SCAR OSC Antarctic Public Engagement Events

SCAR OSC 2014, Auckland: Get your Tickets for the Amazing Evening Entertainment

New Zealand’s Antarctic Festival, NZ IceFest, presents an Auckland Taster of Evening Events and Exhibitions especially for the SCAR Open Science Conference. These events will showcase some of New Zealand’s renown artists and comedians, as well as SCAR’s own International Antarctic Expertise events open to both the general public and conference attendees.

THESE ROUGH NOTES

Named for some of the last words written in Robert Falcon Scott’s diary, this unique experience in an evocation of Antarctica: of whiteness and cold and ceaseless winds. With texts by poet Bill Manhire set to music by composer Norman Meehan, sung by Hannah Griffin and interwoven with the images of photographer Anne Noble, this song cycle remembers those who live and those who have died on the ice. Event starts with a pre-concert talk by Bill Manhire.
– Mon 26th August, 7.30pm, Sky City Conference Centre.
– Tickets $35. Available on the NZ IceFest website or through your SCAR registration (can be updated at any time)
http://www.nzicefest.co.nz/node/124#.U8WdnPmSzt8

TE RADAR’S ANTARCTICANA

Following Te Radar’s trip to Antarctica with Our Far South, Te Radar presents Antarcticana, an illustrated comedic lecture on all things Antarctic. The rigors of scurvy, scientific madness, odd flora and fauna and the even odder folk who have explored there.
– Tues 27th August, 7.30pm, Sky City Conference Centre.
– Tickets $35. Available on the NZ IceFest website or through your SCAR registration (can be updated at any time)
http://www.nzicefest.co.nz/node/125#.U8WdfPmSzt8

SMART TALK at the AUCKLAND MUSEUM

Savour the wonder of Antarctic science after hours at Auckland Museum. Sit back and listen to a panel of internationally renowned Antarctic scientists from the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) talk about the international endeavour of Antarctic Science, discoveries of working as a scientist at the bottom of the earth, and what the future holds for Antarctica.
Panelists include:
– Dr Carlota Escutia, Universidad De Granada, Spain
– Professor Martin Siegert, Co-Director, Grantham Institute, Imperial College, London
– Professor Chuck Kennicutt, Professor Emeritus in Oceanography, Texas A&M University
– Professor Richard Bellerby, Research Scientist, Norwegian Institute for Water Research
Thur 28 August, 7pm, Auckland Museum
Tickets available from Auckland Museum. General Public $10, Auckland Museum Circle and Institute Members $7.50, Students $5
http://www.nzicefest.co.nz/node/126#.U8WdX_mSzt8

STILL LIFE EXHIBITION

Inside the Antarctic Huts of Scott and Shackleton
Step inside the historic huts of Antarctic explorers Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton to relive a time of extraordinary polar exploration. Experience a unique audiovisual work* created by New Zealand photographer Jane Ussher and the Antarctic Heritage Trust and become immersed in the landscape, isolation and lives left behind by these heroic early explorers. Encounter incredible Antarctic objects from Auckland Museum?s collections and find out what it was like to live, work and play in the earth?s southern-most continent. Then through the work of exhibition partner, Antarctic Heritage Trust, discover what?s happening to conserve this heritage on the ice today.
*Original immersive experience shown as part of NZ IceFest 2012, with support from the Christchurch City Council.
– Wed 27 Aug to Sun 05 Oct, Open 10am ? 5pm, Special Exhibitions Hall, Auckland Museum
– Free with Museum entry
http://www.nzicefest.co.nz/node/129#.U8Wby_mSzt8

Nita Smith
NZ IceFest Education and Public Engagement Coordinator