You and Infinity

  • January 11, 2025 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

  • Marroney Theatre

    1025 North Olive Road
    Tucson, Arizona 85719
Ticket Price $15.00 Buy Tickets
Description

In You and Infinity, University of Arizona professor Dr. Kevin Hainline explores how humanity has grappled with the complex, weird concept of “endlessness” throughout history. Guided by the light of an overhead projector, Dr. Hainline will discuss how Greek philosophers were terrified of infinity, how thinking about infinity as an actual number set mathematicians at odds for centuries, and where we tiny humans fit in. A humorous blend of history, philosophy, and science, this engaging performance tackles the abstract and the universal, and offers a hopeful look at our place in the grand, unending story of the cosmos.

Content Warning: All Ages.

Artist Bio: Kevin Hainline is an astronomy professor at the University of Arizona and a member of the team behind NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. He studies the most distant galaxies known to humanity and the way the Universe has evolved from the Big Bang to today. He has been interviewed for National Geographic, Scientific American, was profiled in The Times of India, and has spoken about our connection to the cosmos at events around the world.

Date & Time

Sat, Jan 11, 2025 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Venue Details

Marroney Theatre

1025 North Olive Road
Tucson, Arizona 85719 Marroney Theatre
Tucson Fringe Festival

The Tucson Fringe Festival is an unjuried, uncensored performing arts festival. Since 2011, following international fringe tenets, the festival provides artists with low-risk, low-cost opportunities to perform by using economies of scale to reduce venue rental costs and by taking only 20%, and sometimes 0%, of the artist’s earnings. Tucson Fringe also provides the Tucson arts community with avant-garde, non-traditional performing arts at low-cost ticket prices.

The festival does not curate or select the performances, maintaining an environment in which everyone and anyone can perform. This ensures that underrepresented artistic voices, such as people of color, the LGBT+ community, women, and other marginalized genders, are championed in our community.

The festival takes place in January every year across multiple venues in downtown Tucson. On average, every year the festival has 20+ shows with between 50-60 performances during the festival weekend.


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