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WEDNESDAY May 22, 2012 - 10:00AM Open to all students and public - additional tickets available. Meet blue, orca, white whales and dolphins while following the humpbacks in their annual cycles of feast and famine as they travel thousands of miles from the krill blooms off the frigid coast of Alaska to calve in the warm waters of Hawaii. Featuring spectacular underwater footage of mothers, calves and escorts, Whales reveals many little-known aspects of these elusive creatures and celebrates the music, play and incredible strength of the earth’s largest inhabitants. CLICK HERE for Educator Guide Kindergarten - Grade 4 |
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THURSDAY, May 23, 2013 - 10:00AM Open to all students and public - additional tickets available. PULSE: A STOMP ODYSSEY is an exploration of the sights and sounds of continents and cultures, guided by the internationally acclaimed performers of the sensational stage show STOMP. Audiences will travel a world brought brilliantly alive on the large-format screen and will discover the universal language of rhythm. The film is a unique and extraordinary large-format experience -- a visual and auditory celebration of diversity and culture, rhythm and humanity. It will introduce audiences to percussion groups from locales and backgrounds as disparate as Timbalada of Brazil to Les Percussion de Guinee of West Africa, from a 25,000 year-old tribal tradition in Botswana to a modern flamenco dancer in Spain. CLICK HERE for Educator Guide |
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TUESDAY, May 28, 2013 - 10:00AM Open to all students and public - additional tickets available. Students will also gain insight, as they learn how these natural disasters occur and what scientists and engineers are doing to predict and prepare for events and to minimize damage in the future. CLICK HERE for Educator Guide
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FRIDAY, May 31, 2013 - 10:00am Open to all students and public - additional tickets available TUESDAY, June 25, 2013 - 10:00am Open to all students and public - additional tickets available Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio and vividly captured with IMAX technology, HUBBLE recounts the amazing journey of the most important scientific instrument since Galileo's original telescope and the greatest success in space since the Moon Landing -- the Hubble Space Telescope. Audiences will accompany the space walking astronauts as they attempt some of the most difficult tasks ever undertaken in NASA's history, and will experience up close the awesome power of the launches, the heartbreaking setbacks, and the dramatic rescues of this most powerful story. HUBBLE will also reveal the cosmos as never before, allowing viewers of all ages to explore the grandeur of the nebulae and galaxies, the birth and death of stars, and some of the greatest mysteries of our celestial surroundings, all in amazing IMAX. Rating: G CLICK HERE for Educator Guide |
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THURSDAY June 6, 2013 - 10:00am Open to all students and public - additional tickets available. BEAVERS plunges the viewer into the aquatic habitat of nature's greatest engineers for an intimate look at the life of one beaver family. With breathtaking underwater photography, the viewer travels inside the lodge for a rare look at these charming and industrious creatures. Shot on location in Ontario, Canada and in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, the film follows the beavers as they overcome dangers, grow, play and transform the world around them. CLICK HERE for Educator Guide |
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Tuesday June 11, 2012 - 10:00AM Open to all students and public - additional tickets available. Join Storm Chasers star Sean Casey and the researchers of VORTEX 2, the most ambitious effort ever made to understand the origins and evolution of tornadoes, on this heart-pounding science adventure. Armed with a 70mm camera, a fleet of customized vehicles designed to withstand gale force winds, torrential rains and unrelenting hail, and an arsenal of the most advanced weather measurement instruments ever created, the stars of TORNADO ALLEY take audiences on a thrilling quest to experience a tornado's destructive power at point blank range. Experience the adrenaline and the science of nature's most dramatic phenomena! Traversing the "severe weather capital of the world," TORNADO ALLEY documents two unprecedented missions seeking to encounter one of Earth's most awe-inspiring events -- the birth of a tornado. Filmmaker Sean Casey's personal quest to capture the birth of a tornado with a 70mm camera takes viewers on a breathtaking journey into the heart of the storm. A team of equally driven scientists, the VORTEX2 researchers, experience the relentless strength of nature's elemental forces as they literally surround tornadoes and the supercell storms that form them, gathering the most comprehensive severe weather data ever collected. This science adventure reveals the beauty and the power of some of our planet's most extreme -- and least understood -- weather phenomena. Rating: (G) CLICK HERE for Educator Guide |
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WEDNESDAY, June 12, 2013 - 10:00AM Open to all students and public - additional tickets available. This IMAX adventure will transport you to some of the most exotic and isolated undersea locations on earth, including Southern Australia, New Guinea and others in the Indo-Pacific region, allowing you to experience face-to-face encounters with some of the most mysterious and stunning creatures of the sea. It offers a uniquely inspirational and entertaining way to explore the beauty and natural wonder of the oceans, as well as the impact of global climate change. CLICK HERE for Educator Guide |
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THURSDAY June 13, 2013 - 10:00AM Open to all students and public - additional tickets available. Rocky Mountain Express propels audiences on a steam train journey through the breathtaking vistas of the Canadian Rockies and relates the epic adventure of building the nation's first transcontinental railway. Retracing the original route aboard the majestic steam engine 2816, the audience is transported back to the age of steam to re-live this alpine nation-building odyssey. The film weaves together spectacular IMAX aerial cinematography, breathtaking vistas of the west, archival images and maps, and the potent energy and rhythms of a live steam locomotive to immerse audiences in a an era of remarkable ingenuity and struggle and a region of stunning natural beauty. Ride the rails along deep river canyons and over high mountain passes. Discover some of the most beautiful, rugged landscapes on earth to the heroic human drama and epic engineering that shaped a continent. The completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in 1885 ranks among the greatest engineering feats in history. If the builders had failed, would Canada exist today? Spanning thousands of miles and some of the world's greatest natural barriers, this grand transcontinental project and its wandering ribbon of steel drew together far flung communities isolated in the wilderness, shaped a new nation and changed the face of the North American continent forever. The success or failure of the venture was decided deep in the mountains. CLICK HERE for Educator Guide |
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THURSDAY JUNE 20, 2013 - 10:00AM Open to all students and public - additional tickets available. BORN TO BE WILD is an inspired story of love, dedication and the remarkable bond between humans and animals. This film documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the extraordinary people who rescue and raise them -- saving endangered species one life at a time. Stunningly captured in IMAX, BORN TO BE WILD is a heartwarming adventure transporting moviegoers into the lush rainforests of Borneo with world-renowned primatologist Dr. Birute Galdikas, and across the rugged Kenyan savannah with celebrated elephant authority Dame Daphne Sheldrick, as they and their team rescue, rehabilitate and return these incredible animals back to the wild. Narrated by Academy-Award® winner Morgan Freeman. This Warner Bros. film is produced and distributed by IMAX Corporation. CLICK HERE for Educator Guide CLICK HERE for Activity Guide |
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WEDNESDAY June 26, 2013 - 10:00AM Open to all students and public - additional tickets available. Van Gogh leads viewers on a journey through the surprisingly short 9-year period of the artist's career during which he painted more than 900 paintings. Told from the perspectives of three main characters -- Ellen, a museum researcher, Peter, a film director, and Vincent van Gogh himself -- Van Gogh follows in the artist's footsteps, traveling from the Netherlands to Auvers-sur-Oise and passing through Arles, Saint-Rémy and Paris. From the dazzling yellow of the artist's famous cornfields to the deep blue of his famous night sky, audiences will rediscover the source of some of the most important works in art history.
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To book your group or class, please contact group sales at rbcm_groups@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca |
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