Bluedot Festival

Bluedot Festival Intergalactic festival of music, science, art, technology & the exploration of space | Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire, UK.

On what would have been bluedot weekend, we know many of you will be feeling a cosmic sized hole within your calendar, s...
19/07/2024

On what would have been bluedot weekend, we know many of you will be feeling a cosmic sized hole within your calendar, so we’re delighted to remind you that there is still a universe to discover for cosmonauts of all ages this summer 👩‍🚀✨🙌🏻

Our esteemed friends at Jodrell Bank have an incredible science & family lineup planned for the summer season 🙌🏻 running from 23rd July - 1st September.

Continue on your voyage of exploration and discovery at our festival home 🚀 with some of our key highlights:

🧬 Delve into the Royal Society’s Science Exhibition, where the whole-family can get hands-on with scientific discoveries, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the periodic table.

✨ Get ready for a Solar System spectacular as part of the Curious Kids live show series. Expect hair-raising experiments, fantastic facts & tricky trivia. Tickets are free for this show, but are allocated on a first come, first served basis.

🌖 Preschoolers can join Ted’s Space Adventure in a giant leap for little astronauts - an interactive show involving music & rhyme.

👩🏻‍🔬 Meet the experts & discover a world of radio astronomy, planets, the stars & beyond!

🌟 PLUS crafts & activities throughout the day.

Plan your out-of-this-world summer now - https://www.jodrellbank.net/explore/stories/enjoy-out-of-this-world-fun-this-summer/

Look after your fellow humans this Christmas and give the gift of hearty chef made meals for people living in food pover...
20/12/2023

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17/10/2023

Voting is open until this weekend! https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/57CZDT5

We’re thrilled to be nominated as Best Medium and Best Family festivals at the UK Festival Awards. Let’s celebrate the amazing bluedot team! 💙

bluedot will be taking a fallow year for 2024.Read the full transmission – discoverthebluedot.com
03/10/2023

bluedot will be taking a fallow year for 2024.

Read the full transmission – discoverthebluedot.com

EPIC… Friday night in a brand new Orbit arena with Leftfield ✨
22/09/2023

EPIC… Friday night in a brand new Orbit arena with Leftfield ✨

Wishing a very happy 60th birthday to our beloved Jarv Is 💙Thinking back to an epic afternoon at bluedot 2019…
19/09/2023

Wishing a very happy 60th birthday to our beloved Jarv Is 💙

Thinking back to an epic afternoon at bluedot 2019…

16/09/2023

Saturdays = Pavement 💙

Elizabeth Alker and BBC Radio 3 presents Max Richter’s Voices live from bluedot, with the BBC Concert Orchestra and spec...
15/09/2023

Elizabeth Alker and BBC Radio 3 presents Max Richter’s Voices live from bluedot, with the BBC Concert Orchestra and special guest narrator Tilda Swinton.

Listen Again for the next 30 days on BBC Sounds –

Max Richter’s Voices at Bluedot Festival, with Tilda Swinton in the role of narrator.

We're excited to share that bluedot 2023's Opening Concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 this week.Tune in this ...
13/09/2023

We're excited to share that bluedot 2023's Opening Concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 this week.

Tune in this Thursday for Unclassified Live with Elizabeth Alker, to hear Max Richter’s VOICES recorded live from bluedot 2023 featuring violinist Mari Samuelsen and BBC Concert Orchestra, plus very special guest Tilda Swinton.

Enjoy this extraordinary concert experience and relive an awe-inspiring night beneath the Lovell Telescope, this Thursday from 11.30pm on BBC Radio 3, and shortly after broadcast on BBC Sounds.

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Jodrell Bank Observatory, Bomish Lane
Macclesfield
SK119DL

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Discover the bluedot at Jodrell Bank...

Bluedot is an award-winning weekend of discovery at the grounds of the Jodrell Bank deep space observatory. Set against a backdrop of the iconic Lovell Telescope, bluedot combines a truly stellar line-up of music with a ground-breaking programme of live science experiments, expert talks and immersive artworks.

In an era of political divisiveness and environmental uncertainty, bluedot aims to cultivate a unifying celebration for citizens of the world. Its message is loud and clear: ‘look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.’ (Carl Sagan, 1934—1996).

Bluedot returns, 18.19.20.21 July 2019. discoverthebluedot.com