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Science in the sun — day 1 of the Science Festival

1 year
3 months ago

One of the impressive facts about The Times Cheltenham Science Festival is the number of school children that visit. This year’s festival is no exception, with more school visitors on the first day than any other year. Twenty-seven schools and a total of 1274 pupils visited the many different events, workshops and demonstrations on Wednesday.

School groups have come from both near and far — walking distance and even Essex. Hounslow’s Heathlands School has been visiting for 3 years and had a very early start indeed to arrive in Cheltenham for their first event at 10am!

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Game — play Darwin’s Intergalactic Adventure!

1 year
3 months ago

As we’re celebrating Darwin year here at the Science Festival, University of Gloucestershire student Jake Hobbs has come up with a great little browser-based game:

Darwin’s Intergalactic Adventure!

Darwin game

Play it now →

As Darwin, fight your way through hordes of aliens in your ship ‘The Beagle’ to try and make it home. Good luck!

Want some more Darwin action? Try our Darwin events Faith in Evolution and Darwin’s Sacred Cause; or check out all our science events.

We’ve tagged this post with , , , on Friday 15 May 2009.

Cheltenham Jazz 2009 — a video round-up

1 year
3 months ago

Budvar Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2009 — a huge thanks from everyone at the Festivals to all those who came! We hope you went away with some great memories and loved every minute; we certainly did. Hopefully this will be a nice reminder.

For those who didn’t make Jazz 2009 — this is a taster of what you missed out on! Watch to the end for a little exclusive Beardyman beat…

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Don’t miss next year’s Jazz Festival: 27 April – 3 May 2010

Take a look at our other festivals too: Science is just around the corner (3–7 June), with Music and Literature following close behind!

We’ve tagged this post with , , , , on Thursday 14 May 2009.

A Jazz Festival preview

1 year
4 months ago

Another work from University of Gloucestershire students, this video was made by Adam Monk and Simon English especially for Budvar Cheltenham Jazz Festival.

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Listen out for extracts from just some of our artists coming up at the Festival – including the Alex Wilson Salsa Orchestra, Imelda May, the Soul Jazz Orchestra; and Clarke Peters of The Wire, presenter of our Friday Night is Music Night!

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Special thanks go to Grand Central Studios and Nicky Gregorowski for all their input.

We’ve tagged this post with , , on Saturday 25 April 2009.

Jazz Festival creative competition winners

1 year
4 months ago

As part of the run-up to this fiesta of sound and colour, we wanted to do something a little different! We wanted to embrace the creativity of students, and build on our already strong links with the University of Gloucestershire.

We teamed up with Animation and Interactive Media tutors and students, and set them loose on a competition brief – to create a short ‘viral’ video, based somehow on the Jazz Festival. The entries came in, and were all of an extremely high quality – it was so hard to narrow them down that we’ve ended up with 3 winners.

The favourite here at the Cheltenham Festivals offices:

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The most viewed on Youtube:

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And the favourite of professional animation designer from Hibbert Ralph Animation, Jerry Hibbert:

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We caught up with the creators of our Festival favourite – Richard Nash, Anthony Leach and Katie Leach – who go by the name of Shiny Diamond Productions.

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We’ve tagged this post with , , , on Friday 24 April 2009.

Cool jazz t-shirt — buy yours now

1 year
4 months ago

Jazz t-shirt 2009

Don’t miss this chance to grab one of our very own Budvar Cheltenham Jazz Festival t-shirts, featuring an exclusive design by French street-artist Remed.

From his beginnings as a graffiti artist in Lille, Remed now works to commissions from all over world, while retaining a hand-drawn style that is still completely his own — and he has produced a special design for our 2009 Jazz Festival t-shirts!

There are limited quantities available, so don’t delay — and be part of the festival!

T-shirts are £12 and are available in both mens (M) and womens (W) small, medium, large or x-large.

Just call 0844 576 8970 to order yours today!

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