About

Mission
Founded in 2016 by fertility patients and arts producers, Gabby Vautier and Jessica Hepburn, Fertility Fest is the world’s first arts festival dedicated to fertility, infertility, the science of making babies and modern families.
Read more about Jessica and Gabby.
The festival ran for three years (2016 – 2019) in the UK and internationally and had three big aims:
1
of people who struggle or go on a complex journey to conceive – because it can be hard and horrible and we want there to be better patient care and outcomes for everyone whatever their fertility story, however it ends.
2
To improve the level of public conversation
about infertility and reproductive science – what it can do, what it cannot do and how it’s affecting the way the human race is being made.
3
To improve fertility education
Young people need to learn more than how ‘not to get pregnant’, they deserve a more rounded and robust understanding of human fertility so they have the best chance of creating the families they want in the future – with or without children, with or without reproductive science.
Team Fertility Fest
Staff and Steering Committee

Gabby Vautier
Director

Jessica Hepburn
Director

Tracey Woolley
Project Producer

Tian Glasgow
Creative Producer

Alison Collantine
Designer

Alice King-Farlow
Steering Committee

Anya Sizer
Steering Committee

Professor Jacky Boivin
Steering Committee

Professor Joyce Harper
Steering Committee

Professor Geeta Nargund
Steering Committee

Kate Brian
Steering Committee

Kim Grant
Steering Committee

Natalie Highwood
Steering Committee

Tracey Sainsbury
Steering Committee