BRUCE FOSTER, POP-UP ENGINEER, RESCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 2012

LECTURE AT 12 NOON FOLLOWED BY WORKSHOP ENDING AT 2:30 PM.

Due to flight problems today, we have to cancel Bruce Foster’s pop-up book presentation and workshop for this afternoon.  Unfortunately, other flights and/or a rental car were not available to get Bruce here for this afternoon. 

We apologize for the inconvenience.  Stay tuned, Bruce’s lecture and workshop will be rescheduled for a new date and time.

There’s a lot to happening at the Museum this weekend!  Tomorrow is the First Friday Art Trail, with many free activities, as well as our popular laser Planetarium shows:

5:30pm… Planetarium Show: laserQUEEN, standard ticket prices apply.

5:45pm… Caprock Morris dance and music performance, Sculpture Court. Time and location of additional performances will be announced. Free

6:15pm… Movies@The Museum: Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008). Stars Brendan Fraser. Free

6:30pm… Planetarium Show: laserQUEEN, standard ticket prices apply.

6:30-7:30pm… Bedtime@The Museum: Little Critter. For ages 8 and under with accompanying adult. Free

7:30pm… Planetarium Show: laserQUEEN, standard ticket prices.

Dusk – 9pm… Stargazing on the Plaza with the South Plains Astronomy Club (weather permitting).

Don’t forget about Dino Day on Saturday, May 5, from 1-4pm!  And on Sunday, May 6, at 1:30pm, there will be a lecture in the Helen DeVitt Jones Auditorium by Bruce Foster, paper engineer.  Bruce has designed nearly 40 pop up books for publishers, museums, and companies, including Simon and Schuster, Random House, Disney Productions, and the Museum of Modern Art.  At 2:30pm, there will be a free workshop to create your own pop-up book, with all supplies provided.

The Museum of Texas Tech invites you to Dino Day, a free family event on May 5 from 1-4pm.  Journey back to the Mesozoic when dinosaurs ruled the land and pterosaurs soared the skies.  All Dino Day activities are FREE of charge! For ages 6 and up!

Activities include:
Dino puppets
Dino works of art with clay
Decorate your own field hat
Dino Dancing
Dino Puppet Show

In addition, the following shows will be offered in the Planetarium (standard Planetarium rates apply):
Laser Pop at 10:30 and 2:00
Earth’s Wild Ride at 11:30, 12:30, 3:30

We will also be showing Journey to the Center of the Earth at 1:30 in the Helen DeVitt Jones Auditorium, located in the Sculpture Court, and BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs at 1:00 in the Museum Theater.

Hope to see you there!

The Museum of Texas Tech has a variety of activities happening this Friday for the First Friday Art Trail, 6-9pm.  This event is FREE to the public!

• 5:30pm… Moody Planetarium presents “laserMICHAEL JACKSON,” standard ticket prices apply.
  

• 6:15pm… Preview: Next to Normal Musical, Helen DeVitt Jones Auditorium. The Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning musical, Next to Normal, explores the stunning impact of bipolar disease on a family, and tells that story with exciting and compelling music. Hub Theatre Group brings this musical to the Lubbock stage and partners with MHMR to bring to light the challenges faced by people in our community and beyond. Performance pieces include such musical numbers as “I Am the One,” and “You Don’t Know” from Next to Normal. Preview organized by Bob Chanda, J.D., MBA, Executive Director Hub Theatre Group, Actor Combatant–Society of American Fight Directors, and PhD Candidate-Fine Arts (Theater), Department of Theatre and Dance, Texas Tech University.
  
• 6:30-7:30pm… Bedtime@The Museum: The Biggest Easter Basket Ever by Steven Kroll. Storytime, crafts, and a snack for ages 8 and under with accompanying adult.
• 6:30pm… Moody Planetarium presents “laserMICHAEL JACKSON,” standard ticket prices apply.
  
• 7:00pm… Movies@The Museum: Royal Wedding, Museum Theater. Fred Astaire’s and Jane Powell’s characters are asked to perform as a dance team in England at the time of Princess Elizabeth’s wedding. Free
• 7:30pm… Moody Planetarium presents “laserMICHAEL JACKSON,” standard ticket prices apply.
• Dusk to 9:00pm… Stargazing on the Plaza with the South Plains Astronomy Club (weather permitting).

Prices for shows at the Moody Planetarium are as follows:

• General Admission (ages 19-59)…$5

• Children & Teens (ages 6-18)…$3

• Seniors (ages 60 & up)…$3

• Univ. Students/Faculty/Staff (w/ID)…$3

• Kids (5 & under)…FREE

• Active Military & their families…FREE
  (MoTTU is a Blue Star Museum)

• Tickets go on sale 30 min before showtime on a first-come basis.

• You must be present to purchase a ticket.

• No late seating.

• No re-admittance after a show is in progress.

At the Museum of Texas Tech University this weekend in support of the Remnant Trust exhibition: Speaking Volumes.  Registration is not required.

Saturday, March 24th, from 1 to 4 pm Bruce Cammack of the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library will teach participants how to make paper from raw pulp.  This is a free workshop.  Participants should be 12 years or older. Follow up program will be on 3/31/12.

On Sunday, March 25th, Carol Flueckiger from the Dept of Art will introduce participants to the process of sun prints. This free event begins with a lecture at 2 pm followed by a workshop.  Participants should be 12 years or older.

Please join us for the First Friday Art Trail, this Friday from 6-9pm,
where we will have a variety of activities going on at the museum:

The Year of the Girl – The Girl Scout Centennial   Exhibit will be in Gallery 101 (down the hall on the way to the Planetarium) and Gallery 6, celebrating 100 years of the Girl Scouts.

Training and Flying in Space – What it is really like from an astronaut’s perspective by Dr. Albert Sacco, Jr.  6:30 pm in the Helen DeVitt Jones Auditorium.  Dr. Sacco is the Dean of Engineering and a former astronaut who flew as a Payload Specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-73 in 1995.  The mission focused on materials science, biotechnology, combustion science, and fluid mechanics contained within the pressurized Spacelab module.  Dr. Sacco’s research focuses on carbon nonotube initiation and growth, catalysis, zeolite synthesis, biosensors development, and synthesis and device integration of quantum wires from natural materials.  His talk is aimed at 6th grade and up.

Movies at the Museum:  Frankenstein  7pm in the Museum Theater

Planetarium presents laser Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon  5:30, 6:30, and 7:30 pm.  Tickets go on sale 30 minutes before showtime, first-come basis.  Standard Planetarium admission applies:

• General Admission (ages 19-59)…$5
• Children & Teens (ages 6-18)…$3
• Seniors (ages 60 & up)…$3
• Univ. Students/Faculty/Staff (w/ID)…$3
• Kids (5 & under)…FREE
• Active Military & their families…FREE
       (MoTTU is a Blue Star Museum)

Bedtime at The Museum, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”  6:30 – 7:30 pm, ages 8 and under with accompanying adult.  We will read the book and then participate in an activity afterward.

Stargazing on the Plaza with the South Plains Astronomy Club dusk to 9pm, weather permitting.

We also have an exciting workshop on Saturday afternoon, free to the public:

Saturday, March 3, 1-4pm, Bookmaking workshop with Robin Germany  in conjunction with the exhibition Speaking Volumes — Books and Ideas from 1250-1862.  Robin is currently an Associate Professor of Photography at Texas Tech.  She has received numerous grants and awards for her work, including a Polaroid Artist’s Award and a regional NEA grant.  Her work is in collections at the Center for Creative Photography, Polaroid, The Boise Art Museum, Texas Tech University Museum of Art, and numerous private collections.