All Events on Tuesday 25 September
Participation
9.30am Tuesday 25 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 Tuesday 25 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 Tuesday 25 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 Tuesday 25 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 Tuesday 25 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 Tuesday 25 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 Tuesday 25 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 Tuesday 25 September
An Astronomer, His Friend and Their Teacher
Helen Martin
Two Grantham boys - America's first modern astronomer, Arthur Storer, his famous friend, Sir Isaac Newton and their extraordinary teacher, Henry Stokes.
Arts
1.00pm Tuesday 25 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 Tuesday 25 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.
Science
6.00pm Tuesday 25 September
Nature's Calendar Since Newton
Professor Tim Sparks
The Woodland Trust in Grantham coordinates the UK scheme for recording phenology. Professor Tim Sparks reports on the subject’s history and recent discoveries.
Science
6.30pm Tuesday 25 September
On the Brilliant Colours of Newton's Peacock Feather
Professor Pete Vukusic
How does the peacock get its colour? Newton’s early insight informs the current study of iridescent colour production. Age 12+.
Participation
7.00pm Tuesday 25 September
Ask the Astronomer & Moongaze
Dr Chris Lintott
Ask Chris anything astronomical and see if he can draw inspiration from Isaac Newton’s childhood home and the famous apple tree. Join him and local astronomers afterwards to look at the night sky over Woolsthorpe Manor. 8+.
Arts
8.00pm Tuesday 25 September
Newton
TFA Ltd
International actor, director and academic Jack Klaff presents a new touching and entertaining solo show - a warts and all portrait of Sir Isaac Newton.
