Preparations hot up for second-ever Sussex Community Festival

Preparations hot up for second-ever Sussex Community Festival. It's beginning to hot up for the University of Sussex's second-ever Community Festiva l. Dr Stephen Wilkins , Senior Lecturer in Astronomy , is among more than 30 academics as well as staff and students preparing to extend a warm welcome to visitors to the festival, held at the beautifully green University of Sussex campus on the outskirts of Brighton & Hove next Sunday [June 24]. Among the new attractions added to the line-up, festival goers will be given the chance to see a glowing copy of themselves, like Dr Wilkins, by stepping in front of infra-red cameras. Also newly added to the event line-up is a chance to see a single-seat race car built by engineering students for an international competition next month, an inflatable planetarium, a special musical performance celebrating a Sussex beauty spot and an augmented reality tour of the University. Professor Alison Pike , University of Sussex psychologist and scientific expert on Channel 4's 'The Secret Lives of 4/5/6 Year Olds', will be offering invaluable insights for parents on how to put themselves first without feeling guilty, manipulate their child's behaviour and stop sibling squabbles. Meanwhile the BBC's 'Rough Science' presenter Dr Jonathan Hare will explain the wonder of 'buckyballs', the carbon structure discovered at the University of Sussex that led to a Nobel Prize for the late Professor Sir Harry Kroto. More than 2,500 residents have already registered their interest for the festival and the University is encouraging interested parties to sign up for their free tickets.