All Events on Wednesday 26 September
Participation
9.30am Wednesday 26 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 Wednesday 26 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 Wednesday 26 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 Wednesday 26 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 Wednesday 26 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 Wednesday 26 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 Wednesday 26 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+
Arts
12.30pm Wednesday 26 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
1.00pm Wednesday 26 September
Astronomy and Poetry
Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Poems with an astronomical or space theme selected by leading astrophysicist, Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell, with readings of some of the poems.
Arts
1.00pm Wednesday 26 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 Wednesday 26 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
4.30pm Wednesday 26 September
Dambusters: The Engineering of the Bouncing Bomb
Hilary Costello
What was science behind the Dambusters’ Raid? The story of engineers re-creating the raid for Channel 4. 14+
Science
6.00pm Wednesday 26 September
Opening a New Window on the Universe
Professor Martin Hendry
There is a new space race. An international group of more than 800 scientists are hoping to detect for the first time 'gravitational waves'. 15+
Science
7.30pm Wednesday 26 September
Ten True Things About Vision
Dr Ben Craven
RE-SCHEDULED EVENT FROM LAST-NIGHT DUE TO WEATHER RESTRICTIONS. What’s the truth about our remarkable gift of sight? Much of what you read just isn’t true! See what is. 12+
Arts
8.00pm Wednesday 26 September
The Ethics of Progress
Unlimited Theatre
The Ethics of Progress is a mind melting, jargon free, whistle stop tour of leading edge Quantum Physics, delivered with warmth, wit and charm by Unlimited Theatre’s Artistic Director Jon Spooner. 10+
Arts
8.00pm Wednesday 26 September
LEO
Circle of Eleven
Award winning LEO is a surprising and hilarious one-man piece that defies the laws of gravity. A truly fantastic adventure! 8+ "Alternately funny and poetic....LEO soars" New York Post. At Stamford Arts Centre.
