Glasgow Science Festival to return next month
There will be more than 50 events across the city
Last updated 5th May 2022
The Glasgow Science Festival will return with a programme of in-person events in June under the theme of ‘Glasgow’s Making Waves’.
Venues across the city including the Glasgow Botanic Gardens, the Riverside Museum and the St Enoch Centre will play host to more than 50 live events during the 16th annual festival, which kicks off on Thursday 2nd June.
The online Science on the Sofa activity programme, established following the cancellation of planned physical events for the 2020 festival, will also return for a third year to help bring science into the home.
The events will be delivered by researchers from universities across the west of Scotland and elsewhere, alongside local community groups, museums and other organisations.
Locations across Glasgow
Dr Deborah McNeill, organiser of the Glasgow Science Festival, said: “We’re really proud of what we’ve been able to accomplish over the last couple of years despite the restrictions of the pandemic.
“Our online festival in 2020 and our partially in-person events last year proved very popular and showed that there was still a real demand from people across the city for what the Glasgow Science Festival offers.
“We’ve worked really hard to make sure that this year’s festival rewards that enthusiasm with an expanded programme of in-person events which can be safely delivered at locations across the city.
“There’s still a real interest in online activities, both from local people and from visitors around the world, so we’ve made sure that we can also offer a month-long series of home experiments and video content that people can engage with whenever they want to.
“We’ve developed a really varied programme that we’re sure will have something for science enthusiasts of all ages to see, do and learn from. We can’t wait to welcome people back.”
Events in the Glasgow Science Festival programme include:
- Particle wave - an immersive fulldome film at the Glasgow Science Centre
- Daily events at the Botanic Gardens between Tuesday 7th and Sunday 12th June
- Sound Thought locations around the west end of Glasgow
- Devouring Technology, a sculture of a basking shark made from electronic waste
Some of the activities available from Science on the Sofa will include:
- Brain Wave Cruise Photo Tour
- STEM on a Shoestring
- Spot-A-Bee
The in-person portion of the Glasgow Science Festival will run from Thursday 2nd June to Sunday 12th June, with most events being free of charge. Science on the Sofa activities will be available on the Festival’s website from launch until Thursday 30th June.
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