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Bright Club at the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Bloomsbury

22 October 2010

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  • The Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Bloomsbury Theatre will play host to Bright Club, the thinking person's variety night, on 26 October.

    Steve Cross of the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Public Engagement Unit, explains the concept and history of this unique series of events.


    "It's coming home…

    Every month since September 2009 Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø 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 Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø 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 Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø this month.

    On 26 October Bright Club is joining forces with the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Bloomsbury Theatre and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Museums to create a whole evening of comedy and entertainment, starring a mixture of professionals and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø staff.

    Bright Club was invented as a way to share Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø 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, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Institute of Archaeology
    • , Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Information Studies
    • , Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Science and Technology Studies
    • , Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Institute of Archaeology
    • , Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Grant Museum of Zoology
    • , Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Petrie Museum of Egyptology
    • , Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø 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 £5 a ticket.ÌýÌý

    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