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After Dark: Reopening Night!
Thursday, July 1, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Hi, you. It’s been too long! Welcome back.
After Dark: Spark Your Curiosity
Thursday, July 8, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Hi, you. It’s been too long! Welcome back.
After Dark: Seeing the Unseen
Thursday, August 12, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
How can tools and technologies help us “see”?
After Dark: Phenomenal Physics
Thursday, August 5, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Experience physics as energetic expressions of motion, color, and sound.
After Dark: Art for Action
Thursday, July 29, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Experience the artistic process as a tool for meaningful change.
After Dark: Living Things
Thursday, July 22, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Turn the spotlight onto our Living Systems gallery.
After Dark: Question Your Perception
Thursday, July 15, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Examine the nature of human perception at After Dark.
After Dark: Fright Night
Thursday, October 28, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Face your fears at this celebratory spectacle.
After Dark: (Un)Dead Science
Thursday, October 21, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Unearth expired ideas and incorrect assumptions in the scientific canon.
After Dark: Creature Feature
Thursday, October 14, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Snakes, spiders, and scorpions, oh my!
After Dark: Extraterrestrials
Thursday, October 7, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Launch into the unknown—learn about curious objects in outer space.
After Dark: Discover the Wonder
Thursday, September 30, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Find your aha moment at the Gold Beams Social Club.
After Dark: Sea Otters
Thursday, September 23, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
An evening focused on California's charismatic and ecologically important sea otters.
After Dark: See for Yourself
Thursday, September 16, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Spark your curiosity at After Dark.
After Dark: Science Fiction Turned Fact
Thursday, September 9, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Dig into innovations that were once the stuff of imaginative conjecture.
After Dark: Science of Breathing
Thursday, September 2, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Tonight, we turn our attention to human breath.
After Dark: See for Yourself
Thursday, August 26, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Spark your curiosity at After Dark.
After Dark: Beneath the Bay
Thursday, August 19, 2021 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Dive beneath the surface of the Bay—what do you find?
After Dark: See for Yourself
Thursday, February 3, 2022 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Spark your curiosity at After Dark!
CANCELED After Dark: Discover Wonder
Thursday, January 20, 2022 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Bring fresh eyes to old favorites and uncover phenomenal new experiences.
Total Solar Eclipse: Free Online Teaching and Learning Resources
Align yourself with eclipse science in our video archives.
San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department
Exploring the natural, built, and social landscapes.
San Francisco City Planning, San Francisco Public Library
Bringing strangers together in public space.
North Africa and Middle East Science Centers Network
Bringing relevant, timely STEM learning experiences into Arabic-speaking classrooms and homes.
PWP Landscape Architecture, Safdie Architects, Changi Airport Group, CapitaMalls Asia
Innovating ways to bring the outdoors indoors.
Stories from Chinatown | After Dark Online
In this program, join filmmaker James Q. Chan as he shares his current documentary project, Chinatown Stories: You are Here, and premieres a new episode.
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