About The Event:

Endosymbiotic Love Calendar brings performance artists & microbiologists together to embody a microorganism for every month of 2021. This art + science collaboration takes the form of a 2021 wall calendar, film series and live streamed chat show, and delves into the (renewed public awareness of the) microbial world and the fragile interdependence of our coexistence on this planet.

The project makes it’s official debut on Endosymbiotic Love LIVE with Yasmine & RJ (4th of December at 7pm). Hosted by parasitologist Yasmine Kumordzi, and performer RJ Lloyd, this chat show will feature microbial sketches, interviews, and a live Q&A. This event will be live streamed over YouTube. And if that is not enough, there will also be a COMPETITION where you can bag yourself a free Calendar! So, grab your tickets to this LIVE streamed chat show (here on Eventbrite) for an evening of wild entertainment.

Head to our shop page to order your calendar in time for Christmas! https://domesticscience.org.uk/ELC-Buy.html. 50% of the price you pay for the calendar will be donated to The Outside Project, the UK’s first LGBTIQ+ Crisis/Homeless Shelter and Community Centre: www.lgbtiqoutside.org

A link to watch the event will be sent to you two days before.

The Collective:

Artists: Annalaura Alifuoco (Liverpool), RJ Lloyd (Liverpool), Conway McDermott (Liverpool), Tammy Reynolds (Liverpool)

Scientists: Natalie Beveridge (Liverpool), Neil Dawson (Liverpool), Rod Dillon (Liverpool), Viv Dillon (Liverpool), Lee Haines (Liverpool), Yasmine Kumordzi (Durham), Emmanuel Laplantine (Paris), Ewan Russell (Liverpool), Dee Walshe (Liverpool)

Microorganisms: Bacteriophage (Everywhere), Cowpox (Digestive tract), Giardia duodenalis (In animal intestines, travelling via poop), Leishmania mexicana (Sandfly gut and macrophages), Mycorrhizal networks (Connecting every plant or tree you see...), Neurons (The Brain), Ophiocordyceps unilateralis (Tropical forests), Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Widely found in nature), Shigella (Digestive tract), Strombidium purpureum (Basking in moonlit seas), Tulip breaking virus (Hopefully in your secret garden), Wolbachia (Insects and other invertebrates)

https://domesticscience.org.uk/ELC-Buy.html

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Accessibility:

Unfortunately we won't have a BSL interpreter, live captioning or audio description for the live event.

We invite attendees to use youtube automatic captioning, and the recording from the event will then be professionally captioned before it's uploaded to our website afterwards.

We will ask anyone on camera to describe themselves and will also be posting text descriptions of any photos shown on the screen through the live chat.

We warmly welcome ideas/suggestions relating to access for the online content and the project in general! Please email endosymbioticlove@gmail.com

Producers: Hwa Young Jung & Ross Dalziel (Liverpool)

Filmmaker: Sophie Broadgate (Manchester)

Designers: Sunhwa Lim (Korea) & Jiwon Kim (Canada)

FUNDED BY: Microbiology in Society Award & Arts Council England

Endosymbiotic Love Calendar 2021

Website: endolove.slyrabbit.net

Twitter: @hwayoung #EndoLove

Instagram: @endosymbioticlove

Email for press enquiries: endosymbioticlove@gmail.com