Ref:06 September 2012
The 'Hearing Music' stand featured in the Science Tent as part of 'Bestiversity' at Bestival on the Isle of Wight! Over 6000 people (about 10% of festival goers) visited the tent and an estimated 2500+ came to the stand to learn about how the ear works, hearing protection, hearing loss and cochlear implants.
The roadshow team went out with a box of ear plugs for listening to music from Action on Hearing Loss and raised over £80 in donations!
Festival goers also had the opportunity to pick up leaflets, badges, pens, wrist bands, keyrings, bags and other items kindly donated by Advanced Bionics , Cochlear and Med-El .
"Bestival was brilliant. We had absolutely loads of interest in the Hearing Music stand!" Maria Crawford, BA Music Student
Bestival was the last event of the 2012 University of Southampton ' Bringing Research to Life ' roadshow, but Ben Oliver and Rachel van Besouw will be using some of the materials developed for the roadshow at the ' Compositions for Cochlear Implantees Grand Finale ' and for a TEAtime Lecture at the University of Southampton in October!
