****** F. Y. I. ****** SEE INFO BELOW >>>>>   Ms. Deborah Ford ECAC--RCAC (919) 835-3566 ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Friends of the NC Museum of Natural Sciences <angela.baker-james(a)naturalsciences.org> To: dialmeupford3(a)ymail.com Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2013 11:37 AM Subject: News from Friends of the Museum Science THURSDAYS5-9pmFree The Museum is open until 9pm every Thursday for Science THURSDAYS and include presentations from scientists, beginner science classes, special programming and much more!   September 5 Science Trivia!  Nature Drawing  Phone Photography  Visual World iLab and Micro World iLab open to the public!   September 12 Science Café: Biopharmaceuticals: Not Your Parents' Medicine    September 19 Science Talk: The Secret Lives of Scorpions    September 26Science Café: What's in my Water?_____________________________________________ FIRST FRIDAY September 6 5-9pm Free Visit the Daily Planet Café serving a full menu plus beer and wine, shop in the Museum Store, hear live music, stroll through exhibits and drop in at the Nature Art Gallery for the opening reception of "From Murphy to Manteo, An Artist's Scenic Journey"  This will be the last First Friday with Dinosaurs in Motion. Exhibit tickets are only $8 for adults on First Fridays and always free for members! 6pm Spanish Language Science Cafe MoreLive music with singer/songwriter Anna Rose Beck 7pm Free film in the Museum's WRAL Theater "The Black Scorpion" (1957) Tickets for the film are available at front desk beginning at 5pm.        ___________________________________________  NATURE ART GALLERY September 66:30-9pm Join us at the reception for Chris Wilson's ambitious series of NC landscape paintings, "From Murphy to Manteo, An Artist's Scenic Journey." The gallery exhibit includes sketches, studies and preliminary drawings done in preparation for his ongoing series of 100 landscape paintings of scenes and visas along Highway 64.   September 6-29   For more information about the Nature Art Gallery, call 919-707-9854 ______________________________ ____________ SCIENCE SATURDAY September 7  11am Free   The Birth of the Solar System with Dr. Fabian Heitsch, Assistant Professor, UNC Chapel Hill  Planets around other stars are discovered nearly daily now, some of them Earth-like.  What does it need to make stars and planets? Come and find out about the birth and death of stars, and what it takes to build a solar system.   More  _______________________________________________ PRAIRIE RIDGE ECOSTATION Nature Stories -New!  Thursdays, September 5, 12, 19, 26, 10 -11am No pre-registration required, Free Bring your young children to participate in a nature-themed story and activity!  Programs begin at the amphitheater.   Dragonfly Walk September 8, 1 - 3 pm Pre-registration required, Free Enjoy a tour of the aquatic habitats of Prairie Ridge to look for these spectacular and fascinating insects. Bring your camera, your binoculars, and your enthusiasm for dragonflies! For more information or to register please contact Chris Goforth at 919.707.8882 or chris.goforth(a)naturalsciences.org.   Citizen Science Saturdays at Prairie Ridge Saturdays, September 7, 14, 21, 28, 10:30-11:30 am No pre-registration required, Free These Saturday morning adventures will introduce you to a citizen science project and enlist your help collecting and entering data as you enjoy a walk around the grounds with one of our naturalists. Contact Chris Goforth for more information.   Walk through the Seasons Tuesdays, September 10, 24, 9-10:30 am Pre-registration required, Free Explore the native plant garden, prairie, and lowland arboretum as you take a leisurely 1-mile walk with a Museum naturalist. For more information and to register, please contact Cathy Fergen at cathy.fergen(a)naturalsciences.org.   Nature PlaySpace Opening and Ceremonial Vine Cutting September 28, 10am - 1pm No pre-registration required, Free In celebration of the seventh annual Take a Child Outside week, we will highlight the importance of outdoor play for children of all ages by celebrating the beginnings of the new Nature PlaySpace, a learning environment designed for younger children to explore the outdoors using natural materials.Contact Cathy Fergen for more information.   To find out more about Take A Child Outside Week visit http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001iugMb4EimnK72dNjcGcOgxaNJalbrrHv9pd-ea5IQjjQ…. ______________________________ ________________________ Girls in Science Do you know a middle-school girl who loves science?   Send her to Girls in Science! Girls in Science Connect:Nature is an eight-week afterschool program that gives sixth- and seventh-grade girls the chance to dohands-on science in the natural world and in the Museum.  Please see our website for more information:  http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001iugMb4EimnLgwdd3yJzf9xzS0_vgOGZdNiCNBFxjYNr5…    Applications are due by 5 pm, September 16 ___________________________________________  Museum Workshops, Trips and Classes Nature Drawing September 5, 19 Phone Photography 101 September 5 Nature's Extraordinary Fibers  September 12 Green Swamp/Lake Mattamuskeet Weekend    September 13 - 15 Plant Propagation  First session September 21 Computer Programming for Beginners September 26 Neuse River Paddle  October 9 Falls Lake hike on September 18 has been moved to November 13. ____________________________________________________ Bring a Scorpion Expert to Bugfest! The Museum is asking for your help in bringing scorpion expert Dr. Lauren Esposito for a keynote presentation and to host an exhibit of live scorpions at Bugfest!    This year's "theme arthropod" is the scorpion, so Dr. Esposito will be an awesome addition to BugFest. She is an evolutionary biologist working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. She is broadly trained as a scorpiologist, but most of her current research focuses on arachnids (spiders, scorpions and their kin) in the Caribbean biodiversity hotspot.     Please visit http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001iugMb4EimnK9BsJxCPAQADFTbvOFklLtnQTrGl781cc-… and donate today to make her visit a reality. And please pass this note on to any friends/family you think may be interested. Thank you! _____________________________________________     WAKE AUDUBON Fort Bragg: How Military Training and the Rare Longleaf Pine Ecosystem Can Co-ExistSeptember 10 7:30pm; please ARRIVE between 7:15-7:30pm Level A conference room   Sundays with Swifts Sundays, September 8, 15, 22, 29 6-8pm We will meet at 6pm in front of the large Earth Globe outside the Nature Research Center. Join us for a program on the Chimney Swift, a migratory bird that gathers in large groups during September.  These groups use larger chimneys in which to sleep at night. At 7pm we will walk to a nearby site to witness the spectacle of 1000's of birds entering such a chimney - a site not to be missed!   More on Wake Audubon Here  _____________________________________________ The Friends of the Museum's Section 504 coordinator is Angela Baker-James, Executive Director, Friends of the Museum, 11 W. Jones Street, Raleigh, NC 27601, 919.707.9847 .  Program participants are not discriminated against on a basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, religion or familial status. BugFest 2013 Sat., September 21 9am - 7pm Jones Street, The Plaza, Edenton Street, and all four floors of the Museum will be filled with buggy fun! This year's theme bug: scorpions!More_________________    DINOSAURS IN MOTION  Extended through Thursday,   September 12 Free for Members $10 Adults; $6 Children;  $8 Students, Seniors & Military    Become a Member Here Exhibit Information  Buy Tickets Here In the news!_______________    SECU DAILY PLANET Meet the Scientist Free Join us for interviews with Museum Scientists in the 3-story globe-shaped theater of the NRC. For more information please contact Brian Malow Schedule of Events    ____________________ WRAL 3D THEATER Titans of the Ice Age The Last ReefMore____________________   Museum LINKS  Home Programs and Events Prairie Ridge Ecostation Museum Blogs Facebook Twitter _______________ Forward this email This email was sent to dialmeupford3(a)ymail.com by angela.baker-james(a)naturalsciences.org |   Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe™ | Privacy Policy. Friends of the Museum| 11 West Jones Street| Raleigh| NC| 27601