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“The Great British Brain Off”
Thursday 27th August |3pm-4pm| Venue 372 - The Stand in the Square|
Tickets: £8 (7) @ www.edfringe.com and www.thestand.co.uk
Do you feel like your brain is half-baked? Or that your mental faculties are going off the boil?
Join 'head chef’ Dr Alan Gow in the Great British Brain Off to consider the recipe for the
perfect brain, and what you can do if you feel your own grey matter needs some extra spice.
Bring your questions about the ingredients that might protect or harm the brain as it ages,
and we'll put those into the mix. There probably won't be any cakes, but jelly brains are likely
to make an appearance.
“The Great British Brain Off” is part of a series of shows focused around provocative
statements and debate - The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas. The cabaret is a compilation of
24 interactive shows where challenging questions are posed and answers are sought. It is
curated by the Beltane Public Engagement Network, produced by Fair Pley and compared
by Comedienne Susan Morrison. The audience is encourage to speak up and shake the
grey matter while debating with some of Scotland’s fiercest intellectuals.
Dr Alan Gow is a Research Leader and Lecturer in Psychology, in the School of Life Sciences. With
a background in Psychology, Alan's research focuses on the identification of lifestyle and
psychosocial factors that predict successful ageing, primarily cognitive ageing. Alan is mainly
interested in factors which are malleable, such as activity participation and exercise, social networks
and support, and occupational characteristics and exposures.
Full Programme for the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas available below and at
http://codi.beltanenetwork.org/codi-2015/the-shows/ (see attached brochure for more details).
Contact Lucy Gibbons: codi@beltanenetwork.org for any queries or more information.
Date
Title
Performers
Fri 7
Soak up the sun and to hell with skin
cancer!
Richard Weller
Sat 8
Hearing loss or deaf gain?
Jemina Napier, Noel O’Connell
Sun 9
GM bacteria could save your life
Clare Taylor
Mon 10
Cervical cancer – you’re history!
Sarah Howie, Heather Cubie
Tue 11
Scotland in six swallies
Susan Morrison
Wed 12
Stop brushing your teeth!
Jan Clarkson
Thu 13
Women, science is still not for you!
Pam Cameron, Clare Taylor
Fri 14
Let’s turn on the smart light
Yunlu Wang, Aravind Venugopalan
Sat 15
Not so native now
Antonella Sorace
Sun 16
Alas, poor Darwin..?
Kate Cross, Lewis Dean
Mon 17
Fashion and the selfie
Mal Burkinshaw
Tue 18
Whose face is it anyway?
Felicity Mehendale
Wed 19
The hidden world of functional disorders
Jon Stone
Thu 20
Wild, Scottish and free
Ian Edwards
Fri 21
Skating on thin ice
Lorna Street, Phil Wookey
Sat 22
Swords into ploughshares
Jolyon Mitchell, Lesley Orr
Sun 23
The cocaine conspiracy
Karina Banda, Julieth Serrano and
Maria Fernanda- Torres
Mon 24
The war on drugs is harmful
Stephen Lawrie
Tue 25
Hug a thug
Lesley McAra and Susan McVie
Wed 26
Back to the statistical future!
Nicola Osborne, Helen Aiton
Thu 27
The Great British Brain Off
Alan Gow
Fri 28
What if Lance Armstrong had the right idea?
Derek Ball
Sat 29
Computers are only for geeks
Karen Petrie
Sun 30
Edinburgh should ban students
Mary Bownes