Calendar

The Otley Science Festival dates for 2019 are:

Science Cafés

  • March 14th,
  • June 13th
  • September 26th
  • One evening in Festival week – day to be confirmed

Science Festival Week

  • 11th – 16th November

Looking back, the Otley Science Festival dates for 2018 were:

Science Cafés

  • 8th March
  • 14th June
  • 20th September (revised date)
  • 6th November (Festival Week Tuesday)

Science Festival Week

  • 5th – 10th November

The Festival Week encompassed a full programme of evening events, sessions for pre-school children on Monday 5th and schools events on Tuesday 6th to Thursday 8th.

The Festival Week schedule was:

  • Monday 5th : Silly Science Toddler Time
    • For Families 11.00 – 12.00
    • For Groups 13.00 – 14.00
  • Monday 7th 19.30 : Marty Jopson – Invisible Worlds: a microscopic safari
  • Tuesday 8th 19.30 : Festival Science Café
  • Wednesday 9th 19.30 : Matthew Tosh – Fireworks: Real Science or Just Bangs?
  • Thursday 10th 19.45 : The Shape Of Water (2017) – Otley Film Society
  • Friday 11th 12.30 : Science Lunch –  Serendipity and Suitcases: a physicist’s approach to new materials
  • Friday 11th 19.30 : Alice Roberts – Tamed: three species that changed our world
  • Saturday 12th 10.00 – 16.00 : Otley Science Fair
  • Saturday 12th 19.30 : Andrew Smyth – Bakineering In Space

For the record, here’s what the 2017 Science Festival looked like.