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BACKSTAGE SCIENCE: Big Bang Collective have been sneaking backstage to talk to some amazing artists in a series called Backstage Science. Check it out here. FESTIVAL NEWS: OSTRAVA PROGRAMMES: The programmes are now out for nearly all of our 2025 Science Pavilions! For Ostrava, find both the indoor and outdoor programme here.

2025 CERN Festival Programme

This year will see the CERN festival programme heading to the Czech Republic, Denmark and twice in Spain!

  1. The Big Bang Stage at the Colors of Ostrava festival, Czech Republic

    16 Jul – 19 Jul 2025

    Once again co-producer, physicist Martin Rybar from Charles University and the team, have pulled together an incredibly varied programme for the audience of this well-established music festival. With shows, panel discussions, some fun ‘sketch-noting’ for a talk and debate, a conversation with Nobel Prize winner Prof. Morten Meldahl, and a very special interactive 6m artistic installation on the theme of ‘quantum’ all in the incredible setting of the Svet Techniky science space within the confines of the Ostrava music festival, this is sure to be another huge success.

    The Big Bang Stage at the Colors of Ostrava festival, Czech Republic film
    Ostrava 2024

  2. Escenario Big Bang at Sonorama Ribera Festival, Spain

    6 Aug – 10 Aug 2025

    A brand new partnership for the CERN Festival Programme this year with the highly regarded Sonorama Ribera festival in Aranda de Duero in the north of Spain. This festival with a big focus on all types of Spanish music welcomes over 100’000 people each year and we are delighted that it is opening its doors to their first ever Science Pavilion. With a fantastic team of co-producers : Mathematician and TV star Eduardo Saenz de Cabezón, physicist and outreach maestro Jesus Puerta Pelayo from Madrid, technician and workshop host Ivan Lopez Paz from Barcelona and Cristina Romero Castillo from Barcelona, this new stage is going to be offering free workshops to make your own solar chargers, and turn a piece of CERN history into your own little LED lamp display, and talks from eminent Spanish personalities on Solar eclipses and Astrobiology, this is one festival you don’t want to miss!

    Escenario Big Bang at Sonorama Ribera Festival, Spain film
    Sonorama Festival

  3. The Science Pavilion at Smukfest Festival, Denmark

    7 Aug – 10 Aug 2025

    Set in a beautiful forest in central Denmark, this will be the second year for the CERN Festival Programme at Smukfest. Last year’s Science Pavilion had a stellar programme welcoming not only a Nobel Prize winner but also the Danish commander of the International Space Station to the stage. And this year’s programme, co-produced by Joergen Beck Hansen from the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen promises to be very exciting with talks on 'Nuclear power', 'Quantum computing - what’s it all about' and 'The Science of Addiction'... just for starters!

    The Science Pavilion at Smukfest Festival, Denmark film
    Audience
    Audience 2
    Children
    Dinosaur
    Entrance
    Fysikshow Aarhus
    Jeff Hangst
    Outdoor Experiments
    Outdoor Experiments 2
    Playing with vapour
    Rene Munk Thalund
    Sam Gregson
    Science Pavilion
    Science Pavilion Crop
    Science Tent
    Science is fun
    Silicon Photonics for Optical Communications
    Solar Panel Workshop
    The Future Is Yours

  4. The Discovery Lab at Rototom Festival, Spain

    16 Aug – 23 Aug 2025

    We return to Spain, to the seaside town of Benicassim and this lively, friendly reggae music festival now in its 30th year for a second year of the Discovery Lab! With the same co-producers as for Sonorama, the programme running over a full week will have shows, workshops, talks on topics such as the upcoming solar eclipse, cybersecurity and YouTube science stars, with the support of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology FECYT, there will be something for everybody under the daily sunshine of Rototom!

    The Discovery Lab at Rototom Festival, Spain film
    Rototom Festival
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