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Citizen Science Victoria – July Gathering

60L Green Building 60 Leicester Street, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

Join us for the July 2019 meeting of the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Citizen Science Association. This meeting will focus on citizen science and education. The meeting will commence with three presentations, which will be followed by break-out group discussions. There will also be plenty of time for sharing your project stories, networking and developing our community of practice. Speakers include Sandra McCullogh from Earthwatch Australia, Julian O Shea from Unbound, and Edmond Lascaris from the City of Whittlesea.

Black holes, gravitational waves and the fastest explosions in the universe – Royal Children’s Hospital

Ella Latham Theatre Ground Floor, The Royal Children’s Hospital 50 Flemington Road Parkville, Victoria

Dr Jeff Cooke will discuss recently announced astronomical events, including a direct image of a supermassive black hole, gravitational waves from merging black holes and neutron stars, and other exotic phenomena, including fast radio bursts. Donation goes to the Royal Children’s Hospital. There have been several major announcements in astronomy recently, including a direct image…

$10

Room with a point of view (Open House)

The University of Melbourne Parkville, 3010

“You built me up. You changed me. You loved me. You left me. Ultimately, you used me – what else can I call it?” Explore the changing use and disuse of urban and industrial spaces, from the point of view of the buildings themselves. How does it feel to have been home to a rave,…

Free

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 cold storage, the message read. And he could access them. Slater, an archival producer and self-confessed space nerd, was “stunned.” He was at his home…

$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 will be trawling Melbourne’s Yarra River collecting rubbish outside of the City’s existing litter traps. And Melbourne’s waterways really need the help – in 2017, they were filled with…

Free

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, at your own pace. This is a co-learning program for children where parents and carers are core support for their child. There will be expert…

free

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 Mahoney and Mutti Mutti/Yorta Yorta and Boon Wurrung/Wemba Wemba artist Maree Clarke, Eel Trap is a 10-metre installation made of biodegradable reeds and grasses on the Maribyrnong River. Inspired by traditional…

Free

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 fatberg – a congealed mass of fat, wet wipes and nappies – stretched the length of nearly two AFL footy ovals, taking workmen armed with shovels and high-powered jets…

Free

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 sewerage systems, causing flooding in major cities. Large lumps of coagulated grease, known as ‘fatbergs’, clog the system and create flooding. These greasy beasts are created…

Free

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 a gathering of some of the greatest scientific and musical minds of the day. In the year 1828, Alexander von Humboldt set up a hut…

Free

SCINEMA International Science Film Festival National Science Week Program

SCINEMA is a celebration of the power of the moving image to inspire the young, satisfy the curious, explain the baffling and ask the impossible. Register your venue to host your own free SCINEMA screening during National Science Week.   SCINEMA is the largest science film festival in the southern hemisphere showcasing the best in…

Free

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 the search for a new species that could solve our plastic waste dilemma. The lid has been lifted on human wastefulness, but what next? Science…

Free
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