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SEPTEMBER 22, 2003
CALENDAR CORRECTION
REVISED OCTOBER CALENDAR BELOW
What's On At The California Academy of Sciences
Lectures, Programs, Events and Exhibits
October 2003
Exhibits
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land Ongoing
through December 31, 2003
150 Years of Science Ongoing through December 31, 2003
Skulls Ongoing through December 31, 2003
Village Children Ongoing through December 31, 2003
Dennis Anderson Photos Ongoing through December 31, 2003
-Events-
Música de Colombia Under the Stars
Enjoy an evening of vibrant Colombian music with Tambores de Colombia
as you look at the South American sky in Morrison Planetarium. For adults
age 21 and over.
Thursday October 9, 6:30 pm reception/7:30 pm concert (with one intermission)
Morrison Planetarium
$6 members/$10 non-members.
Información en Español:
Latino Heritage Day
Come to the Academy and celebrate Latino Heritage Month with ongoing live
demonstrations and hands-on activities including paper flowers, traditional
Zapotec weaving, crafts from Colombia, traditional dances from Chile,
as well as, tortilla and tamale-making stations.
Saturday, October 11, 11 am-4:30 pm; Información en Español:
; FREE with museum admission.
A Halloween Tail . . . Migrating Mystical Creatures 12th Annual Academy
Halloween Party
Pumpkins, ghosts, ghouls and princesses are invited to the Academy's Annual
Halloween Party where kids are invited to show off their costumes as well
as get in on some Halloween treats a week before the actual day. Families
are invited to see Tobias the Cosmic Wonder perform his magic, get their
hands dirty in the slime-making booth, meet Academy scientists with their
specimen collections, decorate masks, pumpkins and their own faces with
face-painters on-site. A dinner buffet, catered by Dan McCall and Associates
as well as other Halloween treats will be available to guests. Reservations
are required by Friday, October 17. Space is limited; please reserve early.
Tickets are $125 per adult, which includes admission for three children;
admission for each additional child is $25.
Or join us at the Benefactor level for $500. Proceeds benefit education
and research.
Friday, October 24, 2003 from 6:30 to 9 pm
-Free Programs-
Programs are free with museum admission.
SKULL DETECTIVE
Wednesday, October 1, 12:30 pm
Examine skulls for clues that may reveal the owner's lifestyle. See samples
of food that may have been eaten when they were alive.
CHILDREN'S STORY TIME
Saturday, October 4, 10:30 am
Stories for Latino American History Month. Chosen by the Academy Library.
SKULL SOUNDS
Saturday, October 4, 11:30 am & 1 pm
Discover the strange sounds that animals can make with their skulls, and
explore the way your skull affects your voice.
ARMENIAN TRADITIONAL DANCE
Saturday, October 4, 1 pm
Members of the Karoun Dance Ensemble, under the direction of Carol Kazarian,
will perform selections from the folk and classical traditions of Armenian
dance. This performance will also feature live music.
HOW DO THEY DO THAT?
Sunday, October 5, 11:30 am and 1 pm
How do animals locate prey withoug seeing it or hearing it? or swallow
prey bigger than their heads? Explore animal senses by looking at skulls.
FREE
SKULL DETECTIVE
Wednesday, October 8, 12:30 pm
Examine skulls for clues that may reveal the owner's lifestyle. See samples
of food that may have been eaten when they were alive.
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS
Friday, October 10, 6 to 9 pm;
Search for elusive owls, bats, skunks, and more during an evening trek
into Golden Gate Park. Wear warm clothing in layers, walking shoes, and
bring water. Flashlights will be provided. For families with children
ages 8 and up. $1 members/$2 non-members. Space is limited. Registration
required.
CHILDREN'S STORY TIME
Saturday, October 11, 10:30 am
Stories for Latino American History Month. Chosen by the Academy Library.
REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS
Saturday, October 11, 11:30 am-1 pm
Investigate the skulls and skeletons of reptiles and amphibians. How do
these skulls help the animals slither, swagger or hop?
SKULL DETECTIVE
Wednesday, October 15, 12:30 pm
Examine skulls for clues that may reveal the owner's lifestyle. See samples
of food that may have been eaten when they were alive.
Insects
Thursday, October 16, 11:30 am
Examine the similarities and differences between insects and other insect-like
organisms. Explore the insect's role as decomeposers in the environment.
BIRDWATCHING FOR KIDS
Saturday, October 18, 8:30-10 am;
Learn what to look for or hear when identifying birds in the field. Wear
warm clothing in layers, walking shoes, and bring water. Binoculars will
be provided. For children ages 9-12. $1 members/$2 non-members. Space
is limited. Pre-registration required.
CHILDREN'S STORY TIME
Saturday, October 18, 10:30 am
Stories for Latino American History Month. Chosen by the Academy Library.
MAKE A SKULL
Saturday, October 18, 12:30-3:30 pm
Examine real skulls and then make a simple machine skull model of your
own. All ages.
MUSICAL TRADITIONS OF TIBET
Saturday, October 18, 1 pm
Tsering Wangmo leads a group of Tibetan performing artists in a sampling
of traditional arts. Selections may include a scene from Tibetan opera,
drinking songs, a floor-stamping dance, as well as repertoire for the
flute, fiddle, hammered dulcimer, and other Tibetan folk instruments.
BIRD SKULLS
Sunday, October 19, 11:30 am & 1 pm
Meet a live toucan, touch real bird skulls and explore avian skull design.
SCIENTIFIC ILLUSTRATION
Tuesday, October 21, 10:30 am-3:30 pm.
Meet Academy scientific illustrator Virginia Kirsch and experience a live
demonstration of entomological scientific illustration.
OWL PELLET FORENSICS
Tuesday, October 21, 11:30 am-12:30 pm
Look for skulls in owl pellets and find out who is on the menu. We'll
provide owl pellets, dissecting tools, and skull identification guides.
BIRD SKULLS
Sunday, October 19, 11:30 am & 1 pm
Meet a live toucan, touch real bird skulls and explore avian skull design.
SKULL DETECTIVE
Wednesday, October 22, 12:30 pm.
Examine skulls for clues that may reveal the owner's lifestyle. See samples
of food that may have been eaten when they were alive.
CHILDREN'S STORY TIME
Saturday, October 25, 10:30 am
Stories for Latino American History Month. Chosen by the Academy Library.
MORRIS DANCING
Saturday, October 25, 1 pm
Members of Berkeley Morris Dancing present a program of English traditional
dances, complete with jingling bells, colorful ribbons, waving handkerchiefs,
and lots of energy.
SKULL SOUNDS
Sunday, October 26, 11:30 am-1 pm
Discover the strange sounds that animals can make with their skulls, and
explore the way your skull affects your voice.
-Lectures-
ENVIRONMENTAL LECTURE
Subhankar Banerjee
Seasons of Life and Land
Thursday, September 18 7:30 pm
California Academy of Sciences
$8
In his book, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land,
Subhankar Banerjee's striking photographs are paired with original essays
by Peter Matthiessen, David Allen Sibley, and George Schaller, among others,
with a foreword by former president Jimmy Carter.
Join Banerjee as he recounts his adventures and insights developed during
his time spent in the Refuge. Listen as he shares the stories behind his
photography. An exhibit of Banerjee's photos at the Academy, recently
opened to the public, will be open for lecture attendees to view. A book-signing
will follow the lecture.
GENOMICS LECTURE
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
Wednesday, October 8 7:30 pm
Price $8
California Academy of Sciences
Though her photographs of DNA were revolutionary and provided Watson
and Crick with the necessary knowledge to make their startling discovery
of DNA's structure, physical chemist Rosalind Franklin never received
due credit. The noted British biographer, Brenda Maddox contends that
sexism, egotism and anti-Semitism conspired to marginalize a brilliant
and uncompromising young scientist. Maddox draws on interviews, published
records, and a trove of personal letters to and from Rosalind, to reconstruct
the fascinating tale of one of the key figures behind the greatest discovery
of the 20th century.
PHOTO LECTURE
Portrait of a Primate: The Family Tree
Frans de Waal, Ph. D.
Professor of Psychology, Emory University
Wednesday, October 22 7:30 pm
California Academy of Sciences
$8
Book-signing to follow the lecture.
For more than three decades Frans de Waal, the author of Chimpanzee Politics
and Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape, has studied monkeys and apes in zoos, research
parks, and field settings. Photographing his subjects over the years,
de Waal has compiled a unique family album of our closest animal relatives.
His images capture the complex social interaction in bonobos, chimpanzees,
capuchin monkeys, baboons, and macaques by showing the subtle gestures,
expressions, and movements that elude most nature photographers or casual
observers. De Waal discusses his life-long primatology work and interprets
this collection of photographs featured in his new book, My Family Album,
with an emphasis on the significance of Jane Goodall's work.
BIODIVERSITY LECTURE
Monsters of God: The Man-Eating Predators in the Jungles of History
and the Mind
David Quammen
Thursday, November 6
7:30 pm
$6 members/$8 non-members
Book-signing to follow the lecture.
For millennia, lions, tigers, and their man-eating kin have exerted profound
influence on the development of human culture around the world. But by
the year 2150, big predators may exist only on the other side of glass
barriers and chain-link fences. Their gradual disappearance is changing
the very nature of our existence. We no longer occupy an intermediate
position on the food chain and are in danger of forgetting that we even
belong to an ecosystem. Casting his expert eye over the rapidly diminishing
areas of wilderness where predators still reign, Quammen, the author of
The Song of the Dodo, examines the fate of lions in India's Gir forest,
of saltwater crocodiles in northern Australia, of brown bears in the mountains
of Romania, and of Siberian tigers in the Russian Far East. Quammen ponders
the question: what will happen to us when and if they disappear?
-Classes, Seminars and Field Trips-
Pre-registration is required.
SKIES OF FALL
Monday, October 6, 13 & 20, 7-9 pm.
Adult Seminar-3 Mondays
$50
Don't miss your last chance to take this seasonal astronomy course in
Morrison Planetarium before the Academy rebuilds in Golden Gate Park.
Instructed by astronomer Darryl Stanford.
INSECT COLLECTING
Sunday, October 12, 1-4 pm
Field Trip
$25 adults/$20 children
Collect insects with Keith Dabney, a curatorial assistant in the Academy's
Entomology Department. In this field trip, Dabney shares his fascination
of what leads cultures to practice entomophagy, or the eating of insects
as well as the folklore and cultural histories that lead to this phenomenon.
BAYLAND EXPLORATION
Saturday, October 18, 9 am-noon
Field Trip
$30 adults/$25 children
Take a weekend walk around the beautiful Palo Alto Baylands to explore
the diversity of life in this rich habitat. Instructed by Academy educators
Jennifer Chu and Ashley Conrad-Saydah.
MUNCHY, CRUNCHY EDIBLE INSECTS
Sunday, November 9, 2-4 pm
Seminar for Families with Children Ages 9 and Up
$25 adults/$20 children
When faced with what to have for dinner, most folks in the United States
and Europe consider such meat standards as chicken, beef, pork, and fish.
But what about insects? For much of the rest of the world, the eating
of insects is a matter of survival for some cultures and a fine delicacy
for others.
Keith Dabney, a curatorial assistant in the Academy's Entomology Department,
hosts a seminar on entomophagy, the eating of insects, and shares his
fascination with the cultural history and folklore surrounding the widespread
phenomenon. Participants have the chance to sample chocolate-covered crickets
and other scrumptious delights.
-Exhibits-
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and
Land
Ongoing through December 31, 2003
In the far northeastern corner of Alaska, a pristine wilderness known
as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge pulses with life, even in the depths
of a white subzero winter. Until recently, most images of this vibrant
ecosystem were captured only during the brief summer seasons when weather
conditions permitted more comfortable photography - leaving many to imagine
the area as largely frozen, barren and lifeless during the rest of the
year. However, physicist-turned-photographer Subhankar Banerjee has now
shattered any such assumptions by recording four seasons of abundant life
in the refuge with a series of stunning photographs. In early 2000, Banerjee
left his job at Boeing, raided his savings, and began a two year photographic
journey of the region, enduring blizzards, bitter cold, and a trek that
totaled 4,000 miles to capture polar bears, musk oxen, the rare buff-breasted
sandpiper, and dozens of other species that thrive in the refuge throughout
the year. Forty-nine of these stunning photographs are on display at the
California Academy of Sciences.
150 Years of Science: Exploring Nature's Wonders
Ongoing through December 31, 2003
The Academy's 150th Anniversary Exhibit: 150 Years of Science: Exploring
Nature's Wonders features an enormous timeline streaming through the Academy's
exhibit halls, giving visitors the opportunity to walk through 150 years
of history as they learn how world events and major discoveries have shaped
the pursuit of science and the Academy. The timeline will lead visitors
to further exhibits that detail the Academy's plans for its future.
Skulls
Ongoing through December 31, 2003
Skulls includes almost 1,700 different dead heads -- ranging from monkeys
and giraffes to warthogs and rats to bears and dolphins. Created by Academy
staff, 860 sea lion skulls are on display in a 93-foot-long undulating
display. Skulls shows visitors what the study of human and animal skulls
can reveal about behavior, injury, disease, evolutionary adaptation, and
more. This strange and stunning display will captivate young and old alike.
Village Children
Ongoing through December 31, 2003
See faces of children from around the world, in villages both rural and
urban. This collection of photographs is a tribute to communities that
allow people to live and work in a space of human dimensions and shared
values. Village Children is a traveling exhibit of photographs by the
noted photographer Dr. Philip Rasori.
Dennis Anderson Photos
Ongoing through December 31, 2003
Dennis Anderson presents portraits of life on the San Francisco Bay. From
glowing undersea creatures and sunset scenes to commercial fisherman and
cargo handling, Anderson's work captures the Bay as an intersection of
nature and commerce in still photographs. Get a glimpse of San Francisco
Bay through Anderson's photography exhibit on display at the Academy in
Wild California Hall.
Free Wednesday
The first Wednesday of every month is free. The museum stays open until
8:45 pm on free Wednesdays - at 5 pm step into Morrison Planetarium for
a free half-hour concert.
Wednesday, October 1, 2003 10 am - 8:45 pm California Academy of Sciences,
free.
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