{"id":1962,"date":"2020-12-17T14:42:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T14:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:47:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:04","slug":"being-human-festival-2020-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/being-human-festival-2020-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Human Festival 2020 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fake news, the moon and hoaxes. Catch up with what you missed at the Being Human Festival with this great summary by Dr Daniel Cook and Dr Keith Williams.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/12\/thumbnail_80305875_2930641500302562_7974987990671818752_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1965\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/12\/thumbnail_80305875_2930641500302562_7974987990671818752_o-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"789\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/12\/thumbnail_80305875_2930641500302562_7974987990671818752_o-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/12\/thumbnail_80305875_2930641500302562_7974987990671818752_o-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/12\/thumbnail_80305875_2930641500302562_7974987990671818752_o-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/12\/thumbnail_80305875_2930641500302562_7974987990671818752_o.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 789px) 100vw, 789px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The theme for this year\u2019s Being Human National Festival (November 2020) was New Worlds, and the local theme was \u2018Dundee: The Lunar City\u2019, using the forgotten link between Dundee astronomer, the Rev Thomas Dick, and perhaps the most notorious \u2018fake news\u2019 story of the 19C: the 1835 \u2018Great Moon Hoax\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Life and Work of the Rev Thomas Dick and the Moon Hoax, together with artwork from University collections and DJCAD graphics and illustration students was presented at a special live event, \u2018Lunar Tricks\u2019:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lunar Tricks - Dundee and the Moon Hoax\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KxN-rZ7DO0w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Festival attracted media interest with pieces in the Courier and Metro<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"xpaDkvinuH\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/education\/higher-education\/1701436\/moon-hoax-how-a-19th-century-dundee-minister-was-at-the-heart-of-the-greatest-fake-news-event-of-all-time\/\">Moon hoax: How a 19th-century Dundee Minister was at the heart of the &#8216;greatest fake news event of all time&#8217;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Moon hoax: How a 19th-century Dundee Minister was at the heart of the &#8216;greatest fake news event of all time&#8217;&#8221; &#8212; The Courier\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/education\/higher-education\/1701436\/moon-hoax-how-a-19th-century-dundee-minister-was-at-the-heart-of-the-greatest-fake-news-event-of-all-time\/embed\/#?secret=S33AJYN6ja#?secret=xpaDkvinuH\" data-secret=\"xpaDkvinuH\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metro.news\/batmen-and-unicorns-inside-the-original-moon-hoax\/2226104\/\">https:\/\/www.metro.news\/batmen-and-unicorns-inside-the-original-moon-hoax\/2226104\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keith Williams also wrote a piece that appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/batmen-and-unicorns-inside-the-original-moon-hoax-149216?utm_content=buffer34469&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The event included a comic book launch which we mentioned here on the blog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/category\/comics\/\">https:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/category\/comics\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/12\/thumbnail_Alpha-and-Alpha-Girl-by-Anna-Morozova.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1964\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/12\/thumbnail_Alpha-and-Alpha-Girl-by-Anna-Morozova-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/12\/thumbnail_Alpha-and-Alpha-Girl-by-Anna-Morozova-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/12\/thumbnail_Alpha-and-Alpha-Girl-by-Anna-Morozova-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/12\/thumbnail_Alpha-and-Alpha-Girl-by-Anna-Morozova-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/12\/thumbnail_Alpha-and-Alpha-Girl-by-Anna-Morozova-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/12\/thumbnail_Alpha-and-Alpha-Girl-by-Anna-Morozova.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have a look at the link here to discover other comics from previous Dundee Being Human festival programmes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scottishcomicstudies.com\/being-human\/\">https:\/\/scottishcomicstudies.com\/being-human\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the event also included a poetry reading of, <em>Paper Moons: Imagining other Worlds in Pandemic Times<\/em>, by Wyvern Poets and guests, including Bill Herbert.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a specially created \u2018alternative history\u2019 moonshot feature film,\u00a0 <em>From the Earth to the Moon<\/em>, and DJCAD student Moon Hoax short films were created for Dundee University\u2019s part in the festival where students were invited to tell a convincing lie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/12\/thumbnail_From-the-Earth-to-the-Moon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1966\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/12\/thumbnail_From-the-Earth-to-the-Moon-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/12\/thumbnail_From-the-Earth-to-the-Moon-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/12\/thumbnail_From-the-Earth-to-the-Moon-786x1024.jpg 786w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/12\/thumbnail_From-the-Earth-to-the-Moon-768x1001.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/12\/thumbnail_From-the-Earth-to-the-Moon.jpg 982w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These can now be found on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCfwPyg75oiGJxfc2G3cMcTw\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCfwPyg75oiGJxfc2G3cMcTw<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Moon Hoaxes by Graphic Design students at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art &amp; Design\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XvYOfqfzVo4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Extras:<\/p>\n<p>Downloadable Dundee bicentennial edition of<em> Frankenstein<\/em> from 2018, illustrated by Scotland\u2019s leading comics artists:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/discovery.dundee.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/mary-shelleys-frankenstein-the-dundee-edition\">https:\/\/discovery.dundee.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/mary-shelleys-frankenstein-the-dundee-edition<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coming up in January 2021:<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating (nearly) two Hundred Years of Justified Sinning<\/p>\n<p>In association with the Centres for Scottish and Critical and Creative Cultures, an online event to launch:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an illustrated booklet of poems by the Wyvern poets inspired by James Hogg\u2019s novel, <em>Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner<\/em>, a classic of Scottish Gothic and forerunner of <em>Jekyll and Hyde.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>a specially-edited bicentennial edition of the novel itself<\/li>\n<li>a graphic novel adaption of Hogg\u2019s 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