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Next stop: Festival 2024

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With the September Science Café behind us it’s now on the Festival 2024!

As a new departure we’re kicking off on a Sunday, November 10th, with a family Science Show in the afternoon and then the return of our Science Film, the 1951 classic “The Day The Earth Stood Still”

After that we have the usual busy week of daytime schools shows and evening sessions, a Friday matinée show and the ever popular Science Fair on Saturday 16th.

In quick summary this is what’s on offer (schools show details here):

  • Sunday 10th, 2pm – Adventures in Science family show
  • Sunday 10th, 7.30pm – the 1951 classic film The Day The Earth Stood Still
  • Monday 11th, 10.30am – Early Explorers (for under 5s – at Otley Children’s Centre)
  • Wednesday 13th, 7.30pm – Festival week Science Café
  • Thursday 14th, 7.30pm – From Grain to Glass, the Science behind Beer with Ilkley Brewery
  • Friday 15th 2pm matinee – the Science of the Singing Voice with Professor Dr Helena Daffern
  • Friday 15th, 8pm – When Antarctica Was Green with Dame Professor Jane Francis, Director of the British Antarctic Survey
  • Saturday 16th 10am – 4pm – the ever popular, family oriented Science Fair
  • Saturday 16th, 8pm – AI, Technology Evolution and Ethics with Rashik Parmar MBE, CEO of the British Computer Society

The full information on all of these events and ticket links can, of course, be found on the Science Festival 2024 page.

Otley Science Festival 2023, here we go!

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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

15th Otley Science Festival: November 13th – 18th

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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 🙂

Otley Science Festival 2022 is on its way!

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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.

Festival 2021 is go

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Have a look at our poster. So much going on we couldn’t fit it all in!

As well as what’s on the poster we have Marty Jopson’s Mobile Teardown on Monday 15th; Festival Science Café on Tuesday 16th; Sarah Bearchell’s Cloud Factory (for the younger audience, 2 – 5s) on the afternoon of Wednesday 17th and the return of our Science Quiz that evening.

Plus a bonus event on Wednesday 24th November, an opportunity to tour Sinclairs’ world famous paper stationery factory! Hidden in the backstreets of Otley, with a history back to 1837 but today making millions of school exercise books, notebooks and sketchpads. The tour is free but numbers are very limited.

Sad to report update: Thursday evening’s “Being You” with Anil Seth has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control.

Full details of the whole Festival and ticket booking can be found on the Festival 2021 page.

Plus there is an extensive programme of events for junior schools (and home educators) which can be found here.