Festival season gets a lift

It’s nine o’clock in the morning, and artists Neil Thomas and Katy Bowman are enthusiastically preparing to embark on their second day of workshops and excursions with schoolchildren from London’s Holland Park School. Today, the pair – who together form the Australian company the Museum of Modern Oddities (MOMO) – are taking the 12 to 14-year-old students to the Tring Museum to view the vast collection of stuffed and preserved animals. It’s all part of a process to assist the children to devise and perform a theatrical event at the Natural History Museum in three weeks time.