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What’s on: Grantham Gravity Fields Festival
The Grantham Gravity Fields Festival opens this week for its third year. The five day festival of science, arts, heritage, music, drama and outdoor spectacular with world class performers in and around Grantham will take place between September 21 and 25. Top 20 Festival Events Wednesday, September 21 Plague days school event When: 9.45am –…
The Grantham Gravity Fields Festival opens this week for its third year.
The five day festival of science, arts, heritage, music, drama and outdoor spectacular with world class performers in and around Grantham will take place between September 21 and 25.
Photo: Gravity Fields
Top 20 Festival Events
Wednesday, September 21
Plague days school event
When: 9.45am – 12pm
Where: Woolsthorpe Manor
Price: £4 per student
Experience the plague up close and dangerous. Watch as Greenwich and Lewisham Young People’s Theatre show you exactly what the plague was like.
Anti-gravity box
When: 10am – 8pm
Where: Abbey Gardens
Price: Free
A unique opportunity to experience life where the rules of gravity have changed completely.
Anti-gravity box Photo: Gravity Fields
Ministry of Science
When: 1.30pm (school show) 6.30pm (family show)
Where: Grantham Meres Leisure Centre
Price: £9
Watch this extraordinary science show, which promises to come with a bang, a whoosh and most of all with a hovercraft built on stage.
‘Ulysses Unbound’ and ‘The Stacked Deck’
When: 8.30pm
Where: Guildhall Arts Centre
Price: £12 (£8.50 for schools)
Ulysses Unbound is a thrilling cascade of stunning characters, costumes and imagery. The Stacked Deck Life is a contemporary ballet based on a combative game of cards which four players are all desperate to win.
‘Ulysses Unbound’ and ‘The Stacked Deck’ Photo: Gravity Fields
Speakers including Dr Jen Gupta and female astronomers from the University of Birmingham give a morning of talks and astronomy activity sessions.
Project Sky Cube
When: 10am – 8pm
Where: Guildhall Arts Centre
Price: Free
A creative sound and visual installation which will explore Isaac Newton’s ideas of the ether recorded from Joanna’s microlight aircraft.
Project Sky Cube Photo: Gravity Fields
How to become a genius
When: 4.15pm
Where: Woolsthorpe Manor
Price: £6
Hear from Michael Mosley, a science presenter and journalist, speak about how Galileo, a middle aged maths lecturer with several illegitimate children, had his big breakthrough thanks to the arrival of a Dutchman in Venice with a crude telescope.
School pinhole camera project
When: 10.30am-12pm or 1pm-2.30pm
Where: Grantham Museum
Price: £3 per student
Test the science as student groups have the opportunity to create their own negative photographs. Run by staff and students of Grantham College.
Come and see a selection of special pictures taken all over Grantham and beyond by local artist Kelly Barfoot.
Body of Light
When: 10am-10.40am (for toddlers age two-five) and 5.30pm-6.10pm (for ages three and above)
Where: Guildhall Arts Centre
Price: £3 per participant
Enjoy a fusion of dance and technology as choreography and electronic sounds work together in this presentation by Darren Pritchard.
Body of light. Photo: Gravity Fields
The awesome truth about rainbows
When: 1pm
Where: Woolsthorpe Manor
Price: £6
Join Dr David Fairhurst, an inspirational senior physics lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, as he burns chemicals, sprays vodka, and tracks ants to explore the fascinating science behind rainbows.
Scientific glassblowing
When: 2.30pm
Where: St Wulfram’s Church
Price: Free
Stephen Ramsey, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, will give a talk and demonstration of glassblowing.
Visit the science fair and see demos, table top activities and use amazing technology.
Bubbles and balloons
When: 3pm
Where: Guildhall Arts Centre
Price: £7
Witness giant bubbles and whizzing balloons. In this interactive and memorable show you can explore the best things about bubbles and of balloons.
Bubbles and balloons. Photo: Gravity Fields
Ockhams Razor
When: 1pm – 2.30pm
Where: St Wulfram’s Church
Price: £12
See this critically acclaimed aerial theatre company, which specialises in creating physical theatre on new pieces of aerial equipment, perform a fantastic triple bill including three pieces.
The LED Umbrella Project
When: 9.30pm
Where: St Peter’s Hill
Price: Free
Cirque Bijou presents one hundred choreographed dancers, one hundred LED umbrellas and the town of Grantham as their stage.
Come and see a show featuring an epic tale of love, adventure and a sound-hoover called Mustard.
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall
When: 7pm
Where: Guildhall Arts Centre
Price: £10
Come and see a sci-fi adaptation from Edgar Allan Poe’s novel of the unparalleled journey of bankrupt artisan Hans Pfaall, who, in an attempt to escape his miserable situation, decides to reach the moon by way of a giant gas-balloon.
The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall. Photo: Gravity Fields
The big bang in 60 minutes
When: 12pm
Where: Guildhall Arts Centre
Price: £6 for talk or £9 for talk and a book
Simon Singh, author of Fermat’s Last Theorem and The Code Book, talks about his history of cosmology entitled Big Bang.
Dr Death and the medi-evil medicine show
When: 3pm
Where: Guildhall Arts Centre
Price: £7
A historically and scientifically accurate panto for children and childish people! Join the time-travelling ‘Doctor Death’, Simon Watt, to see if he can ‘cure’ you with animation, puppetry and audience participation. Suitable for ages seven plus.
Simon Watt, also known as Dr Death. Photo: Gravity Fields
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