TALKS AND EVENTS
PREVIEW EVENING ‘CURIOUS CONTRAPTIONS’ - WITH SPECIAL GUEST TREVOR BAYLIS
Monday 30 October 2006
6pm - 8pm
All ages
Help us celebrate the launch of Curious Contraptions and the temporary exhibition space in Stockport Story Museum. Celebrity inventor Trevor Baylis - inventor of the clockwork (windup) radio - will officially open the  exhibition and there’ll be drinks and nibbles for all. A unique opportunity to put your questions to an inventor who did change the world with his invention.
Price: £5.00 (including drinks and nibbles)
BOOKING ESSENTIAL
AN EVENING WITH MAURICE COLLINS
Friday 3 November 2006 and
Friday 12 January 2007
6pm - 8pm
All ages
Hear all about the wonderful inventions making up the ‘Curious Contraptions’ exhibition from the man who’s dedicated the last 30 years of his life to collecting. Maurice Collins, author of ‘Eccentric Contraptions’ and ‘Ingenious Gadgets’, will be taking you through the best of his collection, talking about his experience as a collector and answering your questions. This is a rare opportunity to hear from the man behind this fantastic collection.
Price: £5.00 adults, under 16’s £2.50 (including refreshments and nibbles)
BOOKING ESSENTIAL
CALLING ALL BUDDING INVENTORS . . .
Wednesday
22 November 2006
6.30pm - 8pm
All ages
Do you have an idea for an invention but don’t know what the next step should be? Don’t want to take your invention to the next stage in case someone else steals the idea leaving you out in the cold?! Then this talk is just for you.
Gary Townley from the Government Patent Office in London is coming to give all budding inventors the ‘ABC’ of bringing your invention off the page, having it patented and dealing with trademarks. Gary will be giving advice as well as answering your individual queries.
Price: £5.00 adults, under 16’s £2.50 (including drinks and nibbles)
BOOKING ESSENTIAL
AIN’T NO EINSTEIN!
Saturday 25 November 2006
Saturday 9 December 2006
Saturday 16 December 2006
12.30pm and 1.30pm
Pop into the Curious Contraptions exhibition and enjoy this 10 minute comedy performance by Craig Papworth and Chris Kibbler - two talented young actors from Stockport.
FREE - NO NEED TO BOOK
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CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES
RADICAL ROBOTS
Wednesday 1 November 2006
10am - 12 noon
4 - 8 years
To celebrate the opening of our Curious Contraptions Exhibition come and make your own robot using household junk and weird and wonderful objects. Cut, stick, paint and have fun being an inventor for the day.
Price: £3.00
BOOKING ESSENTIAL
MUSIC MAKING
Friday 3 November 2006
10am - 12 noon
Sway to the beat of The Brinnington Samba Band, make some noise with our Tudor and world musical instruments then make your own musical instrument and carry the carnival atmosphere back home! Part of Stockport’s Black History Month celebrations.
Price: £1 per musical instrument made
BOOKING ESSENTIAL FOR INSTRUMENT MAKING. DROP IN TO HEAR THE SAMBA BAND AND HAVE A GO ON THE INSTRUMENTS.
BRIGHT SPARKS!
Saturday 25 November 2006
10am - 12 noon
7 - 12 years
Kit yourself out to be a great inventor in this fun hands-on workshop! Get your thinking cap on and design your own mad invention!
Price: £3.00 including all materials. Leisure Key £2 (limited)
BOOKING ESSENTIAL
POTTY PROFESSORS’ STORY TIME
Tuesday 5 December 2006
10.30am - 11am
under 5s
Come along and hear stories about mad professors and great gadgets in this story telling session for the under 5s in the Curious Contraptions Exhibition Gallery. Run in partnership with the Library & Information Service.
Price: £1
BOOKING ESSENTIAL
INVENTIVE INSECTS
Saturday 13 January
10am - 12 noon and 1pm - 3pm
Morning 4 - 7 years, afternoon 8 - 11 years
As part of our Curious Contraptions exhibition come and invent your own fantasy insect! Switch on your imagination and put yourself into fun gear because this is your chance to be an inventor!
Price: £3.50
BOOKING ESSENTIAL
STEAM PUNK MEETS MANGA
Saturday 20 Janusary 2007
10am - 1pm
Ages 13 upwards
Create your own piece of steam punk artwork inspired by the Curious Contraptions exhibition. With graphic artist Sumit Sarkar.
Price: £3.50 including all materials. Leisure Key £2.50 (limited)
BOOKING ESSENTIAL
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