Octavia E. Butler Library Science Fiction Contest & Festival 2022-2023
The Octavia E. Butler Science Fiction Festival is March 23, 2023 from 3-6 pm. El Festival de ciencia ficción Octavia E. Butler es el 23 de marzo de 2023 de 3 a 6 p. m.
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The missions below are offered only at the times noted in their description. / Las misiones a continuación se ofrecen solo en los horarios indicados en su descripción.
Hear from JPL navigator Sarah Elizabeth McCandless and learn how to find your way around the universe and avoid getting lost on your way to Mars! McCandless will discuss her specific job, and some missions she has worked on, including Mars 2020.
Offered at the following times: 3:30, 4:00, 4:30
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We'll discuss how telescopes allow us to look back through time and what planet earth might look like to alien astronomers throughout the universe.
Abigail Polin and Brenna Mockler are both astrophysicists who work at Carnegie Observatories. They study black holes and stellar explosions in space. They also both love scifi.
Offered at the following times: 3:30, 4:00, 4:30
Learn about collective survival, future building, and go bags! With EARTH SEED, PKC enacts radical hospitality as a survival practice, cultivating mutual aid and bolstering collective resistance in this time of ecological and societal transformation. We deepen our relationships, learn from, and collaborate with BIPOC artists, activists, educators, farmers, youth, and elders.
Offered at the following times: 3:30, 4:00, 4:30
In this workshop, we will be writing sci-fi short stories through the lens of the horror genre! Using the guiding tenet "If this goes on..." we will discuss ideas to build on (what happens if smart car AI becomes self aware? what's next if we discover that social media has perfected the ability to program organic beings?), go over techniques and storytelling practices to fall back on in case we get stuck, and there will also be time for writing/sharing! Crank up those minor chords, and get ready to bring the scary in the way Octavia E. Butler loved most.
Offered at the following times: 3:30, 4:00, 4:30
Fungal expert Aaron Tupac will be at the festival this year with some specimens to view and even touch! Mx. Tupac will share how fungal systems are all around us and connected to all of our other systems. They will relate this mycoverse to our own human connections, how we support each other, and how we inspire new collaborative ways of storytelling our lives on a damaged planet.
Offered at the following times: 3:30, 4:00, 4:30
Dominique Butler will present "Life on Mars.” She will discuss the significance of the Octavia Butler Landing site and the most recent Perseverance Rover discoveries.
Offered at the following times: 3:30, 4:00, 4:30
Independent Missions/MISIONES INDEPENDIENTES
View our exhibit on Octavia's time at our school with archives from the Huntington Libray.
Check out OZOBOTS with the Pasadena Public Library!
Come learn about patterns and art in paper folding.
Be sure to visit our gallery of entries from the Octavia E. Butler Library Science Fiction Contest. Don't miss the ceremony to honor the winners at 5:00 in the auditorium.
Get a keepsake button to remember the festival or design and make your own sci-fi inspired button!
Learn how to code a LEGO robot with OEB Robotics.
Pick up your own copy of Octavia E. Butler Walking Tour Map published by The Huntington Library.
Visit Altadena Library's Curiosity Connection Van!
Visit the Day One photo booth to make an event keepsake.
Lightbringer is coming to celebrate Spring by designing botanical postcards. We will pound flowers onto postcards and gather their pigment, then we will identify each flower creating a miniature field guide.
Visit our famous mural honoring Octavia E. Butler.
Kona Ice
Drop by to ask an astronomer from the Planetary Society your burning questions about space and science! Here are some sentence starters for you: What if......? If only.......? If this goes on......
Have fun with circuits and solar!
Complete 4 missions and pick out a free book sponsored by Access Books and Pacific Oaks CCSI!
Meet a favorite Star Wars character!
Visit our Community Partners!
