creative skills Amelia has experience as a musical director and composer/orchestrator. They are also a workshop facilitator and circus trainer

Participant 2 details (Optional) Complete this section for your colleague participating in the project.

First name Victoria

Surname Amedume

Email address [email protected]

Telephone number (daytime) 07939027444

Employment status Employed

Please provide a short biography or summary of the Participant’s career highlights (including personal website links etc.) Vicki Amedume initially trained as a research scientist, before entering the Circus world in 1997. She performed aerial and circus based work in the UK and worldwide with Classic and Contemporary circuses before founding contemporary Circus Company Upswing in 2006.

Outside of her work at Upswing, Vicki has acted in the role of Associate Director of Greenwich and Docklands nternational Festival (2004-2006) developing large scale outdoor spectacle and as a Circus director and choreographer she has created work for The National Theatre, The National Theatre Scotland, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The New Vic, Cameron Mackintosh Productions, The Royal Exchange. She has extensive experience in community-based arts development and is currently chair of the Baring Foundation Arts Committee.

Dedicated to the development of Circus Arts Vicki works widely to develop both emerging and established artists with guest lecturing at Kings College London, Central School of Speech and Drama, The National Centre for Circus Arts and Circomedia, Bristol alongside Upswing’s own Artist Development Programmes.

Jon Spooner 25 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Does the Participant have any specialisms or special interests relevant to the project? - Background in research science, studied Pharmacology and Physiology at Leeds University and before working in a research team for the nstitute of Child Health at Great Ormond Street Hospital - Background/track record supporting and developing underrepresented artists in circus and outdoor arts (numerous, programmes, mentoring and employment of ethnically diverse artists) -Background in producing large-scale outdoor work as an Associate Director at GDF 2006-2008 and as a Circus and Aerial Director on numerous projects

What skills, qualities and experience this Participant will bring to the Creative Team? - Experience with mid to large scale production both as a creative lead, a producer and artist - Experience of taking their circus research and translating it into performance, Upswing were artists in residence at the University of Hertfordshire 2015-2018 working with a group of researchers, interpreting their findings for young audiences across the UK and using the power of physical performance to make world-class academic research accessible to all. - Regularly work in collaboration, it is core to my practice this is usually with other artists but often with people from a variety of backgrounds and across sectors (e.g Health, Local Authority, Education) over extended periods. As a practitioner, aim to build a playful working environment that enables everyone to engage with equity.

Participant 3 details (Optional) Complete this section for your colleague participating in the project.

First name No Response

Surname No Response

Email address No Response

Telephone number (daytime) No Response

Employment status Freelance Self-employed Employed Unemployed

Please provide a short biography or summary of the Participant’s career highlights (including personal website links etc.) No Response

Does the Participant have any specialisms or special interests relevant to the project? No Response

What skills, qualities and experience this Participant will bring to the Creative Team? No Response

Jon Spooner 26 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Each Team Member must read and agree to the following statement before the application is submitted: / we are aware of the time commitment required to participate in the Festival UK* 2022 R&D project including: Attending 8 mandatory days of facilitated workshops run by Festival UK* 2022 between 16 November and 8 December 2020 (2 days per week, Monday and Tuesdays)

Undertaking 6-8 weeks of self-directed work as a Creative Team to develop a concept between 9 December 2020 and 31 January 2021

Presenting this concept to the Festival UK* 2022 team, with a 1 day commitment during W/B 1 + 8 February 2021

/ we acknowledge that, should our concept be selected as one of the 10 commissions, this will require significant additional commitment and capacity throughout 2021-2022

/ we have the permission of the organisation to apply to participate in this R&D project Checked

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Jon Spooner 27 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Do you require Team Member 6? Yes

Are you representing an organisation and completing this section of the form on their behalf? f you are not representing an organisation, for example if you are a freelancer, select No. Yes

Organisation details This section is about the organisation you are representing.

Name of organisation Young Academics Manchester

Website address https://www.youngacademics.co.uk/student/manchester/

Registered trading address University of Manchester Students' Union Oxford Rd Manchester

Postcode M139PR

(Business) contact telephone number 07810252494

Which area of STEAM do you feel most closely describes your field of work? Science

Company biography Founded on collaboration in medicine, Young Academics Manchester aims to get students authorship, research, and portfolio-building opportunities by reaching out to professionals who have ongoing medical projects. This encompasses clinical and laboratory projects, alongside creative projects such as medicine with culture, humanities, arts, and technology, to kindle innovation and to reach new audiences. Originally founded at King’s College London in 2018. Young Academics was highly successful and able to expand nationwide. Branches have been established at 4 universities and 6 other institutions are in planning stages. At Manchester, we launched this academic year and have since our formation in August 2020, successfully launched 5 projects.

We advertise our projects for students of all disciplines to apply to, giving everyone a chance to express their interest in a diversity of fields setting aside their academic background. Furthermore, we follow-up on all projects, offering project students further opportunities to present, teach, and publicise their work. We strongly believe in creating long-lasting collaborations and helping all parties involved profit as much as possible from each project.

Team member 6 participants

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Jon Spooner 28 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Each Team Member can have a maximum of 3 participants, with a maximum of 12 participants overall.

f you are filling out this section of the form on behalf of an organisation, you should complete the information for each of your colleagues participating in the project starting with the Lead.

Participant 1 details As a nominated team member, complete this section using your details.

First name Sophia

Surname Busch

Email address [email protected]

Registered trading address University of Manchester Students' Union Oxford Rd Manchester

Postcode M139PR

Telephone number (daytime) 07810252494

Which area of STEAM most closely describes your field of work? Science

Employment status Unemployed

Jon Spooner 29 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Please provide a short biography or summary of the Participant’s career highlights (including personal website links etc.) An opportunity/experience is only as valuable as the lessons one pulls from it. The little experience have had, has taught me a lot.

n 2019 spend 3 months in Argentina, where visited my family, took care of my grandparents, worked 3 weeks in a hospital and travelled the country and Uruguay on my own. learned how to kite-surf and got involved in local politics. Two months later moved to Manchester to study medicine. The flexibility with which move between countries, environments and projects is represented in my openness, proactivity and limitless mindset.

From March-July 2020 worked at a hand sanitiser factory (working 8-12 hours a day filling hand bottles). Simultaneously, helped a local curator put together an art show with 22 different artists and creatives. This tested my organisational skills, learned how to turn my vision into reality and explored my own creativity and that of others. The absence of an educational input in my life started making itself noticeable so volunteered at a hospital for a month.

Furthermore, took on the creative curator role at Young Academics Manchester and treasurer for the medical school’s women’s football team.

Does the Participant have any specialisms or special interests relevant to the project? The expression and interpretation of science through art really fascinates me. Working in the neurology department of a hospital over summer, the helplessness surrounding Parkinson’s disease struck me. created some artwork representing and capturing the confusion, helplessness and despair patients experience. t was in the form of wires interconnected with images representative of Germany from 1930-1970 (youth of patients) as well as many other elements. Due to a lack of platform, the piece is currently in my bedroom at home.

This motivated me to take on the role of creative project curator at Young Academics. wanted to explore the world of science/medicine through art more actively.

learned the basics of coding a year ago, by attending the online CS50 course on edX by Harvard. Through it understood the meticulousness involved in giving precise commands. ’m more aware of the core of an idea as well as how to structure it. also noticed the extra layers we, the human race, have added to the basic code of language, such as; social conventions, emotions, flattery and many more. They are technically not necessary to convey a point but practically essential for the success of one’s endeavours.

Jon Spooner 30 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 What skills, qualities and experience will this Participant bring to the Creative Team? bring 19 years of life experience of which realistically only remember the last 9. That means my mindset is practically untouched, a blank page. have not had to conform to any industries’ or specialties’ requirements of inclusion.

’m a third culture child. Growing up in an argentine household, in Germany whilst attending a French school, quickly learned how to thrive in constantly evolving and challenging environments. For better, have no boundaries of what is feasible or not, dream big and try my best to make it happen. know why was the best swimmer, because kept attacking the problem from different angles until found a way to overcome the obstacle that the zona pellucida was at the time.

Here are some more current examples (on a much smaller scale than the creation of life); wanted to go to international model united nations conferences, so co-founded a club centred around preparing for and attending said conferences. wanted to learn English, so switched to an English speaking one and was fluent within 6 months. didn't like the approach Germany took to medical education, so moved to Manchester.

Participant 2 details (Optional) Complete this section for your colleague participating in the project.

First name Komal

Surname Amar

Email address [email protected]

Telephone number (daytime) 07427840074

Employment status Unemployed

Jon Spooner 31 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Please provide a short biography or summary of the Participant’s career highlights (including personal website links etc.) During my degree in Biomedical Science, joined the team at ReThinkX, a company educating on future healthcare, and who later inspired me to become its CEO. Organising medical events, covering pinnacle topics such as medtech, precision medicine and medicine in art, with the Manchester Science Partnerships, taught me how to work in an interdisciplinary team and coordinate long-term projects. Upon realising that university students limited their career goals due to a plethora of demographic issues, co-founded the BioMed Society and ran an medicine-entry scheme alongside a ‘Healthcare lluminated’ conference at MediaCityUK. This exposed students to professionals in medical innovation, entrepreneurship and public health. Later, volunteered as a Science Communicator at the Manchester Science Festivals, which initiated my interests in service learning, patient education and outreach. My various engagements earn me the nternational Women's Day Student Rising Star Gold Award. Currently, am a medical student and the Co-Executive Director at YoungAcademics Manchester. We launch medical projects for students of all degree backgrounds with academics, clinicians, scientists, and creatives. With a focus on students working collaboratively to solve healthcare problems, gain publications, and implement their ideas directly into research and the community, we have launched 5 STEAM initiatives.

Does the Participant have any specialisms or special interests relevant to the project? Humanitarian and conflict response, alongside global health are areas wish to practise in as a medical consultant, therefore am on the committee for MCR Global Health Society as an Events Lead, and Students for Global Health as an nternational Research Exchange Coordinator. am a medical researcher, having worked on a trauma biomarkers study at the University of Salford alongside having complied nature conservation research data on terrestrial, freshwater, and marine species as a General Surveyor at Operation Wallacea in Dominica. For instance, collected insect specimens for The Natural History Museum, investigated the accumulation of invasive sea species, and the impacts of volcanic sea vents on invertebrate species to predict the effects of global warming. practise calligraphy and art, with a deep interests in merging art from different cultures and mediums. ran an art club at Thorn Grove Primary School and run creative 1-to-1 sessions at The Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital as part of CHUMS. ntrigued on art in medicine, networked with an CU consultant to join an ethics committee meeting for an international art exhibition aiming to mitigate some of the taboos around death through trust and empathetic storytelling.

What skills, qualities and experience this Participant will bring to the Creative Team? As a young individual, am trying to gain experience in as many fields in STEAM as possible because firmly believe that innovation begins with people bridging their knowledge between different sectors. My dynamic thinking helps me to curate opportunities in this way, for instance melded medicine with art in creative projects for YoungAcademics, technology with research in multiple events on healthcare innovation, and inclusion with public health in multiple roles on global health initiatives. Place me in any environment and subconsciously begin to brainstorm ideas on how to increase engagement, improve systems, and collaborate with other groups. This is what has initiated majority of my past engagements and networking, for example the knowledge on medtech as the CEO of ReThinkX bought to my roles as the Events Lead in the Biomed Society and as an Autistic Specialist Support Worker. My various leadership and team roles have moulded my philosophy to aim high. Thus, keep renewing my intentions on sharing my privileges of education, opportunity, and networks with others as my respected senior colleagues have done for me and in order to create the greatest impact on society.

Participant 3 details (Optional) Complete this section for your colleague participating in the project.

Jon Spooner 32 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 First name No Response

Surname No Response

Email address No Response

Telephone number (daytime) No Response

Employment status Freelance Self-employed Employed Unemployed

Please provide a short biography or summary of the Participant’s career highlights (including personal website links etc.) No Response

Does the Participant have any specialisms or special interests relevant to the project? No Response

What skills, qualities and experience this Participant will bring to the Creative Team? No Response

Undertaking 6-8 weeks of self-directed work as a Creative Team to develop a concept between 9 December 2020 and 31 January 2021

Presenting this concept to the Festival UK* 2022 team, with a 1 day commitment during W/B 1 + 8 February 2021

Jon Spooner 33 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 / we acknowledge that, should our concept be selected as one of the 10 commissions, this will require significant additional commitment and capacity throughout 2021-2022

/ we have the permission of the organisation to apply to participate in this R&D project

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Section 7 - Team member 7

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Are you representing an organisation and completing this section of the form on their behalf? f you are not representing an organisation, for example if you are a freelancer, select No. Yes

Organisation details This section is about the organisation you are representing.

Name of organisation Next Generation Neural nterfaces Lab

Website address https://www.imperial.ac.uk/next-generation-neural-interfaces

Jon Spooner 34 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Registered trading address The Faculty Building mperial College London Exhibition Road South Kensington London SW7 2AZ United Kingdom

Postcode SW7 2AZ

(Business) contact telephone number 02075940701

Which area of STEAM do you feel most closely describes your field of work? Engineering

Company biography The Next Generation Neural nterfaces Lab is part of mperial College, which has an exceptional global reputation for teaching and research and is consistently ranked within the top 3 UK universities, and top 10 worldwide.

As a university focused on STEM and its impact in the world, we engage wider society because we want to be a responsible force for good. We aim to share ideas, gain insights and create positive outcomes for the public and research.

Our Strategy for Engaging with Society is focused on empowering people through engagement with STEM. We coordinate a varied programme of activities around four strands: schools’ outreach and widening participation, public engagement with research, local community engagement, and patient engagement. Our dedicated Societal Engagement Team support thousands of mperial staff and students with public engagement training and practical opportunities to engage communities.

Our approach is rooted in collaboration. We work in partnership with our local communities to address local challenges, at the heart of this is the nvention Rooms, our dedicated community engagement facility in White City. Our annual Great Exhibition Road Festival is a collaboration between 20 cultural institutions in South Kensington, which engages diverse audiences in STEAM (60,000 visitors 2019).

Team member 7 participants

A 'Participant' is any individual person taking part in the R&D project.

Each Team Member can have a maximum of 3 participants, with a maximum of 12 participants overall.

f you are filling out this section of the form on behalf of an organisation, you should complete the information for each of your colleagues participating in the project starting with the Lead.

Participant 1 details As a nominated team member, complete this section using your details.

Jon Spooner 35 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 First name Francesca

Surname Troiani

Email address [email protected]

Registered trading address The Faculty Building mperial College London Exhibition Road South Kensington London SW7 2AZ United Kingdom

Postcode SW7 2AZ

Telephone number (daytime) 07475118211

Which area of STEAM most closely describes your field of work? Engineering

Employment status Employed

Please provide a short biography or summary of the Participant’s career highlights (including personal website links etc.) Francesca Troiani (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/f.troiani) received her BSc in Physics (2011) and her Masters (cum laude, 2013) in Nuclear and Medical Physics from University of Trieste, taly. After graduation she was awarded a six months postgraduate fellowship from SSSA (nternational School for Advanced Studies) in Trieste to continue the work she started for her master’s project on the formation of spatial representations on hyperbolic surfaces. Francesca joined the Next Generation Neural nterfaces (NGN) group as a PhD candidate under the supervision of Dr Timothy Constandinou, graduating in 2018 with a thesis on “Time domain optical coherence tomography for compound action potential recording: computational analysis and system requirements". During those years she worked as a teaching assistant and as an outreach STEM leader. From January 2019, she is a Research Associate at NGN funded through an EPSRC Doctoral Prize award and an EPSRC mpact Acceleration Account. She is responsible for public engagement activities at NGN lab and has developed activities for the Great Exhibition Road Festival, Friends of mperial visits, worked on an engagement-through art project (Hatton Gallery January-June 2020) and is co-lead in the development of the NGN stand at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2021.

Jon Spooner 36 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Does the Participant have any specialisms or special interests relevant to the project? Francesca’s field of research is neural interfaces, which are electronic devices that are used to connect to the nervous system. This is very relevant to the future of the human body and to how healthcare will interface with technology. Moreover, she is highly interested in public engagement and has been working towards increasing such activities in the Next Generation Neural nterfaces (NGN) lab since the beginning of her PhD in 2014. Being a woman in male dominated environments such as physics first and engineering later, Francesca has quickly realised how important it is to present young women with role models in STEM careers, and engaging with the general public and schools has given her the means to do so. She is a member of WSE (women in engineering and science) and part of their My Skills My Life campaign. Francesca is also active as a mental health advocate and a mental health first aider allowing her to interface and understand people suffering from (e.g.) anxiety and depression, conditions that are both going to be addressed through neural interfaces and future human enhancement.

What skills, qualities and experience will this Participant bring to the Creative Team? Francesca has worked as an outreach STEM activity leader, developing and leading activities for students of all ages. Through that she has developed a keen sense on how to engage younger people with research and with science and technology in general. As a researcher, she can bring her problem solving and creative thinking capabilities and a knowledge of the field of neural interfaces. Through her public engagement experience, she can act as a bridge between the other researchers at the Next Generation Neural nterfaces Lab and the rest of the Creative Team. She has worked in very multidisciplinary teams, made up of biologists, physicists, engineers and artists for both research and engagement projects. She managed the development of the Cerebella project (a hands-on activity developed to explain to the public the difference between implantable and wearable neural interfaces and the need for the latter) and has attended both the mperial College and the NCCPE Engagement Academies, which have given her the means to better understand, develop and evaluate engagement activities. She is, moreover, a certified PRNCE2 project manager and a mental health first aider.

Participant 2 details (Optional) Complete this section for your colleague participating in the project.

First name No Response

Surname No Response

Email address No Response

Telephone number (daytime) No Response

Employment status Freelance Self-employed Employed Unemployed

Jon Spooner 37 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Please provide a short biography or summary of the Participant’s career highlights (including personal website links etc.) No Response

Does the Participant have any specialisms or special interests relevant to the project? No Response

What skills, qualities and experience this Participant will bring to the Creative Team? No Response

Participant 3 details (Optional) Complete this section for your colleague participating in the project.

First name No Response

Surname No Response

Email address No Response

Telephone number (daytime) No Response

Employment status Freelance Self-employed Employed Unemployed

Please provide a short biography or summary of the Participant’s career highlights (including personal website links etc.) No Response

Does the Participant have any specialisms or special interests relevant to the project? No Response

What skills, qualities and experience this Participant will bring to the Creative Team? No Response

Jon Spooner 38 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Undertaking 6-8 weeks of self-directed work as a Creative Team to develop a concept between 9 December 2020 and 31 January 2021

Presenting this concept to the Festival UK* 2022 team, with a 1 day commitment during W/B 1 + 8 February 2021

/ we acknowledge that, should our concept be selected as one of the 10 commissions, this will require significant additional commitment and capacity throughout 2021-2022

/ we have the permission of the organisation to apply to participate in this R&D project Checked

Section 8 - Team member 8

Do you require Team Member 8? Yes

Are you representing an organisation and completing this section of the form on their behalf? f you are not representing an organisation, for example if you are a freelancer, select No. No

Jon Spooner 39 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Participant 1 details As a nominated Team Member, complete this section using your details.

First name Matt

Surname Wright

Email address [email protected]

Registered trading address 13 Hanover Street

Postcode CF5 1LS

Telephone number (daytime) 07734471356

Which area of STEAM most closely describes your field of work? Technology

Employment status Freelance

Please provide a short biography or summary of the Participant’s career highlights (including personal website links etc.) Matt Wright is a practicing visual artist, media producer and dome engineer who specializes in the creative utilization of 360º content across platforms. He has undertaken creative commissions for companies such as P&O & HSBC and exhibited his work internationally. He is recognized for his innovative use of 360º photographic and film content across a variety of unique platforms and delivery methods including immersive dome installations, heritage based virtual tours and photospherical installations, which blurs the boundaries of 360º photography and site-specific sculpture.

Matt has over fifteen years experience working within the immersive medium and is passionate about using technology to engage audiences through shared experiences. Being responsible for 4Pi Productions’ exploration into the potential of mmersive Domes and all things 360º he has conceived and directed the 360º platform, Dance Dome, which has achieved international recognition for Wales’ based immersive talent reaching over 40,000 people and winning multiple international awards.

Jon Spooner 40 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Does the Participant have any specialisms or special interests relevant to the project? Matt Wright is the director of the creative studio 4Pi Productions and the immersive research lab CULTVR in Cardiff. He has extensive experience working collaborativly and being part of large productions mainly within the immersive tech sector. From 2013 to 2016 Matt produced the site-specific 360º project, Relics, in partnership with Cadw, Arts Council of Wales, Wales Millennium Centre and National Waterfront Museum. His photospherical art installations were designed to allow both heritage and cultural audiences to reflect on the place of art within heritage interpretation and were presented at nine Cadw sites across Wales forming afterwards a touring exhibition suitable for indoor and outdoor deployments.

What skills, qualities and experience will this Participant bring to the Creative Team? An in-depth ability to work with emerging technologies and in particular immersive technology and 360 domes. Experience in working across sectors and pushing the envelope in terms of what 360 can do. -A rare combination of both visual and artistic skills and understanding coupled with industry leading engineering skills. A natural opportunity maker and problem solver. Matt has pioneered new technologies by finding ways to fit the project rather than the other way round. -A brilliant facilitator, communicator, enabler within a development space. - An individual who brings all of these skills and disciplines into one space and place is quite unique. - Open mindedness and collaborative nature. Small Ego and big ideas.

Undertaking 6-8 weeks of self-directed work as a Creative Team to develop a concept between 9 December 2020 and 31 January 2021

Presenting this concept to the Festival UK* 2022 team, with a 1 day commitment during W/B 1 + 8 February 2021

/ we acknowledge that, should our concept be selected as one of the 10 commissions, this will require significant additional commitment and capacity throughout 2021-2022

/ we are aware this is a collaborative creative process and that any work or ideas which we share with other creative teams during the R&D project may be freely used by the other creative teams

Jon Spooner 41 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 both in the R&D project and in the future life of their projects.

/ we have the permission of the organisation to apply to participate in this R&D project Checked

Section 9 - Assessment questions

Question 1 Please outline why you think your Creative Team is best placed to create and deliver a mass public engagement?

Tell us why you formed this group and what you want to use the opportunity to explore

Unlimited Theatre has a sector leading reputation for bringing together artists, scientists, cultural organisations and research institutions - leading creative processes with multiple stakeholders resulting in inspiring interactive performance projects for theatres, festivals, museums, public spaces and online.

“Pioneers in combining theatre and science – exploring the impact of scientific advances on our lives” Guardian

Team Member SGA Productions is an international creative agency staging spectacular shows, events for brands and venues, with deep experience of running large scale projects with budgets up to £25m. Previous projects at scale have been delivered for Aardman, the BBC and LEGO amongst many others.

Our Festival 2022 Team brings together a truly diverse range of both emerging and established, award- winning artists alongside world leading research institutions with proven expertise in large-scale public engagement.

To explore: The London 2012 Paralympics fundamentally (positively) reframed UK society’s understanding of the potential and power of the human body – re-framing our notion of ‘disability’. But there is still work to do, particularly as technology develops that not only restores lost or impaired functions but will increasingly enhance abilities. This presents us with an unrivalled opportunity to explore the meeting point of scientific and technological innovation with the mechanics of the human body to bring a more positive focus to difference – exploring how we use innovative tech to restore function and the wider ethics of enhancement.

Jon Spooner 42 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Taking this as our theme (and against the backdrop of a world adjusting to a post-COVD ‘new normal’), all partners are excited to explore how we can inspire a national conversation about Who We Are Now and What Can We Become through large scale live performance, virtual and augmented reality experiences and mass community and school participation.

Why this group: Unlimited has assembled an exceptional team of visionaries and innovators, representing diverse voices, new and established talent, grounded in visionary medical and scientific research.

We bring boundary pushing artistic innovation:

Unlimited & Upswing Two distinctive, award-winning artist-led companies working across performance, digital and circus who combine deep experience in collaborative design processes with a specialist knowledge of Science, Technology and Engineering – with developed UK-wide networks.

Nina Dunn One of the UK’s leading Video and Projection designers whose practice sits at the forefront of technological innovation.

Matt Wright Award-winning 360 dome engineer and virtual reality artist with a background in visual art and photography.

With established and emerging scientific researchers:

The Centre for Applied Education Research (CAER) CAER is a partnership between multiple organisations including the Universities of Leeds and Bradford, Department for Health and the Educational Endowment Foundation using research and immersive technologies in Yorkshire's schools to drive improvement in health outcomes.

The Neural nterface Lab at The Centre for Bioinspired Technologies (mperial College) The Lab creates innovative brain-body interfaces and electronic devices to improve health and wellbeing.

Young Academics A ground breaking new platform - creating national partnerships and opportunities for students with projects that integrate medicine with disciplines outside of healthcare (art, language, culture and technology).

Question 2 How does your Creative Team platform under-represented voices?

Please detail below how you have considered this representation in the make-up of your Team. Unlimited’s Jon Spooner would work with Nickie Miles-Wildin – a disabled theatre director and performer who played Miranda in the 2012 Paralympic Opening Ceremony and is Associate Director of Graeae Theatre.

Upswing’s Vicki Amedume - one of a small number of Artistic Directors of African or Caribbean heritage in performing arts – will work with Amelia Cavallo a Blind, Queer, USA born theatre practitioner, academic and workshop facilitator.

Jon Spooner 43 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 Young Academics Manchester are being represented by Sophia Busch and Komal Amar both of whom stem from ethnic minorities and intersectional backgrounds. Young Academics prides itself in giving opportunities to individuals from underrepresented groups in STEM.

More widely:

CAER’s work is focussed on removing the structural inequalities for underrepresented groups. They have run the Alan Turing nstitute funded programme on the Holme Wood estate in Bradford (one of the UK’s most deprived areas) exploring how A and virtual reality can improve the lives of the people who live there.

Positive representation of disabled people and people of colour is a primary consideration for Unlimited. Our Unlimited Space Agency strand for young people platforms gender and ethnically balanced professionals in STEM and we integrate the skills and talents of disabled performers through multiple shows including Future Bodies (2018) and our new show in development exploring Quantum Physics.

Upswing amplifies the talents of diverse artists and communities and regularly supports under-represented artists, e.g. 'Circus Circus Circus' a talent development programme created in collaboration with Certain Blacks, an organisation that advocates for ethnically diverse artists.

Question 3 How does your Creative Team represent new and emerging talent?

Please detail how you have addressed this in the make-up of your Team Young Academics Manchester represent and platform talented students from undergraduate to postdoc. They support a network of 40,250 students at the University of Manchester, and have branches across 3 other institutions across the UK. A further 6 institutions are in the process of opening a branch. Through the R&D – we will represent two emerging medical researchers. This will be one of their first professional experiences outside of university and a significant step up in scale for them both.

Upswing has selected a Participant who is part of the company’s Associate family, Amelia Cavallo - an artist who is moving into direction for the first time in their career, representing a significant development in their practice.

Francesca Troiani is an emerging research scientist who has been leading in areas of public engagement for the Next Generation Neural nterfaces Group since 2015. This would significantly step up the scale and ambition of her networks and skills in these areas.

Both Unlimited and Upswing have long histories of championing new and emerging talent – developing the skills of producers, production managers and technicians – propelling them into multiple senior roles within the arts – including Phoenix Dance; Battersea Arts Centre; Royal Exchange and Leeds 2023.

Question 4 Which Members of your Team are NOT working with you for the first time?

Please specify which Members you have NOT worked with previously. Please also outline any projects where you HAVE worked with Members before and include the project title, Member & year Unlimited’s Artistic Director Jon Spooner and SGA Projects Creative Director, Ellie Carter, have previously worked together on freelance projects, namely the CBeebies Christmas show for the BBC between 2013-19. However, this will be the first time these two companies will have collaborated on a project of this scale and ambition.

Jon Spooner 44 / 48 FESTIVAL2022\100342 The team at the Next Generation Neural nterfaces at the Centre for Bio-nspired Technology collaborated with Unlimited as one of the expo events for an initial commission from the Science Museum in 2015. However, this will be the first time that Francesca has collaborated with Unlimited, or on a project of this scale, before.

Unlimited previously worked with Matt Wright and his company 4Pi Productions, on the development of Co-Artistic Director Clare Duffy’s immersive theatrical experience that explores intersectional identity politics, Nervous, 1,000 Stories to Save Your Life, in February 2020.

This projects presents new opportunities for collaboration with CAER; Young Academics; Nina Dunn; SGA Projects and Upswing.

Question 5 What experience do you and your Team Members have in delivering large scale or high-profile public projects, or events?

Please share examples of relevant projects and specific involvement, naming the Team Member, date and scale involved in each project SGA Productions: -The opening event for July 2012 London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, nationwide public art event ‘work no 1197: All the Bells’ delivered in collaboration with Martin Creed to simultaneously ‘ring in the Olympics across the four UK nations’. Conceived as a project to unify the country, SGA led on Health & Safety and project management, social media and marketing, financial management as well as overseeing and coordinating the recruitment and activity of thousands of members of the general public, and the Royal Navy, Church of England, BBC Radio 2, National Theatre and key community groups. -The year-long East of England Cultural Olympiad including the delivery of five large-scale public events made in partnership with high-profile companies and institutions. SGA led on relationships with high profile individuals, project management, account management, successful delivery and legacy projects.

CAER have hosted events at the Center for World Culture connecting Saudi Arabian cultural practitioners with their counterparts in Yorkshire. They also regularly organise high profile conferences that bring together policy makers from local and central government, scientists, community representatives and practitioners.

Nina Dunn’s experience includes: -Delivery and realisation of complete design of large-scale projection mapping for the March 2010 nternational Athletics Championships in Doha. -A commission from Artichoke to work with sound designer John Del’ Nero to create a piece of the 2017 Durham Lumiere Festival that celebrates the work of Cosmic Physicists at the University’s Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics. -Over the course of 2014, Nina worked as Head of Video for Secret Cinema, heading up their cinematic extravaganza, Back to the Future. The show successfully re-created Hill Valley for thousands of audiences each night. Nina was responsible for creative content and main feature playback.

Unlimited Theatre: -‘You Have Been Upgraded’ expo of human enhancement technologies at London Science Museum (2015) and as “headline performance event” at Manchester Science Festival (2018). -'The Astro Science Challenge', a main element of the UK Space Agency’s Principia outreach project around Tim Peake’s mission to the nternational Space Station (2015-16), bringing 2,000 young people to the Science Museum’s MAX screen to witness Tim Peake’s launch into space in 2016. -Unlimited’s Jon Spooner has co-written and directed the CBeebies Christmas show 2013-19. Performed in

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Upswing has co-produced a number of mid-scale site specific outdoor events (10,000-25,000 people): -Teaming up with New Vic Theatre, Upswing devised an exquisite aerial display as the closing event for Stoke on Trent City Council’s Olympic Torch event, Phoenix From the Flames -The Moment When - a large-scale participatory event involving 900 participants and 25 professional artists, celebrating the Olympic Torch Relay’s arrival in Chester, both in 2012 -HOME (2019) an aerial and projection performance, in collaboration with Highly Sprung, intertwined live performance and aerial dance to reflect optimism about the future of Coventry. Presented as part of Coventry’s Great Places programme and Coventry 2021

Question 6 Tell us how your Team is capable of producing a concept that champions and celebrates creativity and innovation.

Share examples of where you have championed or celebrated creativity or innovation in the past or how your Team is best placed to do this in future. Matt Wright is recognised for his innovative use of 360º photographic and film content. From 2013-2016 Matt produced the site-specific 360º project, Relics: photo spherical art installations designed to allow both heritage and cultural audiences to reflect on the place of art within heritage interpretation, presented at nine sites across Wales.

Nina Dunn facilitated Emergency Exit Art’s Blink installation. A journey through five different walk through experiences, each taking place through a Giant Eye inspired by a different community in the country.

Unlimited's You Have Been Upgraded was one of the first theatrical expos of human enhancement technologies of its kind, bringing innovative new research presented within the fictitious world of a start-up company. Following our production of The Noise, Unlimited developed a digital platform for experiencing playtexts – UNEditions – innovating a completely new way of both publishing and reading plays to create an immersive digital reading experience featuring sound, light and bonus material.

Upswing’s projects include Changing Altitudes, a programme of work for and with older people that resulted in - a unique touring show What Happens in the Winter and a film commissioned by Big Dance Shorts for Channel 4 Random Acts (a collaboration with visual artist Edwin Mingard, Entelechy Arts and Satellite Films) drawing parallels between the experience of isolated older people and people in outer space. - a series of partnerships with residential care homes including a project commissioned by Hull UK City of Culture in 2017: a multi-sensory experience which brought a spirit of adventure to six care homes in the city

CAER has created some of the most innovative programmes of research for children including ‘Digital Makers’, bringing together stakeholders (including Raspberry Pi, Cisco, Lego etc) to upskill children in digital technologies whilst teaching them how to protect themselves online.

Question 7 We are looking for innovative ideas and fresh approaches throughout this project. How will you create a culture where Team Members feel able to suggest ideas and challenge their current practices?

Think about how you can create new spaces and new practices that will spur innovation. Both Unlimited and Upswing are led by experienced artists who have strong track records in developing and leading collaborative creative processes. Both companies are committed to inclusivity and an

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This experience and spirit will be the catalyst for innovation and fresh approaches in our process.

We are committed to enabling a truly collaborative environment whilst also recognising that Leadership is needed and vital. We recognise and celebrate that each Participant has expertise in their field and will build and demonstrate TRUST for each of us to deliver when that expertise is required.

Unlimited has established an ‘ATTTUDE OF APPROACH’ which it applies to all collaborative creative processes which empowers every Team Participant by: - creating opportunities for sharing ideas early and often. - encourage the constant passing on of ideas for development by other Participants so that ownership doesn't get ‘stuck’ and a culture of transformation is created from the outset. - working sometimes in a highly organised/structured way, sometimes with no agenda other than to discover what people are thinking. - recognising that creative risk-taking is to be encouraged - allow time to travel off-road or down cul-de-sacs - build in time and space to stand back, look, assess, evaluate and adapt - develop and employ strategies to share/pass leadership as needed whilst maintaining continuity.

Question 8 How will you ensure successful collaboration and input from all your Team Members during this project to create the best outcome?

Think about how you will manage your Team, communication and decision-making processes. The above described Attitude of Approach will form the bedrock for our successful collaboration. By clearly communicating how the leadership works and who is ultimately responsible for delivery of each element of the process, we feel confident that this Team will create an extraordinary outcome.

We recognise that some practitioners and researchers are early in their careers and that they bring cultural capital from experiences outside the ‘recognised’ professional sphere. We will work in a democratic way recognising that we are all learning through the process.

We will work both online and offline - aiming to bring everyone together in the same space (in a safe and socially distanced way) on ideally 3 occasions during the process – Beginning, Middle, End. Both Unlimited and Upswing have already been working in ‘real world’ spaces for rehearsals and performance since late July so have developed rigorous COVD safe Method Statements and Risk Assessments.

Unlimited is highly experienced in running multi-partner projects remotely. We will use a range of trusted digital tools for successful collaboration: - Dropbox for sharing ‘static’ files/research/media - Google Docs for collaborative documents and “live writing” - Slack for messaging/chat and more informal ‘notices’ and research - Zoom for online meetings - Email only when necessary for formal comms, particularly with external partners

Ultimate responsibility for individual elements will be agreed, not imposed and final decisions will be made collaboratively, in open and ongoing discussion with all Participants.

Unlimited’s Executive and Senior Leadership Team will take responsibility for Milestones and ensuring all

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Section 10 - Lead organisation declaration

You must read and agree to the stated declaration before submitting your application, by ticking the checkbox.

/ we have understood the responsibilities of the Lead Organisation, as outlined in the applicant guidelines, and confirm we agree to fulfil these responsibilities if selected to participate in this R&D Project. / we have the permission on behalf of the Lead Organisation and all of the Creative Team to apply to participate in this R&D Project / we understand that if our Creative Team is selected to participate in this R&D Project, we will be required to sign an R&D Commissioning Contract and to sub-contract the other members of our Creative Team on the basis of a contract template which Festival UK* 2022 will provide. Checked

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