The Starmus International Festival is an international gathering focused on celebrating astronomy, space exploration, music, art, and the natural sciences.
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The Starmus International Festival is an international gathering focused on celebrating astronomy, space exploration, music, art, and the natural sciences.
01 · What it is
Music
Vocal, percussive, or instrumental sound tradition carried by community performers.
02 · Where & name
Spain
Written in its own script on record as Festival Internacional Starmus.
03 · How it is doing
□□□□ (Not yet assessed)
Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
04 · Proof & reuse
2 cited sources
Every claim links to a public record below. Free to quote, teach, and share under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chapter Takeaways
2011The first festival took place from 20 to 25 June 2011 on Tenerife and La Palma, Canary Islands with the theme "50 Years of Man in Space." In 2014, the book Starmus: 50 Years of Man in Space was published covering the…
2014The second festival occurred 22 to 27 September 2014, on Tenerife and La Palma, Canary Islands with the theme "Beginnings: The Making of the Modern Cosmos." The Government of Tenerife announced that the equivalent…
2016The third festival took place in the Canary Islands, on Tenerife and La Palma from 27 June to 2 July 2016 with the theme of "Beyond The Horizon: A Tribute To Stephen Hawking".
2017The fourth festival took place in Trondheim, Norway, from 18 to 23 June 2017 with the theme of "Life and the Universe".
Common Questions Answered on Record
What is Starmus Festival in plain words?
The Starmus International Festival is an international gathering focused on celebrating astronomy, space exploration, music, art, and the natural sciences. In local script on record, it is written Festival Internacional Starmus.
Where is Starmus Festival practised or documented?
Sources on this page place Starmus Festival in Spain.
What is the current condition of Starmus Festival today?
□□□□ (Not yet assessed): Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
How do I cite or share this Starmus Festival entry?
Cite as: "Starmus Festival." folkroom, https://folkroom.org/art-forms/starmus-festival, text CC BY-SA, with attribution.
The Starmus International Festival is an international gathering focused on celebrating astronomy, space exploration, music, art, and the natural sciences. It was founded by astronomer / amateur musician Garik Israelian and musician / astrophysicist Brian May. The festival has featured multiple well-known astronauts and astronomers. 1
2011
The first festival took place from 20 to 25 June 2011 on Tenerife and La Palma, Canary Islands with the theme "50 Years of Man in Space." In 2014, the book Starmus: 50 Years of Man in Space was published covering the content of the festival. 1
2014
The second festival occurred 22 to 27 September 2014, on Tenerife and La Palma, Canary Islands with the theme "Beginnings: The Making of the Modern Cosmos." The Government of Tenerife announced that the equivalent publicity value from Starmus Festival II (2014) exceeds 170 million euros and that the festival reached 2.4 billion people worldwide. 1
2016
The third festival took place in the Canary Islands, on Tenerife and La Palma from 27 June to 2 July 2016 with the theme of "Beyond The Horizon: A Tribute To Stephen Hawking". The festival featured numerous scientists and science communicators including Stephen Hawking, Brian Cox, Richard Dawkins, Brian May, and 11 Nobel laureates.
Starmus III held the inaugural awards ceremony for recipients of the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication. The award recipients (chosen by Hawking himself) were composer Hans Zimmer, physicist Jim Al-Khalili and the science documentary Particle Fever. 1
2017
The fourth festival took place in Trondheim, Norway, from 18 to 23 June 2017 with the theme of "Life and the Universe". The festival featured eleven Nobel Prize laureates and many astronomers, biologists, chemists, economists, astronauts and artists.
The Stephen Hawking Medal award winners were Neil deGrasse Tyson (science writing), Jean-Michel Jarre (music and arts) and The Big Bang Theory (films). 1
2019
The fifth festival took place in Zurich, Switzerland in June 2019 under the theme "A Giant Leap", dedicated to the first step of the man on the Moon. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. The Stephen Hawking Medal was awarded to Elon Musk, Buzz Aldrin, Brian Eno and the documentary Apollo 11, screened during the festival for the first time in Europe. 1
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Starmus Festival”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1
Starmus Festival is international gathering focused on celebrating astronomy, space exploration, music, art, and allied sciences, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2
The source record links this tradition to 1 external register, which can be verified through the citation. 2