Events: Festival – List

Friday 9th October 2026

• Sidmouth Science Festival

  | 10:00AM – 4:00PM

  | Various venues

  | /events/sidmouth-science-festival

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Activities
  • Walks
  • Festival
  • Family Friendly
• Sidmouth’s Changing Climate

  | 2:30PM – 3:30PM

  | Manor Pavilion Theatre, Manor Rd, Sidmouth EX10 8RP

  | /events/sidmouths-changing-climate

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival
• Growing hope together : Booking Essential

  | 7:00PM – 10:00PM

  | Cellar Bar, Kennaway House, EX10 8NG

  | /events/growing-hope-together

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival

Saturday 10th October 2026

• Schools’ Art Exhibition

  | 10:00AM – 4:00PM

  | Kennaway House Gallery, Sidmouth EX10 8NG

  | /events/schools-art-exhibition

  Categories

  • Festival
  • Family Friendly
• SUMMARY: Super Science Saturday

  | 10:30AM – 4:30PM

  | Various town centre venues

  | /events/super-science-saturday

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Activities
  • Festival
  • Family Friendly
• SUMMARY: Geology Hub

  | 10:31AM – 4:30PM

  | Sidmouth Methodist Church and Church Hall, High St, Sidmouth EX10 8LE

  | /events/summary-geology-hub

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Activities
  • Festival
  • Family Friendly
• Geology Talk by Kieran Satchell of Lyme Regis Museum

  | 11:00AM – 11:45AM

  | Sidmouth Methodist Church, High St, Sidmouth EX10 8LE

  | /events/geology-talk-by-kieran-satchell-of-lyme-regis-museum

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival
• Fossils of the Otter Sandstone- revisited

  | 12:00PM – 12:45PM

  | Sidmouth Methodist Church, High St, Sidmouth EX10 8LE

  | /events/fossils-of-the-otter-sandstone-revisited

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival
• Climate Change: future impacts and problems

  | 1:00PM – 1:45PM

  | Sidmouth Methodist Church, High St, Sidmouth EX10 8LE

  | /events/climate-change-future-impacts-and-problems

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival
• Beyond the Swamp

  | 2:00PM – 2:45PM

  | Sidmouth Methodist Church, High St, Sidmouth EX10 8LE

  | /events/beyond-the-swamp

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival
• Love is a Toad with Lucy Lapwing : Booking Essential

  | 7:00PM – 8:30PM

  | Cellar Bar, Kennaway House, EX10 8NG

  | /events/love-is-a-toad-with-lucy-lapwing

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival

Sunday 11th October 2026

• Science of the Mind – Imaging the human brain throughout life

  | 2:00PM – 3:00PM

  | Cellar Bar, Kennaway House, EX10 8NG

  | /events/imaging-the-human-brain-throughout-life

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival
• Science of the Mind – Philosophy of the Mind

  | 3:00PM – 4:00PM

  | Cellar Bar, Kennaway House, EX10 8NG

  | /events/philosophy-of-the-mind

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival

Monday 12th October 2026

• Grannymaths: maths activities for young children

  | 2:30PM – 3:30PM

  | Cellar Bar, Kennaway House, EX10 8NG

  | /events/grannymaths

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Activities
  • Festival
  • Family Friendly
• Science & God – Friends or Foes?

  | 7:00PM – 8:30PM

  | All Saints Church, All Saints Road, Sidmouth EX10 8ES

  | /events/science-god-friends-or-foes

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival
• Sport and Sudden Death: Scare or Screen?

  | 7:30PM – 8:30PM

  | Cellar Bar, Kennaway House, EX10 8NG

  | /events/sport-and-sudden-death-scare-or-screen

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival

Tuesday 13th October 2026

• Ada Lovelace Day

  | 3:00PM – 9:15PM

  | Cellar Bar, Kennaway House, EX10 8NG

  | /events/ada-lovelace-day

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival
• Offshore Wind – The Celtic Sea Powerhouse

  | 3:00PM – 4:30PM

  | Cellar Bar, Kennaway House, EX10 8NG

  | /events/offshore-wind-the-celtic-sea-powerhouse

  Categories

  • Café Scientifique
  • Talks
  • Festival
• The science of health screening

  | 7:00PM – 8:00PM

  | Cellar Bar, Kennaway House, EX10 8NG

  | /events/the-science-of-health-screening

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival
• Screening for prostate cancer

  | 8:15PM – 9:15PM

  | Cellar Bar, Kennaway House, EX10 8NG

  | /events/screening-for-prostate-cancer

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival

Wednesday 14th October 2026

• How many colours in the rainbow?

  | 11:00AM – 12:00PM

  | Sidmouth Parish Church, Church St, Sidmouth EX10 8LG

  | /events/how-many-colours-in-the-rainbow

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival
• Science of Magic: Why smart people are easily deceived

  | 3:00PM – 4:00PM

  | Cellar Bar, Kennaway House, EX10 8NG

  | /events/the-science-of-magic-why-smart-people-are-easily-deceived

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival
• An Introduction to Medical Ultrasound

  | 7:00PM – 8:00PM

  | Cellar Bar, Kennaway House, EX10 8NG

  | /events/an-introduction-to-medical-ultrasound

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival

Thursday 15th October 2026

• Visit to Energy from Waste Plant: Booking Essential

  | 10:00AM – 12:30PM

  | Exeter Energy Recovery Plant, Marsh Barton Trading Estate, Exeter

  | /events/visit-energy-from-waste-plant

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival
• Coastal Flooding & Erosion: Sidmouth Defence Scheme

  | 2:30PM – 3:30PM

  | Sid Vale Association 12 Church St, Sidmouth EX10 8LY

  | /events/coastal-flooding-erosion-sidmouth-defence-scheme

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival
• Science in the Pub

  | 7:30PM – 9:00PM

  | Blue Ball Inn, Sidford EX10 9QL

  | /events/science-in-the-pub

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival

Friday 16th October 2026

• Introducing Lichens – Field Event : Booking Essential

  | 11:00AM – 12:30PM

  | The Knapp Orchard, Sidmouth.

  | /events/introducing-lichens-field-event

  Categories

  • Activities
  • Festival
• The Secret Lives of Bees: Honey, Foraging and Conservation

  | 2:30PM – 4:00PM

  | Cellar Bar, Kennaway House, EX10 8NG

  | /events/the-secret-lives-of-bees-honey-foraging-and-conservation

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival
• Hunting the Higgs: an interactive comedy show

  | 7:30PM – 9:00PM

  | Cellar Bar, Kennaway House, EX10 8NG

  | /events/hunting-the-higgs-could-you-control-the-large-hadron

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Activities
  • Festival

Saturday 17th October 2026

• Coast Watch at Connaught Gardens : Booking Essential

  | 10:00AM – 12:00PM

  | Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth

  | /events/coast-watch-at-connaught-gardens

  Categories

  • Activities
  • Festival
• SUMMARY – Discover Our Marine Life

  | 10:00AM – 4:15PM

  | Connaught Gardens & Kennaway House

  | /events/summary-discover-our-marine-life

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Activities
  • Festival
• Robot Workshop

  | 11:00AM – 4:00PM

  | All Saints Church Hall, All Saints Rd, Sidmouth EX10 8ES

  | /events/robot-workshop

  Categories

  • Activities
  • Festival
  • Family Friendly
• Discovering Marine Wildlife

  | 2:00PM – 2:30PM

  | Cellar Bar, Kennaway House, EX10 8NG

  | /events/discovering-marine-wildlife

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival
• Devon Marine Strandings Network

  | 2:30PM – 3:00PM

  | Cellar Bar, Kennaway House, EX10 8NG

  | /events/devon-marine-strandings-network

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival
• Little Horse of the Sea

  | 3:15PM – 4:15PM

  | Cellar Bar, Kennaway House, EX10 8NG

  | /events/little-horse-of-the-sea

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival

Sunday 18th October 2026

• Jet Car Build and Race

  | 11:00AM – 4:00PM

  | Norman Lockyer Observatory, Salcombe Hill Road, Sidmouth EX10 0NY

  | /events/jet-car-build-and-race

  Categories

  • Activities
  • Festival
  • Family Friendly
• Family Fun Day at the Norman Lockyer Observatory

  | 11:00AM – 4:00PM

  | Norman Lockyer Observatory, Salcombe Hill Road, Sidmouth EX10 0NY

  | /events/family-fun-day-at-the-norman-lockyer-observatory

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Activities
  • Festival
  • Family Friendly
• NLO Day Talk – Planet-forming discs

  | 11:30AM – 12:00PM

  | Norman Lockyer Observatory, Salcombe Hill Road, Sidmouth EX10 0NY

  | /events/planet-forming-discs-with-the-james-webb-space-telescope

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival
• NLO Day Talk – The quest for new worlds

  | 12:15PM – 12:45PM

  | Norman Lockyer Observatory, Salcombe Hill Road, Sidmouth EX10 0NY

  | /events/the-quest-for-new-worlds

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival
• NLO Day Talk – Chaos in Weather Forecasting

  | 1:00PM – 1:45PM

  | Norman Lockyer Observatory, Salcombe Hill Road, Sidmouth EX10 0NY

  | /events/chaos-in-weather-forecasting

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival
• NLO Day Talk – Space Weather

  | 2:00PM – 2:45PM

  | Norman Lockyer Observatory, Salcombe Hill Road, Sidmouth EX10 0NY

  | /events/space-weather-what-is-it-and-why-should-we-care

  Categories

  • Talks
  • Festival