Jingle Sci-bells

The Science Reactors at Athens Science Festival 2025

with the festive stand-up “Jingle Sci-bells”

a show written especially for the festival

on Friday 19 December, at 21:30

Strange Christmas stories will be heard for the first time at Athens Science Festival, in this great celebration of science that this year transforms into a joyful Christmas workshop.

Wondering by whom?

Why, by the Science Reactors, who this year too could not be absent from the Athens Science Festival, since they are bound by ‘unbreakable’ ties of science! It is the place where they essentially “sprang from”. There they gave their first big performances, there they gained their many friends, who laughed with them, “conversed” with them, and pondered everyday scientific topics, in the form of stand-up comedy.

True to the “spirit” of this year’s festival, they ‘set up’ a new stand-up show, Jingle Sci-bells, where scientific stories and festive questions are woven together with humour:

What if Santa had social media? If Panoramix’s mistletoe were hidden in anti-cancer treatments? If the ghosts of Christmas took us all the way back to the dinosaurs? If the Star of Christmas were simply… an astronomical obsession? Is there an AI-Santa who comes down from the cloud instead of the chimney? And what role does old Scrooge play in all this?

Scientists from different fields take the stage and, with humour, show us how science illuminates the most unexpected sides of Christmas. A festive stand-up full of laughter, surprises and twists, as part of Athens Science Festival – Christmas Lab 2025.

And the show will close with the most vivid scientific Christmas carols you have ever heard...

And since carols aren’t sung without a tip… hurry to book your ticket for their show, the festival has an entrance fee.

Here is the link for the show’s tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.gr/stand-up-jingle-sci-bells_sp_2143563.html

Credits

Taking part in the show (in alphabetical order) are:

Chara Afaloniáti (veterinarian), Giorgos Galanopoulos (electrical engineer), Stavros Dimitrakoudis (astrophysicist), Makis Zoidakis (biochemist), Antonia Karamolegkou (Machine Learning), Nikos Papadimitriou (chemical engineer), Pierros Patoucheas (geologist–stand-up comedian).

Presented by Konstantinos Antonaropoulos (philosophy–rhetoric)

Idea–design–coordination: Eleni Grammatikopoulou, Science Communication

For more information at www.sciencereactors.gr & https://www.athens-science-festival-gr