Bluedot Festival
Bluedot is a music, science and culture event held annually in July since 2016 at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England, combining music, live science experiments, expert talks and immersive artworks.
The event is endorsed by the University of Manchester, current owners of the observatory.
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The festival is named after Pale Blue Dot'', a famous 1990 photograph of planet Earth popularised by Carl Sagan.Since 2016, acts performing at the bluedot festival have included Orbital, Underworld, Alt-J, Goldfrapp, Jean-Michel Jarre, The Chemical Brothers, Gary Numan and The Flaming Lips.
Kraftwerk headlined Saturday at the 2019 event, alongside New Order and Hot Chip.Science talks
The festival has included talks and demonstrations from Richard Dawkins, Brian Cox, Jim Al-Khalili, Philippa Browning, Timothy John O'Brien, Sarah Bridle, Lisa Harvey-Smith, Heather Williams and Teresa Anderson.
