Forsinard event will celebrate women scientists

RSPB Forsinard Flows is to be transformed into a spectacle of sound and animation in celebration of women scientists at an event next month.

Bones+Stars is a new show premiering in the north Highlands that encourages people to look up to the sky and down to the earth. Using a combination of sound, animation and interactive theatre, the show will transport audiences into the minds of women scientists.

The audiences will be led through the Flows by two remarkable scientists from the 1800s – fossil collector Mary Anning and astronomer Caroline Herschel. The public will learn more about the lives of these women and the earth and sky in interactive ways, through playing with sound sculptures, animation and puppetry.

Lucie Treacher, the musician/artist behind the project, who is from Dornoch, said: “I was really inspired by Mary and Caroline as they lived at the same time but never met. This show imagines what would happen if their brilliant minds had collided.”

Animations will be fused with music by Lucie, using a mix of live and recorded sounds.

The Forsinard event is on March 18 and the show will also be "popping up” in primary schools in the north Highlands.

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