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UP Projects - Everyday Alien. Image by Heather Barnett
Workshop
The Floating Cinema: Extra-Terrestrial - Everyday Aliens
30 Aug 2015
Event times
15.00 - 16:30 or 17.00 - 18:30
Cost of entry
Tickets: £6.50 /cons £5
Moored at Andrews Road, by Broadway Market
Address
- Moored at Andrews Road, by Broadway Market
- London
- E8 4QJ
- United Kingdom
Sunday 30 August get on board our spectacular Floating Cinema for a hands on slime mould workshop with artist Heather Barnett and take home an unusual pet!
About
15.00 - 16:30 or 17.00 - 18:30 Workshops with Heather Barnett - get hands on with slime mould, an intelligent life form intriguing scientists throughout the world with its impressive capacity to make decisions, solve problems and learn from its environment. Discover the mysterious behaviours of this beautiful brainless blob and take home an unusual pet.
Heather Barnett is a British artist with an international reputation for innovative interdisciplinary work involving scientists, artists, participants and organisms. Working with imaging technologies, photography, and installation, projects have included microbial portraiture, cellular wallpapers, performing cuttlefish and an on-going ‘collaboration’ with the intelligent slime mould, Physarum polycephalum.
Tickets: £6.50 /cons £5
BOOK HERE (select your time)
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This workshop is part of our London programme of activities running through until 20 September...
The Floating Cinema: Extra-Terrestrial London Programme: 21 August — 20 September
Our Extra-Terrestrial programme highlights include:
*Two Open Air Weekenders: Three Mills, Bow and Granary Square in King’s Cross exploring ‘Others on Earth’ and ‘Humans in Space’
*Open Air Premiere: Michael Madsen’s 2015 The Visit, 23 August
*Events / Workshops: get hands on with slime-mould with Heather Barnett; be inspired with a sense of awe and wonder about the universe with on board sky-gazing with super/collider; draw on your artistic talent in our comic workshops with House of Illustration; immerse yourselves into other worlds through screenings of space-comic classics; build your own costumes to create an alien invasion!; and DON’T MISS our sci-fi spectacular fancy dress screenings — Flash Gordon and The Day the Earth Stood Still…
*Open Air Screenings of artist Shezad Dawood’s 2013 film Piercing Brightness and sci-fi cult classics The Day The Earth Stood Stilland Flash Gordon (a fancy-dress must).
FULL DETAILS: http://bit.ly/Extra-T
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