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What happens when the arts and sciences come together? Do they cancel each other out? No! In fact, the opposite happens, as new and exciting ideas are born: dance inspired by light and atoms, gravitational poetry, animations of Einstein... Find out more about what's going on with the links below.

Visions of Science - Einstein Year Award Announced
Visions of Science is a photographic competition, which rewards attention-grabbing images that give new insight into the world of science and the workings of nature. 

This year Robert Anderson's "Surface Tension" is the winner of a special Einstein Year award given for the "most creative image showing the wonder and ingenuity of comtemporary physics". 

See more winning images of this unique award at the Visions of Science web site.

 winning image of paperclip on water
physics poem written in chalk on pavement

 

Physics Poem
On 5th and 6th August more than 100 people turned up at Cabot Tower in Bristol to help create a giant physics poem for Einstein Year. Poets of all ages wrote one word which summed up physics to them, launched the words from the tower in tiny parachutes and then chalked them in giant letters on the pavement to be seen from the tower.

These one word views of physics were put together to make a poem which you can read here.

 

 

Constant Speed
Einstein's greatest scientific ideas were celebrated in dance at a world premiere at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London on May 24th. Constant Speed from Rambert Dance Company was commissioned by the Institute of Physics and marks the centenary of Einstein's ground-breaking ideas of 1905 on relativity, light and atoms.

Constant Speed will tour the UK later this year. You can download the PDF (5.5MB) of the brochure here. (To view the PDF you need Adobe Acrobat reader.)

For more information, see the press release, the Rambert Dance Company web site, or read a review from the Guardian.

Have a go on the e-flier (requires Flash) and win a meal for two.

 

Dancers in Constant Speed

Big Screen flyer

 Einstein on the big screen
On the 2nd and 3rd April, a programme of discussions and film screenings exploring Einstein's impact on cinema took place at Watershed Arts Centre in Bristol. Screenings included Donnie Darko and a documentary about Einstein's brain.

For more information, see the press release.

Physics Across the World poster competition
How can physics improve your everyday life? Find out the answers in the winning posters from this fantastic competition for 11-16 year olds.

                 

 

 

Universe
The BA have announced the winners of their Universe poetry competition. Entrants were invited to submit poems on the themes of time, space and energy, to tie in with Einstein Year. Author Terry Pratchett, astronomer Sir Patrick Moore and the Muppet scientists Beaker and Dr Honeydew were amongst those who wrote poems for the competition.

See the winning poems on the BA website.

See the links section for other science and art links.