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Fall 2006 Events

Benjamin Franklin’s Arcs and Sparks
Monday, October 16, 7:00 PM
Being Beakman
Tuesday, October 24, 7:00 PM
Theatre of Science
Thursday, November 9 through Sunday, November 12
A Scientist Goes to the Movies
Friday, November 10, 6:30 PM
Verse and Universe
Friday and Saturday, November 10 and 11
Tesla's Letters
Monday, December 11, 6pm

Benjamin Franklin’s Arcs and Sparks

The spirit of Ben Franklin comes alive as lightning bolts and electrical fire dance on the stage and some of Franklin’s most dramatic experiments are recreated using reproductions of eighteenth-century equipment. Join this celebration of Franklin’s 300th birthday with Jim Hardesty, physics historian and scientific instrument maker.

7136 - Monday, October 16, 2006   7:00 PM
 
Being Beakman

Paul Zaloom is a political satirist and puppeteer, but he’s best known as the title character on the award-winning children’s television series Beakman's World, an irreverent look at science concepts from thermodynamics to the mechanics of flatulence. Beakman's World will return to TV screens in fall 2006 and Zaloom will reveal the creative process in making science hip and entertaining.

7135 - Tuesday, October 24, 2006    7:00 PM
Science + Art Festival 2006
A city-wide celebration of science.  Click for the full schedule of events.
 
Theatre of Science

SPECIAL EVENT at Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue New York, NY 10003.  Ticket purchase required for this event.

Thursday, November 9 through Sunday, November 12, 2006  
 
A Scientist Goes to the Movies

Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium, will screen scenes from the 1997 film Contact. He’ll distinguish science fact from science fiction. Joined by Ann Druyan, who produced the film from the novel by her husband, Carl Sagan.

7134 - Friday, November 10, 2006    6:30 PM
 
Verse and Universe

A series of readings, talks and a panel discussion on poetry inspired by science. Organized by poet Kurt Brown. Participants: Roald Hoffmann, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Forrest Gander and Alison Hawthorne Deming.

7138 - Friday and Saturday, November 10 and 11, 2006  

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  Tesla's Letters, a play by Jeffrey Stanley

An American student goes to war-torn Yugoslavia to research the life, letters and inventions of the great scientist Nikola Tesla.  Bargaining for information, she is drawn into the violence and intrigue ravaging Tesla’s homeland.
A play reading by Break a Leg Productions.  Directed by Christopher Bellis.

7188 - Monday, December 11, 2006    6pm 

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