EVENT OF THE MONTH JUNE 2011

  WORLD SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2011

June 1-5, New York City 

The World Science Festival returns to New York City June 1-5, 2011 with a sweeping array of cutting-edge science programs designed to make the esoteric understandable and the familiar fascinating. The world’s leading scientific minds will be joined by renowned artists and influential thinkers for a five-day celebration of science through discourse and debate, dance and theater, film, music and the visual arts. The result is the nation’s most anticipated science happening with something for everyone, from invigorating discussions with revered researchers, to must-see events for young scientists and their families, to mesmerizing performances and ground-breaking exhibitions.

The Mission of the World Science Festival is to cultivate and sustain a general public informed by the content of science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. The World Science Festival is a production of the Science Festival Foundation, a  non-profit organization headquartered in New York City.

The World Science Festival was founded byBrian Green aColumbia University Physics professor and author of several popular-science books, and his wife, Emmy Award winning television journalist Tracy Day. Inspired by a visit to the 2005Festival della Scienza in Genoa , where Greene had been invited to speak, the two decided that a similar festival in New York City would be a unique opportunity to bring science to the wider public. As they envisioned it, the events were meant to be rooted in science, but also to conform to the production standards of professional TV or theater productions.

The foundation organizes the World Science Festival (WSF) in partnership with Columbia University, New York University, the City University of New York, Rockefeller University and the Cooper Union, as well as cultural institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. Financial support comes from individuals, from numerous foundations, and from corporate sponsors which, for the 2008 festival, included the Sloan Foundation, the Simons Foundation, the Templeton Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Cullman Foundation, and Credit Suisse.

For Events, visit    : www.worldsciencefestival.com 

Questions? Email : web@worldsciencefest.org