What should we be talking about today?
March 21, 2021“Community Engagement” is a tidy turn of phrase. To start with, “engagement” is a slippery word. It has been co-opted and adapted to refer...
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Spring is still busy season!
March 20, 2021Most of the science festivals in the US and Canada happen to be crammed into two six-week stretches, one in the spring and another in th...
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Conversations in Color
August 11, 2020During 2020 the Science Festival Alliance worked with Daniel Aguirre
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Start Actually Practicing Engagement
August 10, 2020Do you work in the public engagement with science field? It's time to step outside of your organization. For at least a decade, we’ve frequen...
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Science Events Summit Cancelled. Join These Meetings
May 7, 2020The 2020 Science Events Summit
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Science on Parade
October 22, 2019The 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 engag...
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Spring Festivals Are Calling You
October 21, 2019At last count, 17 Science Festival Alliance members had open calls for their 2020 spring festivals. It may be hard to think about spring before...
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So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu
August 6, 2019Google 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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Science Events Summit 2019
June 6, 2019Another 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
May 26, 2019I 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
March 6, 2019The 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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First Science In Vivo Teams Announced
May 27, 2018The Science Festival Alliance has just named the first 11 teams selected by competitive application to participate in the Science In Vivo project. Th...
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Go Where the People Are: New Rolling Deadline!
February 1, 2018Leave home behind and try something new. This fall's rolling Call for Applications closes November 26, 2018: unless all 9 remaining spot...
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2017: The Year in Public Science Events
January 24, 2018This year we dabbled a bit with collecting annual report information on public science events writ large. To do so, we asked a small core of publi...
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The (sort of) New Science Events Summit
December 6, 2017Where? St. Petersburg, Florida When? June 4 - 5 for the main conference, pre and post workshops are in the works Why? Wha...
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Science Events Summit: Call for Participation
December 5, 2017Already registered? Why not take an active role in the meeting? This is about more than just cooking up a session proposal: there are several ways...
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Join the Party! Feature in Informal Learning Review
April 26, 2017Science events snag the cover of the March/April issue of Informal Learning Review, along with a six-page article that considers the relevance of live...
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Nine New Science Festivals Announced
February 13, 2017The Science Festival Alliance is continuously helping new science festivals get started, but this spring some communities are getting a special boost...
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Talking About Live Public Science Events
September 14, 2016Science events professionals are a wild bunch of individuals. Which, considering what we all do for a living, makes sense. With such a wide variat...
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Going Where the People Are
September 12, 2016Throughout the past year, we’ve been experimenting with different ways to bring science experiences into settings that reach people where they alrea...
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Surveying the Landscape of Live Public Science Events
February 9, 2016Every year in the US and UK millions of people enjoy science experiences at a huge range of live events. How many people exactly? We're ...
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Why is this happening?
January 13, 2014Kishore Hari tells a story about visiting three science festivals in a 2013 Story Collider performance
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Guidance for Listening Partner Conversations
August 27, 2020For our August 2020 listening sessions, Conversations in Color, we've invited everyone listening to do so with a listening partner. As you begin to ha...
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The MIT Museum is Hiring
July 1, 2020Back in 2009, the MIT Museum created a new position to stitch together a national network of science festivals. Over the past decade, this...
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2020 Community Listening
May 29, 2020In 2020 the Science Festival Alliance worked with Daniel Aguirre to hold several listening sessions that amplified community voices. It is our hope th...
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2020 Summit Suspended. What That Means
March 17, 2020Planning for the 2020 Science Events Summit is suspended. What does that mean? Plans for the 2020 Summit have been in the works fo...
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Join the festival party! Apply by December 2nd
October 22, 2019Remember the last time you went to a festival that mattered to you? What it was like to share an experience with so many different peopl...
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