September 1, 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
This year, on the First Day of School, you can come to New Holland to forget for a while about mathematics, physics, geography and other important sciences. Instead, P.T.H. Creative Manufacture offers The Day of Useless Knowledge, a celebration for teacher’s pets and reluctant students alike. Here you will have the chance to pick up some genuinely useless skills and learn a lot of perfectly useless, but nevertheless entertaining, information. For instance, how to survive in closed Space, how to direct a free fall, and how to make a self-guided compass, among others. But you can’t have September 1 without any teachers; at the end of the day, the holiday’s main hero, Headless Professor, will officiate over a most unusual quiz, the winner of which will be awarded an especially useless prize. Throughout the day, the island will host a number of different themed research stations, where guests can indulge in all manner of creative and entertaining learning activities and workshops.
THE SCHOOL OF COSMIC EDUCATION
1. Lessons in Cosmic Gravitational Forces
2. How to Build Antennas for Catching Signals from Outer Space
3. How to Adjust Glasses to Determine Intergalactic Black Holes
THE SCHOOL OF ANALOG SPECIAL EFFECTS
1. How to Set Off Handheld Fireworks
2. How to Direct a Free-Fall
3. Training for Making Grand Entrances
THE HOUSE OF FOLK NONSENSE
1. How to Discover a Visionary Third Eye
2. How to Make a Philosopher’s Stone
3. Workshop of Rain Dances for Arid St Petersburg
THE SCHOOL OF SPY MASTERING
1. How to Prepare Newspapers for High-Quality Espionage
2. How to Pass Through Laser Traps (Especially for Spies)
3. How to Make a Wrist Compass
Admission free
