How do we talk about the future of science? How does film help us picture that future? How close are sci-fi and sci-fact? The Kavli Centre for Ethics, Science, and the Public are launching their new film festival (22 March), Just. Good. Science. Film Festival, with an entertaining evening considering these questions with help from creative storytellers and career scientists.
Your ticket provides entry to ‘Chattaca’ and the complimentary double bill of Human Nature and Gattaca beforehand at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse.
The Mirror Trap (20 March) is an online immersive experience about psychology and quantum physics. You will meet Paul Gato who has been signed off from the university again. His colleagues say he has not been himself. He has been sending them e-mails filled with ramblings and Feynman diagrams.
He said, “There is nothing more dangerous than being trapped between mirrors”. Paul might be losing his mind, but he might still be right. Dare you take part in his final experiment?
The Centre for Music Performance will be marking the 300th anniversary of the first performance of Bach’s towering masterpiece, the St John Passion (8 March) which debuted on Good Friday in 1724 in Leipzig. Still revered today, it remains among the composer’s most cherished works.
Taking place in the Great Hall at Girton College, the performance will be in an historically informed immersive experience. Performed in the round, the concert is designed to bring the audience into direct contact with the bodily enactment of this affective journey.
The electro//acoustic day (14 March) will bring together both classical instrumental, vocal repertoire and cutting-edge electronic music inviting the audience to explore diverse performances and listening modalities. It will encourage non-traditional modes of listening and create new relationships with music. Sonic and physical space, spatialization and embodiment of sound will be at the centre of all the concerts and the installation creating an immersive environment.
Commoners’ Comedy and Custard Comedy are delighted to present an evening of thought-provoking humour, beginning with Samantha Day – The Booby Trap (20 March). Breasts loom large in our culture, but why are we so obsessed with them? Award-winning comedian Samantha Day gets her tit jokes out and exposes some big issues.
