Isabella Bird and Friends

A festival of original music, art, film, dance, spoken word and poetry to celebrate historical female adventurers.

Organised by Professor Pippa Catterall and Dr Jacki Hill-Murphy.

Highlights

Artist Sue Rowland, who is working on a research project about Victorian Women Explorers, telling their stories through print and embroidery.
Display of early female travellers’ art and photography.
Claire Cope, an award winning British composer, pianist and bandleader, whose work spans both contemporary classical, and jazz and improvised music will introduce her album - ‘Every Journey’.
Alice Hunter Morrison, ‘Indiana Jones for Girls’, Adventurer, BBC TV presenter and writer who has accomplished a world-first becoming the first recorded person to walk north to south Saudi Arabia.
Jo Bradshaw, ‘Seven Summiteer’, Jo’s stories challenge what strength, resilience and courage really look like.
Elise Wortley, ‘Woman with Altitude’ Lise's community project Woman with Altitude, empowers people through the stories of pioneering women adventurers, while showing that adventure is not just about conquering or winning, but about connecting to people and the natural world.
Catherine Edsell, The Matriarch Adventurer.
David Baker, will be talking about the extraordinary life of Florence Baker from being enslaved herself as a young girl to her travels and efforts to suppress the slave trade in East Africa in the late nineteenth century.
Rosemary Brown, biographer of pioneering women.
Poetry with Hannah and friends
Dance
Sustainable travel, expedition food and adventure clothing stalls
Films:
More than a Mountain
A Bird on a Yak in Ladakh
The Bride of Mont Blanc

Isabella Bird Room MG14, University of Westminster, Marylebone Campus, London NW1 5LS

This is a paid for event.