Science Night Live craft-beer edition set for this Saturday
Time again to toast Science Center Live, the Orlando Science Center event. This Saturday’s edition of the 21-and-up outing will have a craft-beer theme.
The after-hours event includes all the regular daily programming such as live presentations, experiments in Dr. Dare’s Lab and giantscreen films plus stargazing with telescopes — weather permitting.
Visitors this week will be able to buy a sampling punch card that allows them to try a dozen 2-ounce pours of beer. Also, food will be available for purchase from the Hard Rock Café.
Tickets include brief craft beer seminars at 8:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Participating breweries will have hands-on sensory training with an overview of beer and how it applies to all of the senses, information about brewing processes and the state of craft beer in the state of Florida.
There also will be talks given by Anne Savage, who leads Walt Disney Parks and Resorts’ conservation efforts in collaboration with the Disney Conservation Fund. She’ll discuss work related to the cotton-top tamarin, a small primate native to Colombia. Savage will speak at 9 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Along with access to all four floors of the science center, visitors can see the newest traveling exhibit on its opening night. “Identity: An Exhibition of You” focuses on three areas of, well, our identities — physical, psychological and social.
Displays will allow folks to examine their own fingerprints, see their personality in the form of a musical spectrum, map social connections and investigate where their brains store identity.
The exhibit, which was created by the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, will be on display at the science center through Sept. 4.
Admission to Saturday’s Science Night Live is $15.95. (It’s free for science center members.) Tickets are available online at www.osc.org/snl. The beer-sampling card costs an additional $10. Parking is free in the museum’s garage. Event hours are 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. For more information, call 407-514-2000.