After Dark: Past Programs

After Dark: Cannabis

Thursday, April 18, 2019 • 6:00–10:00 p.m.

Cannabis is legal for recreational use in California—yet it remains a federally controlled substance. Investigate the impacts of legalization, find out how the landscape is changing, and get up close with the plant itself.

After Dark: Best Coast

Thursday, April 11, 2019 • 6:00–10:00 p.m.

Roam the Best Coast—explore the work of California artists, learn about our coastline, see some marine inhabitants up close, and taste sustainably caught seafood in our Pairings program.

After Dark: Throwback Thursday

Thursday, April 4, 2019 • 6:00–10:00 p.m.

In celebration of the Exploratorium’s 50th birthday, throw it back to 1969, musing on the cultural environment from which the museum rose—the landmark events, inventions, and cultural shifts that remain essential to this day.

After Dark: Outer Space

Thursday, March 28, 2019 • 6:00–10:00 p.m.

From exoplanets to space biology, what exists outside of planet Earth has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. Come catch a glimpse into what lies ahead in the future of space exploration.

After Dark: Let's Play

Thursday, March 21, 2019 • 6:00–10:00 p.m.

Introduce your outer adult to your inner child: Take a deep dive with with game creators into the ways they’re infusing play into everyday life.

After Dark: Pi(e)

Thursday, March 14, 2019 • 6:00–10:00 p.m.

Feeling a little irrational? How about transcendental? Excited to taste some math puns? Don’t miss Pi Day, the Exploratorium’s favorite holiday—after all, we made it up.

After Dark: STEAM-Y Stories

Thursday, March 7, 2019 • 6:00–10:00 p.m.

Expand your perspective with an evening of innovative storytelling that illuminates the fluid relationship between art and science.

After Dark: Seeing Double

Thursday, February 28, 2019 • 6:00–10:00 p.m.

When is one not enough? Look again at the surprising ways doubling quantities affects our perceptions and our world. This evening’s program will leave you seeing double.

After Dark: In a Flash

Thursday, February 21, 2019 • 6:00–10:00 p.m.

Come into the light: learn about light-up nematocysts, flicker films, and flash pickling. Then illuminate your understanding of the dramatic, flame-retarding element bromine at Everything Matters: Bromine.

After Dark: Chocolate

Thursday, February 14, 2019 • 6:00–10:00 p.m.

Chocolate: it’s everyone’s favorite...bean? Learn how the food of the gods goes from bitter fruit to beloved bar, then taste your way through a flight of delicious demonstrations.

After Dark: Craft

Thursday, February 7, 2019 • 6:00–10:00 p.m.

In a world increasingly synthetic, robotic, and removed from human touch, commune with the soul of things made by hand—yours or someone else’s—at After Dark: Craft.