The changing face & future of nursing
This is a careers session with a difference and combines the history and future of nursing including innovation, and entrepreneurship right from Nightingale to what's happening now. This session will inspire students and potential nurses.
What can Science offer the Arts?
Arts and culture provide a rich testbed to bring together mind and body, the old with the new, the known with the unknown, and to do things never seen before. So maybe they’re not so different after all.
The panel of scientists and artists discuss the relationship between scientists and artists.
Chair: Richard Wingate
Panel: Dr Leigh Wilson, Charlie Murphy, Dr Ali Hossaini, Yinka Danmole
Free Flow Creative Writing
Celebrate your own unique voice and creativity in these fun, free-flowing writing sessions.
Using short speedy exercises The Poetry Takeaway’s Laurie Bolger will get you writing before you can even think about it! These workshops will provide you with creative writing skills you can takeaway into everyday life to boost creativity and wellbeing.
Florence Nightingale Life and Legacy
Everyone knows Florence Nightingale as the world’s most famous nurse. But did you know she was a nurse for only a few short years of her life?
2020 marks Nightingale’s bicentenary with a new exhibition, “Nightingale in 200 Objects, People & Places”, demonstrating what influenced her on her own journey as an icon, leader and pioneer – which you can now see online.
On The Frontline: Our Clinical and Scientific Response to Covid
The panel will provide expert insight into how they rapidly changed their ways of working to adapt in a challenging environment. Repurposing and redirecting existing resources, knowledge and skills to flexibly support their patients, the community and provide insight both locally and globally.
Stitch ‘n Stem
Do you like to get crafty and learn something new? If so then this workshop is for you!
Organised by the Research and Development Department at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, join a scientist to learn all about stem cells whilst embroidering them!
Grab a cup of tea and a biscuit (or two!) and relax whilst discovering what stem cells are and how they are being applied in research and future therapies.
Are You Sitting Comfortably - How your everyday posture affects your overall wellbeing
Over this past year we have all been spending a lot more time than normal in front of screens - this workshop will help you to still feel energised and comfortable even when sitting in one place for long periods.
Targeted at people who are not only interested in improving their sitting posture but for those who are keen to find out how to become more “at ease” in all aspects of life.
Love Lunch x Illuminated River : Fascinating Insights and Project Stories
Join Sarah Gaventa, Director of the Illuminated River Foundation to learn more about the Illuminated River project, a public art commission which is transforming the capital at night.
Vlad and Florence
Vlad Flea and Loxton the Rat are living in their perfect home amongst the dirt and filth of Scutari Hospital. However, the arrival of Florence Nightingale and her strange companion changes everything. Will the friends be driven out or will they save the day?
Food and Florence
Join Miss Nightingale (Amber Lickerish) and Alexis Soyer (Rob Astillo) from the Florence Nightingale Museum in the kitchen with the Kid's Cookery School as they explore food and healthy eating.
Street Photography Workshop
Street photography is a style of photography that aims to capture life as it happens in public spaces for art or enquiry. This involves taking candid pictures of total strangers in the streets, sometimes without them knowing it. The aim is to record the wonderful mosaic that is the human experience.
London Bridge is Falling Down: The London Bridge Ballad Walk
Experience the sights and sounds of London Bridge in years gone by. Time-travel to join the throngs of people on old London Bridge, with its shops, churches and street vendors, or visit a frost fair on the frozen Thames.
Calisthenics - Create your own work-out routine with Jay Plantpower
Born and raised in Southwark Jay Plantpower Bolton is a vegan fitness personal trainer who specialises in outdoor fitness.
In this session Jay will offer ideas and inspiration for you use your body weight and you’re your environment inside or outside - as a gym.
Recovery, the lost art of convalescence- In conversation with best-selling author Dr. Gavin Francis
On 26 October 2022 GP and award-winning writer, Dr Gavin Francis spoke about his recent book, Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence.
Florence Nightingale said that to recover people need ‘fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness and quiet and a proper diet’. This session explores how taking time to get better after an illness is a profound insight into human regenerative capabilities.