For those of you who don’t know what or who Bright Club is, listen up because you’re missing out on something very special. It’s a variety night for lateral minds, where academics use comedy to communicate their research and experiences in the world of academia to a public audience. Each …
This post was written by Deidre Cavazzi, a dance academic on sabbatical in Galway. Jessamyn Fairfield and I met sharing a tiny cabin aboard a tallship in the Arctic for several weeks in 2017 as part of the Arctic Circle Summer Solstice Residency, and decided to collaborate on a project …
What is Bright Club about? We’re glad you asked… Our mission is to empower researchers, inform and engage the public, and contribute to cultural and societal change. We will do this by: Building capacity for Irish-based researchers in communication and engagement, toward creating a community of practice Empowering publics to …
Who comes to Bright Club? Who speaks at Bright Club? What do they talk about? Here’s a few stats on our story so far:
Bright Club Ireland, the variety night bringing academic research and comedy together, is looking to fund COMEDIANS & PERFORMERS to develop material for headline performances in late 2018 and early 2019. We will award a small number of €500 grants to performers of any type willing to develop 15-20 minute …
Why do comedians engage in stand-up, and why Do audiences like it? This post was written in 2016 by Brian Hughes, a speaker at the second ever Bright Club Dublin. It was originally posted on Psychology Today. Recently I had cause to perform some stand-up comedy (strictly as an amateur of …
This post was written in 2015 by Andrew Jackson, a speaker at the second ever Bright Club Dublin. It was originally posted at the EcoEvo blog. Bright Club is a variety night of entertainment combining light-hearted research talks from academics and performances from professional comedians. It has been running for …
Comedy is a tool for change. It changes how people think about the world we live in, about complex ideas, and about each other. In this talk from TEDxTUM this winter, I explain why comedy is a great way to communicate science, to foster new ways of thinking, and even …
Whenever you get up to speak in public, the audience has certain expectations about what you are going to say and how you’re going to say it, based on context: where you are, what you look like, who the audience themselves are. This is perfectly satirized in this meta-TED talk: Everything …
Back in October 2015 I was over in London, to give a talk at the Institute of Physics and to give a monologue about science for a Project2 improv show. At both places I found myself chatting to audience members afterward about my passion for comedy as well as physics, …
