Slime molds! What an organism - half slime, half mold, completely fascinating. Despite having no nervous system (or indeed any organs at all), slime molds are able to give the appearance of intelligently interacting with their environment. They can make decisions, choose directions, solve mazes, and even form simple logic circuits. By understanding how slime molds operate we can learn much about the nature of intelligence, emergent complexity, and network optimization.

Yet sadly, general knowledge of slime molds is lacking. To remedy this situation we have organized a screening of 'The Creeping Garden', which explores the science and art of slime molds and those that love them. Hear what the critics have to say:

‘An intense, impressionistic portrait of the eerie mystery of nature.’
Mike Dub, E Street Film Society

‘If you have to see one movie about slime mold this year, this is it. Yes, The Creeping Garden is the Citizen Kane of slime-mold movies.’
Robert Horton, Parallax View

‘The movie hums as if it was shot by aliens visiting Earth for the first time, and that’s a high compliment.’
Jordan Hoffman, The Guardian

You can watch a trailer at the movie's website, here: http://www.creepinggarden.com/

We will also feature a few short talks from some very fine researchers who have devoted their minds to slime mold. Some of their work can be found here: https://chrisrreid.wordpress.com/

The screening is at the Red Rattler theatre, which is just a short walk from Sydenham train station.

Each ticket also includes a free slime mold culture, so you can grow your own! Note, don't feed your slime mold after midnight, or something bad might happen...

Note: All profits from this event are to be donated back to the Biofoundry and Red Rattler theatre, both awesome community initiatives.

Biofoundry: http://foundry.bio/ . All about citizen science.

Red Rattler: http://www.redrattler.org/ . All about providing afforable and accesible community performance spaces.