Can’t wait to see you there! Tickets available here.

Saturday is the formal celebration with screenings, performances and the Bostker Awards Ceremony.  Sunday is where things get hands on with the Make Your Own Robot Film workshops and a robot-themed community BBQ! Don’t miss the performer list below!!

SATURDAY – July 16, 2011

12:00 pm – Doors

12:30 pm – 5:00 pm – Screenings and Performances

The Festival opens with the Spike Jonze short, “I’m Here.”  All of the accepted films will screen, with breaks for coffee, inspiration, and fantastic performances! Films include stories about real and fictional robots, depicting interactions between robots, nature and society, and created with consideration of overall entertainment value, inspiration of future technologies, creativity and robot design.

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Dinner in the hood

Join the rest of the group for a dinner down the street from the theater.

7:00 pm – Botsker Award Ceremony

Categories will include: Best Robot Actor, Best Laughs, Best Robot Dance, Most Inspiring, Most Impactful, Most Uncanny, Best Robot Future and more!  The ceremony will open with a red carpet cocktail party featuring red carpet, robot photo ops and technology-based art installations. Unconfirmed rumors of robot paparazzi.

During the ceremony, attendees will enjoy additional performances and learn to ‘do the robot’ from Robot Dance professional Josh Ventura, who is making a special trip from LA to help us get those actuators moving! He’s gonna teach us to dance The Robot like a pro!!

**REGGIE WATTS** innovative Brooklyn based comedian performs with Data the Robot!! A collaboration with festival founder Heather Knight.

-JILTED: A human/virtual rockband featuring singer and guitarist Milena Mepris with lady-clone backup musicians whom Milena controls and triggers with foot pedals while rocking your socks off.

-DOUBLE RAINBOW: Guitarist meets fluorescent percussive robot characters, blending prehistoric with hipster futuristic.

-ROBOT COWBOY: This is our token Cyborg performance. Dan Wilcox performs with a live monitor mounted on his head, why have separate video projections when you can *be* the projection?

The robot statuettes themselves, designed by Shawn Sims, will be 3D printed and robotically milled with their winning award categories. We are excited to have robot awards that are largely constructed by robots! We promise to share their construction videos with you during the ceremony.  Dress is black tie. Robots are encouraged to sport sequins!

SUNDAY

11:00 am – 3:00 pm – Make Your Own Robot Film Workshops

This workshop will rely on the creativity of the participants to form interdisciplinary teams, pull together a story and quickly shoot and edit the footage, all in a 3.5 hour period! Sponsored by New York Science House, this is a action-packed maker event resembling a 24-hour campus film festival rather than an instructional workshop. We will provide materials and resources!

Also on hand will be Heather Knight’s humanoid robot Data, Marek Michalowski’s Keepon robot (which he co-invented), large piles of materials, and support staff from Magic Future Box and New York Film Academy!  The goal is the workshop is to get inspired about telling stories with robots, sharing insights across disciplines and learning by doing. We hope this will be the start of many future collaborations!  The gallery of completed films will be featured alongside the award winning films on our website and Vimeo page.

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Screenings of winning and workshop films and Robo-BBQ

This is our closing celebration of the festival, where we don tinfoil hats and serve botgers, roboribs and heaping spoonfulls of podata salad! There will be non-meat and non-metallic options available.

Can’t wait to see you there! Tickets available here.