All Events on Monday 24 September
Participation
9.30am Monday 24 September
Education Programme KS2 – Stardome and Alchemy
A Key Stage 2 educational experience visiting the National Space Centre’s planetarium and the illegal alchemist’s laboratory hidden away in Grantham. Experiences start at 09.30 and 12.30.
Participation
9.30am Monday 24 September
Education Programme KS2 - Science Museum, Feel the Force
Show times at 9.30am, 11.15am and 1.45pm. Feel the Force explores some of Newton’s most important work. Sir Isaac Newton and Phil the Stunt Frog join forces in this fast-paced action-packed extravaganza.
Participation
10.00am Monday 24 September
Education Programme KS2 - Meeting Newton and the Apothecary
An experience for Key Stage 2 pupils to visit the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton and learn about cures and lotions at the Apothecary shop of Newton’s time.
Heritage
10.00am Monday 24 September
Pages from the Past
Friends of St Wulfram’s
See books Newton could have thumbed as a King's School student, released from the intriguing Tudor chained library in St Wulfram's Church for rare public display.
Heritage
10.00am Monday 24 September
Ladybird Science Paintings Exhibition
On Saturday 22nd at 10.30am the exhibition will be introduced with a talk by Stephanie Barton, former Managing Director of Ladybird Books, and Grantham resident.
Participation
10.30am Monday 24 September
Education Programme KS3+ Giant Steps
A site-specific audio promenade drama commissioned for the Gravity Fields Festival. In partnership with BBC Lincolnshire, BBC Outreach and the University of Lincoln.
Science
10.30am Monday 24 September
Can You Hear Black Holes Collide?
University of Birmingham at the George Centre
A hands on exhibition exploring Gravitational Wave Astronomy, or 'ripples in space and time' for anyone who has ever wondered about violent events in the cosmos. 7+.
Heritage
12.15pm Monday 24 September
Newton and the Longitude
Dr Rebekah Higgitt
Why should sailors be grateful to Newton? His theory of the motions of heavenly bodies was of fundamental importance to finding longitude at sea.
Arts
1.00pm Monday 24 September
The Ethometric Museum
Produced by OCM
Show times at 1.00pm, 5.00pm and 6.30pm. 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)
Arts
2.30pm Monday 24 September
Giant Steps
An audio drama tour with community performers
Show times at 2.30pm and 5.30pm. 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.
Heritage
4.15pm Monday 24 September
Integrity and Accuracy: Sir Isaac Newton’s legacy to the Royal Mint
Graham Dyer
For the last thirty years of his life Sir Isaac Newton was actively involved in the running of the Royal Mint in the Tower of London. The talk will describe what he did at the Mint and assess the long-term value of what he achieved.
Science
6.00pm Monday 24 September
Human Spaceflight – Fantasy or our Future?
Anu Ojha
An exploration of what human spaceflight has achieved. Will humans follow in the footsteps of robotic missions to Mars and the outer planets? And will we one day settle in space ? Age 11+
Arts
8.00pm Monday 24 September
Newton
TFA Ltd
Produced by TFA Ltd in association with the Gravity Fields Festival International actor, director and academic Jack Klaff presents a new touching and entertaining solo show - a warts and all portrait of Sir Isaac Newton.
