Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th March 2015

dunbarscifest.org.uk • Friday 6th to Sunday 15th March

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•Wacky W

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•Science Stage Shows•

•Diverse Drop-In Sessions•

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NESS LIGHTHOUSE

Friday 6th to

Sunday 8th March

Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th March 2015

DUNBAR PS JOHN MUIR CAMPUS

&

BLEACHINGFIELD COMMUNITY CENTRE

The

award-winning

is back for

Dunbar

SciFest

The 5th amazing weekend-long community science festival for

families in south-east Scotland will lead into British Science week. we are building upon the phenomenal success of last year’s festival, where an extraordinary mix of 83 event providers delivered 100 different events - 227 activities over 11 days to 8,500 visitors.

FAMILY WEEKEND

Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th March

WELCOME

The Dunbar SciFest 2015 Weekend is Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th March 2015 (10am - 5pm both days) in the John Muir Campus of Dunbar Primary School and the Bleachingfield Community Centre, with cafés in both venues. Get stuck into wacky workshops, sit back and enjoy science stage shows and have family fun at diverse drop-in sessions. For under-fives, there’s storytelling and soft play. The stage shows are presented in British Sign Language (BSL) or are BSL/English interpreted.

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SCI-FUN, the University of Edinburgh’s Scottish Science and Technology Roadshow will take over the Bleachingfield Community Centre with 50 interactive science activities that will keep you entertained for hours. After the huge success of 2014, we will again run an Early Bird event for children with Autism Spectrum Condition, giving them and their families exclusive access to experience the SCI-FUN interactive exhibits on Sunday 8th March, 9-10am. Free Admission

After a day full of fun, stay on for our Nights of Light, inspired by the United Nations International Year of Light 2015. Wrap up warm and as the sun sets, board buses in the Dunbar Garden Centre car park to see “The Magic Lantern” light projection show at Barns Ness Lighthouse, Friday 6th, Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th March (6.30-9pm). Process though all the colours of the rainbow, exploring the electromagnetic spectrum that was discovered by the Scottish mathematician & physicist, James Clerk Maxwell. The Barn Ness lighthouse & Keepers’ Cottages will be beautifully illuminated in a magical interpretation of light, shadow and movement in a stunning coastal location.

SCI-

FUN

for all the

family!

Go to our website for details on downloading our

superb SCi-FEST app. Available for Apple &

Android phones.

Dip into drop-in sessions in the Gym Hall, Community Windpower Marquee and a 2nd marquee (new for 2015). Have a go at computer programming; building a body; making molecule models; exploring electricity; investigating archaeo-science or the chemistry of light and exploring the microscopic world or handling exotic animals and local sea creatures and much, much more!

Viridor Stage Shows in the Assembly Hall - sit back and enjoy 4 different science stage shows, including Zap, Crackle and Pop, Mammoths of the Ice Age, Record Breaking Science and some tasty treats from the Sunny Sundaes Trike. The 6 daily performances are presented in British Sign Language or are BSL/ English interpreted.

Workshops - book into ~75 sessions of diverse workshops, ranging from gloriously gruesome organ dissections to computer programming; 3D printers to photo labs, genetics to dinosaurs. Make some exciting discoveries and learn some new supercool skills! Book as soon as you arrive on Saturday or Sunday.

Under-Fives Zone, with soft play and an enclosed playground within the central courtyard garden. Chill out with stories during storyteller sessions running throughout the weekend.

SCI-FUN, the University of Edinburgh’s Scottish Science and Technology Roadshow, will take over the Bleachingfield Community Centre with 50 interactive science activities that will keep you entertained for hours.

Early Bird event for children with Autism Spectrum Condition, provides them & their families exclusive access to experience the SCI-FUN interactive exhibits and activities on Sunday 8th March, 9-10am.

Festival Cafés. Enjoy lunch or some snacks in 2 cafés during the SciFest weekend, within the DPS John Muir Campus Dining Hall & the Bleachingfield Centre.

SOMETHING FOR THE ADULTS

IYL 15 MAGIC LANTERN EVENT

Friday 6th to Sunday 8th March • 6.30pm - 9.00pm

Thursday 12th to Sunday 15th March

Inspired by the United Nations International Year of Light 2015 (IYL15), Dunbar SciFest is proud to present a temporary, participatory light installation & projection show at the Barns Ness Lighthouse. This temporary site-specific light installation event has been designed and installed by the internationally respected lighting designer Malcolm Innes, Senior Research Fellow at Institute for Creative Industries, Edinburgh Napier University and Black Light, Edinburgh, incorporating X-ray images by Hugh Turvey.

Gather in the car park of Dunbar Garden Centre and as the sun sets, board buses to see “The Magic Lantern” at Barns Ness Lighthouse. Process though all the colours of the rainbow, exploring the electromagnetic spectrum in a colonnade of coloured lights bordering the path to the lighthouse. The lighthouse and adjacent buildings will glow gently, beautifully illuminated and constantly changing. Performers in front of the Keepers’ Cottages will interact with the lighting, producing a magical interpretation of light, shadow and movement in

a stunning coastal location. The projection show builds slowly, with light and colour and

pattern gradually revealing the towering lighthouse looming above, telling

the story of humankind’s journey from firelight to our modern high

tech lighting. Discover how a Scottish mathematician

and physicist, James Clerk Maxwell, was

the first person to formulate the theory

of electromagnetic radiation that inspired Albert Einstein.

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THUrSdaY 12th MarCH:

Marine Life of the Firth of Forth. Gibb Room, Bleachingfield Community Centre, 8pm - £5

Delve the depths of the Firth of Forth and discover its marvellous marine life – seabirds, seals, dolphins and whales, sharks, fish and starfish and more exotic visitors such as turtles.

FridaY 13th MarCH:

Rally & Broad Inspirational Women in Science, Dunmuir Hotel, 8pm - £8

Rally & Broad are delighted to bring their eclectic mix of words, music and lyrical delight to Dunbar SciFest! Celebrate the theme of ‘Women in Science’, featuring hosts Jenny Lindsay and Rachel McCrum, science writer and performer Emily Dodd, and the surreal musical stylings of Zara Gladman (Dr) & the Wee Terrors. Come with open ears... This event is brought to you by CoastWord 2015 (Dunbar’s Festival of Words).

SaTUrdaY 14th MarCH:

Fabulous Food and Drink from our Fertile Fields & Rich Seas, The Halls, Bleachingfield Community Centre, 8pm - £8

Enjoy fantastic food and drink, produced locally, interspersed with tasty food-science snippets. SUndaY 15th MarCH:

IYL15 - How Light Inspires Creativity, Dunbar Townhouse, 8.30pm - £5

A panel event featuring Malcolm Innes, Light Artist; Hugh Turvey, international X-ray Artist, Black Light & the Enchanted Forest, Perthshire, plus local poets and writers, in collaboration with CoastWord.

“Trip the

Light(house)

Fantastic”

See Barns Ness

Lighthouse as

you’ve never

seen it before!

Book early as places are limited.

MagiC LanTErn

EVEnT OnLY:

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daY & EVEning:

FaMiLY (2+2): £30

adULTS: £10

CHiLdrEn & COnCESSiOnS: £6

DUNBAR TOWNHOUSE GALLERY

OUTDOOR PROJECTION ExHIBITION

John Muir Birthplace, Dunbar High Street

A digitised version of the Royal Photographic Society exhibition will be projected onto the exterior wall of the John Muir Birthplace during the evenings of Friday 13th to Sunday 15th March. Thanks to Hugh Turvey, international X-ray artist, Malcolm Innes, Light Artist & Senior Research Fellow at Institute for Creative Industries, Edinburgh Napier University and Black Light, Edinburgh.

Running throughout April, this exhibition will consist of elements of Hugh’s current touring exhibition plus bespoke images specially created for Dunbar SciFest featuring X-ray images of key crop species grown in the famously fertile soils of East Lothian plus X-ray images of some of the American plant species featured in the exhibition of John Muir’s pressed botanical prints.

Hugh Turvey is a British artist, photographer and experimentalist who works primarily with X-ray technology. His work fuses art and science, graphic design and pure photography. He was awarded an honorary fellowship by the Royal Photographic Society in 2014 in recognition of his work as an advocate for imaging innovation and its role in the advancement of science and understanding.

Friday 13th to Sunday 15th March

xray Photography by Hugh Turvey

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www.northlightarts.org.uk

“The consequence of in and out,

the visible and invisible.”

Supporting this exhibition, print artist Anna Davis will run family workshops at the Old School Print Studio at West Barns Studios looking at various techniques of printing from plants, including mono-printing and using plant pigments. North Light Arts will run a programme of events in connection with the Hugh Turvey exhibition & the John Muir Festival, with an Artist in Residence plus workshops for adults and families. This ‘Fertile Ground’ programme will work within our local environment, exploring the arts in our wild and community spaces to make individual and collective art works.

...AND NOT FORGETTING!

A special ‘Thank You’ to all our partners including those below

THE EdF EnErgY EdUCaTiOn PrOgraMME

• 5 days • Monday 10th - Friday 13th March

• Workshops delivered within 5 cluster Primary schools, Monday 10th - Thursday 12th March

• Stage Shows delivered within 2 campuses of Dunbar Primary School, Friday 13th March

‘LOOK FOr THE LigHT’

Schools’ and Family Challenge

• Monday 9th February - Sunday 8th March • A collaborative initiative between Dunbar SciFest and the Dunbar Traders Association, this educational activity is based on the different forms of light within the Electromagnetic Spectrum and links to our key 2015 festival themes IYL15. It will run between Monday 9th February & Sunday 8th March. Dunbar businesses will display images from the Electromagnetic Spectrum within their premises during the day and in their windows during the evening for children and families to find and identify in order to complete the challenge.