Thursday, 8 May 2008
Blogging About Busking
The team behind Strawberry Flavoured Science will be updating the blog with plenty of science busking related news - including festival diary entries, images and sounds from the streets. We'll keep you posted...
Our Buskers
The Food for Thought science buskers are:
Jim Bell: Live Science Presenter at At-Bristol Science Centre
Hayley Birch: Editor at Null Hypothesis and freelance science writer
Anja Bloom: science communication graduate and radio presenter
Richard Bravery: also from At-Bristol
Douglas Kitson: science communicator and freelance writer
Anna Phlippen: Explainer at The Science Museum, London
Jim Bell: Live Science Presenter at At-Bristol Science Centre
Hayley Birch: Editor at Null Hypothesis and freelance science writer
Anja Bloom: science communication graduate and radio presenter
Richard Bravery: also from At-Bristol
Douglas Kitson: science communicator and freelance writer
Anna Phlippen: Explainer at The Science Museum, London
Where to Find Science Buskers
Strawberry Flavoured Science is from the team behind Food for Thought science busking.
The team are busking at Cheltenham Science Festival between 6th-8th June this year, and at the Secret Garden Party in Cambridgeshire between 24-27th July.
At-Bristol Science Centre staff regularly busk around Millennium Square in Bristol.
And here are some other examples of science busking:
Einstein at Glastonbury
Street Science in Manchester (video)
Physics buskers in Dublin (pdf, page five)
If you're a science communicator wanting to try your hand at science busking, have a look at this handy 'How to' guide first.
What is Science Busking?
Science busking, very simply, is busking, but with science.
In general, the only people mad (and geeky) enough to do it are science communicators - that's people who talk/write/create performances/make art about science.
Science communicators are very keen on getting the public involved in science-based stuff. So that's where science busking comes in. It's a way of taking science demonstrations and activities out of the lab and on to the street.
But isn't science meant to happen in the lab?
No! Science is happening all the time, everywhere. It's just that most of the time, we don't think about it.
So what sort of stuff do science buskers busk about?
Okay, so there hasn't yet been an example of anyone sequencing DNA on a street corner (give it time) but buskers have done everything from testing space ice cream with passers-by to creating musical instruments out of coat hangers.
If you're a science communicator wanting to try your hand at science busking, have a look at this handy 'How to' guide first.
In general, the only people mad (and geeky) enough to do it are science communicators - that's people who talk/write/create performances/make art about science.
Science communicators are very keen on getting the public involved in science-based stuff. So that's where science busking comes in. It's a way of taking science demonstrations and activities out of the lab and on to the street.
But isn't science meant to happen in the lab?
No! Science is happening all the time, everywhere. It's just that most of the time, we don't think about it.
So what sort of stuff do science buskers busk about?
Okay, so there hasn't yet been an example of anyone sequencing DNA on a street corner (give it time) but buskers have done everything from testing space ice cream with passers-by to creating musical instruments out of coat hangers.
If you're a science communicator wanting to try your hand at science busking, have a look at this handy 'How to' guide first.
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