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A £30,000 Arts Award from The Wellcome Trust, to be shared with artist Susan Aldworth, and sculptor Eleanor Crook, funds six months of a new project in London, which will involve researching pathology at the group's residency at the Gordon Museum of Pathology, and with scientists at Kings College London Medical School, to produce cross-disciplinary work for public exhibition and publication.
A unique opportunity to have access to cutting edge medical science, the award was given partly on the merits of the collaborative project, This Fatal Subject, and partly on the participants' track records and achievements.
Read more about This Fatal Subject.
The radio version of Valerie's new play was runner up in the 2007 prestigious BBC Radio 4 Alfred Bradley Award. Valerie has now rewritten it as a stage play, and a production by Cloud Nine Theatre Company, with music by The Keelers, sung by The Keelers and Katie Doherty, opened at the Sage, Gateshead, on February 7th-9th 2008. Three great nights there were followed by performances at Whitby, Hexham, York, Dipton, Berwick, Alnwick, Bishop Auckland, Washington, and North Shields, with fantastic responses from audiences and some great reviews too.
Read more about The Selkie.
March 14th: 'Seeing Myself Think': poetry performance at Susan Aldworth's 'Drawing on Consciousness' Symposium: a distinguished panel of neuroscientists, artists, psychologists, and a poet, discuss consciousness. 2-6pm, at CultureLab, Newcastle University, Grand Assembly Rooms, Kings Walk, NE1 7RU. Tickets from doc@ncl.ac.uk, 0191 222 8320.
March 25th, 6 pm: Valerie talks about her life as a writer, with samples of work, to students of MA Creative Writing, University of Northumbria.
MARCH 3-4, 10-11, 17-18: Leeds Hospitals Residency for Tonic, the Leeds NHS Trust arts organisation. Valerie is working with patients and staff in orthopaedic and cancer wards in Leeds, facilitating their writing. Look out for three of her poems on the walls of waiting rooms in surgeries and hospitals in the Leeds area! Better for passing the time than germ ridden copies of Hello?
April 15th, 6.30pm: Valerie reads her work to Poetry Reading Group, at Borders, Team Valley.
April 26th, c. 8.30, Valerie will read in Co. Limerick, at West Newcastle, as a guest at Eigse Michael Hartnett Literary Weekend, with Michael D Higgins. The festival is from April 24-26.
June 26th, 2pm: Valerie reads and discusses her poetry with Morpeth Library Poetry Reading Group. (Note change of date from March 27).
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