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After Dark: Feeling Emotional
Can you really catch feelings from those around you? And can you judge an emotion from someone’s face alone? Discover how people are motivated by emotions, perception, and memory, and maybe even embrace feelings that you usually shy away from.
Exploring Emotions Exhibits: Prototype Demonstration
6:30–9:30 p.m.
Osher Gallery 1: Human Phenomenon
With Exhibit Developers
Explore your feelings and express your emotions through new exhibit prototypes.
Sensorial Cinema: The Animated Face
6–10 p.m.
Osher Gallery 1: Human Phenomenon
Come watch a selection of short films revealing the elasticity of the human face as well as some of its mystery! Focusing on facial features shaped over minutes or decades, these short animations and documentaries highlight the incredible arc of human emotions as shown on our faces, from the meditative, the mysterious, to the stretch of pleasure or disgust. Do you see tenderness, sadness, or disdain?
Sour Death Balls (1993, 4 min.) by Jessica Yu
Maya at 24 (2021, 4 min.) by Lynn Sachs
EF (1979, 4 min.) by Toney Merritt
Your Face (1987, 3min.) by Bill Plympton
What's That Feeling? Reading Emotions Activity
6:30–8:30 p.m.
Osher Gallery 1: Human Phenomenon
With the Explainers
Join the Explainers to practice the skill of reading emotions, known as emotion perception. Can you tell how someone is feeling from their facial expression alone? Come discover how our sociocultural context shapes our experience, expression, and perception of how we—and others—feel.
Event Links
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Website: https://go.evvnt.com/2443490-2
