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Apollo 11 Archive Producer Stephen Slater in Conversation

Ballarat Municipal Observatory and Museum 439 Cobden Street, Mount Pleasant, Victoria, Australia

One evening in May 2017, Stephen Slater got an unusual email from the US National Archives. NASA had left a trove of untouched Apollo 11 specific film reels sitting in…

$10 – $25

Trash Robot

Yarra River Southbank, VIC, Australia

Urban Rivers (USA) Can we game our way to a cleaner world? Take control of our garbage-eating robot either in person or online! Created by Chicago-based collective Urban Rivers, Trash Robot…

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Hack IT Club: Technology and Coding for Kids

Join us for this term-based program and learn about Lego and Sphero Robotics, and also Arduino, and micro:bit electronics. Choose what you would like to explore, and then do so,…

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Eel Trap – weaving workshops

Footscray Community Arts Centre 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia

“Rivers signify tribal boundaries, gatherings for corroboree, life, not only for humans but for all living creatures” – Maree Clarke. Mitch Mahoney & Maree Clarke (Australia) Created by Boon Wurrung artist Mitch…

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Fatberg (Creating)

Testing Grounds 1 City Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia

Arne Hendriks (Netherlands) & Mike Thompson (United Kingdom) Do we really understand fat? In November 2017, the 130-tonne ‘Monster of Whitechapel’ was ejected from the bowels of east London. This…

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The Sewer Soaperie

Testing Grounds 1 City Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia

Would you wash your hands with soap made from sewage? Catherine Sarah Young (Philippines) Sewer Soaperie turns raw sewage and fat into luxury soaps. Extreme storms now frequently overwhelm drains, pipes and…

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Maths & Music in Berlin, 1828: Elliptic Optics, Kosmos & Beethoven

Wonthaggi Baptist Church 2 Broome Crescent, Wonthaggi, VIC, Australia

Presented by Professor Arun Ram, with live music performed by Joshua Hooke This performance will take you back to the salons of Abraham and Lea Mendelssohn in Berlin, 1828, to…

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Hunt for the Plastic Eaters

Science Gallery Melbourne throws down the gauntlet and sets an ambitious challenge: can we find a new plastic-eating bacteria in Australia? This project asks citizen scientists to culture bacteria in…

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Women in STEM Conference at Melbourne Zoo (Catholic Schools)

Melbourne Zoo Elliot Avenue, Parkville, VIC, Australia

Women in STEM: Future Careers, 21st Century Skills and Role Models Females are drastically underrepresented in STEM subjects and jobs across the planet – let’s change that! On the eve…

$19

P@TCH

Macfarland Court The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

Janna Ahrndt (United States of America) Will you truthfully track your environmental goals? Like a Fitbit for your ethical performance, P@tch is a textile-based new media project inspired by punk and…

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Urinotron

Macfarland Court The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

Sandra and Gaspard Bébié-Valérian (France) and Professor Peter Scales (Australia) Are you flushing a valuable wee-source? Urinotron is a large-scale installation that takes our organic waste (urine) and transforms it into power for your mobile phone, before recycling it…

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