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Presented by: 11-18 FEBRUARY 2023 norwichsciencefestival.co.uk # NorwichSciFest Norwich Science Festival
What to expect at NSF
Welcome
CONTENTS A message from Claire Mutimer, Producer
Headline Events 04 I’m so excited to share this incredible week of events with
Science After Six 08 you. This is my first year producing this wonderful festival
Pre Festival 10 which is so full of ideas and hope for the future. I believe
Throughout science is at the heart of everything we do and will hold the
the Festival 10 solutions to many of the challenges we currently face.
Events by date I’m keen to bust one myth straight off. Did you know there
Saturday 11 February 13 are as many talks and events aimed at adults as there are
Sunday 12 February 19 for children? This festival really is for everyone. We cover
Monday 13 February 23 everything from the evolution of childhood and leaving the
Tuesday 14 February 28 planet, to planetariums and vertical farming, plus much more.
Wednesday 15 February 32 So have a good look through this programme and book a talk During the Festival, The Forum’s Atrium and outdoor marquee will be
on a subject that intrigues you. Learn something totally new, transformed into The Explorium – a place for all to explore the world
Thursday 16 February 36
stretch your understanding and enjoy! through science. Drop in 10.30am–4pm (11–18 Feb) for free, hands-on
Friday 17 February 40
science fun for all ages!
Saturday 18 February 45
QUIET HOUR: For those who require a calmer, less busy experience
Other activities
Learning Programme 50
Booking information of The Explorium, book into our Quiet Hour between 9.30am–10.30am
Young Comms Team 50 Don’t miss out, book early for our events! each day – booking required via norwichsciencefestival.co.uk
Youth STEMM Award 50 Many Festival events are drop-in where booking is
Patrons 51
Map 52
not required. For bookable events, please book at
norwichsciencefestival.co.uk unless otherwise specified
Science Family FAMILY
Further information
Partners / Sponsors /
54 in the event listing.
Refunds are not offered unless an event is cancelled or Satellites events EVENT
Funders 55 As well as free, family
postponed. Registered carers are eligible for a free ticket. Pop-up events activities in The
See norwichsciencefestival.co.uk for more information.
around Norfolk Explorium each day,
AGE RECOMMENDATIONS there’s plenty of family
We’ve included suggested minimum age talks, shows and
Join the conversation
recommendations, based on the content and level of FAMILY workshops
# NorwichSciFest EVENT throughout the
NorwichSciFest understanding required. Everyone is welcome to any event
Festival – just
Norwich Science Festival (unless specified as adults only), but some will be more
This year we’re taking science fun further, with look out for
Norwichsciencefestival suited to the ages suggested. Children under 12 must the Family
‘Science Satellites’ events. There’s plenty on offer at
be accompanied in talks, shows and workshops with a Event logo.
Presented by:
East Norfolk Sixth Form College in Gorleston-on-Sea
responsible adult. For talks and shows, accompanying
(see p23) and Gresham’s in Holt (see p32). All the We hope
adults will require a ticket.
Science Satellites are mini pop-up festivals, and are you enjoy
All events are subject to change but are correct at perfect for families, with lots of hands-on activities, the Festival!
time of printing. For up-to-date listings please see super shows and fun workshops.
norwichsciencefestival.co.uk
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Headline events
Credit: Jonathan Sisson
Credit: Stefan Oboski
Nine Lessons Control: The DNA Detective
for Norwich Dark History and WITH PROF TURI KING
Science Festival Troubling Present
SUN 12 FEB
WITH DR HELEN CZERSKI of Eugenics 7pm–8pm
AND FRIENDS WITH DR ADAM
RUTHERFORD Prof Turi King is the expert
FRI 17 FEB geneticist on the hit BBC series
8.30pm–10.30pm FRI 17 FEB DNA Family Secrets. In this
5pm–6pm talk she will chart the rise in
The Cosmic Shambles Network
is excited to bring a special Throughout history, people the use of DNA in genealogy
edition of this science cabaret have sought to improve society and forensics for everything
show to Norwich Science by controlling who can marry, from tracing long lost family
Festival, hosted by Dr Helen who can procreate and who members to catching criminals.
Czerski with special guests is permitted to live. Adam Her examples will include the
Rutherford tells the story of first immigration case through
Lessons in Chemistry sexism in science, and then finds herself including Dr Adam Rutherford,
attempts by the powerful to to identifying the bones of King
the unlikely star of America’s most popular comedian Bec Hill, Prof Chris
BONNIE GARMUS IN CONVERSATION dictate reproduction, regulate Richard III. Turi is a scientist,
cooking show. Jackson and music from Soft
WITH NAOMI WOOD the interface of genetics and presenter, speaker and author
Bonnie Garmus is a copywriter and creative Lad (from Self Esteem). Expect
FRI 17 FEB weird science, quirky facts, lots society, and how these beliefs who uses genetics in the fields
director who has worked widely in the fields of
of laughter and a great night out! paved the way to Auschwitz. of forensics, history, genealogy
7pm–8pm technology, medicine, and education. She’s an
Plus book signing. and archaeology. She is perhaps
open-water swimmer, a rower, and mother to Venue: The Halls
Lessons in Chemistry is the bestselling novel Venue: Norwich School, best known for her work leading
two amazing daughters. Born in California and Cost: £15
by Bonnie Garmus that will make you laugh, Blake Studio the genetics and identification of
most recently from Seattle, she currently lives in Age: 12+
cry, and reconsider a woman’s place in the Cost: £12 the remains of King Richard III.
London with her husband and her dog, 99.
world – especially in STEM. Translated into Age: 15+ Plus book signing.
forty languages, it is nothing short of a global Plus book signing.
Venue: Norwich Arts Centre
phenomenon. Venue: Norwich School, Blake Studio Cost: £15 + booking fee
Set in the 1960s, the novel tells the story of Cost: £12 Age: 12+
genius chemist Elizabeth Zott, who confronts Age: 12+ Book: norwichartscentre.co.uk
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Headline events
FAMILY FAMILY
EVENT The biggest EVENT The Z list
science quiz dead list
show EVER WITH ISZI LAWRENCE
WITH PROF BEN GARROD
THU 16 FEB
& MARK THOMPSON
5pm–6pm
SUN 12 FEB
Who proved the scientific
3pm–4pm
method using magic? Did
Do you think you know your a woman really give birth to
Megalodon from your T-Rex? Or rabbits? Why did one man put
what happens when you add trousers on frogs? Author and
hydrogen peroxide to potassium comedian Iszi Lawrence (BBC
iodide? Grab your friends and R4, Netflix) introduces you to
family and head along to this the obscure, murderous and
Credit: Philip Vanoutrive
fun-packed show with two of revolting scientists and their
unusual hypotheses from history.
our best-known presenters Hot times in Physics of life
Mark Thompson and Ben
Garrod. Packed to the brim with
deep time WITH SARAH COSGRIFF
Venue: Norwich School,
Blake Studio
explosive chemical reactions, THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD
THU 16 FEB Cost: £9
answers to some of life’s biggest OF EARTH CLIMATE WITH
The Devil Rude science questions, live experiments, PROF CHRIS JACKSON
1pm–2pm Age: 12+
You Know WITH GASTRONAUT audience participation and Take a journey with Sarah
FRI 17 FEB
STEFAN GATES Cosgriff to see the world of
ENCOUNTERS IN FORENSIC tonnes of fun science! 1pm–2pm
biology through the lens of
The psychology
PSYCHIATRY WITH DR
GWEN ADSHEAD
SAT 18 FEB Venue: Sir Isaac Newton The Earth is warming, with physics. Discover how physics
of climate change
11am–12pm, Sixth Form present and future changes in WITH CAROLINE HICKMAN,
allows us to see microscopic
TUE 14 FEB 2.30pm–3.30pm Cost: £7 our climate a global concern. IRENE LORENZONI &
organisms, understand how
1pm–2pm Stefan Gates’ explosive new Age: 7+ Geologist and 2020 RI STEPHAN LEWANDOWSKY
living things adapt to their
2023 show reveals everything Christmas Lecturer Professor environments, and help
Join Dr Gwen Adshead, author FRI 17 FEB
you always wanted to know Chris Jackson looks at the
of bestselling book The Devil
about the revolting (but vital)
Big and small geological record of climate
astronauts get to outer space. 3pm–4pm
You Know, and one of Britain’s Where will the combined forces
science that no-one ever talks WITH ALEX HOLMES & change and how this can help How do we feel about climate
leading forensic psychiatrists, of biology and physics take you?
about. Expect zits, burps, AFFELIA WIBISONO us better understand our present change? How can we cope with
for a fascinating insight into Venue: The Forum, Auditorium
farts, snot, scabs, pee, vomit, THU 16 FEB FAMILY and future climate. Presented by the barrage of information on
criminal minds which argues EVENT Cost: £5
snot, blood, sweat and tears, 11am–12pm the Cosmic Shambles Network. this emotive subject? We need
for rehabilitation over revenge, Age: 8+
compassion over condemnation. all brought to life with stunts, Venue: Norwich School, to understand human behaviour
rockets, fart machines, sneeze Big and Small is an interactive
Plus book signing. Blake Studio so we can determine the most
machines and enormous game show where you
Cost: £7 effective ways of fighting climate
Venue: Norwich School, bottoms. There’s actually no help astronomer Affelia and
Age: 12+ change. Join psychotherapist
Blake Studio such thing as rude science – biochemist Alex settle a very
Caroline Hickman, social
Cost: £10 just science you haven’t made important scientific argument:
scientist Irene Lorenzoni and
Age: 18+ friends with yet. which is superior – big things
cognitive scientist Stephan
like planets, or small things like
Venue: Norwich Lewandowsky to explore the
proteins! Think you have what it
Theatre Playhouse psychology of climate change.
takes to make the hard-hitting
Cost: £13 adults, £11 children decisions? Venue: Norwich School,
+ booking fee Blake Studio
Venue: Norwich School,
Age: 7+ Cost: £6
Blake Studio
Book: norwichtheatre.org Age: 12+
Cost: £5
Age: 6+
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SCIENCE AFTER SIX
Science After Six Pint of Science
special
SEX CELLS: LIVE FAST
For adults only, we have plenty of laugh-along lectures, AND DIE YOUNG
taboo topics, deep dives and chances to get involved. WED 15 FEB
Come along and learn something new! 7.30pm–9.30pm
Join us for an evening of talks
on the topics of reproduction
and ageing where you’ll hear
Superspy Science about the latest findings from
SCIENCE, DEATH AND TECH UEA researchers. Learn about
IN THE WORLD OF JAMES how frisky plants can be, how
BOND WITH DR KATHRYN worms are teaching us the
Credit Marah Bashir
HARKUP secrets to living longer, and
finally how our environment is
THU 16 FEB 7pm–8pm
affecting fertility. Doors 7pm.
Science and technology
Venue: The Forum,
have always been central to
Boogie on Heartbreak: Science Shambles the world of James Bond.
Café Bar Marzano How to leave
the brain NECESSARY PROCESS OR podcast LIVE Kathryn Harkup explores 007’s
Cost: £5 a planet
BYPRODUCT OF LOVE? Book pintofscience
THE PSYCHOLOGY WITH DR HELEN CZERSKI & exploits from the practicalities WITH PROF SUZIE IMBER
WITH ROSIE WILBY, PROF .co.uk/event/pint-of-
OF DANCING WITH PROF MARK MIODOWNIK of building a volcano-based AND DALLAS CAMPBELL
VIREN SWAMI & PROF science-special-1
DR PETER LOVATT lair, to the dangers of being
BARBARA SAHAKIAN THU 16 FEB THU 16 FEB
covered in gold paint, and
TUE 14 FEB 7pm–8pm whether bacteria, bombs, or 8.30pm–9.30pm
8pm–10.30pm TUE 14 FEB
7pm–8pm Science Shambles is the poison is the best plan for Life after cancer As long as humans have
Don’t forget your dancing podcast where world leading taking over the world. Plus + SPECIAL PREVIEW OF looked into the night sky, we’ve
shoes for this fun, interactive Heartbreak is a near-universal book signing. SHORT FILM ‘ROSE’ wondered how we might explore
scientists chat about science.
evening of dance, psychology experience, but what is it? Why this most hostile of realms. Join
From cutting-edge research and Venue: The Forum, Auditorium MON 13 FEB 6.30pm–8pm
and science! Dr Peter Lovatt does it happen, and what can Dallas and Suzie as they take
big ideas to popular science Cost: £8
(aka Dr Dance) explores why we do to get through it? This Join Big C Cancer Charity and you on the ultimate tour of the
books and documentaries,
we love to boogie in this Valentine’s Day, neuroscientist exclusive guests for a special history and science of our quest
everything is open for
unique evening – he’ll take you Prof Barbara Sahakian and
discussion. Like everything at Out Thinkers preview of short film ‘Rose’, to explore the cosmos – from
through key ideas in cognitive psychologist Prof Viren Swami CELEBRATING LGBTQ+ followed by a Q&A with the our first tentative footsteps,
The Cosmic Shambles Network
psychology and along the way join comedian and author of Director, Charlotte Couture & to the latest missions that are
the approach is fun, open and IN STEM
teach you some fun, simple The Breakup Monologues Producer, Tom Scurr. There will expanding our knowledge of the
accessible for everyone whether
dance routines! Peter is a Rosie Wilby to discuss these SAT 11 FEB also be a panel discussion on universe. Plus book signing.
you’ve got a PhD in astrophysics
former professional dancer questions and more. Plus 8pm–10pm the film’s themes, how cancer is
or are simply curious about how Venue: Norwich School,
and one of the world’s leading book signing. Whether you’re part of the portrayed in film, and the reality
this universe works. In this live Blake Studio
Dance Psychologists; he’s Venue: Norwich Arts Centre recording, host Dr Helen Czerski LGBTQ+ community or an of life after cancer. Cost: £10
spent decades studying the Cost: £10 + booking fee talks to materials scientist and ally, join us to celebrate the Venue: NUA, Duke Street Presented by:
science of human behaviour Book: norwichartscentre.co.uk engineer Prof Mark Miodownik. fantastic and diverse STEM Lecture Theatre
and dancing. Come along this Plus book signing. community in Norfolk with a Cost: £10 – proceeds to Big C
Valentine’s evening on your series of talks and the Age: 16+
Venue: Norwich School,
own or as a couple, have a chance to network with Book: big-c.co.uk
Blake Studio
drink, and enjoy this alternative local LGBTQ+ scientists.
Cost: £8.50
night out!
Presented by: Venue: The Forum,
Venue: The Halls Cafe Bar Marzano
Cost: £15 Cost: Free, booking required
8 Book at norwichsciencefestival.co.uk Book at norwichsciencefestival.co.uk 9PRE FESTIVAL Throughout the Festival
Chantry
FAMILY FAMILY FAMILY
EVENT EVENT EVENT
Inspired @ Sir
Isaac Newton
Place
Sixth Form Head over the road to our friends at
Chantry Place for some free dinosaur
SAT 4 FEB
action, shopping, and more.
10am–3pm
A free family STEMM day!
Take part in a range of science
and maths related activities,
experiments and competitions.
From bottle rockets to bath
bombs, mini volcanoes to heart
dissections – there is something
for the entire family to enjoy! Join
Credit: Killari Hotaru
in with our science shows and
take home your inventions.
Venue: Sir Isaac Newton
Straight up Decoding the
Sixth Form
farming DNA tree of life FAMILY FAMILY
EVENT EVENT
Cost: Free, drop-in SAT 11–SAT 18 FEB SAT 11–SAT 18 FEB
Age: 5+ 10am–4pm 10.30am–4pm, 9.30–
Extraordinary Museum Plus meet our
10.30am quiet time Extinct™ of plastic
Step into a farm of the future Dinosaur Trail FRIENDLY DINO
Long Covid where food is grown without
(booking required) SAT 11–SAT 18 FEB CHARACTERS
REASONS, RESEARCH soil. Find out how vertical farms Join the Earlham Institute to SAT 4–SAT 18 FEB 10am–4pm
& RECOVERY Mon–Sat 9am–6pm, ON SAT 11 FEBRUARY
work and tell us what you think. discover the Darwin Tree of Imagine a future without plastic
Sun 10am–4.30pm between 10.30am and
WED 8 FEB Straight up farming is a new Life, one of the biggest DNA pollution! Have a go at the 4pm on Chantry Square
5pm–6pm installation to showcase vertical sequencing projects in the world. Head out on an expedition Fantastic Plastic Litter Arcade,
farming – a new technology that Search our interactive stand for around Chantry Place to find explore the interactive exhibits,
As the pandemic subsides, is already changing the way we codes to help you identify unique and contribute potential
eight Extraordinary Extinct™
millions of people around the grow crops and promises to species found around Britain solutions to the plastics
dinosaurs and prehistoric
world are now left debilitated by revolutionise food production in and Ireland, and speak with problem. This exhibition
creatures. Discover some
Long Covid. Our panel look at the next decade. local researchers working on this explores the environmental and
fascinating fossil facts,
the possible theories behind the Plus look out for discussions landmark project. social harms caused by our
complete your trail sheet and
syndrome, the latest research, and debates in the vertical farm Venue: The Forum, Explorium current dependence on single-
pop in the competition box
and pathways to recovery. on the future of food. Cost: Free, drop-in use plastics, and presents
at The Forum to be in with a
With cardiologists Dr Boon Lim Age: 7+ possible steps we could take
Venue: The Forum, Gallery chance of winning a £100 H&M
and Prof Vassilios Vassiliou, to eradicate them.
Cost: Free, drop-in voucher, thanks to Chantry
General Practitioner Dr Sarah
Age: 5+ Place, and goodies from Venue: Chantry Place,
Glynne, Long Covid recovery
Dodo and Dinosaur! Pick up Dining Terrace All the events here
programme creator Suzy Bolt,
a trail map from The Forum or Cost: Free, drop-in are sponsored by:
and hosted by writer and
Langleys in Chantry Place. Age: All ages
broadcaster Vivienne Parry.
Venue: Chantry Place
Venue: Online
Cost: Free, drop-in
Cost: Free, booking required
Age: All ages
Age: 15+
10 Book at norwichsciencefestival.co.uk Book at norwichsciencefestival.co.uk 11Throughout the Festival Saturday
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February
october
Esports
tournament
The secret
life of ponds
Bugs, Birds
and Beasts
FAMILY
EVENT
MON 13, TUE 14 MON 13–SAT 18 FEB
10.30am–4pm
Day
& THU 16 FEB
10am–5pm
Explore the Secret Life of Ponds
Calling all gamers! We’ve teamed with us. Listen to three pieces
up with OLL Games and Albion exploring the importance of
Games to bring you an esports pond restoration for nature
competition! Try your hand at recovery in a climate change
Mario Kart, Rocket League or context. The Norfolk Ponds
Smash Smash Bros Ultimate in Project brings together three
Gorleston on Monday, Norwich sound artists and poets to
on Tuesday, and if you’re lucky, respond to their experience of
the final on Thursday back in farmland pond restoration and
Gorleston. Plus hear about the UCL research behind it.
careers in gaming at the final.
Venue: The Forum, Explorium
Venue: Mon & Thu – East Cost: Free, drop-in
Norfolk Sixth Form College, Age: All ages
Tue – Albion Games Norwich FA
Cost: Free to play in the EVEMILY
Planetarium morning; £4 to enter tournament
NT Playdough poo
FAMILY Age: Under 18s
detectives
EXPLORER DOME
EVENT WORK
SCIENCE SHOWS SAT 11 FEB SHOP
Illustrating 10am–11am,
WED 15–SAT 18 FEB
11.15am–12.15pm,
Various times, see website science Fabulous food! SAT 11 FEB
1pm–2pm, FAMILY
WITH REBECCA OSBORNE 10.30am–4pm, drop-in EVENT
Step inside the planetarium to Quiet Hour: 9.30am– 2.15pm–3.15pm
SAT 11, MON 13
see shows on the wonders of SAT 11–SAT 18 FEB FAMILY 10.30am, booking required
–SAT 18 FEB Become a poo detective to
space and the power of light! Mon–Fri 10am–7pm, EVENT
10am–3.30pm investigate the size, shape,
Explorer Dome’s shows are Sat 9am–5pm, Sun Get ready for a day of hands- colour and contents of different
lively, interactive and entertaining 10.30am–4.30pm We are being guided by our on fun exploring the wonders animals’ poo. Can you tell if an Bee biodiversity
as well as full of science, and stomachs as we link up with of the natural world, from the animal is an omnivore, carnivore bonanza
there are sessions suitable for An exhibition that captures Norwich Science Festival this smallest bugs, through to
science events in Norwich over or herbivore by dissecting their SAT 11 FEB
different ages and also for February half term! Join us at our feathered friends, to the
the years, drawn by illustrator (pretend) playdough poo? 11am–12pm
SEN too! Norwich Castle to explore our biggest of beasts in the wild.
Rebecca Osborne. Rebecca’s fabulous museum collections Venue: Sir Isaac Newton
Venue: Norwich School, Zoom in on bugs, beetles, and Learn about the beautiful bees
live graphics record the essence through the theme of food. Sixth Form
Refectory butterflies, discover Norfolk’s found in your garden, and make
of every event and distil it into We hope you’re hungry! Cost: £5
Cost: £5 wonderful wildlife, visit the every visit outdoors an exciting
an accessible format for Age: 5+
Age: Shows for different Venue: Norwich Castle bug zoo and more! safari! Come along to discover
ages, see website everyone to enjoy. She will be
Cost: Activities included Venue: The Forum, Explorium more about the 270 species
illustrating events during this
Sponsored by: museum admission Cost: Free of bee in the UK, and how
year’s Festival too.
Age: All ages Age: All ages scientists in Norwich are using
Venue: Millennium DNA to study them, with Dr
Sponsored by:
Library, Foyer Will Nash.
Cost: Free, drop-in
Venue: The Forum, Auditorium
Age: All ages
Cost: Free, booking required
Age: 10+
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FAMILY
EVENT Curlews,
corncrakes
and cranes
SAT 11 FEB
1pm–2pm
Chrissie Kelley from Pensthorpe
Conservation Trust and Dr Sam
Franks from BTO will discuss
the amazing curlew project, the
FAMILY tracking data and what countries
EVENT
the curlews have travelled to
Extraordinary since release. Plus updates on
Extinct™ other projects.
discovery Venue: Millennium Library,
workshop Heritage Room
Cost: Free, booking required
SAT 11 FEB WORK Age: 8+
11am–12pm SHOP
A Bug’s World Animal Much ado Wonderdog!
WITH ERICA MCALISTER
Join authors Jill Michelle Smith dissection live about mothing HOW THE SCIENCE OF
and Jennifer Watson from Dodo
WITH PROF BEN GARROD WITH JAMES LOWEN & DOGS HAS CHANGED THE
SAT 11 FEB and Dinosaur for a reading of
& DR JESS FRENCH HELEN PILCHER SCIENCE OF ANIMAL MINDS Saving the white-
11am–12pm their colourful book ‘An A-Z of
Extraordinary Extinct Creatures’. SAT 11 FEB SAT 11 FEB WITH JULES HOWARD clawed crayfish
Did you know that flies were Discover some of the earth’s 11am–2pm 1pm–2pm SAT 11 FEB
detectives? A moth lives on SAT 11 FEB
forgotten dinosaurs, birds,
the back of a sloth? Or that Join evolutionary biologist James Lowen undertook 1pm–2pm 2pm–3pm
reptiles and mammals, before
there is a wasp smaller than a taking part in fun activities to fuel Prof Ben Garrod and zoologist an intoxicating, year-long
What do dogs know and Norfolk is one of the last
full stop? Come along and hear your little one’s fossil fascination! Dr Jess French (Radio 4’s Wild quest to celebrate Britain’s
understand of their world? And remaining strongholds of
all sorts of stories about these Inside) in this scientific dissection rare and remarkable moths.
Venue: Millennium Library, what do they really think of us? white-clawed crayfish, an
fun and fascinating creatures to reveal the inner workings In this conversation with
Business & IP Centre Room Join zoology correspondent and incredible keystone species
from the Natural History of an animal. Please note that science writer, presenter and
Cost: £6.50 per family group, Guardian writer Jules Howard, of river habitats that is listed
Museum’s Dr Erica McAlister. the animal died of natural moth-lover Helen Pilcher, he
inc. free ‘An A-Z of Extraordinary author of Wonderdog, in this as endangered throughout its
Plus book signing. causes and has been donated challenges our preconceptions
Extinct Creatures’ book celebration of the role that dogs range. Join Norfolk Rivers Trust
Venue: Norwich School, for the purpose of education of moths as clothes-munching, and the Zoological Society
Age: 3+ are playing in the science of
Blake Studio and research. plant-destroying pests. Plus of East Anglia to discover
animal minds. Plus book signing.
Cost: £5 Venue: The Forum, outside. book signing. why these native freshwater
Venue: Norwich School,
Age: 5+ Plus online Venue: The Forum, Auditorium creatures are so special, and
Blake Studio
Cost: Free, drop-in Cost: £6 hear what’s being done to build
Cost: £6.50
Age: Parental advisory Age: 12+ resilience in local populations
Age: 12+
from habitat restoration to the
installation of a rearing hatchery.
Venue: Millennium Library,
Business & IP Centre Room
Cost: Free, booking required
Age: 10+
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February
october
FAMILY FAMILY
EVENT EVENT
Credit: Adrian White
Professor Slug’s Animal Top Urban nature:
House of Bugs Trumps creating a wilder
SAT 11 FEB WITH PROF BEN GARROD Norwich for all
& LIZZIE DALY WITH HELEN BACZKOWSKA,
All sorts of bugs are seeking FLORENCE WILKINSON,
help from Professor Slug and SAT 11 FEB
DAVID LINDO & ELLEN MILES
Tickets for Norfolk’s Beasts of the
his fellow experts (that’s you, 3pm–4pm the Ark wonderful 150 Future Wild
the audience!) Can you help SAT 11 FEB WITH REBECCA NESBIT WITH TONY LEECH CREATIVE WRITING
Are you team ‘living’ or team
them get as strong as an ant? 3pm–4pm WORKSHOP
‘dead’? Would a rhino win a
Can you teach a bee how to SAT 11 FEB SAT 11 FEB
fight with a T. rex? Which was Over 80% of the UK population
buzz? And help a dung beetle the weirdest animal ever?
5pm–6pm 5pm–6pm SAT 11 FEB WORK
live in urban areas. This is
make a pooey perfume for BBC Earth Unplugged’s Lizzie How do we choose which Hear the story of Norfolk’s
2pm–4pm SHOP
projected to rise to 92% by
its big date…? Will you solve Daly and TV biologist Prof Ben species to save? Join Rebecca diverse wildlife with Tony Leech, How might our much-loved
2030, leading to larger cities
these buggy problems before Garrod go head-to-head in a Nesbit to explore how to best from the common collared dove animals adapt to the landscapes
and more challenges for
the Queen Bee arrives, or will a bid to claim their team as the use conservation resources, to the more obscure Breckland of the future? How might
wildlife. Discover the incredible
swarm of honey-hungry wasps winners of the animal kingdom. tackling thorny issues as we Leatherbug! In celebration of traditional nature writers, in
nature found in our towns
wreak havoc? Compare skeletons, teeth, shape the future of the natural Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists’ all their curiosity and wonder,
and cities, what we can do to
An interactive show packed behaviours and lifestyles in help it thrive and why we need world. Perhaps the wasps we Society’s 150th anniversary, investigate? In this playful
full of colourful puppets, catchy this energetic battle between to make sure everyone has hate are more valuable than the naturalists were invited to creative writing workshop, you
songs, and educational info modern-day animals and access to green spaces, with bees we love. Plus book signing. contribute images and accounts will explore a future full of wild
about the wonderful world dinosaurs. Plus book signing. Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s (NWT) Venue: Norwich School, of 150 species which were surprises with UEA lecturer
of bugs. Venue: Norwich School, Head of Conservation, Helen Blake Studio special to Norfolk, resulting Dr Jos Smith. A fantastic
Age: 3+ Blake Studio Baczkowska in conversation Cost: £6 in the book Norfolk’s opportunity for all levels of
Cost: £7 with Florence Wilkinson (Wild Age: 15+ Wonderful 150. writing ability or experience,
FIRST SHOW
Age: 5+ City), David Lindo (Urban Venue: The Forum, Auditorium whether aspiring wordsmiths
Time: 10.30am–11.30am or established authors. Kindly
Book: norwichsciencefestival. Birder) and Ellen Miles (Nature Cost: Free, booking required
Venue: Diss Corn Hall supported by AHRC funding.
co.uk is a Human Right). Plus book Age: 7+
Cost: £8
signing. All donations will Venue: Millennium Library,
Book: thecornhall.co.uk /
support NWT’s Sweet Briar Vernon Castle Room
01379 652241
Nature Reserve Project. Cost: £4
SECOND SHOW Age: 15+
Venue: The Forum, Auditorium
Time: 3pm–4pm
Cost: Donate What You Can
Venue: The Halls
(£4, £8, £12)
Cost: £8, or £25 family ticket
Age: 15+
Book: thehallsnorwich.com
16 Book at norwichsciencefestival.co.uk Book at norwichsciencefestival.co.uk 17Saturday 11 February Sunday 12 February
Wildlife fieldwork:
the grubby and
X-rated truth
Food and
WITH NICK ACHESON
& DR ERICA MCALISTER Farming
SAT 11 FEB
7pm–8pm
Dr Erica McAlister and Nick
Day
Acheson have spent years
of their lives in the tropics
studying wildlife. Both natural
raconteurs, in this light-hearted
The acoustics Life Changing (at times riotous) show, they
recount their goriest, scariest,
of musical HOW HUMANS ARE
funniest and most outrageous
instruments ALTERING LIFE ON EARTH
wild experiences in rainforests,
+ CONCERT BY NORWICH WITH HELEN PILCHER
on icy mountainsides, in
PHILHARMONIC
SAT 11 FEB deserts and on ocean waves.
ORCHESTRA
7pm–8pm Plus book signing.
SAT 11 FEB Venue: Norwich School,
Ever since our species evolved,
Talk: 6.30pm–7pm Blake Studio
we have been tinkering with
Concert: 7.30pm–9.30pm Cost: £7 FA
nature and altering the course
Age: 15+ EVEMILY
Principal Horn, Andy Thompson of evolution. Now we share our NT Trees in Winter Super
of Adrian James Acoustics, planet with genetically modified beetles!
will give a free talk for Norwich wolves, pizzly bears (a grizzly–
Out Thinkers SUN 12 & WORK
Philharmonic Orchestra concert polar bear hybrid) and cloned TUE 14 FEB SHOP THE IMPORTANCE OF
CELEBRATING LGBTQ+ 10am–3.30pm THE HUMBLE DUNG BEETLE
ticketholders on the science polo ponies. Join Helen as she
of sound and how instruments explores the legacy created IN STEM SUN 12 FEB WITH SALLY-ANN SPENCE
10.30am–4pm, drop-in A day course exploring the
make such stunning music. by this evolutionary mischief- SAT 11 FEB SUN 12 FEB
Quiet Hour: 9.30am– fascinating world of trees. In
50 seats available – first come, making and how humans are 8pm–10pm 11am–12pm
10.30am, booking required winter, trees can be identified
first served. For the concert, changing life on Earth. Plus
See p9 by their buds, twigs and bark Delve into the wonder of dung
Matthew Andrews conducts book signing. Come along and discover the and we will use these features beetles, discover why they
music from Prokofiev, Swiss Venue: The Forum, Auditorium journey our food takes, from to introduce you to our native are fantastic for farming, and
composer Frank Martin, and Cost: £6 fields and farms all the way species. This workshop includes learn the difference between
Rachmaninov. Age: 15+ to being on the end of our indoor and outdoor sessions ‘dwellers’, ‘stealers’ and
Venue: The Halls forks! Learn about food miles, as we go in search of some ‘tunnellers’. These unassuming
Cost: £13–£19 adults, £8 meet native rare breed sheep, Sheringham Park veterans. beetles are hugely important,
students/Under 26s discover future foods such as Venue: National Trust acting as bio-indicators for soil,
Age: 12+ seaweed, and more. Sheringham Park pasture and livestock health,
Book: norwichphil.org.uk Venue: The Forum, Explorium Cost: £25 and playing a major role in
Cost: Free Age: 15+ helping farmers revitalise their
Age: All ages Book: nationaltrust.org.uk/ land and crops.
sheringham-park Venue: Norwich School,
Blake Studio
Cost: £5
Age: 7+
18 Book at norwichsciencefestival.co.uk Book at norwichsciencefestival.co.uk 19Sunday 12 February
FAMILY Food glorious
EVENT food
A SENSORY EXPLORATION
Credit: Jessica Daly
OF THE WAY WE
EXPERIENCE FOOD
WITH DR DUNCAN GASKIN
SUN 12 FEB
The secret lives 1pm–2pm
of animals We all know the food we like,
What’s up with the WITH LIZZIE DALY but do we know why? Join Dr
FAMILY
chicken’s gut? Paper making SUN 12 FEB EVENT Duncan Gaskin in an interactive
1pm–2pm sensory exploration of the
SUN 12 FEB WORK with the grass realms of taste and flavour, and
11am–12pm SHOP pea plant Animal movement scientist how they combine with our other Super Seaweed
In this family show, Bushra and wildlife broadcaster Lizzie senses and our mind to produce FARMING FUTURE FOODS
SUN 12 FEB WORK Daly takes you on a journey the full food experience.
Schuitemaker, an expert in 12pm–1pm SHOP following in the footprints of SUN 12 FEB
chicken poo, shares how she Venue: The Forum, Auditorium
An introduction into utilising the wildlife from across the world. 3pm–4pm
got interested in chickens,
and why she is obsessed with agri-residue of the grass pea With genuine tales of tagged
Cost: Free, booking required The Deadly
Age: 7+ Join us on an aquatic,
them and what comes out of plant to make paper. Participants and tracked species, this talk macroalgae journey, from
Balance
their bottoms! She’ll explain will learn about the historical will showcase some of the new PREDATORS AND PEOPLE
designer cosmetics to reducing
how their gut and microbiome origins of cotton rag paper challenges our wildlife faces Plant breeding cow burps! Discover how IN A CROWDED WORLD
works; then get ready for her making, and have a go at turning in a changing world. with genetic seaweed from our shores is WITH PROF ADAM HART
favourite game of chickens grass pea paper slurry into paper Venue: Sir Isaac Newton technology used in a kaleidoscope of
samples they can take home! SUN 12 FEB
or Dickens! Sixth Form familiar products, and how it can
SUN 12 FEB 3pm–4pm
Venue: The Forum, Venue: Millennium Library, Cost: £6 help reduce greenhouse gas
Vernon Castle Room Age: 10+ 2pm–3pm emissions, feed the land, and The predators that can hunt, kill
Auditorium
Cost: Free, Cost: £8 Access to the complete genome improve our diets! and eat us occupy a unique place
Age: 10+ in the human psyche. In this talk,
booking required The soil factory sequence of most food crops Venue: Norwich School,
biologist Adam Hart looks at our
Age: 10+ and new DNA editing tools Blake Studio
WHAT IS SOIL AND CAN relationship with these animals
allow us to make targeted Cost: Free, booking required
Reduce your food WE MAKE MORE?
changes to the genetic Age: 7+ from a conservation perspective.
Kitchen science waste at home SUN 12 FEB sequence of plants. Senior He explores the complex
Scientist Dr Penny Hundleby relationships we have with
SUN 12 FEB FAMILY 1pm–2pm
SUN 12 FEB predators, and investigates what
12pm–1pm EVENT from the John Innes Centre
11am–12pm, 1pm–2pm Soil is fundamental to our happens when humans become
explains how these precision
Find out more about reducing existence, but what exactly is FAMILY prey. Plus book signing.
Expect giggles, gasps and
your food waste at home, and soil? What does it do for us?
breeding techniques work and The biggest EVENT
how we can exploit them. Venue: The Forum, Auditorium
some funny faces in these fun
the best way to get rid of food And what can we do to protect science quiz Cost: £6
and simple experiments. The
experiments use ingredients and waste without it going to landfill, it in the face of climate change, Venue: Millennium Library, show EVER Age: 12+
erosion and pollution? Find Business & IP Centre Room
equipment commonly found from your local council. WITH PROF BEN GARROD
out in this engaging talk with Cost: Free, booking required
in kitchen cupboards, with & MARK THOMPSON
Venue: Millennium Library, Age: 15+
Professor Brian Reid.
no elaborate or fancy science Business & IP Centre Room SUN 12 FEB
equipment. Cost: Free, booking required Venue: Norwich School, 3pm–4pm
Age: 7+ Blake Studio
Venue: St Peter Mancroft,
Cost: Free, booking required See p6
Octagon Room
Age: 12+
Cost: £5
Age: 5–12
20 Book at norwichsciencefestival.co.uk Book at norwichsciencefestival.co.uk 21Sunday 12 February MONDAY 13 FEBRUARY
FAM
EVE ILY
NT
East
Norfolk
Sixth Form
College
GORLESTON-ON-SEA
Rare breed How do we Nature-friendly
sheep FAMILY make farming grape-eating and
EVENT sustainable? wine-drinking We’re taking the Festival on the road, with our Science
SUN 12 FEB
WITH EMILY NORTON,
4pm–5pm
ROSIE BEGG, NICK PADWICK
SUN 12 FEB Satellites! This is a great chance for families in the Gorleston-
5pm–6pm
Join us to learn more about & NICK HOOD on-Sea area to get hands-on with tech, and to hear about all
In Britain, grapes and wine are
Southdown Sheep, one of the
SUN 12 FEB popular commodities, but how
things dinosaurs with expert and NSF patron, Prof Ben Garrod.
oldest British sheep breeds!
5pm–6pm does their production affect
Learn from an expert from the
Rare Breeds Survival Trust Farmers today face climate, nature? Join UEA researcher Talks:
BOOK
(RBST) about the breed and their economic and environmental Natalia Zielonka on a journey
through Brazilian and British – Extinct with Prof Ben Garrod
NOW!
adaptations. Plus see our rare challenges. Can blue-sky
breed ewe and lamb during the thinking and technology offer a vineyards to gain an insight into – Criminal minds talk for ages 16+
day outside The Forum. solution? This highly experienced the interplay between nature and
Venue: Millennium Library,
Vernon Castle Room
panel will discuss ways to build
resilience and productivity whilst
farming, and to consider how
sustainable indulgence may
Workshops:
Cost: Free, booking required meeting the needs of cash- be possible. – Esports tournament
strapped consumers. Rosie Venue: The Forum, Auditorium
Age: 7+
Begg, fruit farmer, Nick Hood, Cost: Free, booking required
– Meccano construction challenge with RAF Marham
cattle and arable farmer, Nick Age: 15+ – Coding and robotics with LEGO, with RAF Marham
Padwick, director of Wild Ken
Hill regenerative farming project,
– Build your own stomp rockets
and Emily Norton, Head of Rural – Kitchen science fun
Research at Savills, will share
– Photography and art workshops
their experiences in a lively DNA Detective
discussion on the future – Reach for the stars with Norwich Puppet Theatre
WITH PROF TURI KING
of farming in Norfolk.
Venue: East Norfolk Sixth Form College Supported by:
Followed by Q&A. SUN 12 FEB
Cost: £0–£4, see website
Venue: Norwich School, 7pm–8pm
Age: See website for details
Blake Studio
See page p5
Cost: Free, booking required
Age: 12+
22 Book at norwichsciencefestival.co.uk Book at norwichsciencefestival.co.uk 23Tuesday 22nd
MONDAY 13 october
FEBRUARY
Tech,
Innovation and
Credit: Matt Keal
Engineering
Day
The Curious Case
of the Mystery
Animal
WITH DR JESS FRENCH
MON 13 FEB FAMILY
11am–12pm EVENT
A mysterious animal has been
causing havoc in the library.
FAMI But can you solve the puzzles
EVENLY and crack the clues to find out
T The Technology in which creature is to blame? A
disinformation rehabilitation, hands-on workshop combining
game sleep and caring spycraft, problem-solving and
some extraordinary facts about
MON 13 FEB MON 13 FEB
MON 13 FEB the natural world.
11am–12pm 11am–12pm
10.30am–4pm, drop-in Venue: Millennium Library,
Quiet Hour 9.30am– From deepfakes to fake news, Join researcher David Young
Business & IP Centre Room
10.30am, booking required the online world is rife with false and Prof Chris Fox as they
Cost: £6
WORK WORK information. But how does it focus on the use of technology
Age: 7–10
Delve into the wonders of SHOP SHOP spread, and what is being done and smartphone apps within
innovation, from the tiniest of about it? Niklas Henderson dives healthcare. They will consider
technologies to the biggest Science on a roll Raspberry Pi FAMILY
into the mechanisms of false some of the benefits as well as 100 years of
builds. Take a look at the world MAKING EDUCATIONAL workshop EVENT information online, and how barriers to the use of technology 9.5mm film
of tech and engineering, from BOARD GAMES LESS games can be used for people in real-world settings spanning
BORING MON 13 & WED 15 FEB MON 13 FEB
coding games and virtual to protect themselves. a range of ages and health
FAMILY
11am–12pm: ages 7–11 11am–12.30pm
reality, through to an artificial MON 13 FEB 1pm–2pm: ages 11–16 Venue: The Forum, Auditorium conditions, with particular
EVENT
intelligence snooker game, 3pm–4pm: 16+ focus on rehabilitation, sleep The East Anglian Film Archive
9.30am–12pm Cost: Free, booking required
to how forces and materials and caring. presents an hour-long film
Games can help us disappear Age: 12+
shape a building. Blast off into space! Help compilation drawn from the
into new realities, experience Venue: Norwich School,
astronauts take important film archive’s collections, with
Venue: The Forum, Explorium the world from entirely new Blake Studio
measurements in outer space. a short introduction about the
Cost: Free perspectives and maybe learn Cost: Free, booking required
We’ll have the chance to run history of the 9.5mm film gauge,
Age: All ages something in the process. Age: 12+
our team code in orbit on the which was first used over 100
Sponsored by: Come and see how board real International Space station! years ago. Plus exhibition in
games can give you a chance Rather have feet on the ground? Millennium Library.
to play with science, and Programme your own Minecraft,
Venue: Millennium Library,
discover something new about lights or squishy circuits.
Vernon Castle Room
the world around us!
Venue: Sir Isaac Newton Cost: Free, booking required
Venue: Millennium Library, Sixth Form Age: 4+
Business & IP Centre Room Cost: £4
Cost: Free, drop-in Age: 7–16,
Age: 4+ see times above
24 Book at norwichsciencefestival.co.uk Book at norwichsciencefestival.co.uk 25Tuesday 22nd
MONDAY 13 october
FEBRUARY
Mark Thomson’s Seeing and The Future
spectacular feeling with of Ocean
science show ultrasound Exploration
FAMILY
MON 13 FEB EVENT MON 13 FEB MON 13 FEB
2.30pm–3.30pm 3pm–4pm 7pm–8pm
You think science is boring, Bats and dolphins use Exploration of the oceans
think again; this is science like ultrasound to see and remains the greatest frontier
you have never seen it before. communicate over long on our planet. Today, research,
Designed for children and adults distances. High energy expedition ships and new
alike, this show explores the ultrasound can cause objects to technology are allowing us to
strange and magical properties levitate! These amazing effects understand our seafloor like never
of matter with exploding can be used by engineers to before. Join us for an exciting
Adventures elephant’s toothpaste, vortex- explore deep underground or discussion with the scientists and
in sound generating dustbins and even inside the human body. explorers who are at the forefront
howling jelly babies! Venue: Norwich School, of exploring our oceans.
MON 13 FEB
1pm–2pm Venue: Norwich Theatre Blake Studio Venue: The Forum, Auditorium
Playhouse Cost: £6 Cost: Free, booking required
Come and join us for adventures
Cost: £16 adults, £14 children Age: 12+ Age: 7+
in sound. Discover unexpected
+ booking fee
experiences about the world
Age: 5+
of sound. What are acoustics?
Top secret: the Book: norwichtheatre.org Making sense of The tuneful Science Club: An
How can we see sound? What
magic of science screen time electron introduction to
does the inside of an ear really
FAMILY WITH PROF PETE ETCHELLS MON 13 FEB
organ donation
look like? Find out in a fun MON 13 FEB Cyber EVENT WITH curious directive
FAMIL 5pm–6.30pm
interactive journey with Adrian 2.30pm–3.30pm EVENTY
James Acoustics.
Escape Room MON 13 FEB
Find out about the pioneers of MON 13 FEB
Experience action-packed 3pm–4pm
Venue: The Forum, Auditorium interactive science experiments MON 13 FEB WORK electronic music and be creative 7pm–8.30pm
2pm–4pm SHOP Our screen-based lives, we with the technology they used.
Cost: £4 that will capture the imagination. In the UK, organ donation
have been told, are See how computers can help
Age: 10+ Top Secret is a fast-moving Have you ever wondered is now an opt-out decision.
unwholesome, unnatural, and everyone to become involved
colourful magical science show about just how safe your data Our fragile bodies can offer a
maybe even harmful. But what in music creation. A talk on the
filled with mystery, suspense, is? Come along to our Cyber future life to others. But would
does science actually have
Why do we get and lots and lots of mess! Doors Escape Room to try and solve to say about the effects of
history of electronic music is you want to donate? Critical
hacking wrong? open 2pm. the mystery of who stole the screen time? Join Professor
followed by a concert featuring practical and ethical issues
data (and what they might have some of the important works in are explored in collaboration
MON 13 FEB Venue: The Halls of Psychology Pete Etchells to the genre.
done with it!). You will have to with the NHS. curious directive
1pm–2pm Cost: Child £10, adult £12, investigate. Presented by The
find the clues, solve puzzles Venue: Norwich School, offers an insightful, emotionally
family ticket £35 Cosmic Shambles Network.
Our academic panel will lead and work together to figure it Blake Studio intelligent introduction to organ
Age: 3+ Venue: The Forum, Auditorium
you through the hidden world of all out and save the day in this Cost: Free, donation, offering no answers,
Book: thehallsnorwich.com Cost: £6
computer hacking and coloured thoroughly modern mystery! booking required just questions – followed by a
hats. They will challenge your Age: 12+ Age: 7+ presentation of storyboard for a
Venue: Millennium Library,
assumptions about who hackers theatre production based on the
Heritage Room
are, what they do, and how their theme, led by Artistic Director,
Cost: Free, drop-in
work is critical to the security of
Age: 4+
Life after cancer Jack Lowe.
us all. + SPECIAL PREVIEW OF Venue: curious directive,
Venue: Norwich School, SHORT FILM ‘ROSE’ 49 Elm Hill
Blake Studio Cost: £10
MON 13 FEB
Cost: £7.50 Age: 18+
6.30pm–8pm
Age: 15+ Book: curiousdirective.com/
See p9 science-club
26 Book at norwichsciencefestival.co.uk Book at norwichsciencefestival.co.uk 27TUESDAY 14 FEBRUARY
PSYCHOLOGY FAMILY
EVENT
& the mind
day
Skin deep: Holiday Studio: Can you ‘recover’
unpacking the Life at the from a dementia
packaging Sainsbury Centre diagnosis?
TUE 14 FEB TUE 14 FEB WORK TUE 14 FEB
ILYT 10.30am–12.30pm, 10.30am–3.30pm SHOP 11am–12pm
FAM E N
EV 1.30pm–3.30pm Who lives at the Dementia is a progressive illness,
Our recreation of an early 20th- Sainsbury Centre? And who but are there better ways of living
Science Exciting FAMILY
EVENT
century pharmacists’ shop is full should not be living there? despite having a life-changing
discovery day electricity! of counters, drawers and shelves Join picture-book maker Rose condition? What does ‘recovery’
packed with the most amazing Feather for a print-making studio here mean? Join progressive
TUE 14 FEB FAMILY
TUE 14 FEB WORK array of mysterious potions, workshop where you’ll find out researchers Professor Chris
10am–4pm EVENT 10am–10.45am, SHOP chemicals and pills, all in their about the bugs and beasts that Fox, Juni West and Dr Jane
TUE 14 FEB 11.15am–12pm, original packets and containers. are kept at bay at the gallery. Cross alongside those with
Join us for a free day
10.30am–4pm, drop-in 1.30pm– 2.15pm Come and discover what lies You’ll create your own illustrated lived experience Peter Berry,
of hands-on science activities
Quiet Hour 9.30am– inside the packaging with our story book for the bugs to live in, Deb Bunt and Geoff Fenwick
covering everything from Bring along your little ones,
10.30am, booking friendly pharmacist! bound tight with thread. for a lively discussion on social
observing bugs, handling fossils and join in the fun as we explore
required interaction, supporting family and
to discovering genetic codes! electricity by making simple circuits Venue: Museum of Venue: Sainsbury Centre
Our brains are wonderful Perfect half term fun for kids and launching flying saucers! Norwich at the Bridewell Cost: Pay what you can – friends, and engaging in joyful
things – highly powerful and ages 4 to 14. Activities last We’ll also make a fantastic human Cost: Activities included in suggested donation £15 per activities. Plus book signing.
operating a complex body approx 90 mins. Please book electricity circuit. museum admission child. Covers materials and Venue: The Forum, Auditorium
seamlessly through the your preferred time. Venue: Sir Isaac Newton Age: 3+ a snack Cost: Free, booking required
nervous systems. Find out Venue: Diss Corn Hall Sixth Form Book: museums.norfolk.gov.uk/ Age: 7–12 Age: 15+
how we process language, Cost: Free, booking required Cost: £5 museum-of-norwich Book: sainsburycentre.ac.uk
how children learn and think, Age: All ages Age: 3–5
what happens to the brain Booking: thecornhall.co.uk /
when we sleep, and 01379 652241
much more. Trees in Winter
Venue: The Forum, Explorium SUN 12 & TUE 14 FEB
Cost: Free 10am–3.30pm
Age: All ages See p19
28 Book at norwichsciencefestival.co.uk Book at norwichsciencefestival.co.uk 29
29TUESDAY 14 FEBRUARY
Bones and FAMILY
EVENT The Devil Family raptor Criminal Minds
body bits You Know roost ARE YOU THE NEXT
ENCOUNTERS IN FORENSIC FAMILY SERIAL KILLER? WITH
TUE 14 FEB WORK TUE 14 FEB EVENT STEVE GASKIN
PSYCHIATRY WITH DR GWEN
12.30pm–2pm SHOP 3.30pm–5pm
ADSHEAD TUE 14 FEB
Look at our natural history Learn the difference between
collection and learn how to TUE 14 FEB the raptors; their different 7pm–8pm
tell the difference between a 1pm–2pm behaviours, how to identify them The popular media will suggest
deer and fox skull, which See p6 and their life cycle. Afterwards serial killers are intelligent,
rodents have eaten which nuts we’ll walk down to the raptor abused in some way or there is
and learn how to identify what roost and find out why NWT a trigger which unleashes their
an owl has eaten. Hickling Broad is so important. behaviour. Is this true? Mercifully
Venue: NWT Hickling Broad Venue: NWT Hickling Broad serial killing is very rare in the UK.
Cost: £3 NWT members, £3.50 Cost: £3 NWT members, Let us delve into some real-life
non-members + booking fee £3.50 non-members + booking cases and see if you could kill.
Age: All ages fee (Reserve fee entry for Venue: The Forum, Auditorium
non-members) Cost: £9
Book: norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk Mind the gap Age: 16+
Age: All ages
SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND
Book: norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk
COMMUNICATION NEEDS
TUE 14 FEB
5pm–6pm
Women in
science: careers Bird Therapy Connect with a Speech and
Heartbreak:
Language Therapist (SLT) to
WITH BRENNA HASSETT, WITH JOE HARKNESS Using stem consider the importance of
necessary
PROF SHENG QI & DR cells to repair communication. Explore the process or
TUE 14 FEB
THARIN BLUMENSCHEIN
Is childhood our 3pm–4pm
the heart role of an SLT and find out more byproduct of love?
TUE 14 FEB species’ secret Being in nature has been proven TUE 14 FEB about the work we do with a WITH ROSIE WILBY, VIREN
SWAMI & BARBARA
1pm–2pm weapon? 5pm–6pm wide range of children and adults
to improve people’s mental SAHAKIAN
If you can see it, you can be to improve lives. This session
THE EVOLUTIONARY health and wellbeing, and is Did you know that stem cells
it. Join three super-successful will be interactive, and you TUE 14 FEB
HISTORY OF CHILDHOOD now even promoted by the NHS can be manipulated by gene
female scientists to hear about WITH BRENNA HASSETT will discover ways to support 7pm–8pm
as ‘green prescribing’. In this editing technology to correct
their varied journeys into a communication to help you to
TUE 14 FEB talk, author and birdwatcher disease mutations and See p8
scientific career. Chemist Dr connect with those around you.
3pm–4pm Joe Harkness speaks about repurposed as new heart tissue?
Tharin Blumenschein has the therapeutic benefits of In this talk, James Smith will talk Venue: The Forum, Auditorium
dreamed of being a scientist Our species is remarkably birdwatching, connecting with about the future of regenerative Cost: Free, booking required Boogie on
since she was 8, Sheng Qi strange in the amount of nature, and his personal story. medicine treatment. Age: 12+ the brain: the
is an engineer in industrial time we spend growing up. Plus book signing. Venue: Norwich School, psychology of
pharmacy and Brenna Hassett Anthropologist Brenna Hassett
will examine some of the Venue: Norwich School, Blake Studio dancing
is dedicated to highlighting the
surprising evolutionary choices Blake Studio Cost: Free, booking required WITH DR PETER LOVATT
contributions of women in the
we have made along the way – Cost: £5 Age: 15+
‘digging’ sciences: archaeology, TUE 14 FEB
from monogamy to the evolution Age: 16+
geology, and palaeontology. 8pm–10.30pm
Plus book signing. of schools – to enable our weird
See p8
Venue: The Forum, Auditorium babies to grow up into the most
Cost: Free, booking required successful primates on the
Age: 10+ planet. Plus book signing.
Venue: The Forum, Auditorium
Cost: £7
Age: 15+
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31WEDNESDAY 15 FEBRUARY
Credit: Simon Buck
FAMILY
FA EVENT
EVEMILY
NT
Norwich Raspberry
Pi workshop
Research
WORK
MON 13 & SHOP
Gresham’s
WED 15 FEB
Park Day 11am–12pm: ages 7–11
1pm–2pm: ages 11–16
School
3pm–4pm: 16+
FA
EVEMILY
See p24
NT
in Holt
Microbe-
managing cancer
USING GUT BACTERIA
TO FIGHT TUMOURS
A day of fun, hands-on workshops and talks at Gresham’s WED 15 FEB
11am–12pm
School in Holt, including special events from CBeebies star, WED 15 FEB
We have more bacteria in our
vet and author Jess French! 10.30am–4pm, drop-in
gut than cells in our body.
Quiet Hour 9.30am–
Supported by: Recent technological advances
Events with Dr Jess French 10.30am, booking required
Skin deep: are revealing the functional roles
– Teddy bear clinic A day for families to explore
the amazing science and
natural beauty of these bacteria in health and
disease, including surprising
– Slow down monkey research that happens right WED 15 FEB links to cancer outcomes. This
– Minibeast adventure here in our fine city. Plus you
can build your own microscope
10.30am–12.30pm,
1.30pm–3.30pm
talk will explore the future of
bacterial therapies for cancer
out of LEGO, design your own Did you know we have a and highlight some exciting new
Workshops diagnostic test, and join Rebo secret garden at Strangers’ discoveries made in Norwich.
– Coding and robotics with LEGO, with RAF Marham the NHS Research Robot on
an adventure!
Hall? Join us to explore how Venue: The Forum, Auditorium
– Explore crazy chemical reactions Venue: The Forum, Explorium
people throughout history have
used their knowledge and
Cost: Free, booking required
Age: 12+
– Reach for the stars with Norwich Puppet Theatre Cost: Free understanding of plants to create
– Make your own stomp rockets Age: All ages beauty products
– Wonders of the human body Venue: Strangers’ Hall
BOOK
Cost: Activities included in
– Make bath bombs museum admission
– and much more! !
NOW
Age: 3+
Book: museums.norfolk.gov.uk/
Venue: Gresham’s School, Dyson Building strangers-hall
Cost: £0–£4, see website
aGE: 3–14
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