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For decades, people have been streamed into either the arts or sciences, yet it is WHAT IS precisely at their intersection where ingenuity lives. Beakerhead is an annual program that brings together the arts, sciences, and engineering sectors to build, engage, compete, and exhibit interactive works of art, BEAKERHEAD? engineered creativity and entertainment. Why? Because creativity is crucial. When you throw open the doors to science and engineering through a welcoming world of art and entertainment, a lot can happen. Bridges are built. People learn from each other. New ideas are sparked. Communities thrive. Could this be how healthy economies are built, ones that are good for all people and the environment?

WHERE DOES IT HAPPEN? HOW TO BUY TICKETS Beakerhead takes place indoors • Most installation sites are free. and out, and involves venues and Explore with abandon! public spaces throughout the city. • Register and buy tickets online for See page 6 for a map! workshops, shows and Beakernight at Beakerhead.com. WHO CAN TAKE PART? Everyone! HOTEL PACKAGES Take in free and ticketed events with Beakerhead a hotel package. Visit Beakerhead.com @Beakerhead for details. @Beakerhead ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Beakerhead takes place on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot and the people of the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta. The City of Calgary is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III. Beakerhead is committed to the reconciliation of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples and looks to the future with hope. While we’ve got your attention, here’s something that’s good to learn – how to pronounce the names of the Treaty 7 First Nations. Siksika (sik-sik-ah), the Piikuni (bee-goo’-nee), the Kainai (guy’-n), the Tsuutina (tsoo’-tsee-nah), and the Stoney Nakoda (na-koh’-dah). POWERED BY VOLUNTEERS Beakerhead is powered by a crew of dedicated volunteers! If you’d love to be part of the behind-the-scenes magic that goes into making the five days fabulous, please apply anytime Photo: Raymond Wong before September 13 online at www.Beakerhead.com. Cover Photo: Trevor Lalonde 02

HIGHLY SCIENCE AND ART ARE A-BUZZ ON THE STREETS – SOCIAL DAY AND NIGHT! SCIENCE

BEAKERNIGHT and SATURDAY East Village RiverWalk, SEPTEMBER 22, 6:00 – 11:00 PM 750 9 Ave SE

SCIENCE JUST GOT MAINSTREAM – AND SPECTACULAR! Photo: Michelle Hofer Don’t worry, the giant electric bolt you’ll see arcing across the night sky is perfectly safe. It’s Beakernight! Add fire, lasers, light and music and you’ve got the making of science’s biggest garden party with installations, hands-on experiences and stage performances spread out across Fort Calgary and the RiverWalk. Check out the drones and linger for a while with an inspirational cocktail in hand. Please, just watch your step – rumour has it that a UFO is on a collision course for Calgary. By the way, there is no dress code. Really. This is a time to show the true you – as wild and wacky or as simple and true as you feel in your inner core. Show up! Want some ideas? Check out the new Beakerhead digs at 1405 4 St SW, and get inspired. Tickets: $8 in advance online, $10 at the gate, ages 14 and under free. Beakernight has an official afterparty! Check out British electronic music production duo Delta Heavy at the Palace Theatre, 219 - 8 Ave SW, 11 pm to late!r

Sign up, get tickets and learn more at Beakerhead.com Photo: Johanna Hung 03 THE SHOWS OF A MATTER OF METTLE Photo: Clare Gibson WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, DOORS OPEN: 4:30 PM TALK: 5:30 PM SEVEN WONDERERS BEAKERHEAD EEEL Building, , 750 Campus Drive NW THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 7:30 – 9:00 PM Studio Bell, home of the National Music MEET THE PERSON BEHIND ONE LUNCH WITHOUT LIGHT Centre, 850 4 Street SE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT SCIENTIFIC WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY BEHIND THE FRONTLINES OF Dark Table, 731 6 Avenue SW HUMAN INGENUITY Jocelyn Bell was a young physicist when A SERVING OF SCIENCE, EXTRA RARE! she noticed “a bit of scruff” in the data Some say science holds the greatest gathered from deep space by a radio adventure stories on earth – in the hands Dark Table is a restaurant in Calgary telescope. It was pretty subtle but oddly of the right storytellers. This evening of where you dine in the dark. In this special regular. She kept digging, and the rest sparkling storytelling will take you to the Beakerhead seating, the serving staff are is history. She famously discovered the front lines of human ingenuity – seven joined by science writer and broadcaster pulsar, described as “one of the most stories with music to match – all brought Jay Ingram and Jadeep Bains from the significant scientific achievements of the to life by famous and not-yet-famous Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University th 20 century.” Join Jocelyn Bell Burnell, scientists, artists and brilliant minds. This of Calgary. Not only will you be guided by one of the world’s outstanding physicists Beakerhead original sells out every year, so servers living with vision loss, you’ll have in conversation. get your tickets early. And this year, there’s a most amazing lunchtime experience Tickets: Free. Register at a twist in the mix of the storytellers. You’ll about how your senses are intertwined. go.ucalgary.ca/Beakerhead have to hear them to figure it out! Pass the neuroscience! Tickets: $44.99 Tickets: $59.99 FOUR TO SIX ON FOURTH WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY 23 to 26 Ave SW on 4 ST SEPTEMBER 19 – 21, 4:00 – 6:00 PM

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Holy welding torch, Batman! Beakerhead is bonding with Maker Faire Calgary and things are about to get even more eclectic! Blocks of open–air experimentation in a family friendly and yet somehow also cocktail hour environment. Stretch your legs in the human–sized hamster wheel, roll up your pant-legs to walk on a non- Newtonian fluid (aka cornstarch), and explore a cacophony of artists and performers – both human and machine. Bring your co-workers or family to this daily new take on rush hour and experience what happens when the street becomes a laboratory. Tickets: Free Photo: Jackie Ho 04 THE INTUITION PROJECT WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY: 8:00 – 9:30 PM SPECIAL SATURDAY LATE NIGHT: 11:59 PM – 1:30 AM Location: West Village Theatre, 2007 10 Avenue SW DINNER WITH DRONES PRESENTED BY GHOST RIVER THEATRE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 7:00 – 9:00 PM Are you a Believer or a Skeptic when Location will be a surprise! it comes to the power of intuition? AN INTERNATIONAL FIRST Ouija boards, extra-sensory perception, confirmation bias? The Intuition Project Bundle up for an international first . . . Dinner with Drones! This outdoor allows you, the audience, to observe, experience will sweep you up in a story that unfolds before your eyes in the participate, and analyze the evidence night sky. You’ll check in right next to a hive of drones. Please stay in your for yourselves. This hands on immersive groups as you get cozy in soft seating. The drones are cooperative, but they experiment into our most elusive and can get rambunctious. Julie van Rosendaal will welcome you with a beautiful mysterious sense is the newest picnic dinner prepared for your group. This Beakerhead original is powered by installment of Ghost River Theatre’s the Great Lakes Drone Company. Six Senses Series. Tickets: General $30.00, Artists $25.00, Tickets: $2500, for a group of eight, with a $1000 tax receipt. Thank you for Students/Seniors $20.00 available at supporting the charitable work of Beakerhead Creative Society! theintuitionproject.brownpapertickets.com

Photo: BEAKEREATS Kenneth Fung WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 13 - 23 SCIENCE OF DELICIOUSNESS

Dining is a whole new experience when chef and bartender become scientist! Each year, creative Calgary chefs, mixologists and brewmasters experiment with a new theme. This year, the theme ingredient is canola! There’s a lot of science in its history, and a lot of magic in its chemistry! Deep fried Beakerhead, coming up! Participating restaurants include:

SHOKUNIN 2016 4 St SW HOME & AWAY 1331 17 Ave SW BRASSERIE 1131 Kensington KENSINGTON Road NW DEANE HOUSE 806 9 Ave SE OXBOW 1126 Memorial Drive NW RIVER CAFE 25 Prince’s Island BURGER 320 814 1 Ave NE 126 10 St NW YELLOW 119 12 Ave SW AVEC 105, 550 11 Ave SW 1314 9 Ave SE DOOR BISTRO 05 EXPLORE A SERIES OF NEIGHBOURHOOD INSTALLATIONS THAT ARE WILD AND FREE! VISIT ALL 12 OR YOU CAN SIMPLY BEACONS PICK SOME FAVOURITES AND SPEND A BEACON FEW HOURS WITH A SMILE ON YOUR FACE. OPERATING WEDNESDAY - SUNDAY, SCHEDULE SEPTEMBER 19 - 23 SAY AWE! ALL DAY. EVERY DAY. All of the Beacons are installed from (UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED) September 19 – 23. Some have operating 1 DUNG BEETLE hours if there is a hands-on element. Location: SAIT corner of 16 Ave and Guided tours are available. Register at 10 St NW 1 16TH AVE NW Beakerhead.com. EVERYDAY ENTOMOLOGY

4 11 Check Respect! A dung beetle is not only the Beakerhead.com world’s strongest insect, it’s also the strongest animal on the planet compared to its body weight. This massive insect made of recycled material is the creation MEMORIAL DR NW of artist Max Streicher, originally from Alberta and now living in Toronto.

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06 3 LEDANCE Location: Kensington Crescent NW

CREATIVITY LOVES CONSTRAINT

Join in an impromptu swing dance party beneath figures animated by your movement! The LED-wrapped dancers come to life when music – chosen by you! – is broadcast over the loudspeakers This interactive sculpture is inspired by the genre of music called “electro- swing” and created by Ben Moon in an alley in Kensington. 5 PULSE AND BLOOM SEXTANT TESLA COIL 4 Hours: Wednesday – Friday: Hours: Wednesday – Friday: 3:00 – 9:00 pm DREAMS NEVER DIE 3:00 – 9:00 pm Saturday: 10:00 am – 11:00 pm Location: Check Beakerhead.com Saturday: 10:00 am – 11:00 pm Sunday: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm Sunday: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm Location: Fort Calgary, 750 9 Avenue SE LOOK UP, WAY UP Location: Fort Calgary, 750 9 Avenue SE A MASSIVE BOLT OF INSPIRATION You see them all the time — old houses ART WITH HEART (AND SOME in the middle of a developed urban area. AMAZING TECHNOLOGY) What may surprise you most about this A famous animated movie called Up was installation, where a heart-stopping Place your hand on the sensor of a based on a true story like this. In this 18-foot spark jumps across two 32- 12-foot lotus, and you will see your version, some of Calgary’s dreams comes foot towers – is that this artwork is heartbeat pulse in the lights of the giant to life with this delightful nod to a well interactive! No, you can’t get near stem and flower. Now, add a friend. told story, created by entrepreneurial that jolt of electricity, but you can play You will see both heartbeats light up artist Maria Galura with support from the keyboards that ignite the action. with different rates. Here’s the social Williams Engineering. This “work of awe” is created by a art part. The heartbeats start to beat in collaborative from California, dedicated sync. Up to 20 people can participate at to sharing large works of science, once. Fireflies got nothing on this! This engineering and art. artwork is made by a team of architects, technologists, entrepreneurs and artists from around the world including lead artist Shilo Shiv Suleman, architect and technology entrepreneur Saba Ghole, neurotechnologist Rohan Dixit, artist Heather Stewart, Growerbot cofounder Luke Iseman, and NewsBlur founder Samuel Clay.

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Syncopation is rhythm in which the emphasis is not on beats that are normally emphasized. In Skybridge Syncopation wave forms overlap and the physics of sound is rendered visible. This interactive installation invites you to break from your normal routine in the city on one of Calgary’s classic 8 9 +15 walkways. Check out the rippling HIDDEN TERRITORIES ZORBATHON luminous composition that resonates WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY FRIDAY – SUNDAY as a result of your movement. This urban intervention is a cross-Canada SEPTEMBER 19 – 23 SEPTEMBER 21 – 23 collaboration with artists, architects and Hours: 9:00 am – 11:00 pm Hours: Friday: 3:00 – 7:00 pm engineers from Calgary and Montreal, Four locations: Saturday and Sunday: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm including CS Design, the marc boutin Outside Cannibale, 813 1 Avenue NE Location: Alexandria Park, architectural collaborative, Irregular, Inside Calgary Telus Convention Centre, near 2681 Hochwald Court SW EGP Group and SMP Engineering. 120 9 Avenue SE CURRIE CARNIVAL OF CRAZY HUMAN Starbucks, 3531 Garrison Gate SW BOUNCY BALLS Vin Room, 2310 4 Street SW You’ve seen them and they look like TINY ANIMATED WORLDS TO DISCOVER a riot. Now is your chance to get in one. Come to Alexandria Park in the On the outside, it looks like a normal community of Currie to cavort with recycling bin. But if you happen to friends and family in an oversized discover a miniature portal, you’ll be able playground of spectacular fun. It’s a to peek into a tiny, busy, hidden world. zorbathon! Rolling races to bump-a-thons Now that’s a head scratcher that will to obstacle courses. Grab your pals and make you smile. Go find them. And that’s strollers and head to the hub of it. You’ll all there is to be said about the beautiful work up an appetite so bring a picnic mysteries of scale and imagination blanket. Food trucks on site. Have a brought to you by Calgary-based digital delightful day! and fine artist John Moretti.

08 12 GARDEN PARTY Hours: Wednesday – Friday: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Saturday: 10:00 am – 11:00 pm Sunday: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm Location: Fort Calgary, 750 9 Avenue SE

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This five-day destination will bloom with ideas and hands-on experiences that you can make, touch, smell and 10 enjoy. All of your senses, and your TREETER TOTTER 11 WITHIN MEASURE conscience, will be happy! From little living walls to garden-inspired yoga, Location: C-Square, Hours: 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm here’s your chance to get green – and 520 7 Ave SE, Calgary Location: Check Beakerhead.com creative – with Green T Design (P.S. The founder is one of the first accredited UPS AND DOWNS OF PURE HAPPINESS YES, YOU CAN GET IN SYNC WITH PHYSICS green roof professionals in Canada). A childhood playground favourite takes Planted bike racks on site, of course. on a giant new twist. The Treeter Never before has a visual artist been Totter is a whimsical urban escape that granted access to a synchrotron, which, explores nature in balance. It holds in case you don’t know, is a massive two deciduous trees – and you can hop physics tool (six stories high, 1,300 tons on too! Thanks to DIALOG and Stuart of concrete and steel, housing several Olson for tipping the scales toward this beamlines of electrons accelerated delightful conversation. to nearly the speed of light). This immersive video installation is created by Saskatoon-based artist Jean-Sébastien Gauthier in collaboration with biologist Brian F. Eames at the University of Saskatchewan, and facilities of the Canadian Light Source Synchrotron.

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OPENING DOORS WITH TECHNOLOGY NUTS & 6:00 – 8:00 pm THURSDAY 3553 31 Street NW Explore ways local women are leveraging SEPTEMBER 20 technology to support accessibility and inclusivity in their communities. Hear from a WHAT’S SO SPECIAL ABOUT A WEASEL’S HEAD BOLTS panel and be inspired by how technology plays 10:00 am – 6:30 pm an important role in everything from childcare, to supporting people with disabilities, and Immersion Studio (EL3345), Riddell Library, making tech engaging for girls (hint - it’s more Mount Royal University than just making it pink...). Bring your questions Come explore the Weaselhead Park through an and ambitions to this key networking event all-day immersive installation with 360-degree DAILY WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS with women making moves in tech. Presented visuals and VR headsets. At 5:30 pm meet BUILT BY COMMUNITY PARTNERS by Chic Geek and Calgary Technologies Inc. those studying the Weaselhead and the Tickets: $30, Students/Early Bird Tickets biological impacts of the Southwest Ring Road. Dive down the rabbit hole into these (to August 23), $20 Presented by Weaselhead Park Preservation workshops, events, and experiences Society and Mount Royal University Library, Riddell Library and Learning Centre. designed by community members and BUILD YOUR OWN ORGANIC FACIAL OIL Tickets: Free partner organizations like you! 6:30 – 8:30 pm 2207 4 Street SW, #130 STARTUP OPEN HOUSE (SOH) CALGARY The only thing more beautiful than exquisite 4:00 – 8:00 pm organic and ethically sourced luxury facial oil WEDNESDAY is making it yourself! In this guided workshop Location: Various. Visit startupopenhouse.com with Neal’s Yard Remedies, you’ll discover Step into the offices of Calgary’s most vibrant SEPTEMBER 19 what goes into making a product that is good companies and see for yourself what the for you and good for the planet. With the startup spirit is all about. Walk in. Yes, it’s CRYPTOCURRENCY CLINIC guidance of skincare experts, you’ll be able to that simple. For one evening, the doors are 6:00 – 7:30 pm adjust the ingredients to match your specific open. Learn about these companies and their skin type and leave with a custom vial of facial products, vibe and values. Connect. Whether 1145 Kensington Crescent NW, #5 oil – and a whole bunch of knowledge about you are looking for a job, a partnership, an If you are hurtingly hip and cool, then you the sometimes opaque and confusing skin investment opportunity or just a friendly chat! probably own some cryptocurrency and care labels! Tickets: Free. Register online. heaven forbid you are not still using that Tickets: $68.00 old horse, Bitcoin. That’s so last week. Take blockchain on the chin in this unpretentious HERE’S TO YOUR ROAST workshop that will demystify the new ANIMATION ATELIER One hour tours and tastings start at 6:00 pm, currency movement. Designed for both tech 6:30 – 9:30 pm 7:00 pm and 8:00 pm types and the just plain curious, the helpful 2011 10 Avenue SW 803 24 Avenue SE folks at Calgary’s own BitNational Inc will provide their two bits on how it works, Just a few strokes on paper, combined in just Have you ever wondered why some coffee tastes what to watch for and what not to miss. the right way, can produce a riveting piece sweet while another brew has a bite? In this of animation. Here’s your chance to learn sippy experience, you’ll learn how the roasting Tickets: $18.00 the basics of animation starting with pad process breaks down the acids in coffee and and paper, and discovering the emotion in otherwise affects the taste. Along the way, you’ll different marks. Then the fun begins. As a discover a connection between the roasting team, you’ll put your individual marks together process and your health (true). This coffee- to create a moving mosaic to be premiered at testing curiosity hour is brought to you by Rosso Beakernight! You’ll get hands-on guidance Coffee Roasters. Each tour includes a takeaway from the skilled members of Quickdraw packet of beans, and an evening buzz! Animation Society. The laws of science need Tickets: $25.00 not apply! Tickets: $18.00 10 HOW TO MAKE VEGAN CANOLA CARROT CAKE CHOCOLATSAURUS 6:00 – 8:00 pm 6:00 – 9:00 pm Cookbook Co. Cooks, 722 11 Avenue SW THE LABORATORY OF SPATIAL BEMUSEMENT Pranic Forest,#1, 1145 Kensington Crescent NW It’s hard to have a dinner party without 5:00 – 8:00 pm What if you could mix two things you love including a vegan dish or dessert. So why Herringer Kiss Gallery, 709A – 11 Ave SW best in the whole wide world – dinosaurs and not make it one of the tastiest things on the chocolate? Well, your dreams have just come The opening reception for this whimsical table? Enter: canola oil carrot cake topped with true. Not only that, you’ll have a unique gift production is a delightful mix of art and kinetic macadamia nut icing – all vegan of course! for someone special or a conversation piece for engineering. Artists Tia Halliday and Megan In this hands-on workshop, you’ll apply the your next dinner party – a dinosaur bone made Dyck will be in attendance. science of canola to making a treat you can of chocolate! Be careful when you start to rattle eat later that night! It’s a perfect recipe: Tickets: Free off the palaeontological details too, it might local products and a dash of science. Science just be too much goodness all at once. This is a provided by Alberta Canola. partnership with the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology and Kin+Pod chocolate. Tickets: $32.50 FRIDAY Tickets: $75.00 includes all materials and supplies (milk chocolate no dairy free options SCIENCE OF SWEAT SEPTEMBER 21 available, processed in a facility that contains 7:00 – 8:00 pm peanuts and tree nuts) VIVO for Healthier Generations, PHYSICS OF SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING 11950 Country Village Link NE 2:00 – 3:30 pm A TASTE OF THAT THING IN THE DESERT The science is in on the positive health Inglewood Aquatic Centre, 1527 17 Ave SE 6:00 – 11:00 pm benefits of vigorous physical activity. The All the pool’s a stage! And there’s a ton of 311 8th Street SW Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines suggest science in that pool too. A typical routine lasts we work up a sweat at least once a day. If This is a unique evening inspired by Black four minutes and swimmers can be underwater you can do this by having fun, all the better. Rock City. Alberta Burners will bring a taste for three of them. The arduous training and Join Dr. Tish Doyle-Baker along with VIVO of that temporary city and the context and crazy acrobatics will change your perception for Healthier Generations as we make your principles of Burning Man closer to home. of this graceful sport. Bring a bathing suit and temperature rise while getting the inside scoop Enjoy interactive art displays, workshops nose clip, because the Calgary Aquabelles are on the why, when and how much is important. for all ages, performances, and live DJs for about to take you behind the scenes – and that Remember to wear runners and clothes you dancing. Expressive dress and costumes are means underwater! can move in for this workout workshop! encouraged for this family friendly event with Tickets: $22.00 (participants must be able to interactivity for kids and grown- ups alike! Tickets: Free. Register online. submerge while holding their breath, swim two Free food and beverages as well as interactive lengths and tread water for 20 seconds) art and mutant vehicles. The event will climax HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED … with the burning of an eight-foot tall wooden AN EVENING WITH JOE SCHWARCZ WRITING ABOUT AWE effigy around 9:00 pm. 7:00 – 8:00 pm 1:00 – 3:00 pm Tickets: Free. Family friendly. Ross Glen Hall, Mount Royal University, Treehouse cSPACE King Edward, 4825 Mount Royal Gate SW 1721 29th Avenue SW INTUITIVE GEOMETRY Why are red M&Ms so rare? What is the link Easier done than said when it comes to awe. 6:30 – 8:00 pm between the smelly bombardier beetle and How do you get across the feeling of actual Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, 111 12 Avenue SE a long-range V2 rocket? Why are there holes awesomeness – powerful, reverential respect Let’s say you didn’t love math class when you in Swiss cheese? Have you ever considered mixed with fear or wonder? Join author Jessa were in school. What?! In this workshop you’ll why witches supposedly use broomsticks as a Gamble to find out how you can master this actually realize you do like math - and want method of transportation? Can chocolate really in your own writing. First commissioned by to warm up to it! Get ready to feel good about make you fall in love? After this presentation the TED organization, Jessa is bringing this numbers, fractions and equations through by popular science broadcaster Joe Schwarcz, workshop to Beakerhead! This interactive movement! That’s right, MOVEMENT! No you’ll wonder no more. Come early to enjoy session will include individual and group judgment, no tests, no pencils or calculators, a pop-up science carnival and hands-on work and some insights on the current state just freedom, curiosity and a cash bar on site. experiments between 5 and 7 pm. of awe research. Ain’t nothin’ to lose, except your fear of math.. Tickets: Free. Register online. Tickets: $55.00 Tickets: $15.00 11 metamorphic rock composed essentially of THE LOCKED LIBRARY talc. Since antiquity, it has been carved for 7:00 – 10:00 pm SATURDAY both decorations and utensils. In the area now Central Library, 616 Macleod Trail SE called Canada, it has been used for more than SEPTEMBER 22 7500 years. You can learn all about this history Prepare for an escape room science fiction and geology, while carving your own creation themed experience on a massive scale! to take home. This is a two-hour workshop led You’ll have three hours to puzzle through all MUSEUM OF MAKING TOURS by indigenous artist, Priscilla Taylor and hosted six storeys of the old Central Library, and win Tours starting at 10:00 am, 12:30 pm and by the Arctic Institute of North America. your escape. Proceeds support the Calgary 2:30 pm Tickets: $52.00 includes carving knife and a Public Library Foundation. Outside of Cochrane small block of soapstone Tickets: $40.00 or $100.00 with a $60.00 tax You may have heard whispers of a gem of a receipt at www.libraryafterdark.com museum tucked underground in the foothills CRASH COURSE ON CREATING ILLUSIONS outside Cochrane.FULL Be among the few to visit CAR RIDE TO COSMOS this machinery museum each year, but act fast 1:00 – 4:00 pm – tickets for this treasure of a tour are snapped Memorial Park Library, 1221 2 Street SW 7:30 – 10:30 pm up fast. Rothney Astrophysical Observatory, #200, If you are an artist who feels limited by your 198070 Hwy 22, Priddis current canvases, have you thought about using a three-dimensional object? In this Take a car ride out to the Rothney YOGA IN THE GARDEN hands-on introductory workshop, you’ll learn Astrophysical Observatory in search of the 11:00 am – 12:15 pm the ins and outs of projection mapping onto very very far, very very small, or very very Fort Calgary, 750 9 Avenue SE 3D objects. The experts at EMMEDIA will vast. In this hands on exploratory evening you Can you reach just a little farther to pull out take you through short demos of Qlab and will be dazzled with delightful sights with the that dandelion? Come stretch your muscles TouchDesigner. Who knows? This could set help of some high-powered telescopes and while being surrounded by smells, sounds you up to turn Building into a burrito. University of Calgary astronomers along with and sights of Garden Party, created by members of the Royal Astronomical Society of Tickets: Free. Register online. Green T Design. Canada. A near full moon will light the way to view Mars and Saturn! Tickets: Free. Register online. RAMZILLA: THE RAMSAY Tickets: $30.00 per car load MONSTERS CONVENTION CRIME TV HASN’T TAUGHT 1:00 – 3:00 pm SPECTRAL ILLUMINATIONS III YOU EVERYTHING Ramsay Rink, 2040 Ramsay Street SE 9:00 – 11:00 pm 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Welcome to the annual Ramsay Monsters Memorial Park Library, 1221 2 Street SW Youthlink Calgary Police Interpretive Centre, Convention, the BIGGEST monster get- 5151 47 Street NE Stroll around the beautiful, historic and – for together in East Calgary (our 10 billion year one night only – magically lit up Memorial Park So you think you’ve got what it takes to solve anniversary!). Whether you’re a tiny (but Library for some mesmerizing projection art. a crime? This lab puts you in the shoes of a awesome) demon lobster or a giant lovable Inspired by the building’s past, artists explore real-life expert at Calgary Police Services faced robo-lizard (who just wants to hug the city its historical figments through light with the with the task of solving multiple true crime with your feet), we’ve got everything you need support of EMMEDIA, a media art centre in cases. It’s your job to find the clues, read the to become your best monster self. So dress up Calgary. Get your glow on! blood stains, analyze with science and catch like a monster and get your stomp on!!! the bad guys (if you can). Let’s see what you Tickets: Free Tickets: Free got, Rookie... we guarantee that TV hasn’t taught you everything. MOVE OVER, JURASSIC PARK Tickets: $35.00 1:00 – 4:30 pm 145 and 147, EEEL Building, SOAPSTONE AND SCIENCE University of Calgary, 3115 32 Avenue NW 1:00 – 3:00 pm Jurassic Park brought dinosaurs back to life Aboriginal Friendship Centre of Calgary, Photo: Mike Cheong by extracting DNA from a mosquito trapped 427 51 Avenue SE, #101 in amber, but is this really possible? You will Named for its greasy feel, soapstone is a spend the afternoon with a paleontologist, 12 Annie Quinney, searching for fossils in amber the best conversation starter you could ever provided by the Royal Saskatchewan Museum. ASTRONOMICAL AFTERNOON ADVENTURE pull from your backpack, not to mention an Then, work with artist Jennifer Park to mark 12:00 – 4:00 pm essential device (makes for a pretty cool gift your own Jurassic Park movie prop. Bring a Start at the centre of the universe AKA too). Can you think of a better way to energize small memento (a child’s tooth or a loved one’s Sextant Tesla Coil at Fort Calgary, your Sunday afternoon? hair?) to fossilize for the next 150 million years! 750 – 9 Avenue SE Tickets: $75.00 Tickets: $75.00 Travel through the solar system spread out between the Bow and Elbow rivers. This ECRU EXTRACTION two kilometres long adventure is brought to HACK THE FLYER 1:00 – 3:00 pm 6:00 - 7:30 pm you by Scouts Canada. These clever youth have come up with ingenious experiences at 618 Confluence Way SE East Village RiverWalk, 618 Confluence Way SE every planetary stop to help you understand Wrap your hands around a hot cup of science Duct tape? Check. Leaf blower? Check. Pilot something about the planets. Temperature and spend an afternoon learning from the licence? Check. Welcome to the fast paced swings on Mercury? Ouch. Sand storms coffee specialists of Phil & Sebastian and world of red wagon racing. Hacked, that is. It’s on Mars? Yikes. A perfectly intergalactic chemist Josephine Tsang. The team will walk a new “sport” that puts on display the creative afternoon outing! you through the extraction process and how wit and engineering moxie of misfit teams Tickets: Free different processing can affect the chemistry who’ve Frankensteined the iconic red Radio of the coffee we consume. What’s that in your Flyer wagon. Watch the checker flag fly in this water? early Beakernight competition. BICYCLE REPAIR IN THE GARDEN Tickets: $45.00 Tickets: Free 12:00 – 4:00 pm Fort Calgary, 150 – 9 Ave SW AI AT THE MOVIES Bring your bike down to Garden Party and join A TIME TO SHINE 11:00 am - 2:00 pm 6:00 – 11:00 pm the folks at Two-Wheel View to fine tune your ride. Planted bike racks on site, of course. Eau Claire Cineplex, 2 floor, Beakernight, Fort Calgary, 750 9 Ave SE 200 Barclay Parade SW Tickets: Free Create your own fascinator for your You’ll be at the edge of your seat, and the Beakernight outfit at this fascinator-ing future, when Beakerhead and Calgary Film workshop. Paper posies combine with LEDs SMALL THINGS, BIG PAINTINGS unite for this special presentation of a film to light up your night! Brought to you by 1:00 – 4:00 pm festival favourite, Alpha Go! This award- MindFuel, powering up STEM education. McHugh House, 1515 Centre Street S winning film tells the story a legendary Tickets: Included with Beakernight admission Go master who took on an unproven AI So you want to learn to paint, and it challenger. It follows a journey from the seems daunting? Well help is here, with a halls of Oxford, through the backstreets of workshop that gets you to start small – as in Bordeaux, past the coding terminals of Google microbiologically small. The session starts with DeepMind in London, and ultimately to a tense SUNDAY a glimpse into a world of an ecologist, Emil seven-day tournament in Seoul. Calgary’s Ruff, who studies the world of microorganisms. own Autonomous Electric Motorsport will be SEPTEMBER 23 Then a master painter, Doro Buch, will help revving their engines on site to show you how you paint a science scene (which happens self-learning machines can be clever. More WANDER AND WONDER also to be beautiful). You will leave with a clever than you. wonderful new skill, some fascinating science 10:30 am – 12:00 pm and a painting to boot! Tickets: Free Meet at the parking lot located at 6634 37 Street SE Tickets: $65.00 When technology and nature collide, great things happen. In this citizen science stroll BUILD YOUR OWN CELL PHONE CHARGER you will join forces with the scientists of the 1:00 – 4:00 pm Weaselhead / Glenmore Park Preservation 1121 14 Avenue SW Society to add to the iNaturalist database the wildlife you encounter. Almost every form of energy we use originates as energy from the sun. In this DIY workshop Tickets: Free. Register online. by Light Up the World, you will build and take home a cell phone charger. This is possibly Photo: Vera Neverkevich 13 GALLERIES OF THE LABORATORY OF SPATIAL BEMUSEMENT VISIT SEPTEMBER 8 – 29 ENGINEERED ART Herringer Kiss Gallery, 709A – 11 Ave SW BEAKERMARKET Artists Tia Halliday and Megan Wear your ingenuity! The Dyck bring this exhibition to life in a collaboration to create a series Beakerhead store is ready of moveable kinetic sculptures and to make your dreams come true expressive dance. when it comes to finding a gift TAYLOR FAMILY DIGITAL LIBRARY for someone unique (ahem, like SEPTEMBER 19 AND 20 yourself). Visit the main store Check library.ucalgary.ca for times ÖDE any time of the year at 1405 and to register SEPTEMBER 19 – 23 4 St SW, or stop by the pop-ups 410 University Ct NW during Beakerhead! 9:00 am – 5:00 pm TALKS AND WORKSHOPS 1405 4 ST HOURS Two days of creative technology 4520 Crowchild Trail SW workshops! Roll up your sleeves and MONDAY – WEDNESDAY: 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM This artwork by Sarah Beck is inspired make yourself happy — mix your own THURSDAY – FRIDAY: 9:30 AM – 8:00 PM by the Ghost Army of the Second World song, tell stories with VR, make an SATURDAY: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM War. The Ghost Army was made up electronic greeting card, learn to sculpt, SUNDAY: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM of artists who designed and painted explore manage and anime – all with inflatable decoy tanks to fool Nazi troops. some of the top talent in the world! FORT CALGARY POP–UP HOURS This project also stems from the artists FRIDAY: 3:00 PM – 9:00 PM DEMONSTRATIONS research into Nazi tank training manuals. First watch, then do. Come to a demo These manuals used advertising style SATURDAY: 12:00 PM – 11:00 PM to get inspired – not to mention motifs to quickly train German soldiers SUNDAY: 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM entertained! Simulations, wearable tech, in the use of tanks. These manuals used 750 9 Avenue SE robot improv puppet theatre. Check the catchy and easy to recall rhymes as well schedule or just drop by. as drawn illustrations that reminded the artist of building instructions for furniture produced by companies like Ikea.

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