Reporting Science Official Cocktail Function

The official Cocktail Function for the 2008 Reporting Science conference will be sponsored by the South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (SAASTA) and will be held on Day 1 at the Johannesburg Observatory, 15A Gill Str, Observatory, Johannesburg and it promises to be both informative and interactive.

The Cocktail Programme is as follows:

17:30 Official Welcome and Drinks

17:45 Live Performance “Meltdown” by Ubom!

18:30 Keynote address and dinner

The following exhibitions will be available for viewing throughout the evening:
Nanotechnology
Mirror Maize
SA Science Lens and
In honour of the International Year of Astronomy you will be treated to a very close view of the exquisite Johannesburg sky.

21:00 Closing

Spaces are filling up fast, book early.

SAASTA is a business unit of the NRF

The Reporting Science Conference, 10th – 11th November 2008, will take place at the Hackle Brooke Estate in Craighall, Johannesburg. This year the conference, which will include plenary sessions and small group workshops, will focus on:

• Climate Change
• Alternative Energy
• Food Security
• Nanotechnology
• Astronomy and Space Science.

We invite journalists, editors, television and radio presenters and producers, sub-editors, and journalism students who wish to better interpret science information for their audience and science communicators needing to understand how to package stories that interest media.