Our Autumn season sees a number of special events take place in the city with leading artists, scientists, writers, commentators and journalists coming to the city for discussion and debate. We’re also collaborating with the University of Bristol, Bristol Grammar School on a special event with Kate Adie, St George’s Bristol, Watershed Media Centre and the West of England Design Forum. Many of the events are free, but some of these require pre-booking. Please click on the speaker images below for full details.

UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL AUTUMN ART LECTURE SERIES 2008 PRESENTS
THE CREATIVE BRAIN: CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN ART AND SCIENCE
The Bristol Art Lectures 2008

This autumn, Bristol is host to world renowned scientists, artists, musicians and filmmakers in a stunningly high-octane and significant series of sci-art conversations. The Creative Brain: Conversations Between Art and Science is co-ordinated by Stafford Lightman, a Neuroscientist and Professor of Medicine, and Kathy Sykes, Professor of Sciences and Society, both at the University of Bristol. Bridging the two cultures is an aim of the Bristol Festival of Ideas and it is a theme that we will return to in 2009 in the May Festival.

Established in 1905, the 2008 prestigious Bristol Art Lecture series has taken a new direction, engaging with science. In a series of eight chaired public conversations between eminent and innovative scientists and artists, the 103rd lecture series will seek to explore the parallel and creative landscapes that both science and art inhabit, to identify the insights that can enrich each other’s work and share the value of such cross-disciplinary dialogue live, in print, and online - with the world.

What have an embryologist and saxophonist got in common? Why is a Nobel prize winner for research into cell cycles discussing the power of art to understand the world? A Booker prize winning novelist exploring how brain sciences might explain love? Why has a scientist turned to the power of art to illuminate science, and what stimulates all these speakers to seek dialogue across disciplines? The Creative Brain conversations will explore the intersect between art and science where hard graft, creative approaches and the role of the human imagination are key. For further details and updates, click here to visit the lectures website. Further details will also be posted here.

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