Science Festivals

Professional Announcements

ASTC 2019

International Observe the Moon Night

Deadline for Science Festival Startups

09.21.2019

10.05.2019

10.31.2019

UpcomingScience Festivals

Beakerhead

09.18.2019

Flagstaff Festival of Science

09.20.2019

Mississippi Science Festival

09.20.2019

INTERACTIVE MAP

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Go Where the People Are: Science In Vivo

Leave home behind. Get out there and mix some science into real life. It's... Science In Vivo! In early 2018 the Science Festival Alliance publicly launched Science In Vivo,* a multi-year project focusing on science experiences that “go where the people are.” This toolk...

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Science Festival Alliance Membership Toolkit

The contents of this toolkit are for use by Science Festival Alliance (SFA) member festivals. For more on becoming a member, see the about section. For list of current SFA member festivals, see the interactive map or calendar. Recognizing Your Membership SFA logos Logos and graphic elements f...

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Science Events Spotlights

Science events take place at the energetic, messy, meaningful--and sometimes hilarious--live interface between real people and science. So it should come as no surprise that most science event organizers have a story or two to tell. We've collected hours of audio from recorded conve...

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The Science Festival Accelerator

Starting a festival in a community with a relatively small resource base? This is the toolkit for you. This toolkit is being created to support the Science Festival Accelerator, which launched in 2016 with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. While the resources here are likely to be ...

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Evaluation Planning, Implementation and Reporting

The phrase “You get out of it what you put into it” is certainly true of evaluation. As powerful a tool as evaluation can be, it is often one of the last considerations of festivals in terms of time and budget. Many festival organizers have limited experience planning for and conducting evaluati...

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So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu

Google maps has assured me that this drive clocks in around 29 hours but I'm convinced I can outpace the great determiner of the trek. This Sunday...

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Applications open for startup festival support (including $10K!)

Anyone can start a new science festival at any time, and the Science Festival Alliance is usually willing to help. But with the Science Festival Ac...

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Science on Parade

The Science In Vivo project is in the midst of a wide range of experiments. The main question: What happens when we try to integrate science engagemen...

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Science Events Summit 2019

Another year is in the books for the Science Events Summit and from the perspective of an organizer it felt like our best year ever. In a moment o...

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2018 Annual Report

I could joke and say this post is long overdue but that makes me cringe because while true, it took so much to get to this point and I a...

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Encountering Science in America

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences released a report in 2019 that, among other things, highlighted the importance of the social experience ...

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