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FERT FEST 2019 SHOWCASE EPISODE
Category: Health
Duration: 01:06:48
Publish Date: 2019-05-17 08:11:21
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What an amazing programme Fertility Fest shared with us and this episode tries to give you a taster of a number of the sessions. We recorded a fair few and I will be writing a post about my highlights aside from this showcase episode. I hope you get a sense of what you can expect from the Fest programme. 

In this episode, you heard snippets from: 

 The Queer Family 

That was Cabaret-artist Jamie Anderson, who was performing songs from his new show about becoming a father for the first time as a gay man and you’ll be hearing more from him, so don’t you worry.  The Queer family event and panel was made up of a range of conversations, including theatre-maker Stella Duffy and Playwright Shelley Silas have been together for 28 years and been married four times  – that’s how long it took the law to catch up! They have eighteen nieces and nephews, twenty nine great nieces and nephews and many godkids and guardkids. They’ve lost three parents, two sisters, one nephew and six embryos. They didn’t have the family they dreamed of and yet…they are family nonetheless. Here they share an improvised reading that the pair of them haven’t read to each other before.. then you will hear a reading from Dimple Devadas who will be telling the remarkable story of her rainbow family made through the gift of sperm donation from her best-selling ‘Human Book

The Trying to Conceive Day

With Anya Sizer charing a panel and Prof Geeta Nargund andleading women’s health expert Emma Cannon talks about unexplained infertility. Emma shares the conversations she has from patients asking why they were offered add ons as well and you’ll hear Tamsin Jeffs from MyLotus fertility monitor and fertility expert from ITV's This Morning Dr Larisa Corda; giving their advice on what one thing they would say to anyone listening and still trying to conceive..

We also spoke about Gareth Down's Men only facebook group

and Elis Matthews who was part of the Invisible Man session and then you’ll hear from  Foz Foster who was part of the Miscarriage evening, talking about his feelings of how he was treated whilst dealing with the miscarriages of his children along a wonderful reading from Julia Bueno who has a new book out called The Brink of Being, which has just been published.

You’re going to hear from Dr David Ogutu explaining how watching the work has helped him see more of the patient point of view and also from the Big Fertility Questions event where Hannah Vaghan Jones spoke with the issue of support for patients Professor Geeta Nargund… Ricky Martin..Joyce Harper and Geoffrey Trew   and the availability of counselling..

The Young Gifted and Infertile night was one of Jessica’s highlights she said near the end of the festival. The evening started with a performance of Flushed, written and directed by Catherine Cranfield then Natasha Bishop, student and Founder of The Pants Project spoke about how underwear became her tool for empowerment when she was diagnosed, age 16, with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome and Andreia Trigo, Founder of Infertile Life, and Marie Gerval, Co-Chair of the Daisy Network were all interviewed by Jessica. I’m jumping in as Jessica and the panel talk to Catherine about her play.

 

We also featured the brilliant Claire Taylor with a snippet of her brilliant piece on going into Solo...  

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