Hugh Williamson Lecture: Michael Pinsky
2019-08-20 18:00 - 20:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Federation Hall, Theatre 205, 7-17 Grant Street #5, Southbank, VIC, 3006, Australia
Buy less, bin less: the culture of consuming
Things are cheap. Space is expensive. Large private art galleries exhibiting a few select artworks epitomise the contemporary expression of wealth. However, behind this minimalism lies a world of waste.
Michael Pinsky envisions his art as a service rather than a product. His interests lie in the public and public space rather than with the private collector and the private gallery. Wherever possible he seeks to reuse, recycle and adapt to create his installations using local materials, knowledge and labour. Michael Pinsky will present his journey as an artist and activist, suggesting that art can play a critical role in changing people’s lives and challenging the capitalist narrative that unfettered economic growth is the global panacea.

Humans 2.0
2019-08-20 16:00 - 18:00 | Bendigo Tech School on La Trobe University, Bendigo Campus, Edwards Rd, Flora Hill 3552
Explore and experience what it will mean to be human in the next century.
Check out future artefacts and prototypes, and dance off with artificial intelligence. Hear about new modes of communication, sports and transport which may be available to future humans. Speak with experts to invent your own stories, ponder our place in an increasingly automated world and discover how we could feed the planet’s human population.
This free speculative story event is held over two sessions on Tuesday 20 August. The second session (6:00-8:00pm) is for people over the age of 18.

Engineers Without Borders
2019-08-20 16:00 - 17:00 | Thomastown Library, 52 Main Street, Thomastown, VIC, 3074, Australia
Engineers without Borders (EWB) is a worldwide volunteering organisation for engineering students and professionals.
EWB help improve peoples’s lives by using engineering to create social value. They help people develop skills, knowledge and technological solutions in areas such as clean water, clean energy, sustainable housing and digital access.
Engineers without Borders are coming to Thomastown Library to run outreach workshops aimed at primary-aged children. These workshops are fun and meaningful, and help children learn about what engineering involves, and how it can be used to solve problems.

Talk by Jane Edmanson
2019-08-19 11:00 - 12:00 | Mornington Peninsula Libraries, Vancouver Street, Mornington, VIC, 3931, Australia
Jane has been involved in horticulture for more than 40 years, working in propagation, growing plants, owning and managing a retail nursery along with television, radio and other media commitments. Jane will discuss all things gardening with a focus on propagation.
Jane is author and co-author of five gardening books and has contributed to the Gardening Australia magazine since its inception. She is in demand as a speaker at numerous horticulture and gardening events within the community plus festivals, libraries and schools.
She now takes garden tours to many places around the world and shorter tours within Australia. These tours highlight gardens along with other places of cultural or environmental significance.
Jane is patron of Royal Horticultural Society Victoria, Melton Botanic Gardens and The Gardens of Austin Health.
Jane loves plants of all descriptions and gets a lot of pleasure out of the wider gardening community.

Spot the Bull s...cience
2019-08-18 15:00 - 16:30 | Royal Society of Victoria, 8 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, Vic, 3000, Australia
The Science Nation is celebrating National Science Week with Spot the Bull S…cience, a contest of intelligence, interrogation and deceit.
Spot the Bull Science is a contest of intelligence, interrogation & deceit. The premise is simple – Australia’s best and brightest scientists will present three scientific ‘facts’; the catch is, only two are correct! Your job is to discern the truthful statements from the fiction while the scientists do their Oscar-winning best to fool you into believing the latter.
Spot the Bull S…cience is 90 minutes of science & laughs that promises to be fun for everyone.

The Festival of Soil
2019-08-18 13:30 - 16:00 | ArtPlay, Birrarung Marr, Russell Street Extension, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Join us for The Festival of Soil – a celebration of the hidden worlds beneath our feet, explored through art, science and storytelling.
Did you know that there are more living creatures in a teaspoon of soil than there are humans on planet Earth?
Part of National Science Week this family-friendly event will be led by the Small Friends Books team – a microbiologist, two artists and a writer who collaborate to create stories for children set in the microscopic world.
Featuring an interactive microscope station, collaborative drawing, ‘soil pit’ experiments, a live storytelling and an immersive, soil-inspired performance, we will also be celebrating the launch of Nema and the Xenos: A Story of Soil Cycles – the newest story in the Small Friends Books series (co-published by Scale Free Network and CSIRO Publishing). Set in the soil, this science-adventure tale is told by a tiny worm (a nematode) on a very big mission. An exhibition of original illustrations will also be on display.

Sounds a lot like science with the Curiosity Show and VYSO
2019-08-18 13:30 - 14:30 | Iwaki Auditorium, ABC, 120-130 Southbank Boulevard, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Professor Rob Morrison and Dr Deane Hutton from the Curiosity Show are back to explore the science of sound with Artistic Director Dr Ingrid Martin and the Victorian Youth Symphony Orchestra. Be prepared for bucket loads of home made instruments, audience participation, and a cracking grand finale.

Remember sitting on the couch and watching Rob and Deane making an ancient wind instrument from a PVC pipe or the time they used crystal glasses to make music? Professor Rob Morrison and Dr Deane Hutton from the Curiosity Show are back to explore the science of sound with the Victorian Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Join Rob, Deane and Artistic Director Dr Ingrid Martin for experiments with sound waves, vibrations, rhythm and pitch, live onstage with a full symphony orchestra. Be prepared for bucket loads of home made instruments, plenty of audience participation, and a cracking grand finale!
This event has been generously supported by a National Science Week Grant.

Fizzle and Pop Show by Twisted Science
2019-08-18 11:30 - 12:30 | Bunjil Place Library, Bunjil Place, Patrick Northeast Drive, Narre Warren, VIC, Australia
The Fizzle and Pop Show is full of the magic of science with fun, creative demonstrations. With plenty of hands-on opportunities for willing participants and heaps to see and wonder about, the audience is always fully engaged with our Scientwist presenters throughout!

SCINEMA International Science Film Festival @ Codergarten
2019-08-18 11:00 - 13:00 | Codergarten, 45 Mundy Street, Bendigo, VIC, Australia
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.
SCINEMA is the largest science film festival in the southern hemisphere showcasing the best in science cinema from around the world. 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.
No booking required. Please contact the venue for further info.

Monash Parkville Open Day
2019-08-18 10:00 - 15:00 | Monash University Parkville Campus, 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC, 3052, Australia
Monash University’s Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is number three in the world for Pharmacy and Pharmacology. On Open day we open our doors to the public to find out why we are so good at what we do. Join us for a day of scientific exploration and find out why we are the leading faculty in Australia for Pharmacy and Pharmacology.
Participate in a drug discovery pipeline tour, hear from our researchers about how they are combating malaria, tackling the rise of superbugs and saving mothers during childbirth. Find out about why our Pharmacy degree has long been considered the leading pharmacy program in Australia and how our Pharmacists are experts on how medicines interact with the body and how they play a vital role in improving public health.
The day is free and there is loads of Science to explore! Including food trucks, entertainment and course information.
Find out more or register your interest online.

VCE Chemistry Workshop - the chemistry of medicines, functional groups and chirality
2019-08-18 09:30 - 11:00 | Monash University Parkville Campus, 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC, 3052, Australia
A fantastic opportunity for VCE Chemistry students to apply their understanding of functional groups, chirality and problem solving to the context of pharmacy and pharmacology. Come along and extend yourself in preparation for your exams and future in the health care and research sectors.
This workshop is delivered by our current PhD students and aligns with the VCE Chemistry curriculum.
If you are interested in pharmacy or pharmacology, why not extend yourself with a workshop at our Parkville campus?
Tickets are free, but spaces are limited. Register online.
We look forward to seeing you there.

Music of the Heavens - Stargazing Concert Under the Stars
2019-08-17 19:30 - 22:30 | Briars Astronomy Centre and Observatory, 450 Nepean Highway, Mount Martha, VIC, 3934, Australia
To celebrate the Moon landing this unique evening for the public features a selection of space-themed music performed by the Southern Peninsula Concert Band, woven together with informative space talks by the Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society. Weather Permitting this will be followed by stargazing with telescopes.
Book early as seats are limited.
There are three hampers to win. Prizes include: 1st prize has a small piece of the Moon, 2nd prize has a piece of Lunar mineral and 3rd prize has a 3D-printed lunar globe. The raffle will be drawn on the night. Tickets: $5.00 and can be pre-purchased via the ticket booking form.

Particle/Wave
2019-08-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Scienceworks, 2 Booker Street, Spotswood, VIC, 3015, Australia
The Universe has spoken and we have understood. David Blair, astrophysicist and LIGO and OzGrav collaboration member.
Particle/Wave is an immersive multimedia exploration of gravitational waves at the point where poetry, video art, music and science intersect. First observed in 2015, gravitational waves are ripples in space-time, traveling away from exploding stars, merging black holes and other cosmological phenomena.
Physicist Stephen Hawking called them ‘a completely new way of looking at the universe.’ A mind-expanding collaboration of artists and internationally renowned scientists, Particle/Wave offers a unique lens into this incredible discovery.
Following a sell-out season at the Melbourne Festival 2018 and this years’ World Science Festival Brisbane, Particle/Wave is proud to be part of National Science Week 2019. It will travel to Melbourne, Wollongong and Adelaide.
With writers ALICIA SOMETIMES, KRISSY KNEEN, MAXINE BENEBA CLARKE, LISA GORTON, OMAR MUSA, JORDIE ALBISTON and sound artists ANDREW WATSON, CAMILLA HANNAN, NAT BATES and video by ANDREW WATSON, ISOBEL KNOWLES, BENJAMIN PORTAS, CARL KNOX, MARK MYERS, SAR RUDDENKLAU, DEE MASON, AI YAMAMOTO, TOBIAS EDWARDS and scientists: KATIE MACK, KENDALL ACKLEY, ALAN DUFFY and LING SUN.
Director and producer: Alicia Sometimes Musical Director and co-prodcuer: Andrew Watson With support from National Science Week, Museum Victoria, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), Creative Victoria, Australia Council and Hobsons Bay.

The Alchemist: Turning waste into wealth
2019-08-17 17:00 - 19:00 | Royal Society of Victoria, 8 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, Vic, 3000, Australia
Discover how Professor Veena Sahajwalla is repurposing the fundamental molecules and elements within post-consumer waste products to revolutionise recycling science.
Professor Veena Sahajwalla is revolutionising recycling science. She approaches our growing waste problem as a commercial opportunity with real market value to help drive behaviour change. Last year her SMaRT centre opened the world’s first e-waste micro-factory to process old computers, phones, televisions, and all the electronic junk that ends up in landfill. The waste is sorted and dismantled by robots, then mined for its precious elements. Circuit boards are stripped of metals such as gold, copper and tin, while glass and plastic are converted to industrial-grade ceramics and plastic filaments for use in 3D printing.
Join Veena to explore how repurposing the fundamental molecules and elements within post-consumer waste products is reinventing the way we treat – and perceive – these largely untapped commodities.
Presented by the Royal Society of Victoria in partnership with the Banyule-Nillumbik Tech School.

The Alchemist: Turning Waste into Wealth
2019-08-17 17:00 - 19:00 | Royal Society of Victoria, 8 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, Vic, 3000, Australia
A National Science Week Event
Speaker: ARC Laureate Professor Veena Sahajwalla
Founding Director, Centre for Sustainable Materials Research & Technology, The University of New South Wales
Professor Veena Sahajwalla is revolutionising recycling science.
Australia is not alone in facing the global waste crisis threatening ecological systems on land, waterways and ocean. Rather than take up arms against a sea of big polluters, Professor Sahajwalla approaches the problem as a commercial opportunity with real market value to help drive behaviour change. Last year her SMaRT centre opened the world’s first e-waste micro-factory to process old computers, phones, televisions, and all the electronic junk that ends up in landfill. The waste is sorted and dismantled by robots, then mined for its precious elements. Circuit boards are stripped of metals such as gold, copper and tin, while glass and plastic are converted to industrial-grade ceramics and plastic filaments for use in 3D printing.
Australian steel makers have already commercialised her groundbreaking invention known as Green Steel, which uses the carbon in old car tyres to replace coking coal in steel production. Her technology has been patented and exported around the world, used in the production of more than 30 million tonnes of steel.
Join us to explore how repurposing the fundamental molecules and elements within post-consumer waste products is reinventing the way we treat – and perceive – these largely untapped commodities.
Presented by the Royal Society of Victoria in partnership with the Banyule-Nillumbik Tech School.
About the speaker:

Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Professor Veena Sahajwalla is an internationally recognised materials scientist, engineer and inventor revolutionising recycling science. She is renowned for pioneering the high temperature transformation of waste in the production of a new generation of ‘green materials.’ In 2018 Veena launched the world’s first e-waste microfactory. As the founding Director of the Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, she is producing a new generation of green materials and products made entirely, or primarily, from waste. Veena also heads the ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub for ‘green manufacturing’, a leading national research centre that works in collaboration with industry to ensure new recycling science is translated into real world environmental and economic benefits.

In 2018 she was elected as Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. In 2016, Veena was named one of Australia’s Most Innovative Engineers and in 2015, Veena named Australia’s 100 Most Influential Engineers, both by Engineers Australia. In 2013, Veena received the ‘Howe Memorial Lecture Award’, Pittsburgh, USA in appreciation for her lecture on ‘The Power of Steelmaking – harnessing high temperature reactions to transform waste into raw material resources’.﻿
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Mobile Planetarium Sessions with Science Discovery Dome (Children Show)
2019-08-17 14:30 - 15:30 | Sunshine Library, 301 Hampshire Road, Sunshine, VIC, 3020, Australia
Enjoy the mobile dome experience. Come and watch movies on astronomy and the Earth projected across the dome.pl

Taking our garden bugs to the Moon, Mars, and beyond
2019-08-17 14:00 - 17:00 | All Saints Church, 466 Glenferrie Road, Kooyong, VIC, 3144, Australia
Join Professor Thompson on an interactive talk and exploration of taking bugs into space to help us live on the Moon and Mars. In 2003 Prof Thompson flew spiders and fruit flies on the NASA Space Shuttle in an experiment to see if bugs had the right stuff to help us live in space. On show will be samples of the experiments and space flown plants and seeds that were used to find out what sort of greenhouse plants an astronaut would be able to grow on Mars.
Find out how is science used to find out which bug should be taken to Mars. What are the challenges preventing us from going to Moon or Mars today? Find out why are everyday garden insects important to our survival on the Moon and Mars? Learn how you can contribute to space research in your own garden.

Spit for Science and Gut Feelings Spot Talks
2019-08-17 14:00 - 15:00 | Melbourne Museum, 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton, VIC, 3053, Australia
Museums Victoria is creating a world first live microbe map …. and we’re inviting you to spit for science!
Are you a cat or a dog person? A coffee drinker? Vegan? We want to know because recent research shows the mix of helpful microorganisms in your gut is affected by your lifestyle choices… but how? And Melbourne is the allergy capital of the world, do we have a unique microbe fingerprint that’s talking to our immune systems?
To investigate these questions and more we are creating a digital microbe map of Victoria, and taking a sample from one end of the gut, the mouth.
Here, microbes in saliva donated by you/visitors are being analysed by the University of Melbourne for this cutting-edge research. In the process, Melbourne Museum is creating a digital installation—growing with new data each month. Results so far are already on display at the front of the Gut Feelings exhibition.
The sample is a snapshot in time so the experience is not diagnostic, no individual data will be displayed or given to you—we want to consider gut health as a community. The museum display also focuses on variables within your control, empowering you to consider how your choices effect your gut (and so body/mind) health. You can improve your microbiome in as little as 24hrs simply by relaxing or eating well today.
Come and spit for science and meet the science experts who created the incredible GUT FEELINGS EXHIBITION in the space all day for spot talks and a celebration of all things guts.
Drop in – free with Museum entry.

The Psychology of Pets
2019-08-17 14:00 - 15:00 | Brighton Town Hall, Cnr Carpenter and Wilson Streets, Brighton, 3186, Australia
Join us to celebrate National Science Week and our latest exhibition, Pets are People Too, with this fascinating panel discussion on the psychology of pets. Hear from leading pet behaviorists and passionate pet advocates about how and why your pets think, act and feel.

Immersive Science III (SCIVR): Astronomy for all Australians – Sale
2019-08-17 13:30 - 15:00 | Sale Library, 70 Foster Street, Sale, VIC, 3850, Australia
Catch the latest news in black holes with Alan Duffy and Rebecca Allen with live Q&A. Download the app and explore the universe.
Realise the power of stars, delve into the latest gravitational wave research, and explore the Universe—all without leaving town. Science communicators and researchers Associate Professor Alan Duffy and Dr Rebecca Allen return to share the latest wonders of Australian-led research in Astronomy through SciVR; an immersive astronomy experience enabled by a virtual reality (VR) smartphone app. Download the app for free, then come and join in our live viewing party event on Saturday 17 August as you explore the app on your smartphone.
Get ready from 1:30pm and the live stream starts at 2pm AEST. Alan and Rebecca share the science of astronomy through a more inclusive experience with an updated app, special close-captioned studio live-stream, and social media Q&A to regional groups and grassroots-organised viewing parties in libraries and other venues across the country.
This program has been made possible with the generous support of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), Swinburne University of Technology, and is supported by the Australian Government as part of National Science Week.

Immersive Science III (SCIVR): Astronomy for all Australians - Lalor
2019-08-17 13:30 - 15:00 | Lalor Library, 2A May Road, Lalor, VIC, Australia

Immersive Science III (VR): Astronomy for all Australians - Emerald
2019-08-17 13:30 - 15:00 | Emerald Secondary School and Mount Burnett Observatory, 425 Belgrave Gembrook Road, Emerald, VIC, 3782, Australia
Catch the latest news in black holes with Alan Duffy and Rebecca Allen with live Q&A. Download the app and explore the universe.
Realise the power of stars, delve into the latest gravitational wave research, and explore the Universe—all without leaving town. Science communicators and researchers Associate Professor Alan Duffy and Dr Rebecca Allen return to share the latest wonders of Australian-led research in Astronomy through SciVR; an immersive astronomy experience enabled by a virtual reality (VR) smartphone app.
Download the app for free, then come and join in our live viewing party event on Saturday 17 August as you explore the app on your smartphone. Get ready from 1:30pm and the live stream starts at 2pm AEST. Alan and Rebecca share the science of astronomy through a more inclusive experience with an updated app, special close-captioned studio live-stream, and social media Q&A to regional groups and grassroots-organised viewing parties in libraries and other venues across the country.
Hosted by Mount Burnett Observatory in partnership with Emerald Secondary College and ESC Astronomy Club.
This program has been made possible with the generous support of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), Swinburne University of Technology, and is supported by the Australian Government as part of National Science Week.

Immersive Science III (SCIVR): Astronomy for all Australians - Romsey
2019-08-17 13:30 - 15:00 | Romsey Community Hub, 96 Main Street, Romsey, VIC, 3434, Australia

Immersive Science III (SCIVR): Astronomy for all Australians - Lilydale
2019-08-17 13:30 - 15:00 | Yarra Ranges Tech School, 1 Jarlo Drive, Lilydale, Victoria, 3140, Australia

Immersive Science III (SCIVR): Astronomy for all Australians - Wangaratta
2019-08-17 13:30 - 15:00 | Wangaratta Library, 21 Docker Street, Wangaratta, VIC, 3677, Australia

Immersive Science III (SCIVR): Astronomy for all Australians - Bendigo
2019-08-17 13:30 - 15:00 | Bendigo Library, 259 Hargreaves Street, Bendigo, VIC, Australia

Fizzics Liquid Nitrogen Show - Wonthaggi Library
2019-08-17 13:30 - 14:30 | Wonthaggi Library, Murray Street, Wonthaggi, VIC, Australia
Fizzics – Liquid Nitrogen Show – is an event hosted by Fizzics Education. The show demonstrates phase changes, expansion, contraction, basic cell theory, air pressure, and the weather.
Featured experiments include lid launcher, ball smasher, liquid nitrogen sprinkler, frozen bubbles, fog breath, cool lasers, cooling circuits and levitating magnets.
The shows allow up to 60 children through demonstration to find out:

How solids, liquids and gases change when rapidly heated and cooled.
What happens to living things if they are frozen?
How can Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion explain a liquid nitrogen sprinkler
What is the Leidenfrost effect?

Mobile Planetarium Sessions with Science Discovery Dome (adults show)
2019-08-17 13:30 - 14:30 | Sunshine Library, 301 Hampshire Road, Sunshine, VIC, 3020, Australia
Enjoy the mobile dome experience. Come and watch movies on astronomy and the Earth projected across the dome.

Cleaning Products Workshop
2019-08-17 12:00 - 14:00 | Rosebud Library, McDowell Street, Rosebud, VIC, Australia
Bring along a recycled jar and make your own cleaning product. Learn about alternative products to chemicals, how to utilise resources from your garden and cutting down on waste.

Nitro Ice Cream
2019-08-17 12:00 - 14:00 | Rosebud Library, McDowell Street, Rosebud, VIC, Australia
Watch the science of using liquid nitrogen to instantly turn liquid into the creamiest ice cream. Demonstrations and ice cream giveaways.
At 196 degrees below zero, handcraft unique flavours that are theatrically made right before your eyes, giving you the ultimate ice cream experience. Their staff members are specially trained to handle liquid nitrogen – a non-toxic, non-flammable substance which will be completely evaporated by the time it reaches you, leaving behind only the creamiest ice-cream that your palate could’ve tasted.
