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Comedy, science and music combine in this Science Festival spectacular!

28 Oct 2014

On Thursday, 30 October (7.30pm), Bright Club Manchester will take over Manchester Metropolitan University’s The Union, for a night of mind altering, side splitting, and dimension bending laughter!

Expansively compèred by stand-up comic Silky ("funny and clever" – Tim Minchin) and with musical refreshment provided by the chaotic and hilarious Ben Champion ("Smart, funny and awesome in equal measure" – Fringe Guru), the evening promises to be a juggernaut of scientific insights and comedic anecdotes.

Now a regular part of the Manchester Science Festival (23 October – 2 November), the thinking person's variety club will present the best six performers from the last twelve months of their regular Bright Club nights held at Nexus Art Café, Manchester.

  • From the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Joe Zuntz will share what really drives astronomers: hubris, existential malice, and utter confusion.
  • Psychology lecturer, Ben Ambridge, from the University of Liverpool, will be arguing that "Men are from Mars, Women are from Snickers" en route to debunking the Top 10 Myths of Pop Psychology. 
  • Gavin Coupe is a transport planner, modeller and designer who will look at the evolution of transport from horse and cart to HS3.
  • An archaeologist who specialises in the study of human remains, Alison Atkin will be exploring the phenomenon of supernatural skeleton burials and the usual anecdotes that come with digging up the dead.
  • Hannah Elizabeth is a historian researching the history of adults failing to talk to children about sex, particularly the exciting bits they really ought to know about. She will discuss the dimensions of classroom sex education that tried to explain safer-sex without ever explaining sex itself!
  • Astronomer Mark Purver likes to think small. Big things like the Universe make his brain hurt. After telling everyone last time that Pluto wasn't big enough to be a planet, this time he's going to look at even smaller things called pulsars "but not literally".

As part of the last three Manchester Science Festivals, Bright Club hosted sell-out shows at the Deaf Institute (2011) and Gorilla (2012 and 2013); this year’s Dimension-themed night promises to continue spreading thought-provoking mirth to Manchester’s Science-Festival faithful.

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