Dr Lena Šimić is Liverpool-based transnational performance maker, local politician, activist, pedagogue and scholar researching contemporary performance and the maternal as well as arts responses to the climate crisis. Reader in Drama at Edge Hill University. Lena was a co-organiser of the Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home between 2008 and […]

This event is taking place as part of AHEAD x Bunker Talks series Zodwa Nyoni is a Zimbabwean-born playwright, librettist, screenwriter and director. Her debut play, BOI BOI IS DEAD won the Channel 4 Playwrights’ Scheme in 2014. It was also a finalist for the international Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2014/15. Since, her plays have […]

You are invited to a short, informal event sharing new work by artist/researchers from the Performance Research Group at Manchester School of Art. An opportunity to see new work in development and offer feedback towards its future. The line-up for our inaugural event includes Performance Research Group members: Rachel Rimmer-Piekarczyk, Kevin Egan, Joe Ward Munrow, […]