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Friday 4 to Sunday 13 March 2016 evening events 6.30pm to 10pm
Dunbar SciFest & EDF Energy Light Night projection show “Chain Reaction” onto Torness power station
Our website provides the best locations to watch this FREE show. The public cannot go into Torness power station.
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Friday 4 March 7pm to 10pm
EDF Energy Dunbar Community Science Ceilidh for families
Dunmuir Hotel, 7-10pm Family of 2+2 £10 • Adults £5 Children & Concessions £2
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Saturday 5 March 7pm to 10pm
EDF Energy “Illuminating” Science Ceilidh for families
Dunmuir Hotel, 7-10pm Family of 2+2 £10 • Adults £5 Children & Concessions £2
Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 March 10am to 5pm daily
Dunbar SciFest Family Weekend NEW stage shows (BSL Interpreted), drop in sessions, workshops, storytelling sessions and the SCI-FUN interactive exhibition, with a Sunday morning Early Bird for Autistic children.
Dunbar Primary School John Muir Campus & the Bleachingfield Community Centre 10am-5pm daily Family of 2+3 £15 • Adults £5 Children & concessions £3 • Under Fives Free
Monday 7 to Friday 11 March 10am to 3pm daily
Dunbar SciFest Education Programme
Delivered within the 5 primary schools of the Dunbar Cluster & Dunbar Grammar School.
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Thursday 10 to Sunday 13 March 6.30pm to 9pm daily
Dunbar SciFest Street Art Outdoor Photographic exhibition - Royal Photographic Society’s “ International Images for Science 2015” & “Light Works”
Gather on Dunbar High Street to see the Royal Photographic Society exhibitions projected onto the exterior of the Dunbar Town House Museum. FREE event
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Download our superb SCI-FEST ap p (Apple & Android) from our website.
Wednesday 9 to Sunday 13 March 8pm to 10/11pm
Dunbar SciFest Adult Programme
5 evening events of presentations and panel discussions. - Adults £5 or £8
Friday 11 March 9am to 12.30pm
Coastal wild food foraging walk and cook in.
All participants £25 per person
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The 6th community science festival, Dunbar SciFest 2016, returns with another exciting, jam-packed programme for residents of south-east Scotland. We look forward to welcoming visitors to ‘Sunny Dunny’ and East Lothian. Our family-friendly festival has grown annually and last year, 124 different organisations delivered 372 individual activities to 10,600 people! Our Fabulous Festival Programme celebrates 2016 - Scottish Year of Innovation, Architecture & Design
Saturday 5 March to Sunday 31 July 1pm to 5pm
An Ingenious Whittler – John Muir the Inventor EXHIBITION
Dunbar Town House Museum Admission FREE 5 - 31 March: Open at weekends only. April - July inclusive: Monday to Sunday
Keep up to date via www.facebook.com/DunbarSciFest & www.twitter.com/dunbarscifest Visit www.dunbarscifest.org.uk for details on events, venues, tickets and travel options
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FAMILY EVENTS
EDF Energy
Friday 4 to Sunday 13 March 2016 • evening event: Dunbar SciFest & EDF Energy Light Night show “Chain Reaction” projected onto Torness power station - 6.30pm to 10pm - FREE
The Chain Reaction light show is a series of artistic interpretations of the complex and unseen processes that generate the steam energy that drives the electricity generators in Torness power station. The projection of these visualisations will animate the facade of Torness power station. The slowly changing imagery will be visible to thousands of people passing Torness on the A1 or on trains heading south.
2015 Magic Lantern at Barns Ness.
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Our website provides the best location to watch this FREE show. Parking spaces are limited but as this show will run for 10 evenings, you can come and see it more than once. The public cannot go into Torness power station or park on the A1.
Friday 4 March • evening event: EDF Energy Dunbar Community Science Ceilidh for families Dunmuir Hotel - 7pm to 10pm Family Ceilidh capacity 100 so book early online to avoid disappointment
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Saturday 5 March • evening event: EDF Energy Illuminating Science Ceilidh for families Dunmuir Hotel - 7pm to 10pm
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Come along for a ceilidh for the whole family with a wee science twist! Along with all your favourite dances, from the Gay Gordons to the Flying Scotsman, we’ll be thinking about how we can improve the Dunbar Community. Pupils from Dunbar Primary School will share a new dance developed to explain the Circular Economy and how its introduction to product design in Scotland can help reduce how much we throw away…You won’t just be recycling dance moves on the ceilidh floor! This dance was developed with Dunbar PS pupils and the school, The Zero Waste Town Project, the Science Ceilidh Band and Dunbar SciFest. See the Chain Reaction light show that’s animating the facade of Torness power station during the ceilidh.
Family of 2+2 £10 • Adults £5 • Children & Concession £2 Family Ceilidh capacity 100 so book early online to avoid disappointment In the dark about the science of light? Join the award-winning Science Ceilidh Band and a team of scientists for an evening of Scottish ceilidh dances with a twist on the theme of light. Written as part of International Year of Light, we’ll be explaining photons in the Dashing White Light Wave, exploring how glowsticks work in the Fluorescent Fling and finding the hidden chemistry in your TV in the Orcadian Strip-the-Optic-Cable! No experience necessary and the whole family is welcome: steps and science will be explained, and experiments, fluorescent face-paints and glowsticks provided, just be ready to shine on that dance floor! See the The Chain Reaction light show that’s animating the facade of Torness power station during the ceilidh. Find out more: www.scienceceilidh.com/light Visit www.dunbarscifest.org.uk for details on events, venues, tickets and travel options
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FAMILY WEEKEND Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 March • 10am to 5pm daily Dunbar Primary School John Muir Campus & the Bleachingfield Community Centre FAMILY (2+2): £15 per day Our Family Weekend – come for the whole day and enjoy our new activities. Get stuck into wacky workshops, sit back and enjoy science stage shows WEEKEND FAMILY: £20 and have family fun at diverse drop-in sessions. For under-fives, there’s FAMILY DAY & ILLUMINATIONS storytelling and soft play. The stage shows are presented in British Sign CEILIDH (SATURDAY 5 MARCH): £30 Language or are BSL-English interpreted. SCI-FUN, the University of Edinburgh’s Scottish Science and Technology Roadshow will take over the ADULTS: £5 Bleachingfield Community Centre with 50 interactive science activities that CHILDREN & CONCESSIONS: £3 will keep you entertained for hours. UNDER FIVES: FREE Dip into drop in sessions in the Gym Hall and the Community Windpower Marquees. From finding out about the Mars Lander and Meteorites to exploring electricity, green chemistry and ‘mixed up science’ to testing your sense of taste, revealing the microscopic world or handling local sea creatures, you’ll enjoy an eclectic assortment of fascinating activities! Viridor Stage Shows in the Assembly Hall - sit back and enjoy 4 different science stage shows and some tasty treats from the Sunny Sundaes Trike. The 6 daily performances are presented in British Sign Language or are BSL/ English interpreted. W orkshops - book into a selection of the 100+ sessions of diverse workshops, ranging from gloriously gruesome organ dissections to computer programming; genetics to archaeoscience. Make some exciting discoveries and learn some new supercool skills! Book online or as soon as you arrive. U nder Fives Zone, with soft play and an enclosed playground within the central courtyard garden. Chill out with stories during storyteller sessions running throughout the day. S CI-FUN, the University of Edinburgh’s Scottish Science and Technology Roadshow, will take over the Bleachingfield Community Centre with 50 interactive science activities that will keep you entertained for hours. Early Bird event for children with Autism Spectrum Condition, provides them & their families exclusive access to experience the SCI-FUN interactive exhibits and activities on Sunday 6 March, 10-11am Festival Cafés. Enjoy lunch or some snacks in 2 cafés during the Family Weekend. The Store @ Belhaven Fruit Farm is running the café within the DPS John Muir Campus Dining Hall, with a NoCowKnowHow stall, selling dairy free, nut free, egg and gluten free sweets and savouries. The Ridge Café will be open in the Bleachingfield Centre. Visit www.dunbarscifest.org.uk for details on events, venues, tickets and travel options
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OUT & ABOUT STREET ART - 2 OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITIONS FROM THE ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
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Gather on Dunbar High Street to see 2 Royal Photographic Society exhibitions projected onto the exterior of the Dunbar Town House Museum. I nternational Images for Science Communicating science and helping inspire a new generation of scientists and engineers is something that photography can do especially well. We live in a visual age, and great images can convey a strong message quickly and across barriers of culture or language. Supported by Siemens as part of the Curiosity Project, International Images for Science is a competition that attracted over 2300 entries from scientists, professional and amateur photographers as well as students at school and universities. The images that were selected have a common thread – they are all visually captivating yet each has a science story to tell. Most of all, the images show that good science images don’t always have to be the result of expensive equipment – a passion for the subject and the vision to capture it is often all that is required.
NEW COASTAL WILD FOOD FORAGING WALK AND COOK-IN Friday 11 March • 9am to 12.30pm
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E xplore Dunbar’s wild larder on a super low spring tide with Mark Williams of Galloway Wild Foods - Scotland’s only full-time foraging tutor. Learn to find, identify, sustainably harvest and cook seaweeds, shellfish, coastal herbs and succulent plants. Treats and tasters throughout, with a cook-in afterwards, rolling wild sushi with the plants and seaweeds found and making a traditional Japanese seaweed dashi broth using wild Scottish ingredients.
£25 per person Numbers limited to 16. Advance booking required online Suitable for children over 10 years old, with close parental supervision. More information on www.dunbarscifest.org.uk
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L ight Works Conceived to help celebrate the International Year of Light 2015, Light Works celebrates the diverse ways in which light in all its forms impacts on our modern lives. It is a visual journey through the electromagnetic spectrum – starting with gamma rays and X-rays, through the ultraviolet to the visible, then on through infrared, terahertz and microwaves to radio waves. These 50 images also reveal to us the mysteries of the Universe around us and even of the world inside our bodies. Light Works was created by the Royal Photographic Society in partnership with the Science and Technology Facilities Council.
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SOMETHING FOR THE ADULTS Dunbar SciFest Adult Programme Wednesday 9 to Sunday 13 March Join us for 5 evening events of presentations and panel discussions that will be enlightening, inspiring and entertaining. Book your tickets online now.
Wednesday 9 March Dunbar Library, Bleachingfield Community Centre 8pm • Adults £5 BYOB
Heroines of the Nuclear Age Ian Hamilton from Belhaven, Dunbar examines the inter-connected roles of four remarkable and courageous women and how their lives, research and discoveries intertwined and led the way in our understanding of the inherent risks of ionising radiation. Bring your own bottle and we’ll provide glasses!
Thursday 10 March The Piano Room, The Rocks Hotel, Dunbar • 8pm • Adults £8
TV Dr James Logan “The Scottish Midge - a tiny terror”
Bite Size Science and Wild Cocktails • C hampagne, oysters, buttered asparagus, chocolate, chilli... do these foods make just your heart rate rise..? Come and hear about the science and psychology of aphrodisiacs so that you know exactly what those moreish morsels are doing to you, with Dr Kathy Charles, Edinburgh Napier University. •M ark Williams of Galloway Wild Foods presents the Wild Cocktail Cabinet: Foraged Drinks and Elixirs exploring the challenges of and opportunities to use wild ingredients and reveals the cornerstones of the wild booze larder. • D r Ian Edwards of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh takes a look inside Scotland’s natural larder and
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Friday 11 March Goldenstones Function Room, Dunmuir Hotel • 8pm • Adults £8
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Dr James Logan, originally from North Berwick, is a Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and a C4 and BBC TV Presenter. James researches novel ways to control insects that transmit human and animal diseases in the UK and overseas, exploring the complex interactions between the insect vectors, the vertebrate hosts and the pathogens that cause disease. Find out everything you need to know about Scotland’s fearsome wee beasties!
provides inspiration for anybody wanting to be a bit more adventurous in eating nutritious meals that are wild, Scottish and free. Includes some tasters of seasonal and foraged delights. • Dr Derek Ball, Heriot Watt University, will serve up a potted history of sports nutrition. Using diet to manipulate exercise performance is not a new phenomenon and Derek will reveal how different nutrition strategies have been used historically to improve human performance.
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Saturday 12 March Goldenstones Function Room, Dunmuir Hotel • 8pm • Adults £8 Fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe,
The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas Triple Act The Beltane Public Engagement Network and Fair Pley have brought the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas to the Edinburgh Fringe since 2013. The Cabaret gives researchers and members of the public the chance to discuss and debate cutting-edge research in an informal, entertaining way. With the support of the Beltane Network and Fair Pley, Dunbar SciFest 2016 is delighted to welcome some of these thought-provoking shows as part of our Adult Programme of 5 evening events. • D r Lewis Dean, a primatologist from the University of St Andrews, will put a chimp on trial! A court in America recently ruled that chimpanzees should be regarded as ‘persons’, giving them basic human rights. But with rights come responsibilities. Could a chimp ever be guilty of a human crime? •W omen – science isn’t for you! The UK desperately needs more scientists and engineers, yet highly qualified, talented and ambitious women are still deserting science & technology. What’s really going on? Could the answers be found in role models, mentors and male-support, or do women simply lack ability in science? Join Dr Clare Taylor, Edinburgh Napier University, to discuss what, if anything, we should do about it. • F eel like your brain is half-baked? Join Psychologist Dr Alan Gow, Heriot Watt University, in the Great British Brain Off, to consider the recipe for the perfect brain and what to do if you feel that your own grey matter needs some extra spice.
Sunday 13 March Dunbar Town House Museum • 8pm • Adults £8 Hearing loss or deaf gain? Fresh from The Fringe,
The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas
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Enjoy another Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas show challenging how we should think about deafness. How should we describe deaf people? Join Professor Jemina Napier, Heriot Watt University, and Dunbar SciFest’s very own Dr Audrey Cameron to debate whether it is hearing loss or deaf gain?
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John Muir’s Birthplace Exhibition
An Ingenious Whittler - John Muir the Inventor exhibition 5 to 31 March: Wed - Sat 10am - 5pm • Sun 1pm - 5pm 1 April - 31 July: Mon - Sat 10am - 5pm • Sun 1pm - 5pm ADMISSION FREE Find out about the amazing machines that John Muir invented to make life easier. How did the early rising machine work? Watch out for a noisy surprise! Take away your own blue print for an ingenious invention. www.jmbt.org.uk
Images: Wisconsin Historical Society
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...AND NOT FORGETTING!
The EDF ENERGY Education Programme Week Monday 7 to Thursday 10 March Workshops delivered within 5 Dunbar Cluster primary schools
The Dunbar SciFest Organising Team Dunbar SciFest and the Dunbar Saturday morning Science Club were both established in 2011 by Dee Davison & Dr Audrey Cameron. A voluntary team of parents organise this festival, and the Dunbar Science Club, in their ‘spare’ time.
Friday 11 March Stage Show delivered within the 2
campuses of Dunbar Primary School
• Dee Davison • Dr Audrey Cameron • Andrew McLachlan • Helen McLachlan • Jenny McGlinchey • Julie Thomas • Anne Marie Gibson • Laura Punler • Susan Carleton • Anouska Woods The Dunbar SciFest Team are hugely grateful to our funders, sponsors and to all of our partners who share their time, enthusiasm and expertise to make our festival so special. Their ongoing support has helped us ensure that the children of East Lothian and beyond are given wonderful opportunities to get engaged with and inspired by science, technology and engineering, thereby contributing to the next generation of Scottish scientists.
A special ‘Thank You’ to all our partners including those below Among The Wild Deer
Galloway Wild Foods
Photography by: Jon Savage and Jason Steadman
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Hugh Turvey X-Ray Artist
Design by: Intimation Creative - www.intimation.uk
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