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6 of 26 Amber Michelle and Emma. . When Miles interviewed Amber Michelle and Emma in 2016 they were PHD students at University College London. Both run Movement for Hope. Amber was its creator. It is an organisation that combines neuroscience and art to create artistic performance events and exhibitions that raise awareness of neurological conditions. The events involve patients, researchers and artists collaborating and performing together. It’s quite possible there is no other organisation like it in the world. Amber Michelle Hill – “I started Movement for Hope mainly because I was doing pre-clinical work from the research side and I felt like I didn’t have a connection with people who were suffering from the conditions that I was studying. I just thought there needed to be a bridge. For me it was to know why I was working in that lab. To keep going. To keep my motivation going. I contacted Sarah Ezekiel who lives with motor neurone disease and said ‘can I come and interview you to know a bit more about your experience and living with this condition’? We interviewed four other people with other neurological conditions and from the interviews created ‘Seize The Day’ one of our dance events". Emma Biondetti – “I decided to join Movement for Hope after I was in the audience of Rewired, a Movement for Hope awareness raising event that involved researchers and artists and patients. It was really great to see this connection going on between patients telling their stories and researchers and artists. They were all trying to describe what neurological conditions are like but from different points of view and all together it worked so well that I decided I wanted to get involved.” www.movementforhope.org #mnd #als #running #TallinMarathon www.justgiving.com/fundraising/26miles4mnd

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