The “Festival della Scienza” returns to Genoa with its twenty-third edition, dedicated to the theme “Intertwining”. The event, which brings together hundreds of scientists, researchers, science communicators, artists, and authors from around the world every year, will take place from October 23 to November 2, 2025, featuring over 250 events across 35 venues throughout the city.
This year as well, the Einstein Telescope (ET) will take center stage with the science performance “Whispers from the universe: the echo of gravitational waves”, organized by the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), and Einstein Telescope Italy.
Science and music will come together in a journey to discover the Einstein Telescope, the next-generation European observatory for the study of gravitational waves.
On stage, Alessandro Cardini (INFN), Federica Govoni (INAF), and Antonio Zoccoli (INFN), accompanied by the music of Giulia Tagliavia, will present the ET project and the Sardinian site proposed to host the observatory, which will enable us to trace cosmic events at unimaginable spatial and temporal distances, traveling back in time almost to the Big Bang. The event will take place on Friday, October 24, at 9:00 PM, in the Sala del Maggior Consiglio of the Palazzo Ducale.
In addition to this, the Genoa Science Festival will also feature another event dedicated to gravitational waves:
“Messages from the universe – stories of gravitational waves and other voices from the cosmos” (October 25, 6:00 PM, Villa Pallavicino delle Peschiere), curated by INFN: an interactive storytelling experience built together with the audience, tracing a path from Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which predicted the existence of gravitational waves, to their discovery ten years ago thanks to the LIGO-Virgo experiments.
The official program of the Genoa Science Festival can be consulted at this link.