TalkingScience Cabaret is our science variety show, featuring scientists and performers whose feats of daring, demonstrations, and musicianship illlustrate principles of physics, chemistry, and biology that instruct and entertain audiences of all ages. In English and Spanish, TalkingScience Cabaret has visited clubs, science instititutions, fairs, and schools. If you’d like us to visit you, write to annmarie@scifri.org.

Information about upcoming Cabarets will be available on this page when it becomes available. Below are videos from four of the previous five Cabarets.

Super Saturday Bilingual Cabaret

Our first bilingual Cabaret was part of Super Saturday, a science fair for Latino families on New York’s Upper West Side. Our Cabaret was hosted by Debbie Berebichez, the first Mexican woman to earn a Ph.D. in physics at Stanford.

Castaways Cabaret

Our Castaways Cabaret drew an overflow crowd to Kenny’s Castaways, a music club in New York’s Greenwich Village where Bruce Springsteen played one of his early gigs. The Amygdaloids, a rock band of neuroscientists from nearby NYU, opened and closed the show.

Aqua Science Cabaret

Taking place at the NY Aquarium in Coney Island, this cabaret featured the science of water and a neighborhood talent: a sword swallower. (It takes saliva – water! – to swallow swords) Returning are the Jersey Guys, two Broadway-bound physicists from Rutgers.

I.S. 34 Cabaret

Students at this Staten Island middle school were studying simple machines in their science classes, so our school Cabaret featured scientists dancing flamenco. The dance originated with gypsy miners in southern Spain, who were imitating the drills and other machines they worked with.