The Gender Roadshow - Pilot (360G-Wellcome-202745_Z_16_Z)

The Gender Roadshow is a pilot scheme to trial a new audience-driven model of touring and presenting performance about transgender bodies and the science surrounding them. Meaningful audience engagement sits at the heart of The Gender Roadshow; it has been created to respond to the needs of the transgender community who face large obstacles to engagement with the arts and science, and is motivated by shortfalls we have experienced on the contemporary performance touring circuit. The pilot will run for five days and will be bookended by performances of ‘Rituals for Change’, the most recent theatre piece created by None of Us is Yet a Robot. Our aim is to make more meaningful connections with individuals through focused engagements and to challenge the mainstream perceptions of transgender bodies and lives with science and art. This pilot project will consists of five phases- Research and Development, City Trials, Formative Evaluation, The Gender Roadshow and Summative Evaluation. We have assembled an experienced and varied Advisory Board to support us through this pilot. Dedicated evaluation periods, supported by an external evaluator, will allow us to assess the success and impact of the pilot and future opportunities for The Gender Roadshow.