Hello everyone,
Wikimedia UK has been in discussion with our friends at the Science Museum regarding taking part in a Science Museum Lates event on Wednesday 26 November. The theme of the event will be The Information Age to celebrate the opening of their new gallery on this theme http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/Plan_your_visit/exhibitions/information_age.aspx in October. This gallery is a significant development, the biggest of its kind in the museum for more than a decade. Entry is free and the Late audience is going to be around 5,000 people, most between 18 and 35 and with a roughly equal gender balance.
The discussions are going well and we are now looking for suggestions of the kind of activities we could offer in the Museum during the evening event.
If you have any ideas for events or displays - make them ambitious and exciting! - please tell Stevie Benton or me, and we will bring you on board to help make the plans and arrangements. It's also possible we will need some volunteers on the night. If you're keen to be involved, again, please do let us know.
Lates take place in the museum on the last Wednesday of every month. September's is about the science of magic and illusion http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/Plan_your_visit/lates/self_illusion.aspx, while October's is about food and drink, so drop in for a flavour (sorry) of how these events work.
So that we have enough time to prepare for November's Information Age Late, please give us your suggestions by the end of September.
Thank you! Roberta
------------------------ *Roberta Wedge* *Gender Gap Project, **Wikimedia UK* roberta.wedge@wikimedia.org.uk 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT +44 (0)20 7065 0990
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