The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade
Enjoy an engineering-themed musical interlude as part of the WISE Awards. This performance is open to everyone with either WISE Awards tickets, or WISE Conference and Awards combined tickets.
Helen Arney narrates the story of five groundbreaking women studying science at 1880s Girton College, Cambridge, who started a fire brigade to protect themselves but ended up fighting more than fires in a battle for equality.
Their Captain? The trailblazing physicist, inventor and social activist Hertha Ayrton, who in 1899 became the first woman member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers - now the IET.
Joined by a singer and pianist to perform highlights from this new musical, it’s a celebration of the power of friendship, rebellion, and choosing action over silence.
Helen Arney is a songwriter, science comedian and was recently nominated for the Stiles+Drewe “Best New Song” prize.
Brian Mackenwells is a writer and lyricist who has featured in kids poetry anthologies, and reached the final of the “Pen to Print” playwriting competition.
Jenni Pinnock is a British composer known for blending quirky time signatures, soaring melodies, and moments of stillness in both contemporary classical and musical theatre compositions.