What's On @ Otago Museum | Week of 5 August 2019

iNDx Art Exhibition – Open until 18 August

Now in its second year, the award-winning iNDx Art Exhibition showcases the amazing depth of artistic talent in both the local and the wider autistic community.

iNDx: 'I' for identity, 'ND' for neurodivergent or neurologically 'not typical', and 'Dx' being a play on the medical abbreviation for diagnosis.

A collaborative and thought-provoking exhibition with artworks ranging from paint on canvas to vlogs, carvings, photography, poetry, sculpture, and more.

The exhibition provides a platform for artists to display their work publicly, as well as opportunities for collaboration, partnership, community, and creativity, and a chance for voices to be heard.



Alongside the art exhibition, we have a variety of public talks and events on the topic of autism, including:
Quiet Hour in Tūhura | 9am–10am, Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 August
Aspiehelp | 10.15am, Saturday 10 August 
Dungeons and Dragons Helps | 11.30am, Saturday 10 August 
A Conversation on Autism | 5.30pm, Wednesday 14 August 
Autistic Identity in Art | 10.15am, Sunday 18 August 
Internet and Gaming | 11.30am, Sunday 18 August

Free | Saturday 3 to Sunday 18 August | H D Skinner Annex | More information here

JAMES CAMERON – CHALLENGING THE DEEP

THIS WEEK @ OTAGO MUSEUM

THE FLYNN EFFECT

In the 1980s, Professor Jim Flynn noticed something unusual – IQs were going up, increasing substantially in every country where they were being measured, regardless of culture. This has been dubbed ‘the Flynn Effect’.

In support of the Dare to be Wise exhibition, Emeritus Professor Flynn, Department of Psychology at the University of Otago, discusses his research with opportunities for questions.

Free | 5.30pm, Wednesday 7 August | Barclay Theatre
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FROZEN OCEANS

Dr Craig Stevens is a physical oceanographer with a joint position at NIWA and the University of Auckland.

In this talk, he’ll describe what is known about ice-covered oceans, ranging from the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, through to a recent expedition exploring the workings of the hidden ocean beneath the planet’s largest ice shelf – the Ross Ice Shelf.

FIRST FLIGHT

Help our newly-emerged butterflies take flight in the Tropical Forest.

Join us each day to learn about the amazing transformation butterflies go through before they take wing for the very first time.

Inlcuded with your Tūhura admission | 11am weekdays, 11am and 1.30pm weekends/holidays | Tūhura Otago Community Trust Science Centre
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SCI-FI FRIDAYS – BLADE RUNNER

Revisit Blade Runner in the year the film was set!

This classic 1982 neo-noir film is set in a dystopian future Los Angeles 2019, where synthetic humans, known as replicants, are bio-engineered by the powerful Tyrell Corporation to work on off-world colonies. When a fugitive group of Nexus-6 replicants escapes back to Earth, burnt-out cop Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) reluctantly agrees to hunt them down.

Before diving into the world of replicants, there will be a brief talk about replicas, with a look at some objects from Otago Museum's Humanities collection, presented by Moira White, Otago Museum's Curator, Humanities.

SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE

Go back to the time of dinosaurs! Dive into the oceans of the Late Cretaceous to follow Dolly, a curious and adventurous dolichorhynchops, as she travels through the most dangerous seas in history.

Along the way, she encounters long-necked plesiosaurs, giant turtles, enormous fish, fierce sharks, and the most dangerous sea monsters of all, the mosasaurs!