District 9

With Michele Koons, PhD, anthropologist

Wednesday, July 10
7:00 p.m.

Located at the Sie FilmCenter on Colfax.

Presented by the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and the Denver Film Society.

Science fiction feeds the imagination and helps us to explore possible futures, our hopes and fears, and the unfolding of technologies. Join Museum scientists and Vincent Piturro, PhD, English professor at Metropolitan State College of Denver, to screen famous sci-fi films, break down the science behind these alternative possibilities, and separate fact from fiction.

$12 member, $15 nonmember, $8 student (per film)
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