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Joogleberry's Playhouse, Manchester St., BN2 1TF

Lively mix of booze and views

From 8.30pm

Tickets £3

The Catalyst Club exists to make a difference. The club gives people a voice, meeting on the second Thursday every month. These Science festival sessions are special. You have an opinion about something scientific? Of course you do! You eat and breathe science, you wear it, you walk on it. You are sped around the country by it, you are held in a queue because of it. You can't duck it, so share your opinion. Mobile phones? The internet? Junk food? Globalization? Everything from black holes to polystyrene bobbles is fair game. Come, talk, make friends.

CATALYST CLUB Speakers; On Tuesday 21st Feb from 8.30pm

Anna Dumitriu - ART AND SCIENCE - A GENETIC LINK?

Artist Anna Dumitriu, founder of the Institute of Unnecessary Research, will be talking about her great grandfather who, though he was a succesful artist, invented a way of extracting gold from seawater. She'll be considering what impact his genes are having on her own current practice as an artist and asking why she isn't now living in a gold house!

Steve Stark - THE ART OF SCIENCE, THE SCIENCE OF ART

A talk on science and art - looking at fascinating successful collaborations and pondering the moral issues than rise when these two separate fields are linked inappropriately - bad science can pervert good art and vice versa.

on 23rd Feb from 8.30pm

Dan Parkinson - GULLS ALOUD

What are gulls saying to each other and to us? They use different ways of communicating: calls, body posture, eye contact, movement... Dan demonstrates and explains these, and tells us a bit more about gulls.

And Richard Robinson - SLIMES-R-US

Richard, the festival director, puts himself in the firing line to explain the close connection between the average happy executive working for a mighty corporation, and an amoeba lost in a blob of slime. The connection may seem obvious to some (ie those who work for a corporation), but for those who are surprised at the link this talk will enlighten or enrage, depending on taste.

Special artist guest Jules Foreman

Jules J. Foreman hails from the original Bloomsbury (London) 'Talking Stick' forums, but is new to the Catalyst Club. She is a recognised eccentric, writer, and artist, and her personal obsessions include evolutionary sciences, theoretical physics, and neurology. Her childhood 'heroes' were Marvel Jack Whiteside Parsons (the 1940s rocket scientist and evolutionary thinker, who was literally blown up by a disapproving US Government), and Hedy Lamarr (the 1940s academic and actress, who developed a technology which went on to become the telecommunications system we use today).