OU events at Glasgow Science Festival 2022

The Open University is delighted to be hosting a range of events as part of the Glasgow Science Festival 2022 activities at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. 

All of these events are free and no booking is required. There is more information about all of these on the Glasgow Science Festival website, or you can click on the individual event links below. 

Interactive events:
Sat 11 June 13:30-16:30 and Sun 12 June 12:00-15:00

• Musical Waves: Make your own pan pipes. Hear how different materials and lengths of pipe create different musical sounds. Search the museum for instruments and decide if they make a high or low note. Then take away your own kit to make a set of pan pipes.
• Evolution of Mammals: Explore the genetics of mammals and to learn about the evolutionary tree.  Can you work out which animal is the odd one out?
• Wildlife on the River Kelvin: Explore Glasgow’s urban river diversity. Join renowned environmental educator and zoologist Gordon Maclellan and explore the biodiversity in Glasgow’s urban rivers in creative ways. Help us create a pop-up artwork that explores the interconnectedness of humans and other wild life in the river Kelvin, which flows through the park.  
• Find Your Bird!: Develop your bird ID skills. Come find out what bird species you are and then make a self-portrait of your feathered alter-ego with the help of Open University art historians and birders from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. 

Films: 
Launch event: Sat 11 June, 14.00 -14.30
Drop-in screenings: Sat 11 June 14:30-16:30, Sun 12 June 12:00-15:00

Art and Climate Change: Pedal-Powered Film Screenings:
Films and Q&A with the Director & Producer, local wildlife filmmaker Elizabeth Penman and Creators, Samuel Shaw and Carla Benzan, OU Art Historians.

Experience a pedal-powered mini-cinema as we introduce two new documentary shorts. The films reveal surprising connections between art and climate change by looking at different objects held in Glasgow Museums. ‘Hunting for Feathers’ takes viewers on a journey of discovery, revealing surprising connections between art and biodiversity. ‘Landscapes of Change’ asks us to consider the way in which nineteenth-century landscape painters responded to the industrial revolution.

Science on the Sofa: 
The Open University is also included in the Glasgow Science Festival's 'Science on the Sofa' programme - a range of activities, talks, and experiments you can participate in all from the comfort of your own sofa! The free online programme is available until 30 June for you to browse at your leisure: 

• Open to Making Waves: Dip into waves with learning resources available on The Open University's home of free learning, OpenLearn. 
• The Ocean Worlds of Icy Moons: Icy moons are some of the most fascinating places in the Solar System and somewhere scientists think we are most likely to find life beyond the Earth. Find out more about the icy ocean worlds and conduct your own experiments at home to get to know these distant moons.