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Mar
17
Tue
Inspiring People: Jess Thom @ The North Wall Arts Centre
Mar 17 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Inspiring People: Jess Thom @ The North Wall Arts Centre

Artist, writer and activist Jess Thom has Tourettes syndrome, a neurological condition that means she makes movements and noises she can’t control, called tics. In 2010 she co-founded Touretteshero as a creative response to her experiences, and toured the world with her multi-award-winning stage show, Backstage in Biscuit Land.

Join us for a screening of the 2018 documentary, Me, My Mouth and I, part of BBC Two’s Performance Live strand. Exploring Jess Thom’s funny and unpredictable journey of discovery into one of Samuel Beckett’s most complex plays, Not I, the film asks us to reconsider issues of representation and social exclusion as she prepares to perform the role of ‘Mouth’ in front of a live theatre audience. The screening with be followed by a Q & A with Jess herself.

Touretteshero presents Not I at The North Wall from 18 – 21 March.

About Inspiring People
The Inspiring People series is a joint venture between The North Wall and our principal sponsor, St Edward’s School. Our organisation both have a mission to educate and inspire and our hope is that this series will do just that: half of all tickets are offered free to local schools

Jun
2
Tue
Amphibians Of Oxfordshire – Rod d’Ayala @ St Margaret's Institute
Jun 2 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm
Amphibians Of Oxfordshire - Rod d'Ayala @ St Margaret's Institute

Identification, ecology and conservation of amphibians found in Oxfordshire.

Jul
7
Tue
Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside – Professor Dieter Helm @ St Margaret's Institute
Jul 7 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm
Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside - Professor Dieter Helm @ St Margaret's Institute

To enhance our natural environment, we need to put the environment
back into the heart of the economy. Using natural capital as the
guiding principle, we can leave a better environment for future
generations, implementing a bold 25 year environment plan, thereby
restoring rivers, greening agriculture, putting nature back into towns
and cities, and restoring the uplands and our marine ecosystems. We
can put the carbon back into the soils, encourage natural carbon
sequestration, rebuild our biodiversity and improve our mental and
physical health. This is the prize – a Green and Prosperous Land – and
it is much more economically efficient than the dismal proposed of
business-as-usual and allowing the declines of the last century to
continue.

Nov
19
Thu
Prof Susan Jebb and Prof Sir Charles Godfray in conversation: “Rethinking diet, weight and health in and after the COVID-19 pandemic” @ Online
Nov 19 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

The current covid-19 pandemic has focussed attention on the variability in personal risk of serious illness. After age and ethnicity, one of the most important factors associated with developing serious covid complications, requiring admission to hospital or ICU, is being overweight.

Professor Susan Jebb is a nutrition scientist with a special interest in designing and testing public health interventions to prevent and treat obesity. In this conversation, we shall explore the policy options available to governments and other bodies to tackle obesity and ask whether, as we emerge from the pandemic, there will be a new focus on the benefits of a healthy body weight.