Science Reactors at MoMix Bar

The Science Reactors present a different Stand up Science cocktail at MoMix Bar, in their one-and-only performance!

2014-2024: Ten Years of science on the «stage»! Science, differently…

Information

• Where: Momix Bar, Voutadon 36, Gazi
• When: Friday 23 February at 21:00
• Entry: Free

The Science Reactors are back and for one more year «mix» their scientific Stand up Science cocktail with the molecular mixology of the renewed Momix Bar, in the heart of Athens. A recipe that has proven successful by now — perhaps not by chance.

What unites them is one common element, the element of exploration: of the distinctive, subversive scientific Stand up with colourful, tasty and impressive cocktails in... gaseous and solid form.

In 2024, the Science Reactors complete their ten-year «detective» journey, having by now acquired their own fanatical audience, as with their performances they prove how knowledge can reach even the uninitiated with humour, simplicity and clarity, combining Art with Science at the same time.

Through Stand up Science, the Science Reactors seek a lively dialogue with their own beloved audience. Stand up works only through the two-way relationship between presenters and audience, through laughter and its own applause. The scientists of the Science Reactors team await you with new texts, new faces and plenty of fresh, humorous scientific storytelling.

Come on this special night and let them initiate you into their secrets. Taking part (in alphabetical order) are:

Credits

Konstantinos Antonaropoulos (philologist - rhetoric trainer)

Stavros Dimitrakoudis (astrophysicist)

Makis Zoidakis (biologist)

Pavlos Isaris (computer scientist)

Nikos Papadimitriou (chemical engineer)

Alexandros Sourtzis (spatial planner-urban planner)

Presentation: Konstantinos Antonaropoulos

Idea/Design/Coordination: Eleni Grammatikopoulou

Co-organisation: Science Reactors and MoMix Bar

And a few words for those who don't know us:

The Science Reactors, young scientists, with zest, humour and clarity present in the form of Stand up Science –following in the footsteps of Stand up Comedy– simple scientific topics in an effort to prove how much humour science can hide, and the scientists themselves too. With their own ‘unconventional’ style they contribute to science's outreach, while highlighting their talent and their own passion for science communication.

Stand up Science first appeared in 2014. Since then the team has been constantly renewed with new faces, texts and collaborations. It takes part –with distinctive success– in science festivals, the Researcher's Night, TEDx, comedy festivals, and gives its own performances in venues that match the spirit and form it represents. Another activity of the team is Science on Stage (science theatre), while recently they decided to address younger ages too with the activity Stand up Science kids.

The idea belongs to Eleni Grammatikopoulou, who since 1993 –first as head of the Science and Society programme of the National Foundation and later as a freelancer– has been involved in science communication. Since 2021 she has established and organises Kastellorizo Riddle Festival.