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Circus Brochure And here are some great programming and possible event ideas: TRAVELLING TRAVELLINGTRAVELLING EXHIBITIONEXHIBITION EXHIBITION The Craft of Clowning The Trapeze: Learning to Fly BOOKING SCHEDULE A Tumble or Two: The Trampoline: Body Control Introduction to Safe Acrobatics Circus Aerialist AVAILABILITY The Art of Balloon Twisting Circus Movies Please contact us to confirm Juggling Workshop (e.g. The Greatest Show on Earth) the rental period of your choice Shadow Puppetry Costume Contest UPCOMING VENUES Magic and Illusions ASIA TRADE CENTER, JAPAN Kids of all ages will be amazed, thrilled AUGUST 2016 and entertained as they discover the CIRCUS! Science under the Big Top is created and produced by PREVIOUS VENUES science behind Circus! the Ontario Science Centre. IMAGINATION STATION, OH October – December 2009 The Virginia Air & Space Center in Hampton, Virginia, experienced its best March in Come join the fun! history with an 80 percent increase in attendance over the previous year during the BISHOP MUSEUM, HI FEATURES exhibition of Circus: Science Under the Big Top! The exhibit provided wonderful February – April 2010 marketing opportunities with Ringling Brothers & Barnum Bailey Circus and unique • Includes 5,500 sq. ft. (510 m2) of ways to explore science while having fun. There was always a long line for the high- PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER, WA interactive exhibits et ready for CIRCUS! Science under the Big Top. It premiered at the wire and the opportunity to flip like an acrobat. Our visitors keep asking when the June – August 2010 Ontario Science Centre in June 2001 and began travelling in June 2002. exhibit will be at the Center again, so we are bringing it back in February 2006. • Flexible design to accommodate many NEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE, NY types of display areas Kim Hinson, Deputy Director Science has always had an important role in the circus – and now more than June – August 2011 Virginia Air & Space Center • Multi-station interactive exhibits ever the circus relies upon a balance of artistry and science to meet new Hampton, Virginia challenges and fulfill audience expectations. Just as science can satisfy our THE MANITOBA MUSEUM, MB • Includes education and programming need to understand, the circus meets our need to be amazed, thrilled and even October 2011 – April 2012 guidebook perplexed. • Bilingual English/French ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTRE, ON Visitors will learn the science behind the circus by performing, examining and June – August 2012 • Includes maintenance manual watching the art. They will also be invited to hold various circus acts up to scrutiny, investigating illusion versus WATERLOO REGIONAL MUSEUM, ON reality, pseudo science versus science. Visitors will February – April 2013 “live the science” through the magic of the circus. And, RENTAL likewise, finding and feeling the science will deepen THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE, PA INFORMATION the visitors’ appreciation and understanding of June – August 2014 the circus and its culture. So grab a bag of popcorn and host the REUBEN H. FLEET SCIENCE CENTER, CA • Includes an installation and take-down Ontario Science Centre’s CIRCUS! June – August 2015 crew from Ontario Science Centre at your Science Centre. • Installation and take-down each require For a complete list of previous venues a maximum of 10 working days or for more information, • Hosting staff of 4 to 6 recommended please visit our website or contact us directly. ontario science centre International Sales 770 Don Mills Road Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3C 1T3 Telephone: 416-696-3222 Email: [email protected] www.OntarioScienceCentre.ca APR 16 Fill your Science Center with the sights and sounds of FEATS OF STRENGTH Circus performer Mighty Atom amazed spectators by bend- ing metal with his hair! How much force can you exert with CIRCUS COSTUMES AND PLAY your hands in order to bend Role playing; dress up; make-believe – these CIRCUS LINGO a similar iron bar? Visitors are some of the ways that children learn, and Test your circus lingo quotient while exploring discover how our bodies can what better way to learn about the characters the rich tapestry of expressions exclusive to use leverage, compression of the circus than to become those characters. the world of the circus. So, you flatties, walk and tension to perform For children and adults, turn into a ringmaster, in the back door of the big top with your amazing feats of strength. a lion or balancing bear. A variety of costumes annie oakley and enjoy until the blow off. and activities help you become a circus performer. HUMAN CANNONBALL ANIMAL Being shot out of a cannon; is this an experi- SWORD SWALLOWER COMMUNICATION DIAVOLO SPECTACLE ence that any sane person really wants to Can someone really swallow a 22-inch sword? Animals communicate with Physical prowess, daring and creativity are key achieve? Visitors will use cannons designed Can you stomach finding out? Visitors will be each other through sound ingredients, but science is the ultimate to fire non-human projectiles to learn that, able to initiate and control the movement of a and motion. Have you ever determinant of survival. In this exhibit, visitors “flying isn’t the hard part; landing sword swallower and to activate a fluoroscopic listened to the sounds of an will learn that Math and Physics do matter, in the net is.” video to follow the path of the blade. animal and tried to figure out especially when performing certain stunts what it is saying? Amazing such as those of the cyclist Daredevil Diavolo. PARADE REMNANTS CLOWN ALLEY images and stories, and inter- If the visitor thinks that the circus is all To make you laugh, a clown can spend over esting sounds will help you BALLYHOO SILHOUETTE beauty and wonder, it is, except after the an hour preparing for a show, putting on understand a lot more Real or fake? Is it really happening or not? parade passes by and then someone has to makeup and choosing costumes. By entering A COLLECTION OF MULTI-STATION INTERACTIVE EXHIBITS about animals. This audio-visual exhibit introduces visitors deal with the leftovers. The leftovers can tell our clown alley, visitors will learn about to many archetypal circus performers. These quite a tale. They tell the story of what an laughter and its importance in our lives. acts will be delivered by a promoter in the animal just ate, how they are feeling, and just They will also see some of the tools of the characteristic, hyperbolic, “ballyhoo” style – how well their digestive system works. trade and will be able to try some of those ELASTIC ACROBATICS BALANCE BAR CIRCUS MUSIC designed to rouse spectators and raise tools out in the costume and role-play area. Some of the most amazing performances in a circus How good is your balance? The circus (traditional and nouveau) is expectations. Visitors will then have the SIDESHOW occur overhead. Visitors will gain a better understand- Can you improve it? How does your body filled with a symphony of sounds. Some opportunity to examine whether the The Sideshow played a significant JUGGLING ing of what it feels like by performing their own tricks make those constant adjustments? of the sounds of the “big top” are as circus performer stands up to their role as an early science museum. Science and math can be found even in the while hanging in mid-air. Hanging onto a bar is easy, Visitors are challenged to maintain memorable as the smell of popcorn. own scrutiny. A separate most unexpected places – a juggling act. but is it as easy when letting go means falling to the their balance, not allowing their feet Visitors create their own sounds to ac- tent strung with Visitors will be able to juggle using various ground? They’ll appreciate the safety harness that is to strike the ground. Repeat the test company circus performers, helping them CIRCUS SMELLS colourful posters props after learning how to decipher the strapped around them. with a pole similar to those used by to recognize music’s effect on our brain, Even though the sense of smell seems featuring Side- complex patterns and sequences involved. high wire performers. the seat of emotions and memory, and less important to us than it is to other show acts invites our body. species, aromas from the past can CONTORTIONIST visitors to explore evoke nostalgia in anyone. There is a the history, Can a person really fold themselves physiological reason. Visitors are mystery, illusion THE HIGH WIRE into a small box? Explore the art of challenged to guess what they and reality of How good is your packanatomicalization (i.e. getting into smell and discover that the human Sideshow balancing act? Visitors small spaces). Discover how muscles, nose can differentiate among performers and will strap themselves into ligaments and tendons keep our 10,000 different odours – their talents. a harness and see if they skeletons from collapsing in a heap, sweet and foul. can make it across a while not holding them together too nine-foot-high cable. tightly to prevent us from moving. FLEA CIRCUS Focus, concentration – With stretching, we can help retrain Watch the circus action under a miniature a few tricks of the trade, the muscle reflex, so that muscles Big Top – then peer into mini viewfinders are the keys to navigating can be extended beyond a previous to see real fleas “performing”. Are they this thrilling experience. set threshold. or aren’t they really doing these stunts? Fill your Science Center with the sights and sounds of FEATS OF STRENGTH Circus performer Mighty Atom amazed spectators by bend- ing metal with his hair! How much force can you exert with CIRCUS COSTUMES AND PLAY your hands in order to bend Role playing; dress up; make-believe – these CIRCUS LINGO a similar iron bar? Visitors are some of the ways that children learn, and Test your circus lingo quotient while exploring discover how our bodies can what better way to learn about the characters the rich tapestry of expressions exclusive to use leverage, compression of the circus than to become those characters.
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