G R AV I T Y F I E L D S F E S T I VA L
Welcome to Gravity Fields...
For most of my life I have been fascinated to the point of
Explore, Wonder and Celebrate - we are off on
a new five day Newton adventure with our festival of science, arts
and heritage.
I am particularly proud, therefore, to become a patron of Gravity
Fields Festival inspired by Sir Isaac Newton.
The 2014 programme brings to fulfilment two years of planning
since the first festival in 2012. Audiences responded wonderfully,
as did contributing scientists and artists. We transformed
Grantham, introduced festival fever across South Kesteven, and
hope to do the same with Gravity Fields Festival 2014.
obsession by a strange boy who lodged in a Grantham attic and
grew to become one of the world’s most influential thinkers.
It has the potential to be the major forum for showcasing both
historical and modern British science and bring together expertise
from a range of institutions.
Grantham is a natural setting. It’s where it all began and I hope
the festival prompts interest in local scientific, religious and
social heritage.
William Stukeley relat