Kung Fu Motion courtesy of EPFL ArtLab & International Guoshu Association
This week’s Curator: Kishore Hari of Big Screen Science and Inquiring Minds.
My favorite week of the year is here. Halloween, the launch of the Bay Area Science Festival, and so many ghosts. Ghost tours, ghost busters, ghost decorations. Also, SO MUCH CANDY. I maybe have been sneaking loads of Halloween candy early, and that explains some of the eclectic choices this week. But if there is a week to do it, its this one. Enjoy the most haunted week of the year responsibly!
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COMING UP THIS WEEK:
All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey
Betsy Mason is one of my favorite humans. Formely the editor of the Wired Science blogs, she now leads the All Over the Map blog at National Geographic – an insane deep dive into the weird history of maps. She and co-author Greg Miller launch their first map anthology at Pegasus Books. And another reason Betsy is the best? How she put a boot up the butt of Apollo astronaut turned climate denier Harrison Schmitt.
THU OCT 25 730 PM, Pegasus Books, Berkeley, Free
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
A Wizard of Earthsea, The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Dispossessed. These amazing works languished for a time until the brilliance of Ursula Le Guin couldn’t be denied. She’s easily one of the most influential science fiction author, nay, authors of our time. A documentary celebrating the Berkeley native’s work and life plays at the Balboa theater with director Arwen Curry joining our own Anglerfishian Annalee Newitz in conversation after the film.
THU OCT 25 730 PM, Balboa Theater, SF, $12
SciComm Studio 011: The Future of Experience
Meet artists who are building the next generation of experiential installation that transition from screens toward an embodied experience. Sarah Kenderdine comes from the EPFL Artlab where she has been working on combining digital media and kung fu. Rhonda Holberton explores the interaction of augmented and virtual reality and the material world, including the aesthetics of augmented human forms.
THU OCT 25 630 PM, Swissnex, SF, Free
Creepy, Crawly, Spooky Science on Screen with KQED’s Deep Look Studio
Meet the producers of KQED’s Deep Look and hear harrowing tales of how they captured the fascinating imagery for some of their creepier creature videos including black widows, flesh-eating beetles, owls, ticks and whispering bats. Terri Barclay, a beetle expert from the MVZ, Kerry Padgett, a tick expert from the CA DPH, and Corky Quirk, a bat expert from NorCal Bats will all be on hand. 21+ only.
FRI OCT 26 7 PM, Bluxome Wine, SF, Free
Puppet Death Match
Are you ready to enter the Thumberdome? Get ready for puppet pugilists fighting to the death in a multi-stage puppet arena. Finger Puppets! Sock Puppets! Shadow puppets! Marionettes! Black Light Puppets! Giant Puppets! Pretty much any puppets. Costumes and/or puppets encouraged. But no muppets.
SAT OCT 27 8 PM, Raining Chainsaws Studio, SF, Free
Night Lantern Ghost Walk and Concert with Jill Tracy
Mingle by lantern light with legendary spirits as musical storyteller Jill Tracy leads you on a nighttime stroll to some of the most fascinating and (purportedly) haunted spots in the Presidio. In this follow-up to her hit 2015-16 show “Legends of the Presidio Ghosts,” Tracy reveals seldom-heard stories from lost archives and interviews. The night concludes with an intimate piano concert of music inspired by these very tales. And expect new music summoned directly for the audience, as part of Tracy’s acclaimed Sonic Séance. Dress for walking and the weather. If an event has “sold out” but you’d still like to try to attend, by all means come join the line for those without reservations. 15 minutes prior to the event, they will open the doors to this line and invite guests to enter until capacity has been reached.
THU-SAT OCT 25-27 7 PM, Presidio, SF, Free
Ghost Tour: Shipwrecks of Point Reyes
Do the ghosts of doomed sailors haunt Point Reyes’ treacherous shores? Pay respects at a historic cemetery and travel out to the sites of myriad maritime tragedies, seeking personal connection to long lost ships and those who wait to tell their stories from the bottom of the sea.
SUN OCT 28 10 AM, Point Reyes, $30-40
Big Screen Science: Ghostbusters
It’s almost Halloween, but we ain’t afraid of no ghosts! After the film, we discuss the science behind the original ghost hunters. What the hell is ectoplasm? Why shouldn’t you cross the streams? Is that how university test subjects are really treated?
TUE OCT 30 7 PM, Alamo Drafthouse, SF, $15
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