This year’s Science in the City is the biggest attempt to date by the organisers to bring artists and scientists together and help each other cross the border between the two realms. The festival will be held on September 30 and runs with a ‘Brain’ theme.

“Whether outside our studio or laboratory, we can spark new understandings and create new ideas on artistic, scientific and social progress,” said the festival’s artistic consultant Angele Galea.

Activities at St George’s Square include a Kummettiva dance performance by Paul Curmi Dance company; Brainrave, where visitors will be able to control music and visuals; a larger-than-life model of the human skull will showcase the evolution of psychiatry by Mount Carmel Hospital; Raphael Vella’s Cortex is an art installation inspired by neuroscience and scientific comparative studies of different mammalian brains; and the Richmond Foundation will show an art exhibition by some of their members.

Further up in Republic Street, a blindfolded dancer will be performing Trust Me, an act inspired by the Romborg’s Test.

Little brainiacs will be able to indulge in a variety of activities and games in Science at Spazju Kreattiv, St James Cavalier. Children aged four and over can join the Kids Dig Science workshops in the Studio Room. The Cinema Room will host two puppet shows Inside Out at 6pm and 8pm and Marie Curie by S-Cubed at 7pm.

Teatru Anon will be performing I’m Still Here, one woman’s battle with dementia – at 6.30pm, 8pm and 9.30pm at the Theatre Room, St James Cavalier. While at the Cinema, CineXjenza will present the film Still Alice (on Alzheimer’s disease) at 9pm followed by a discussion with Dr Charles Scerri.

Funk Initiative are staging an experimental performance called Cartographers. The first show starts at 8pm and repeated at 9.45pm at Pjazza Teatru Rjal. At City Gate, four anthropomorphic sculptures will be displaying the evolution of the nervous system in different animals. The programme can be viewed on www.scienceinthecity.org.mt or by following updates on www.facebook.com/ScienceInTheCityMalta.