FESTIVAL2022 100342 Applicant: Spooner, Jon - Unlimited Theatre
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Festival UK* 2022
Applicant: Spooner, Jon
FESTIVAL2022\100342LEAD APPL CANT DETA LS
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 DETA LS
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) voidshift@gmail.com Tel (Mobile) 07984802968
Address 13 Hanover Street Tel (Mobile) 07984802968
Cardiff Email (Work) studio@somethinggraphic.net
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) m.mon-williams@leeds.ac.uk
Tel (Work) +44 (0)207 186 5101 Address Temple Bank House, Bradford Royal
Email (Work) ellie@sgaproductions.com nfirmary
Address 30 Maltings Place Duckworth Lane
London Bradford
SE1 3JB BD9 6RJ
United Kingdom United KingdomRole 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) vicki@upswing.org.uk Email (Work)
Address Upswing, Rich Mix youngacademics.manchester@gmail.com
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) f.troiani@imperial.ac.uk
Address Next Generation Neural nterfaces Lab,
The Faculty Building
mperial College London, Exhibition Road
London
SW7 2AZ
United KingdomSection 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.
Please select whether you are applying as a UK-wide team or a nation-specific team
UK-wide Team
LEAD APPL CANT DETA LS
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 DETA LS
Jo n Sp o o n er 1 / 48
FESTIVAL2022\100342Role 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) voidshift@gmail.com Tel (Mobile) 07984802968
Address 13 Hanover Street Tel (Mobile) 07984802968
Cardiff Email (Work) studio@somethinggraphic.net
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) m.mon-williams@leeds.ac.uk
Tel (Work) +44 (0)207 186 5101 Address Temple Bank House, Bradford Royal
Email (Work) ellie@sgaproductions.com 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) vicki@upswing.org.uk Email (Work)
Address Upswing, Rich Mix youngacademics.manchester@gmail.com
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
Jo n Sp o o n er 2 / 48
FESTIVAL2022\100342Role Team member 7
Title Ms
Name Francesca
Surname Troiani
Tel 02075940701
Email (Work) f.troiani@imperial.ac.uk
Address Next Generation Neural nterfaces
Lab, The Faculty Building
mperial College London, Exhibition Road
London
SW7 2AZ
United Kingdom
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
Jo n Sp o o n er 3 / 48
FESTIVAL2022\100342Company 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
Jo n Sp o o n er 4 / 48
FESTIVAL2022\100342Email address
j@unlimited.earth
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: W SE 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.
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FESTIVAL2022\100342What 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
nickiewildin@icloud.com
Telephone number (daytime)
No Response
Employment status
Freelance
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FESTIVAL2022\100342Please 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: CUTT N’ T (Royal Exchange Theatre) The RON MAN Library Tour
(Graeae/Spark Arts), R FT NEW WR T NG FEST VAL (Leeds University/West Yorkshire Playhouse), THE
FOREST OF FORGOTTEN D SCOS (Contact/Jackie Hagan), THE TEMPEST AT ABRAHAM MOSS (Royal
Exchange Theatre), BUCK A BRENDA & B NGO L NGO (co-director/Wild N Beets); D SAB L TY SEX
ARCH VES, TWO CAN TOUCAN (TwoCan Theatre), NANA'S JUMBLE (Kazzum).
Assistant Director credits at RET include: MOTHER COURAGE & HER CH LDREN, DEATH OF A SALESMAN,
FRANKENSTE N, 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 GD F, S RF 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.
Jo n Sp o o n er 7 / 48
FESTIVAL2022\100342First 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
Jo n Sp o o n er 8 / 48
FESTIVAL2022\100342/ 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
Checked
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
studio@somethinggraphic.net
Registered trading address
19 Bond Street, Brighton
Postcode
BN15PD
Telephone number (daytime)
07984802968
Jo n Sp o o n er 9 / 48
FESTIVAL2022\100342Which 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.
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FESTIVAL2022\100342Each 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
/ 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
Checked
Section 3 - Team member 3
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FESTIVAL2022\100342Are 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...
Aardman Animations | BAFTA | BBC | Bourne Leisure | BST | DHX | Eden Project | Freemantle Media |
Haribo | Hero | PO | n The Night Garden | LEGOLAND Parks and Resorts | Land’s End | LOGOG |
LolliBop | Longleat Enterprises | Marvel | MediaCityUK | Merlin Entertainments | MGA Toys | Mr. Men
Little Miss | Murphy | Nat Geo Kids | Nickelodeon | NPower | PVM | Pinkfong | RBG Kew | Rave-A-Roo
| Science Museum Group | Sanrio | Tesco | Toyota | Twirlywoos | ZSL
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.
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FESTIVAL2022\100342f 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
ellie@sgaproductions.com
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).
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FESTIVAL2022\100342Does 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
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FESTIVAL2022\100342Employment 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
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FESTIVAL2022\100342submitted:
/ 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
/ 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
Checked
Section 4 - Team member 4
Do you require Team Member 4?
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FESTIVAL2022\100342Yes
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.
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FESTIVAL2022\100342f 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
M.Mon-Williams@leeds.ac.uk
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.
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FESTIVAL2022\100342Does 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 katy.shire@bthft.nhs.uk Jo n Sp o o n er 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.
Participant 3 details (Optional)
Complete this section for your colleague participating in the project.
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FESTIVAL2022\100342First 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.
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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 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
Checked
Section 5 - Team member 5
Do you require Team Member 5?
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
Upswing. (trading as UPSW NG AER AL LTD)
Website address
www.upswing.org.uk
Registered trading address
Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd
London
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FESTIVAL2022\100342Postcode
E1 6LA
(Business) contact telephone number
07939027444
Which area of STEAM do you feel most closely describes your field of work?
Arts
Company biography
UPSW NG 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
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.
First name
Amelia
Surname
Cavallo
Email address
amelia.cavallo@gmail.com
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FESTIVAL2022\100342Registered 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 LGBTQQ A+ 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 R DE: 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 LGBTQQ A+ 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?"
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FESTIVAL2022\100342What 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 LGBTQQ A+ 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
vicki@upswing.org.uk
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.
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FESTIVAL2022\100342Does 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 GD F 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
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FESTIVAL2022\100342Each 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
/ 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
Checked
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