Public Engagement Provision. (360G-Wellcome-106174_Z_14_A)

Collaborative outreach programme with Mark Withers and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE): This programme builds on a history of collaborations between Russell Foster and musician Mark Withers dating back to 1997 which includes a major education project, A Celebration of Life on Earth", with the OAE. We will start our work from scientific research into sleep, the eye and body clocks. Sleep and the eye are themes that have occupied musicians for centuries, mainly with poetic or spiritual inspiration. The musicians of the OAE give us the opportunity to survey some of this work and to create new work with a scientific rather than a poetic inspiration. The programme divides into 4 phases: Phase 1 allows for the professional development and preparation of the projectteam of Russell Foster, Mark Withers, 8 members of the OAE, 4 Oxford University scientists, and teachers from participating schools. 2 days of scientific and musical exploration will be followed by a day long introduction to the work for participating teachers. Simultaneously, the team will prepare teaching materials for use by the project participants which will be made available via the internet to any schools not directly participating in the project that may wish to use them. Phase 2 takes the programme into 3 primary schools in the Oxford area, in eachof which up to 60 Key Stage 2 children from Years 5 or 6 will take part directly in the programme. The children will have a day of music and science workshops where they will explore body clocks, sleep patterns and data collection on the scientific side and look at how sleep has been represented in music over the centuries while experimenting with simple compositional techniques. Pupils will then have a period of 3 months to collect research data based on pupils' own sleep patterns and to devise related musical material. This work will be brought together in In its 3rd phase, the programme will visit 2 groups of secondary school music and science students (GCSE/A-level), each group for 3 days. Working with the scientific team, these groups will devise a point of departure based on sleep research which they will then use to compose musical works to be performed by the musicians from the OAE. Schools in phases 2 and 3 will be selected in conjunction with the existing local music hub. Phase 4 celebrates the work of the programme in 2 concerts, an afternoon concert for schools and an evening concert for a wider public. The pieces devised by participatingprimary schools will be performed in the afternoon concert and as a pre-concert event for the evening. Both concerts will contain the pieces written by the secondary school groups alongside existing repertoire based on sleep. The concerts will be presented by Russell Foster and Mark Withers and will put all of the music being performed in the context of the research being carried out by Russell and his team.