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First Friday: Futuristic Foods
What will food in the 21st century look like? More importantly, what will it taste like?
Friday, May 6
6-10 p.m.
$15 adults, $10 kids/seniors and $5 members
Get a taste of the future and explore how new advancements in space, robotics, climate and biotechnology will influence tomorrow’s food. Bring a healthy curiosity to a delicious First Friday.
First Fridays at Chabot Space & Science Center bring the Oakland community together to play and discover, highlight diverse voices in S.T.E.A.M. and inspire explorers of all ages.
Chabot’s First Friday opens the doors for discovery with planetarium shows, telescope viewings and after-hours access to exhibits. Embedded in Redwood Regional Park, the Center is a space for our community to get together, learn, and explore in Oakland’s backyard.
First Friday features a new theme supported by community partners, hands-on activities, workshops, performances, and speakers. With different opportunities every month, the possibilities are endless: Talk to an astronaut. Shake hands with a dinosaur. Practice your pitching with the Oakland A’s and more!
Schedule
6- 9 p.m. Insect Taste Test with Don Bugito, Rotunda
Join a limited capacity tasting of five varieties of edible insects. Next to each insect guests will find a familiar food close in flavor to the insects that the team at Don Bugito are offering. Guests at the table will be able to taste the insects and have a conversation about this comparison.
About Don Bugito
Don Bugito is committed to shaping the future by changing the way we eat. Our vision is simple, to rescue ancestral food practices and the use of clean ingredients by offering alternative protein snacks based on farmed edible insects and native American ingredients.
7 p.m. Growing Meat with Upside Foods talk with Eric Schulze, The Theater
Upside Foods is a leading innovator with the development of cell-grown meats. Discover more about how meat will be grown soon from Upside Food’s Eric Schulze. By growing meat directly from animal cells Upside Foods is making future-friendly, real meat that makes you and the world smile.
About Eric Schulze
Eric Schulze, PhD is a professional molecular biologist, genetic engineer, and former federal biotechnology regulator. He is currently Vice President of Product and Regulation at UPSIDE Foods, where he leads both design and development of the company’s meat products as well as its regulatory-, policy-, and government affairs.
8:30 p.m. Meat the Future (film), The Theater
Meat The Future is 1 hour, 24 minutes. Not rated: Imagine a world where real meat is produced sustainably without the need to breed, raise, and slaughter animals. This is no longer science fiction, it’s now within reach. At the forefront of this urgent frontier is Mayo Clinic trained cardiologist Dr. Uma Valeti, the co-founder, and CEO of Upside Foods (previously Memphis Meats), the leading start-up of the “cultivated” meat revolution. From the world’s first meatball which cost $18,000 per pound to the first chicken fillet and duck a l ‘orange for half the cost, the film follows Valeti and his team over five years as the cost of production plummets, and consumers’ eye the imminent birth of this timely industry. Exploring a game-changing solution, Meat the Future is narrated by Jane Goodall and features music by Moby.
7:30 p.m. Food for Mars talk with Adam Arkin, Studio 3
UC Berkeley’s Adam Arkin leads the CUBES Project, a multi-year program to find and test new ways to deliver food systems for future Mars missions. Catch up on the advances he and his team are making to feed future astronauts on Mars.
About Adam Arkin
Adam Arkin is the Dean A. Richard Newton Memorial Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and Senior Faculty Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He and his laboratory develop experimental and computational technologies for discovery, prediction, control and design of microbial and viral functions and behaviors in environmental contexts.
8 p.m. Cocktail Bot Chat with Alexander Rose and Adam Rogers, Chabot Café
Alexander Rose makes one of a kind machines to make cocktails. Enjoy a video demonstration and conversation with science journalist Adam Rogers.
About Adam Rogers
Adam Rogers is a journalist at Insider, writing about science, technology, and culture. He’s covered natural disasters, biotechnology, physics, and a lot of science fiction. A longtime editor and writer at Wired, he wrote that one story about the Dress that one time. Adam is also the author of the New York Times science bestseller Proof: The Science of Booze, and his latest book is Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern. It’s about how human beings make and see color.
About Alexander Rose
Alexander Rose is an industrial designer and has been working with The Long Now Foundation and computer scientist Danny Hillis since 01997 to build a monument scale, all mechanical 10,000 Year Clock. Alexander speaks about the work of The Long Now Foundation all over the world at venues ranging from the TED conference to corporations and government agencies.
8:30 p.m. Bobak Ferdowsi, “From Our Skies to Farms talk with Bobak Ferdowsi, Studio 3
Joining us remotely from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, Systems Engineer Bobak Ferdowsi introduces us to NISAR, NASA’s collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organization. Learn about how NISAR will study the Earth’s climate with a goal to help improve agricultural conditions.
About Bobak Ferdowsi
Bobak Ferdowsi is a systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He served on the Cassini-Huygens and Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity mission. Ferdowsi joined JPL in late 2003 and worked on the Mars Science Laboratory mission through its successful landing nearly nine years later August 6, 2012. He was also Science Planner on the Cassini-Huygens mission.
6– 8 p.m. Free Plant-Based Ice Cream Sampling with Eclipse Foods, Courtyard
Enjoy free, plant-based ice cream samples from Oakland-based Eclipse Foods. Limited quantity, first come – first served. Eclipse Foods makes plant-based dairy products that are indistinguishable from animal dairy products. Seriously, you can’t tell the difference.
6 – 10 p.m. StopFoodWaste, Guides for Saving and Reusing Your Food, Studio 3
Learn how to save, store and reuse food rather than sending it to the landfill with a series of free guides from StopFoodWaste. Since 1976, StopWaste has been helping Alameda County’s businesses, residents, and schools waste less, recycle better, and use water, energy, and other resources efficiently. They’re a public agency governed by the Alameda County Waste Management Authority, the Alameda County Source Reduction and Recycling Board, and the Energy Council.
7:30 – 10:00 p.m. Telescope Makers Workshop with Eastbay Astronomical Society, Lab 2
Open to all ages, the Telescope Makers’ Workshop is an all-volunteer group committed to helping people build their own telescopes. Drop in to see what they are up to.
The Eastbay Astronomical Society serves Bay Area residents and astronomy enthusiasts with events, classes, and Oakland’s premier views of the universe.
7:30 – 10:30 p.m. Telescope Viewings, Observatory Deck
Join Chabot astronomers on the Observatory Deck for a free telescope viewing! Weather permitting, this is a chance to explore stars, planets and more through Chabot’s historic telescopes.
Planetarium Shows
6:30 p.m. Forward! To the Moon
NASA’s 21st century Artemis program is the next step in our mission to explore the universe and land the first woman and person of color on the surface of the Moon. Kari Byron from Crash Test World and MythBusters narrates.
7:30 p.m. Zeiss Astronomy Presentation
Explore the cosmos as a Chabot Astronomer leads you through the galaxy using a Zeiss Universarium Mark VIII Star Projector. This recently restored Zeiss projector uses advanced fiber-optics to project stars with astonishing clarity.
9 p.m. Laser Beatles
The “Fab Four’s” best, spanning 6 years, becomes the background for dazzling laser art. All ages and backgrounds will appreciate this fantasy tribute of music and light to The Beatles and how they helped define a generation.
