Premiere performance: The Singing Hospital 

To coincide with the exhibition Catch your Breath, RCP Museum have partnered with the Singing for Breathing groups at Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, the longest continually running workshop for people with chronic respiratory conditions, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The choir will premiere a new participatory composition The Singing Hospital by composer Victoria Hume, commissioned by rb&hArts, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals' Arts Programme and supported by Arts Council England.  

Singing for Breathing workshops support adults with COPD, an incurable respiratory condition which makes breathing difficult but can be better managed through singing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Programme

6pm: Registration and reception

6.30pm: Exhibition tour 'Catch your breath'

7pm: Speeches

7.10pm: Performance

 

 

 

 

 

 

Victoria Hume

Victoria Hume is a composer, arts manager and researcher specialising in the meeting points between the arts, culture, medicine and health. She is director of the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance (England) and a research associate in the medical humanities at the Wits Institute for Social & Economic Research (WiSER). She was an arts manager in the UK National Health Service for 15 years. In 2017 she received a distinction for a Masters in Music and Health Communication focused on hospital-induced delirium. 

 

Book tickets

Free to attend but booking required. 

Accessibility

The RCP is fully wheelchair accessible. Lifts and ramps are available in the building and medicinal garden. There is a glass lift in the main foyer, please ask reception staff if you require assistance.

Public seating is available on all floors of the building and in the garden and folding stools in the Treasures room on the LG floor and 1st floor gallery by the exhibition. Assistance dogs are welcome

Our temporary exhibitions are accompanied by large caption texts found in the exhibition space. Full accessibility information can be found on the RCP main website.

Facilities

• Accessible toilets
• Baby changing facilities
• Cloakroom