Boston Inventgenuity Festival presented by Beam Camp

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Hours:	11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Ages:	Kids, Teens
In/Outdoor:	Indoor
Cost:	Free
Category:	Arts & Crafts

Described as “an urban Woodstock for budding young scientists, engineers, artists and dreamers” by the New York Times, the Inventgenuity Festival brings kids and their parents a full weekend of workshops and on-going collective projects in design, building, technology, mechanics and art.

The Inventgenuity Festival is presented by Beam Camp, a New Hampshire summer camp for the applied arts, technology and collaboration. The weekend will be jam-packed with a tremendous range of activities led by the imaginative and resourceful artists, engineers and big thinkers whose work with Beam campers prompted Makezine.com to call the camp “a haven for makers.”

At Inventgenuity, girls and boys aged 7-16 and their parents will make amazing things happen with electricity, gravity, wood, food and other materials and join in creating a signature Beam Camp Project.

For the weekend’s ongoing big Project, kids will explore the artful science of perpetual motion with Kinetic Artist Joseph Herscher as they construct one of Herscher’s gravity-defying Rube Goldberg Machines. Attendees may also sign-up for one of the rotating slate of 45-minute workshops. Among the currently scheduled presenters and workshops (more to be announced soon): Bridge Building and Light Painting by parts and crafts; Rhythm Maker Automatons by Eun Jung (EJ) Park, the Flappet Shop by kinetic sculpture and art mechanic Steve Gerberich, and an experiment in extreme drawing called ‘The Complicater’ led by Tom Bubul.

Festival admission is free, but advance sign-up is required. All workshops will repeat throughout the day. Most workshops will take place both days of the festival. Workshop registration will take place at the Festival. There is a $5 materials charge for some workshops. No charge for the ongoing Rube Goldberg Project and some workshops.

The weekend also marks the Boston Premiere of the summer 2010’s Beam Project, A Trip To The Sun, a solar-powered film about a journey to the sun that was recently selected for entry in the Seattle Children’s Film Festival.

WEBSITE

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www.beamcamp.com/inventgenuity

LOCATION

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61 Washington Park, Newtonville, MA, 02460 map
Phone: 866-894-7069