Brighton Science Festival 2015

Brighton Science Festival celebrate their tenth year

It’s the Brighton Science Festival’s tenth birthday. When we started it, people thought a Science Festival was a ridiculous idea. You couldn’t have the words ‘science’ and ‘festival’ in the same sentence, they said; there was just nothing remotely like fun in science. Now we have been joined by the Digital Festival, the Big Bang, the Mini Maker Faire, and there are three science toyshops in Brighton alone. Applications for the science courses in both Universities are up and Sussex businesses are joining the party. You’re surrounded. Surrender!

Le Geekend
And it is fun. There’s comedy at every turn. Richard Wiseman cut his teeth in cabaret and magic. He knows how to tell a ripping yarn. It just so happens his yarns are about the science of delusions: how little we know, how much we make up, and this year why we dream. He’s just one of many at Le Geekend, (Friday 27 February to Sunday 1 March).
Beside five talks a day, you will rub along with cutting edge technology. The Large Hadron Collider display is designed to explain all that weird quantum stuff in simple English. Speaking of cutting edge, Kings College researchers are showing how to grow teeth. Dentures will be a thing of the past soon, as we plant teeth like sweet corn. Want a whiff of the future? Here it is.

Bright Sparks and Half Term
And we need to get the next generation of geniuses up and running. All half term (Saturday 14 February – Sunday 22 February) there are events that get them going and keep them coming. Bright Sparks (Sat 14 – Sun 15) has been amazing for a decade. The half term workshops are new, though – about five a day – for young people with independent minds to learn something startling, get a bit dirty, come away with a nugget of knowledge, a surprise or two, a bunch of skills and a couple of magic tricks, have fun with friends, make altogether new friends … do a bit of shopping, hang out.
It’s a long month, but never ever dull.
The Brighton Science Fetival runs from 5 February – 1 March 2015. For more information, visit www.brightonscience.com