All Events on Thursday 27 September
Participation
9.30am Thursday 27 September
Conference - Science and Technology Support for Business
SKDC and De Montfort University
A conference for small and medium size companies seeking science and technology development advice, funding and support. With speakers and advice on European funding streams.
Participation
9.30am Thursday 27 September
Education Programme KS3 - Science Museum, Supercool
Show times at 9.30am, 11.15 am and 1.45pm. The Science Museum plays with liquid nitrogen to explore heat and temperature.
Participation
9.30am Thursday 27 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
10.00am Thursday 27 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 Thursday 27 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 Thursday 27 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 Thursday 27 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 Thursday 27 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 Thursday 27 September
Isaac Newton and the Sensorium of God
Dr Stuart Clark
Isaac Newton: quintessential scientist – also alchemist, maverick theologian, and arch-heretic. Just what did Newton mean when he called the Universe: The Sensorium of God?
Arts
12.30pm Thursday 27 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 Thursday 27 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 Thursday 27 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
4.15pm Thursday 27 September
Never at Rest – Newton and his Revolutionary Discoveries
Professor Raymond Flood
One of the world’s greatest mathematicians, Newton made discoveries in mathematics that revolutionised the world and remain important today.
Science
6.00pm Thursday 27 September
Let's Particle
Dr. Hugh Hunt, Professor Val Gibson & Dr. Katie Steckles
From balls to the Higgs Boson, Newton to now. An entertaining dialogue between Dr Hugh Hunt (representing Newton's balls) and Professor Val Gibson (representing the cutting edge of particle collisions), compered by Mathematician, Dr Katie Steckles.
Science
7.30pm Thursday 27 September
Songs of the Stars: the Real Music of the Spheres
Professor Don Kurtz
The real sounds of the stars. See, hear and learn about the relationship of music to stellar sounds.
Arts
8.00pm Thursday 27 September
Hanging Hooke
Take the Space
Christopher Wren loved him. Isaac Newton loathed him. Robert Hooke was an ingenious man, one of the fathers of modern science. Yet he was written out of history. This one man play tells a tale of intrigue and betrayal.
Arts
8.00pm Thursday 27 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+
Participation
9.00pm Thursday 27 September
Science Pub Quiz
Dr Ben Craven
Ask me one on …… science. A pub quiz but you don’t have to be a genius to take part. 18+
