Performance Interpreting

BSL Interpreted Event BSL Interpreter - Paula Cox Part of Imagine Children's Festival Pens, felt tips and pencils at the ready! Journey with us on an ink-filled day of illustration and storytelling. Draw your way through fantastical lands and tongue-twisting characters to arrive at the big picture. Sessions 11-12.30pm and 13.00-14:30pm

BSL Interpreted Event BSL Interpreter - Paula Cox Part of Imagine Children's Festival Find out about courageous children who tried to make the world a better place. If you could make a difference, what would you do? Every day of Imagine festival, for 15 minutes, hear about real-life kids (and fictional characters) who’ve battled unfair rules and tackled problems that stumped the grown-ups around them. Hear inspirational stories about children like Greta Thunberg, Malala Yousafzai or Linda Brown, Pippi Longstocking…

BSL Interpreted Event BSL Interpreter - TBC Following the news that his sixth studio album, ‘Once Upon A Mind’, will be released on the 25 October, James Blunt announces a major 2020 UK and European tour including a show at the Motorpoint Arena Nottingham. After flirting with electronica on his last album, James Blunt returns to what he does best on new album ‘Once Upon A Mind’, writing classic songs that touch both the heart and the head. Highlights are…

SL Interpreted Event BSL Interpreter - Paul Michaels Part of Imagine Children's Festival A personal, powerful and resonant account of the Holocaust: discover the new book by beloved children's author Michael Rosen. Told through prose and poetry, The Missing is the true story of Rosen’s search for his relatives who ‘went missing’ during the Second World War. Poems old and new are balanced against an immensely readable narrative; both an extraordinary account and a powerful tool for talking to children…

Schedule of interpreted events for FRIDAY 6th MARCH Please note you will need to purchase a day pass for the Friday to attend these events. 10:30-11:30am, Opening event, Royal Festival Hall 12:00-13:00pm, Love Stories, Royal Festival Hall 12:00-13:00pm, Women's Parliament, Queen Elizabeth Hall 13:45-14:45pm, WOW Big Ideas, Royal Festival Hall 13:45-14:45pm, Me & White Supremacy, Queen Elizabeth Hall 15:30-16:30pm, Corporates get Naked, Royal Festival Hall 15:30-16:30pm, Mayoral Hustings, Queen Elizabeth Hall 17:00-18:00pm, WOW Closing, Royal Festival Hall If there is…

BSL Interpreted Event BSL Interpreters: Vicki Lamb and Susan Merrick Part of WOW Festival See what is often unseen as the campaigner and writer discusses her groundbreaking book Invisible Women. Imagine a world where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, your phone is too big for your hand, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, or where the hours of work you do are not recognised or valued.…

BSL Interpreted Event BSL Interpreters - Tracey Tyer and Sophie Allen Part of WOW festival In an afternoon of fun, frank and honest conversation, Scarlett Curtis and special guests discuss what feminism means to them. Curated by journalist and activist Curtis, Feminists Don't Wear Pink (and other lies) is a collection of essays by 52 amazing women on what the F word means to them. Described by Reese Witherspoon as ‘brilliant, hysterical, truthful and real’, the book includes pieces by…

BSL Interpreted Event BSL Interpreters - Paul Michaels and Nikki Harris Part of WOW festival What does it mean to be British today? Have identities shifted in the new Brexit Britain? What does ‘British values’ even mean in a modern age? Join a line-up of speakers to explore these questions and more with WOW – Women of the World. With reports of hate crimes increasing, and some people feeling more ostracised since the UK’s historical referendum, we examine exactly what…