From First Friday flickr, May 2011. (Photo by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging)
First Fridays
Once a month, the entire Natural History Museum stays open until 10 pm and features live music, exciting scientific discussion, and behind-the-scenes curatorial tours. Since its inception in 2004, First Fridays has been has been an immersive program designed for audiences of all ages, bringing together a dynamic discussion with scientists on the cutting edge of their fields and musical performances by fresh and innovative artists. In recent years the program has been hailed as Los Angeles’ “Best Intellectual Event in Disguise” (L.A. Downtown News, 2008) and “Best Museum Party Night” (Los Angeles magazine, 2009). First Fridays welcomes its audience back to the Museum they loved as kids, putting a new and exciting spin on an old favorite.
First Fridays 2011: Nostradamus Edition!
One of the many great attributes of science is that it allows us to use the tools of today to understand where we have been and to predict where we are going. For the 2011 edition of First Fridays we take out our scientific crystal ball to ask what may be in our future. Will we be walking among woolly mammoths? Will we be able to harness the power of your brain to be more creative? Is climate change causing us to evolve? Will we live in a building designed by termites? Are we doomed to go the way of the dinosaur? Or, perhaps, will we live forever? This is not science fiction of the future but the real science that is affecting our life today. Join us this January as we look at the latest happenings in the fields of genetics, neuroscience, evolution, biomimicry, paleontology and human biology and learn how the science of today is paving the way for a fascinating journey into our future!
Check out what's happening this Friday 6/3/2011:
Tours and discussion 5:30-7:30pm,
Performances 8-10pm by Gayngs, Ditry Beaches
plus Resident DJ Anthony Valadez (dublab, KCRW) featuring Dan Wilcox (Ten Music, KCRW) 5:30-10pm
Tours and discussion 5:30-7:30pm,
Performances 8-10pm by Gayngs, Ditry Beaches
plus Resident DJ Anthony Valadez (dublab, KCRW) featuring Dan Wilcox (Ten Music, KCRW) 5:30-10pm
Tickets are now available
Los Angeles County Natural History Museum213.763.DINO
http://www.nhm.org/site/
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