Hailed a “new cultural institution” by The New York Times
The Festival has featured Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin, Joshua Bell, Mayim Bialik, Chuck Close, Glenn Close, David Draiman, Sylvia Earle, Aprille J. Ericsson, Tina Fey, Renée Fleming, Jim Gates, Philip Glass, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Stephen Hawking, Lisa P. Jackson, Shirley Ann Jackson, Bill T. Jones, Charlie Kaufman, Mary-Claire King, Eric Lander, Richard Leakey, John Lithgow, Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby McFerrin, Oliver Sacks, Liev Schreiber, Anna Deavere Smith, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Julie Taymor, E.O. Wilson, and Nobel Laureates David Baltimore, Barry Barish, Steven Chu, Jennifer Doudna, Andrea Ghez, Roger Penrose, David Gross, Eric Kandel, Dudley R. Herschbach, Roald Hoffmann, Leon Lederman, Paul Nurse, John C. Mather, Saul Perlmutter, William Phillips, Adam Riess, F. Sherwood Rowland, Horst Störmer, Jack W. Szostak, Gerard ‘t Hooft, Kip Thorne, Harold Varmus, James Watson, Steven Weinberg, Rai Weiss, Carl Wieman, Frank Wilczek, among many others luminaries in science and the arts.
The annual live, week-long Festivals, which launched in New York in 2008, have collectively drawn over 3.2 million visitors worldwide, with millions more viewing the programs online. The World Science Festival’s original musical and theatrical works tour nationally and internationally, and March 2016 marked the launch of World Science Festival Brisbane. World Science U is the Foundation’s online education arm where students and lifelong learners can dive more deeply through artfully produced digital education content presented by world-renowned scientists.
The World Science Festival is a production of the World Science Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in New York City.
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