This month, we will be at Newport Stiwdio ( C-Floor of the USW Newport campus- https://findaroom.southwales.ac.uk/rooms/ncccc32)
Networking, refreshments and insightful talks around the following:
(Trigger warning: some of these talks center around mental health and dealing with long term illness.)
Arunima Mathew
To Feel, not Fear: Reimagining Science through Art and Stories:
Arunima Mathew is a science communicator, interdisciplinary artist, and researcher with a dual background in life sciences and fine art. Her work aims to make complex scientific and medical concepts accessible, engaging, and impactful through multimedia art, visual storytelling, and interdisciplinary collaborations.
Arunima will be sharing her journey and research exploring cancer communication through tumour-inspired art, gene-inspired interactive learning tools, and comics about Leukaemia and Melanoma, developed in collaboration with clinicians. Reflecting on how art, stories, and creative engagement help people learn, communicate, and emotionally connect with science, especially when it comes to something as complex and personal as Cancer.
Tammie Esslemeont
The Power of Youth co-production and Art in building a better tomorrow
Tammie Esslemont is co-founder of a Nature Over Natter, a project that empowers young aritsts across the UK to engage with the climate crisis in hopeful and positive way.
How does the dual crises of mental health and climate overlap? How can engagement through the arts inspire hope, create positive change, and re-write the narrative on these challenges facing South Wales?
Ethel Wynard-Nadzo
Founder and CEO of ThriveScapeWorld—a climate-positive consultancy empowering corporations to meet their ESG goals and offset carbon footprints through strategic, high-impact urban greening.
Ethel and her team identify and transform underused grey spaces—concrete car parks, barren rooftops, vacant lots—into biodiverse green havens, right in the towns and cities where clients, colleagues, and communities live and breathe.
Onismo Muhlanga
Artist | Curator at Urban Circle | Co-Director of Urbanstamp Hub | Film Maker | Support Youth Worker |