July 25, 2012
SGP 2012: Catapults
Built by the wonderful engineers at Buro Happold, our medieval weapons of warfare brought some serious bang to the SGP: catapults, or trebuches to be exact.
We took aim with water balloons at a target range of cutouts of London’s most iconic buildings: the gherkin, St Paul’s, the shard, Canary Wharf, Tower Bridge and Big Ben.
How many science outreach organisations can outrage the S & Empathy tent nextdoor with their messy antics?
Just one.
July 24, 2012
Communing with aliens at the Secret Garden Party
Jessica Griggs of New Scientist checked out our antics at the Secret Garden Party – read all about chatting to aliens, becoming a drug, handling Mars, and discovering she’s a super taster on the Culture Lab blog here!
July 13, 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.
Discover how truth is unequivocally stranger than fiction with the SGP’s favourite renegade researchers as they mix science with art, music and play. Speak to the stars, become a drug, fire a catapult, master your memory, hunt for the Higgs, touch the moon, cradle a chameleon, dissect a brain, tango with a quark, and come ponder how remarkable it is that you are reading these words at all…
FRIDAY JULY 20th
11:00 The Miniature Zoo: Tim Maynard
Our resident zookeeper introduces chameleon Geoff, Harriet the tarantula, and
Millicent the giant millipede.
11:30 Robo-fish! Keri Collins
Keri builds submarines that look and move like fish. Join us as we delve into a world of biomimicry, espionage and mechanical engineering.
12:00 Mastering Memory: Ed Cooke
Explore the nooks and crannies of your mind and improve your powers of recall at the same time with Grand Master of Memory Ed.
13:00 Particle Zoo Safari: Patrick Stevenson-Keating & James Monk
Come on a quest for the fundamental particles of the universe. Observe the mating rituals of quarks and electrons in their natural habitat.
14:00 Zombie Apocalypse: Frank Swain
Discover how to make your own voodoo slaves using parasitic worms and puffer fish, learn why 40% of the audience may already harbour a mind-bending bug, and remember how to avoid becoming a zombie yourself. P.S. BRAINS.
15:00 Jelly Brain Dissection: Zarinah Agnew
Come dissect, discuss and digest the most complex thing in the known universe: jelly, set in the shape of your marvellous cerebrum.
15:30 Science Pub Quiz: Frank Swain
Bring your grey matter for a workout with a twist. Come learn enough odd facts to Asparkle in pub conversations for years.
SATURDAY JULY 21
11:30 Where Are All The Cyborgs? Sarah Sydney
If Sci-Fi’s anything to go by, bionic people should have been walking among us years ago. Prosthetics expert Sarah goes in search of our transhuman future, by way of Oscar Pistorius, Captain Hook and the latest robotic hands.
12:00 Life On Other Planets: Louisa Preston
Life can survive – and thrive – in the deepest, darkest, hottest, and coldest recesses of our planet. If bacteria can live off arsenic, what else could the universe hold? Featuring actual pieces of a meteorite, the moon and Mars!
13:00 Fear & Loathing In The Garden: Fran Meeten
Join us as we explore the evolution of our primal instincts. From age-old fears to bizarre phobias, come challenge your disgust threshold and meet some of our friendliest creepy crawlies.
14:00 DIY Alien Contact: Jeff Lashley & Zoe Cormier
Engineer Jeff has brought a radio transmitter from the National Space Centre to broadcast messages live from the Garden out into space. If you had one chance to speak to the stars, what would you say? Come join our interstellar chatter.
15:00 Chemical Assault Course: Mike Hughson
Become the drugs as they are made and fight for survival through the obstacle course filtration process: first one to make it to a blister pack wins. Come purify, centrifuge and vacuum pack yourself into a pharmacological treat.
16:00 Visualising Vibrations: Reeps One & Steve Mould
Watch as we transform sound into light as our physics maestro Steve and beatboxer Reeps One turn the auditory into the optical with fire, smoke and mirrors. Magic? Nope. Sublime? You bet.
SUNDAY JULY 22
11:00 The Evolution Of Music: Zoe Cormier
Neuroscience has revealed that music affects the brain like nothing else, creating symphonies of synchronized electrical explosions inside our heads.
12:00 Laughter Clinic: Sophie Scott
There is far more to the act of laughing than we may think. Come for a chuckle lab, featuring brains scans of mirth, and Tickle An Over 40-Year-Old!
13:00 The Illusion of Self: Tom Manly
Are you really you? How can you be sure? Neuroscientist Tom will run a series of live experiments to test the ultimate unknown.
13:30 Small & Beautiful Experiments: Steve Mould
Our physics maestro reveals the extraordinary in the ordinary: gather round for tiny marvels of fire, light, sound and chemistry. Do try this at home.
14:00 Science Pub Quiz: Frank Swain
Bring your grey matter for a workout with a twist. Come learn enough odd facts to sparkle in pub conversations for years.
15:00 Dr Szydlo Blows Things Up
He’ll blast the lids off garbage cans, make rainbow water, and show you the miraculous in the material. Dr Szydlo: chemist extraordinaire.
16:00 Chemistry Vs Maths: Andrea Sella & Steve Mould
Andrea and Steve will make music together – some of it sweet, some of it bitter, most of it smelly, with a few explosions thrown in for good measure.
OUT AND ABOUT
All Weekend: The Mini Zoo, Tim Maynard
Scorpions. Snakes. Tarantulas. Insect racing. Oh yes.
Friday & Saturday: Catapult Building, Buro Happold Engineers
Water balloons and paint. What could go wrong?
Saturday & Sunday: In The Zone, Greg Foot
Half science geek, half adrenaline-junkie.
Saturday Only! Flavour Feast, Rachel Edwards-Stuart & Jess Chambers
Mixing colour, scent and sound for a sensory feast.
Plus we are delighted to bring you the best of the Eat My Sci Shorts Guerilla Science short film competition!
WINNER:
We Didn’t Start The Scanner, by Jake Fairnie/Anna Remington: A potted history of neuroscience.
RUNNERS UP:
Unwanting to Stand Still, by Natalie Savva: A poetic look at the formation of stars.
Earthbook, by Bernd Hezel, Ephraim Broschkowski for Climate Media Factory: The history of the earth told through social media.
June 18, 2012
Eat My Sci Shorts
Short Film Competition to Win A Ticket to the Secret Garden Party!
Space travel, evolution, things that go BOOM! Guerilla Science seeks the best science-inspired short films for our Eat My Sci Shorts competition. Winning entries will be screened throughout our 2012 festival season (physical and online), including our showcase tent at the Secret Garden Party – the winner receives a ticket to the festival itself.
Films should be a maximum of five minutes in length and suitable for an English-speaking audience. Documentaries and works of fiction are equally welcome, but we ask that your science content be at least loosely based on scientific research, history or theory.
Please submit completed films by June 22, 2012 via YouTube, Vimeo or another online host link, and send to shorts@guerillascience.co.uk listing the following:
Title:
Director:
Producer:
Writer:
Length:
Previous Screenings:
Awards:
Contact name:
Number:
Email:
Entrants must stipulate that they have read and agree to the below Terms and Conditions:
Entering the competition endows Guerilla Science with the right to publicly screen the film at Guerilla Science events of their choice for the duration of 2012 and to host the film on the Guerilla Science YouTube channel and website. Guerilla Science is authorised to use snippets of up to one minute of the film for promotional purposes. Entries may only be made by those authorised to submit the film on behalf of the producers. Guerilla Science is not responsible in the event of a film being screened without the permission of the relevant parties within the production and all disputes arising will be directed towards the contact who submitted the film. Judges decision is final.
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