Science Oxford Spring 2015 Programme

SPRING 2015 PROGRAMME of events and activities for all the family

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Science Oxford Live has got a programme of exciting, educational and original events coming up that are sure to whoosh away your winter blues. It’s our 30th anniversary this year, so check out the back page where you’ll find some extra special events for all the family.

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SATURDAY SCIENCE CLUB OUR 30th ANNIVERSARY EVENTS This year we are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Oxford Trust, the charitable trust behind the Science Oxford brand. To commemorate our 30th year, we’re holding some very special events themed around magnets and materials – the scientific specialism of our founders Sir Martin and Lady Audrey Wood.

Key Learning Centre, Oxford Castle Unlocked, Oxford Castle Quarter, OX1 1AY For all you budding young scientists, we run a lively science club on the last Saturday of every month, hosted at Oxford Castle Unlocked. There are three workshops throughout the day: sessions 1 and 2 are for 5-7 year olds and session 3 is for 7-11 year olds. Visit our website now to book your places.

Tickets are £7 for 1 child + 1 adult: additional tickets are £7 each.

SNOWFLAKES SPECIAL Saturday 31st January 2015 10.30 12.00 and 14:00 Everybody is different in their own wonderful way, and so are snowflakes.

But how do snowflakes form and why is each one unique? Join us for a winter workshop where you can pick your favourite frozen shapes and design and grow your very own snowflake to take home.

WONDERSTUFF - THE MAGIC OF MODERN MATERIALS 24th April 2015, 5pm Oxford Playhouse, 11-12 Beaumont St, Oxford, OX1 2LW Join scientists and broadcasters Mark Miodownik and Andrea Sella as they explore the scientific wonders of the everyday ‘stuff’ we take for granted. From cardboard to plastic; concrete to the new age of graphene, aerogels and …chocolate. A fizzing, popping explosive show for all the family.

Tickets £7; £5 concessions.

Suitable for 8+ Book via the Playhouse website at www.oxfordplayhouse.com/theatre/3309/ Wonderstuff/Friday-24-April/Main-Stage

ROOTS & SHOOTS Saturday, 28th February 2015 10:30 12:00 and 14:00 Spring is on the way and leaf shoots are appearing on our trees. But how do they know when to grow and what makes them grow? Where do plants get their energy from? Do they eat the same foods as we do?

Discover the different shapes and sizes of leaves with leaf printing.

LIGHT FANTASTIC!

MAGIC MAGNETS- A SATURDAY SCIENCE CLUB SPECIAL EVENT!

Saturday, 28th March 2015 10:30 12:00 and 14:00 Join us for a ‘spectrum of de-lights’ workshop on light. Why do we need light to see the world around us? Find out as we build our very own pinhole camera and make light bend using our own kaleidoscopes. Light travels faster than anything in the universe so can you calculate the speed of light using chocolate buttons and a microwave?

25th April 2015, 10.30, 12.00 and 14.00 Key Learning Centre, Oxford Castle Unlocked, Oxford Castle Quarter, OX1 1AY See our Saturday Science Club page for more details.

THE CURIOXITY SHOW 2nd May 2015, time TBC check our website for updates.

Old Fire Station, 40 George St, Oxford OX1 2AQ To celebrate The Oxford Trust’s 30th anniversary, we present a whistle-stop tour of some of our family show highlights from the past 30 years. Featuring demos to delight and surprise, magic, super heroes, bubbles, game shows, flight and guest presenters plus plenty of audience participation, this show will intrigue and inspire you. A science show worth seeing!

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MAGIC MAGNETS Saturday, 25th April 2015 10:30 12:00 and 14:00 Do you have a magnetic personality?

What are magnets and how do we use them in our everyday lives? Why can magnets stick some objects and not to others? How can magnets be used to help us if we're lost in the forest?

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CREATIVE CONSTRUCTION: BUILD YOUR OWN FAIRGROUND RIDE

Thame Town Hall, Thame Oxon, OX9 3DP Celebrate the New Year by making your own fabulous fairground ride.

Using the popular ‘K’nex’ modelling toy, Science Oxford will turn you into a super-creative inventor. So whether you’re a complete novice or a K’nex expert, come along and make something new!

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11:00 -12:00AM 1:00 - 2:00 PM

Tickets £4, £15 for a group of up to 5.

Suitable for 7-12 years.

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AGE OF CHAMPIONS The AMEY Theatre, Abingdon School, Park Rd, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 1DE Could a healthy and active lifestyle as we grow older really help to prevent dementia, which now affects over 800,000 people in the UK? Age of Champions is an inspirational award-winning US documentary following five competitors who sprint, leap, and swim for gold at the National. Senior Olympics. For them, age is only a number! The documentary is followed by a talk from dementia expert Dr Claire Sexton on the science behind active ageing.

BUILD YOUR OWN PLANETARIUM Kennington Village Hall, Kennington Road, Oxford, OX1 5PG Be a star and create your very own planetarium that projects constellations onto the wall. Find shooting stars and get top tips for meteor spotting. We'll also have an experiment to help you find your own micrometeorites at home! Join Sarah Bearchell of ‘Sarah’s Adventures in Science’ for a cosmic half-term workshop.

Tickets £5, £16 for a group of four.

Suitable for 6+

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OUT OF THIS WORLD! Chipping Norton Theatre,2 Spring Street, Chipping Norton. OX7 5NL

How do we get into space? What's it like when we're up there? What lies beyond our solar system and our galaxy? And what do astronauts have to do to prepare for the trip?

11:00 - 12:00 PM Join Science Oxford for its new 2:00 3:00 PM extra-terrestrial family show that promises to be out of this world!

Tickets £8.50, Suitable for 8+ Book via: www.chippingnortontheatre.co.uk

Thanks to our partnership with Abingdon School, the tickets for this event are FREE. However booking via the Science Oxford website is required.

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FAMELAB UK - OXFORD HEATS

Famelab UK is back! Move over Brian Cox and Alice Roberts: step aside Dara O’Briain and Richard Dawkins.

Book your FREE tickets now to come and watch some of the newest, most-talented science performers in Oxford as they battle to reach the final of this UK-wide competition to find the new voices of science and engineering. Join the judges to decide which 3-minute performance gets your vote at this entertaining and lively evening of experimental exuberance!

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COMPUTING - TASTER DAYS 16/02/15 CREATIVE Old Town Hall, Faringdon, SN7 7HL

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7:30 - 9:00 PM Doors 7:00 PM

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Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke St, Oxford OX1 1BP Join Science Oxford Live and the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester as we help scientists to unlock the mystery behind why you know 8:00 - 11:00 PM all the lyrics to Bohemian Doors: 7:00 PM Rhapsody and yet struggle to recall the first line of Relight My Fire. #HookedOnMusic is an online science experiment that is helping researchers researchers to learn more about the brain’s response to music and memory. So how can your singing and dancing contribute to the research? Test your total addiction to bass and dance the night away at our silent discothèque.

Tickets £10.

Book via: www.modernartoxford.org.uk This event is for 18+. Bar open all

If you’re aged 11-16 and interested in designing and crafting your own computer-controlled model, come along to one of our Creative Computing taster days. Learn the basics of computer programming, channel your creative skills and get to grips with an Arduino microcontroller.

CREATIVE COMPUTING PROJECT DAY If you’ve completed the taster day, come and join our project day where you’ll work on your own creation and use buttons, lights and buzzers along with a variety of sensors to bring it to life!

Thanks to funding from the Royal Academy of Engineering, tickets are free for all workshops, but a returnable deposit is required to secure places. Book via the Science Oxford website.

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TOTAL ECLIPSE LIVE Oxford City Centre (check website for full details) Join Science Oxford Live and local astronomers to experience the solar eclipse coming our way on 20th March. Talk planets, moons and darkness with the experts and make your own solar shades. It's the last total solar eclipse visible in Europe until August 2026 so don't miss out.

FREE event.

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ATOM FESTIVAL Abingdon, Oxford

The ATOM Festival brings together many of the cutting-edge science and technology organisations in the region - and some of the sharpest minds - for an extravaganza of science entertainment and intrigue! Our family team will be at the outdoor hands-on festival all day so drop in for plenty of science fun.

FREE event.

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AGE OF CHAMPIONS The Theatre, 2 Spring Street, Chipping Norton. OX7 5N See 20th January event for details.

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THE SERIAL KILLER FORMULA

Cornerstone Arts Centre, 25 Station Rd, Didcot OX11 7NE Join biologist Steve Le Comber for an interactive evening of interrogation and intrigue as we explore how serial killers are tracked and caught using a formula that would make even Sherlock Holmes look elementary. The serial killer formula has been used to track the migration of mosquitos and the foraging of bats. As with many serial killers, both species choose victims near their homes. So will you be caught with the candlestick in the cellar?

You can run but you can’t hide…….

Tickets £8; £5 concessions.

Booking via: www.cornerstone-arts.org www.Sutiable for 14+

FAMELAB UK - OXFORD FINAL Glee Club 3-5 Hythe Bridge St, Oxford OX1 2EW The heats are over. Now come and watch our brilliant finalists battle it out to become the region’s top science performer. Who will go through to the UK-wide final? Join the judges to decide which 3-minute performance gets your vote at this entertaining and lively evening of experimental exuberance!

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SCIENCE IN OUR WORLD Bonn Square, Oxford, OX1 1LQ

Join our family team for some FREE event. great hands-on science at the launch event for the Oxfordshire Science Festival 2015.

There’ll be activities from some of the region’s top science and innovation organisations.

FREE event

WONDERSTUFF - THE MAGIC OF MODERN MATERIALS

Oxford Playhouse, 11-12 Beaumont St, Oxford OX1 2LW Join scientists and broadcasters Mark Miodownik and Andrea Sella as they explore the scientific wonders of the everyday ‘stuff’ we take for granted.

From cardboard to plastic; concrete to the new age of graphene, aerogels and …chocolate. A fizzing, popping explosive show for all the family.

Tickets £7; £5 concessions.

Sutiable for 8+ Book via the Playhouse website at www.oxfordplayhouse.com

Tickets are FREE but booking required via the Science Oxford website.

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THE CURIOXITY SHOW

Old Fire Station, 40 George St, Oxford OX1 2AQ

To celebrate The Oxford Trust’s 30th anniversary, we present a whistle-stop tour of some of our family show highlights from the past 30 years. Featuring demos to delight and surprise, magic, super heroes, bubbles, game shows, flight and guest presenters plus plenty of audience participation, this show will intrigue and inspire you. A science show worth seeing!

Ticket prices TBC Suitable for 7+

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Thanks to support from Healthwatch Oxfordshire, tickets for this event are FREE, but booking required via theatre website www.chippingnortontheatre.co.uk

7.00 - 8.30 PM

St Aldates Tavern, 108 St Aldate's, City Centre, Oxford OX1 1BU

Tickets for this event are FREE. However booking via the Science Oxford website is required.

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Oxfordshire Science Festival 2015

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