Space Antennas, Eurhythmics, and beer at Nerd Nite Denver
What is Nerd Nite Denver? To keep it simple, it is like TED Talks with drinking. Thinking and drinking! School’s in session and it is actually fun!
Once a month the lovely and entertaining host with a drink in her hand, Hannah, guides The Bug Theatre audience through a midweek treat. This past Wed. Nov. 13, 2019, three brave souls took the stage to educate an audience hungry for knowledge.
Karen Rucker
How do you harness one of the fundamental forces of the universe to communicate across billions of miles in space? With the right antenna, of course! But…since it’s space, it’s not as easy as it looks. Come listen to space antenna enthusiast, Karen Ruckertalk about an engineering subfield frequently referred to as black m
Karen Rucker mixes science with humor!
Gregory Marxen gets the audience clapping and tapping.
Gregory Marxen teaches us Dalcroze Eurhythmics is a movement-based approach to music education. Émile Jacques-Dalcroze created this method in the early 20th Century at the Geneva Conservatory when he noticed that his students had technical mastery but lacked artistic intent. Jacques-Dalcroze believed that the body is the first instrumet to be trained. Why learn to only sing when you can march, walk, jump, or skip to music? Get your locomotion on as Gregory Marxen returns to teach us all about how to listen and react with purposeful, artistic movements through space and time, using our body’s energy!
Jim Shima lit up the room with lightsabers with another edition of his “Sounds of Star Wars” 🔊, unfortunately Nerd Alert News was not able to stay for the fun.
Mark those calendars for Nerd Nite Denver’s 2020 schedule!