Fantastic in London for 10 days...beginning this week
10 DAYS OF FANTASTIC FILM - STARTS 23 APRIL
Ready for your full immersion into the float-tank of sci-fi? Not long now until the festival opens for its TENTH edition!
We are delighted to have many Directors and Producers flying in to support their movies and we hope to have some great Q&A sessions.
We have lots of goodies on their way to Festival HQ and we will also be hosting some new Nintendo 3DS demo machines in the bar - come and see 3D without glasses!
There is a lot more to tell you, but for now here are some highlights of the festival,
SUPER - CLOSING NIGHT MOVIE
Rainn Wilson, Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon, Ellen Page, even Nathan Fillion... need we say more? Well they are all in the fantastic and very funny movie SUPER which is the closing night movie for the festival this year. The film had a sneak preview at Kapow! Last week to rave reviews and we are proud to present the film in glorious HD! We are over 40% sold so don't delay in booking.
Full details here
COMICS@SCI-FI-LONDON
Curated by Alex Fitch, from Panel Borders, the UK's only radio show about comics, we present a COMPLETELY FREE two day comics event celebrating British comic creators from the last 30 years.
Speakers include novelists China Miéville and Denise Mina, singer/songwriter VV Brown and Yuri Kore, winner of the Japanese Embassy's 2010 Manga Jiman Prize
We also have a special event celebrating 25 YEARS OF JOHN CONSTANTINE: HELLBLAZER at the Apollo Piccadilly on Sat 23 April with Jamie Delano, David Lloyd, Peter Milligan and Andy Diggle followed by a screening of CONSTANTINE.
Full details here
YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED! - prepared to die on Sat 23 April?
Stand up mathematician, Matt Parker and comedian, Timandra Harkness got sick of reading ill-founded stories about how eating this or doing that was going to add six months to your life, or halve your risk of dying from something or other.
With a grant from the Wellcome Trust, they've done the research to bring you the definitive comedy show about dying.With the aid of the patented Death-O-Meter and audience participation, Timandra and Matt will help you laugh in the face of your own mortality.
"The funniest closed-loop complex integral routine I've ever seen - they'll have you rolling in the aisle like an infinitesimal disk of radius epsilon." Simon Singh
Full details here
Think you're funny? - try our comedy night after the Royal Wedding!"
Join us at the Apollo Piccadilly on Fri 29 April to see London's finest stand up and sketch comedians in our post-wedding show. It promises to be full-on geek humour.
But also, we want you to bring your favourite gag and pop them in the 'bucket-o-laughs' - from which we will randomly pick and read out!
The evening is compered by festival favourite ROB DEB, the caped crusader of comedy!
The confirmed acts are:
JAMES KETTLE - an angry young man who also works for The Guardian
BEC HILL - described as ‘seriously spunky'
HELEN KEEN - who has been described as a ‘breathlessly enthusiastic novice science teacher'
ROBERT COMMISKEY - is American.
Full details here
PROF. RICHARD WISEMAN at FOYLES - Free event
Bestselling psychologist Richard Wiseman unravels the science behind our beliefs in telepathy, clairvoyants, mediums, ghosts, and more...
Professor Richard Wiseman is clear about one thing: paranormal phenomena don't exist.
But in the same way that the science of space travel transforms our everyday lives, so research into telepathy, fortune-telling and out-of-body experiences produces remarkable insights into our brains, behaviour and beliefs.
His new book PARANORMALITY embarks on a wild ghost chase into this new science. Join us for a discussion from 6.30pm, Thu 28 April.
