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Alexis co-presents BBC Devon Radio Program

Music, Memory and Making Radio is a BBC Radio Devon hour-long documentary initiated, co-presented and co-produced by Alexis with Belinda Dixon. Available here: Or on listen again for four weeks here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02fhkl6 It is about music and dementia, and how to make radio more dementia-friendly. It includes interviews with various expert academics, with the Alzheimer’s …

Victoria and Albert Museum on ‘Conducting Shakespeare’

“Conducting Shakespeare was a unique theatrical experiment, created especially for the V&A’s inaugural Performance Festival in April-May 2014. Bringing together the excitement of Shakespeare in performance with cutting edge bio-sensor technology, this was a thrilling and fascinating performance that delighted V&A visitors. A few lucky audience members were directly involved in the experiment, being hooked …

TEDx Talk on 25th October

Alexis will be giving a TEDx on “Programming Computers with a ‘Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle’” at TEDxPlymouthUniversity on 25th October 2014, at the House Main Theatre at Plymouth University. Tickets are sold out for the event. http://www.tedxplymouthuniversity.com/  

Working alongside BBC on Project EAR

Alexis is working alongside the BBC on Project Ear (Environments for Alzheimer’s-friendly Radio). Below is a clipping – click to see full size version:   Here is a radio interview: https://soundcloud.com/alexiskirke/bbc-interview-on-project-ear-environments-for-alzheimers-friendly-radio  

Tel Aviv Performance and Talk

Alexis’ invitation to Tel Aviv to show ‘many worlds’ and give a talk on the opening night of the festival went successfully, leading to features in the Jerusalem Times, the cover feature of Ha-aretz, and an interview on Tel Aviv Channel 10 TV.