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What’s on...

Science events include...

Wonderful World of Mr E

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International Images for Science Exhibition

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Showcasing an extraordinary variety of scientific photography

Engineering The Climate

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Set your imagination dial to infinite

One Giant Leap

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A funny and serious spin through the solar system

Diableries: Stereoscopic Adventures 20 in Hell A stereoscopic journey through 19th century 3D photographs

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Space Activities - St Wulfram's and Harlaxton

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National Space Centre- rocket making, portable planetarium...

Heritage events include...

Panel discussion on climate theories

The Goldberg Variations

Reporting The Weather

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Talk and recital of Johann Sebastian Bach’s acclaimed Goldberg Variations

Looking back to the scientist’s lodging days with apothecary William Clarke

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Gravity - Special Effects in Space

N ewton’s private writings and their path through history

TV coverage gets more complicated

Dark Side of the Universe Telescopes to map invisible dark matter

Science Futures

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Women in Science

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How the place of women in science is changing

Charles Darwin

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Exploring Darwin’s celebrity and science

All Things Bright and Beautiful

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Bright coloured animals and plants

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Learn about the world’s biggest experiment, the Large Hadron Collider

Medical Myths and Misconceptions

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Discover the truth behind 10 common medical myths

Festival of the Spoken Nerd

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Late evening science comedy and entertainment

Life at the Collider

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What’s next for the Large Hadron Collider?

Stuff Matters

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Find out why the world is to become a lot stranger

Newton in Space

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British ESA Astronaught Tim Peake heads into space

Exoplanets, the Quest for the New Worlds of the Cosmos

A look at the creative and innovative shooting of this award winning film and 3D showing

A joke-filled, song-filled lecture like you have never seen before

Metropolis 26 Screened with live organ accompaniment by St Paul’s Cathedral organist Simon Johnson

Smashed 33 Chasing the Eclipse

How do you fit 4000 years of science into 400 pages?

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An outdoor celestial dance spectacle

Colossus Awakes (see outdoor events)

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A new Giant of Science begins to awake

Return of the Colossus - A new Giant 39 of Science Emerges (see outdoor events) Colossus collects insight from the Giants of Science and the people of Grantham

The Dancer's Brain

#Newtontreeparty

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Celabration of Newton's family routes in Lincolnshire

The Newton Journey from Ink to Digital

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The project to digitise and preserve Newton’s papers online

The Town and Times of Sir Isaac Newton

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Places, lifestyle and customs during Newtons formative years

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Participation events include...

Lincolnshire Ploughman's Moveable Feast In Newton's Footsteps - Walks 1 & 2

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Walking old routes and pathways

The night sky over the Vale of Belvoir from stunning Harlaxton Manor

A new choral Cantata about the powerful people who founded the great cathedral

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A mystery tour of Grantham’s restaurants

Zooniverse Stargazing

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Talk and tastings of Lincolnshire beer, bread and cheese

The Building of Ely

Titeretù (see outdoor events)

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Five giant puppeteer hands

Family events include...

Greatest Hits - Science Museum

Food for Thought - Festival Closing Dinner

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Celebrate with Patrons, production teams and speakers

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Special festival bookshop during the week at Grantham Guildhall Arts Centre. Book signings in Mayor's Parlour in the Guildhall Thursday September 25. See website for details.

Favourite science demos packed into one show

Bubbles and Balloons Explore the best bits of bubbles and balloons

Family Science Fun Day

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Drop-in science exhibits and activities

Family Concert of Film Sci Fi Music Favourite sci-fi film and TV tunes

For more information and to book tickets:

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Hidden for more than 200 Years

Find out how the brain governs a Ballet dancer’s body

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Newton and the Apothecary

A mesmerising mix of juggling and theatre

The search for planetary systems orbiting other stars

4,000 Years of Science

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Albert Einstein Relativitively Speaking 26

Leading scientists debate topical issues

CERN Live

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Welcome to Gravity Fields...

For most of my life I have been fascinated to the point of

Explore, Wonder and Celebrate - we are off on a new five day Newton adventure with our festival of science, arts and heritage.

I am particularly proud, therefore, to become a patron of Gravity Fields Festival inspired by Sir Isaac Newton.

The 2014 programme brings to fulfilment two years of planning since the first festival in 2012. Audiences responded wonderfully, as did contributing scientists and artists. We transformed Grantham, introduced festival fever across South Kesteven, and hope to do the same with Gravity Fields Festival 2014.

obsession by a strange boy who lodged in a Grantham attic and grew to become one of the world’s most influential thinkers.

It has the potential to be the major forum for showcasing both historical and modern British science and bring together expertise from a range of institutions.

Grantham is a natural setting. It’s where it all began and I hope the festival prompts interest in local scientific, religious and social heritage.

William Stukeley related that Newton’s early love of the natural world and his great model-constructing skills were omens of his later excellence in the sciences, particularly his experimental work.

His landlord William Clarke’s religious views must also have rubbed off on his lodger. My interest in him started at school, continued through university and a PhD and now half my working life is spent on the Newton Project collating online all his writings, published or not. Five million words of Newton’s religious writings are now freely available online.

One of the most interesting texts contains an extended section on how he thought godly people like himself should avoid inflaming the imagination (the main source of sin) by avoiding opportunities for idle thoughts and deeds.

There is little chance of either idle deeds or thoughts as we gear up for Gravity Fields 2014. I am looking forward to it immensely.

Professor Rob Iliffe

Newton Project Gravity Fields Festival Patron The Newton Project: dedicated to publishing online all of Sir Isaac Newton’s writings — whether printed or not

Some of the country’s leading scientists and historians are supporting us with talks and workshops. Leading science institutions such as the Science Museum, National Space Centre and university outreach teams will offer educational and science events. We thank Trinity College Cambridge and Cummins Generator Technologies for support of our science outreach programme.

We are grateful once again for Arts Council England support, enabling us to offer a focus on outdoor arts with scientific themes involving hundreds of local people. Catalan artists Itinerània bring their intriguing installation - Titeretú. A ‘Colossus’ will be created as part of our Giants of Science outdoor event, and Chasing the Eclipse will provide a celestial dance spectacle, three highlights of what promise to be five spell-binding days.

Since August 2013 we have been running a partner project, the Heritage Lottery Fund supported ‘Lincolnshire’s Age of Scientific Discovery’. Local historians, volunteers, researchers and young people have added to knowledge of Newton and his fellow 17th century Lincolnshire philosophers.

We have explored Newton’s family tree and the villages and old routes they would have known, which will be recreated with our ‘In Newton’s Footsteps’ walks. Events prompted by the heritage project research include a new exhibition at Grantham Museum.

On a personal note I would like to thank our new Patrons, Professor Valerie Gibson, Professor Rob Iliffe and Dallas Campbell, for their support and enthusiasm, plus the numerous individuals who generously give their time and advice.

Rosemary Richards Festival Director

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With thanks...

The 2014 Gravity Fields Festival is testament to the ongoing appetite for a festival which celebrates the local area’s close ties to Sir Isaac Newton and puts 21st century South Kesteven on the map.

The Gravity Fields Festival is a contemporary mix of science, arts and heritage events, and could not be staged without the tremendous support of numerous partners and individuals.

Grateful thanks are due to South Kesteven District Council's councillors and staff for their hard work and support and our ever expanding team of volunteers.

We also owe thanks to an extended range of sponsors and grant awarding bodies,

plus the many organisations and individuals who have given time, ideas, energy and space.

Arts Council England has generously supported the outdoor arts events of the 2014 festival and, through their touring grants, has also enabled the festival to bring several of the arts exhibitions and performances. The festival also benefits from our partner project Lincolnshire’s Age of Scientific Discovery, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

This project began in 2013 and has allowed volunteers to research publish and exhibit material relating to Newton and 17th century Lincolnshire.

your council working for you Festival Director: Rosemary Richards, Rosa Productions Heritage and Communities Producer: Ameneh Enayat Creative Producers: Jeremy James, Claudine King Dabbs Technical Manager (non SKDC venues and events): Tim Mountain Health and Safety Advisor: John Sursham Arts Centres Technical Management: South Kesteven District Council Creative Consultants: Siân Ede, Tish Francis, Professor Valerie Gibson, Professor Rob Iliffe, Dr Emma Walker Processions Design: Emergency Exit Arts

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Local Artists: Arts staff at Grantham College led by AnneMarie Kerr, Claire Daniel, Dee Sowden, Jayne Ballaam, Sue Rowland, Strawberry Glass Museum Exhibitions Curator: Jim Grevatte Local historians and researchers (Lincolnshire’s Age of Scientific Discovery): John Down, John Manterfield, Ruth Crook, Marilyn Campbell and the volunteers at Woolsthorpe Manor, University of the Third Age, the Civic Society, Grantham College and Grantham Museum Web and Social Media: Paul Wilson, Eye Division, SKDC Press & PR: SKDC Communications Team Patrons: Professor Valerie Gibson Professor Rob Iliffe Dallas Campbell

A festival for everyone!

Steering Group: Grantham College National Trust South Kesteven District Council St Wulfram’s Church Grantham Business Club Grantham Civic Society Grantham Journal University of Lincoln Public Funding: South Kesteven District Council Arts Council England Science and Technology Facilities Council Institute of Physics Heritage Lottery Fund Science Outreach Supporters Trinity College, Cambridge Cummins Generator Technologies Additional Sponsors, Host Partners and Supporters: Angel & Royal Hotel BBC ChristChurch, Finkin Street De Montfort University The George Centre Grantham Baptist Church Grantham Estates Grantham Museum Harlaxton Manor King’s School, Grantham National Trust The Royal Society The Urban Hotel, Grantham St Wulfram’s Church Viking Signs Liberty Gas Foster Property Maintenance Robert Woodhead

Thank you to the Grantham Retailers' Association for staging a Treasure Trail with downloadable Loyalty App for exclusive festival food and retail offers. See page 51

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Growth of a Festival

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ew of us truly knew what to expect in 2012 when South Kesteven District Council staged the first Gravity Fields Festival.

We had a shared belief with our partners on the Steering Group that a festival commemorating Sir Isaac Newton - born and brought up locally - was a perfect fit and worthy of our investment.

It was a long overdue celebration of a man considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist and thinker who ever lived.

What we were treated to was simply awe-inspiring, from the breadth and scope of speakers to exhibitions that widened our understanding of Newton’s work and outdoor events that literally stopped

the traffic. Grantham’s finale showstopper, drawing 15,000 people to the town, will live long in the memory.

So it is with great pleasure that we present Gravity Fields Festival 2014 with a programme that promises much by way of enjoyment and enlightenment and an event this council can be proud of.

We are extremely grateful to the Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund and all other sponsors and thank local companies, organisations, schools, voluntary groups and businesses for their support.

Councillor Linda Neal Leader, South Kesteven District Council

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ravity, optics, and studies of the universe ...they are all synonymous with one man: Sir Isaac Newton.

He was born on Christmas Day 1642 at Woolsthorpe Manor near Grantham, the same year that Galileo died. From the age of 12 he attended the King’s School in Grantham, lodging with an apothecary in the town’s High Street.

He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge but the plague years forced him home, where he conducted some of the most important experiments of his life on light, optics and the universe, and developed his theories on calculus and gravity.

The schoolboy Newton loved colours, making inks and melting metals, writing cures and developing potions. He built his own telescope and sundials and made working models of windmills and carts.

Leaving Cambridge in his late forties, Newton moved to London and became Master of the Royal Mint. In 1672 he became a member of the Royal Society - at the forefront of science since its foundation in 1600 - and was elected President in 1703. He held that position for the rest of his life, reflecting the esteem of the scientific community.

Isaac Newton 1642 - 1727

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Education masterclasses – science outreach gold dust Gravity Fields Festival has compiled a packed education programme with an unrivalled range of curriculum-related science, human science, arts and history events and festival visits.

With leading scientists, science shows, science institutions, historians and artists coming to Grantham, the festival represents a unique opportunity for schools and colleges; a true masterclass on the doorstep.

A range of events is offered in packages for pupils aged 3 to 18, with workshops, fun science shows, stimulating science and history activities and displays - including free science displays and exhibitions.

Special pre-festival arts participation workshops are running - plus events on Saturday 27th September for local schools. A dedicated Education Pack is available online.

Festival Week Education Highlights: Theatre: One Giant Leap and Albert Einstein: Relativitively Speaking

To whet the appetite...

Workshops: National Space Centre: Rockets and Life in Space Science Museum shows: Danger High Voltage, Glorious Blood and Greatest Hits plus...

George Centre Science Fair and 3D Digital, Zooniverse and Robotic Telescope Workshops plus...

Astronomy, Weather, Light, Optics, Physics, Medical, Heritage and Arts programme

National Space Centre Rockets Workshop - Years 2 to 5 Make your own rocket to fire at a moon target

Zooniverse & Robotic Telescopes Astronomy workshops – KS4 and 6th Form Zooniverse Schools workshop led by Dr Chris Lintott, BBC Sky at Night

Outdoor Spectacles and Processions Packages for Half Day Experience for Pre School and KS1- £3.50 per student/ teacher with one free place per 10 booked Packages for Full Day Experience - £7 per student/ teacher with one free place per 10 booked All details on web site or call the Box Office 01476 406158 to discuss programme and options

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Danger High Voltage Science Museum Show KS3 only Hair-raising high-voltage demonstrations on electricity and magnetism

National Space Centre – Life in Space Years 4 to 9 What’s it like to be an astronaut? Is it fun or a dangerous occupation – or both?

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Festival Science Outreach is supported

by Trinity College, Cambridge Professor Valerie Gibson, the most senior woman scientist at Trinity College and Grantham born, is a community governor of Newton’s old school (King’s), was only the second person from Grantham to sign the Trinity Fellows' ‘Big Book’ and her office at CERN in Geneva overlooks the Rue Newton. The festival is also pleased to welcome Dr Hugh Hunt and Dr Harry Cliff of Trinity College.

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he relationship between Sir Isaac Newton and Trinity College was pivotal to both, which was highlighted in Gravity Fields 2012 and developed further this year.

Newton’s whole academic life - from 1661 to 1696 - was spent at Trinity, first as an undergraduate and then as a Fellow from 1667. In that time he formulated a version of calculus and the principles of universal gravitation.

of the Royal Society and to share his ideas with other philosophers, and his position brought him into contact with many other great thinkers of the period including Leibniz, Hooke, Flamsteed, and Halley.

Life at Trinity has changed greatly over the centuries but the strong academic tradition has been maintained. Today Trinity College had been established the College is part of a forwardfor just over 100 years when Newton looking University renowned for arrived, and was still developing during the excellence of its teaching and his time in Cambridge. research.

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Because of the outbreak of the plague in Cambridge, Newton returned to his childhood home at Woolsthorpe Manor in summer 1665 until 1667. During these years, he developed his theories of calculus and experimented on white light and refraction, nearly blinding himself in the process.

The Wren Library contains many treasures, including books from Sir Isaac Newton’s own library.

Princes, spies, poets and prime ministers have all been taught here, and members of the College have gone on to a very wide range of professions.

Returning to Cambridge he installed two furnaces in a shed in the grounds of Trinity College for alchemical experiments, made the first functioning reflecting telescope and continued with his studies and teaching.

Trinity College is pleased to support the Gravity Fields Festival science outreach and education programme, offering an exciting introduction to many aspects of science to residents of Lincolnshire and to educational institutions and visitors to the festival.

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Events through the festival...

CERN Live Uniquely commissioned for the Gravity Fields Festival this exciting exhibition is all about the world’s biggest experiment, the Large Hadron Collider.

Discover how scientists use it to hunt Higgs bosons, dark matter and answer questions about how our universe began. The exhibition includes speakers from the Large Hadron Collider, live links with CERN and an exhibition with interactive elements.

Live presentations to include exhibition curator Dr Harry Cliff (Friday 12.00pm), exhibition advisor Professor Val Gibson (Saturday 10.15am) and Professor Tara Shears (Saturday 1.30pm). All are physicists working on the CERN Large Hadron Collider experiment. There will be a live Virtual Tour of CERN and video presentations of CERN and its activities. A detailed schedule will be produced in early September and published on our website www.gravityfields.co.uk.

Timings of live sessions are given below. CERN Live is curated by Dr Harry Cliff, supported by the Science and Technology Facilities Council.

St Wulfram's Church FREE Friday (schools and public opening) Times: 9:30am – 4pm live sessions at noon, 1.30pm and 3pm Saturday (Public) Times: 9.30am – 4.30pm live sessions at 10.15am 11.30am 1.30pm and 3pm Plus evening 6pm – 9.30 (see Outdoor Events)

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International Images for Science Exhibition The Royal Photographic Society exhibits across two sites at Belton House and Grantham Museum.

Showcasing an extraordinary variety of scientific photography, this exhibition explores worlds we can only imagine with images to inform, question and inspire.

Volatile Light

FREE Exhibition over 2 sites

Market Stores, Conduit Lane (next to The Conduit Café) FREE Wed 24: 9.30am - 5pm Thurs 25: 9.30am - 9.30pm Fri 26: 9.30am - 5pm Sat 27: 9.30am - 9.30pm Sun 28: 12noon - 4.30pm

(free entry vouchers for exhibition at Belton are available online or at box office)

Exhibition at Belton is mainly outdoor (9.30am to 5.30pm) with electronic visual display open normal house hours (12.30-5pm) Exhibition at Grantham Museum is open Weds 24-Fri 26: 1.30pm - 2.30pm and 3pm to 5pm and Sat 27: 9.30am - 9.30pm Sun 28: 12 noon - 4.30pm

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In Newton’s time advances in optics meant the discovery of new types of telescopes and the introduction of the microscope.

Step out of the town centre and into a different world. Experience an all-enveloping combination of light and sound with you at the centre of a miniature, wrap-around universe of moving lights and sounds.

Reflections:

A light and sound installation which immerses you in a place somewhere between a set for Star Wars and a journey into space.

Originally comissioned by Junction, Goole

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George Centre Science Fair

Newton’s Grantham: Grantham’s Newton A new exhibition about the world in which Sir Isaac Newton lived in 17th century Grantham and 17th century science, and how Grantham has celebrated Newton since his lifetime.

With a live apothecary demonstration for all ages. Part of Lincolnshire’s Age of Scientific Discovery.

Grantham Museum FREE Duration: Wed 24 – Fri 26: 9:30am - 5pm Sat 27: 9:30am - 9.30pm Sun 28: 12noon - 4.30pm

Drop by science exhibits and activities may vary each day. Exhibitors include: University of Newcastle: Street Science University of Lincoln: PRaVDA exhibition stand University of Hull: River Bed in a Box Society for Microbiology: Reveal hidden bacteria Royal Veterinary College: Astounding Animals British Crystallography Association: Interactive display Cummins Generator Technologies: Exhibition stand See Saturday Family Science Fun Day on Saturday listings for details.

The George Centre FREE Wed 24 – Fri 26: 9:30am - 5pm

‘Altered’ -’Contemporary Art in Ancient Churches’ presents

Ophelia’s Ghost – Installation Created through digital projection and silent storytelling from Davy and Kristin McGuire’s award-winning studio, audience members are brought face to face with Ophelia at the moment of her watery demise. The setting, St John the Baptist’s Church, lends an atmosphere of ancient peace to this moving and beautiful work.

St John the Baptist Church, Colsterworth FREE Sat 27: 10am – 7pm Sun 28: 10am – 7pm

Science Outreach is supported by:

This exibition is part of Lincolnshire's Age of Scientific Discovery supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund

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9:15am & 10:45am

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Rockets Schools Workshop

National Space Centre Grantham Guildhall Tickets: School bookings Duration: 1hr From the National Space Centre. Learn how rockets work then make a rocket and fire it at a target.

Reflections:

Sir Isaac Newton was an enthusiastic model maker. As a child in Grantham he built models of local windmills, lanterns and objects around him.

Virtual World 9:45am onwards Schools 3D Computer Let’s Tell a ‘Stary’ Design Workshop Schools Storytelling IOU Volatile Light team Julia Damassa

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Grantham Museum Tickets: School bookings Duration: 9.30am and 1.30pm 1hr 30 mins, 11.30am 1hr The IOU Virtual World workshop allows participants to learn about 3D design, along with the ability to gain an understanding of computer programming, virtual reality and gaming technology.

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As players create shapes and ‘skin’ they learn about the effects of gravitational forces.

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The George Centre Tickets: School bookings Duration: 45mins with repeats Enjoy creating your own stars and stories which tell of the wonders of the planets and night sky.

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An introduction to astronomy for young children.

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Cool Astronomy and Weather - Schools Workshop KS2

Cool Science Workshops

The George Centre Tickets: School bookings £4 for individual bookings Duration: 45mins with repeats Cool Science Workshops. A focus on astronomy and weather for these entertaining, hands-on, fun science demonstrations with an amazing collection of original equipment and materials.

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Discovering science, the universe and having fun.

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Walk at Culverthorpe Hall

Start: Culverthorpe Lakes Community Walks Team SKDC Meeting Point: Culverthorpe Lakes Car Park, NG32 3NQ (between Oasby and Culverthorpe) Tickets: £1 booking fee numbers limited so book to guarantee a place Duration: 1hr 30mins for the walk followed by 1hr talk and refreshments.

Join this four mile ‘easy’ walk around the parklands and surroundings of Culverthorpe Hall which was built by Sir Isaac Newton’s cousin Sir John Newton.

It is known that Isaac Newton visited with Humphrey Babington.

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New Uses for Old Weather

Dr Philip Brohan

The King’s School, Grantham Tickets: £4 Duration: 1hr To understand how the climate has changed, a team of thousands of volunteer researchers are reading and analysing millions of archived records from 100 and more years ago.

Award winning climate scientist Philip Brohan tells of his quest to discover old weather observations and new insights into history through ‘Old Weather’ - a project which scoured ships’ logs recovering Arctic and worldwide weather observations made by United States ships since the mid-19th century.

The success of Old Weather also depended on the efforts of the Zooniverse team who built the novel website interface which allowed the public to digitize data with minimum effort. King’s School capacity 150

Reflections:

Modern weather science relies fundamentally on tools and concepts. introduced by Newton

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Life in Space Schools Workshop Yrs 4-9 National Space Centre

Grantham Guildhall Tickets: School bookings Duration: 1hr Learn about life in space.

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Scientific Imaging

Dr Afzal Ansary Angel & Royal Hotel, Grantham Tickets: £4 Duration: 1hr

Dr Ansary is a Fellow of the British Institute of Professional Photography, The Royal Photographic Society and Honorary Fellow of the Master Photographers' Association.

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Weighing the Planets - One Giant Leap Schools Workshop KS4 Wee Stories Theatre Company Dr Catherine Heymans The King’s School Grantham Tickets: School Bookings Duration: 1hr 30mins Workshop to weigh the Earth and the Moon. Dr Catherine Heymans.

Accompanying the opening of the Royal Photographic Society International Images for Science exhibition in Grantham, curator Dr Afzal Ansary describes his global search for the best science images.

Dr Ansary’s research research and his belief in the importance of science photography has been behind the stunning pictures in the International Images for Science Exhibition for the Royal Photographic Society on show during the festival (see Exhibitions). His lifetime of working in medical and scientific imaging photography makes him eminently suitable to explain the importance of imaging for science.

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Grantham Guildhall Ticket: £10; Concessions £7 and school bookings via Box Office Duration: 1hr 15mins A funny and serious spin through the solar system and back down to earth.

The highly acclaimed One Giant Leap was programmed as part of the Made in Scotland showcase at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

"The play encourages its young audience to explore and understand our universe.

Edinburgh Spotlight Review"

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Diamond Light Source Dr David Price Angel & Royal Hotel, Grantham Tickets: £4 Duration: 1hr Diamond is the UK’s synchrotron light facility. Hear how it creates and uses extremely bright light to perform cutting edge science.

‘Possibly one of the most ambitious works of children’s theatre ever created’ concluded a national newspaper about this magic piece of theatre that went down a storm at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

One Giant Leap from the Wee Stories Theatre Company is an impossiblemade-possible attempt to bring the whole universe into a theatre and into our understanding, using a tennis ball, a wastepaper basket and a dash of theatrical invention!

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Engineering the Climate Panel Discussion St Wulfram’s Church Ticket: £4 Duration: 1hr Dr Hugh Hunt, University of Cambridge, and Dr Matthew Watson, University of Bristol, and scientist colleagues involved in the climate engineering debate in the UK. What are the implications for the different climate engineering theories and possible experimentation? The panel discussion will examine those theories and experimentation and discuss whether they are even too dangerous to contemplate!

Researchers have suggested geoengineering technologies such as dissolving mountains and putting remains in the sea and, less dramatically, perhaps, filing the ocean with iron filings to stimulate algae blooms.

Perhaps then, we are right to be revolted and alarmed at such desperate measures, potentially the clearest indication that we have failed as planetary stewards.

The session will include filmed extracts from other contributors.

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Floods, heatwaves, storms, even the odd hurricane ... 2014 marks the 60 year anniversary of the first weather forecast on BBC Television.

Fulbeck Bread, Oldershaws Brewery and Long Clawson Dairy

BBC Head of Weather Liz Howell and colleagues discuss how reporting the weather on TV has become an ever more challenging business.

Grantham Guildhall Ticket: £7, Concessions £5 Duration: 1hr 30mins

Reporting the Weather Lincolnshire Liz Howell BBC Head of Weather Ploughman’s – the Science of St Wulfram’s Church Free Lincolnshire food Duration: 45mins and beer

In that time it has gone from early forecasts and simple graphics (and memorable moments such as Michael Fish’s confident prediction in 1987 that there would be no hurricane) to the recent launch of the BBC Weather app, with five million downloads in its first few months.

Their output now ranges from global reports to extremely detailed local weather reports and predictions.

Global weather phenomena are up there with the top news bulletins.

One thing is for sure; the UK audience is obsessed with weather, but it remains a very difficult country to forecast. One man’s snow is another man’s pleasure; many people are glued to the forecast affecting their daily lives both for pleasure and essential business.

Join Liz and colleagues to hear about the role of BBC weather today, the skill sets required and how producers and presenters combine to get the weather stories out.

Sample the very best local food and drink with a celebration of traditional ploughman’s. Heading the menu are Long Clawson Dairy, Fulbeck Bread and Oldershaws Brewery with opportunities to sample their produce. Speakers include Linda Hewett, expert bread maker from Fulbeck Bread, Oldershaws Brewery, a successful micro-brewery and producers of bespoke beers such as St Pancras brew sold in St Pancras Hotel, and Long Clawson Dairy - cheesemakers for over a century. Other exhibitors include The Trickling Tap, With Chocolate, The Savvy Food Company, Grantham Gingerbread, Indulgence Delivered and The Stamford Deli.

Reflections:

In the 1600s weak beer was the staple drink with meals. Times may have changed with beer drinking but bread and cheese has remained a staple of our diet through the centuries.

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Greatest Hits Science Museum Stamford Arts Centre Ticket: £7, Concessions £5 Duration: 1hr All our favourite science demos packed into one exhilarating show.

Science Museum

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The Dark Side of the Universe

Dark stuff, the universe, and perhaps needing some new physics to truly understand it and change our cosmic view. That is the opinion of Dr Catherine Heymans, astrophysicist at the Institute for Astronomy in Edinburgh who has used some of the world’s best telescopes to map a truly cosmic battle.

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Science Futures

How is science changing our world?

What current research will change the way we live? What are the big moral scientific dilemmas of the future?

The King’s School, Grantham Ticket: £4 Duration: 1hr

Three centuries after the time of Sir Isaac Newton our understanding of the planets is still not complete. Just over 95% of our universe comes in the shrouded form of dark energy and dark matter that we can neither explain nor directly detect.

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St Wulfram’s Church Ticket price: £7, concessions £5 Duration: 1hr 30mins

Dr Catherine Heymans

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Professor Valerie Gibson Professor Andrew Hunter Professor John Burn Dr Melody Clark

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Dr Catherine Heymans, astrophysicist at the Institute for Astronomy in Edinburgh, has used some of the world’s best telescopes to map out the invisible dark matter in our Universe.

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Urban Stargazing Grantham Astonomers St Wulfram’s Church Free outdoor event Duration: 1hr 30mins Join Grantham’s own astronomers to look at the night sky from the town centre.

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Newton attended the King’s School Grantham and even now at night the lane between the Church and the Old School is darker than many modern roads.

Put your questions to some of the top UK scientists including: Professor Sir John Burn, Professor Clinical Genetics, Newcastle University, Chair Genetics Speciality Group, National Institute of Health Resarch 2009-2015 and Director of the Collaborative Group on Genetics in Healthcare (NIHR and Dept. of Health)2009-2015 Professor Valerie Gibson, Professor in High Energy Physics, Chair Cavendish Personnel Committee, Fellow and Director of Studies at Trinity College and UK Spokesperson for the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in CERN, Geneva Professor Andrew Hunter, Professor of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Head of the new College of Science at University of Lincoln.

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Dr Melody Clark, Genomic Scientist and Project Leader at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge on STEM skills and science funding.

Dr Clark joined the British Antarctic Survey in August 2003 at the time very little was known about the DNA of Antarctic organisms Panellists will discuss the future of their field of science with illustrative images and film extracts. Audience questions will be gathered at the start of the event and selected to put forward to the panel.

This event will be chaired by Justin Webb, radio presenter.

Our event start time allows you to offer questions to the production team before the debate and a range of questions will be selected with the proposers of these questions invited to put their questions personally to the panel.

Newton’s scientific discoveries have affected our whole understanding of science for centuries. This debate looks into the future to discuss the next big changes in how we understand the world around us and universe.

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Something Nasty in the Woodshed

Late Night Festival Music Grantham Guildhall Ticket: £5 Duration: 2hrs See Finge Events on page 48

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Colour Experiments Ben Craven Grantham Guildhall Tickets: £4, for school bookings call the box office Duration: 1hr Dr Ben Craven explores the delights and surprises of colour vision in this talk packed full of colour demonstrations.

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Isaac Newton performed some of the earliest work on how light and the senses of colour are linked.

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Thurs & Fri 9.30am – 4.30pm Sat 9.30am – 3.00pm; 5pm 9.30pm (Eye Magic Only)

Eye Magic! and Camera Obscura Higgler Grantham Museum St Peter's Hill outside Free outdoor event Drop in event

T Atthow Esq & Mistress Rouse invite you to enter the tented Camera Obscura to admire a moving prospect – in colour!

Drop in and visit through the day and discover other pieces of Eye Magic from Newton’s time onwards. Includes prisms like Newton’s and you can learn of his amazing discoveries.

Danger! High Voltage!

Science Show for Schools - KS3

Grantham Guildhall Tickets: School bookings Duration: 1hr High voltage demos in this hair-raising show about electricity and magnetism.

This show is specifically aimed at KS3 students and is brought to you.

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Light Fantastic: the science of light and colour – Schools workshop Peter Vukusic Angel & Royal Hotel, Grantham Tickets: School bookings Duration: 1hr Join Peter Vukusic for an educational seminar. This engaging seminar will enhance students' understanding of the science of light and colour from the perspectives of biology, physics and chemistry. Using demonstrations and easy-to-follow explanations it will form a holistic picture of the important principles of light and colour for plants, animals and for human technology.

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Virtual World Schools 3D Computer Design Workshop IOU Volatile Light team

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Materials in Action Schools Workshops KS3, 4, 5

Dr Diane Aston Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining The King’s School, Grantham Tickets: School bookings Duration: 1hr An interactive lecture with Diane Aston with separate workshops aimed at KS3, 4 and 5 looking at how developments in materials science and engineering have helped to change the world we live in.

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The headquarters of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining is based in Grantham at the Boilerhouse. The Institute is a global network for professionals in the materials field.

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Let’s Tell a ‘Stary’ Schools Storytelling Julia Damassa The George Centre Free Duration: 45mins with repeats See Wednesday on pg 10 for more information.

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Cool Light and Optics - Schools Workshop KS2

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Historic Gardening - Garden Walk and Garden Tools

Cool Science Workshops

Historic Gardener Mike Brown

The George Centre Tickets: School bookings Duration: 45mins with repeats

Belton House Ticket: £4 for talk. This ticket will allow entry to the grounds only.

Duration: 1hr

A focus on Light and Optics for these entertaining, hands-on, fun science demonstrations with an amazing collection of original equipment and materials.

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Discovering science, light and optics and having fun.

Garden Walk and Garden Tools. Historic Gardener Mike Brown offers an outdoor talk and tour around Belton House gardens, with display of 17th century gardening tools and techniques.

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Walk at Great Gonerby

Community Walks Team SKDC Community Walks Team SKDC Meeting Point: Parking by St

Sebastian Church, High Street, Great Gonerby, Lincs NG31 8LN

Ticket: £1 booking fee. Numbers are limited so book to guarantee a place.

Duration: 1hr 45mins This walk is inspired by the windmill which used to be at the top of Gonerby Hill.

Newton was intrigued by the windmill and made models of windmills and lanterns.

Newton would walk out towards Gonerby to look at the windmill. Meeting point and walk length to be confirmed. Call or look for details online.

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Women in Science

Live Broadcast. Professor Valerie Gibson, Sasha Norris and Liz Beckmann St Wulfram’s Church Free, For school bookings call the Box Office Duration: 1hr

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Glorious Blood Science Show for Schools KS2

Science Museum Grantham Guildhall Ticket: School booking Duration: 1hr Blood, guts…gross. Follow the blood through the human body, and out of it….

Brought to you by the team from the Science Museum in London.

BBC Radio Lincolnshire’s Nicola Gilroy hosts a live broadcast edition of her Lunch Bunch focussing on the role of women in science with leading UK women scientists including Professor Valerie Gibson (Physicist), Sasha Norris (zoologist and environmentalist) and Liz Beckmann, past-President of the British Institute of Radiology. Audience please arrive at 11.40 to be seated by 11.45. As historian of science Naomi Oreskes said recently, "The question is not why there haven't been more women in science; the question is rather why we have not heard more about them." Our panel of women scientists discuss how the place of women in science is changing.

Hear about the place women scientists have held in history, and the role they play in science now.

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How to Build a Quantum Computer Professor Danny Segal Grantham Guildhall Ticket: £4 Duration: 1hr What are ‘Quantum Computers’?

Working with single atoms and photons may allow the construction of ‘quantum computers’ to perform hitherto impossibly hard computational tasks.

Physics is underpinned by ‘Quantum Mechanics’ which has some weird features that emerge in the behaviour of very small things. By working with single atoms and photons it may be possible to harness ‘quantum weirdness’ to perform computational tasks that are simply impossible using current computers, creating a ‘quantum computer’.

Professor Daniel Segal is an experimental physicist working in the general area of trapped ions and laser spectroscopy.

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The wave-description of light, as championed in Newton’s time by Huygens, is supported by a wide body of evidence.

Nonetheless Newton believed light to be composed of particles.

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Science and the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society in the 18th Century Dr Michael Honeybone & Dr Diana Honeybone

Angel & Royal Hotel, Grantham Tickets: £4 Duration: 1hr An insight into the lives of Spalding Gentlemen’s Society members Sir Isaac Newton and William Stukeley. Dr Michael Honeybone & Dr Diana Honeybone.

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Newton was a member of the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society and encouraged their scientific correspondence. Stukeley, Newton's friend and the former secretary of the Royal Society, moved to Grantham in the 1720s, and was instructed by Newton to find him a retirement home there….but Newton died in London before he could move back to his home town.

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Companion Animals and our Multispecies Society Professor Daniel Mills Grantham Guildhall Ticket: £4 Duration: 1hr Companion animals have enormous potential economic, health and social values to society, but the domestic environment is becoming an increasingly difficult area for them to peacefully co-exist with us. The University of Lincoln has been examining both the benefits and problems that arise in developing innovative solutions which are discussed in this talk.

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Among Newton’s achievements was the invention of the cat-flap, which was perhaps among the first innovations developed to help companion animals fit in with our busy schedule. The University of Lincoln has probably the largest research group in the world working in this area.

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Newton and the Apothecary Dr Anna Marie Roos Angel & Royal Hotel, Grantham Tickets: £4 Duration: 1hr Looking back to Newton’s days lodging with the apothecary William Clarke, we examine the drugs prescribed and the role of the Apothecary in the 17th century. Dr Anna Marie Roos.

Dr Roos is an historian of science and medicine at the University of Lincoln and University of Oxford.

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The young Newton lodged with the apothecary William Clarke. An examination of Clarke assists us in understanding Newton’s early biography, as well as the state of scientific and medical knowledge in the 17th century.

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Newton - A walk through time Students of Grantham College Starting at Grantham Market Place Free Duration: 45mins

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Charles Darwin: Naturalist, Scientist, Hero Professor Richard Fortey Grantham Guildhall Ticket: £4 Duration: 1hr Charles Darwin is one of the giants of the scientific world – everyone knows his name and most have some understanding of his theories of evolution.

Professor Richard Fortey explores Darwin’s celebrity and his science and provides a portrait of one of the country’s most famous naturalists.

Prof Fortey, has worked with Sir David Attenborough a number of times on natural history programmes.

The portrait will unravel Darwin’s work, his position among scientists and his theories, but this will be a rare opportunity to discover more about his impact on the world.

Professor Fortey is Senior Paleontologist, Natural History Museum & a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is also the presenter of BBC TV programmes including Fossil Wonderland and Survivors.

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One of the creative themes of the 2014 festival is Giants of Science.....Newton is a natural for this category and is still one of the most important scientists and thinkers.

Charles Darwin is also in the league of super-scientists.

What if Newton had grown up in a different place and time?

This unique walking tour takes you through the town that shaped Grantham’s most famous son. See the town in a new light as you meet characters from Newton’s youth.

Tour led by students of Grantham College as part of Lincolnshire’s Age of Scientific Discovery. Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

scientific interest encompassing biology, physics and chemistry.

His lecture will present an overview of this field of study as well as several of the exciting recent discoveries that reflect nature’s optical ingenuity, and the technological applications for which they are currently being developed.

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Since Newton published his seminal Opticks text in 1704, scientists have tried to better understand how brightly coloured creatures produce such iridescence.

Professor Peter Vukusic, Royal Society Kohn Award 2013

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All things bright and beautiful: the science of light and colour Peter Vukusic

Grantham Guildhall Free Duration: 1hr From the silver of fish scales to the blue of peacock feathers, there is far more to nature’s brightest colours than meets our eyes.

Peter Vukusik’s study of photronics the generation, emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, and detection/sensing of light - further develops that understanding in an exciting and rapidly growing area of

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Moveable Feast Organised by the Civic Society Angel & Royal Hotel, Eden Wine Bar, Liberty Rose Tea Room, New Era Restaurant, Pizza Express and Urban Hotel Tickets: £26 in advance Duration: approximately 10.30pm A mystery tour of Grantham’s restaurants......enjoy your starter in one, main course in a second and your dessert in a third restaurant. Discover culinary delights from some of the best restaurants in town. Itinerary announced as the evening progresses. Organised by the Civic Society with reception by Chattertons.

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The Goldberg Variations Douglas Hollick Harlaxton Manor Tickets: £10, £7 Concessions Duration: 2hrs 30mins Talk and recital of Johann Sebastian Bach’s acclaimed Goldberg Variations by internationally acclaimed harpsichordist Douglas Hollick.

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Diableries: Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell

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Sir Isaac Newton proposed a seven-part spectrum of light and this had a great influence on the discussions of the time.

Grantham Guildhall Tickets: £4 Duration: 1hr

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Newton’s experiments in bending light through prisms led, eventually, to the revolutionary discovery of the existence in white light of a mixture of distinct coloured rays, distinguishable when refracted in a prism.

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Gravity: Special Effects In Space Stuart Penn, Framestore Grantham Guildhall Ticket: £4 Duration: 1hr How do you film a sequence replicating a medical engineer and an astronaut as they work together to survive after a catastrophe destroys their space shuttle?

Denis Pellerin

A stereoscopic journey through sets of 19th century 3D photographs representing table to models meant to illustrate life in Hell (or in other words 19th century Paris).

Denis Pellerin.

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One Giant Leap Stamford Arts Centre Tickets: £10; £7 concessions Duration: 1hr 10mins See Wednesday on pg 12 for more information.

Cinema goers were enthralled at Sandra Bullock and George Clooney adrift in space, but how was it shot to such good effect that director Alfonso Cuaron’s movie scooped seven Oscars – one for special effects?

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One of the biggest challenges in making Gravity was to make people believe that the actors were in orbit – a microgravity environment, while having to film the actors under the influence of gravity.

See special 3D Gravity film showing at the Reel Cinema 9pm same evening

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Gravity in 3D Reel Cinema

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Chasing the Eclipse Chantry Dance Company Grantham’s Market Place See page 35

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Origambiro Origamibiro St Wulfram’s Church Ticket: £7, £5 Concessions Duration: 1hr A genuinely unique live act. Musician and composer Tom Hill works with visual artist and filmmaker Andy Tytherleigh on work with unorthodox processes and contraptions. Performances involve treated books, typewriters, celluloid, paper, eerie wildlife recordings, home movies, sellotape and bespoke visual contraptions - all added, adapted and even destroyed.

Reel Cinema Ticket: £3.50, please book with Reel Cinema Duration: 1hr 30mins Following on from Stuart Penn’s talk about creating the special effects for the feature film Gravity, the Reel Cinema Grantham has a special screening of Gravity in 3D.

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CERN Live

Curated by Dr Harry Cliff St Wulfram’s Church Free entry to exhibition, School Bookings Talk by Dr Harry Cliff is ticketed – see separate entry

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Danny and the Bare Bones

Late Night Festival Music Grantham Guildhall Ticket: £5 Duration: 2hrs A new and exciting collaboration between ex-Mojo Bones band members Danny Segal, Gary Marshall and Mat Heighway.

The trio combines traditional and new songs with a blues theme with rock, funk, ska and reggae.

A special exhibition taking inspiration from the world’s greatest scientific experiment, the Large Hadron Collider, has been uniquely commissioned for the Gravity Fields Festival.

In a science coup, Gravity Fields Festival has a an exhibition on CERN - the European Organisation for Nuclear Research - with scientists who work there and a live link to the facility in Geneva.

A detailed schedule will be produced in early September and published on our website www.gravityfields.co.uk. Timings of live sessions are given below.

12pm Dr Harry Cliff (Exhibition Curator) – ticketed separate event.

1.30pm Free CERN Live event (details to be published in September) 3.00pm Free CERN Live event (details to be published in September) The exhibition is funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council.

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In Newton’s Footsteps - Day 1 Ali Pretty and Richard White Starting at St Wulfram’s Church Tickets: Booking fee £1 Spaces limited Duration: All day or short sections Ali Pretty and Richard White invite you to join them along old routes and pathways for a 16 mile southbound walk, or for shorter sections of it, starting in Grantham and walking through Burton-Le-Coggles and North Witham to Colsterworth (with minibus support for sections). For timings see www.gravityfields.co.uk Bring a packed lunch. Pubs for drinks and snacks only. Sorry no dogs.

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In Newton’s Footsteps are walks across the south Lincolnshire countryside over two days inspired by the places and old routes Newton and his extended family would have known in centuries past.

In Newton’s Footsteps is part of Lincolnshire’s Age of Scientific Discovery, a project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

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Godfrey Hounsfield – from Newark to Nobel Prize Elizabeth Beckmann Grantham Guildhall Tickets: £4 Duration: 1hr The story of Godfrey Hounsfield from his early education at Magnus Grammar School Newark, to his discovery of CT scanning.

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Eye Magic! and Camera Obscura Higgler St Peter’s Hill outside Grantham Museum Free drop in event Duration: 1hr

See Thursday on pg 15 for more information.

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Glorious Blood Science Museum Show for Schools KS2 Science Museum Grantham Guildhall Tickets: Schools bookings Duration: 1hr See Thursday on pg 17 for more information.

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Death of an Astronaut - Virtual Autopsy Dr Suzy Lishman

King’s School, Grantham Tickets: School bookings Duration: 1hr (Also on Saturday) How does an astronaut’s body adapt to zero gravity after months in space? The human body is designed to function best within the earth’s gravity. In this unique Virtual Autopsy, pathologist Dr Suzy Lishman explores the changes that might be found in an astronaut after death. You’ll never think of gravity in quite the same way again. Suzy Lishman is Consultant Cellular Pathologist, Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and President-elect of the Royal College of Pathologists.

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Sir Isaac Newton explored both gravitational forces and space. This virtual autopsy looks at the effect that gravity has on a human who has travelled in space, outside the usual pull of the gravitational forces on earth.

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Let’s Tell a ‘Stary’ Schools Storytelling

Grantham Museum Tickets: Schools bookings Duration: 09:30am and 1:30pm 1hr 30mins 11:30am 1hr

The George Centre Tickets: Schools bookings Duration: 45mins with repeats

See Wednesday on pg 10 for more information.

Julia Damassa

See Wednesday on pg 10 for more information.

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Discovering the mysteries of the Universe - Schools Workshop KS4/5

Sarah Eve Roberts, Las Cumbres Observatory and Cardiff University Harlaxton Manor Tickets: Free School bookings Duration: 1hr Astronomy is the study of light. In this astronomy workshop you will get some experience with light measurement tools and follow a science investigation along the way. You will also be able to explore the universe with robotic telescope and watch a live feed of images from across the world.

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The Age of the Universe – a Zooniverse Schools Workshop KS4/5

Dr Chris Lintott, BBC Sky at night , and astronomers from University of Oxford Harlaxton Manor Tickets: Free Schools bookings Duration: 1hr Discover the age of the Universe with astronomers from the University of Oxford…..workshop for Years 10 and 11 or sixth form students (please specify when booking) using real astronomical data to measure the age of the universe.

Led by Dr Chris Lintott.

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Modern astronomy and astronomers still use the fundamental principle proposed

by Sir Isaac Newton – that the rules of the universe are the same as those observed on earth.

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Physics of the Fairground Rides

Grantham Fair Grantham Fair, Wide Westgate Ticket: £4, for school bookings call the Box Office Duration: 1hr An opportunity to explore how fairground ride construction and operation depends on the laws of physics and to see how theory gets put into practice. These schools sessions are for one class group at a time and are only available on the festival Friday. The sessions can be tailored for older primary or any age of secondary groups, but age groups will not be mixed.

Reflections:

Gravity and the laws of physics are fundamental to the design and construction of fairground rides. This is an exciting way for pupils to see the theory in action...and feel the effects.

Hugh Turvey

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History of Radiology

Professor Gary Royle Grantham Guildhall Tickets: £4 Duration: 1hr Professor Gary Royle looks back over a century to the late 1800s when x-rays were first discovered and explores the timeline of discovery which includes Marie Curie and her work on radiation. Then as the 20th century advanced so did the understanding of great benefits and the dangers of the different eras of technology.

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Danger! High Voltage! Science Show for Schools KS3

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Into the Unknown – what next for the Large Hadron Collider?

Dr Harry Cliff St Wulfram’s Church Ticket: £4, for school bookings call the Box Office Duration: 1hr As part of CERN Live, Dr Harry Cliff explains why and what the Large Hadron Collider discovers next could completely change the way we think about our universe. Harry is a particle physicist at the University of Cambridge and was curator of the Science Museum’s Collider exhibition. This talk is suitable for schools audiences and a general audience.

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Newton’s laws united different aspects of nature, by saying that the force that makes apples fall to the ground is the same force that keeps the moon orbiting the earth.

Modern particle physics is a continuation of Newton’s work, unifying three of the fundamental forces in a single theory.

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The Random Universe Professor Andrew Jaffe Grantham Guildhall Ticket: £4, for school bookings call the Box Office Duration: 1hr Observing the oldest light in the universe lets us understand the contents, history, and evolution of the universe. Suitable for the general public and schools audiences 14+. Professor Andrew Jaffe.

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Cosmologists look at all aspects of the universe and try to piece together from the various observations a consistent model to explain not only why it is the way it is today, but what it was like in the past, and just how far back that past goes.

Science Museum Grantham Guildhall Duration: 1hr See Thursday on pg 15 for more information.

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Titeretú Itinerània

Abbey Gardens, St Peter’s Hill Ticket: Free See outdoor events on page 36 Titeretú are 5 giant puppeteer hands made of iron and wood with their insides in plain view. From the Catalan international touring arts company Itinerània.

With support of Arts Council England

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Newton - A walk through time

Students of Grantham College Starting at Grantham Marketplace Free Duration: 45mins See Thursday on pg 19 for more information.

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Hidden for Over 200 Years Sarah Dry The King’s School Grantham Ticket price: £4 Duration: 1hr The story of Newton’s private writings and their meandering path through history is described for the first time in Sarah Dry’s new book The Newton Papers: The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton’s Manuscripts. Sarah Dry.

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Rabidly heretical, alchemically obsessed, and possibly even mad, the Newton revealed in these papers threatened to undermine not just his personal reputation but the status of science itself.

Dr Suzy Lishman Grantham Guildhall Ticket: £4, for school bookings call the Box Office Duration: 1hr Join award-winning pathologist Dr Suzy Lishman to discover the truth behind 10 common medical myths.

Vote on popular questions of science - science myth or science fact ?

Compare your answers with hundreds of others from around the country.

Reflections:

Myths never fail to fascinate us. From ancient times to the modern era, myths have remained an integral part of our daily lives.

Ever wondered whether your hair continues to grow after you die? Or have you thought about whether you can live without five internal organs?

If so you will be in your element at Medical, Myths and Misconceptions, where Dr Suzy Lishman delves into the truth behind 10 common myths.

The award-winning pathologist involves the audience in this entertaining event asking them to votes on each question to find out how their answers compare to 1,000 school students.

Dr Lishman is Consultant Cellular Pathologist at the Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and vice-president of the Royal College of Pathologists.

Dr Suzannah Lishman, Royal Society Kohn Award 2012

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A huge favourite with film enthusiasts, this is a unique opportunity to enjoy the 1920’s sci-fi film in the setting of St Wulfram’s Church. The film will be accompanied by a virtuoso three-hour music improvisation by Simon Johnson, organist and assistant director of music at St Paul’s Cathedral. Simon is one of the country’s finest organists and is a ‘master of improvisation’. He is recognised worldwide for his creative interplay between theme and music.

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Launch of Publication of Grantham Hall Book Transcript U3A Hall Book Transcription Group

Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction film directed by Frizt Lang.

It was produced in Germany during the Weimar Period and was the first full length science feature film. The film is regarded as a pioneer work of its genre. The film was written by Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou, and starred Brigitte Helm, Gustav Frohlich, Alfred Abel and Rudolf KleinRogge. A silent film, it was produced in the Babelsberg Studios by UFA.

Grantham Museum Ticket: Free Duration: 1hr Join local historians who have spent the last year transcribing sections of the Grantham Hall Book and celebrate the publication of their transcription of sections of the Corporation Minute Book for the period Newton went to school in Grantham.

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Albert Einstein: Relativitively Speaking (Junior Edition)

Tangram Theatre Company Written and Performed by John Hinton Director: Daniel Goldman Grantham Guildhall Ticket: £10, Concessions £7 Duration: 1hr Join Albert, the genius behind the übercoolest moustache in science, for a lecture like none you’ve ever seen. He is joined by his wives and mum on piano, and by guest rapper MC Squared, as he quantum leaps us through two world wars, the wurst sausage joke ever, and even some actual proper boffin-checked science. Junior Version - Suitable for bright sparks of any age from 6+.

“Something close to brilliance” ***** The Times

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Metropolis – Screening with live organ accompaniment 1927 German expressionist science-fiction film directed

by Fritz Lang St Wulfram’s Church Ticket: £10, Concessions £7 Duration: 3hrs METROPOLIS screened with live organ accompaniment by Simon Johnson, organist of St Paul’s Cathedral.

Reflections:

Newton was much commented on by authors of fiction during his life and in the following decades.

Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia, and follows the attempts of Freder, the wealthy son of the city’s ruler, and Maria, whose background is not fully explained in the film, to overcome the vast gulf separating the classist nature of their city. Metropolis was filmed in 1925, at a cost of approximately five million Reichsmarks. It was the most expensive film ever released up to that point.

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Gravity Special Screening Stamford Arts Centre Ticket: Ticket: £3.50 Duration: 1hr 30mins Special Screening. The feature film Gravity (in 2D) is presented at Stamford Arts Centre, following the presentation on Thursday 25th September in Grantham,

by Stuart Penn from Framestore about creating the film’s special effects. Gravity won an Oscar for Special Effects.

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Zooniverse Stargazing Dr Chris Lintott Harlaxton Manor Free Duration: 2hrs Join Dr Chris Lintott (BBC Sky at Night/ University of Oxford), astronomers from the University of Oxford and local astronomy groups to look at the night sky over the Vale of Belvoir from the stunning surroundings of Harlaxton Manor. Led by Dr Lintott.

Weather permitting, Chris will be giving an evening outdoor presentation describing what we know about the universe as seen through the telescopes of local astronomy groups.Working with Melton, Nottingham and Grantham astronomy groups you will be able to learn more about the universe and the equipment now available to everyone to observe the stars, moon and planets. If the weather is poor we will retreat indoors for an indoor presentation and discussion.

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Exploring the Universe with robotic telescopes Sarah Eve Roberts Harlaxton Manor Free Duration: 2hrs Watch a live feed of astronomical observations from across Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network.

Sarah Eve Roberts.

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The telescopes are operated robotically and scheduled dynamically from LCOGT headquarters in Goleta, California.

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Colossus Awakes Emergency Exit Arts Grantham Town Centre See outdoor events on page 36.

– and maybe a few things that go BANG!

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Festival of the Spoken Nerd Festival of the Spoken Nerd Grantham Guildhall Ticket: £10, Concessions £7 Duration: 1hr 45mins Contains strong language and spreadsheets.

The Nerds will feed your brain, tickle your ribs and light your bunsen burner with a show for the insatiably scicurious! Late evening science comedy and entertainment for grown ups, geeks and non geeks alike. Contains strong language.

Whether you loved or loathed the school science lab, stand-up mathematician Matt Parker (Discovery Channel, You Have Been Warned), geek songstress Helen Arney (BBC2, Coast) and guest nerd, Simon Watt (Ready, Steady, Science!) mix astonishing science with statistically significant comedy

Together the Spoken Nerds celebrate science through comedy, songs, live experiments and unashamed geekiness.

With over a million views on YouTube for their experiments, songs and stand-up, this is your chance to see three of the UK’s best (and nerdiest) performers in an unforgettable hour of comedy and curiosity.

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The Most Ugly Child

Late Night Festival Music Grantham Guildhall Ticket: £5 Duration: 2hrs The Most Ugly Child revolves around the partnership of singer songwriters Daniel Wright and Stevie-Leigh Goodison.

Influenced by the sounds of Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clarkand George Jones; Daniel and Stevie have been likened to some of the great country duos, such as Johnny Cash and June Carter.

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In Newton’s Footsteps - Day 2

Rob Iliffe and Sarah Dry as they begin their day of discovery at Woolsthorpe Manor.

Lincolnshire Family History Society will be there to advise about the branches of the Newton family. Come and join in an unusual morning of activities at Woolsthorpe Manor.Activities will include a book signing by Newton historians Rob Iliffe and Sarah Dry (from around 9.30 to 10am). There will be music from local folk musicians. Woolsthorpe Manor cafe will be serving breakfast refreshments. Walkers will be setting off at 10am.

Ali Pretty and Richard White

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Colsterworth - Grantham starting at Woolsthope Manor Tickets: Booking fee £1 Spaces limited Duration: All Day or shorter sections

9:30am-3pm and 5pm - 9.30pm

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Join Ali Pretty and Richard White for the second day of their long distance walk tracing Newton’s old pathways. Around 15 miles or join for shorter sections.

For timings see www.gravityfields.co.uk Bring a packed lunch. Pubs for drinks and snacks only. Sorry no dogs. Minibus support.

Reflections:

In Newton’s Footsteps are walks across the south Lincolnshire countryside over two days. See routes page 47 In Newton’s Footsteps is part of Lincolnshire’s Age of Scientific Discovery, a project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

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#newtontreeparty at Woolsthorpe Manor Lincolnshire’s Age of Scientific Discovery

Woolsthorpe Manor Free Duration: Till 1pm. Leave at 10am A morning of celebration as walkers retracing routes In Newton's Footsteps gather and set off from Woolsthorpe Manor. Folk music welcomes the walkers who will be greeted by Newton historians

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Family Science Fun Day

Gravity Fields Festival and Science Partners The George Centre Free The kids have had fun all week with amazing science shows. Here’s the chance to get the family involved.

Wander through the George Centre and try your hand at table top displays, join in workshops, let the younger children enjoy science storytelling and make the most of some serious science exhibitions.

It’s an opportunity to get hands on and see demonstrations and displays from several of the festival science partners.

For list of science demonstrators see www.gravityfields.co.uk

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Eye Magic! and Camera Obscura

Higgler Grantham Museum, St Peter's Hill Free Duration: Drop in See Thursday on pg 15

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Bubbles and Balloons Science Made Simple Grantham Guildhall Ticket: £7, £5 Concessions Duration: 1hr Explore the best bits of bubbles and balloons. From popping to wafting with giant bubbles and whizzing balloons.

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Newton’s 3rd law is demonstrated with a rocket balloon and balloon car! Lift with a helicopter balloon. How pushes and pulls affect bubbles and balloons.

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Death of an Astronaut - Virtual Autopsy Dr Suzy Lishman The King’s School Tickets: £4 (Saturday) Duration: 1hr See Friday on pg 22

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Professor Val Gibson

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St Wulfram’s Church Ticket: Free entry to exhibition except during ticketed talk at 10.15am

St Wulfram’s Church Ticket: £4 Duration: 1hr

Treating and Seeing Cancer with Protons

CERN live

Live speakers and video presentations. A detailed schedule will be produced in early September and published online at www.gravityfields.co.uk.

Timings of live sessions: 10.15am Professor Val Gibson 11.30 CERN Live event (details to be published in September) 1.30pm CERN Live event – Professor Tara Shears, based at the University of Liverpool and works on the LHCb Velo experimemt at CERN. Free entry.

3.00pm CERN Live event – Smashing Physics - Professor Jon Butterworth – a leading physicist on the Large Hadron Collider, and Head of Physics and Astronomy at UCL. "Smashing Physics" is the story of the Atlas experiment and collaboration the amazing machines, the people, the science, the politics, and the consequences. Free entry.

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Life at the Collider

Life at the Collider with Professor Valerie Gibson looks ahead to what mystery of the Universe the Large Hadron Collider will reveal next after the Higgs Boson discovery. Grantham born festival patron and CERN UK spokesman, Professor Gibson gives an insight into its science, showcases the people and personalities involved, explains how discoveries are made and summarises current knowledge about fundamental particles and forces of nature.

Reflections:

Professor Valerie Gibson is head of High Energy Physics at the University of Cambridge. She is the second person from Grantham to be a Fellow of Trinity College, the first being Isaac Newton.

Her research is based on understanding the fundamental laws of nature. She undertakes her research at the largest experiment in the world, the Large Hadron Collider.

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Professor Nigel M Allinson ScD, MBE Angel & Royal Hotel, Grantham Ticket: £4 Duration: 1hr A new proton cancer treatment could revolutionise the treatment of childhood and difficult to treat cancers amidst the 300,000 people diagnosed in the UK annually. Prof Allinson is at the forefront of a process exploring proton treatment called – the PRaVDA international research project (see display exhibit at the George Centre).

As protons interact with human tissue very differently than gamma rays employed in radiotherapy treatment, PRaVDA is developing tools to improve the quality of proton therapy.

Professor Nigel Allinson is professor of Image Engineering at the University of Lincoln.

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Book Signing and Samples Display Professor Mark Miodownik Grantham Guildhall Free Duration: 1hr After his earlier talk in the Guildhall Ballroom Mark Miodownik will display some of the samples he has been discussing and will also be available to sign copies of his book.

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Stuff Matters Professor Mark Miodownik Grantham Guildhall Ticket: £4 Duration: 1hr Concrete that can heal itself, implants that become living bone and liquids that flow upwards: materials scientist and TV science presenter Mark Miodownik, explains why the world is about to become a lot stranger.

Reflections:

Newton was very interested in transformation of matter. He was an alchemist who experimented mixing substances, or as it was often called in 17th century England, "chymistry".

An X-ray Vision

by Hugh Turvey Hugh Turvey Angel & Royal Hotel, Grantham Ticket: £4 Duration: 1hr If seeing is believing then Hugh Turvey, permanent artist in residence at the British Institute of Radiology, helps us suspend our disbelief through amazing images of what lies beneath the surface, invisible to the human eye.

Reflections:

From his childhood at Woolsthorpe Manor to his position as an eminent philosopher at Cambridge, Newton expressed his understanding of the workings of the world around us and later the universe, forces and optics not just through mathematical equations but through drawings and diagrams.

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Greatest Hits Science Museum Grantham Guildhall Ticket: £7, £5 Concessions Duration: 1hr All the Science Museum's favourite science demos packed into one exhilarating show. Suitable for all the family but recommended from 7+.

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We will be looking at Isaac Newton’s laws of motion for parts of the show, specifically the third law, in reference to rocket launches.

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Dr Heather Williams

Professor Rob Iliffe & Sarah Dry

Angel & Royal Hotel, Grantham Ticket: £4 Duration: 1hr

The King’s School, Grantham Ticket: £4 Duration: 1hr

An engaging explanation of the science behind medical images…alongside the festival’s International Images of Science exhibition and Hugh Turvey’s X-Ray photography, we get to the physics which get to the heart of the matter.

A joint presentation by Professor Rob Iliffe and independent scholar Sarah Dry examining the journey of Newton’s papers and the project to digitise and preserve them online.

Physics Gets to the Heart of the Matter

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Titeretú Itinerània

Abbey Gardens Free Duration: Drop in See outdoor events on page 36

The Newton Journey from Ink to Digital

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Now, what was once private has become radically public. Since January 2008, The Newton Project has published online over four million words of transcribed text, about 60% of which is made up of Newton’s religious writings. These are important documents in global intellectual history, and they are published in full, with accompanying images of the originals, for the first time.

Jack Klaff Angel & Royal Hotel, Grantham Ticket: £4 Duration: 1hr An Arty Type Among the Boffins. Jack Klaff’s time in a think-tank. A lectureperformance full of surprising, funny and provocative insights regarding Science, Technology and the Two Cultures.

Reflections:

Jack Klaff, with his tale-telling and in his interactions with the audience, returns to capitalise on relationships he established during the Gravity Fields Festival in 2012, still inspired by Isaac Newton to be poetic as well as scientific, to weave rather than unweave rainbows, to build ‘not walls but bridges’.

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The Wonderful World of Mr E Dizzy O’Dare Grantham Town Centre Free Duration: 45 minute shows See outdoor events on pages 34-39

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Half Baked Heroes Jon Wood Grantham Guildhall Ticket: £4 Duration: 1hr

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Beyond the Rainbow – The Invisible World Science Made Simple

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Grantham Guildhall Ticket price: £7, Concessions £5 Duration: 1hr

Voice of an Angle

Take a journey beyond the rainbow in this whistle-stop tour of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Stamford Arts Centre Ticket: £7, Concessions £5 Duration: 1hr

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A musical comedy show about maths, graphs and Archimedes’ baths from Festival of the Spoken Nerd’s awardwinning geek songstress, Helen Arney.

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Family Concert of Sci-Fi Film Music Played on the Organ Dr Tim Williams St Wulfram’s Church Free Duration: 1hr A family concert of favourite sci-fil film and TV tunes played on the organ of St Wulfram’s Church including Star Wars, Dr Who and ET themes. With on-screen projection of the organist Dr Tim Williams.

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Helen Arney

Reflections:

I think the most astounding thing about Newton is that he was interested in EVERYTHING. He didn’t just discover the laws of motion, gravity and light which we all learnt at school, but turned his phenomenal brain to just about every corner of maths and physics, from static electricity to the geometry of music. This show has several mentions of Newton (there’s no way he could be missed out!) but also reflects a little of his eclectic spirit, and how everything in the world can be seen a little differently if viewed through the eyes of a scientist.

What science lurks in our kitchen cupboards? Who are the pantry heroes of chemistry, physics and biology? Your chance to witness the wonders of things you use everyday. Forget competitive cooking programmes - the science in your kitchen is far more explosive! And nobody gets marked down for a soggy bottom!

Jon Wood is a science presenter whose activities include science busking, interactive workshops, public lectures and performances, and he delivered live science experiences for the BBC Learning and Science teams when on tour with Bang Goes The Theory, The One Show, CBBC’s Absolute Genius Live: The Best Bits at the Edinburgh Festival and CBBC Live in Leeds.

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inspired by Newton’s falling apple.

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Smashed Gandini Juggling Grantham Guildhall Ticket price: £10, Concessions £7 Duration: 1hr A mesmerising mix of juggling and theatre, inspired by the work of Pina Bausch, SMASHED is a series of nostalgic filmic scenes exploring conflict, lost love and quaint afternoon tea in a mix of juggling, clowning, dance and storytelling. **** 'A performance of such breathtaking ease and intimacy’. The Stage.

Eighty apples, nine performers and four crockery sets. You are cordially invited to a tea party that you will never forget.

Welcome to the mesmerising mix of circus and sheer entertainment from world famous juggling troupe Gandini, bringing its amazing ‘Smashed’ juggling tour ...

The troupe was formed in 1992 by world renowned juggler Sean Gandini and champion rhythmic gymnast Kati YläHokkala, Gandini Juggling continues to be at the vanguard of contemporary circus.

The company celebrates juggling in all its facets, exploring not just what juggling is, but what juggling can be.

“There are no words to describe how beautiful the sight of nine people juggling a whole load of apples can be.” Watch this Space, National Theatre

Reflections:

Apples – and gravity – inspired this show.

Outdoor and Family Events 5pm Onward Giants of Science Transforming the Town 7pm - 9.45pm Details of all Saturday evening events on the following pages

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Albert Einstein: Relativitively Speaking Tangram Theatre Company Stamford Arts Centre Ticket: £10, Concessions £7 Duration: 1hr Join the genius behind the übercoolest moustache in science for a joke-filled, song-filled lecture like none you’ve ever seen. ‘Something close to brilliance’ The Times.

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Manière des Bohémiens Late Night Festival Music Grantham Guildhall Ticket: £5 Duration: 2hrs See Fringe Events on pg 49 for more information.

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Transforming the Town into a Giant Laboratory During the festival Grantham will become home to a series of creative outdoor ‘laboratories’. These are artistic interpretations inspired by scientific themes, famous scientists and science fiction.

The transformation begins on Thursday 25th September with a newly commissioned dance spectacle Chasing the Eclipse from contemporary ballet company Chantry Dance, produced in partnership with Rosa Productions, which will receive its first performance on the Market Place.

Alongside the dancers you can visit the Volatile Light exhibition from IOU which is opening late on Conduit Lane and experiment with outdoor light painting with the IOU team when it gets dark.

On the evening of Friday 26th the outdoor activity moves mysteriously to St Peter’s Hill where the new giant emerges and ‘Colossus Awakes’. A new laboratory is created. London based outdoor arts company Emergency Exit Arts is joined by local performers and media as the new giant emerges.

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hands made of iron and wood…and you can take control.

And on Saturday the streets of Grantham close to traffic midafternoon and families can enjoy indoor science displays and activities in venues across the town, at the Guildhall, in the George Centre, at St Wulfram’s Church, at the Market Stores and Grantham Museum. As evening approaches the entertainment begins on the streets.

At 4pm the festival food and craft market begins in Narrow Westgate, on the High Street and at St Peter’s Hill. The fair is based in Wide Westgate. At 5pm the walkers who have been journeying In Newton’s Footsteps ceremoniously bring their historic silk banners from St Wulfram’s to St Peter’s Hill and the first outdoor show for young children begins with Dizzy O’Dare opening their Museum and the Wonderful World of Mr E. Then from 7pm to 9.45pm as night falls across the town you can watch performances of Chasing the

Eclipse, The Return of Colossus, the Titeretú giant hands, and around 1,000 college students, local children and community groups bringing seven small laboratory sites to life with heads of some of our most famous Giants of Science surrounded by lanterns and processional images symbolising their work, with a procession along the High Street between 9pm and 9.30pm.

Through the evening there will be music, food and entertainment. We hope you will enjoy our creative exploration of some of the real Giants of Science, and some…. well…more fictional Giants.

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THURSDAY Volatile Light Exhibition And Oudoor Light Painting Market Stores, next to Conduit Cafe 9.30am - 9.30pm See Saturday

Reflections: A playful exploration of light and darkness and some of the most up to date imagery from deepest space – through video mapping and cutting edge digital software dancers interpret space, from sun bursts to space storms and from new stars to the magical powers of the eclipse.

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Chasing the Eclipse Chantry Dance Company

Plus see Saturday shows at 7.30pm 8.30pm 9.15pm Grantham Market Place Free Duration: 25mins The premiere of Chasing the Eclipse a celestial dance spectacle‌.light and darkness follow a romantic quest through the galaxies in search of the perfect eclipse. An outdoor, originally choreographed show for Gravity Fields Festival with use of projection in Grantham's Market Place. A newly commisioned dance spectacle for Gravity Fields Festival 2014 in collaboration with Grantham based theatrical contemporary ballet company - Chantry Dance Company - produced in partnership with Rosa Productions.

Dance, lights, music, extraordinary visuals and projected digital effects create an unforgettable journey into the furthest reaches of space. Join Lumen, the son of light, and Scura, the daughter of darkness, in their romantic search for each other. They can only be together at the time when light and dark, day and night, meet...the time of the eclipse. And so their journey begins, chasing the eclipse.

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SATURDAY LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE TOWN 9.30am - 9.30pm

Volatile Light Exhibition And Outdoor Light Painting IOU

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Titeretú Company Itinerània Abbey Gardens, St Peter’s Hill Drop-in Free “Titeretú” are five giant puppeteer hands made of iron and wood with their insides in plain view. A free outdoor event from the international touring arts company Itinerània.

Fancy taking control of a giant puppet to test your balance, precision and coordination as you bring to life a character three times your size? Thanks to Spanish company Itinerània and their invention Titeretú you will no longer be just a member of the audience but will be offered the chance to become master of giant puppeteer hands made of iron and wood with their insides in plain view – just waiting for you to take control. Itinerania, which was formed in 2006, has been challenging audiences all over Europe from Barcelona to Florence.

7.30pm

Colossus Awakes Emergency Exit Arts

St Peter’s Hill, Grantham

Free Outdoor Laboratory Spectacle Duration: 1hr 30mins Amazing newly commissioned spectacle engineering a mysterious, pulsating laboratory on the streets of Grantham revealing eminent scientists as they feed the experiment with the power of knowledge from generations before. A new Giant of Science begins to emerge, the like of which the town has never seen before, transforming the town into a giant living laboratory which builds to an explosive climax on Saturday night.

Emergency Exit Arts.

Market Stores, next to Conduit Cafe Free Step out of the town centre and into a different world. Experience an all-enveloping combination of light and sound with you at the centre of a miniature, wrap-around universe of moving lights and sounds. Volatile Light a free immersive sound and light experience for Gravity Fields.

Featuring an array of specially made machines, LED lights will be attached to rotating arms, levers and cranks to weave a series of eccentric curves, sweeping arcs and hectic scribbles in the darkened space.

As darkness falls, experiment with outdoor light painting in Conduit Lane with the IOU team and outdoor projection.

Titeretú Abbey Gardens, St Peter’s Hill Drop-in 3pm - 9pm See Friday

Reflections:

Giant technological structures - but do they manipulate you or you manipulate?

Please note that in case of rain forecast the Saturday performances may be relocated indoors - announcements will be made in the days leading up when forecasts are available.

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In Newton’s Footsteps – Return to the town Ali Pretty & Richard White

St Wulfram’s Church to St Peter’s Hill Long distance walkers and artists Ali Pretty and Richard White lead a team with giant banners depicting Newton family connections - leaving St Wulfram’s at 5pm on Saturday for the final leg of their journey from the church to St Peter’s Hill where the banners will be displayed outdoors.

The silk banner project is produced in association with Grantham Museum.

Silk banner making project supported by Arts Council England and presented in association with Ali Pretty, Richard White and Grantham Museum.

This event is part of Lincolnshire's Age of Scientific Discovery supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund

The Wonderful World of Mr E

Dizzy O'Dare

Two family shows 3+ Grantham Town Centre Free Duration: 45 minutes with Mr E Museum browsing until 9.30pm Let Mr E and his two assistants take you on an adventure into imagination itself! Set your imagination dial to infinite! An outdoor show for the curious of any age. Between and after shows you are encouraged to visit Mr E's intriguing Museum. Outdoor family show for everyone 3+.

Supported by Arts Council England and the Fuse Medway Festival.

Eye Magic and Apothecary

Outside Grantham Museum FREE Visit Higgler’s Eye Magic and Jack’s Doctor of Physic apothecary encampment on St Peter’s Hill.

Eye Magic – wonder at the mysteries of anamorphic images, enjoy dioramas or night-panes in the peep box, manipulate endless panoramas, handle refracting prisms, make your own thaumatrope spinner to keep....and even more.

Apothecary Jack will host his apothecary within the outdoor tented area demonstrating drugs, spices, cures and techniques from the 17th century.

Grantham Museum will be open during the course of the evening for viewing of two exhibitons – the newly created Newton's Grantham: Grantham's Newton and the touring International Images for Science exhibition from the Royal Photographic Society.

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Space Station Grantham St Wulfram’s Church Grantham will have its own space station for the festival evening. See a space rocket launch from the tower of St Wulfram’s Church and make your own to fire! Learn about night sky with portable Planetarium and ecplore the CERNLive exhibition.

Friends of St Wulfram's with be serving refreshments.

AGES 5+

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Space Station Grantham Projection Duration: 15 minutes and repeated throught the evening

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CERN Live Curated by Dr Harry Cliff St Wulfram’s Church Free AGES 5+

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Space Activities National Space Centre

Ticket: £3 Free drop in for rocket activity Duration: 15 minutes Planetarium Show 20 minutes Presenters from the Space Centre Education team at the National Space Centre in Leicester will take you on a tour of the night time sky. They will identify major constellations, explain some of the myths associated with them and look at some of the astronomical wonders they contain. They will also help you build and fire your own rocket.

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A special evening session to view the exhibition of CERN Live with video and physics experts on hand to explain the science and CERN experiments.

Watch and listen as the scaffolded tower of St Wulfram’s Church is engulfed as the festival’s launchpad for Space Station Grantham. Video mapping artist Dan Shorten and outdoor events production students from the Guidhall School of Music and Drama offer a unique and showstopping launch for a rocket into outer space.

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101 Things to do with an apple, Human Inc, Dispersion Lincoln School of 7pm - 9pm Laboratories 9pm to 9.30pm Processions

George Centre and High Street retail spaces 7pm to 9.30pm

Designed by Emergency Exit Arts with local artists and Grantham College

Innovative laboratory presentations by final year drama students from Lincoln University, inspired by science, Isaac Newton, and retail therapy. Imagine a world in which you can buy selfimprovement on the high street. Immerse yourself in the refractions of Newtonian light and sound and discover just how versatile the humble apple can be. Three utterly different performances.

Giants of Science – Laboratories and Processions

Grantham Town Centre Duration: 3hrs 30 mins with main procession through town at 9pm

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Return of Colossus

Emergency Exit Arts in collaboration with performing arts students from Grantham

Grantham Town Centre Short performances Return of Colossus is a newly commissioned outdoor show for the Gravity Fields Festival. An extraordinary invention, Colossus, the like of which has never been seen before, appears in Grantham. Meet him, help him learn. But beware, dark clouds form as other forces gather to harness his power and use it for their own gain.

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Involving over 20 schools and community groups. Grantham’s streets become a living laboratory as young “Guardians of Science” engage audiences in the experiment.

Reincarnations of the “Giants of Science” - Newton, Galileo, Einstein, Curie, Faraday, Turing and Franklin.

At 9pm they move through the town discovering a spectacle of light and sound. Join the processions as the evening builds to an explosive climax.

Professional local artists Dee Sowden, Claire Daniel, Jayne Ballaam, Sue Rowland Community arts participation: Ameneh Enayat Creative Producer: Jeremy James Key laboratory sites; • The green by St Wulfram’s Church (Galileo) • Junction of Elmer St behind Angel and Royal Hotel (Marie Curie) • High St/Vine St (Isaac Newton) • Market Place (Faraday) • St Peter’s Hill end of Avenue Road (Einstein) • Guildhall Street (Rosalind Franklin) • St Peter’s Hill green near Grantham Museum (Alan Turing)

Chasing the Eclipse Grantham Market Place 7:30pm 8:30pm 9:15pm Free Duration: 25mins (see Thursday)

Music Busking and Juggling St Peter’s Hill Local bands with folk, country and gypsy jazz music plus Science Made Simple on the streets offering science busking entertainment and Gandini Smashed’s amazing virtuoso display of juggling on St Peter’s Hill from 8.30pm to 9.00pm.

Other performers include the Earthbound Misfits, Manières des Bohémiens and HMS Welland Shanty Singers.

Busking stages supported by Simmonds Music, Grantham

Please note that in case of rain forecast the Saturday performances may be relocated indoors - announcements will be made in the days leading up when forecasts are available.

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Deborah Bull and Dr Daniel Glaser

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17th Century Masterchef

Grantham Guildhall Ticket: £7, Concessions £5 Duration: 1hr 20mins A debate and discussion to mark the second biennial Gravity Fields Festival. Deborah Bull, Director, Cultural Partnerships, King’s College London and Dr Daniel Glaser, Director, Science Gallery at King’s College London will join artists, speakers and scientists who have been collaborating on events and contributing to this unique mix of festival events. Chaired

by Siân Ede.

Reflections:

In Newton’s time there was no such thing as a scientist...the philosophers of the 17th century did not make the modern separations between art, science and philosophical thinking. Newton wrote more about religion than he did about gravity.

Does it help or hinder in the modern specialist world to bring together different disciplines when it can take a lifetime to master some small part of our current knowledge? Is it possible to effectively create art when the detail of scientific principle is not fully comprehensible to the creator of the artistic work?

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Woolsthorpe Manor Ticket: Free downloadable voucher from www.gravityfields.co.uk or box office Duration: 5hrs

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Stained Glass Workshop at Woolsthorpe Manor Strawberry Glass Woolsthorpe Manor Ticket: Free downloadable voucher from www.gravityfields.co.uk or box office Duration: 1hr 20mins Working with imagery derived from the In Newton’s Footsteps walks, the Strawberry Glass team will run a participatory workshop to design a new piece of stained glass for display. Help them make this artwork. Strawberry Glass.

In Isaac’s youth, the rich pickings from the surrounding farm would have nourished the family but also the local area. Find out for yourself how tasty (and not so tasty!) foods would be been used as part of everyday life with one of our costumed guides who will demonstrate traditional food.

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The Old Dogg at The Mint

Grantham Dramatic Society and Excavate Grantham Museum Free Duration: 1hr 30mins In 1696 England’s currency was in crisis and Newton was finally lured to London to become the Warden of the Royal Mint, only to find himself thrown into a criminal underworld. This first public reading of an exciting new play, written by the cast of the Grantham Dramatic Society, tells of Newton’s struggles with clippers and counterfeiters, goldsmiths and monarchs, bounty hunters and economists.

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Exoplanets, the quest for the new worlds of the cosmos Prof. Didier Queloz

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National Space Centre - Martian Rover Training National Space Centre Harlaxton Manor Free Duration: 3 - 5 mins drop in sessions Take your turn to control a Martian Rover and as the dust storm approaches, rapidly complete your tasks under the guidance of the National Space Centre presenter.

National Space Centre.

Please note for Harlaxton Manor events refreshments will be available, so make an afternoon of your visit.

You need to book for two of the three events so don’t miss out by making sure you get your tickets early.

Harlaxton Manor Ticket: £3 Duration: 20 minutes

Learn about what it takes to be an astronaut. What dangers are there in space which could kill you? Do you have what it takes to go into space? A talk for all ages by a presenter from the National Space Centre team.

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National Space Centre - Portable Planetarium

Harlaxton Manor Ticket: £3 Duration: 20 minutes As part of an afternoon of space activities this show in a mobile planetarium is an exploration of the night sky by a presenter from the National Space Centre in Leicester.

Harlaxton Manor Ticket: £4 Duration: 1hr The search for planetary systems orbiting other stars - the exoplanets - and particularly the quest to find planets similar to the Earth is one of the great scientific, technological, and philosophical undertakings of our time. Until recently, the solar system has provided the only basis for our knowledge of planets and life in the universe. This has changed with the discovery in 1995 of the first giant planet outside the solar system.

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Newton in Space

UK Space Agency Harlaxton Manor Ticket: £4

British ESA Astronaut Tim Peake is heading into space in November 2015 for a six month stay onboard the International Space Station for a mission he has named ‘Principia’ in honour of Newton. Come along and find out about what Tim will be doing in orbit and why it may affect you, how Newton will be a large part of the mission and how you can get involved. www.gov.uk/ukspaceagency www.esa.int

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#newtontreeparty in Grantham Lincolnshire’s Age of Scientific Discovery Grantham Guildhall Free drop in event Duration: 1hr Drop in to the #newtontreeparty celebration of Newton families and local historians who are gathering to mark the Lincolnshire Age of Scientific Discovery project. Talks, workshops and refreshments (and maybe the odd apple).

Hosted by Jack Klaff. Lincolnshire’s Age of Scientific Discovery.

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Fireworks - Real science or just bangs?

Mattew Tosh Grantham Guildhall Ticket: £4 Duration: 1hr Matthew Tosh takes you behind the scenes of professional fireworks. You’ll experience the science behind exciting and explosive entertainment.

Reflections:

Forces and momentum are integral to how fireworks operate. Newton’s laws apply to aerial shells, rockets, spinning effects anything that moves!

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The Dancer’s Brain

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Deborah Bull

Dr Patricia Fara

Grantham Guildhall Ticket: £4 Duration: 1hr

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Angel & Royal Hotel, Grantham Ticket: £4 Duration: 1hr How do you fit 4000 years of science into 400 pages? Historians call this the Big Picture problem, and now Patricia Fara has provided a solution. In her talk she discusses three of the Big Questions she had to confront while she was writing her book – When did science begin? Who did science? How does science change?

Some of her answers may be unexpected.

Reflections:

In 4000 years of science, Newton seems a relatively recent addition – he lived a mere three and a half centuries. He attributed some of his influences to Aristotle and with his new discoveries he claimed ‘he was standing on the shoulders of giants’ – of those great scientists who had gone before.

Deborah Bull, a dancer with The Royal Ballet for 20 years, explores how the brain governs the dancer’s body.

Reflections:

Newton’s link with neuroscience is less known than his mathematical and philosophical writings. His work on optics was concerned with colour and light, and he explored the visual pathways from the eye to the brain, and was willing to experiment on himself and his own eyes, to further his knowledge.

The dancer’s body is without doubt an extraordinary machine, but without the brain, it wouldn’t be dancing, says former principal dancer with The Royal Ballet Deborah Bull.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re dancing the Charleston or the third act of Swan Lake, moving the muscles are just the visible consequence of an invisible ballet of firing neurons, electronic pulses and chemical reactions.

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approximately 30 minutes and is scored for soloists, chorus and small instrumental ensemble.

AGES: 5 TO 11

In Ely the cathedral was built before the town. Ely was only a small settlement, the town grew up around the cathedral.

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Bubbles and Balloons Science Made Simple

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Stamford Arts Centre Ticket: £7, Concessions £5 Duration: 40mins

4:30pm

See Saturday on pg 28 for more information.

Cantata Dramatica

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The Town and Times of Sir Isaac Newton Professor Rob Iliffe Angel & Royal Hotel, Grantham Ticket: £4 Duration: 1hr Drawing from research into 17th century Grantham and Lincolnshire, Rob Iliffe presents a view of the places, lifestyle and customs with which Newton was surrounded in his formative years.

Professor Rob Iliffe.

Reflections:

As part of the festival’s accompanying Heritage Lottery Funded project ‘Lincolnshire’s Age of Scientific Discovery’, Rob has been working with local historians to conduct research into 17th century Grantham.

The Building of Ely: Cantata Eliensis

Reflections:

At a time when the spire at St Wulfram’s in Grantham is undergoing reconstruction our minds turn to the great feat of construction that church buildings required in earlier times.

St Wulfram’s Ticket: £10, Concessions £7 Duration: 1hr 30mins The premiere of the newly composed ‘Building of Ely: Cantata Eliensis’. This is the first concert performance of a major new piece of music about the powerful women and the craftsmen who founded the great cathedral.

The Cantata Eliensis tells the story of the building of the great cathedral at Ely over a period of four centuries or more.

With professional musicians, soloists and a local community chorus, this is the first concert performance of a major new piece of music prior to its first full staging at Ely planned for 2016.

The libretto, by Nick Pitts-Tucker, is derived from original material, with the chief source being the Liber Eliensis, a contemporary account written by the monks at Ely Abbey no later than 1172AD. Other sources are Bede’s History of the English Church and secondary sources from each period.

The three acts of the Cantata Eliensis were commissioned from three different composers – Anna Krause, Toby Young and Louis Mander. Each piece lasts for

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Food For Thought - Festival Closing Dinner Gravity Fields Festival & Partners Angel & Royal Hotel, Grantham Ticket: £35 Duration: 3hrs Join us for the final moments of the festival, to celebrate with the Patrons and production teams, and with some of our speakers. We are finalising the menu and details for the event but we know it will be a very special evening and numbers are limited so book early.

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We are proud that the HLF is involved in what you are doing here. Isaac Newton emerged as a colossus in the scientific world, not just in this country but across the world.

Despite all that’s been written about Newton, there is still more to find out about him and what’s already been written about his work.

Of all the things that Heritage Lottery has been involved with in the East Midlands, this is one of the most compelling and important stories.

Woolsthorpe itself has a big story to tell. I overheard one visitor telling his children that they had been to the house of the most important man that ever lived.

Christopher Pennell HLF East Midlands Committee Chair

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Christopher Pennell pictured at the launch of Lincolnshire’s Age of Scientific Discovery with Cllr Frances Cartwright, South Kesteven District Council portfolio holder for grow the economy

Lincolnshire’s Age of Scientific Discovery Already Discovered .....

A series of talks and presentations have already informed and fascinated audiences on aspects of 17th century life that Isaac Newton would have known.

For more detail see www.southkesteven.gov. uk/newtonheritage

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Call for all Newton relatives

Newton Tree Party Launch

A Lincolnshire family of Newtons with four generations related to Sir Isaac Newton helped to launch a social media project to find more relatives of the world’s greatest scientist. The family of Philip Newton, his son Mark, grandson David and great grandson Seth has its own roots in Skillington, close to Newton’s birthplace.

Anyone related the Newton family in Lincolnshire was invited to an exploratory session in February at Colsterworth to share knowledge, family trees and maps to draft creative walks around where Newton visited, lived, work and studied in Lincolnshire ... all culminating in a series of unique creative walks.

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and herbs as cosmetics for the wealthy - all came from the 17th century garden, confirmed historic gardener Mike Brown.

Garden tour also organised for Doddington Hall near Lincoln. Plus guided tour of The Royal College of Physicians gardens in London with their 1,300 medicinal plants.

At Belton Village Hall 17th century potions...

Apothecaries in Newton’s day were mainly unregulated, setting great store by bile and phlegm systems and using blood letting as standard practice, confirmed speaker Dr Peter Elmer, leading a unique project documenting medical practitioners of the time.

SEE ALSO: Newton’s Grantham, Grantham’s Newton.

Complete with Apothecary Jack.

Grantham Museum. Wednesday - Sunday Newton and the Apothecary Dr Anna Marie Roos Angel and Royal,Thursday The Town and Times of Sir Isaac Newton: Rob Iliffe Angel and Royal Sunday

SEE ALSO: Historic Gardening Tour with Mike Brown.

Belton House, Thursday

Spalding Gentlemen’s Society A group of 20 people joined curator Tom Grimes for a tour of The Spalding Gentlemen’s Society, one of the oldest learned societies in the UK with Sir Isaac Newton as a member. Curator Tom Grimes traced the society’s history and showed off its superb collection of historical artefactsand library.

SEE ALSO: Science and the Spalding Gentleman’s Society in the 18th Century Angel & Royal, Thursday Town and Times of Sir Isaac Newton Angel & Royal, Sunday

... and in the kitchen

... in the garden

Cooks needed support for their 17th century labours, usually a pair of hefty stays, according to food historian Dr Annie Gray, describing the often-forgotten sheer physicality of working in a kitchen of Newton’s day. And it was a dangerous work, with cooks dying from the carbon dioxide given off by charcoal.

Lincolnshire mandrake that reputedly killed all who heard it ‘scream’ when pulled from the ground, soapwort served as soap

SEE ALSO: 17th Century Masterchef Woolsthorpe Manor, Sunday

Lincolnshire’s Archives: An Introduction With huge archive relating to Newton’s time, how to approach researching the man and his era? That question was answered for a group of 30 keen historians and potential researchers at Lincolnshire Archives with advice on how to get started researching communities, surviving buildings, families or events.

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Let’s Get .. and to be discovered! Walking with Newton staff and Grantham Museum curator Jim Grevatte.

Thursday 25th September: www.gravityfields.co.ukevents/2014-09-25 Friday 26th September: www.gravityfields.co.uk/events/2014-09-26

Grantham Hall Book

Herb Garden National Trust volunteers have re-planted a 17th century herb garden at Woolsthorpe Manor. The herb garden was a critical part of rural life in Newton’s family home and would have been used by Hannah, his mother, for all aspects of day to day life, from cooking to medicine. A supporting booklet is available for visitors who want to know more about the different uses of plants and herbs in the 17th century home.

Grantham’s historic Hall Book held records of Grantham Corporation, but was missing a key section - the period Newton went to school in Grantham.

Now a U3A group has transcribed the Grantham Corporation Minute Book to bridge a vital gap in the town’s history.

The launch of the on-line version will set the scene while Isaac lodged with apothecary William Clarke. How did the town shape the man? What was it like lodging with William Clarke when he was in charge of the town as Alderman and Chief Magistrate.

Friday 26th September: Hall Book Launch: Grantham Museum 5.30pm .

Newton Tree Party #newtontreeparty at Woolsthorpe Manor.

Saturday 9am See Saturday listings #newtontreeparty at Grantham Guildhall Sunday 1.30pm See Sunday listings

Tour Guides of the Future…

Grantham College students have learned how to design and lead their own Newton heritage tours and two festival tours will run under guidance of college tourism

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We are also very grateful to Professor Rob Illiffe for supporting the U3A Hall Book Project and Russell Newton for his support with some of the stories we are telling, and many more are documented in his forthcoming book about Isaac’s life - Mr Newton’s New Perspective

You are welcome to join short sections of walks as advertised in listings Transport will be provided between key locations. Please consult Gravity Fields website for full details.

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A Pretty fine walk “I have found that I get my best ideas when I am walking. The physical action of walking seems to unlock the brain.

It makes us creative, it helps sooth us, and can be extremely restorative,” says Ali Pretty, textile artist, designer and the creative brain behind Walking with Newton.

Walk One:

Walk Two:

Approx: 20 miles September 26 9am Grantham, to Colsterworth

Approx 15 miles 27 September 9am, Woolsthorpe Manor North Witham to Grantham

Starts Outside St Wulfram’s church North entrance by the Old School at the King’s School Grantham (then the Free Grammar School). Newton factfinding talk.

We visit St Andrews’ Church, Boothby Pagnell. During his time of discovery in 1666-67, Newton spent time at Boothby Pagnell rectory, where he worked on Fluxions.

Look around Medieval manor house at Boothby Pagnell, believed to be the most important surviving small Norman manor house in England, with defensive moat.

Go inside St. Thomas a Becket’s Church Burton Le Coggles Isaac’s uncle, William Ayscough, was vicar of Burton Coggles.

North Witham for a story of midwives and Isaac's birth, and a nearby stream crossing where housemaids rested while seeking help, convinced sickly baby Isaac would anyway be dead before they returned.

Welcome to St John the Baptist Church, Colsterworth, Isaac’s local church. He was baptized here and his mother is buried under the church floor.

Isaac Newton was born in this modest manor house in 1642 and made many of his most important discoveries about light and gravity here in the plague years of 1666-7.

Visit the school at Skillington. Newton possibly attended one of the ‘dame schools’ here (where three of his aunts lived) or Stoke Rochford – to learn rudimentary reading and writing.

Past the obelisk at Stoke Rochford: A huge obelisk was Christopher Turnor’s memorial to Sir Isaac Newton inscribed: “May the inhabitants of the surrounding district recollect with pride that so great a philosopher drew his first breath in the neighbourhood”.

Culminates with a walk into Grantham bearing giant flags produced in special silk making workshops led by Ali Pretty.

“This is one of the most challenging projects I have tackled, but it will be a great addition to Lincolnshire’s Age of Scientific Heritage project and the Gravity Fields Festival. To be able to walk these routes is a privilege and our walks should provide a completely new way of looking at his family and times."

Newton hits the ether The Twitter-sphere has already had a Newton wake up, thanks to Richard White, on #newtontreeparty blog and festival social media. The social media buzz surrounding the discovery walks in June was music to his ears for his passion is exploring where and how the physical and the virtual meet via social networks.

Come September he’s confident that the ether will be seriously busy again as he and other walkers reach out to and share facts and experiences with the world wide Newton network. “We have layer upon layer of mythology surrounding Isaac Newton, even with the house at Woolsthorpe which has become his shrine.

Each walk will have questions which we are trying to answer, and share via social media."

After their successful collaboration on Walking Wiltshire’s White Horses, Ali Pretty and Richard White recently formed ‘Now We Are Walking’ - a Facebook based portfolio to represent their collaborative walking projects.

Ali Pretty and Richard White

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Fringe Events An Insight into Government Support and Funding for local and regional SMEs Tues 23 September 9.30am – 4pm Free Alive Church, Grantham Business funding and network event.

Science and history talks Wednesday 24 to Saturday 27 September Throughout the day Free Visit Woolsthorpe Manor, birthplace and idyllic family home of Isaac Newton, for a series of engaging science and history talks. Specialist volunteers will share their stories, covering everything from ‘amazing science’, to Newton’s ground-breaking time at the Royal Mint, and investigating the natural landscape which inspired Newton in his works.

And of course you’ll be able to see for yourself the most famous tree in the world still standing in the historic orchard; the one that inspired his influential theory on gravity. (Oh and the one where the apple didn’t fall on his head!)

For more details log-on to www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ woolsthorpe-manor

The Life and Times of Guy Gibson Wednesday

There’s Something Nasty in the Woodshed Grantham Guildhall Ballroom Ticket: £5 Duration: 2 hours Since their formation in 2006, Something Nasty have established a formidable reputation country wide as purveyors of high octane folk rock.

Blending self-penned and traditional songs and music, the focus is on entertainment delivering their unique blend of bagpipe driven rock with energy and humour.

Thursday

Autumn Fair Wide Westgate Afternoon and evening (Thurs, Fri and Sat) Grantham’s traditional Autumn Fair will be on Wide Westgate from Thursday lunchtime to Saturday evening.

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Jim Shortland St Vincents Hall, Grantham 5.30pm Ticket: £1 (to cover booking fee) with voluntary donation of £5 to be paid at the time of the talk in aid of the Lincolnshire Bomber Command Memorial.

Duration: 1 hour Seventy years ago Guy Gibson died when his Mosquito crashed over Holland.

Gibson earned a Victoria Cross leading the Dambuster's Raid in 1943 which was commanded from St Vincent's Hall in Grantham. He visited Grantham to receive orders about the Dams raid. ‘As great a warrior as this island ever bred.’ Sir Arthur (Bomber) Harris. Entry strictly by ticket only as space is very limited

Danny and the Bare Bones Grantham Guildhall Ballroom 10pm Ticket: £5 Duration: 2 hours A new and exciting collaboration between ex-Mojo Bones band members Danny Segal, Gary Marshall and Mat Heighway.

The trio combines traditional and new songs with a blues theme with rock, funk, ska and reggae.

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Saturday

‘Altered’ -’Contemporary Art in Ancient Churches’ presents

Friday

Ophelia‘s Ghost’

Grantham Guildhall 10pm Ticket: £5 Duration: 2 hours

St John the Baptist Church, High Street, Colsterworth.

Saturday 27th September, 10am – 9pm Sunday 28th September, 11.30am – 4pm Free

The Most Ugly Child

Late Night Festival Music Ages 18+ Country and bluegrass band The Most Ugly Child revolve around the partnership of singer songwriters Daniel Wright and Stevie-Leigh Goodison.

Manière des Bohémiens Grantham Guildhall Ballroom 10pm Tickets: £5 Duration: 2 hours

A haunting installation based on Shakespeare’s tragic character Ophelia.

Created through digital projection and silent storytelling from Davy and Kristin McGuire’s award-winning studio, audience members are brought face to face with Ophelia at the moment of her watery demise. The setting, St John the Baptist’s Church, lends an atmosphere of ancient peace to this moving and beautiful work.

Thursday 25 September 8.30pm-10pm Free If you fancy a hand-clapping, foot-tapping sing-a-long then look no further than Steppin’Stones, a band specialising in English, Irish & Scottish folk music as well as contemporary songs from the 50's and 60's.

Nigel Creasey, who fronts the band, has a lifetime of experience playing acoustic guitar and button accordion at folk clubs and festivals in England and Ireland for the past 30 years. Teri Clarke has been singing for as long as she can remember and also plays acoustic tenor guitar. She started singing in pubs and clubs in her teens, and never stopped.

Steppin’ Stones uses an assortment of guitars, melodeons and bodhran in their performances and entertain audiences with their humour, singing and sheer musical ability.

Manière des Bohémiens play improvised Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli influenced Gypsy Jazz and Eastern European swing. They have been entertaining the folks of Nottingham and beyond for four years with their infectious blend of improvised, manouche jazz and rough-edged, virtuosic Eastern-European gypsy-folk music. Two members, Rob and Roger Rosa, grew up in the Grantham area and played in the local music festival.

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continent and appeared on television and radio, including Radio Two’s “Folk on 2”.

More surprisingly, one of their recorded tracks was once the choice of some unknown music lover in the Hong Kong version of Desert Island Discs! One radio station in the USA even devoted a whole programme to them, without having a clue who they were!

Grantham Markets Higgledy Piggledy (Tom Lane’s Ceilidh band)

Friday 26 September 8.30pm-10pm Hailed as ‘Lincolnshire’s premier ceilidh band’ Higgledy Piggledy Band have a long pedigree – and yet they play with the freshness and a verve of a new young band.

Fiddle-led, their sound is more rocky than many bands yet they retain the traditional feel of the tunes and the music they love.

Their music is tight, yet played with freedom and freshness. They have toured the

Traditional Saturday Market Narrow Westgate, Market Place and Conduit Lane 8am - 2pm Grantham’s Saturday market will be open for business as usual. The market features a wide range of local produce and goods.

Please note that traders usually found in Wide Westgate will be in Conduit Lane area for this Saturday only

Local food, crafts, arts and specialist stalls Grantham Town Centre 4pm-9:30pm

A festival market featuring specialist foods, crafts and arts as well as science, arts and heritage organisations and stalls.

The market begins as our late afternoon family programme gets underway and it continues through our Giants of Science evening spectacle.

Music Events Supporter...

Simmonds Music, in Grantham, is one of the largest music shops in the East Midlands. It is a double reed specialist and UK agent for Fox, Renard, Puchner and Adler bassoons & oboes. It also sells all woodwind, brass, guitars, strings, digital pianos and keyboards with an extensive sheet music department and sells classical music CDs. In addition to retail it also offers lessons on all instruments including voice and has a recording studio.

Simmonds Music is a hub for all things musical, so pay them a visit or view online at www.simmondsmusic.

Woolsthorpe Manor; well worth a visit

Birthplace and family home of Sir Isaac Newton Isaac Newton was born in this modest manor house in 1642 and made many of his most important discoveries about light and gravity here.

The Manor House, his family home, is furnished as a 17thcentury farmhouse might have been at this time. You can still see the famous apple tree that inspired his thoughts on gravity from the bedroom window, and explore some of his ideas for yourself in the Science Discovery Centre.

• Hands-on Science Centre activities and Light Workshop • Family events and summer holiday activities • Tea room and shop

Water Lane, Woolsthorpe by Colsterworth, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG33 5PD Telephone: 01476 860338 For opening times see www.nationaltrust.org.uk/woolsthorpe-manor Email: woolsthorpemanor@nationaltrust.org.uk

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‘Altered’ -’Contemporary Art in Ancient Churches’ presents

‘Ophelia’s Ghost’

APPLE LOOK FOR THE

by Davy and Kristin McGuire A haunting installation based on Shakespeare’s tragic character ‘Ophelia’

in participating Grantham shops for our Festival Treasure Trail – and win superb prizes. Forms from Grantham Arts Centre Box Office

Saturday 27th September, 10am – 7pm Sunday 28th September, 10am – 7pm FREE event

Download the app for exclusive festival retail and food offers

St John the Baptist’s Church, Colsterworth Created through digital projection and silent storytelling from Davy and Kristin McGuire’s award-winning studio, audience members are brought face to face with Ophelia at the moment of her watery demise. The setting, St John the Baptist’s Church, lends an atmosphere of ancient peace to this moving and beautiful work.

Pick up a Grantham Retailers ‘Spend Local Card’ - available in all participating GRA shops. Find participating shops at: www.gra.uk.net

www.alteredartsproject.weebly.com

Check out ‘Grantham at a Glance’ on Facebook and Twitter, bringing together all local business and retail offers.

Grantham Museum is hosting a

programme of Gravity Fields Festival Events

International Images for Science Exhibition

Sat 27 9.30am – 9.30pm Sun 28 12 noon – 4.30pm With demos by Apothecary Jack

Grantham schooldays.

An extraordinary variety of scientific photography

IOU Volatile Light – Virtual World Schools 3D Workshops

The Old Dogg at the Mint

Wed 24 September + Friday 26 9.30am 11.30am 1.30am

First public reading of an exciting new play, written by the cast of the Grantham Dramatic Society with Excavate, telling of Newton’s struggles with clippers and counterfeiters.

FREE

Wed 24 – Sun 28 September 1.30pm – 2.30pm 3pm – 5pm Sat 27 9.30am – 9.30pm Sun 28 12 noon – 4.30pm

Newton’s Grantham: Grantham’s Newton Exhibition FREE The 17th century world of Isaac Newton Wed 24-Fri 26 9.30am – 5pm

Publication of Grantham Hall Book

Publication of Grantham Hall Book Transcript U3A Transcription Group.

Celebrate the publication of a the Corporation Minute Book for Newton’s

Fri 26 September 5.30pm Duration: 1 hour

FREE

Sun 28 Sep 12 noon

PLUS:

Apothecary

Special pre-festival silk flag-making workshop 15 – 19 September. Part of ‘Walking with Newton’ project with creative artist Ali Pretty

Jack

www.granthammuseum.org.uk St Peter’s Hill, Grantham, Lincolnshire NG31 6PY 01476 568783

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Best Western Angel and Royal Hotel High Street, Granthamm, NG31 6PN t. 01476 565816 e. enquiries@angelandroyal.co.uk w. www.angelandroyal.co.uk w. www.ashdalehotels.com

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For weddings, receptions, corporate, society or family banqueting functions we pride ourselves on our expertise, professional standards and attention to detail.

Harlaxton Manor, used in many historical films and television programmes, can provide a unique backdrop for your special day or event. The manor makes an ideal venue, accommodating up to 150 guests for a wedding breakfast and up to 350 for evening buffets. We can also provide smaller, more intimate rooms.

We hold a civil wedding licence and provide an unparalleled atmosphere for your wedding ceremony. Harlaxton Manor benefits from a large conservatory, extensive grounds, ample parking and dedicated House, Events and Catering Teams.

Simon Hawkes, Programmes and Events Manager Harlaxton Manor, Harlaxton, Grantham, Lincolnshire NG32 1AG Tel: 01476 403020 Email: shawkes@harlaxton.co.uk www.harlaxton.co.uk

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