Winter must be leaving us now, the first Science Café of ‘24 is coming up. Here’s the glossy:
You can find additional details on the Science Cafés page here
2024 – the First Science Café
That was 2023
Here’s a quick look back at some bits of this year’s festival. Thanks to everyone who helped make it happen, the Courthouse, all our excellent presenters and of course you, the people who came.
And so on to 2024, starting with our first Science Café on Thursday March 14th. You can find all our dates for the year on our calendar page here.
Otley Science Festival 2023, here we go!
November 13th – 18th, with additional activities on Sunday 19th.
Another great, packed Festival week with top speakers on diverse topics (family show Ultimate Dinosaurs; When the Antarctic Was Green with the Director of the British Antarctic Survey; an exploration of Roman medicine and BBC Science presenter Adam Rutherford on Control about eugenics), another Science Quiz (with food option), a Science Café, and something different – a Friday evening introduction to cheese science, with tasting!
Plus our popular, family oriented, free Science Fair (Saturday 10-4) is bigger than ever, overflowing into the Bridge Church and Otley Library.
All the info you need in on the Festival 2023 page
September Science Café
Summer moves on, can September be coming already? It must be so, so here’s our next Science Café
As ever, full details can be found on the Science Cafés page or you can click/tap here to go and buy tickets directly
15th Otley Science Festival: November 13th – 18th
We’ve been working at it for quite a while and now have confirmed another great line up for this, our 15th Science Festival.
Once again we have a set of great speakers on diverse topics, another Science Quiz (with food option), a Science Café, and something different – a Friday evening introduction to cheese science, with tasting! Plus, of course, a series of daytime schools shows.
In addition the popular Science Fair (Saturday 18th) will be bigger than ever – we have expanded into an additional venue, the nearby Bridge Church, to provide more space for activities, stalls and workshops. Not to be missed!!
You can find the full schedule here on the Festival 2023 page. As we write there are a few session details to be added, plus we’re not yet selling tickets. But watch this space and all will be complete soon 🙂
Summer Science Café Time
The days are getting longer and the summer Science Café is approaching. Back to our usual Thursday slot, this time June 22nd.
Don’t mention the evenings are going to start drawing in!
Here’s the poster:
Full details are on the Science Café page here or you can go straight to buy tickets from the Courthouse site here
It’s a Friday Café!
To keep our regulars (thank you all!) on their toes the first Science Café of 2023 is forsaking it’s usual Thursday evening slot and instead will be on Friday 17th March
Here’s the poster:
The full details of each talk can be found on the Science Cafés page or you can go straight to the Courthouse site to buy your tickets here
Festival Week 2022: Here We Go
Science Festival week runs from 14th to 19th November this year. Here’s our poster, which can’t even fit everything in!
As well as the events on the poster we have Early Explorers for the little ones on Monday morning; this year’s Science Quiz (in person and with food!) on Monday evening; the Science Café on Wednesday evening and Marty Jopson’s family friendly Stunt Science on Thursday evening. And that’s not even mentioning the daytime schools shows on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday!
So much… full details are on the Festival 2022 page
September Science Café – Thursday 15th
As the year moves on the time approaches for our September Science Café:
Otley Science Festival 2022 is on its way!
We’ve been working on this year’s Science Festival for quite a while and can now share the shape of the week, beginning Monday 14th November.
This is how it looks:
- Monday 14th, 7.30pm – The return of our Science Quiz, this time in person at Otley Courthouse, including the option of a fish and chip / vegetarian supper
- Tuesday 15th, 7.30pm – Professor Chris Jackson on ‘The Geological Record of Climate Change’
- Wednesday 16th, 7.30pm – Science Café
- Thursday 17th, 7.30pm – Family friendly “Stunt Science” with Marty Jopson
- Friday 18th 2pm matinee with Kersten Hall on ‘Insulin’
- Friday 18th, 7.30pm – Matthew Cobb: ‘The Genetic Age – Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life’
- Saturday 19th 10am – 4pm the ever popular Science Fair
- Saturday 19th, 7.30pm – Yorkshire’s own Paul Hudson talking about Yorkshire’s weather, climate change and his life on TV.
In addition, running over Tuesday to Thursday evening between 6pm and 7pm we will have a guided book reading by Greg Radick. The book is Charles Darwin’s ‘The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals’.
As well as these public events there will be events for schools (KS1 and KS2) running Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday daytimes. Home schoolers are welcome to join these.
Full details of the shows, prices and booking information will be added to the web site shortly.
Otley Science Festival 