About AstroFest 2022
Welcome to the 2022 AstroFest: June 11-17!
Join lovers of astronomy from across the city for a week of FREE and family friendly space-themed events.
On Saturday June 11 from 2-8pm, AstroFest kicks off the week with a festival of hands-on activities, creative displays, interactive VR demos, solar telescopes, and more at the Pasadena Convention Center. The event will be entirely outdoors, on the western portion of the plaza in front of the Pasadena Civic Auditorium.
Together with astronomers gathering during the same week for the 240th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, we invite you to take part and explore our place in the Universe.
Mark your calendars for the events below!
Events
Current schedule, but please stay tuned for updates!
Online interactive
As part of ArtCenter College of Design's series of exhibitions and programs examining the intersection of contemporary art and science, the Williamson Gallery's SKY brought together works by West Coast artists with objects and artifacts from various museums and scientific archives, including the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Caltech Archive, and the European Space Agency.
The exhibition was an immersive and impressionistic experience via objects and artworks, symbolizing how humans have conceptualized the sky throughout history and how unfolding realities exposed by new science are affecting change in the understanding of ourselves, our planet, and beyond.
SKY closed to the public after only three weeks, due to the Covid pandemic. It continues to exist, however, in virtual form and a 20-page printed catalogue.
What's the connection between the personal and the universal? Between art and science? In "SKY Stories: Cosmologists Occupy an Art Space," three JPL cosmologists immerse themselves in SKY's Williamson Gallery exhibition and tell their personal stories of a journey to science.
Take an 6-minute impressionistic glide through the SKY exhibition's gallery space, artworks, and science artifacts, accompanied by the exhibition soundtrack.
Saturday, JuNE 11
AstroFest
2:00pm-8:00pm Exhibits and Shows at the Pasadena Convention Center
Monday, JuNE 13
Astronomy on Tap (Cinematic Astronomy with the Hubble Telescope with Frank Summers and The First Portrait of our Milky Way’s Black Hole with Katie Bouman)
7:30pm - 9:30pm Listen as astronomers entertain you with stories of the universe, join the astro-themed trivia, or stargaze at Dog Haus (93 E Green St. location)
Tuesday, JuNE 14
Open Book- The Last Stargazers (ticketed event)
6:30pm - 9:00pm Join Emily Levesque, author of The Last Stargazers in conversation with John Mulchaey, Director of the Carnegie Observatories, at the Carnegie Observatories.
Wednesday, JuNE 15
Astronomy on Tap (The Cosmology of Astronomy on Tap with Emily Rice and Exoplanet Roulette: Choose your Fate with Jessie Christiansen)
7:30pm - 9:30pm Listen as astronomers entertain you with stories of the universe, join the astro-themed trivia, or stargaze at Dog Haus (93 E Green St. location)
Saturday, JuNE 18
The Infinite Monkey Cage
7:30pm - 9:30pm The podcast “The Infinite Monkey Cage” is coming to Caltech! The show will be taking a look at exoplanets with guest host Eric Idle of “Monty Python”, scientists Jessie Christiansen and Tiffany Kataria, and research professor of physics Sean Carroll. Tickets are free, but please reserve here: The Infinite Monkey Cage | Shows and tours (bbc.co.uk). 1216 East California Blvd, Pasadena, 91125