January 27, 2012
The Secret Garden Party
It’s that time of year again! This marks the ten year anniversary for England’s most riotous of music festivals, The Secret Garden Party – our birthplace and our spiritual home.
We will be there in full force July 19-22, hosting the explosive, experimental and experiential events that will change forever the way you see science. Get your hands dirty, scream and swear, take your clothes off – and don’t for a microsecond worry about a test at the end.
Full details of our program coming soon! We’re cooking up some goodies this year, oh yes we are. No matter what happens, we promise that all the treats from the past few years, such as the Dirty Life Drawing
are gonna be small fry compared to what’s in store for 2012.
In other words: You ain’t seen nuttin’ yet.
Join us and discover how truth is unequivocally stranger than fiction, and ponder just how remarkable it is that you are reading these words at all.
Love, The Guerilla Scientists
January 26, 2012
Shambala
This summer sees our first foray to one of England’s loveliest festivals, Shambala!
Join us August 23-27 on the August Bank Holiday Weekend at a stunning secret location in the heart of the Northamptonshire countryside as we listen to the stars, hack an orchestra and take the hunt for the Higgs to new terrain.
Particle Safari Hunt
Track down the fundamental matter of the universe with Guerilla Science and speculative artist Patrick Stevenson-Keating as we take you on a trip around the festival site in search of our quarry: quarks, muons, gluons, and photons. Maybe we’ll even spot the elusive Higgs boson – we could only be so lucky.
Hacked Human Orchestra
Join us as we blend soft fabric electronics with creative technologists to transform your threads into wearable musical instruments. Let us hack your outfit: learn to stitch synths into shirts, turn trousers into trumpets and redesign dresses into drums and help create the world’s first mobile electronic human orchestra. In the final act, we will assemble en masse for an impromptu orchestral performance unlike any other, led by composer Florian Lunaire. Produced in collaboration with tech artists MzTEK, who will be leading our initial workshop in London.
Anatomical Life Drawing
Go head to toe and inside out in a life drawing class unlike any other. Expert anatomical artists will reveal the reveal the bones, veins and viscera of our models, and then lead us through the techniques of capturing the human form on paper. Biologists will be on hand to explain the structure and function of the bits and pieces of the amazing construction that is the human body.
Sounds of the Stars
What does the sky sound like? Cosmologists will take us on an audio tour of the universe – space isn’t as silent as you might think. Hear the bassy reverberations of the surface of our Sun, the eerie shrieks of Jupiter, and feverish radio pulses from the cores of dead stars.
Cockroach Racing
Or maybe a spot of gambling is what you fancy. Trust us: It’s far more vile than it sounds.
January 20, 2012
Lost Lectures: Jelly Brain Dissection
Panacotta and raspberry swirls set in the shape of our marvelous cerebrums.
We were delighted to be part of the launch of the Lost Lectures, a new night of (in their own words) “enchanting talks from secret locations”. Or, as founder Julian Kosicki described it, “a bit like TED meets Secret Cinema“. Each of the six speakers per evening has just twelve minutes to distill their ideas into one unforgettable talk – full details here.
Coming from the worlds of science, art, tech, music, entertainment, design, business, and the environment, speakers included Gavin Pretor-Pinney, author of the best selling Cloudspotter’s Guide and winner of The Royal Society Best Science Book award for his new book The Wavewatcher’s Companion, David Barrie, a social entrepreneur and the creative brains behind The People’s Supermarket, and Regine De Batty, author of We-Make-Money-Not-Art.
For the interval, we served up Jelly Brains: vanilla panna cotta and raspberry jelly cerebrums prepared by GS Creative Director Jenny Wong. UCL neuroscientists and cortex-carvers Dr Zarinah Agnew and Dr Becky Lawson were on hand to explain the function of each part of the jiggly (and tasty) specimens as we diced them up.
Who knew the most complex object in the known universe could taste so good.
January 18, 2012
BBC Stargazing Live: Intergalactic Travel Bureau
We brought our Intergalactic Travel Bureau to BBC’s Stargazing Live at Charlton House for their flagship event this past January.
For a day trip or a long weekend, how about the moon?
Where would you like to go? The windswept red plains of Mars, to dig for signs of life? One of Jupiter’s 64 moons, to take Polaroid snaps of the swirling red storms of its atmosphere? Or, for shorter trip on a tight budget, the scorching surface of Venus to sunbathe under acid rain filled skies? Our savvy agent is here to book you the best deal to the holiday of your dreams – don’t forget to send a postcard home.
Read more about how to plan your trip to the stars with us on the New Scientist Culture Lab write-up of the event at the Astronomer’s Ball here and see more pics on our Flickr site here.
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