Welcome to
FESTIVAL VILLAGE
Cheltenham Science Festival
Imperial Square, Cheltenham, GL50 1QA Site opens 5 June free entry
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Discover Zone Toilets
Free interactive zones
Free activities
Ticketed event venues
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Town Hall
Regency Café Pillar Room Toilet Imperial Garden Bar Waterstones Book Shop Festival Café
Conversation Corner EDF Energy Zone
Science Trail Start
Hartpury Science Hub
GE Pavilion
The Arena
ExperiTent The Cube Woodland Trust
The Sphere Women in STEM
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Free CheltSciFest Fringe
Box Office
The Crucible
Helix Theatre
From science busking, stargazing and bioblitzing to five-star Fringe shows, pub quizzes and geeky film nights – look out for free events and hands-on fun over the Festival (5–10 June).
Cyber Zone MakerShack
Beside our many family friendly activities, adults will be thrilled by comedy, films and other performances in pubs, bars and cafés across Cheltenham as part of our CheltSciFest Fringe and can discover our free interactive zones on site in an adultonly special opening on Friday night.
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5–10 June 2018
The MakerShack and Discover Zone are back due to popular demand and we are excited to add our brand new Cyber Zone to our Festival Village!
Careers Evening
Free activities
8 June, 5–7pm
Stargazing
Beemobile
7 & 8 June, 9.45–11pm Meet at the Holst Statue
5–8 June All ages
Join members of the Cotswold Astronomical Society for a supervised evening of stargazing.
Animal Superheroes Science Trail Daily All ages Created by the team behind BBC Focus Magazine, collect your quiz sheet from the Science Trail starting point and follow the Trail around Imperial Square. Supported by
Try making a seed-bomb, explore pollination, taste some yummy honey and so much more with the Bee Friendly Trust.
Women in STEM Photo Installation
GE Pavilion 5, 7 & 10 June, 10am–6pm 6, 8 & 9 June, 10am–8pm
Daily All ages Find out more about amazing women in STEM in our photo installation.
Women in Innovation Photography Exhibition Town Hall
Cyber Trail Daily Ages 10+ Become a code-breaker and gather clues to unlock a cryptic challenge. Begin your quest in the Cyber Zone.
In the EDF Energy Zone, GE Pavilion, Hartpury Science Hub & Cyber Zone
Representing UK’s most promising female entrepreneurs, recognising their differences and the diverse ideas they bring forward. Portraits provided by Innovate UK.
Cheltenham Science Festival 5–10 June 2018 Don’t miss out on hundreds of events at #cheltscifest: Featuring Alice Roberts, Demis Hassabis, What Connects Us? What Divides Us?, Maddie Moate, The Universe, Hannah Fry, Sheila Rowan, Our Planet, Jim Al-Khalili, Olly Mann, Hacking:Live and much more... Book now at cheltenhamfestivals.com/science
Woodland Trust
Free interactive zones All Ages
Daily All ages Learn more about how woods and trees benefit the environment around us with some hands-on activities and fun from the people behind Nature Detectives!
MakerShack Daily 10am–5pm Enter a carnival of creativity! Explore marvellous materials, code a robot to read a bedtime story, enter the Slime Factory, discover forever re-moldable thermoplastics, carve a path for a river and so much more.
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Connect with a world of STEM, explore various hands-on activities, listen to talks and find out about career opportunities.
Look to the sky and you may be surprised by an exciting sky diving display by the RAF Falcons on Wednesday 6 June. Weather dependent.
Conversation Corner Share ideas, be inspired and join other audience members for an informal chat after the events you attended. Places limited, unreserved seating.
EDF Energy Zone
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Daily 10am–5pm Create your own unique art inspired by your heartbeat, get hands-on with Lego genome editing, make a microbe, get a glimpse of what living in a “Quantum City” might be like, create your own vegan smoothie and more…
Hartpury Science Hub 5–10 June, 10am–5pm Drop in to take part in exciting experiments, explore pioneering research and find out more about sport and exercise, equine performance, animal welfare and agriculture.
Large Animal Dissection 10 June, 10am–4pm Hartpury Science Hub Following the success of last year’s horse investigation, Hartpury Scientists will be performing a detailed dissection of a wallaby.
8–10 June, 10am–5pm Visit the EDF Energy Zone to find out how EDF are encouraging the scientists, engineers and thinkers of tomorrow and find out about their programmes to inspire the next generation in STEM.
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Cyber Zone Step into a fascinating digital world…
NEW FOR 2018!
Try your hand as an ethical hacker, crack puzzles, pick locks, and see what the future might look like as you come face-to-face with artificial intelligence.
Workshop Becoming A Chess Grandmaster Friday 8 June, 4–5pm Saturday 9 June, 3.30–4.30pm, 4.45–5.45pm Find out how Artificial Intelligence is transforming the game of chess.
Cyber Talks Saturday 9 June, 1.30–2.30pm Sunday 10 June, 1.30–2.30pm Leading experts give an introduction to some of the hottest topics in cyber security.
Discover Zone
Cyber Surgery: Ask The Expert
Daily 10am–5pm Find out more about the world and how it works; with virtual reality, aerospace engineering, chemistry, cyber security and quantum computing.
Daily 10am–5pm Free Entry All Ages
Late opening just for adults MakerShack, Discover Zone, Cyber Zone & EDF Energy Zone
Friday 8 June, 8–10pm
Sunday 10 June, 3.15–4.15pm Have your emails been hacked? How can you keep your kids safe online? Join cyber security experts Jessica Barker and FC as they answer your questions. All three events are FREE; no ticket required. Places limited, unreserved seating.
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8.45–11.30pm Town Hall, The Pillar Room Free no ticket required The bar will be open during this event.
Experience electronic music generated live from algorithms! 8.45–9.45pm Drop in Live Coding Express yourself and build social connections through a shared experience of music. Drop in and have a go yourself. 10–11.30pm Festival Party Night Alex McLean, Joanne Armitage (from Rd Algobabez) and Joe n Wilk write the code to towith Antonio Roberts on make you dance, g in visuals. urd Sh
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Join neuroscientist Sarah Garfinkel and science historian William Macauley after the film for a short talk and discussion. Find out how cinema became preoccupied with psychological ideas during the 1960s, and how mental health is portrayed in Psycho and other films.
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The UK’s favourite chaotic cabaret for science nerds is coming to Cheltenham! Expect lots of nerdy nonsense and bad behaviour from your MC Steve Cross and his guests for the evening *drumroll please* Sophie Scott, Tay Aziz, Shirley Halse, Maia Elliott, Matt Young and Shalaka Kurup.
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Comedian, writer and broadcaster Rosie Wilby presents a mixture of talk, discussion and highlights from her stand-up show Is Monogamy Dead? and award-shortlisted book of the same name. Hear about Rosie’s very personal quest to find out why Western society clings to a concept laden with assumption and ambiguity, how diverse our definitions of infidelity can be and why there should be more language to describe the huge variety of connections between humans in this entertaining mix of memoir and humorous sociological study.
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Discover the magical world of bees at the colourful Beemobile! Try making a seed-bomb, explore pollination, taste some yummy honey and so much more with the Bee Friendly Trust. See bees in action in the observation hive (weather dependent) and watch some waggle dancing!
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Come and find our brilliant buskers along the streets of Cheltenham throughout the weekend. Experience mind-bending illusions, math-magical tricks and exciting demonstrations.
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After the film screening join TV presenter and author of Ad Astra: An Illustrated Guide To Leaving The Planet Dallas Campbell for a short talk and discussion about the science in The Martian, and how space exploration is portrayed in film.
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They might look like regular advice columnists, but they have a secret weapon: science! Join your fabulous MC, Scary Boots and their Auncles for the evening, Rachel Wheeley, Matt Young, Florence Schechter and Anna Ploszajski, as they try to solve your problems using science – wildly inappropriately. Can science solve everything, or indeed anything at all?
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10.15–11.45pm The Bottle of Sauce
Are you ready to get quizzicle? Science troubadour Jonny Berliner (“Seriously funny” The Scotsman) and Ugly Animal wrangler Simon Watt (“All the wit and passion of the best comics” Chortle) will test your geek knowledge, put you through the origami olympics and challenge your punning skills in this nerdtastic night to remember. Niche prizes to be won, with full marks for foolishness. Paxman would hate it.
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A Few Very Short Introductions Drop in between 5 12–4.30pm Society Room, The Find Grab yourself a cuppa and get ready to change the way you think about the world around you, with a sparkling selection of Oxford’s Very Short Introduction authors. Pick their brains, discover something new and improve your pub quiz knowledge! 12pm John Finney on Water 1pm Brian Rogers on Perception 2pm Tristram Wyatt on Animal Behaviour 3pm Paul Kelenerman on The Immune System 4pm Sarah Harper on Demography Talks will be 15 minutes followed by a Q&A.
8–10.30pm Shush Bar, The Swan
An absent-minded professor experimenting with new types of energy accidentally discovers ‘flubber’, a physics-defying green slime. Stay in your seats after the film to find out more about the science of slime with science presenter Phil Bell-Young and discover whether we could we really develop flubber in the future.
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