All Events on Sunday 23 September
Arts
10.00am Sunday 23 September
Giant Steps
An audio drama tour with community performers
Show times at 10.00am, 1.00pm and 4.00pm. A professionally written and directed audio promenade drama commissioned for the Gravity Fields Festival. In partnership with BBC Lincolnshire, BBC Outreach and University of Lincoln.
Participation
10.30am Sunday 23 September
Family Mass Boomerang Making Day
Dr Hugh Hunt
"My boomerang will come back", Sessions through the day to build your own boomerang with the help of expert boomerang maker from the University of Cambridge, Australian born, Dr Hugh Hunt, and his students. Age 8+
Participation
11.00am Sunday 23 September
Rural Crafts Day
National Trust
Visit Isaac Newton’s Woolsthorpe birthplace, step back in time as the National Trust present a rural skills day with costumed guides and learn the crafts you would need to live on a 17th farm. 5+
Science
11.00am Sunday 23 September
Material World
The Science Museum
Dive into the weird world of materials in which no jelly baby, Barbie doll or paint tin is safe! In this fast-paced and fact-packed show we explore why the world is the way it is. 11+
Science
12.00pm Sunday 23 September
Stardome
National Space Centre at St Wulfram's Church
Escape into a mobile planetarium recreating a dark night sky with hundreds of brilliant points of light splashed across the inside of the dome. 6+
Arts
12.00pm Sunday 23 September
LEO
Circle of Eleven
8+. Award winning LEO is a surprising and hilarious one-man piece that defies the laws of gravity. A truly fantastic adventure! "Alternately funny and poetic....LEO soars" New York Post
Arts
12.00pm Sunday 23 September
The Ethometric Museum
Produced by OCM
Show times at 12.00pm, 1.30pm, and 3.00pm A theatrical sound presentation by Ray Lee - The Ethometric Museum doors are unlocked and the ethometric mysteries discovered. 'Utterly wonderful' Sumit Paul-Choudhury, editor of New Scientist magazine (by Twitter)
Science
12.15pm Sunday 23 September
Newton and Religion
Prof. Rob Iliffe, Helen Martin and Dr. Philip Ball
Is Newton in Heaven ? Newton wrote more about religion than about mathematics and science and his writings and religious beliefs are a source of endless fascination.
Arts
12.30pm Sunday 23 September
Isaac Newton and the Age of Scientific Discovery
National Portrait Gallery at Belton House
Illustration to left; John Locke by Michael Dahl c. 1696. This exhibition is a display of portraits and miniatures celebrating the age of scientific discovery which began in the 1600s. Exhibition organised by the National Portrait Gallery in collaboration with the National Trust.
Arts
2.30pm Sunday 23 September
The Trials of Galileo
Hint of Lime Productions
How did Galileo become branded a heretic? This one man show highlights the dramatic events surrounding Galileo’s heresy trial.
Heritage
3.00pm Sunday 23 September
Isaac Newton: An Outsider in the Age of Curiosity
Dr Philip Ball
Vice, Virtue and Mathematics. The Scientific Revolution founded on fact or curiosity?
Arts
3.30pm Sunday 23 September
Grantham celebrities in eighteenth-century poetry: ‘Her boasted Newton’?
Dr Valerie Rumbold
Returning to her home town of Grantham Dr Valerie Rumbold explores the town’s celebrities as portrayed in literature.
Science
3.30pm Sunday 23 September
Visualise:Reloaded
Science made simple ltd
A mischievous mix of physical theatre and live science demonstrations from an award-winning company with a passion for science, engineering and maths. 5+.
Heritage
4.45pm Sunday 23 September
Isaac Newton, Lawyer
Professor Rob Iliffe
When his opponents turned science into a ‘litigious lady’, Newton used his forensic expertise in dealings with tenants, academics and contemporaries.
Science
5.00pm Sunday 23 September
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: A Story told with Gravity
Dr Marty Jopson
Join Dr Marty Jopson, the BBC One Show's resident scientist, for a family science show, as he delves into the story of how Newton came up with his ideas on gravity. 7+.
Arts
6.00pm Sunday 23 September
LEO
Circle of Eleven
8+ Award winning LEO is a surprising and hilarious one-man piece that defies the laws of gravity. A truly fantastic adventure! "Alternately funny and poetic....LEO soars" New York Post
Arts
6.30pm Sunday 23 September
Festival Choral Evensong
An opportunity and invitation to join in a service of Choral Evensong themed for the festival. Come and enjoy the music of the organ and a superb choir in the medieval splendour of a noble church building.
Arts
7.30pm Sunday 23 September
The Trials of Galileo
Hint of Lime Productions
How did Galileo become branded a heretic? This one man show highlights the dramatic events surrounding Galileo’s heresy trial.
Science
7.30pm Sunday 23 September
Screening of 'In the Shadow of the Moon'
Chris Riley
Join co-producer Chris Riley for a screening of his acclaimed film 'In the Shadow of the Moon'. Age 12+.
