Check out the @ox.ac.uk news piece to find out more about our world premiere of Dangerous Matter @rncmlive.bsky.social last week!
🔗https://www.immunology.ox.ac.uk/news/world-premiere-of-dangerous-matter-opera-inspired-by-vaccine-science-and-history-as-part-of-thanks-for-the-memories-project

The opera is the result of a 3 year collaboration between Zakiya Leeming at @rncmprism.bsky.social and Prof. Paul Klenerman @ox.ac.uk supported by @wellcometrust.bsky.social - with a huge range of support and participation from scientists and musicians across Oxford and @manchester.ac.uk 🥳

What a night! A HUGE congratulations to everyone involved in bringing Dangerous Matter to life @rncmlive.bsky.social last night - we're still buzzing from the brilliant performance!

Today's the day! Here's a sneak peek of the world premiere of Dangerous Matter, showing tonight at the RNCM at 7pm - grab your ticket now! www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...

🎤 OPERA PREMIERE | 7pm, 24 June, RNCM Theatre ⏱️

Dangerous Matter - a powerful reflection on the role of memory in medicine & human progress, after Lady Mary Montagu Wortley.

Zakiya Leeming (composer / libretto)
@sredway.bsky.social (director / libretto)

🎟️ www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...

🎵Coming up tomorrow 🎼

"Sound Sculptures: A Concert Merging Installation and Live Performance" feat. music by Simon Knighton, Gemma Bass, Emmy Lambert, Sidney Patrick, and Gloria Xia.

📍 @anthonyburgess.bsky.social, M1 5BY, Manchester
⏱️ 8pm, 11 June 2025

🔗 www.ticketsource.co.uk/simonknighton

"I wanted to make a piece which said “I am really confused. ... I am trying to do what I can but not to prove something, simply because *doing* feels better/more useful to me than talking. I want to collect and connect. I’m terrified but I want a happy home and wow, isn’t the world beautiful.”

📢 New PRiSM Blog | 'Climate Music'

Innovative pianist-composer Sarah Nicolls discusses how her musical activist works responding to climate change has connected deeply with her being an artist, a parent, and recently becoming a farmer in rural Gloucestershire 👇

🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/research/res...

Germaine Kruip: A Possibility | New artwork for the theatre by Dutch artist Germaine Kruip, feat. new compositions by composers Emily Howard and Hahn Rowe | Part of Manchester International Festival 2025 | RNCM, 17-20 July

🔗 factoryinternational.org/whats-on/ger...

'Dangerous Matter': an opera by Zakiya Leeming & libretto by @sredway.bsky.social & Leeming, inspired by the science of immunology and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who advocated for the Turkish practice of inoculation in C18th England | RNCM Theatre | 7pm, 24 June

🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...

Simon Knighton & the House of Bedlam present: "Sound Sculptures: A Concert Merging Installation and Live Performance” | The International Anthony Burgess Foundation | Manchester | 8pm, 11 June 2025

🔗 www.anthonyburgess.org/event/concer...

PRiSM Summer 2025 News & Upcoming Events 👇

▶️ Sound Sculptures with Simon Knighton & the House of Bedlam | 11 June
▶️ Dangerous Matter: New Opera by ZakiyaLeeming | 24 June
▶️ 'A Possibility' at #MIF25 feat. new music by Emily Howard | 17-20 July

Details 🔗
www.rncm.ac.uk/research/res...

Awesome week at #AEConservatoires #EPARM2025 in Tallinn, sharing #ComingUpForAirInLocation - a new art-research initiative led by Kathryn Williams & myself on critical effects & impact of indoor air quality, and raising public awareness through music #IAQ #ArtisticResearch @rncmprism.bsky.social

👋 Hello BlueSky! 👋

Our February 2025 News is here 👇

▶️ RNCM appoints two Honorary Researchers in Association with PRiSM
▶️ 'The Anvil' nominated for 2025 BBC Music Magazine Awards | Public voting is open
▶️ PRiSM Researchers at EPARM | April 2025 | Tallinn, Estonia

🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/research/res...