Saturday 17th October, 2015: The Elettra Festival of Light

THE FESTIVAL: 900 VISITORS

• 19 guided tours among the beamlines to discover how synchrotron light is generated and employed; 
• 6 creative workshops for 150 children aged 5 to 10.
• 6 “short talks" about light: a series of informal presentations to look further into a number of peculiar topics ranging from the X-ray study of proteins to the industrial application of synchrotron light.

OPENING CEREMONY

The opening ceremony at 11:00 saw Mauro Zambelli, General Manager at Elettra Sincrotrone, and Stephen Taylor, Marketing and Communication Director at AREA Science Park, welcoming visitors. They were followed by the greetings of Loredana Panariti, Councillor for Employment, Equal Opportunities, and Research at Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, Igor Dolenc, Vice President of the Provincial Council and Edi Kraus Councillor for Development, Economics and Sport of the City of Trieste.

DANCING LIGHTS

An unusual combination of art and science highly appreciated by the audience. Framed by the experimental hall the ballerinas danced on a perfomance conceived by the choreographer of Arteffetto Danza Corrado Canulli

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CREATIVE WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN

Elettra’s engineers and researchers disguised as weird characters carried out “At lightning speed”: creative workshops that captured the attention of children aged 5 to 10. Frozen popcorns, balloons and coloured pipes were used to highlight how the synchrotron works and the basics of physics experiments.