science oxford live autumn programme 2015

IDEAS TO INVENTIONS CLUB

The Basement, Oxford Centre for Innovation, New Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX11BY

If you enjoy designing, creating and building things – from cars made of cardboard boxes to Lego spacecraft, why not come along to our brand new inventors club? In this fun-filled introduction to engineering, our fabulous team will give you some great challenges to complete: from raft building to illuminating Egyptian tombs.

Practical, fun and engaging hands-on activities for children aged 8-12.

Bookings via our website: www.scienceoxfordlive.com

Club dates for 2015 are:

• Saturday 3rd October• Saturday 7th November• Saturday 5th December

Each invention club lasts for two hours and all children must be accompanied by an adult.

Sessions run from: 10:00 - 12:00 and 14:00 - 16:00

£10 per child + 1 adult; additional spaces are £10 per person.

SATURDAY SCIENCE CLUB

CULINARY CHEMISTRY Oxford: 26th September 10:30, 12:00 and 14:00Abingdon: 3rd October 10:00 and 12:00

How does popping candy pop? What makes sherbet fizz? How can cabbage change colour? Join us for some crazy kitchen chemistry as we look at the science of food.

Oxford: sessions 1 and 2 are for 5-7 year olds and session 3 is for 7-11 year olds.Abingdon: both sessions are for 5-9 year olds.

SPOOKY SCIENCE Oxford: 24th October 10:30, 12:00 and 14:00Abingdon: 7th November 10:00 and 12:00

Join our family team for a scientifically spooky Halloween special! Create drinks that glow, make ghosts and ghoulies dance and design a cup that screams while having a fang-tasticly fun time.

FESTIVE FUNOxford: 28th November 10:30, 12:00 and 14:00Abingdon: 5th December 10:00 and 12:00

Create a Winter Wonderland by making your own snow, growing sugar crystals for holiday treats and decorating your own super-slime Christmas tree to take home. A whole stocking-full of festive fun!

Oxford club: The Basement, Oxford Centre for Innovation, New Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 1BY

Abingdon club: Abingdon School, Park Road, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 1DE

For all you budding young scientists, we run monthly science clubs in Oxford and Abingdon. Held on a Saturday, there are workshop times to suit everyone.


TO OUR AUTUMN2015 PROGRAMMEFrom gunge for grown-ups, serial killers and the science of mindreading to medieval medicines and spooky Halloween surprises, we’ve got something for everyone at Science Oxford Live this autumn. We have the launch of Origins - an exciting new book on the story of the Universe’s creation – in October, a great half-term programme of events for children and end the year with the brilliant new show from Festival of the Spoken Nerd. Please join us from some great science – themed activities and events. Want to know

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IDEAS TO INVENTIONS CLUB

The Basement, Oxford Centre for Innovation, New Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX11BY

If you enjoy designing, creating and building things – from cars made of cardboard boxes to Lego spacecraft, why not come along to our brand new inventors club? In this fun-filled introduction to engineering, our fabulous team will give you some great challenges to complete: from raft building to illuminating Egyptian tombs.

Practical, fun and engaging hands-on activities for children aged 8-12.

Bookings via our website: www.scienceoxfordlive.com

Club dates for 2015 are:

• Saturday 3rd October• Saturday 7th November• Saturday 5th December

Each invention club lasts for two hours and all children must be accompanied by an adult.

Sessions run from: 10:00 - 12:00 and 14:00 - 16:00


SATURDAY SCIENCE CLUB

CULINARY CHEMISTRY Oxford: 26th September 10:30, 12:00 and 14:00Abingdon: 3rd October 10:00 and 12:00

How does popping candy pop? What makes sherbet fizz? How can cabbage change colour? Join us for some crazy kitchen chemistry as we look at the science of food.

Oxford: sessions 1 and 2 are for 5-7 year olds and session 3 is for 7-11 year olds.Abingdon: both sessions are for 5-9 year olds.

SPOOKY SCIENCE Oxford: 24th October 10:30, 12:00 and 14:00Abingdon: 7th November 10:00 and 12:00

Join our family team for a scientifically spooky Halloween special! Create drinks that glow, make ghosts and ghoulies dance and design a cup that screams while having a fang-tasticly fun time.

FESTIVE FUNOxford: 28th November 10:30, 12:00 and 14:00Abingdon: 5th December 10:00 and 12:00

Create a Winter Wonderland by making your own snow, growing sugar crystals for holiday treats and decorating your own super-slime Christmas tree to take home. A whole stocking-full of festive fun!

Oxford club: The Basement, Oxford Centre for Innovation, New Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 1BY

Abingdon club: Abingdon School, Park Road, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 1DE

For all you budding young scientists, we run monthly science clubs in Oxford and Abingdon. Held on a Saturday, there are workshop times to suit everyone.


SCIENCE OXFORDOxford Centre for InnovationNew Road, Oxford, OX1 1BYwww.scienceoxfordlive.com

THE SERIAL KILLER FORMULAThe Old Fire Station, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2AQ

A dreadful crime has been committed. You are all suspects, but whodunnit? Join us for an interactive evening of interrogation and intrigue as we explore how criminals can be tracked and caught using a mathematical formula that would make Sherlock Holmes look elementary.

Tickets £8/£5 concessions, suitable for ages 14+Booking via www.scienceoxfordlive.com

HAVE-A-GO AT SCIENCE DAYThe Basement, Oxford Centre for Innovation, New Road, Oxford OX1 1BY

Come and have a go at some of the best activities from our science and engineering clubs: build a torch, make a dinosaur and create a cup that changes colour.

Tickets FREE - Just drop in, suitable for ages 5-12

DR DEATH & THE MEDI-EVIL MEDICINE SHOWMarlborough Enterprise Centre, Marlborough School, Shipton Road, Woodstock, OX20 1LP

Sneezes, wheezes, sickness and diseases are never welcome but in the past some of the treatments could be worse than the illness. Join the time-travelling ‘Dr Death’ Simon Watt to see if he can ‘cure’ you in a fantastic family show that promises blood, guts, gore and a whole lot more!

Tickets £7 per person or £25 per group of 5 people, suitable for ages 7+Booking via www.scienceoxfordlive.com

FANTASTIC FLIGHTThe Story Museum, Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP

How do planes fly? What makes the best paper aeroplane? How do parachutes work? Test out your ideas at our fantastic flight family workshop then take your creations home.

Tickets £6, suitable for ages 5-8Booking via www.storymuseum.co.uk

Thursday

08.1018:00 -20:00

Thursday

22.1020:00 -21:15

Saturday

24.1011:00 -12:0014:00 -15:00

Tuesday

27.1014:00 -15:0015:30 -16:30

Friday

30.1011:00 -12:0014:00 -15:00

Friday

30.1017:00 -18:00

Saturday

14.1118:00 -21:00

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Thursday

03.1220:00 -21:30

AUTUMN 2015 PROGRAMME

Note: Concessions are OAPs, under 18s and students

GUNGE FOR GROWN-UPSThe Pegasus Theatre, Magdalen Road, Oxford, OX4 1RE

Move over young scientists, it’s time to give the big kids a go…Join us for an evening of grown-up science anarchy as we lock the kids out and get hands-on with the kind of experiments you wish you’d done at school. Punch custard, play with fire, make edible candles and create your own slime.

Tickets £9/£6 concessions, suitable for ages 16+Booking via www.pegasustheatre.org.uk

Thursday

17.0919:30 - 21.30

Saturday

19.0910:00 -15:00

Wednesday

23.0914:30 - 15:45

Tuesday

29.0919:30 -21:30

Oxford SciBar: The Science of MindreadingThe Story Museum, Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BPIn parodying the paranormal chartered psychologist and performer Rob Bailey discovered he was replacing audiences’ beliefs in psychic powers with unwarranted beliefs in psychological ones. So his new show sees Rob perform mindreading and psychological manipulation as well as revealing the techniques and principles behind them. Now, look in to my eyes….

Tickets FREE - just turn upThis event is a partnership between Oxford SciBar and Science Oxford

FUN PALACESOxford Playhouse, Burton Taylor Studio, 11 Beaumont Street, Oxford, OX1 2LW

A sci-fi spectacular – build robots, make aliens dance and create space-age music as part of the theatre’s open day.

Tickets FREE - just turn up, suitable for ages 3+

Saturday

03.1011:00 -15:00

SPECTACULAR SPACEThe Earth Trust, Little Wittenham, Abingdon, Oxon, OX144QZ

A family-friendly evening of space exploration that includes our new planetarium show ‘Reach for the Stars’, which explores human space flight from Icarus to UK astronaut Tim Peake. There’s also hands-on astronomy activities and stargazing for all.


SPOOK-TACULAR SCIENCEThe Nature Discovery Centre, Thatcham, Berkshire, RG193FU

What could be more fun than creating your own gooey, sticky Halloween slime? Join our creepy workshop to make your own spooky slime, design fabulously frightful ghosts and monsters and use the power of static electricity to make them dance!

Tickets £3 per person, suitable for under 10sBooking via www.bbowt.org.uk/events

Thursday

29.10Check web-site for times

OCTOBERHALF TERM

FESTIVAL OF THE SPOKEN NERD: JUST FOR GRAPHSCornerstone Arts Centre, 25 Station Rd, Didcot OX11 7NE

An all-new graph-a-minute show that’s off the chart! Join stand-up mathematician Matt Parker, experiments maestro Steve ‘Danger’ Mould and geek songstress Helen Arney for fun on an unprecedented linear scale. Watch as they Excel themselves in a new show packed with electrifying live experiments, statistically significant laughter and a retro Fax machine solo. Will they stay on-trend or lose the plot completely?

£15/£13 (plus £1 booking fee) Booking via http://www.cornerstone-arts.org

INTERCEPT WITH GORDON CORERAThe Oxford Playhouse, Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2LW

Drawing on his unique access to Western intelligence agencies, on-the-ground reporting from China and insights into the most powerful technology companies, BBC Security Correspondent Gordon Corera explores the new space in which the worlds of espionage, geopolitics, diplomacy, international business, science and technology collide.

Hosted by journalist and broadcaster Quentin Cooper.

Tickets £7/5 concessionsBooking via www.oxfordplayhouse.com

THE HALLOWEEN SHOWThe Shed, Cokethorpe School, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX29 7PU

Things aren’t always what they seem in this fun and interactive family science show… We promise spooky surprises, eerie experiments and dramatic demonstrations. Not for the faint hearted!


AGE OF CHAMPIONSThe Corn Exchange, Market Place, Newbury, West Berkshire RG14 5BD

Dementia affects over 800,000 people in the UK but could a healthy and active lifestyle as we grow older help to prevent it? Age of Champions is a US documentary following five competitors who sprint, leap, and swim for gold at the National Senior Olympics. For them, age is only a number! Followed by talk from dementia researcher Claire Sexton.

Tickets FREE but booking essentialBooking via http://cornexchangenew.com/events

ORIGINSThe Mathematical Institute, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG

There are many different versions of the creation story. Join Jim Baggott, scientist and author of ground-breaking new book Origins, as he tells the amazing scientific story of the Universe: from the Big Bang to the arrival of humans 13.8 billion years later. He’ll explore the origins of space and time, atoms and chemical complexity and the formation of Earth - and with it the rise of complex life. Was the Universe designed with us in mind or are we just an evolutionary accident?

Followed by drinks and book signing.

Tickets £6 (including drinks reception)Booking via www.scienceoxfordlive.com

Kindly supported by Oxford University Press

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