SCIENCEY EVENTS HAPPENING THROUGHOUT THE WEEK

These events  have been specially selected for their hands-on, craft, or science content,  to get your minds and hands busy. And if you find more, do send them through and they’ll join the list – Richard@BrightonScience.com

Some of these are quite short – on for only one day in many cases, so get planning and booking asap.

 

 

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Fishbourne Roman Palace 

Chichester PO19 3QR

Roman Army Week 

The Palace is seeking new recruits to enlist in its Roman Army and learn what it takes to become a fully-fledged soldier, activities every day for the trainee Roman soldiers. Once signed up, soldiers will don a uniform, train with sword and shield, and learn to write Latin and play Roman board games

Event information HERE Palace tickets HERE

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Herstmonceux – Science Centre

near Hastings

Oct  28-29 Astronaut Academy and  Twilight stargazing plus the brilliant hands-on Science Centre

Details HERE

 

 

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Escape Rooms

You are locked in a room. The only way to get out is to solve a series of puzzles and riddles using clues, hints, and strategy to complete the objectives at hand. Sounds like torture? Actually they are great family fun. They run just about every day, all day. Sessions last from 30 mins to 1 hr. Pick between:

BewilderBox

The Brunswick, Brighton, BN3 1JF

Planning and Booking HERE

Solve the City

Stalk the streets of Brighton, armed only with an app, and a parent or two.

Planning and booking HERE

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Go Completely Pots

The Painting Pottery Café

31 North Road Brighton BN1 1YB

Runs daily pottery painting sessions. See website HERE for details

Paintpots

39 Trafalgar Street Brighton, BN1 4ED

To find out what’s on, Telephone: 01273 696 682. Tell Vicky you’re from the Brighton Science Festival and she’ll take the kids down to see how the kiln works!

email paint.pots1@gmail.com

website is  HERE

Art-ful Pottery 

71 Rowlands Rd, Worthing, BN11 3JN

Pottery and many other activities all week.

Find out more and book HERE

Fun Pots –

Haywards Heath

Pottery workshops in a family-friendly atmosphere, all over half term

Find out all about it HERE

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MUSEUMS

Amberley Museum,

New Barn Rd. Nr Arundel, BN18 9LT

Open Weds – Sunday, 10.00am – 4.30pm,

The old industrial time capsule from Victorian times, (explore HERE) set in beautiful countryside, with walks and steam train rides, plus many activities, every day, and a weeks programme spanning a spooky pumpkin trail / lathe wood turning for all / making a genuine witch’s besom broomstick / plus of course the museum.

Programme and tickets HERE

Hove Museum

Sat Oct 25

General programme HERE

Plus Press-Play – Hands-on exhibition about the early days of film: “optical tricks, experimental animation, zine-making and more”. HERE

Horsham Museum

Tues Oct 28 – Fri Oct 31   Halloween Family Craft Activities

HERE

Booth Museum

Brighton

Oct 27 – Jaws’n’Claws – monstrous creepy-crawly, slinky-snaky, spidery ‘fun’ for families.

HERE

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ESTATE MATTERS

Leonardslee Lakes and Gardens

Lower Beeding, RH13 6PP

It’s a lovely, beautiful, busy house and gardens. Lots of craft workshops, aiming towards Christmas, including a re-useable wreath workshop.

Booking and information – HERE

Knepp Estate

near Burgess Hill

A Huge rewilding project

Oct 27 & 30   Much to do, including a beaver workshop (Oct 27) and Rewilding Your Child (Oct 30) HERE

Borde Hill Garden

Haywards Heath

Oct 27   –  RepTyler’s snakes, tarantulas, geckos, chameleons, and many more… and the garden HERE

 

 

…AND THEN…

Are We Nearly Here Yet?

The story of You and the Universe

Venue: your house! It’s six ZOOM sessions of 1 hour each

Mondays  at 2.00 or 4.00,  November 10 – December 15

Richard Robinson will be telling the story of life, the universe and everything, chapter by chapter, blow by blow,

This is an important story; all about you – your appearance at the Big Bang, and your adventures through exploding stars, under-water volcanoes, evolution, bacteria, worms, dinosaurs, apes, humans, civilisations …

… until the marvel that is YOU emerged, triumphant!

Each week, two 5-minute chapters in the story are followed by questions, jokes, chat, games and experiments.

If you can’t make any episodes, no matter: the video will be sent to you anyway, plus video links

Suitable for ages 8 – 11 and adults

Tickets – £24 for the whole series of 6 weekly events

Information and booking HERE

Some evaluations:

Thank you so much for breathing life into, well, Life. We so enjoyed your enthusiasm and expert knowledge (and the explanatory videos). We wish you the very best in your quest to spread a love and appreciation of science as widely as possible.

 

What a wonderful journey through time !

My 12 year old and I thoroughly enjoyed the lessons with Richard and looked forward to them every week. Every lesson was interesting and fun plus the extra info via email each week meant we could find out even more. Being able to rewatch the video’s was an added bonus especially for my child’s SEN. Richard was always happy to help and made each session great fun for the adults, and children. The only downside is that it came to an end.

 

“Are we nearly here yet” has become one of the highlights of our week, as have the email links. We have been disappearing down the rabbit holes and are following so many more YouTube channels now thanks to your recommendations. Last week Miles watched the session while on holiday at his grandparents’ house and his Nana messaged me to say she enjoyed it and found it very interesting too.…

 

This was an awesome course, that both me and my son thoroughly enjoyed. We learnt so much and had so much fun along the way too.

 

‘Get ready for a deep dive into how YOU became a reality and all the stages humankind went through on this amazing journey from the big bang to now!’

THERE’S MORE BELOW:

Always available and often in action;

busy, busy, busy.

Stop us and buy one!

The Pocket Science Funfair

…will be popping up when and where possible, taking the teasers of ordinary life and gamifying them: Splat the Rat, Guess the Weight of the Cake, learn to Draw Upside-Down, Shrink the Kids, build the Incredible Machine; this will Float your Boat,

Click HERE for THE POCKET SCIENCE FUNFAIR

Climate Science for Kids

…tells the story of climate change, past present and future, with clear, simple demonstrations and clear, simple language. Refined at London’s Natural History Museum and Brighton’s Unitarian Church. Check here for details and reviews:

Click HERE for CLIMATE SCIENCE FOR KIDS

book us for your school or community centre

Richard@BrightonScience.com
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