We’re kicking off Season 2 of You’re Up Next by exploring the topic of Climate Change through the lenses of humour, creativity and science. Our guests this week are Bright Club performer and comedian, Anne Gill, and Dr. Rose Mutiso who is the former CEO of the Mawazo Institute. Anne …
This season on You’re Up Next we’ll be exploring some important topics through the lenses of humour, creativity and science. At Bright Club, we help researchers talk about their work using comedy. We believe in using humour to break down barriers between knowledge and people – creating connection and bringing …
This is not exactly what we expected from the sixth year of Bright Club! It has been such a surreal year, for all of us. But especially in performing arts spaces, the culture and scene we had at this time last year is gone. Live events are in hibernation, existing …
We need your support to keep going. The best thing about Bright Club Ireland is our community of performers, academics, audience, and other supporters, and we are giving you the chance to be our funding partner for 2021. We’ve lost our main source of funding but we can still keep …
In the Autumn of 2020, Bright Club Ireland, the variety night uniting academic research and comedy, will fund two comedians / performers to develop material related to COVID-19 and the current pandemic, in collaboration with academic researchers working in these areas. Given the urgent relevance that science communication has taken …
This fifth episode of our new podcast You’re Up Next features science communicator, creative producer, and trainer Hana Ayoob, with our host Jessamyn Fairfield. Listen here or read through the transcript below. Jessamyn Fairfield: How we talk about science now is massively different from how it was when I was …
This fourth episode of our new podcast You’re Up Next features comedian, trainer, and event producer Kyle Marian Viterbo, with our host Jessamyn Fairfield. Listen here or read through the transcript below. Jessamyn Fairfield: I am always looking for the connections between things. I like learning a lot about one …
This third episode of our new podcast You’re Up Next features Shane Bergin, a physicist who works in education at University College Dublin and a public engagement expert, with our host Jessamyn Fairfield. Listen here or read through the transcript below. Jessamyn Fairfield: One of the things I love about …
This second episode of our new podcast You’re Up Next features Áine Gallagher, the former creative director of Bright Club, with our host Jessamyn Fairfield. Listen here or read through the transcript below. Jessamyn Fairfield: When I was a kid, I used to practice telling jokes. I loved puns, shaggy …
This first episode of our new podcast You’re Up Next features Steve Cross, who founded Bright Club in the UK, with our host Jessamyn Fairfield. Listen here or read through the transcript below. Jessamyn Fairfield: Sometimes, science can feel like a joke. Experiments don’t work, simulations produce physically impossible outcomes, …
