Brooklyn’s fifth annual Inventgenuity Festival, presented by Beam Center, fills two large gallery spaces with fun and engaging hands-on activities. With public projects and workshops led by Beam Center’s faculty of artists, engineers, and big thinkers, the Inventgenuity Festival has become a popular annual winter celebration of making things for kids and their parents.
At the Inventgenuity Festival, kids will explore, build and play with digital and analog sound and music machines. In two days of hands-on workshops and on-going collective projects led by expert makers and manipulators of sound, image, electricity, and motion kids will explore this year’s theme, MECHANICAL MUSIC.
In this year’s Festival Project, the Cam Hammer Analog Synth, (masterminded by Automatons Eun Jung Park with assistance from electronic artist Mark Kleeb), kids will work with Beam Center staff to construct a series of large-scale cam mechanisms wired for sound based on Leonardo da Vinci’s Cam Hammer. Each turn of the crank will bring the hammers in contact with a plate wired to a dial-controlled analog circuit board. The final huge crank-driven synth organ will blend two anachronisms into something utterly unique and strangely new. Participation in the project is free. Attendees may also sign-up for one of the rotating slate of 45-minute workshops.
Beam Center is a Brooklyn-based, not-for-profit helping young people shape their world and future through physical creation and collaboration. Beam Center’s programs include BeamWorks, which prepares teens for a post-high school world of work and continual learning, and Inventgenuity Workshops, an after-school community of doing and making for kids in grades 2-6.
Dates
Saturday 25, 11am–5pm
Sunday 26, 11am–5pm
Admissions
General Admissions, Free
Workshop, Reservations
Materials Fee ($8.25)
Location
The Main Gallery
51 Bergen St.