January 18, 2012
Lost Lectures: Jelly Brain
Our first Jelly Brain of 2012! The wonderful Dr Zarinah Agnew of University College London will dissect panacotta and raspberry swirls set in the shape of our marvelous cerebrums as part of the brand new series, The Lost Lectures.
Full details of the night here.
August 15, 2011
SGP: Dirt Banquet
Working in partnership with chef Joe Gray we brought a feast of filth to the Secret Garden Party, each course inspired by the physical, biological, ethical, architectural, social, political and temporal dimensions of dirt.
Starter: Earth. Turf Cross Section: Wild Mushroom Risotto, Cress & Edible Grasses w/ Stilton Stones
Desert: Sex. Yonic Vanilla Pannacotta with Phallic Shortbread
Eminent experts accompanied each course, feeding guests with ideas about the nature of dirt, with scientists Zarinah Agnew, Rachel Edwards-Stuart, Aidan Horner, Elizabeth Pisani, and beatboxer Yasson. All pics on our Flickr site.
The second and last time we hosted this utterly original event – read more about the first on New Scientist’s Culture Lab blog and on the Guardian’s science blog.
November 24, 2010
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest: In Pics
If you happened to pass through the Secret Cinema’s homage to One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest during the past two weeks, you may have come across us administering electroconvulsive therapy…
doling out lobotomy tips…
sharing dissected jelly brains…
or inquiring about your psychiatric state. Tell us, do you ever have the urge to harm yourself or others? Do you have suicidal thoughts?
We might have labeled you sick. Or disturbed.
Or perhaps you caught the artistic installations we curated, on schizophrenia
or obsessive compulsive disorder.
More pics of all our secret cinema antics – and of the rest of the Secret Cinema’s installation – on our flickr site.
By Zoe
September 2, 2010
A Tasty Brain
Carefully carving through the surface of the shiny, quivering pink cortex with his scalpel, neuroscientist Guy Billings traced out a small area of the marvellous human cerebrum. “This,” he said, “is Broca’s area – crucial for the ability to produce language. People who have suffered damage to this region have lost the ability to speak.” The crowd peered in for a closer look.
“Let’s just cut that out then,” said Guy, and plopping the pink shiny piece onto a plate, he handed it out with a shiny pink spoon. It was instantly devoured (and declared delicious).
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