Exploratorium After Dark - Extended Cinemas

A cutting-edge evening series for adults
The first Thursday of every month
6:00–10:00 p.m.

Featuring Artists Miwa Matreyek, Caroline Brown and Bryan Lence, Nate Boyce, Paul Clipson, and Tracey Snelling

Join us for an exploration of new frontiers in film-where cinematic artworks range beyond the screen to encompass unique combinations of animation, objects, and live performance. Instead of sitting back to watch, we invite you to lean in, look closely, listen, and touch. See performance artist Miwa Matreyek step through illuminated landscapes of her own dreamlike animations. Turn the seemingly blank pages of Caroline Brown's and Bryan Lence's "Bestiary" and witness them fill with fantastical creatures. Peer into tiny windows to spy on Tracy Snelling's vignettes, absorb the audiovisual wonders of Nate Boyce and Paul Clipson, and enjoy a collection of local shorts with the curators of The Three-Minute Picture Show.

Experience life After Dark, an evening series exclusively for adults that mixes cocktails, conversation, and playful, innovative science and art events. Not a theater, cabaret, or gallery, After Dark contains aspects of all three. Each evening showcases a different topic-from music to sex to electricity-but all include a cash bar and film screenings, plus an opportunity to play with our hundreds of hands-on exhibits. Join us and mingle with inventive scientists, artists, musicians, programmers, and designers. Enjoy live performances, provocative films, interesting music, cutting-edge technology, unexpected extravaganzas, and more, depending on each evening's lineup. Leave the kids at home and meet friends or take a date. Where else can you find an intellectually stimulating playground for adults-with free parking?

This event is included in the price of museum admission.