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If you would like to get involved with live science events, register at Science Live <\/span>to join in all the fun. https:\/\/www.sciencelive.net<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n If you are organising a science event and need a speaker on astronomy or spaceflight, lists of suitable speakers are provided by:<\/p>\n The Royal Astronomical Society<\/span>. Astrospeakers.<\/span> Science Festivals.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Below is a list of some of the science festival events that I know about. British Science Week: <\/span>6th – 15th March 2020. Not really a festival in itself, but lots of science events are organised by schools during this exciting week. https:\/\/www.britishscienceweek.org<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The Big Bang Fair<\/span>. I you want Astronomy and Music try these two summer festivals:<\/p>\n Solarsphere:\u00a0<\/span>14th – 17th August 2020. http:\/\/www.solarsphere.events<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Bluedot Festival:\u00a0<\/span>23rd – 26th July 2020. https:\/\/www.discoverthebluedot.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n One of the biggest science festival events of the year is: New Scientist Live. https:\/\/live.newscientist.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Pint of Science<\/span>: Science presentations given in pubs around the country. See Science Festival <\/span>– London. Suffolk Science Festival<\/span>:15th – 19th February 2020. Techfest.<\/span> http:\/\/www.techfest.org.uk<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n There is an umbrella organisation called The<\/span> UK Science Festivals Network<\/span> http:\/\/sciencefestivals.uk<\/strong><\/span><\/a> The big STEM Communicators Network has a list of festivals here: The British Science Association<\/span> has a list of UK Science Festivals on their Web site also copied below: Click the links below to visit their Web sites:<\/p>\n If you love science, you’ve gotta make a visit to many of the science festivals organised throughout the UK. Although not necessarily astronomy biased, but they are always…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":37,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"UK Science Festivals - Star-Gazing","description":"If you love science, you've gotta make a visit to many of the science festivals organised throughout the UK. Although not necessarily astronomy biased, but they"},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3644","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3644"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3669,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3644\/revisions\/3669"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhttps:\/\/ras.ac.uk\/education-and-careers\/for-schools-and-teachers\/1834-list-of-school-speakers<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.astrospeakers.org<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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\nIf I have missed any off that don;t appear in the other two extensive lists below, let me know so they can be added.<\/p>\n
\nBringing science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) to life for young people at festivals throughout the year and around the country.
\nBig Bang Home Page: https:\/\/nearme.thebigbangfair.co.uk\/home<\/span><\/strong><\/a>
\nBig Bang Fairs across the UK: https:\/\/nearme.thebigbangfair.co.uk<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
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\nWhat’s not to like? 11th – 13th May 2020. https:\/\/pintofscience.co.uk<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/see-science-festival-2020-exploring-the-science-of-sight-tickets-84867421743<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/www.visit-burystedmunds.co.uk\/whats-on\/suffolk-science-festival-2020<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
\nA list of their members festivals is shown here: http:\/\/sciencefestivals.uk\/festival<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/www.big.uk.com\/festivals<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/www.britishscienceassociation.org\/sciencefestivals<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n
\n Town, city or county<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n Festival name<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n Dates<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n London<\/td>\n Science Fiction Theatre Festival<\/a><\/td>\n 27 May – 01 June 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Bristol and Bath<\/td>\n Festival of Nature<\/a><\/td>\n 01 – 09 June 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Gloucestershire<\/td>\n Cheltenham Science Festival<\/a><\/td>\n 04 – 09 June 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Glasgow<\/td>\n Glasgow Science Festival<\/a><\/td>\n 06 – 16 June 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Bournemouth<\/td>\n Festival of Learning<\/a><\/td>\n 15 – 19 June 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Preston<\/td>\n Lancashire Science Festival<\/a><\/td>\n 27 – 29 June 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n London<\/td>\n Imperial Festival<\/a><\/td>\n 29 – 30 June 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n London<\/td>\n Summer Science Exhibition<\/a><\/td>\n 01 – 07 July 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Essex<\/td>\n Basildon Street Science<\/a><\/td>\n 13 July 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Bradford<\/td>\n Bradford Science Festival<\/a><\/td>\n 18 – 21 July 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Cheshire<\/td>\n Bluedot<\/a><\/td>\n 18 – 21 July 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Merthyr Tydfil<\/td>\n Merthyr Tydfil Science Festival<\/a><\/td>\n 20 July 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Wales<\/td>\n Science Village, National Eisteddfod of Wales<\/a><\/td>\n 03 – 10 August 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Birmingham & Manchester<\/td>\n BLAST Fest<\/a><\/td>\n 09 -12 August 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Coventry & Warwickshire<\/td>\n British Science Festival<\/a><\/td>\n 10 – 13 September 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Hull<\/td>\n Hull Science Festival<\/a><\/td>\n 13 – 15 September 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Exeter<\/td>\n Sidmouth Science Festival<\/a><\/td>\n 04 – 10 October 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Midlothian<\/td>\n Midlothian Science Festival<\/a><\/td>\n 05 – 19 October 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Dundee<\/td>\n Dundee Science Festival<\/a><\/td>\n 05 – 20 October 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Peterborough<\/td>\n Peterborough STEM Festival<\/a><\/td>\n 12 October 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Norwich<\/td>\n Norwich Science Festival<\/a><\/td>\n 18 – 26 October 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Oxfordshire<\/td>\n IF Oxford<\/a><\/td>\n 18 – 28 October 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Swansea<\/td>\n Swansea Science Festival<\/a><\/td>\n 26 – 27 October 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Scotland<\/td>\n Festival of Physics<\/a><\/td>\n 26 – 28 October 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n London<\/td>\n South East London STEAM Festival<\/a><\/td>\n 26 October 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n UK-wide<\/td>\n ESRC Festival of Social Science<\/a><\/td>\n 02 – 09 November 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Brighton<\/td>\n Brighton Science Festival<\/a><\/td>\n February 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Northern Ireland<\/td>\n Northern Ireland Science Festival<\/a><\/td>\n 14 – 24 February 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Nottingham<\/td>\n Nottingham Festival of Science & Curiosity<\/a><\/td>\n 12 – 19 February 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Cardiff<\/td>\n Cardiff Science Festival<\/a><\/td>\n 15 – 18 February 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Southampton<\/td>\n Southampton Science & Engineering Festival<\/a><\/td>\n 06 – 15 March 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Bath<\/td>\n Bath Taps Into Science<\/a><\/td>\n 07 – 13 March 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Cambridge<\/td>\n Cambridge Science Festival\u00a0<\/a><\/td>\n 09 – 22 March 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Abingdon-on-Thames<\/td>\n ATOM Festival<\/a><\/td>\n 14 – 22 March 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Guildford<\/td>\n Innovate Guildford<\/a><\/td>\n March 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n West Yorkshire<\/td>\n Leeds Festival of Science<\/a><\/td>\n March \/April 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Edinburgh<\/td>\n Edinburgh Science Festival<\/a><\/td>\n April 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Weston-Super-Mare<\/td>\n Big Bang @ Weston-super-Mare<\/a><\/td>\n April 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Sheffield<\/td>\n AlgoMech<\/a><\/td>\n May 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Lincolnshire<\/td>\n Gravity Fields Festival<\/a><\/td>\n 23 – 27 September 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n London<\/td>\n SMASHFest<\/a><\/td>\n July 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Manchester<\/td>\n Manchester Science Festival<\/a><\/td>\n 2020 dates TBA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"