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As Being Human hits the States, Sara talks us through the opportunities of experimentation and connection they hope to generate in becoming hosts.

Sarah takes us on a whirlwind tour of some of the treats in store for Being Human 2018. Find out where a trip to one of our festival events could take you! 

Hanna and Annie reveal the journeys they took when creating their Being Human festival activity and how audiences responded to thinking about their own deaths.

Vanessa Mongey explains about how a love of ferns tied the imperial, natural and human histories of the Caribbean to the North-East of England.

In this post Tom Cutterham discusses the moral complexities behind the University of Birmingham’s event ‘Must bankers be bad’.

In this post, George Kyris discusses the role sovereignty has played from the time of King Henry VIII until today’s Brexit Britain.

Catherine Waters explores the Victorian reporting at the heart of her Being Human festival event ‘Rediscovering the art of Victorian graphic journalism’.

Claire Warden tells us about a live wrestling event which lifts the curtain on the history and current popularity of British professional wrestling by exploring its performance conventions. 

In this post Dr Sam George discusses the ‘Books of Blood’ project which aims to change our perceptions, and fear, of blood.