February 2, 2012
Inventing The Universe
Highlights from our summer 2011 festival antics with engineers, chemists, and physicists at the Secret Garden Party and Bestival! Set to the sublime sonic styles of UK beatbox champion Reeps One.
Featuring the Galactic Gourmet, Science Junkie Greg Foot, Marcus du Sautoy, Simon Foster, Blind Robot’s Bluff, Tobin May & The Bionic Ear, Andrea Sella and Physics V Chemistry, the Vaccine Assault Course, and the cornstarch runway. With thanks to the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Science and Technologies Facilities Council, who sponsored all our events celebration Invention and the Universe this summer.
Shot and directed by Isis Thompson.
February 1, 2012
Days of Dirt
A short film of highlights from our fantastically filthy days of dirty fun at the Secret Garden Party and Bestival in the summer of 2011.
Featuring Dirty Life Drawing, the Disgust Challenge with Fran Meeten, Cockroach Racing, Dirty Minds with Aidan Horner and Zarinah Agnew, Dirty Pub Quiz, and the Dirt Banquet.
Sponsored by the Wellcome Trust as part of their gorgeously grimy Dirt season of events.
Shot and directed by Isis Thompson.
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.
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