Halloween Day at the Exploratorium

UglyKid2 · Halloween Day at the Exploratorium

We will have an SF Bats table at the Exploratorium on Halloween Day! Here is the info from their website:

Creature Features: An Exploratorium Halloween

When Saturday, October 31, 2009, 3 – 8pm
Where Exploratorium
Event Type Special Program
Celebrate Halloween—Exploratorium style! Join us in costume for our second annual extravaganza of scary science and frightful fun. We’ll explore the scientific and cultural phenomena behind Halloween, Dia de los Muertos, and a host of creeping, crawling, flapping, and otherwise fascinating creatures.

If you dare, step inside the Neverwas Haul (a haunted Victorian house on wheels), and tiptoe through our Cemetery of Dead Science. Meet a menacing menagerie of spiders, insects, bats, leeches, black cats, and gape at the macabre minutia of magnified creatures and objects. You may discover a room drained of color, see spine-tingling films, or witness mad scientists concoct ghastly experiments. Local artist Irma Ortiz will shape exquisite skulls from molten sugar and invite you to decorate a sugar skull of your own.

Drop in before trick-or-treating or before your Halloween festivities begin—we’ll have plenty of candy. Included with museum admission.

Director of this program is Marcus Ante who just emailed me today asking for hi-res pics of tarantulas(300 dpi or higher) to be used for promotional purposes. If you have any can you please email them to me at SRV658@comcast.net We would really appreciate it! Ricky? Kyle? Anybody?
We also need help manning the table between 3pm and 8 pm handling spiders and answering questions about them. They just want tarantulas as they have other people bringing insects. Please let us know if you can help. We need you!

Ricky Ortiz84

Hey John I'll take some fresh pics for ya here within the ending of this weekend.

EdgarOrtega

I will contribute to this project by sending Marcus my spider drawing. It will assist him with his extensive promotion efforts.

"Come to the Exploratorium on Halloween and see spiders that are not stupid drawings."

The place will be packed.

You are welcome.

Edgar

UglyKid2

Oh gee, thanks a lot, Edgar! That drawing will always be around, wont it? I may have to draw one so you dont get all the attention...

Synn

That may be fun for me to check out, though the fun little Petaluma rep show is that day too! :O I'll attempt to fit both in

llamamama

MADISON! We don't want you to check it out...we want you to come HELP! LOL

UglyKid2

If you go to the Petaluma show when they open at 10 am you can spend a few hours there then shoot down 101 to the Exploratorium which is just on the other side of the GG bridge and check that out and hang with us. We will be there from 2-8pm. I might even do that, its totally do able!

Sounds like a great day to me

Sparky

Oh, we have no plans for Halloween, this would be cool to do! (We have membership at the Academ yof Sciences and they're doing some little Halloween thing too, we could hit both.) I don't know how much help I would be, but let me know if you really need somebody.

BayLee

We do need at least 2-3 more people to help out

Sparky

...Just so long as you know I have never held a tarantula. :/

BayLee

You can talk to people and answer questions. John and I will hold them.

Sparky

Okay. I don't know exactly how long I could stay though. It'd depend on if my brother had something to occupy himself during that time. :)

UglyKid2

Cool, there will be lots of other stuff to see and do there!

Even if you are with us for an hour that will be a big help!

UglyKid2

Here is the website for this cool happening where we will be!

http://visit.exploratorium.edu/events/halloween2009/

BayLee

Saturday, October 31 • 3:00–8:00 p.m.

Less than a week away from our big night at the Exploratorium.

You have to check out SFBATS if you can!

UglyKid2, Sparky and BayLee will be there to truly show of their scary Tarantulas.
Don't miss this opportunity to see us in a scary set up and simply have fun.

More on this event can be read here:

http://visit.exploratorium.edu/events/halloween2009/

If you are interested in participating in this awesome opportunity to be part of this show, contact John or Lony, we are happy to give you more details.

Arrive in costume between 3:00 and 8:00 p.m. and receive a special discount off museum admission ($3 off for adults, $1 off for youth & children).

BayLee

We had an awesome day at the Exploratorium.

Special thanks to Sparky, Peter (Not-Dave), who I still call Dave, Josh and Jasmine and of course John.

I am sorry John that I forgot your drinks twice. I was so taken by the whole show, the many wonderful costumes, that I forgot to get you a diet coke and coffee.

Also a BIG THANKS to the Exploratorium for inviting us to this special Halloween event. It was truly the best show EVER!

We got to SF without getting stuck in traffic, because we took the 37 and the Golden Gate Bridge. We arrived an hour early to get a quick bite to eat at Ft Mason. Then headed over to the Palace of Fine Arts at 1:30. We had two huge tables right smack in the middle of the Exploratorium.

We started setting up, but soon we realized that it was tough for the both of us to work on the set up, because people were curious what we had and then were eager to fold our T’s.

John took over talking to the crowd while I finished setting up. We filled up all the space with T’s and cool Halloween decoration..
Pretty much from 2 - 8:15 we were busy talking to Halloween visitors, most of them dressed up in very cool outfits. I was able to take a 15 min break to get some coffee and a hot dog, while John, Sparky and Peter stayed at the table. I wanted to walk around but it was impossible because the table was so crowded. John took a 15 minute break as well but did not get very far either..lol.

I don’t even think Sparky or Peter took a break.

Sparky and Peter left around 6:15, both were a tremendous help to us and we were very grateful , it was impossible for two people to do this. Thank you guys!!!

Pretty soon at around 6:45 or so Josh and Jasmine arrived to help till the end. Jasmine even held John’s smithi and talked to people, she is a real trooper.

After closing at 8:00 they allowed us to do a touring of the Neverwas Haul—Special Preview, what a treat.

I think I saw many people coming by our table three, some even four times to hold yet another Tarantula, one teenager was first very hesitant to hold one, but after seeing that a little girl was able to do it he decided to hold one himself. He came back with his dad four more times and was so fascinated that I think he fell in love with our wonderful Tarantulas.

Another amazing story was of a woman holding John’s smithi. She confessed to me that it had been her fist time holding one and that she had a life long phobia and had to get help by overcoming her fear of spiders. She told me she did a lot of reading to better understand their purpose and was able to slowly feel more comfortable with them but not till tonight had she held one. It felt great to know that we were able to make a big difference in her life, helping her with her final step.

In-between talking to so many visitors, out of the crowd came bonobo with her girl friend. That was a real treat to finally meet her! What a delightful person and so very curious about everything. Thank you for the candy bags you gave us, that was very nice.

She was very eager to meet Sol, my P irminia, but as usual, that little bugger was in her hide.

Bonobo you guys must come to our January meeting in Concord and you must add a Suntiger.

Overall this was truly a success for SFBATS, I am so proud to be part of this great group of people.

Laurie, expect a call from a nice curious mother. She is very eager to have you come out to a school in SF to teach children all about Tarantulas. I don’t recall her name, but it was something like Dora, she has a Latin accent. I am sorry I should have written down her name, but it was too crazy.

I did shoot a video, but it will take me a while to put it together.

Bonedog

Sounds like a really fun day.

EdgarOrtega

Sounds like you guys and a lot of fun! Thanks for doing that for us.

Looking forward to video and photos.

llamamama

Sounds like it was awesome! You guys ROCK! I can't wait to see pictures and video!

daveemory

Bonobo

Hi Guys it was great meeting you BayLee , Sparky, Uglykid2 and Daveemory ! Your table was great and the spiders looked fantastic . . it was so cool to meet you all !

UglyKid2

Finally here are the pics from my camera

http://fototime.com/inv/EBD37FB172B08CE

llamamama

Great job, John, Lony, Peter, and Sparky!

BayLee

Hey John, don't forget to send Liz the pictures of her.

EdgarOrtega

Cool pics, guys. John and Lony, your Smurf costumes were nuts!

llamamama

You two have a thing about big chairs, don't you? Of course, you have to have big chairs when you have Big Hair.

DeeCasey