During nine festive days, spotlights are turned on, exhibits polished, banquets served and doors to over 700 events are opened to rejoice in science and the achievements of research. Knowledge and entertainment is shared in the hustle and bustle of the crowd.
Difference is the driving power of all progress.
The National Science Week event is a collaborative project with Dion Sanderson, Ingrid Petterson, Sarah Haymes and the Clench Theatre group, and is kindly supported by Multicultural Arts Victoria. The activities involve three 'extra-terrestrial' visitors on a discovery tour, including Sisyphus and two genetically engineered nymphs, who seek help to push a wooden sphere holding a video camera inside. The video recordings resulting from these activities and two super 8 film clips of a previous pig behaviour experiment are shown in the education room at the stables. Pigs turn a world upside down The first experiment of the research project 'Spinning a Yarn with Sisyphus' has been successfully completed. A large wooden sphere was used to investigate the curiosity of a sow and her six piglets.