GRAVITY FIELDS FESTIVAL What’s on...

ThroughDrama... the week... Standing on the 16 Art, Literature... An Astronomer; His Friend 24 Shoulders of Giants: and their teacher

page A Story told with Gravity. 7+ page Two Grantham boys, Newton and Storer, and their teacher Giant Steps 8 Family Mass Boomerang 18 Isaac Newton and the 9 Audio-promenade drama Age of Discovery Making Day Free 8+ Dambusters: Engineering 26 National Portrait Gallery exhibition the Bouncing Bomb Newton Jack Klaff 13 Belton House Touching and entertaining Rural Crafts Day 18 The science and maths behind the piece of solo theatre at Woolsthorpe Manor. Free 5+ Ladybird Science Books 11 bouncing bomb The Trials of Galileo 17 Material World 19 Exhibition of original artworks Show exploring the heresy Fast paced, fact packed show On the Newton Papertrail 15 Science, Astronomy... from the Science Museum. 11+ trials of Galileo The untold story of Newton’s Transformation of the Town 32 private papers. page Leo – Circle of Eleven 17 The High Energy Frontier 12 Hilarious show defying the Grantham Town Centre Finale. All Ages Grantham celebrities in 20 The Large Hadron Collider laws of gravity. 8+ 18th century poetry The Explosive Sun and 13 The Ethics of Progress 27 Music, Sound, Light... Local celebrities Newton and Cibber The Northern Lights Mind-melting, whistle-stop tour of Astronomy and Poetry 26 Quantum Physics. Unlimited Theatre page Poems with an astronomical The Alchemy of Brewing 15 Longplayer 11 or space theme Hanging Hooke 30 Sound installation at Planets, Stars, and 16 A tale of intrigue and betrayal. Woolsthorpe Manor. Free Music and Deep Time 31 Take the Space the Universe How art can illustrate scientifi c concepts White Light 12 Professor Martin Rees. 12+ Lightworks at St Wulfram’s Spire. Free In The Shadow of 21 Family Events... Factual, Historical... Opening concert 12 the Moon’ page Lincoln Pro-Musica and Documentary fi lm telling the page St Wulfram’s Chamber Choir. Free story of Apollo program. 12+ Stardome 8 Newton and Religion 19 Mobile planetarium. 6+ The Ethometric Museum 10 Exploring Newton’s religious beliefs Human Spacefl ight 23 Festival Opening 12 Theatrical music and sound Fantasy or Future presentation. Ray Lee On the Newton Papertrail 15 with Dallas Campbell. Free All ages. The untold story of Newton’s ‘Ten True Things 24 visualise:reloaded 13 Choral Evensong 21 private papers About Vision Hymns and music inspired by Mischievous physical theatre and The truth about our remarkable the planets. Free Isaac Newton; 20 live science demonstrations. 5+ An Outsider in the gift of sight Family Science Day 14 Organ Recital 25 Age of Curiosity On the Brilliant Colours of 25 Dr Tim Williams. St Wulfram’s. Free at the George Centre. Free 7+ Vice, virtue and mathematics Newton’s Peacock Feather Sounds of the Spheres 29 Whizz Bang Workshop 14 Isaac Newton; Lawyer 20 Ask the Astronomer 25 An exciting opportunity to join a fun Music of the Stars New evidence of Newton’s and Moongaze session of science experiments. Free 7+ The relationship of music to stellar sounds many disputes Never at Rest 29 The Bubble Show 14 Music, Numerology and Newton and the Longitude 22 Newton and his Revolutionary Discoveries Become a bubbleologist!. 3+ Astrology Recital 31 A discussion of the importance Music from Newton’s Time. Free of fi nding longitude at sea Newton’s Instruments 14 Let’s Particle 29 Lively panel discussion Demonstrations of 17th century Integrity and Accuracy 23 scientifi c apparatus. Free 10+ Isaac Newton’s legacy to the Royal Mint. Free Stones from the Sky 31 Voice on a Light Beam 15 Professor Colin Pillinger’s Workshop exploring the properties Royal Society Lecture of light. Free 10+

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2 GRAVITY FIELDS FESTIVAL Welcome to Gravity Fields...

Fascination with Sir Isaac Newton and his Where better to celebrate the life and work of achievements spans the world. Who would have thought Sir Isaac Newton than in and around the town of Grantham, that prime time television such as Bang Goes the Theory close to his birthplace and under the same skies of the and the Big Bang Theory would captivate millions in this county of Lincolnshire. Building on the vision established modern era? by South Kesteven District Council and many local partners, my challenge was to bring outstanding creative It is a pleasure to return to Grantham for a festival work and science of an international standard to the festival, dedicated to the life and career of Newton. He has been while offering events for everyone to enjoy. an inspiration – not only to me but to countless others – to follow his path of scientifi c discovery, and the festival There was a second challenge: to make sure that every cannot fail to inspire a new audience. event tells its own part of the Newton story. In November 2011 we invited leading artists, producers and scientists From my birthplace in Grantham to Trinity College in to the area to explore the Newtonian themes of vision and Cambridge I have followed one of the greatest scientists of optics, motion and gravity, planets and the universe, and all time. I was only the second person from Grantham to Newton’s heritage. Many of the ideas which came out of sign the fellows’ ‘big book’ at Trinity College. The fi rst was these days are now incorporated in the festival programme. Isaac Newton. I am now a community governor of his old school, the King’s School, and my offi ce in Geneva even In earlier times, along with contemporaries such as Sir overlooks the ‘Rue Newton’ Christopher Wren, Edmond Halley and Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton wrote, explored and experimented without At the European Organisation for Nuclear Research the modern barriers between science, arts, philosophy and (CERN) we continue to make discoveries about the most religion. His thinking encompassed them all. fundamental particles and forces of nature, including the infamous Higgs Boson, as well as striving to understand I hope festival-goers take inspiration from all our events, how gravity fi ts into the ‘big picture’. from the sound installation under the apple tree in Newton’s garden at Woolsthorpe to the exploration of I wish the Gravity Fields Festival the success it deserves, what lies beyond the stars. both in its inaugural year and in years to come. Rosemary Richards, Festival Director Professor Val Gibson I would like to add my personal thanks to Dr Emma Walker Professor of High Energy Physics, Val is the most senior woman scientist at and Tish Francis for all the encouragement and inspiration Trinity College, Cambridge and currently part of an international collaboration they have offered the Gravity Fields Festival. working on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider in CERN, Geneva.

3 GRAVITY FIELDS FESTIVAL With thanks...

The Gravity Fields Festival is produced by South Kesteven District Council with the support of a professional festival team. The festival could not have been produced without the work and support of councillors and staff at South Kesteven District Council and grateful thanks are expressed for the vision of everyone involved. And particular thanks to all those who have offi cially sponsored and supported the festival, and also to the many organisations and individuals who have given time, energy and space but are not listed here. Thanks to you all. Enjoy your festival.

Festival Director: Steering Group Rosemary Richards Grantham Business Club Creative Consultant: Grantham Civic Society Tish Francis Grantham College Lead Education Sponsor Creative Producers: Grantham Journal Cummins Generator Lincolnshire Arts, Chris Heighton Technologies Jeremy James King’s School Grantham Claudine King-Dabbs Additional Sponsors National Trust Community Workshops: and Supporters South Kesteven District Council Ameneh Enayat Angel and Royal Hotel St Wulfram’s Church Processions Design: BBC Shademakers Festival Arts and ChristChurch Finkin St Science Advisors Local Artists: De Montfort University Siân Ede The George Centre Laila Bhutta, Amy Balderston, Rebekah Higgitt Grantham Baptist Church Jayne Ballaam, Claire Daniels, Jon Linstrum Grantham Estates Nell Green, Meaghan Kerry, Anu Ojha Grantham Museum Carol Parker, Dee Sowden Jo Ross Harlaxton Manor Branding, print, web design: Debbie Syrop Kesteven and Grantham Fortiori Design Dr Emma Walker Girl’s School Social Media: The King’s School Grantham Paul Wilson Masonic Hall Grantham Web Updates: National Portrait Gallery Amy Wharton National Trust Event H&S Consultancy: The Priory Business Venue Cornix Events Ramada Grantham The Roseland Group Press and PR: St Wulfram’s Church Debbie Nicholls Viking Signs Walton Girls’ School With thanks to Caroline Sheppard Woodland Trust and Suzanne Lewthwaite for additional help.

4 GRAVITY FIELDS FESTIVAL Birth of a Festival

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5 GRAVITY FIELDS FESTIVAL Education is on festival curriculum Gravity Fields is delivering the most extraordinary science, art and history lessons ever.

he education programme, sponsored During the Festival Week for Schools: by Cummins Generator Technologies of KS2 and KS3: Science Museum shows and T Stamford, is curriculum gold-dust from the National Space Centre’s planetarium Key Stages 2 and 3 through to sixth form. along with an Apothecary Shop and an Alchemy Lab, offering the chance to create Around 25 schools, colleges and community the ‘philosophers’ stone’ (gold)! These link groups have been working to create their with a special visit to Woolsthorpe Manor. own amazing Newton-themed processions For KS3 and above: a guided audio tour, which will take place on Friday 28 September ‘Giant Steps’, follows in Newton’s footsteps. as part of the ‘Transformation of the Town’. There are also a number of free after Workshops are being led by local artists under school talks from some amazing speakers. the guidance of international processions And Cummins is hosting sixth form company Shademakers. Cummins has pupil groups to illustrate job opportunities contributed science background to some of in the working world of engineering these workshops. science and innovation. Email [email protected] for information.

Monday-Thursday Monday-Wednesday Monday-Thursday Monday-Thursday 9.30am, 12.30pm 9.30am, 11.15am, 1.45pm 10am 10.30am KS2 – Stardome KS2 – Science KS2 – Meeting KS3 – Giant Steps and Alchemy Museum, Newton and Guildhall Arts Centre Central Grantham Feel the Force The Apothecary £2 per child. 1 hr 30 mins £2 per child 2 hrs 30 mins Guildhall Theatre Woolsthorpe Manor/ A specially commissioned audio The Stardome: Visit the National £2 per child. 1 hour George Centre promenade drama tour follows in £2 per child. 3 hours the footsteps of Sir Isaac Newton, Space Centre’s planetarium, explore Feel the Force explores some of and discover the night sky and interweaving with stories of Newton’s most important work. Meeting Newton: Visit Newton’s Grantham past and present. the myths and legends of the Isaac Newton and Phil the Stunt birthplace. Meet him in person at constellations, and learn more about Frog join forces in this action-packed one of the most creative points in our universe and those beyond. extravaganza. Take a trip to the his life and explore his experiments Thursday 27 Alchemy Lab: Visit the illegal Leaning Tower of Pisa, Ancient with light as well as learning about 9.30am alchemist’s laboratory hidden away Greece, the Moon and the Highland his childhood at Woolsthorpe. Supercool in Grantham. Help the alchemist Games as we take a closer look at The Apothecary: Visit an Apothecary experiment and strive to create the the forces that shape our world. shop of Newton’s time. Learn what Guildhall Theatre ‘philosophers’ stone’. Learn about Apothecaries did and why, and help £2 per child. 1 hr 30 mins Newton’s passions for Alchemy even them make cures and lotions. though it was illegal while he lived. Be entertained by our apothecary Play with liquid nitrogen to explore Two simultaneous experiences at show by Dizzy O’Dare Presents…. heat and temperature! 9.30 (ends 12 noon) and two at 12.30 Two simultaneous experiences begin To book tickets for any of the (ends 3pm). Each experience can at 10am (end 1pm). Each experience educational programme events, accommodate one class group and accommodates one class group and call Grantham Guildhall Box Offi ce groups move location half way through groups move location half way through the on: 01476 406158. Please make the session. session. Bus transfer provided between the box offi ce aware if any students Woolsthorpe Manor and Grantham have access requirements. Apothecary. Schools must provide their If you have queries about the own transport to start and fi nish points. programme or would like advice on booking please call Clare on 07588 682608.

6 GRAVITY FIELDS FESTIVAL The Age of Scientifi c Discovery A National Portrait Gallery display at Belton House celebrates the scientifi c heroes of an extraordinary era.

ewtone ton would o ld haveha e surely s rel welcomed elcomed an exhibition of portraits in his N honour, so close to his birthplace. Shrugging off his early reclusiveness, Newton regularly commissioned portraits of himself in the latter part of his life. This National Portrait Gallery display, seventeen works specially transported from London, draws together oil paintings, miniatures and prints of some of the early scientifi c pioneers and founders of the Royal Society, including Sir Isaac Newton. They are all intellectuals and academics who developed a system of knowledge based on observation and experimentation – the founding of modern science. Never before has such an impressive art collection been seen in the locality, or one that so accurately refl ects the age through London, on 28 November 1660. Members art. The inaugural meeting of the Royal were united by a shared commitment to the Society took place in Gresham College, ‘new philosophy’ promoted by Sir Francis Bacon and their revolutionary open-minded approach to discovery laid the foundations of modern science. The exhibition is open with normal National Trust entry until the 4th November 2012. Further details on page 9.

Top Left: King Charles II (1660) by John Roettier 1631-1703 Above: Sir Isaac Newton (circa 1726) by Enoch Seeman 1694-1744 Left: Edmond Halley (1721 or before) by Richard Phillips 1681-1741 Right: Samuel Pepys (published 1690) after Sir Godfrey Kneller 1646-1723

All images copyright National Portrait Gallery, London 7 GRAVITY FIELDS FESTIVAL

Events through the festival...

• ARTS EVENT. 11+ • SCIENCE EVENT Giant Steps Stardome Specially commissioned for the From the National Space Centre Gravity Fields Festival Escape into a mobile planetarium that in partnership with BBC Lincolnshire, recreates the dark night sky with hundreds of BBC Outreach and the University of Lincoln brilliant points of light splashed across the Giant Steps is an audio promenade drama inside of the dome. The stars are projected tour, which follows in the footsteps of Sir into their positions for any time of the year Isaac Newton on a journey of his life that with interpretations from different civilisations. interweaves with stories of Grantham past The Stardome offers ticketed half-hour shows. and present. Writer: Craig Baxter. Director: St Wulfram’s Church Jeremy James. Tickets: £3. Duration: 30 mins Meet at Grantham Guildhall Dates/Times: Tickets: £8 (£5 concs) Sat 22: 10am/10.30am/12.15pm/12.45pm/ Duration: approx 1 hour 30 mins 2.15pm/2.45pm/3.45pm/ 4.15pm Dates/Times: Sun 23: 12pm/1.30pm/2pm/3pm/ Sat 22: 10am, 1pm, 4pm 3.30pm/4.15/4.45pm Sun 23: 10am, 1pm, 4pm Fri 28: 6.45pm/7.45pm/8.15pm/9pm Mon 24-Thu 27: 2.30pm and 5.30pm Fri 28: Live performances of extracts in the town centre between 7pm and 9.30pm. NewtonReflections: grew up under the Lincolnshire night skies in the mid-1600’s. His family lived at Woolsthorpe Manor, a few miles south of For more information Reflections: Grantham, and his time spent as a boy and young Newton came to Grantham to study at the King’s man sparked life-changing observations of stars, and to book tickets: School, lodging with William Clarke’s family at moons and comets in the heavens above. www.gravityfi elds.co.uk the apothecary on the High Street. A lifetime that spanned the Civil War, the Plague and the Great 01476 406158 Fire of London, was shaped by his personal clashes starting with a fi ght in the streets of Grantham. 8 GRAVITY FIELDS FESTIVAL

• ARTS EVENT • HERITAGE EVENT • SCIENCE EVENT Isaac Newton and Pages from the Past Can You Hear Black the Age of Scientifi c The Trigge Library Holes collide? Discovery An exhibition of books from the chained University of Glasgow National Portrait Gallery library of Francis Trigge (1598). See books exhibition stand that Newton might have thumbed through at Belton House in partnership A hands-on exhibition for anyone who has as a King’s School student, released from with the National Trust ever wondered about violent events in the the intriguing Tudor chained library in St cosmos. Come and explore the science Wulfram’s Church for rare public display. In the 17th century, intellectuals developed and technology behind the challenging Arranged by The Friends of St Wulfram’s, a system of knowledge based on observation new gravitational wave astronomy. with advice from the British Library. and experimentation. The display draws Gravitational waves, or “ripples” in space together portraits and miniatures of some St Wulfram’s Church and time, are produced by incidents like of these early scientifi c pioneers. During Tickets: FREE exploding stars, colliding black holes and Festival week 100 free tickets will be Fri 21 – Fri 28 September even the Big Bang itself. available daily. Book online or at box offi ce. Exhibition continues until Nov 4 but normal (excluding Sunday 23). 10am - 4pm The George Centre admission charges apply after Festival. Tickets: FREE Times: 10.30am - 4.30pm Belton House Reflections: Tickets: FREE but please reserve tickets. The display includes books on theology, history, cosmology, medicine and law, dating from the (Free tickets not available from Belton House) earliest days of printing (ie the late 15th century), Reflections: Festival week 21-28 September (except a new technology that would revolutionise the Newton’s theory of gravity has been incredibly Mon 24 and Tue 25): 12.30pm -4.30pm communication and dissemination of new ideas. successful, but is only an approximation. Einstein’s NT members free entry. general relativity describes gravity not as a force Exhibition not accessible for wheelchairs but as a curving of space and time; leading to predictions about the effects of strong gravity fi elds – including gravitational waves – differing dramatically from those of Newton’s gravity

NewtonReflections: became one of the leading fi gures of a group of scientists and philosophers including fi gures such as John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Edmond Halley and Samuel Pepys. 9 GRAVITY FIELDS FESTIVAL Events through the festival...

• ARTS EVENT. 11+ The George Centre The Ethometric Museum Tickets: £8 (£5 concs) Duration: 45 mins A theatrical sound presentation Dates/Times: by Ray Lee. Produced by OCM Sat 22: 1pm/2.30pm/5pm/6.30pm Sun 23: 12pm/1.30pm/3pm Listen carefully, it’s not going to be quite like Mon 24 - Thu 27: 1pm/5pm/6.30pm anything you will have heard (or seen) before. You are going to be taken into the Ethometric Fri 28: 3pm/5pm/7pm/8.30pm Museum, a gallery of amazing electrical curiosities. As the Museum doors are unlocked the ethometric mysteries are revealed! ‘Witty, strange and beautiful. Nothing else like it at Edfest.’ The Guardian

• HERITAGE EVENT. 7+ Apothecary Shop and Alchemy Laboratory

Newton lodged with the apothecary in Grantham High St while attending the King’s School. At Cambridge he experimented in secret with alchemy. Learn and laugh with these entertaining glimpses behind the scenes of 17th century science. Gravity Fields Festival has created an apothecary experience in a shop adjacent to Newton’s lodgings and you can fi nd a secret alchemy lab along Guildhall Street. Join the Dizzy O’Dare circus performers in the Apothecary, and Alchemist Jack Greene, as they mix potions and materials and offer entertaining insights into the early days of pharmacy and chemistry.

Apothecary Shop: The George Centre Alchemy Laboratory: Guildhall Street Tickets: FREE Public Opening Times: Sat: 11am - 1pm / 2pm - 4.30pm Monday -Thursday 2pm - 4.30pm Friday 7pm - 9.30pm

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• HERITAGE EVENT. 5+ Ladybird Science Paintings Exhibition

Now fi rmly established as design classics, Loughborough-based Ladybird books brought the wonders of the world to life for countless children, who revelled in the lavish illustrations. Their titles explored ARTS EVENT • scientifi c principles, inventions and Longplayer experiments – all vividly illustrated in a Jem Finer Sound Installation way which inspired future generations

of astronomers, inventors, explorers and © Ladybird Books Ltd MMXII Longplayer is a one thousand year-long naturalists. Ladybird Books never dedicated the only childhood passion that James shared musical composition which you can listen an entire volume to Isaac Newton, but the with his sisters was Ladybird books. As the TV to in the magical setting of the garden at legacy of his many discoveries is revealed programme’s producer, I traced the original Newton’s childhood home. and explored in many of their titles. Loughborough Ladybird books artwork to On Saturday 22nd at 10.30am the exhibition a vast archive store in Reading. James’ Under the Apple Tree at will be introduced with a talk by Stephanie interest, not surprisingly, lay with the boys’ Woolsthorpe Manor Barton, former Managing Director of Ladybird own stuff – aeroplanes and adventurers. One Tickets: Normal entry rates apply to Books, and Grantham resident. of his favourites was ‘The Story of Flight’. And Woolsthorpe Manor, although there are when James took the lid of the box, he actually free entry tickets for some festival events Grantham Museum gasped. There, in full technicolour glory, was the Times: During Woolsthorpe Manor’s Tickets: FREE. Times: 10am - 4pm original painting of Montgolfi er’s hot air balloon. normal opening times. He was a young boy again, delighting in the Ladybird art to detail, colour and wonder of the moment when re-awaken childhood he fi rst found out about the history of fl ight. inspiration Our exhibition of 40+ framed and unframed paintings centres around two particular How could producing a TV programme on the classics: ‘The Night Sky’ and ‘Exploring favourite toys of Top Gear presenter James Space’. What inspirations they proved to be MayMay and his sisters produce a new for generations. The natural progression from chchapter for the Ladybird books observing the night sky is surely exploring whichw inspired generations? And space and the ‘Exploring Space’ archive still leadlea to an exhibition of Ladybird captures the excitement of the age. artart ffor the Gravity Fields Festival ? What could be more thrilling for a child in the AsAs withwi all good stories, this has a late 60’s and early 70’s than the prospect of simplesimple beginning. We discovered that astronauts and cosmonauts? For countless young, enquiring minds this was dangerous, daring and empowering stuff. Science in the hands of children and with girls in the thick of scientifi c exploration. These were indeed special books; affordable (for many years half a crown ‘old money’), accessible, and the perfect size for small hands. Little wonder adults also found them irresistible. We hope our choice of artwork contains something to delight everyone – and perhaps reminds you of your very own Ladybird memory?

Claudine King-Dabbs

© Ladybird Books Ltd MMXII Creative Producer, Festival Science Events

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7pm • ARTS EVENT White Light Deadgood

St Wulfram’s Church Spire Tickets: FREE Duration: 7pm-10pm

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8.15pm • FAMILY EVENT. 5+ visualise:reloaded Science Made Simple Ltd Gareth Smith and Debbie Syrop Co-producers and performers www.sciencemadesimple.co.uk

Guildhall Theatre Tickets: £12 (£8 concessions) Duration: 1 hour 5 mins

A mischievous mix of physical theatre and live science demonstrations from an award- winning company with a passion for science, engineering and maths, and a smash hit show at the Edinburgh Festival. This event 7.30pm • ARTS EVENT 8pm • SCIENCE EVENT is hugely popular with children, but also Newton The Explosive Sun & suitable for adults... you don’t need to be Premiere the Northern Lights accompanied by a 7-year old to enjoy it! Produced by TFA Ltd in ‘...this defi es anyone, no matter what their age, Dr Pål Brekke association with Gravity Fields not to stare in wonder.’ The Scotsman Senior Advisor, Norwegian Space Centre Stamford Arts Centre Tickets: £12 (£8 concs) Guildhall Ballroom Duration: 1 hour plus after-show talk Tickets: £4. Duration: 1 hour and reception Ever seen the Northern Lights? Enjoy the TThishis ttouching,ouching, eentertainingntertaining ppieceiece ooff ssoloolo tthe-he- myths and modern science behind them in aatretre ooffersffers a rrounded,ounded, wwarts-and-allarts-and-all pportraitortrait a multimedia presentation which shows the ooff IIsaacsaac NNewton,ewton, hhisis ssuperhumanuperhuman sstrugglestruggles Sun as a stormy and variable star which iinn ppursuitursuit ooff nnewew ttruths,ruths, aandnd tthehe ssorceryorcery aandnd contributes much more than just light mmysticismysticism ttoo wwhichhich hhee aattendedttended ooutsideutside ooff and heat. The Sun is the source sscience.cience. TTalesales aandnd iideasdeas aaboutbout tthishis ttoweringowering of the beautiful Northern Lights ggeniusenius ccomeome tthickhick aandnd ffastast ffromrom aann aarrayrray ooff and can affect our technology- ccharactersharacters bbothoth ooldld aandnd vveryery mmodern.odern. SSetet based society in many ways. fi rrmlymly iinn GGranthamrantham aandnd iitsts ssurroundings,urroundings, KKlafflaff wweaveseaves tthishis wworkork aaroundround tthehe nnotionotion tthathat NNewtonewton wwasas aann iisolatedsolated fi gure.gure. ‘I’ve rarely laughed so hard, nor been so moved.’ Time Out on Jack Klaff Reflections Reflections Reflections ‘We derive from the celestial phenomena the Exploring – colour-mixing with light, polarised LLikeike EEinstein,instein, NNewtonewton hhadad aaboutbout hhimim a qqualityuality forces of gravity with which bodies turn to pictures, laser refraction and chromo- ooff ‘‘apartness’.apartness’. TThehe sstagetage fi lllsls wwithith ppeopleeople the sun and the several planets...by other stroboscopic effects. Did Newton’s research into sswirlingwirling aaroundround a ssolitaryolitary fi ggureure iinn wwhosehose mmindind propositions which are also mathematical, orbits and forces include swinging glasses full of wworld-changingorld-changing iideasdeas nneverever cceasedeased ttoo ccrowd.rowd. we deduce the motions of the planets, water, making vortices and smoke rings? the comets, the moon and the sea.’ ‘A Treatise of the System of the World’ 13 GRAVITY FIELDS FESTIVAL SATURDAY

10am-4pm • FAMILY EVENT. 7+ Family Science Day 22 The George Centre Tickets: FREE. Workshops, heritage and science activities in and around the George Centre. Visit the apothecary shop and the Alchemy Lab (p10 for details). A drop-in workshop shows you how to make telescopes. Book 10am-4.15pm • FAMILY EVENT. 6+ onto ‘Newton’s Instruments’ and ‘Voice Stardome on a Light Beam’ workshops (see listings). Mobile planetarium. See (p8) for information. Make your own carnival hat for the St. Wulfram’s. Tickets: £3 Transformation of the Town processions. Times: 10am/10.30am/12.15pm/12.45pm/ Learn more about the latest thinking on gravitational waves at an exhibition stand 2.15pm/2.45pm/3.45pm/4.15pm 11am ARTS EVENT from Glasgow University. Book tickets • for the weird and wonderful Ethometric Organ Recital Concert 10am • FAMILY EVENT. 11+ Giant Steps Museum. Come and enjoy! Dr Tim Williams St Wulfram’s Church Promenade drama tour. See (p8) for details. 11am FAMILY EVENT. 3-11 Tickets: FREE. Duration: 1 hour Meet Grantham Guildhall. Tickets: £8 (£5) • Times: 10am/1pm/4pm. The Bubble Show A concert exploring the relationship of gravity The Science Museum with music from a variety of composers and

FAMILY EVENT. 7+ eras. Music ranging from Bach to Reger, 10am-12.30pm • Guildhall Ballroom with explanations from organist Dr Tim Tickets: £8 (£5 concs) Duration: 1 hour Whizz Bang Workshop Williams, Director of Music at St. Wulfram’s. Kesteven and Grantham Girls School Be a Bubbleologist with the biggest bubbles Tickets: FREE but please reserve tickets you will ever see! Bubbles of all sizes, going Duration: 1 hour up, down, this and that way, with help from the Reflections... The organ at St Wulfram’s is one of the fi nest in audience! Discover the secret Science Museum An exciting opportunity to join a fun session Lincolnshire. The original organ dates back to 1736 bubble recipe and enter the human bubble. of science experiments. There will be bangs, but has been rebuilt a number of times. Some pipes pops and fi zzes to watch and a chance to take of the original organ by Gyfi ek still remain in use. part in activities including; making a pH rainbow Reflections... 12pm SCIENCE EVENT.10+ in a test tube; watching a jelly baby scream; and Newton’s curiosity was sparked by • seeing a Science teacher “set fi re” to their hand! refraction of light and the colour Newton’s Instruments Activities designed for children interested in spectrum and one section of Dr Jonathan Hare Science but also fun for adults. this show looks at refraction of white light through Workshop times: 10am & 11.15am. George Centre 25 places available for each workshop. a bubble into a rainbow. Tickets: FREE but please reserve tickets Duration: 1 hour Beautiful recreations of 17th century scientifi c apparatus are demonstrated by Dr Jonathan Hare. The original equipment was used by leading science lecturers of the day, such as Desaguliers, to help explain Newton’s revolutionary ideas to the general public.

Reflections... Even when fi rst written, Newton’s best known work, The Principia, was only understood by a few people. After it was published, wonderful equipment and apparatus was designed to demonstrate his experiments to the public. 14 GRAVITY FIELDS FESTIVAL SATURDAY

12.15pm • SCIENCE EVENT On the Newton Papertrail 22 Professor Rob Iliffe

The Angel and Royal Hotel Tickets: £4 Talk only. £9 with sandwich lunch. Duration: 1 hour 3pm • PARTICIPATION EVENT 3.30pm • SCIENCE EVENT.18+ The untold story of Newton’s private papers Unveiling Newton’s stretches over nearly three hundred years. The Alchemy What secrets do they contain and why has it Plaque of Brewing taken so long to uncover them? When Newton Venue: The George Centre Oldershaw Brewery died, he left many secrets in a trunk full of his Tickets: FREE Duration: 20 minutes private writings on theology, church history, Venue: The Angel and Royal Hotel alchemy and his work as Master of the Mint. Join the members of the Civic Society Tickets: FREE (numbered queue system This talk traces the long and meandering path inside the George Centre (High St en- at venue) Duration: 1 hour of Newton’s papers from the darkness of that trance) prior to unveiling the plaque. The A fascinating introduction to the art and trunk to the virtual light of day (today many of plaque will be unveiled at the site of the science of brewing. From enzyme activity, them are freely available online). apothecary shop where schoolboy Isaac Newton lodged when he attended the bittering units to fl occulating yeast, this King’s School, Grantham. whistle stop tour will give you an easy-to- 1pm ARTS EVENT.11+ • understand guide of how brewers turn The Ethometric Museum four very simple ingredients (water, malted barley, hops and yeast) into Sound installation. See (p7) for information. Reflections... Newton lodged with the apothecary William the wonderful drink that is beer. The George Centre Tickets: £8 (£5 concs) Clarke whose second wife, Katherine This will be followed by a tutored Times: 1pm/2.30pm/5pm/6.30pm Babington Storer, is believed to have been beer tasting introducing different Newton’s mother’s cousin. Katherine had styles of beer. Now that’s what been married before to Edward Storer, and 2pm PARTICIPATION EVENT.10+ • one of the children of her fi rst marriage, who we call practical science! Voice on a Light Beam lived with Newton in Grantham High St, Please note: the presentation is was Arthur Storer, and went on to become on the fi rst fl oor and not accessible Dr Jonathan Hare America’s fi rst modern astronomer. for wheelchairs, but tastings are available in the downstairs bar. Meet at the George Centre Tickets: FREE but please reserve tickets Duration: 1 hour Reflections The beer and the knowledge will be This workshop explores what light is, how it provided by local brewery, Oldershaws is made, how it appears in nature, light you (www.oldershawbrewery.com) who are can’t see... and much more. We will create also providing the Gravity Fields exciting experiments and, amazingly, send Festival beer, Newton’s Drop (a regular our voice on a beam of light! If weather is fi ne 4.1% ABV brew which is being given a special new look for the festival). the workshop participants may be leaving the Oldershaws beer will be available for premises so please book an accompanying purchase at the event. adult with children under 16. ` Reflections... This is a fascinating example of amplitude modulation of light using sound vibrations. Learn how modulated light is detected and demodulated in a receiver so that we can hear the sound. A wide range of physics and engineering experience can be learnt through these exciting ‘sunbeam’ experiments.

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5.30pm • FAMILY EVENT.7+ Standing on the 22 Shoulders of Giants A Story told with Gravity Dr Marty Jopson

7pm • HERITAGE EVENT.14+ Festival Banquet: Harlaxton Manor Menu devised by Annie Gray Harlaxton Manor Tickets: £45. Gala tickets: £400 for 10 Guildhall Ballroom Time: 7 – 10.30pm Tickets: £8 (£5 concs). Duration: 1 hour A wonderful opportunity to dine in 17th Join Marty as he delves into the story of how century style in the stunning surroundings Newton came up with his ideas on gravity. of Harlaxton Manor alongside festival From the Ancient Greeks through Newton’s speakers and scientists. Come dressed to genius, he brings the story bang up-to-date dine in modern or period style as you wish! with the hunt for the Higgs Boson. There will Enjoy the surroundings, atmosphere, food be bangs and silly machines and, almost and history. ‘The bigness of eggs, a skillet 4pm • SCIENCE EVENT.10+ certainly, a mess! Presenter on the BBC’s of water, a taste of Salamagundy, a Whipt Planets, Stars and One Show and Food Factory, Marty has been Syllabub...’ Food historian Annie Gray performing science shows for 20 years. advises on food for historic events and has the Universe created a delicious menu for this exciting Professor Martin Rees evening adapted for modern diners from Reflections recipes of the time. Guildhall Theatre ‘If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders Tickets: £4. Duration: 1 hour of Giants’ wrote Sir Isaac in 1676. At face value this is a reference to the great thinkers of previous This illustrated talk, by the Astronomer Royal generations such as Galileo and Copernicus, but and former President of the Royal Society, some say it might also be an insulting reference to Salamagundy Newton’s rival Hooke’s diminutive stature! Take the breast of turkies, fowls or chickens Professor Martin Rees, will describe the and minced then fi ne, some white veal, or cosmos revealed by modern astronomy – a both; boil 4 eggs hard, chop the whites by 6.30pm FAMILY EVENT 3-11 panorama of planets, stars and galaxies • themselves and the yolks by themselves, shred governed by physical laws that allowed these The Bubble Show some capers and an apple or two, and some systems to form, and enabled life to emerge lean ham or neat’s tongue [calf ’s tongue]; then Stamford Arts Centre here on Earth, and perhaps elsewhere. take a middle sized funnel and put a little of Become a Bubbleologist! See (p14). one sort of your minced things into it, fi rst stop the top with a cork, then put in a little of 7pm • SCIENCE EVENT another sort, and do continue until you have Reflections fi lled your funnel; press it tight down…turn Gravitation, and Newton’s Laws, are crucial in the visualise:reloaded out. Garnish with lettuce, sliced lemon, and cosmos, and refl ecting telescopes now have mirrors anchovies washed. Eat with oil and vinegar. many metres across – in contrast to Newton’s Grantham Guildhall Theatre pioneering telescope that fi tted on a table-top. Physical theatre and live science. See (p13) RECIPE, THACKER 1758 for more information. 16 GRAVITY FIELDS FESTIVAL SATURDAY

8.30pm • ARTS EVENT.8+ LEO Circle of Eleven 22 Walton Girls’ High School Tickets: £15 (£10 concs) Duration: 1 hour

Multi-award winning show, Edinburgh Fringe First winner. LEO is a surprising and witty one-man piece of Physical Theatre that defi es the laws of gravity. Thanks to a ground-breaking stage concept and ingenious video projections, LEO appears in fabulous scenes and heads off on a truly fantastic adventure! The show won three Food in Newton’s Time awards at the Edinburgh Festival 2011, Isaac Newton’s life (1642-1727) spans a and was invited to Broadway. Directed by brilliant period in English food. Persian- Montreal Actor/playwright Daniel Brière. infl uenced food of the medieval period ‘LEO soars!’ New York Post was declining; new ingredients from the ‘The funniest, most inventive performance New World were being accepted; and that I have ever seen. Fabulous!’ butter and cream were now widely used. Nytheatre.com Flavours were zingy and exciting, with exotic ‘...surprising, illusionary, fascinating’ ingredients very much to the fore. The rise Edinburgh Spotlight 8.30pm • ARTS EVENT.12+ of a commercial, urban class, interested in new scientifi c movements and encouraging The Trials of Galileo of intellectual and artistic pursuits, of which by Nic Young with Newton would be a member, laid the roots Tim Hardy as Galileo for the later development of English society. Hint of Lime Productions Dinner was no longer eaten in a great Guildhall Ballroom hall with ranks of servants spread out Tickets: £12 (£8 concs) Duration: 1 hour. below their masters. The dining room was introduced and fi ne dining became a mark How did Galileo become branded a heretic? of gentility. Cookbooks were published at This one-man show highlights the dramatic a rate never seen before, including, by the events surrounding Galileo’s heresy trial, 1670s, the fi rst female-authored cookbooks. and how he misjudged the thinking of Dinner was served in a precursor to the à la the time. Galileo’s tragedy was that he Française style – the meal consisted of two never understood his differences with the courses plus a sideboard and dessert. Church and that they were about politics not scientifi c fact. When he fi nally came to realise this, it was too late. ‘A tour-de-force from this fi ne actor!’ Starter: Salamagundy Fringe Review, Brighton First Course: Vegetable Soup Second Course: Chicken fricassée, potato pudding, butter’d caulifl ower and greens Reflections: Dessert: Whip’t Syllabub Galileo died in 1642, the year Newton was born. His work in physics and astronomy laid Tea and coffee with pastilles after meal foundations on which Newton would build. Other Beverages: Wine and water on table (apple juice served) Further drinks and additional wine available from bar but not included in meal cost.

Food Historian: Annie Gray

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10am • FAMILY EVENT. 11+ Giant Steps Promenade drama tour. See (p8) for details.ls. Meet Grantham Guildhall. Tickets: £88 (£5) Times: 10am/1pm/4pm. gyroscope to move on a circular path. Earliest known uses of boomerangs were 11am • FAMILY EVENT 5+ actually found in what is now Poland, about 10.30am • FAMILY EVENT 8+ Rural Crafts at twenty thousand years ago. Australia has, Family Boomerang however, become the spiritual home of the Woolsthorpe Manor Making Day boomerang, and Australian engineer Dr The National Trust Hugh Hunt from Cambridge University has Dr Hugh Hunt and students long been hailed as the guru of boomerangs; Woolsthorpe Manor University of Cambridge indoor, outdoor, curved or square. Tickets: FREE but please reserve tickets Grantham College Sports Hall Forget the popular lament ‘My boomerang A day of rural crafts – costumed guides, Tickets: FREE. Tickets can be reserved or won’t come back’. That would be as silly as demonstrations of ancient skills and a chance drop in and join a session if space available if Robin Hood’s deadly arrows came back, for visitors to try many crafts for themselves. Sessions: 10.30am/11.30pm/1.30pm/3.30pm says Dr Hunt. Boomerangs used for hunting Visit Newton’s Woolsthorpe birthplace, step were not meant to come back. They were back in time and discover the skills you’d The Aborigines have known about the fun you heavy, hockey-stick-shaped throwing sticks need to live on a 17th century farm. Try your can have with boomerangs for thousands of moving in a confusingly wobbly path and hand at wood-working techniques, spinning years, and we want to share that fun with designed to bring down any kangaroo or bird and weaving, felt-making and many other you today. Build your own boomerang in they hit. Today’s best indoor version is a traditional skills from times gone by. sessions through the day and join in a mass cross-shaped balsa-wood boomerang that Wheelchair access to lower fl oor of Science Centre, Café and throwing at 3.30pm to see if we can set a Orchard (uneven grassy surface). Parking by ticket offi ce. looks like a 4-bladed propeller. record number of throws! And even the ‘fl ick of the wrist’ needed to propel them is as much physics as physical; Reflections Reflections needing just the right ratio of spin and Newton’s studies were interrupted when his mother The boomerang is governed by the gyroscopic forward velocity! foresaw a future for him in farming. It didn’t work, effect and aerodynamic lift. Gyroscopes are but he became a committed observer of nature fascinating, counter intuitive and yet their behaviour during his time on the family farm at Woolsthorpe. is completely described by Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion “F=ma”. Don’t worry about the science: the day is about making boomerangs and seeing them fl y. My boomerang will come back! Who would have thought that a boomerang’s gracious curving fl ight is down to the gyroscopic forces explored by Newton. Or that they were fi rst used in Poland, not Australia. For boomerang, read gyroscope, with aerodynamic forces generating a twisting movement which causes the 18 GRAVITY FIELDS FESTIVAL SUNDAY

11am • FAMILY EVENT 11-14 Material World The Science Museum 23 Guildhall Ballroom Tickets: £8 (£5 concs) Duration: 1 hour.

Dive into the weird world of materials in which no jelly baby, Barbie doll or paint tin is safe! In this fast-paced, fact-packed show we explore why the world is the way it is. Interactive demos include fake beards and a triple-headed monster, and answer important questions like: what’s the world around us made of? Living with a Legend... Reflections Just seven miles down the road from Material World makes sense of the science that Grantham is Woolsthorpe Manor, the mellow shapes our lives, sparking curiosity, releasing stone house where Isaac Newton was born creativity and changing the future by engaging 370 years ago. Although no longer a family people of all generations and backgrounds, much home, the National Trust staff who keep it as Newton did in his lifetime. open to the public know what it’s like to be living with a legend. 12.15pm • SCIENCE EVENT More than 33,000 people visit Woolsthorpe every year, to spend some time in the place where Newton and Religion Isaac did his most important scientifi c work. Rob Iliffe, Helen Martin, Philip Ball

‘You never know who you’re going to meet,’ The Angel and Royal Hotel says Ann Moynihan, Support Offi cer. ‘...an Tickets: £4 Talk only. £9 with sandwich Italian maths professor explaining gravity to lunch. Duration: 1 hour his family, or someone wanting to come and split sunlight into the colours of the rainbow Professor Rob Iliffe is an expert on the role in Newton’s room, just like he did in 1667. religion played in the lives of scientists, People come from all over the world to stand by including Isaac Newton. Helen Martin has the apple tree – for some it’s a lifetime ambition.’ made it her individual quest to delve deep into Newton’s classical education. Philip Ball’s In the Science Discovery Centre, a converted book ‘Curiosity’ questions if the curiosity of barn across the farmyard, Isaac’s science 12pm FAMILY EVENT. 6+ scientists in Newton’s era was the original sin? is brought to life by an enthusiastic team of • volunteers. Almost everyone talks about Isaac Stardome 12.30pm • ARTS EVENT.11+ as though they know him personally, from the Mobile planetarium. See (p8) for information. volunteer in costume to the retired teacher The Ethometric Museum St. Wulfram’s. Tickets: £3 showing children how a telescope works. Times: 12pm/1.30pm/2pm/3pm/3.30pm/ Sound installation. See (p10) for information. Somehow he is still here, a young man 4.15pm/4.45pm The George Centre Tickets: £8 (£5 concs) scratching drawings on the walls, making Times: 12.30pm/1.30pm/3pm sundials, and setting up prisms to split the 12pm • ARTS EVENT. 8+ Lincolnshire sunlight into rainbow colours. 2.30pm • ARTS EVENT.12+ LEO Circle of Eleven ‘We once measured the distance from the The Trials of Galileo Physical Theatre that defi es the laws of shutter to the wall’ says Ann, ‘and it was 22 gravity. See Sat (p17) for information. One man show highlighting the dramatic feet – check in Isaac’s notebook! That was a Walton Girls High School events surrounding Galileo’s heresy trial. moment when we felt we could almost touch Tickets: £15 (£10 concs) Duration: 1 hour See Sat 22 listing (p17) for information. him.’ Walk around Woolsthorpe on a quiet day, and you might just spot him…

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3.30pm • ARTS EVENT Grantham Celebrities in 18th Century PoPoetry DrD Valerie Rumbold UniversityUni of Birmingham

TheThe Angel and Royal Tickets:Tic £4 Talk only £7.50£7 with afternoon tea. Duration: 1 hour

ReturningRet to her home town of Grantham 3pm • SCIENCE EVENT.6++ Dr Valerie Rumbold explores the town’s 4.45pm • HERITAGE EVENT celcelebritiese as portrayed in literature. As well Isaac Newton:n: as Newton, seventeenth-century Grantham Isaac Newton, Lawyer An Outsider in the produced another notable celebrity – comic Professor Rob Iliffe Age of Curiosity actor, Poet Laureate and autobiographer Colley Cibber (engraving above). Alexander Masonic Hall Philip Ball Pope’s great satire The Dunciad deploys Tickets: £4. Duration: 1 hour the reputations of both these very different Masonic Hall When his opponents turned science into celebrities as part of its attack on 18th-century Tickets: £4, Duration: 1 hour a ‘litigious lady’, Newton relished destroy- England as a culture on the road to ruin. ing them using the judicial style learnt at Until the Renaissance, curiosity was seen university. He routinely used his formidable as a vice! The 17th century witnessed the forensic expertise in his theological writings, liberation of curiosity as a driving force Reflections his dealings with local tenants, and defence of scientifi c enquiry and by the early Newton and Cibber both attended the King’s School, Grantham, during the seventeenth of the University of Cambridge against James Enlightenment, it could be a virtue. century (and Cibber even wrote about the II, and his disputes with Robert Hooke and Contrary to common perception, Newton experience in his autobiography). They were other contemporaries. did not personify this new attitude: his both famous in the print culture of their time, mathematical exploration of nature seems though Cibber is less well known today. both more ancient and more modern. Reflections Newton famously preferred a ‘mathematical’ 3.30pm • FAMILY EVENT. 5+ approach to science above a scholastic, Reflections visualise:reloaded disputational style. Nevertheless, he was taught Did Newton fi t in – or not – to what is often called the Science Made Simple the art of disputation at Cambridge and used it Scientifi c Revolution, the period in the seventeenth against his critics. The paper draws substantially century when modern science began? Philip Ball Guildhall Theatre upon new archival material from Jerusalem as well as evidence concerning his often tense argues that the key principle of Newton’s new science Tickets: £12 (£8 concs) Duration: 1 hour. was not that it was mathematical but that it was relationship with tenants at Woolsthorpe Manor. omnivorously curious. A mischievous mix of physical theatre and live science demonstrations. See Friday 21st listing for more information (p13).

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5pm • SCIENCE EVENT.7+ Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: 23 A Story told with Gravity Dr Marty Jopson Science presenter on the BBC One Show

Guildhall Ballroom Tickets: £8 (£5 concs) Duration: 1 hour Marty Jopson delves into Newton and gravity. See Sat 22 (p16) for more information.

6pm • ARTS EVENT.8+ LEO Circle of Eleven Walton Girls High School Tickets: £15 (£10 concs) Duration: 1 hour Physical Theatre that defi es the laws of gravity. See (p17).

7.30pm • SCIENCE EVENT.12+ Reflections In the Shadow Space fl ight relies on Newton’s laws, from his 6.30pm • ARTS EVENT. of the Moon third law which underpins the workings of the Choral Evensong Ciren rocket motors which fi rst propelled us into space, Documentary fi lm screening through to his law of universal gravitation, which St Wulfram’s Church Dr Chris Riley, Filmmaker gave Apollo mission planners the confi dence of Tickets: FREE. Duration: 1 hour aiming a manned space craft at the Moon. As Bill Guildhall Theatre Anders, one of the fi rst three humans to leave A special Choral Evensong for the Festival. Tickets: £4. Duration: 2 hours 15 min. Earth orbit put it en route to the Moon on Apollo 8 “I think Isaac Newton is doing most of the 7.30pm ‘In the Shadow of the Moon’ tells the driving right now.” story of the 24 men who fl ew there The Trials of Galileo between 1968 and 1972. Hailed as the Hint of Lime Productions defi nitive story of the Apollo program, the fi lm won the 2007 Sundance World Guildhall Ballroom Cinema Audience, and has become a Tickets: £12 (£8 concs) Duration: 1 hour. classic record of this unique moment in One man show highlighting the dramatic our shared human history. The fi lm will be events surrounding Galileo’s heresy trial. screened and Dr Chris Riley, the fi lmmaker, See Sat 22 listing (p17) for more information will talk and answer questions.

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2.30pm • FAMILY EVENT. 11+ Giant Steps Promenade drama tour. See (p8) for details. Meet Grantham Guildhall. Tickets: £8 (£5) Times: 2.30pm, 5.30pm. 1pm • ARTS EVENT.11+ The Ethometric Museum Theatrical sound installation. See (p10) for info. The George Centre Tickets: £8 (£5 concs) Times: 1pm/5pm/6.30pm

Reflections 12.15pm • HERITAGE EVENT Ethometric Instruments Ltd have been approached by the space agency to Newton and the provide Ethometric instruments for the Longitude next Mars deep space probe! Ethometric Instruments will be used Dr Rebekah Higgitt to monitor for microscopic variations in Royal Observatory Greenwich background harmonic variations and help to determine the The Angel and Royal Hotel existence of gravitational waves. Tickets: £4 Talk only. £9 with sandwich lunch. Duration: 1 hour Why should sailors be grateful to Newton? His contribution to astronomy is often thought of as abstract knowledge but it had direct relevance to a very practical problem. His theory of the motions of heavenly bodies was of fundamental importance to fi nd- ing longitude at sea, although he failed to develop the necessary lunar theory.

Reflections The story of longitude links directly into Newton’s life and work. He focused on lunar theory late in life specifi cally to help fi nd a longitude solution. But as President of the Royal Society, Newton also took centre stage in the wider search for possible solutions, whether astronomical or mechanical. Photomontage: Dave Pearson

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6pm6p • SCIENCE EVENT.11+ Human Spacefl ight– Fantasy or our Future Anu Ojha National Space Centre

4.15pm • HERITAGE EVENT.11+ Harlaxton Manor 8pm • ARTS EVENT Integrity and Tickets: £4. Duration: 1 hour Newton Accuracy Do you think space travel is an indulgent, Jack Klaff expensive fantasy or the key to our future Produced by TFA Ltd in Newton’s Legacy as a species? Anu Ojha asks what has association with Gravity Fields to the Royal Mint human spacefl ight achieved? Will humans follow in the footsteps of robotic missions Guildhall Theatre Graham Dyer to Mars and the outer planets? Will we one Tickets: £12 (£8 concs) Royal Mint Museum day settle in space? Duration: 1 hour plus after-show talk and Grantham Museum reception Tickets: FREE but please reserve tickets Reflections This touching, entertaining piece of solo Duration: 1 hour. Age: 11+ For four billion years life on Earth has evolved theatre offers a rounded, warts-and-all portrait In a surprising career move in middle deep in our planet’s gravity well – but the of Isaac Newton, his superhuman struggles last half century has seen humans embarking life Sir Isaac Newton switched from in pursuit of new truths, and the sorcery and on voyages which would have been deemed mysticism to which he attended outside of academia to reshaping the currency impossible in Newton’s era. of the country and restoring order science. Tales and ideas about this towering to coinage. This fascinating talk is genius come thick and fast from an array of devoted to Newton and the performance characters both old and very modern. Set of offi cial duties that were a major part fi rmly in Grantham and its surroundings, Jack of his life after 1696.. Klaff weaves this work around the notion that Newton was an isolated fi gure. Reflections Newton took up the position of Master of the Reflections... Royal Mint in 1699. He had a mission to bring Like Einstein, Newton had about him a quality of advances to the coinage system and claimed to ‘apartness’. The stage fi lls with people have brought it to a ‘much greater degree of swirling around a solitary fi gure in whose mind exactness than ever was known before’. He world-changing ideas never ceased to crowd. developed a reputation for his uncompromising resolve to stop clipping and counterfeiting of coins.

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1pm • ARTS EVENT.11+ 2.30pm • FAMILY EVENT. 11+ The Ethometric Museum Giant Steps 25 Theatrical sound installation. See ‘Events Audio promenade drama tour. See ‘Events through the festival’ (p10) for information. through the festival’ (p8) for information. Times: 1pm, 5pm, 6.30pm. Times: 2.30pm, 5.30pm.

12.15pm • HERITAGE EVENT 4.15pm • SCIENCE EVENT.12+ 6pm • SCIENCE EVENT.12+ An Astronomer, His Ten True Things Nature’s Calendar Friend & Their Teacher About Vision since Newton Helen Martin Dr Ben Craven Woodland Trust and Teacher and Consultant to Temple National Space Centre Professor Tim Sparks University, Pennsylvania USA Guildhall Ballroom Venue: Woodland Trust HQ The Angel and Royal Hotel Tickets: FREE but please reserve tickets Tickets: FREE but please reserve tickets Tickets: £4 Talk only. £9 with Duration: 1 hour. Duration: 1 hour 30 mins. sandwich lunch. Duration: 1 hour What’s the truth about our remarkable gift Have a go at weaving a willow birdfeeder Two Grantham boys – America’s fi rst of sight? Illustrations and demonstrations and try your hand at making a Green Man modern astronomer, Arthur Storer and his debunk 10 vision myths, from colour face using natural materials. Then hear from famous friend, Sir Isaac Newton – and their mixing to why the inverted image in your Professor Tim Sparks about Phenology – the extraordinary teacher, Henry Stokes. Helen eye doesn’t need turning right way up again. study of the timing of natural events. In the Martin travels from Philadelphia, USA to share Popular books and websites have lots of UK there is a 300 year history of such records her exploration of Storer, Newton and the information about our sense of sight – but kept by natural historians. teacher who prepared them both for their much of it just isn’t true! Willow weaving starts at 6pm followed by the staggering contributions to science. talk at 6.30pm! Reflections Reflections Isaac Newton experimented with and wrote Reflections Arthur Storer emigrated to America and about the way we see, particularly the relationship In the time of Newton many of the facts about contributed important observations of a comet between light, colour and optics. He used his own nature that we now take for granted were to Newton’s Principia. Storer’s Comet is referred eyes to test his theories, risking blindness in the unknown but many shared his interest in the to today as ‘Halley’s Comet’. Working with pursuit of a clearer understanding of vision. natural world and some began systematically Grantham historians, via the internet, Helen and recording the signs of the seasons. colleagues have recently started a modern-day version of information sharing about celestial movements between the USA and England.

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8pm • ARTS EVENT Newton Jack Klaff Guildhall Theatre Tickets: £12 (£8 concs) Duration: 1 hour

This touching, entertaining piece of solo theatre offers a rounded, warts-and-all portrait of Isaac Newton, his superhuman struggles in pursuit of new truths, and the sorcery and mysticism to which he attended outside of science. See Friday 21st listing (p13) for © P.Vukusic, University of Exeter © P.Vukusic, more information. ‘Newton was not the fi rst of the age of reason, 6.30pm • SCIENCE EVENT.12+ 7pm PARTICIPATION EVENT.8+ • he was the last of the magicians.’ On the Brilliant Ask the Astronomer JM Keynes Colours of Newton’s and Moongaze ‘The poets were wrong. Newton didn’t unweave the rainbow. He wove it.’ Peacock Feather Dr Chris Lintott Jack Klaff Professor Peter Vukusic University of Oxford ‘Jack Klaff makes your thinking easy. I’ve Co-Presenter BBC Sky at Night School of Physics, University of Exeter rarely laughed so hard, nor been so moved.’ Time Out Colsterworth and Woolsthorpe Village Hall Guildhall Ballroom (talk) followed by Woolsthorpe Manor Tickets: £4. Duration: 1 hour 30 mins. (moongazing). How does the peacock get its colour? Since Tickets: £4. Duration: 1 hour 30 mins. Newton published his seminal Opticks Anything astronomical to ask? Set a challenge text in 1704, scientists have tried to better for astronomer, Sky at Night co-presenter, understand how brightly coloured creatures and Royal Society Kohn Prize winner, Chris such as butterfl ies, fi sh and birds produce Lintott. Put your questions to Chris and see if their brilliant iridescence. This lecture you can stump him! Then join him and local describes how Newton’s early insight informs astronomers to look at the night sky over the study and technological application of Isaac Newton’s old home Woolsthorpe Manor. iridescent colour production. Please park at Woolsthorpe Manor unless you have a disability –it is a short walk between the two buildings. Wheelchair access to lower fl oor of Science Centre, Café and Orchard (uneven grassy surface). Reflections Disabled parking by ticket offi ce. Newton described the source of the bright iridescent colours found in peacock feathers in his Opticks book of 1704, using signifi cant insight and scientifi c reasoning, long before the Reflections development of microscopy techniques that would Ask Chris any question you like about the universe verify his theory. His ideas on light and colour and see if he can draw inspiration from Isaac have helped form the pool of accepted knowledge. Newton’s childhood home and the famous apple tree. Look into the night sky above Newton’s old home, and muse as he did, on the relationship of the moon to the earth and apples falling from a tree. 25 GRAVITY FIELDS FESTIVAL WEDNESDAY

1pm • ARTS EVENT.11+ 2.30pm • FAMILY EVENT. 11+ The Ethometric Museum Giant Steps 26 Theatrical sound installation. See ‘Events Audio promenade drama tour. See ‘Events through the festival’ (p10) for information. through the festival’ (p8) for information. Times: 1pm, 5pm, 6.30pm. Times: 2.30pm, 5.30pm.

Lethal science of the 1pm • ARTS EVENT.12+ 4.30pm • SCIENCE EVENT.14+ Astronomy and Poetry Dambusters: Dambusters’ raid Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell Engineering the In 1939, visionary aircraft designer Barnes Wallis crafted a very special bomb that University of Oxford Bouncing Bomb would bounce across water and destroy Council Chamber, South Kesteven Hilary Costello German dams. The audacious 1943 raid by 617 Squadron, planned in Grantham, was District Council. University of Cambridge Tickets: FREE but please reserve tickets a success and a 1950s feature fi lm carried Duration: 1 hour 30 mins Kesteven and Grantham Girls School the Dambusters story into British legend. Tickets: FREE but please reserve tickets But what was the science behind the There are many poems about astronomy and Duration: 1 hour bouncing bomb? It was certainly highly space. Within these broad themes what topics complex, and many of Barnes Wallis’s vital have attracted poets, and how have they The last time planes attempted to blow up working calculations were lost. handled them? This talk looks at such questions a dam using a bouncing bomb was in May What a challenge for Cambridge engineer and includes readings of some of the poems. 1943, until last year, that is. Hugh Hunt and Hilary Costello were asked by Channel 4 to Dr Hugh Hunt, then, as he set out to solve lead a team of engineers to re-create the the scientifi c puzzle of exactly how Wallis Reflections dambusters raid. Tracked by a fi lm crew, did it for a special Channel 4 documentary, Poets have long been stargazers, moved by the their challenge was to suspend a spinning excerpts of which are being included strange infi nities of the universe to translate bomb under a vintage aircraft, and build in a talk for Gravity Fields by Dr Hunt’s them into metaphor and song. But what do they a 10 metre-high dam especially for the collaborator Hilary Costello. know of the science of astronomy? And what do astronomers know of poetry? purpose of blowing it up. Their applied It’s easy to forget what an extraordinary maths led to a dramatic conclusion. technical achievement and audacious In May 2012 Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell mission it was. Imagine a unique, spinning Burnell was placed by BBC Radio 4 in their fi ve-ton bomb bouncing across the surface New Elizabethans top 60 people during Reflections of the water like a giant skimming stone – Queen Elizabeth II’s reign. As a postgraduate The Dambusters raid has connections to both destroying two damns in Germany’s Ruhr Newton and Grantham. Newton’s laws of motion student at Cambridge University she was valley, crippling Hitler’s arms factories and are vital in working out how to get a bomb to the person who fi rst noticed a pulsar – bounce on water and St.Vincents, Grantham was changing the course of the war. a spinning star made up of neutrons. the headquarters for the Dambusters raid. How on earth did they re-create that?

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6pm • SCIENCE EVENT.15+ Opening a New Window on the Universe Professor Martin Hendry University of Glasgow

Harlaxton Manor Tickets: £4. Duration: 1 hour. Age: 15+

There is a new space race. An international group of more than 800 scientists are hoping to detect for the fi rst time ‘gravitational waves’. These are the so-called ‘ripples in spacetime’, predicted by Einstein and the product of the Superposition, Quantum Entanglement and 8pm • ARTS EVENT.10+ most violent events in the Universe, such as Teleportation,The Ethics of Progress pushes exploding stars, and even the Big Bang itself. The Ethics of Progress theoretical physics into real life situations Unlimited Theatre and imagines the world as it might be in the 8pm • ARTS EVENT.8+ not-too-distant future. You’ll certainly laugh. Guildhall Theatre You’ll defi nitely see things in a different Circle of Eleven LEO Tickets: £12 (£8 concs) Duration: 1 hour. way. Don’t worry about understanding the Stamford Arts Centre ‘The thing about the future is, by the time it quantum physics bit, Unlimited are ace at Tickets: £15 (£10 concs) Duration: 1 hour happens, it’s already too late.’ presenting complicated stuff simply. You’ll leave the theatre with a spring in your step! The Ethics of Progress is a mind melting, Multi-award winning show, Edinburgh Fringe ‘I went into this show with a heavy heart jargon free, whistle stop tour of leading edge First winner. LEO is a surprising and witty thinking the subject would be over my head. Quantum Physics, delivered with warmth, one-man piece of Physical Theatre that I came out wanting to change the world. wit and charm by Unlimited Theatre’s defi es the laws of gravity. See Sat 22 listing Brilliant.’ The Guardian (p17) for information. Artistic Director Jon Spooner. By explaining in straightforward terms the concepts of

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12.15pm • HERITAGE EVENT The Sensorium of God Dr Stuart Clark Royal Astronomical Society

The Angel and Royal Hotel Tickets: £4 Talk only. £9 with sandwich lunch. Duration: 1 hour

Isaac Newton: quintessential scientist – also alchemist, maverick theologian, and arch- heretic. Dr Stuart Clark explores how this complicated man’s unscientifi c traits were essential in shaping the scientifi c revolution. Just what did Newton mean when he called 9.30am PARTICIPATION EVENT 1pm ARTS EVENT.11+ • the Universe: The Sensorium of God? • Conference: Science The Ethometric Museum and Technology Reflections Theatrical sound installation. See ‘Events Support for Business Sir Isaac Newton may be best known for his through the festival’ (p10) for information. writings on the physical sciences and his mastery Times: 1pm, 5pm, 6.30pm. SKDC and De Montfort University of mathematics, but he actually wrote more about theology than science. He was a strictly religious Stoke Rochford Hall 2.30pm • FAMILY EVENT. 11+ man, yet someone who dabbled in the illegal Tickets: please apply for places at practise of alchemy, and heretically questioned Giant Steps www.mybusinessevents.com/gravityfi elds the Holy Trinity. Duration: 9.30am - 3pm Audio promenade drama tour. See ‘Events through the festival’ (p8) for information. A conference for small and medium size Times: 2.30pm, 5.30pm. companies seeking science and technology development advice, funding and support. It’s a free business event, run in conjunction with De Montfort University, offering insight into available Government help for the sector with inspirational talks and networking.

Reflections Stoke Rochford is close to Woolsthorpe Manor where Isaac Newton was born and grew up. Delegates will have their thoughts fi rmly on business innovation and development. Discover and take advantage of links to the great man on a tour of the hall and the opportunity to visit other festival events.

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7.30pm • SCIENCE EVENT.14+ Songs of the Stars: the Real Music of the Spheres Dr Don Kurz University of Central Lancashire

Guildhall Theatre Tickets: £4. Duration: 2 hours A multi-media talk introducing the relationship of music to stellar sounds exploring the real sounds of the stars and musical compositions where every member of 4.15pm • SCIENCE EVENT.14+ 6pm • SCIENCE EVENT.16+ the orchestra is a real (astronomical) star! For Never at Rest – Let’s Particle over 2500 years the idea of a celestial ‘music of the spheres’ has reverberated down the Professor Val Gibson and Newton and his millennia. The stars have sounds in them that Dr Hugh Hunt with compere we use to see right to their very cores. Revolutionary Dr Katie Steckles Discoveries Harlaxton Manor Professor Raymond Flood Reflections Tickets: £4. Duration: 1 hour Newton’s physics is fundamental to our Venue: King’s School From balls to the Higgs Boson, Newton to understanding of stars and planets. Newton’s Tickets: FREE but please reserve tickets now. An entertaining dialogue between form of Kepler’s third law is the source of our knowledge of the masses of stars and planets. Duration: 1 hour Dr Hugh Hunt (representing Newton’s balls) and Professor Val Gibson One of the world’s greatest mathematicians, (representing the cutting edge of particle Newton made discoveries in mathematics collisions), compered by mathematician, that revolutionised the world and remain Dr Katie Steckles. Physics can be fun and important today. Raymond Flood, will be this debate aims to be just that, helping introduced by Professor John Toland, the you understand what goes on at CERN and Director of the Isaac Newton Institute for how it relates to the physics discoveries of Mathematical Sciences. the past. Balls or not, we will be steered through a discussion which promises to Reflections bring you up to date with the whys and Newton’s range of interests was breath-taking. His wherefores of the latest particle physics. reluctance to make his work known – always in uneasy contention with his reluctance to let anyone else take the credit – led to many controversies. Reflections Newton’s notion of particles was something most of us share in our mind’s eye - a picture of something small and spherical. Now the world of particles and high energy physics has erupted into a new era with the discovery that a new particle consistent with the Higgs exists. 29 GRAVITY FIELDS FESTIVAL THURSDAY 27

8pm • ARTS EVENT.11+ 8pm • ARTS EVENT. Reflections Hanging Hooke After Newton died, a letter from Hooke and The Ethics of Progress Take the Space a well-thumbed copy of Hooke’s Micrographia Unlimited Theatre were found amongst his possessions. Five years Written by Siobhán Nicholas before Principia, Hooke’s letter outlined his Stamford Arts Centre Performed by Chris Barnes theory of universal gravity. That visionary A whistle stop tour of leading edge concept explained the mystery of elliptical Quantum Physics. See Wed 26 listing (p27) Venue: Guildhall Ballroom orbit and led to Newton’s calculation. How Tickets: £12 (£8 concs) Duration: 90 mins tragic that these two brilliant men could not for more information. have explored further... together. Christopher Wren loved him. Isaac Newton 9pm • PARTICIPATION EVENT.8+ loathed him. Robert Hooke was an ingenious man, one of the fathers of modern science. Science Pub Quiz Yet he was written out of history. This one Dr Ben Craven man play tells a tale of intrigue and betrayal, and explores the captivating 17th century world of new science and discovery. ‘The most wonderful piece of new writing I have seen in years.’ Plays International

The Angel and Royal Hotel Tickets: Free. Email gravityfi elds@ southkesteven.gov.uk to reserve your team’s place, type ‘Pub Quiz’ in subject line Ask me one on.... science. Or perhaps you aren’t a science fi end? No problem! With “what happens next?” demonstrations and plenty of opportunities for inspired guesswork, anyone can have a go at this light-hearted science-based pub quiz. And who knows what you’ll learn.

Reflections Isaac Newton’s curiosity gave answers to questions the world needed to know. He may have been educated here in Grantham and you may have been educated here as well, but you don’t have to be a genius on his scale - or any scale – to take part! 30 GRAVITYGRAVITY FIELDS FIELDS FESTIVAL FESTIVAL FRIDAY 10am Science and Technology Careers 28 Day Session Cummins Generator Technologies Venue: Cummins Generator Technologies, Stamford Tickets: Please email [email protected] Duration: 2 hours. A Science and Technology Careers Day delivered by Cummins Generator Technologies, Stamford for Stamford and South Kesteven sixth forms. Cummins Generator Technologies designs and manufactures the world’s broadest range of AC generators from 0.6 to 20,000 kVA under the MARKON®, STAMFORD® and AvK® product brands.

12pm • SCIENCE EVENT Stones from the Sky 1pm • ARTS EVENT 6pm • ARTS EVENT Professor Colin Pillinger Music, Numerology Closing Discussion: 2011 Royal Society Michael and Astrology Recital Music and Deep Time Faraday Prize winner Douglas Hollick Jem Finer, Musician and Professor Pedro Ferreira Open University St Wulfram’s Church Tickets: FREE Duration: 1 hour Guildhall Theatre Tickets: £4. Duration: 1 hour. Douglas Hollick, locally based organist and international early keyboard scholar will A fascinating discussion on how art can play the magnifi cent organ at St Wulfram’s illustrate scientifi c concepts. Jem Finer, Church, one of the fi nest in Lincolnshire. musician, artist and composer of Longplayer, Works by Buxtehude, JSBach and three a piece of music written to play for 1000 English composers representing Newton’s years without ever repeating itself, talks to life; organ pieces by Thomas Tomkins cosmologist and astrophysicist Pedro Ferreira from 1648-1650; works by Henry Purcell about systems, long-durational processes and corresponding with the middle years; and extremes of scale in both time and space. Jeremiah Clarke with the end. Chaired by Siân Ede, author of Art & Science.

2pm • ARTS EVENT.11+ 7.30pm • SCIENCE EVENT.12+ Grantham Baptist Church Hanging Hooke In the Shadow Tickets: £4 Duration: 2 hours of the Moon Newton was of the opinion that no small Venue: Guildhall Ballroom bodies exist beyond the moon. But he was Tickets: £12 (£8 concessions) Documentary fi lm screening Duration: 90 mins wrong as Britain’s recently discovered largest Stamford Arts Centre meteorite at 93kg will testify. One man play exploring the captivating 17th Tickets: £4. Duration: 2 hours 15 min. century world of new science and discovery. See Thu 27 listing (p30) for more information. The defi nitive story of the Apollo program.. See Sun 23 listing (p21) for more information.

31 GRAVITY FIELDS FESTIVAL Transformation of the Town Grantham as you have never seen it!

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The following schools, community groups and local organisations are participating in the processions:

AAllingtonllington wwithith SSedgebrookedgebrook CChurchhurch ooff EEnglandngland PPrimaryrimary SSchoolchool AAsdasda BBourneourne WWestfiestfi eldeld Academy,Academy, CCliffedaleliffedale PPrimaryrimary SSchoolchool CColsterwortholsterworth C ooff E PPrimaryrimary SSchoolchool CCorbyorby GGlenlen CCommunityommunity PPrimaryrimary SSchoolchool CCorbyorby GGlenlen DDanceance SSchoolchool DDentonenton CChurchhurch ooff EEnglandngland SSchoolchool GGranthamrantham AAdditionaldditional NNeedseeds FFederation,ederation, AAmbergatembergate SSchoolchool GGranthamrantham BBaptistaptist CChurchhurch GGranthamrantham CCarnivalarnival GGranthamrantham CCollegeollege GGranthamrantham DDanceance SSchoolchool GGranthamrantham DDramaticramatic SSocietyociety GGranthamrantham HHuntingtoweruntingtower CCommunityommunity PPrimaryrimary SSchoolchool GGranthamrantham YYouthouth TTheatreheatre GGreatreat PPontononton CChurchhurch ooff EEnglandngland SSchoolchool HHarlaxtonarlaxton CChurchhurch ooff EEnglandngland PPrimaryrimary SSchoolchool IIngoldsbyngoldsby PPrimaryrimary SSchoolchool KKestevenesteven aandnd GGranthamrantham GGirls’irls’ SSchoolchool LLongong BBenningtonennington PPrimaryrimary SSchoolchool MMinorityinority CCommunitiesommunities SService,ervice, L Lincolnshireincolnshire CCountyounty CCouncilouncil NNewew LLifeife CChurchhurch YYouthouth OOutreachutreach PPolisholish CClublub RRopsleyopsley CChurchhurch PPrimaryrimary SStt MMary’sary’s CCatholicatholic PPrimaryrimary SSchoolchool TThehe NNationalational CChurchhurch ooff EEnglandngland JJuniorunior SSchoolchool WWaltonalton GGirls’irls’ SSchool,chool, HHarlaxtonarlaxton RRoadoad Apologies WWyndhamyndham PParkark NNurseryursery SSchoolchool The Gravity Fields Festival is unable We had also hoped to bring YYouthouth TTheatreheatre CCompany,ompany, GGranthamrantham GGuildhalluildhall to bring IOU’s Volatile Light sound Lindsay Seer’s digital installation For more information and to book tickets: and light installation to Grantham The Truth Was Always Here, based in www.gravityfi elds.co.uk as featured in our original listings Lincolnshire and exploring the local programme because of unexpected history of alchemy. Unfortunately 01476 406158 technical diffi culties with the this has not been possible due to proposed venue which we have not unforeseen circumstances. We hope Festival contact details: able to overcome. This is a great we may work together in the future. South Kesteven District Council, disappointment to the festival and St Peter’s Hill, Grantham, we offer our apologies to IOU and our Rosemary Richard, Lincolnshire, NG31 6PZ audience and look forward to future Gravity Fields Festival Director gravityfi[email protected] opportunities to work with IOU. 35 GRAVITY FIELDS FESTIVAL Fringe Events

Thu 20 September Sun 23 September Mon 24 September Preview Evening Historic An Evening of Pages from the Past Walking Tour Science with Sir St Wulfram’s Church Meet Angel and Royal Hotel Isaac Newton 7pm - 9pm. Tickets: £5 2pm. Tickets: FREE. Woolsthorpe Manor An opportunity to see some of the Max 20 people 7pm - 9pm. Tickets: £25 valuable and ancient books held Walking Tour with The National Trust invite you to an in the Trigge Chained Library in Grantham’s Blue evening visit to Woolsthorpe Manor St Wulfram’s Church. This library, Badge Guide to meet Isaac Newton and watch founded in 1598, would have been Malcolm Knapp. his scientifi c demonstrations. Sir known to Newton when he was Isaac Newton’s Show recounts at the King’s School (then known his work on Fluxions, The as the King Edward VI Grammar Spectrum of Colours, The School). At this preview, the 21-28 September Refl ecting Telescope, Gravity, and exhibition will be offi cially opened ‘The Whispering’ other forces, and presents a history by the Bishop of Lincoln, Rt Revd of the exciting times in which he Christopher Lowson. Refreshments and ‘Isaac’s Prayer’ lived. Light refreshments provided. and wine available. Contact Mrs J Soundscapes A chance to meet Isaac in his own Parker to book on 01476 562204 St Wulfram’s Church: home. Please ring Kim Barnett or [email protected]. The Crypt and The Quiet Chapel 01476 862823 to book. Cheques payable to St Wulfram’s Church. Tickets: FREE 21-28 September During church opening hours Sat 29 / Sun 30 September Granite ball (except during other events or services) Alchemy in a fl oating on water! Local artist Annie Samuel will be Fri 21 and Fri 28 September Material World displaying two soundscapes, Woolsthorpe Manor Grantham Guildhall The Whispering and Isaac’s Prayer. Scientifi c 11am - 5pm Tickets: FREE Isaac’s prayer has been written Instruments to echo the type of prayers and Appraisal Days Tickets: Free to National Trust This amazing piece of engineering thoughts of the congregation during Members. £6.65 adults, £3.35 allows such a small tolerance this time and can be heard in the Grantham Auction Rooms children, £16.65 family ticket between the ball and the bowl that Quiet Chapel. Old Wharf Road, Grantham Meet the alchemist and help him once water is pumped into the bowl The Whispering is a current Tickets: FREE with his studies. Experiment with the water will lift the ball and make refl ection of prayer, taken from Grantham TV Antiques Expert properties of different materials. it spin. This is a good example of anonymous volunteers from and Auctioneer, Colin Young will Jack Greene, the travelling gravity seemingly being defi ed. schools, local congregations and be holding specialist Scientifi c alchemist, will set up shop in the Courtesy of Stone & Water Ltd from inmates at Nottingham prison. Instruments Appraisal Days from grounds of Woolsthorpe Manor. The whispers echo intimate and 9am - 1pm on Fridays 21 & 28. Help him use various substances 25 September unsettling prayers that demand an Bring along any instruments of any to create different potions. Can you Bellringing Workshop emotive reaction from the listener. age to fi nd out what they do, their walk on custard? Can you stand in St Wulfram’s Church age, their origin and their potential a bubble? Find out the answers to 7pm - 9pm. FREE value. From clocks and barometers these any many more questions at to calculators and measuring Isaac Newton’s birthplace. Newcomers welcome to come and equipment; anything and everything Tickets available from try bellringing. If you ever wanted relating to the sciences is welcome www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ to have a go now is your chance! for a morning of discovery. woolsthorpe or 01476 862823 Children over 12 welcome but under Colin Young MRICS can be 18s must attend with an adult. contacted on 01476 565118 or Enquiries to Diana Power diana. [email protected] 07976 977169

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Grantham College hosting the Dambusters talk and to be providing an only to develop students’ knowledge and understanding Grantham College is proud to support the Gravity opportunity to support women in science. of the world in which they live but also to celebrate and showcase their many talents. Fields Festival. The college is committed to providing Kings School high quality education and training opportunities At Walton we believe in ensuring all students have the The King’s School is delighted to support and for the people of South Kesteven and this festival opportunity to reach their potential in all areas, and commend the 2012 Gravity Fields Festival and we compliments this aim in bringing science and art to through our broad curriculum together with numerous are delighted that we are able to provide both a venue the whole community in a variety of accessible media. enrichment and extra-curricular activities we truly feel and administrative support to this commemoration of It’s an exciting opportunity for Grantham to put itself we achieve this aim. Grantham’s scientifi c links. Sir Isaac Newton was a fi rmly on the map. pupil of The King’s School and it is fi tting that we should The Gravity Fields Festival provides our students with Grantham Museum participate actively in this event. Sadly, due to essential further opportunities to work with professionals, and and long-planned renovation works to our Grade 1 Grantham Museum is hosting the Ladybird Science educationalists outside of school but more importantly Listed Old School’s roof, we are not able to open that paintings exhibition, acting as a venue for the Royal to have fun and be involved in a huge community facility this year but we are delighted that our newly Mint presentation, and offering additional workshops to extravaganza. refurbished school hall will be used as a venue this year. schools through the festival. The Museum is a hub of Woodlands Trust activity through the festival week and we hope festival The Head Master, Governors, staff and pupils wish you The Woodland Trust is the UK’s leading woodland goers will come and see the unique exhibition we are a very warm welcome to the King’s School for Gravity conservation charity. Its Grantham headquarters hosting and that schools will take advantage of our Fields 2012 ! employs a number of local people. As a member science activities through the week. Walton Girls’ School of Grantham is Great the Trust believes the Gravity Kesteven and Grantham Girls’ School Walton High School and Sixth Form are delighted to be Fields Festival is very positive; an event showcasing Kesteven and Grantham Girls’ School is delighted involved in the Gravity Fields Festival. The Performing Grantham’s history and modern talent, and to be taking part in the workshop and education Arts are one of our three specialisms so we needed no encouraging the wonders of science. The Trust is programme. Look out for the telescope in the persuading in being involved in an event that celebrates pleased to be part of what it hopes will become a processions. The school is very pleased to be both Science and the Arts. It is an opportunity for us not regular experience.

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