How to get involved
ColliderFest 2025 – Call for Ideas
We are excited to announce the upcoming Collider Festival 2024 (Formerly Hull/Humber Science Festival) – a unique celebration where science meets arts, sparking curiosity, creativity, and collaboration!
The festival will be held from Thursday, March 13th to Sunday, March 16th, 2025. Activities will be centred around Hull’s Museums Quarter, with additional events taking place across the city centre and the University of Hull campus, with the aim to attract over 35,000 visitors.
This year, we are excited to expand our celebration of science by explicitly including the arts, transforming STEM into STEAM. This change acknowledges the creativity inherent in science, technology, engineering, and maths, and highlights the role that the arts play in communicating scientific ideas.
As we prepare for this exciting event, we are reaching out to you, as a past contributor of the Humber Science Festival, to see if you would be interested in joining us
Key Details:
Date: 13-16 March 2025
Schools days 13th and 14th
Public: 15th and 16th
Location: Museum Quarter and other city centre venues. Internal and External spaces
Deadline for Proposals: 8th November 2024
What We’re Looking For:
We seek events that highlight cutting-edge research, celebrate recent advances in science and technology, and engage audiences in debating important topics that impact culture and society. We are particularly interested in activities that use the arts to present and communicate STEAM concepts. Feel free to challenge preconceived notions about what science is and what it can be. We plan to offer a variety of formats, including seminars, drop-in activities, and creative content.
Building on the success of providing of the Hull Science Festival, based largely around the University, we are partnering with Hull museums from 2025-2028 to deliver a much more ambitious new initiative: Collider Fest. For the first time this will provide an annual free-to-access STEAM festival in the City Centre that will make full use of a range of new visitor attractions that launch in 2025.
Therefore, we are particularly keen to hear from any project/activity which links in with Hull’s Maritime story and maritime science (conservation, environment, new technology etc.).
Types of Activities:
– Discovery Zone: Our exhibition space (Saturday, March 15th, and Sunday, March 16th) for hands-on, table top, drop-in activities.
– Workshops: 40-50 minute sessions, repeated for schools on March 13th & 14th, and bookable for the public on March 15th & 16th.
– Shows and Demonstration Lectures: Informative and entertaining 60-minute sessions for family audiences.
– Activities for Ages 16+: Lectures, panel discussions, or Science Café-style activities aimed at older audiences.
To submit your activity, simply complete the form here and send it to us by the 15th November 2024. If you have any questions or need further information, please don’t hesitate to contact us. There will be opportunities for sponsorship, we are just finalising these details. Please let us know at Colliderfest@hull.ac.uk if you would like more information on sponsorships, once they become available.
We can’t wait to see how you’ll help us bring this fusion of science and art to life at Colliderfest 2025!
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