Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Friday 18 February
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location
The Wheeler Centre and wheelercentre.com
176 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne Victoria 3000
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100 Seconds ’til Midnight is an interactive series of events responding to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ plea for world leaders to take action on climate change before it's too late. Led by storyteller Bernard Caleo, a team of experts has been called upon to respond to an imagined climate change crisis, ten years into the future. Putting their minds together, our experts will utilise STEAM skills to propose solutions and reverse the effects of climate change on a small coastal town.
Running alongside the public events, you can now register your interest in having our experts conduct hands-on workshops at your school. These sessions will build on the decisions made in the first panel event held at the Wheeler Centre. Students will be guided by their expert facilitator to utilise STEAM skills in order to implement the proposed solutions in our climate catastrophe scenario. What does the future look like? You have the skills to help change it.
To inquire about conducting one of these workshops in your school, please contact Bec Kavanagh, Schools Programmer at the Wheeler Centre at Bec.Kavanagh@wheelercentre.com
The Wheeler Education STEAM program is generously supported by George and Rosa Morstyn
Featuring
Kaya Wilson
Dr. Kaya Wilson is a writer and tsunami specialist with over 10 years experience in ocean science. His day job is about keeping us safe from natural disasters like tsunamis and cyclones and his writing explores themes of queer identity, gender, and origin. Sometimes the science and the art come together with exciting events for the Wheeler Centre.
Kaya’s work has been published widely by The Guardian, Nature, Pan Macmillan, Griffith Review, and more. He was the winner of the of the 2019 Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship, where he completed his first book, As Beautiful As Any Other.
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Bernard Caleo
Bernard Caleo is a comic book teacher, maker, and communicator. He was the editor and publisher of the romance comics anthology Tango, made the feature film Graphic Novels Melbourne with filmmaker Daniel Hayward and is part of the graphic novel publishing enterprise Twelve Panels Press. In 2021 he started a PhD at the University of Melbourne's Creative Writing program, the outcome of which will be a comic book set in Melbourne in 1888, and a written thesis examining how Australian comic books create Australian places.
Tilly Boleyn
Tilly Boleyn is the Head of Curatorial at Science Gallery Melbourne. Basically, she’s a massive nerd, curious about the world and everything in it. Her background is in museums, galleries, education, festivals, broadcasting and research. Originally a microbiologist, Tilly ran from the lab to the ABC, where she discovered a talent for science gossip – talking about other people’s science rather than doing her own.
She has curated exhibitions on health, medicine, experimentation, the voice, engineering, sustainability. Science Gallery opens in January 2022 with MENTAL, a show that’s part experiment, part exhibition that explores different perspectives around mental health.
Tilly is delighted by blurring the boundaries between science, art, design, technology, maths, engineering, large-scale-batteries-powered-by-human-urine and doing things she's told aren't allowed.
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