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NEW MEMBER: Virginia Museum of Natural History
We are happy to welcome the Virginia Museum of Natural History
to the CineMuse Network. The Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville will launch a
digital cinema in their new museum building that will partially open
this October with the launch of the special exhibit Chinasaurs,
and a new education center. The Museum will be fully operational
with its new permanent exhibits in early 2007. When fully complete, the
new museum will offer five times the exhibit and public space of the
current facility. The Virginia Museum is currently
selecting their CineMuse programs to screen but a dinosaur feature or
two will be definitely on the schedule for the fall!
We would also like to welcome The Rooms, San Diego Natural History Museum,
and South Florida Museum
to the CineMuse Network. These sites will be featured in future
newsletters.
California
Institute of Technology
Caltech
Public Events (California Institute of Technology) is pleased to
once again identify creative ways to utilize CineMuse programs. On
October 14th, A World of Motion will be preceded by live music
on stage by the contemporary improvisational ensemble Continuum with
the Caltech Dance Troupe. Together they will explore human
motion, providing a wonderful introduction to the hi-def program and
its entertaining and intriguing look at movement in the worlds of
nature, sports, arts, and technology. A Caltech scientist from the
Department of Bioengineering will serve as host for the event, leading
a post-screening discussion about movement in our world.
National Science Center
We
have all heard it said that the best advertisement is word of mouth.
That was certainly true this summer at the National Science Center’s Fort Discovery in Augusta, GA. During one of
their weeks of summer camp, campers from one of the classes were raving
about the hi-def program they had just seen in Discovery Theater. Other
campers caught the excitement and implored their instructors to take
them to see this awesome program. The program that was causing such a
stir was Operation Dung Beetle,
the BBC/Animal Planet co-production that casts the lowly dung beetle as
a six-legged James Bond, bravely rolling his ball of dung across the
African plains.
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