Participation, engagement, play & experimentation
Why?
Effective science communication relies on engagement with all kinds of people, in all kinds of settings. We bring imagination, humour, fascination, passion, creativity, a lot of experience and some very strange contraptions to help push the message: learning how the world works is a beautiful and creative journey.
Who?
Noisy Toys is run by the artist and educator Stephen Summers. Larger jobs (installations, walkabout, drop-in) also involve a team of performers and facilitators, and you can find out more about them below.
What?
Scavenger Labs C.I.C. is a Community Interest Company that Noisy Toys operates through (along with the Todmorden Makery). The Directors are Stephen Summers & Mick Chesterman.
When?
Noisy Toys was born in 2007 as an event for schools at the Victoria Baths in Manchester.
Holiday periods can be busy for us, so book early.
Where?
Noise HQ is in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. We travel all over the country and beyond to deliver our activities and performances. We have visited schools, museums and venues all over the country, music festivals, STEM events and science festivals, the Jungle (Calais), in caves, on the South Bank (London), in woodlands, and three times in Gorky Park, Moscow. We have a lot of experience in delivering quality engagement activities for all kinds of people in all kinds of settings, and we can meet your needs.
How?
We bring our expertise, experience and unique equipment to you, and we blow your minds.
Steve Summers
Science communicator, musician/artist and a qualified teacher with over fifteen years’ experience in education. He started Noisy Toys in 2007. You can find out more about his artistic work and hear some noise here:
Stephen Summers
Olivia Rhoden – Liv for Science
Silliness and Science on tap. Liv loves the curious corners of the world and asking why? To nearly everything. A passionate noise maker and environment carer -noisy toys is the perfect place to make noise about why we should save the world from e-waste and make a racket while doing it!
Georgios Stenos Frantzios
Yorgo is a sonic scavenger; a full-time explorer of hardware stores, kitchens and junkyards in quest for noise-making treasures. You can find out more about his work here.
BlackCat
Our Cymatics specialist; Blackcat has been researching and demonstrating cymatics patterns with sound and music for several years, building her equipment during an artist residency at Bidston Observatory.
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