Calendar

The Otley Science Festival dates for 2025 are:

Science Cafés

  • Thursday 27th March
  • Thursday 26th June
  • Thursday 11th September
  • Tuesday 11th November, Science Festival Week café

Science Festival 2025

  • 9th – 15th November 2025

Looking back, the Otley Science Festival dates for 2024 were:

Science Cafés

  • Thursday 14th March
  • Thursday 20th June
  • Thursday 19th September
  • Festival Week – Wednesday 13th November

Science Festival 2024 Week

  • 11th – 16th November

The Otley Science Festival dates for 2023 were:

Science Cafés

  • March 17th (Friday!)
  • June 22nd (Thursday, back to normal 🙂 )
  • September 14th
  • Festival week – November 16th

Science Festival 2023 Week

  • 13th – 18th November

The Otley Science Festival dates for 2022 were:

Science Cafés

  • March 24th
  • June 16th
  • September 15th
  • November 16th, Festival week Café

Science Festival Week

  • 14th – 19th November

The Otley Science Festival dates for 2021 were:

Science Cafés

  • March 18th: on line only
  • June 17th: socially distanced in Otley Courthouse and on Zoom
  • September 16th: back to the usual Courthouse format
  • November 16th (Festival Week Café)

Science Festival Week

  • 15th – 20th November

Looking back further, the covid year Otley Science Festival dates for 2020 were:

Science Cafés

  • March 12th: successfully held
  • June 18th: unfortunately the Courthouse closure and other things conspired against us and this Café did not go ahead
  • September 17th: went ahead as an on-line event
  • November 10th: On-line Festival week Science Café

Science Festival Week

  • 9th – 14th November: On-line only events held Monday – Friday, the planned film day on Saturday had to be cancelled. The details of the event are still available here.

Back before covid the 2019 dates were:

Science Cafés

  • March 14th,
  • June 13th
  • September 26th
  • November 13th – Festival week Science Café

Science Festival Week

  • 11th – 16th November

As usual the Festival Week encompassed a full programme of evening events, sessions for pre-school children on Monday 11th and schools events on Tuesday 12th to Thursday 14th.

For the record, here’s what the 2019 Science Festival looked like.