Helen Arney
@helenarney.bsky.social
Musical Theatre writer @firebrigademusical.bsky.social, The Unstoppable Letty Pegg. Sometimes geek songstress/scientist/stand-up. Mum x2. 1/3 fotsn.bsky.social. She/her. 📷 @idisukan. Upcoming 🔥Fire Brigade🔥 shows: https://firebrigademusical.com/about/
Sunday saw the first two workshop performances of @firebrigademusical.bsky.social performed by the brilliant University of Lincoln MT second year students, and a creative dream team. Thank you for bringing our story to life! And thank you for the fabulous photos @briansayle.bsky.social !
The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade, a new musical about Hertha Ayrton and pioneering women in science, supported by the BSHS OEC project grant, @ the britishsciencefestival.org on 19 Sept in Southampton. bshs.org.uk/cambridge-fi... Free tickets: www.mayflower.org.uk/whats-on/bri...
OXFORDSHIRE PEOPLE! Come to our FREE family physics singalong workshops! Or get £5 tickets for our concert of @firebrigademusical.bsky.social at an ACTUAL FIRE STATION (bring picnics!) All at GAP Festival in Goring & Streatley on Saturday 20th June... pls share share share! thegapfestival.org
OXFORDSHIRE PEOPLE! Come to our FREE family physics singalong workshops! Or get £5 tickets for our concert of @firebrigademusical.bsky.social at an ACTUAL FIRE STATION (bring picnics!) All at GAP Festival in Goring & Streatley on Saturday 20th June... pls share share share! thegapfestival.org
Meet Annie Maunder! The eclipse-chasing, sun-photographing astronomer and "Lady Computer" of @firebrigademusical.bsky.social Come see Annie and the rest of The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade this summer in Cheltenham, London, Oxfordshire and Lincoln! firebrigademusical.com/about/
The musical I'm co-writing got a lovely writeup on the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cambridge University's all-women fire brigade inspires musical
The musical explores the story of five trailblazing Victorian students who served in the brigade.
bbc.co.uk
Our second "Meet The Characters" and this time it's the indomitable Ethel Sargant: respected botanist, morning hater, and law-breaking suffrage campaigner! Yes, she really was all these things 🤯 Meet Ethel this summer at our @firebrigademusical.bsky.social shows! 🎟️ firebrigademusical.com/about
Would you like to hear a song from the musical I'm writing with @helenarney.bsky.social and @jennipinnock.com , sung by the amazing LVL musical theatre choir? You for sure do: www.youtube.com/watch?v=myY-...
"Put Out The Fire" from The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade, performed by Leading Voices Ldn
YouTube video by Helen Arney
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Our first "Meet The Characters" post for The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade Musical, and it's HERTHA AYRTON - on her actual birthday! 172 years young, she's the real founder of @girtoncollege.bsky.social Fire Brigade in firebrigademusical.bsky.social Share her story today! #makingmarks
Our first "Meet The Characters" post for The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade Musical, and it's HERTHA AYRTON - on her actual birthday! 172 years young, she's the real founder of @girtoncollege.bsky.social Fire Brigade in firebrigademusical.bsky.social Share her story today! #makingmarks
Come see me and my badass STEMinist musical in concert this summer: @firebrigademusical.bsky.social! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 PLUS - free family singing science workshops for ages 7 to 107 in CHELTENHAM, OXFORDSHIRE and LINCOLN (did I mention these are FREE?) Come one come all! Click link in bio to grab your place!
Hooray for Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin who now has her own blue plaque in London. 🔭 www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-p... (Thanks to @helenarney.bsky.social for reminding me)
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin | Astronomer | blue plaques
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was widely considered the most eminent woman astronomer of the mid-20th century. She is recognised by a plaque at the home where she grew up, 70 Lansdowne Road.
english-heritage.org.uk
“It’s really happening… it’s kind of overwhelming… it’s all the knowledge we have dreamt of holding in our hands”🧯🚒👩🚒 Announcing TWO performances of “The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade” at Lincoln Uni, with their amazing students! 3+8pm on Sun 10 May Tix: firebrigademusical.com/about
Dmitri Mendeleev, who created a version of the periodic table of elements, was born #OnThisDay in 1834. 🧪 Of the 10 elements discovered or first isolated here at the Ri, one has a bit of an image problem. @helenarney.bsky.social wrote a great song to remind us that boron isn't boring at all!
@rhodri.biz Here with friends who want guidance on where best to go for Christmas Sleeping Quarters Updates…?
Don't tell anyone, but if you take a look at our website, something new has been added. Shh, keep it a secret for now. 👀 festivalofthespokennerd.com/tickets/
Buy Tickets | Festival of the Spoken Nerd
Join stand-up mathematician Matt Parker, experiments maestro Steve Mould and geek songstress Helen Arney at a night full of electrifying live experiments, spectacular songs and mind-bending maths. Can...
festivalofthespokennerd.com
Prepping for a week in Canterbury, workshopping "The Unstoppable Letty Pegg - the musical" with @nymt.org.uk... the dream is coming true! We have an amazing young company, director, choreographer, MD and more in the room - plus a Q&A with Letty's book-mum @iszi.com. Get ready for LONDON CHAOS!
ncredible scenes! I applied a second (final) time for a DYCP grant from @artscouncilengland.bsky.social and... I got it! From September, I'm developing my bookwriting skills for youth companies & coming up with new ideas for British Musicals to nurture towards production over the coming years 🙌
Digging into the Science Museum archive today, and found this: an original notebook of Hertha Ayrton’s research into fans 🪭 Also found a Suffragette Society letterhead being used as a bookmark in a science journal 😝💪🔥 Hertha Ayrton Fan Club assemble! We have some big things coming soon…
Throw back to June 2023 when we sent "Unstoppable" from The Unstoppable Letty Pegg into the Stiles+Drewe Best New Song Prize... and Sienna Aurora Clarke sang it in the final concert! 💁♀️ 🥋 💪 Now we're about to workshop the rest of the show based on @iszio.bsky.social's book with @nymt.org.uk 🤯 🤩 😲
What a night #PintOfScience was on 20 May! @neilgostling.bsky.social shattered dodo myths with science & wit, then @helenarney.bsky.social stole the show with songs, smarts & a ukulele. Extinct birds + geek comedy = a Tuesday treat. Thanks for the laughs, facts & full house! @pintofscience.uk
Kid's publishing people, and adjacents! I've written a draft of a kids picture book text in a genre I'm calling GIANT SQUID MAGICAL REALISM. My 4 year old and 8 year old like it, but does anyone want to have a look at it? 🦑 🦑 🦑 🦑 🦑 🦑 🦑 🦑 🦑 🦑 🦑
If you're in Southampton at the end of the month, you should go to The Stage Door and hear them sing some of the songs from @firebrigademusical.bsky.social (the musical I'm writing with @jennipinnock.com and @helenarney.bsky.social !) thestagedoor.org.uk/product.php/...
Happy Birthday Hertha Ayrton! Physicist, inventor, science communicator, social activist and founder of the Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade: youtube.com/watch?v=lkiU...
The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade - Birmingham Hippodrome New Musicals Showcase
YouTube video by Birmingham Hippodrome
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A rare solo show from me, doubling up with an even rare dodo expert… what a team!
The Linnean Society of London@linneansociety.bsky.social · last yr.🧪 Science... 🦤 Dodos.... 🎶 Ukuleles! We're back at Pint of Science again on Tues 20 May, 6 - 8pm: @neilgostling.bsky.social reveals the dodo’s wild side, then @helenarney.bsky.social hits you with sharp wit & science songs. Expect surprises, LOLs & maybe singalongs. 🍻 Book here: bit.ly/3G3hGIH
🧪 Science... 🦤 Dodos.... 🎶 Ukuleles! We're back at Pint of Science again on Tues 20 May, 6 - 8pm: @neilgostling.bsky.social reveals the dodo’s wild side, then @helenarney.bsky.social hits you with sharp wit & science songs. Expect surprises, LOLs & maybe singalongs. 🍻 Book here: bit.ly/3G3hGIH
Check out the updated version we helped produce in 2019 with @helenarney.bsky.social, the Waterbeach Brass Band and chemists from around the world! www.youtube.com/watch?v=viDY... #ChemSky #ScienceSky #MusicSky
The Elements Song 2019 – Chemistry World
YouTube video by Chemistry World
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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🌖@chronicleflask.katday.com · last yr.Happy Birthday, Tom Lehrer! Born #OTD, April 9 1928 Famous, of course, for the Elements Song! #Chemsky youtu.be/zGM-wSKFBpo?...
Happy Tom Lehrer Day to everyone! Especially to Tom Lehrer ⚗️🧪🎹 youtu.be/hzvVLK9Y048
Tom Lehrer's Elements, Live! - from You Can't Polish A Nerd, out now on DVD and download
YouTube video by Helen Arney
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