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Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍøoo Festival wins best public event award

30 April 2014

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Congratulations to Barbara Penner and the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍøoo Festival team for winning the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Communications and Culture Award for best public event of 2013. The award was presented by Professor Michael Arthur (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø President & Provost) at an awards ceremony on 2 April in the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Bloomsbury Theatre.  

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍøoo was a two-week festival running at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø and around Bloomsbury last winter. The impressive programme of events accompanying this included a filth-themed Bright Club, a toilet makeathon, and a tour of local toilets.

The event was featured in as a lead news story, reaching an estimated readership of 227,000. The festival also inspired an episode of the BBC Radio 4 Costing the earth programme, entitled , which featured The Bartlett's Barbara Penner.

Barbara Penner, Senior Lecturer in Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, comments on the winning the award: "We won alongside a truly stellar group of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø researchers, including Steve Fossey for the supernova discovery, so we felt very honoured by it."

Image: Sarah Bell (Faculty of Engineering) and Barbara Penner (The Bartlett School of Architecture)