Up Coming Events
02/08/2024 3:30pm
Astrobiology Pottery 2nd August 3:30-5
FREE EVENT
3:30pm-5:00pm
Ages 5-15
Join us at Dark Space Planetarium to discuss the search for extra-terrestrial life and how scientists are investigating the possibility to find alien life in the Milky Way. We’ll then be imagining what these life forms might look like and paint them at The Wee Pottery.
Please only book for your young person in attendance (adults don’t need to book themselves)
This is a FREE event for Young People across Dumfries & Galloway as part of the Amazing Summer Programme.
02/08/2024 7:00pm
Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side Of The Moon 50 Year Anniversary 2nd August 7pm
Admission £12.00
Pink Floyd released The Dark Side of The Moon on the 1st of March 1973, and now, celebrating over 50 years we welcome you to the Pink Floyd Full Dome Experience, consisting of the ten reality breaking tracks and astronomical visuals that will warp both time and your senses.
03/08/2024 2:00pm
Sci-Club: Forensic Science (Years P4-P7) 3rd August 2pm-4pm
Sci-Club
P4-P7
2pm-4pm
FREE
This month we’ll be exploring forensic science with mock-up crime scenes. Our detectives in training will be learning about fingerprint analysis, chromatography, and how criminal investigators can detect the most minute traces of evidence.
Parents are welcome to stay but please only book for the number of children attending
05/08/2024 7:00pm
“Scotland’s Soils and Peatlands in a Changing Climate” With Dr Michael Muir 25th July 7pm
“Scotland’s Soils and Peatlands in a Changing Climate” With Dr Michael Muir
19:00-20:00
£8 Adult
£4 18 & Under
Healthy soils are vital to life on Earth, to the global food supply chain and to the global carbon cycle but, despite their importance, soils are facing many threats in Scotland and globally. In this presentation, Dr Michael Muir of the University of Glasgow will shine a spotlight on the living world of the soils beneath our feet and consider some of the challenges and benefits of protecting soil health in a changing climate.
07/08/2024 3:30pm
Star Catcher Workshop with Laura Cross Jewellery 7th August 3:30pm
Star Catcher Workshop With Laura Cross Jewellery
7th August
3:30pm – 4:45pm
FREE
Ages 8 -15
Laura Cross is a jeweller & crew member of Dark Space Planetarium team. At this special workshop you will be able to create your own Star(sun) Catcher to take home as well as a short talk in our planetarium of Stars to catch in the night sky this Summer.
This is a FREE event for Young People across Dumfries & Galloway as part of the Amazing Summer Programme.
09/08/2024 7:00pm
Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side Of The Moon 50 Year Anniversary 9th August
7pm-8pm
9th August
Admission £12.00
Pink Floyd released The Dark Side of The Moon on the 1st of March 1973, and now, celebrating over 50 years we welcome you to the Pink Floyd Full Dome Experience, consisting of the ten reality breaking tracks and astronomical visuals that will warp both time and your senses.
15/08/2024 3:30pm
Exo-Planets Pottery 15th August 3:30-5
FREE EVENT
3:30pm-5:00pm
Ages 5-15
Join us at Dark Space Planetarium to explore some of the 5600+ Exo-Planets discovered in our Milky Way before re-creating your own at the Wee Pottery from some of the most extreme examples of exoplanets discovered in the last few years!
Please only book for your young person in attendance (adults don’t need to book themselves)
This is a FREE event for Young People across Dumfries & Galloway as part of the Amazing Summer Programme.
17/08/2024 2:00pm
Sci-Club: Forensic Science (Years S1-S6) 17th August 2pm-4pm
Sci-Club
P4-P7
2pm-4pm
FREE
This month we’ll be exploring forensic science with mock-up crime scenes. Our detectives in training will be learning about fingerprint analysis, chromatography, blood spatter analysis and how criminal investigators can detect the most minute traces of evidence.
Parents are welcome to stay but please only book for the number of children attending
Light travels at 186,282 miles per second so you could go around the earth 7.5 times in 1 second!