Cheltenham Festivals

The Times Cheltenham Science Festival 9–13 June 2010

The Times Cheltenham Science Festival
9–13 June 2010

Watch our video below — Science Festival 2010

The Times Cheltenham Science Festival 2010 was a fantastic success yet again!

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“I love Cheltenham. It’s really well organised — they somehow balance professionalism with a personal touch.”

One of our 2010 sponsors

Visitor numbers increased by an amazing 23% over 2009 drawn by an outstanding programme of events that included subjects as diverse as Dark Matter and Hormones! Our speaker list looked like a ‘Who’s Who’ of British science joining together with international experts and media personalities — all committed to creating an inspirational celebration of Science and Engineering.

“It perfectly illustrates that science is alive and an everyday thing.”

A 2010 visitor


Two Guest Directors — for Science 2010…

Brian Cox

Heston Blumenthal


LabOratory — bringing biomedical science to life…

LabOratory is one of our most exciting projects, bringing biomedical science to life across the four Cheltenham Festivals: Jazz, Science, Music and Literature.

This year’s theme is performance under pressure. We’ve got a simulated operating theatre and an amazing series of events lined up including…

Operation Live a simulated emergency operation!

Stressed Out? — how stress affects our minds and bodies and ways to improve wellbeing

More about the simulated operating theatre, more events, video and links…
visit our LabOratory pages


Decadence — our festival theme for 2010…

Decadence is a provocative word: luxurious, sensuous and self-indulgent, a celebration of the good things in life but redolent of moral and social decline.

This year at the Science Festival we’ll be exploring decadence, and what it means to us — with events asking how and why science has given us the luxuries that we find difficult to sacrifice.


The Discover Zone — free interactive science…

Free interactive science for all ages, every day during the festival
more about the Discover Zone


“Unquestionably the leading science festival in the country.”

Professor Lord Winston


Science 2009 video clipsThe Times Online…

Science 2009 The Times online

Science.TV 2009 — watch the video…


Listen! — 2009 Science Festival highlights…

Find out what Dara Ó Briain, Alice Roberts and all thought, did and enjoyed about the 2009 Science Festival.

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by Sounds of Science — www.soundsofscience.co.uk