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Family Arts Week is back
23 Oct 2017, 11:59 a.m.
The fourth Family Arts Week is taking place at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) 23–27 October, and includes family workshops, performances and music inspired by GOSH’s architecture.The week of events is being led by GOSH Arts and the Activity Centre. Patients, siblings and families are invited to take part in an array of events throughout the week. With over a dozen different activities taking place, there’s something from everyone.
Some of this year’s highlights include:
- Monday: Hip Hop dancers Boy Blue Entertainment dancing through the corridors.
- Tuesday: Theatre Peut-Être performing their show Tidy Up, which was developed with staff and families at GOSH.
- Wednesday: the Institute of Imagination in the Activity Centre building an imaginary city.
- Thursday: Corali Dance Company performing Find Your Way, inspired by imagined worlds and landscapes, throughout the hospital.
- Friday: architects Assemble creating a collaborative paper sculpture in the hospital’s main entrance.
Researchers funded to cure inflammatory disease
Researchers from University College London (UCL) and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) will join researchers across the UK and international partners in a bid to transform how chronic inflammatory disease is treated.
Innovative imaging project aims to save children’s sight
Researchers from GOSH and UCL are leading a project that could transform how children at risk of sight loss are monitored, by adapting advanced eye imaging technology for use closer to home
Five GOSH clinicians recognised with professorial appointments at UCL
Five clinician researchers from GOSH have been promoted to professor by University College London (UCL), recognising their outstanding contributions to research, innovation and child health.
‘Super elastic’ springs used in world-first surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital
Surgeons have carried out world-first surgery using innovative super elastic springs which can offer a safer and more effective treatment for a rare skull condition.