Cardiff Science Festival
Cardiff Science Festival is an annual science festival in Cardiff, Wales. The festival takes place in February during the school half-term, across 4 days, hosting over 70 events located around Cardiff and the surrounding area. The festival is independently run by the festival organising committee, consisting of local STEM professionals and experts.
Introduction[edit]
The festival was founded in 2018, by a group of STEM experts and professionals based in South Wales, with the aim of bringing informal STEM educational events to the region. The majority of events at the festival are free and whilst many of the events are aimed at families, a number of them target adults as well as individual community groups. Overall the festival engages with 10,000 people on average through events.
Programme[edit]
The festival features events from researchers at Universities across the UK, as well as from science communicators and STEM professionals. Events are also hosted by local businesses, with the aim of highlighting the role of STEM in people's everyday lives. The festival has previously worked with local charities who support audiences with additional needs, to provide accessible events at the festival, including Sight Life Wales and Cardiff Deaf Centre..[1].
The festival uses public spaces across the city to run events, including empty shops, shopping streets, community centres, bars, cafes and libraries. In 2021, the festival converted to a digital festival temporarily, due to the impact of COVID-19. The festival reached a wider geographical audience and as a result the festival has committed to running both physical and digital events in the future. In 2020, the festival's launch event was held at Techniquest, Cardiff, featuring a variety of events and performances[2][3].
The festival has hosted events from many prominent speakers, including Tori James, Maria Leijerstam and Ben Saunders, as well as organisations including CERN, Cardiff University and the National Physics Laboratory.
Featured projects[edit]
In addition to the core program, the festival has run several projects in collaboration with other organisations. These projects have focussed on engaging with specific community groups, typically from underserved audiences, to improve STEM capital in South Wales. In 2021, the festival hosted the final Cardiff heat of the FameLab competition.[4]
In 2021, the festival will take part in the Cardiff-wide Summer of Smiles event[5].
In response to COVID-19, Cardiff Science Festival contributed to the submission to Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport inquiry on ‘Impact of COVID-19 on DCMS sectors’. The submission, coordinated by the uK Science Festival Network, provided evidence of the impact of COVID-19 on the science festival industry, highlighting loss of funding and future uncertainty[6]
Sponsorship[edit]
The festival has received sponsorship from several local and national organisations, including the Institute of Physics, the Learned Society of Wales and Renishaw plc.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Cardiff Science Festival". Cardiff Deaf Centre. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
- ↑ Gregory, Rhys (2020-02-08). "Techniquest to host launch event for Cardiff Science Festival 2020". Retrieved 2021-06-08.
- ↑ "Cardiff Science Festival is back with a bang in city". The Cardiffian. 2020-02-14. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
- ↑ "FameLab Cardiff". Cardiff Science Festival. Retrieved 2021-06-07. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Zewge, Ruth. "Summer Programmes | C3SC - Cardiff Third Sector Council". c3sc.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
- ↑ UK Science Festival Network (23 July 2021). "Written evidence submitted by the British Science Association on behalf of UK Science Festivals Network (UKSFN) members". Retrieved 8 June 2021. Unknown parameter
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External links[edit]
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