Festival 2025 is [on its way] here!

We’re there!

Kicking off on Sunday 9th November Otley Science Festival 2025 is going to be another great week with something for everyone. We begin with with an exciting daytime family friendly show then run through the week with a range of evening events, a Friday matinee and the popular Science Fair on the final Saturday plus daytime schools events for KS1 and KS2 students and a supporting art exhibition running alongside.

Here’s what happening:

  • The Science Viking, a show for all the family
  • Art Exhibition Launch of “An Exhibition By Numbers”
  • Festival week Science Café
  • Film: David Attenborough’s Ocean
  • The Science of Wine with David Lawson of Otley wine merchant Chez Vin
  • The Cost of Blood with Dr Jack Gann of the Thackray Museum of Medicine
  • A Climate of Truth with Professor Mike Berners-Lee
  • the ever popular, family oriented Science Fair
  • The Hidden Mathematics of Knitting with Alison Kiddle

You can find all the details here on the Festival 2025 page

On the other hand if you would like to jump straight to a page where you can buy tickets for the shows you can find it here.

Autumn thinking already ? !

June 2025 Science Café speakers

That was the summer (June) Science Café, but we can’t stop looking forwards to these coming autumnal days…

There will be another Science Café on 11th September and then it’s on to Science Festival week, November 9th – 15th. Our programme is now sorted and you’ll find the full details for the schools programme (for KS1 and KS2) here and for the rest of the Science Festival week (in full very shortly) here.

Keep in touch!