Performance for Care

You can also see such work at festivals like Sick! (Manchester and Brighton) and Sick of the Fringe (Edinburgh/London/Adelaide). 3/3

If you are based in a university with a drama and/or creative writing department, you could approach any staff members with teaching or research expertise in 'applied theatre'. Your campus or local theatre could put you in touch with any artists working on healthcare themes. 2/3

Q: how can healthcare educators source writing/drama expertise? A: There are professional companies working in healthcare education including Performing Medicine, Women and Theatre, Operating Theatre, Haylo productions and Healthcare Action Training. 1/2

Karl, Catherine, Fiona have got funding from the healthcare side eg Burdett Trust. If you are considering applying for research funding, please contact us in case there are opportunities for developing collaborative bids. 2/2

Question from Jill: these fab #performingforreal initiatives cost money - how have we secured funding? A: crucial point and a big challenge. Alex's work was funded through small grants by Kingston University and Guildhall School, and through external AHRC and UKRI funding 1/2

The answer is: yes, it's available and free to use, with the expectation that you provide feedback on their effectiveness. Please contact @a_mermi (DM for email).

Thank you for your patience! It took us a while to go through your questions from the #performingforreal event on the 20th Nov but here are some answers: Emma asks whether the digital pack mentioned in @a_mermi 's presentation is available for use and if there is a cost. 1/2

Studio 4 working on an exciting broadcast for @perform4care & our friend @alexspringer_ 👏🏼 #performingforreal #TAVstudio4 #virtualconference #ephiphanpearl4k #pearl2 #streamingstudios #virtualevents #panasonicprojectors #lasertechnology #workingsafely #liveevents #eventprofs

Great team, I agree! ;)

Thank you to our wonderful audience for making #performingforreal a lovely event for the speakers and organisers too! We are very grateful for your questions and will do our best to address them all here in the next few days. Thank you again and keep in touch. 🙏🏽

Thank you Lotte for staying with us the whole day and please keep in touch! :)

Interesting exploration of the theatre of life and imitation in the real world and meaningful/realistic simulated experiences #performforcare @perform4care @a_mermi @DrCathM

Puppetry in simulation sounds fantastic way to breath life into out mannequins @KarlTizzard #performingforreal

We are back with our lovely @a_mermi telling us about realism, abstraction, meaning and affect in healthcare professional education. #performingforreal

Thank you!! We are delighted to hear @PerformingMed1 are finding it interesting!! 😊🎉

Just a reminder for our lovely audience at #performingforreal that after the presentation that is streaming now, we'll have a Q&A session with all our lovely presenters from this morning. Roughly 12:15pm. 😊

Thank you @FionaBastow for sharing @KarlTizzard great presentation! @perform4care #performingforreal

Compelling!

Our wonderful @KarlTizzard explores the performative aesthetics of setting up a sterile field and the effects this may have on the patient. #performingforreal

@perform4care listening to a live presentation from @KarlTizzard exploring how drama-based approaches to enhance how a students can develop roleplays to enhance nursing performance of technical tasks with enhanced interpersonal skills and compassion with #performingforreal