Science Rap Battle

Science Reactors

2014-2024:

Ten Years of science on the «stage»! Science differently…

“Science Rap Battle” the new Stand up show by Science Reactors

In 2024 the unconventional Science Reactors team completes a 10-year journey!

So they promise to round off the decade 2014-2024 dynamically, with plenty of surprises and unexpected performances as well as collaborations.

Their first subversive show, titled Science Rap battle, will take place in the venue they hold especially dear, the Arroyo theatre.

Familiar but also new faces of the team will narrate scientific stories in the now familiar and established style of Stand up! A successful blend of science and humour!

But let's take a brief look back at their ten-year course: The idea belongs to Eleni Grammatikopoulou, 30 years of life passionately devoted to science communication. She created the team by inviting young and talented scientists from various fields, who shared the same goal.

At first it took them some time to find the right pace. They acquired their name (Science Reactors), settled on their tool for communicating with the audience (Stand up), then staged their own theatrical performances (Science on stage) and finally decided to address younger ages too (Stand up science kids).

Throughout this time their team is constantly renewed with new faces, many of the founding members were absorbed by the brain drain and others followed their own path. They gave and continue to give a «bold» presence at major scientific events all over Greece, organised their own presentations in cultural venues and theatres, thus winning many fanatical friends. They combined Art with Science and continue serving always the same goal: communicating science and spreading knowledge in a simple, enjoyable and humorous way, without humour becoming an end in itself!!!

Credits

Taking part in the performance of 12 January, in alphabetical order, are:

Konstantinos Peristeris (obstetrician-gynaecologist, Konstantinos Antonaropoulos (philologist - rhetoric trainer) and both will also be presenters, Stavros Dimitrakoudis (astrophysicist), Makis Zoidakis (biologist), Antonia Karamolegkou (linguist - Machine Learning), Nikos Papadimitriou (chemical engineer), Dimitris Ragiadakos (management science), Alexandros Sourtzis (spatial planner-urban planner). So can they overturn the myth that scientists have no sense of humour?

They will prove it on Friday 12 January, at 21.00

Idea, Organisation, Coordination: Eleni Grammatikopoulou – Science communication

Directorial intervention: Kostas Vrettos - director