Make, learn, and create with the ROM at the Maker Festival Weekend Extravaganza

Make, learn, and create with the ROM

at the Maker Festival Weekend Extravaganza

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) joins Toronto’s most creative people at this weekend’s Maker Extravaganza at the Toronto Reference Library. The ROM’s maker booth features hands-on crafts and DIY challenges with ROM experts. In addition, visitors will experience the ROM’s new CHIHULY exhibition by creating a landscape of colour and light in the Maker Extravaganza Glowatorium.

WHAT:        Highlights of the ROM at Maker Extravaganza:   

  • Maker Fest Glowatorium, where participants will help create an original glowing, interactive, #ChihulyTO inspired public sculpture using cellophane, batteries, social media, and more
  • ROM-led talks with Museum experts, including Marianne Mader, Hatch Managing Director, ROM Earth and Space; Sarah Chu, ROM Digital Learning Specialist; April Hawkins, New World Archaeology Technician; and Kiron Mukerjee, ROMKids Coordinator and Camp Director
  • Make your own dinosaur teeth casts activity based on the ROM’s paleontology collections
  • Create your own STEAM craft inspired by a showcase of the ROM’s Club STEAM creations made by the Museum’s after-school program

Plus, on Saturday, July 9, from 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm, meet the amazing Wandering Wendiceratops, an elaborate, 3-D, cardboard, horned dinosaur puppet, made in collaboration with the ROM and Toronto-based multi-disciplinary artist, Andrew Lamb.

WHERE:      Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street, Toronto

                  ROM booth is located on Level 2, Salon – Novella

                  ROM #ChihulyTO making activity is in the Glowatorium, Level 2  

                  Wandering Wendiceratops puppet – Level 1        

WHEN:        Saturday, July 9, 2016 (9:00 am to 5:00 pm) to Sunday, July 10, 2016 (10:00am to 5:00 pm)                            

Maker Extravaganza is free and pre-registration is available here. A list of speakers is available here.

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CONTACT

Wendy Vincent, Bilingual Publicist

wendyv@rom.on.ca

416.586.5547

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