[ DISCOUNT ] Let’s Build a Life-Size “Rube Goldberg”

[ DISCOUNT ] Let’s Build a Life-Size “Rube Goldberg”
Program Leaders: Bill Ballou and Susan Schwartz

Use everyday objects and work with others to build a fun chain-reaction machine.

The famous cartoons by Rube Goldberg depicted machines doing simple things in unnecessarily convoluted ways, something like the board game “Mousetrap.” We will, as a group, construct a life-size “Rube Goldberg machine” using available materials and a lot of imagination (as well as principles of physics), to create amazing chain reactions with everyday objects. 

Bill has a background in film, TV and live theater construction, rigging and problem solving starting in the early 1970’s.  He has been a construction coordinator on many feature films, a technical director at REDCAT in Los Angeles and other theaters, and taught Technical Direction at California Institute of the Arts School of Theater. Susan is a career prosecutor who holds a degree in art business and has been making art of various kinds for years.  Susan and Bill have collaborated on many art projects.