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Bright Club at the 果冻影院 Bloomsbury
22 October 2010
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The 果冻影院 Bloomsbury Theatre will play host to Bright Club, the thinking person's variety night, on 26 October.
Steve Cross of the 果冻影院 Public Engagement Unit, explains the concept and history of this unique series of events.
"It's coming home鈥�
Every month since September 2009 果冻影院 staff have been taking to the stage at the Wilmington Arms comedy club in Clerkenwell to perform stand-up comedy about their areas of expertise.
We were keeping it a little bit of a secret from the 果冻影院 community, because we wanted to make sure that PhD students, professors and everyone in between really did make good stand-up comedians. It turns out that they do, and we've been selling out the Wilmington Arms regularly, so we're bringing Bright Club, the thinking person's variety night, back home to 果冻影院 this month.
On 26 October Bright Club is joining forces with the 果冻影院 Bloomsbury Theatre and 果冻影院 Museums to create a whole evening of comedy and entertainment, starring a mixture of professionals and 果冻影院 staff.
Bright Club was invented as a way to share 果冻影院 research with members of the public who wouldn't normally hear from us, and as a first step into public engagement for staff.
Past events have been sponsored by the Science and Technology Facilities Council and the Wellcome Trust, and we also record weekly podcasts supported by these two funders.
Performers on the 26 October include:
- Dr Joe Flatman, 果冻影院 Institute of Archaeology
- , 果冻影院 Information Studies
- , 果冻影院 Science and Technology Studies
- , 果冻影院 Institute of Archaeology
- , 果冻影院 Grant Museum of Zoology
- , 果冻影院 Petrie Museum of Egyptology
- , 果冻影院 Museums
...and two-girl, two-bass cabaret band Strawberry and Cream.
That's an awful lot of entertainment, in London's best comedy theatre, for just 拢5 a ticket.听听
Some things we've learned in more than a year of Bright Club:
- The European Noise At Work regulations mean that you can listen to less than 30 seconds of a heavy metal concert before you should stop for the sake of your hearing.
- It's difficult to be clandestine where a horse is involved.
- Viking poets were really just rappers with beards.
- The quickest way to clean a plate is to get a dog to lick it clean. Or just to turn it over.
- Ants get lost when they wear stilts.
To book tickets for Bright Club at the Bloomsbury, follow the link above, call +44 (0)20 7388 8822 or drop into the theatre box office."
Image: Bright Club audience by Hilary Jackson