<html><head><style type="text/css">body { background: rgba(189, 209, 255, 255); }</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><img height="56" width="76" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:AB4E824A-775B-4C48-90B5-69AA323390B3"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268"><b>Second Fridays at the MIT Museum</b></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">features</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268"><i>From Orchids to Octopi: An Evolutionary Love Story</i></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">a reading</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">Friday, February 12, </font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">6:30 p. m. - 7:30 p. m.</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">Location: MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">Free admission; ages: teens through adult</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">The Catalyst Collaborative @ MIT presents a reading of the play <i>From Orchids to Octopi: An Evolutionary Love Story.</i> Written by award-winning playwright Melinda Lopez of Upton, MA the play’s imaginative telling of the impact of Darwin’s theory of evolution includes voices and characters from the past two centuries. Surprises erupt as a muralist's work is derailed by hallucinations, pregnancy, and dinosaurs in this witty take on how we</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">understand - or don’t- the theory of evolution. </font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">The reading is a 40 minute excerpt from the play, read by actors from the Central Square Theater. The presentation is part of the MIT Museum's free admission Second Friday's series which features, on a monthly basis, activities, refreshments and the oportunity to tour the Museum. The play will be introduced by Underground Railway Theater artistic Director, and one of the Central Square Theater's founders Debra Wise who will also lead a post reading discussion.</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268"> </font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268"><b>Second Friday</b> on February 12, 2010 also features:</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">Presentations and Demonstrations: Evolution in Biomedical Research</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">Speak with scientists and engineers from the Page Lab and the Linquist Lab at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. Learn about how processes of evolution are used in current biomedical research. </font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">6: 30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">A reading of the play, <i>From Orchids to Octopi: An Evolutionary Love Story</i></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">7:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">Talk Back Discussion</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">Talk about the play with Jonathan King, MIT Professor of Molecular Biology and Darwin enthusiast, Debra Wise, a founder of the Central Square Theater, and actors from the Central Square Theater. </font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">Refreshments from Cafe Luna.</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">About the playwright</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">Melinda Lopez was the first recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Woollard “Promising New Voice in American Theatre” and has received multiple Elliot Norton Awards (Boston’s Tony). Her plays have been performed on NPR and in theaters nation-wide—most recently at Williamstown. Her work in science theater includes a commission from the Boston Museum of Science.</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">About the Catalyst Collaborative@MIT </font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">CC@MIT is a unique collaboration between MIT and the Underground Railway Theater (URT), a company with 30 years experience creating and touring new works. CC@MIT presents plays that deepen public understanding about science, examining the human condition through the lens of science and technolog. CC@MIT award-winning productions take place annually during the Cambridge Science Festival, and have been featured during the New York City World Science Festival.</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">From Orchids to Octopi: An Evolutionary Love Story</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">March 31– May 2, 2010 </font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268">Central Square Theater, Cambridge, Ma. </font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268"><a href="http://www.centralsquaretheater.org">www.centralsquaretheater.org</a></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#442268"><br></font></span></font></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span><img height="54" width="57" src="cid:9E241374-935B-451F-8CA8-97AB996F2942@local"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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