About the Science Festival
The UK’s premiere science event, explore ideas that make your world go round… debate, discussion, shows, talks, comedy, cabaret, workshops, free hands-on Discover Zone exhibition… save the date, 9–13 June 2010.
“A kaleidoscope of discovery and fun.”
Nick Ross, Guest Director, 2008
For a taste of the festival view our 2009 brochure.
Science Festival preview — Festival Directors’ Picks
The full Science programme may not go on sale until March, but there’s already the chance to see a very special sneak preview of what’s to come.
Festival Directors Mark Lythgoe and Kathy Sykes have put together their Director’s Picks from The Times Cheltenham Science Festival 2010, where we’ll be welcoming the recently nominated ‘Chef of the Decade’ Heston Blumenthal as Guest Director and investigating everything from the mysteries of the universe to the secrets of our minds.
Look at what’s planned for the Science Festival – browse Mark and Kathy’s Directors’ Picks.
Be the first to book for Cheltenham Science Festival and save £££s with our Membership Scheme, plus your chance to win dinner for two.
Check out Jazz and Music too
Like this? See what the directors of the Jazz and Music Festivals have planned. Browse the full print edition of Directors’ Picks.
Heston Blumenthal will be a Guest Director for Science 2010!
We have been very busy at Festival HQ making plans for The Times Cheltenham Science Festival 2010 and we are delighted to announce that Chef and TV personality Heston Blumenthal will be joining next year’s line up — as Guest Director! Famous for his eccentric dishes including snail porridge and parsnip cereal, the culinary alchemist will be programming some truly unique festival events.
Read more on our festival blog
Watch our own 2009 festival round-up
More great Science 2009 video clips form The Times Online
- Cheltenham Science Festival: the highlights
- Heston Blumenthal: I’m no scientist but I know a wobble test
- Lord Drayson: Why we should all cheer up about climate change
- John Zeisel: Alzheimer’s care ‘reminiscent of the Victorian approach’
- Professor Lord Winston: Disastrous Science Experiments
- Bruce Hood: Would you accept a dead murderer’s heart?
- Cheltenham Science Festival: round-up of posts from The Times Online blog
A fantastic fiesta of spectacular science, ingenious experiments and animated debate
The Times Cheltenham Science Festival provides a fantastic fiesta of spectacular science, ingenious experiments and animated debate. Explore ideas that make your world go round in the UK’s premiere science event — a five day celebration of science, engineering and the arts, attracting the best brains in the world.
Put your questions to the world’s leading thinkers and personalities in this feast of debate, delight and entertainment.
“Unquestionably the leading science festival in the country.”
Professor Lord Winston
Science.TV came to the 2009 Science Festival — watch the video
http://www.vimeo.com/7727880Listen to our Science Festival highlights!
Find out what Dara Ó Briain, Alice Roberts and all thought, did and enjoyed about this year’s Science Festival.
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by Sounds of Science — www.soundsofscience.co.uk
Carol Vorderman
Carol Vorderman, our Guest Director put together a unique collection of events, including discussions with her brother Anton on facial disfigurement.
2009 was Darwin year!
The festival theme of heresy provided many talking points; we took a look at how Charles Darwin’s work — still controversial to this day — has affected the way we live and think.
Astronomy Celebrations
We celebrated the International Year of Astronomy, with 2009 marking 400 years since Galileo first pointed a telescope at the night sky, by exploring how we can understand more about our universe, from Galileo’s telescope to the future of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
Darwin adventure
In 2009 we celebrated Darwin year here at the Science Festival, and University of Gloucestershire student Jake Hobbs came up with a great little web-browser game.
