WORLD SCIENCE FESTIVAL BRISBANE

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2024 Dates

Brisbane
15 – 24 March 2024

Toowoomba
Schools Program: Friday 17 May 2024
World Science Festival Queensland: Saturday 18 May 2024

Chinchilla
Schools Program: Friday 7 June 2024
World Science Festival Queensland: Saturday 8 June 2024

Ipswich
Schools Program: Friday 19 July 2024
World Science Festival Queensland: Saturday 20 July 2024

Townsville
Schools Program: Thursday 1 August 2024
World Science Festival Queensland: Friday 2 August 2024

Gladstone
Schools Program: Thursday 29 August 2024
World Science Festival Queensland: Saturday 31 August 2024

 

World Science Festival Brisbane Mission 

To create a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future – WSF mission

Each year World Science Festival Brisbane paints the town red and takes science out of the laboratory and into the streets, parks, museums, galleries and performing arts venues of Brisbane and regional Queensland!

Queensland Museum holds exclusive licence to host the festival in the Asia Pacific – the only global extension of this initiative, attracting over 1.5 million attendances since launching in 2016.

World Science Festival Brisbane reinforces Queensland Museum’s position as a leader in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education and engagement.

The festival provides Queensland Museum an opportunity to engage audiences outside the traditional education sphere, and promote a whole of life “entanglement” with STEM – delivering on our mission of creating authentic and compelling experiences and stories that inspire, enrich and empower. The festival is delivered to regional Queensland throughout the calendar year under the banner of World Science Festival Queensland.

Queensland Museum in conjunction with the Queensland Government, our valued partners and stakeholders, industry experts and the wider STEM community is committed to ensuring World Science Festival Brisbane and Queensland, is delivered to the highest standard and engages the widest audience possible. No matter what, now is the time to celebrate science!

World Science Festival Brisbane is presented by the Queensland Museum with generous support from Our Partners.


World Science Festival New York

Hailed by The New York Times as ‘a new cultural institution’, the World Science Festival – founded by renowned Physicist Professor Brian Greene and Emmy award-winning journalist Tracy Day – has been held annually in New York for more than a decade.

The World Science Festival brings together great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that presents the wonders of science and the drama of scientific discovery to a broad general audience.

World Science Festival has featured scientific and cultural luminaries including Stephen Hawking, Sylvia Earle, Anna Deavere Smith, Oliver Sacks, John Hockenberry, Elizabeth Vargas among many others. The annual Festivals have collectively drawn more than 1.3 million visitors since 2008, and millions more have viewed the programs online.

World Science Festival is a production of the World Science Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation headquartered in New York City. The foundation’s mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future.

World Science U is the foundation’s online education arm where students and lifelong learners can dive more deeply through artfully produced digital education content presented by world-renowned scientists.

 

 

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