Next stop: Festival 2024

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!

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

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 🙂