Bach, the Universe and Everything 2024/25
"Wowbagger gazed for a moment at the fantastic jewellery of the night, the billions of tiny diamond worlds that dusted the infinite darkness with light. Every one, every single one, was on his itinerary. Most of them he would be going to millions of times over. He imagined for a moment his itinerary connecting up all the dots in the sky like a child’s numbered dots puzzle. He hoped that from some vantage point in the Universe it might be seen to spell a very very rude word. "
Bach, the Universe and Everything: Mapping the Dark Universe
Sun 27 Oct | 11:30am London, Kings PlaceWe are joined by Catherine Heymans, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, for a special season opener which also includes a cantata premiered almost exactly 300 years ago.
Bach, the Universe and Everything: X-Ray Planets
Sun 24 Nov | 11:30am London, Kings PlaceBach, the Universe and Everything continues with one of Bach's best-known cantatas, Wachet auf, ruf uns die Stimme and with guest speaker, Affelia Wibisono.
Bach, the Universe and Everything: Space Animals
Sun 15 Dec | 11:30am London, Kings PlaceFor our pre-Christmas edition of Bach, the Universe and Everything, we are joined by Helen Arney – science communicator, comedian, songwriter and 33.33% of The Festival of the Spoken Nerd.
Bach, the Universe and Everything: Sustainable Space
Sun 19 Jan 2025 | 11:30am London, Kings PlaceJoanne Wheeler, director of the Earth Space Sustainability Initiative, talks about the urgent work of protecting the surprisingly limited space around our Earth for future generations in this new year edition of Bach, the Universe and Everything.
Bach, the Universe and Everything: The Learn’d Poet
Sun 16 Feb 2025 | 11:30am London, Kings PlaceIn the penultimate edition of Bach, the Universe and Everything, guest speaker Sam Illingworth explores the numerous occasions in history where poets and creative minds have somehow been ahead of scientific discovery in their predictions.
Bach, the Universe and Everything: Lost in Both Time and Space
Sun 16 Mar 2025 | 11:30am London, Kings PlaceOur final cantata of this Bach, the Universe and Everything season, Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn (You true God and Son of David), BWV 23, is a soulful contemplation of the human journey from darkness into light.
