9th May – Bright Club: Reading at the Bloomsbury Theatre

It’s going to be massive!

It’s going to be funny!

It’s going to be Bright Club at the Bloomsbury Theatre!

That’s right, we are back at our favourite venue for a huge gig for the second time in 2013. On May 9th, Bright Club will be turning a new page to bring you an event all about Reading.

Bright Club: Reading is part of Something Else for the Weekend, the weekend section of the UCL Festival of the Arts, which will be bringing you a variety of interactive, exploratory and innovative activities also themed around reading.

As per usual at our big gigs, there will be 10 (TEN!) researchers and 3 comedians, and it’ll all be a jolly funny time.

So far we have lined up as your academic types:

Sarah Wiseman – human and computer interaction expert
Antonio Sennis – medieval historian
Geraldine Horan – Linguist
Tom Oleron Evans – plagiarism expert
Steve Cross – mid-ranking university administrator
Paul Hellier – engineer of bio-fuels
Andrew Pontzen – string theorist
Daniel Richardson – cognitive psychologist
Claire Thomson – expert on Scandinavia
Andrew Holding – organiser of Bright Club Cambridge! (and also a scientist)

And for the Comedians:

Ed Gamble – as your host
Nathaniel Metcalfe
with as your headliner, we have the brilliant John Gordillo!

Tickets are already on sale and will go fast! (£8 + booking fee)

http://www.thebloomsbury.com/event/run/1794

VENUE CHANGE – Bright Club: Moving on April 16th

We have had to change the venue of Bright Club: Moving on April 16th to: The Abany, Great Portland Street, W1W 5QU

The Albany is a great venue and we are looking forward to a new venue, but if you have any questions please email Lizzy on e.baddeley@ucl.ac.uk.

This venue is only accessible down a set of narrow stairs, so if you have any questions about access please get in touch.

Tickets are still on sale: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/214905

Bright Club: Secrets SOLD OUT

Bright Club: Secrets tonight is now SOLD OUT

There will not be any tickets available on the door.

So why not get your ticket early for April?

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/214905

16th April – Bright Club: Moving at the Albany, Great Portland Street

Bright Club: Moving is now SOLD OUT! So why not get yourself a ticket to our super Bloomsbury Theatre gig on Thursday 9th May instead? http://www.thebloomsbury.com/event/run/1794

Spring is in the air (we hope) so it’s time to get a bit more active, maybe start doing the exercise you said would be your new years resolution, walk with nature, do some gardening. In short, get MOVING!

If you find all that a bit too hard, Bright Club is here to help motivate you. Our theme this month is ‘Moving’, so be prepared to get moving, be moved and maybe even move house.

You’ll be led on your way by some super academic types:
Heart expert: Malcolm Finlay
Evolutionary Psychologist: Robin Dunbar
Language Scientist: Sophie Meekings
Mechanical Engineer: Paul Hellier
Scientist and Editor: Vibhuti Patel
And Bright Club organiser and ex-museum worker: Lizzy Baddeley

They will be joined by brilliant, rising star, compere Suzi Ruffell (http://www.suziruffell.co.uk/) and headlined by VERY special top secret TV star guest, who we are really excited about.

Fitting the theme of Moving, this show will be at a NEW VENUE, The Albany on Great Portland Street, W1W 5QU (opposite Great Portland Street tube and a 10 minute walk from Oxford Circus).

Tickets: £5, will sell fast

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/214905

This venue is only accessible down a set of narrow stairs. For access information please email e.baddeley@ucl.ac.uk

19th March 2013 – Bright Club: SECRETS at the Wilmington Arms

Have you got a secret? We do, we have loads, and you might just find out what a few of them are at March’s Bright Club: Secrets where we will be digging into the secrets of history, science funding, and the body.

To help us discover the clouded, conspiratorial, covert and cryptic will be your comedians:

Nish Kumar as your MC
Richard Sandling headlining

Joining them will be some absolute brain boxes bringing you cloak and dagger sets from unpublished and obscure sources:
Paula Morgenstern – an expert on energy in the workplace
Antonio Sennis – bringing us medieval history
Mike Galsworthy – revealing how science really gets funded
Andrew Nevins – on misheard song lyrics
Leun Otten – on brains, salmons, and red herrings

Get your tickets now (£5):

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/211315

19th February – Bright Club: Culture at the Wilmington Arms

For our second gig of 2013, and our first at the Wilmington Arms, we present to you: Bright Club: CULTURE.

While our academic and researchers are busy getting all LGBT at the Bloomsbury Theatre, come and find out how museums, novels, plays, TV, music and loads of other cultural forms really work. Meet the characters who hide in the shadows and hear about the weird ways in which people make art happen.

Tickets are £5: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208266

This gig is a fundraiser for Arts Emergency who campaign to make degrees and careers in arts and culture available to everyone. Once the venue is paid for all proceeds go to the charity – all acts are performing for free.

Headlining will be Holly Burn, part comedy, part cabaret all brilliant, and your MC will be Steve Cross, fresh from a solid schedule of compering gigs about science, museums and other flavours of intellectual entertainment

Your cultural speakers will be:
Fiona Laird (theatre director)
Will Eaves (novelist)
Rachel Souhami (museum curator)
Sarah Heenan (writer and director)
Marc Burrows (musician)
Jennie Jacobs (actor)

8th February – Bright Club: OUT at the Bloomsbury Theatre

Bright Club is back for the first gig of 2013! And it’s a giant Bloomsbury Theatre outing for us!

We have teamed up with the Camden LGBT Forum for a special gig for LGBT History Month.
Get your tickets now:

http://www.thebloomsbury.com/event/run/1774

Compere: David Morgan, friend of Bright Club and television enthusiast

Comedian number 1: Mae Martin, guitar playing comedian, lately of Canada

Comedian number 2: Chris Neill, off of the radio, don’t you know.

And your researchers and other LGBT brain-boxes are:

Tessa Havers-Strong will be bringing space flight to you
Sky Yarlett is here to talk non-binary gender
Richard Mole is talking about his experiences researching homophobia
Sophie Scott explores what neuroscientists think they know about LGBT
Hugh Stevens discusses the Age of Englightenment
Regner Ramos explores the gay social media app Grindr
Clarence James Zitter-Tan thinks about wine
Anne Moore shares her experiences working for UCL abroad
Chiara Ambrosio looks back at the life of Gertrude Stein
and Shelley Bridgman will be looking back at trans people from history

11th December – Bright Club: Presents at Wilmington Arms

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IT’S CHRISTMAS!!!!!

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It can’t have escaped your notice that Christmas is around the corner. That most magical of days when families come together to celebrate the birth of Santa Claus and exchange presents of valuable coal and citrus fruits. As part of the festivities Bright Club, the night where researchers become stand-up comics for one night, brings you a selection of choice brain/laughter treats in the shape of:

MC - Joel Dommett, http://www.joeldommett.com who has been on Skins (don’t hold it against him – he’s still funny as hell).

Headliner – It’s only the flipping amazing BEC HILL! http://www.bechillcomedian.com/

Researchers

Mark Lancaster, High Energy Physicist
Martin Austwick, Modeller of Social Stuff
Aneesha Singh, Human-Computer Interaction Expert
Criag Robertson, Architect and Energy Guru
Jack Stilgoe, Science Policy Man and
Louise Nolan, Quantum Physicist

The gig’s in the usual place (the Wilmington Arms, 69, Rosebery Ave, EC1R 4RL) and tickets cost a fiver from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/197743

Doors are at 7.30pm.

20th November – Bright Club: UK/USA, Wilmington Arms, London

Tickets on sale at http://www.wegottickets.com/event/194330

Bright Club is the comedy gig where University researchers try their hand at stand-up for the first time. They’re joined by experienced pro comics, as compere and headliner, to guarantee a brilliant night out!

Performing for us tonight are:

Fin Taylor, http://fintaylor.com/ as MC
Tom Wrigglesworth, http://www.tomwrigglesworth.co.uk as headliner

and in brainbox corner:

Peter Antonioni, economist and thinker about the future
Mat Paskins, historian of science and thinker about the past
Matt Davis, neuroscientist and thinker about thinking
Tom Oléron Evans, mathematician and thinker about elections
Claire Thompson, cultural linguist and thinker about people
And more tbc!

The gig is at the Wilmington Arms on 20th November, tickets are £5 and the doors open at 7.30pm. Tickets from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/194330

Bright Club Guildford

Bright Club Guildford began in January 2012. We do gigs every three months atBar Des Arts in the centre of town.

Find us on Twitter @BrightClubGLD, You Tube and Facebook.

UPCOMING SHOWS:

Bright Club Guildford Christmas Special at The Electric Theatre, Tuesday 11 December, 7.30pm. Tickets on sale through The Electric Theatre.

Bright Club Guildford #5 at Bar Des Arts, Thursday 24 January, 7.30pm. Tickets on sale soon through Eventbrite.

Bright Club Guildford #6 at Bar Des Arts, Thursday 18 April, 7.30pm. Tickets on sale soon through Eventbrite.