Festival les foirés, at the Cité des Sciences

WE LIKE: a positive and enjoyable festival!
AGE: for all, from 6-7 years old
DATE:
PLACE: Cité des Sciences (Paris 19th)

Wacky experiments and inventions that are as ineffective as possible
at the Cité des Sciences

The 1st festival of the Fairs (the flops, the flops, the failures and the useless)

The Cité des sciences et de l’Industrie presents A new festival, unique in its kind, which honors flops, blunders and failures. We love the idea!
Because failure is an integral part of innovation processes, the festival of fairs shows failed experiments. A delightful result.
It is an opportunity to bring the most zany and comical inventions back to life to show that failure is positive, constructive and necessary.
The objective is therefore to redefine the notion of failure and to honor the “foirés” of History without forgetting the “foirés” of everyday life.
On the program : mini-exhibitions of uncomfortable, unobtainable and defective objects from the Museum of Failure, the creation of a chain reaction machine, a show to design an absurd tea-making machine, wooden games, XXL puzzles, crazy bikes…
Demonstrations, workshops and animations to accomplish complex but above all useless performances: the opportunity to perform for a “collective blunder”.
Like what:
- Tapassa? Visitors who are fans of Teleshopping will love Tapassa, the show “where there is everything”! Participative animation lasting 20 min. (from 6 years old)
- Creation of a chain reaction machine with Joseph Herscher (from 7 years old)
- How does a useless box work? (from 10 years old)…