A series of special events and activities for all audiences and ages is planned throughout 2009 and 2010, including talks, family activities, trails and demonstrations. This site will be regularly updated with details.
Please book group visits by calling 01223 333516 or emailing cumaa@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Look out for the following events related to Assembling Bodies at MAA
The Laboratory of Bodies: Festival of Ideas
Tuesday 26 October, 2010 10.30am to 4pm
What does your body say about you? Measure your senses with our array of experiments from past and present. Visit our phrenologist - will you discover your future career? Come and have a go with drawing machines with artist Jim Bond.
No booking required. Everyone welcome.
Creative Responses to Assembling Bodies: Festival of Ideas
Tuesday 26 October, 2010. 4.30 to 6pm. Age 16+
Produce quick, spontaneous, thought-provoking artworks by ripping, cutting, folding, pleating....
Led by artists Jean Campbell and inspired by the Assembling Bodies exhibition.
Booking required, call 01223 764769 or email the Outreach Organiser, sarah-jane.harknett@maa.cam.ac.uk
Imagining the Past Workshops: Festival of Ideas
Monday 25 October, 7.30pm to 9pm (adults) and Saturday 30 October, 10am to 12 noon (8+ years old)
Come and imagine, in words and pictures, the histories of a selection of objects from the Museum's collections and the lives of the people who made them, sold them or lost them.
The workshop on Monday 25 October is for adults. This practical, creative workshop will be led by author, poet and lecturer Mick Gowar and artist/illlustrator Chris Draper. Presented with Anglia Ruskin University.
Booking required, call 01223 764769 or email the Outreach Organiser, sarah-jane.harknett@maa.cam.ac.uk
On Saturday 30 October we will create stories in words and pictures. This workshop will be led by children's author Mick Gowar and Pam Smy. Presented with Anglia Ruskin University.
Booking required, call 01223 764769 or email the Outreach Organiser, sarah-jane.harknett@maa.cam.ac.uk
Drop in and Draw: Festival of Ideas
Saturday 23 October, 10.30am to 4pm
Let the Museum objects inspire you. Will you draw a dance mask, sketch a Shark tooth necklace or colour a canoe?
Something for everyone, drawers and non-drawers alike.
No booking required - just drop in anytime.
Keep checking here and on the Museum's main website for details of other events at MAA.
