Just a few pictures from our three speakers…
That was the June Science Café
Summer Science Café
Can we really be nearly half way through 2026? That’s what the calendar says, so it’s time for our next café and an opportunity for an evening of enjoyable diversion from the events of the world around us. Here’s what we are offering:
You can find all the details for the sessions here on the Science Café page
Otley Science Festival Is Taking A New Shape
For 2026/27 we have decided to have a change of approach for the Otley Science Festival. For the main Festival instead of packing everything into a single week in November it will now be split between this November and March 2027.
In November we will have a variety of events, including speakers, the usual Science Café and the popular family oriented Science Fair from Thursday 12th to Saturday 14th.
Then in March 2027, to coincide with British Science Week (6th – 15th) we will run our schools shows and other events as well as our March Science Café.
Science Cafés will continue as usual, 4 a year, with one in June and one in September as well as the ones within the two Festival times.
We hope everyone will enjoy this new approach and that local schools will appreciate our support for British Science Week.
Spring is coming into sight and so is the next Science Café
You can find all the details on the Science Cafés page or can buy tickets directly from the Courthouse
That was Otley Science Festival 2025
Science Festival 2025 is over, another full week of diverse entertaining, surprising, challenging and informative topics. Our thanks go out to Otley Courthouse and all the presenters and helpers that made it possible.
Here’s a small sample of the action:
So on to 2026…
Festival 2025 is [on its way] here!
We’re there!
Kicking off on Sunday 9th November Otley Science Festival 2025 is going to be another great week with something for everyone. We begin with with an exciting daytime family friendly show then run through the week with a range of evening events, a Friday matinee and the popular Science Fair on the final Saturday plus daytime schools events for KS1 and KS2 students and a supporting art exhibition running alongside.
Here’s what happening:
- The Science Viking, a show for all the family
- Art Exhibition Launch of “An Exhibition By Numbers”
- Festival week Science Café
- Film: David Attenborough’s Ocean
- The Science of Wine with David Lawson of Otley wine merchant Chez Vin
- The Cost of Blood with Dr Jack Gann of the Thackray Museum of Medicine
- A Climate of Truth with Professor Mike Berners-Lee
- the ever popular, family oriented Science Fair
- The Hidden Mathematics of Knitting with Alison Kiddle
You can find all the details here on the Festival 2025 page
On the other hand if you would like to jump straight to a page where you can buy tickets for the shows you can find it here.
September – Science Café Time Again
Autumn thinking already ? !
That was the summer (June) Science Café, but we can’t stop looking forwards to these coming autumnal days…
There will be another Science Café on 11th September and then it’s on to Science Festival week, November 9th – 15th. Our programme is now sorted and you’ll find the full details for the schools programme (for KS1 and KS2) here and for the rest of the Science Festival week (in full very shortly) here.
Keep in touch!
June Science Café
Not long now to our next Science Café, which will be on Thursday 26th at 7.30pm.
The evening’s diversity of topics are:
- The Weird World of Computational (Bio)Physics
- Trends in Air Quality in West Yorkshire
- Vital plumbing: What our blood vessels do for us
Full details are here on the Science Café page
March: spring (maybe); Science Café (definitely!)
Into 2025, here’s our first Science Café – Thursday 27th March, 7.30pm at Otley Courthouse
Full details are here, on the Science Cafés page
Otley Science Festival 