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Manchester Thursday 20 October –
Science Supported by
Sunday 30 October
Festival
16
Produced by
#msf16
manchestersciencefestival.com
Welcome to
Manchester Science Festival
Over the last ten years Manchester Every October, our Festival creates a
Science Festival has grown to become place for innovative, surprising and
the most popular science festival in meaningful experiences, where people
England. of all ages can ignite their curiosity in
science.
This year the Festival marks the
culmination of Manchester's For 2016, some of the programme
celebrations as European City of highlights include Paris-based artists
Science. People and organisations HeHe, who deliver three original
from across the city have come art installations at the Museum of
together as never before to showcase Science and Industry, to creatively
scientific achievements produced in explore the atmosphere around us.
Manchester and across the world.
The partnerships that make this The Chronarium Sleep Lab at
Festival so successful are stronger Manchester Arndale will offer an
than ever and mean we can be even immersive environment exploring
more ambitious this year and in the role of public space in promoting
years to come. Thank you so much health and wellbeing in the city.
to all our partners and funders Public Service Broadcasting will
- this programme reflects your take your imagination on a space
inventiveness, your creativity and journey with a specially commissioned
commitment. performance of their album The Race
for Space at the beautiful Albert Hall.
It's an amazing programme and
whether you're a regular or a new The greatest strength of our Festival
visitor, I promise you a fantastic time. is our unique alliance of partners.
See you there! Together, we have curated more
than 150 experiences where you can
Sally MacDonald, explore, discover and create science
Director, Museum of Science with us.
and Industry
We look forward to seeing you at the
Festival.
Antonio Benitez,
Manchester Science Festival Director
Headline sponsor
Lead educational sponsor
Front cover Image: Loop.pH
2 Back cover image: Museum of Science and Industry
Image: Museum of Science and Industry
Contents
04 Headline programme
06 Fun for all ages
16 Make, do and hack
21 Art meets science
28 Science after dark
33 Science on screen
36 Conversations
39 Walks and tours
40 At-a-glance guide
44 General information
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Headline programme
Manchester Science Festival is proud to present three firsts in the
intertwining worlds of art, science and music. See atmospheric cloud
research brought to life through surprising artistic interventions, experience a
sleep laboratory in a shopping centre and enjoy a unique music performance
inspired by the space race.
Image:
The Chronarium Sleep Lab
Immerse yourself in the UK premiere of
The Chronarium by Loop.pH. This public
sleep laboratory aims to transform a
bustling public space into a communal
haven for relaxation and wellbeing. Lie
back and rest inside hanging swings,
while an audiovisual experience aims to
reset your circadian rhythm for better,
more harmonious sleep. The Chronarium
was originally commissioned by
FutureEverything Singapore and debuted
with a fully booked run in 2015.
Audience: All ages (under 14s to be
accompanied by an adult)
Venue: Manchester Arndale
Date: Thursday 20 October –
Sunday 30 October
Time: 11am – 8pm (Monday – Friday),
11am – 7pm (Saturday),
11.30am – 5.30pm (Sunday)
Cost and booking info:
Free. Book on the day at the venue
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Image: Loop.pH Image
Cloud Crash
For the world premiere of Cape Farewell’s
2016 Lovelock Art Commission, Paris-
based artists HeHe have taken inspiration
from James Lovelock, the Museum of
Science and Industry’s collection and
the research of the Natural Environment
Research Council. Three new site-
specific works depict micro-climates
and manufactured airspaces of artificially
engineered clouds, in an imaginative
appropriation of atmospheric cloud
research. In their engagement with the
industrial landscape, HeHe blur the
boundaries between natural and man-
made clouds.
Also see Cloud Crash: Preview (p28) and
Cloud Crash: Artist tours (p39).
Audience: All ages
Venue: Museum of Science and Industry
Date: Thursday 20 October –
Friday 3 February 2017
Time: 10am – 5pm
Cost and booking info:
Free. Drop in any time
Image: HeHe
Public Service Broadcasting:
The Race For Space
Acclaimed electronic music outfit Public
Service Broadcasting play their hit album
The Race For Space in its entirety for
the very first time, accompanied by
a brass section and musicians from
the Royal Northern College of Music,
including a string quintet and 13-piece
choir. This special event will be preceded
by an exploration of the stories of the
American and Soviet space race at the
heart of the songs; and insights into the
making of the album from J Willgoose,
Esq, in conversation with Jodrell Bank’s
Professor Tim O’Brien.
Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+
Venue: Albert Hall
Date: Thursday 20 October
Time: 7.30pm – 11pm
Cost and booking info:
£27.50. Booking required
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oop.pH Image: Dan Kendall
Fun for all ages
The Festival is a playground for everyone. Be immersed in virtual reality, see
exciting new research in astronomy, help make a giant megapixel display and
watch a robot orchestra made from recycled junk. And take part in lots of
wacky experiments, of course...
Pinhole peepers
This family craft workshop celebrates one
of the museum’s most prized collection
items – the eyes of renowned scientist
John Dalton. Create a pinhole camera
with a twist, adding eyes and lashes of
your own design to recreate the inner
workings of sight.
Audience: Families 4+
Venue: Museum of Science and Industry
Date: Thursday 20 October –
Sunday 30 October
Time: 2pm – 4pm
Cost and booking info:
Free. Drop in any time
Image: Museum of Science and Industry
Salford science jam
See the natural delights of our planet
in a ‘forest of curiosity’, where writers,
Image: MovISee/ Cho Yen-Ting poets and actors team up with
scientists, naturalists, geographers and
environmentalists to take you on an
MovISee interactive journey of discovery. Build
Lego robots, experience life among living
MovISee is an interactive experience machines and have a go at many other
devised by artist Yen-Ting Cho, which exciting, hands-on activities.
uses the movement of the human
body to create digital images. Become Audience: All ages
part of the artwork and explore the Venue: MediaCityUK campus,
science and technology behind this University of Salford
unique, collaborative, motion-capture Date: Saturday 22 October –
performance. Sunday 23 October
Time: 10am – 4pm
Audience: All ages Cost and booking info:
Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Free. Drop in any time
Date: Saturday 22 October
Time: 10am – 5pm
Cost and booking info:
Free. Drop in any time
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Virtual reality playground
Image: Museum of Science and Industry
Once the preserve of science fiction,
virtual reality has now taken the world Audience: All ages
by storm. See how this truly immersive Venue: Museum of Science and Industry
experience is being used in fields as Date: Saturday 22 October –
diverse as entertainment and education, Sunday 23 October
art and journalism. Try out different Time: 10am – 5pm
virtual reality devices and experience Cost and booking info:
what the future holds. Free. Drop in any time
The science and beauty Autumn studio
of peatlands
Get close to patterns in art and nature,
Peat bogs are richly biodiverse and a as you discuss how living things respond
source of fascination for many scientists. to the world around them with artists
Look at resident plant life, invertebrates and scientists. You can also create your
and microbes through microscopes; see own colourful works to take home; and
demonstrations of how bogs store carbon consider what makes us human. Plus,
and affect water; and find out more take part in drop-in printmaking activities
about the preserving powers of peat. inspired by bio images.
Plus, hear a recording of a new poem
about peatlands by Ralph Hoyte. Audience: Families 5+
Venue: The Whitworth
Audience: All ages Date: Saturday 22 October –
Venue: Hulme Community Garden Centre Sunday 30 October
Date: Saturday 22 October Time: 11am – 3pm
Time: 10.30am – 3.30pm Cost and booking info:
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time
Free. Drop in any time
Image: Sally Gilford
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Image: Museum of Science and Industry
Big draw at the Whitworth The extraordinary enticement
of exotic plants
Get closer than ever to the gallery’s
collections and be inspired by patterns Identify exotic plants and hear the tales
in art and nature to create your own of eminent adventurer Professor Jigget,
colourful artworks. Working with who reveals his history of adventures
scientists, use this process to explore while discovering wonders of the natural
what makes us human – and how living world. This mix of botany and storytelling
things respond to the world around them. also includes the opportunity to see
items from the historic archive of
Audience: Families 5+ Quarry Bank.
Venue: The Whitworth
Date: Saturday 22 October Audience: Families 5+
Time: 11am – 3pm Venue: Central Library
Cost and booking info: Date: Saturday 22 October
Free. Drop in any time Time: 12pm – 12.30pm, 1pm – 1.30pm,
2.00pm – 2.30pm
Cost and booking info:
Free. No need to book
Audio illusions and
other curiosities
Investigate acoustic illusions and other Artist Sundays
auditory phenomena with live musicians
and academics. Hear phantom melodies Enjoy creative challenges designed for
that magically appear from rapidly all the family by extraordinary artists,
repeating patterns of tones and rhythms, after picking up a specially-made family
impossibly seeming to get faster and bag from the learning studio. Explore the
faster; and spiralling notes that go gallery then show the artists what
forever upwards. you’ve created.
Audience: Adults and families 7+ Audience: Families 5+
Venue: Low Four, Old Granada Studios Venue: The Whitworth
Date: Saturday 22 October Date: Sunday 23 October and
Time: 12pm – 1pm, 3pm – 4pm, Sunday 30 October
6pm – 7pm Time: 11am – 4pm
Cost and booking info: Cost and booking info:
Free. Booking required Free. Drop in any time
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Royal Society Science Exhibition
From astronomy and the environment to
glaciers and our gut, this exhibition is a
collision of the UK’s most exciting new
science and technology. Meet scientists
from across the country and get stuck
into interactive activities for all ages.
Audience: Adults and families 7+
Venue: Museum of Science and Industry
Date: Monday 24 October –
Friday 28 October
Time: 11am – 5pm
Cost and booking info:
Free. Drop in any time Image: The Royal Society
Hunting for infections Big telescopes science show
When pauper children worked at the mill, Find out why Jodrell Bank has such a big
they were often invaded by gruesome telescope and what it’s used for. Plus,
parasites. Find out more about these discover why it’s shaped like a bowl
worms and creepy crawlies on a special and how it works with other telescopes
tour of the Apprentice House, then follow around the world. You’ll also use a
a trail to see how infections spread. You spectroscope to see the range of colours
can also play games to find out how emitted by stars.
mathematics can protect the
natural environment. Audience: Families 5+
Venue: Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre
Audience: Families 5+ Date: Monday 24 October –
Venue: Quarry Bank Friday 28 October
Date: Monday 24 October – Time: 11am – 11.30am, 12pm – 12.30pm,
Friday 28 October 2pm – 2.30pm, 3pm – 3.30pm
Time: 10.30am – 4.30pm Cost and booking info: Included in
Cost and booking info: Included in admission fee. Book on the day
admission fee. Drop in any time at the venue
Image: Anthony Holloway, Jodrell Bank Observatory
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Image: Museum of Science and Industry Image: Museum of Science and Industry
Manchester megapixel Science showdown
Help build and colour in a giant megapixel Vote for the winner as two sides battle it
display with mathematicians Katie out to prove that their live experiments
Steckles, Matt Parker and our sponsor are the most exciting. Watch explosions,
Siemens. You’ll also find out how digital surprising science, secret message
displays work and see yourself presented revelations and some gravity-defying
as pixels in a spreadsheet. activities.
Audience: Adults and families 7+ Audience: All ages
Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Venue: Museum of Science and Industry
Date: Monday 24 October – Date: Monday 24 October –
Sunday 30 October Sunday 30 October
Time: 11am – 4pm (except Wednesday 26 October)
Cost and booking info: Time: 11am – 11.30am, 12pm – 12.30pm,
Free. Drop in any time 1pm – 1.30pm, 2pm – 2.30pm,
3pm – 3.30pm
Cost and booking info:
Free. No need to book
Spells and smells
Have you ever wanted to see everyday
things turn into something spectacular? Counting chaos
Inspired by Roald Dahl’s book
George’s Marvellous Medicine, this Help the Liverpool Road Railway Station
special collaboration with Rochdale’s Master identify and count mystery boxes
Literature and Ideas Festival brings you of fruit, cattle and a menagerie of circus
experiments, wacky science stories and animals. Set in 1900, this multi-sensory,
the chance to create your own interactive show encourages skills in
potion poem. investigation and problem-solving.
Audience: Families 6+ Audience: Families 0 – 6
Venue: Ellenroad Engine House Venue: Museum of Science and Industry
Date: Monday 24 October Date: Monday 24 October –
Time: 10.30am – 11.30am, Sunday 30 October
2.30pm – 3.30pm Time: 11.30am – 11.50am,
Cost and booking info: 12.30pm – 12.50pm
£2. Booking required Cost and booking info:
Free. Drop in any time
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Nightshade Science busking
Help create an enchanted garden with Have a go at some quick-fire science
oversized origami, twisted vines and demonstrations which explore some very
massive paper sculptures. This large-scale complex ideas. Plus, discover more about
installation will be built during the half- locally based organisations and how
term school holiday – and you’ll also get their research, science and technology is
to know the darker side of plants, which relevant to our everyday lives.
can be carnivorous, parasitic
and poisonous. Audience: All ages
Venue: Museum of Science and Industry
Audience: All ages Date: Tuesday 25 October –
Venue: Gallery Oldham Thursday 27 October
Date: Monday 24 October – Time: 10am – 5pm
Friday 28 October Cost and booking info:
Time: 12pm – 4pm Free. Drop in any time
Cost and booking info:
Free. Drop in any time
The hitchhiker’s guide
Into the blue to the solar system
Explore a working research aeroplane and Hold and study real pieces of the Moon,
talk to scientists about how they measure collected by the Apollo astronauts, as well
and monitor the environment. Centred on as pieces of Mars and 4.5-billion-year-old
the sea and sky, this experience from the meteorites. Plus, take part in a meteorite
National Environment Research Council impacting experiment, plan your own
has four themes – water, air, energy and space mission, see how volcanic eruptions
health – and looks at how they relate reshape the surface of a planet and watch
to each other. a comet being created.
Audience: Adults and families 5+ Audience: All ages
Venue: The Runway Visitors Park, Venue: Manchester Museum
Manchester Airport Date: Tuesday 25 October
Date: Tuesday 25 October – Time: 11am – 4pm
Saturday 29 October Cost and booking info:
Time: 9am– 4.30pm Free. Drop in any time
Cost and booking info:
Free. Booking required
manchestersciencefestival.com 11Robot orchestra: Live
Watch as Manchester’s robot orchestra
performs alongside human musicians,
including the band Family Ranks, Cul-de-
Sac and flautist Gavin Osborn, conducted
by a life-sized robot called Graphene
built by Siemens. The robot players
are made from a mix of recycled old
instruments, electronics and junk.
Image: Museum of Science and Industry
Audience: Families 5+
Sublime science Venue: Museum of Science and Industry
Date: Wednesday 26 October
A chance for children to make gooey Time: 11am – 11.30am, 1pm – 1.30pm,
slime and yummy sweets. Plus, watch 3pm – 3.30pm
interactive experiments featuring fizzing Cost and booking info:
potions, bubbles, flying giant smoke Free. No need to book
rings, wacky noises and tornado races.
The organisers are so engaging that
they actually won the rare honour of an
investment on BBC television programme
Dragon’s Den.
Audience: Families 5+
Venue, date and time:
Withington Library,
Tuesday 25 October, 11.30am – 12.30pm
Abraham Moss Library,
Tuesday 25 October, 2.30pm – 3.30pm
Central Library,
Wednesday 26 October, 12.30pm –
1.30pm, 2.30pm – 3.30pm
Longsight Library,
Thursday 27 October, 11.30am – 12.30pm
Forum Library, Image: The University of Manchester
Thursday 27 October, 2.30pm – 3.30pm
Cost and booking info:
Free. Drop in any time
Science@Central
Lots to do for the whole family. Have a
Young inventors go at an invention of your own, make
slime and see some of the library’s most
New smart materials, developments in prized collections up-close. Plus, chat
energy harvesting and new ways to repair to a library conservation officer about
our bodies are all being researched in how he’s spent the last 30 years adapting
Bolton, as scientists look for solutions to equipment to preserve valuable books.
today’s problems. In this workshop, young
inventors are invited to talk about new Audience: All ages
ideas and discover Bolton’s Venue: Central Library
engineering history. Date: Wednesday 26 October
Time: 11.30am – 4pm
Audience: Families 3+ Cost and booking info:
Venue: Hall i’th Wood Free. Drop in any time
Date: Tuesday 25 October
Time: 12pm – 2pm
Cost and booking info:
Free. Booking required
12Messy science
Time to get messy with messy science,
messy biology and messy maths.
Meet scientists and students from the
University of Bolton as you watch a
volcano erupt, discover the energy in
magnets, make electricity from a lemon
and take the starch test.
Audience: Families 3 – 11
Venue: University of Bolton
Date: Friday 28 October
Time: 10.30am – 12pm, 2pm – 3.30pm
Image: Museum of Science and Industry Cost and booking info:
Free. Booking required
Pliable plastics
Experiment with the mouldability of
plastic, using different processing Science spectacular
techniques like injection moulding,
3D printing and vacuum forming. This A fun-filled family day of science
interactive experience will also explore challenges, live experiments, and
recycling issues... and, just for fun, most interactive demonstrations. Help us
moulded articles will have an intriguing draw some sketchy science, crack our
connection to fictional spy James Bond. top secret computer codes, play with
Moon rocks and meteorites, find out
Audience: Families 3+ how the body fights disease, investigate
Venue: Museum of Science and Industry the building blocks of life, explore the
Date: Thursday 27 October – science of saving species and much,
Friday 28 October much more.
Time: 10am – 4.30pm
Cost and booking info: Audience: Families 5 – 11
Free. Drop in any time Venue: Manchester Museum
Date: Saturday 29 October
Time: 10am – 4pm
Cost and booking info:
Stepping inside a camera Free. Drop in any time
Sit inside a giant camera, formed by the
waiting room inside a railway station –
then see the outside world flipped upside
down as it is projected on the walls.
Science stories
In this art installation by Lizzie King
and Craig Tattersall, you’ll find out how Science is full of incredible tales of
analogue photography works by seeing a discovery and exploration. Come along to
camera use light to cast images. this event and create your own science
stories, using words, sounds and images.
Audience: All ages
Venue: Manchester Victoria Train Station Audience: Families 5– 11
Date: Friday 28 October Venue: Wythenshaw Forum Centre
Time: 10am – 4pm Date: Saturday 29 October
Cost and booking info: Time: 11am – 3pm
Free. Drop in any time Cost and booking info:
Free. Drop in any time
manchestersciencefestival.com 13Fun for all ages:
Platform for investigation
Discover some of the most cutting-edge research in today’s scientific world
with the Platform for investigation (Pi), supported by Siemens. Get involved
with live experiments, chat to scientists and play games to explore how
science affects our everyday lives.
Pi: #Datasaveslives
See how software engineers develop new
fitness technologies and design an app
of your own. You can also take part in
an experiment to see whether heart rate
and cognitive performance are linked;
help review and discuss the results of all
activities; and share your experiences via
Tweets and selfies.
Audience: Families 8+
Venue: Museum of Science and Industry
Date: Sunday 23 October
Time: 10.30am – 4pm
Cost and booking info:
Free. Drop in any time
Image: Museum of Science and Industry
Pi: Sounds like heart work Pi: Wildlife connections
The human heart beats an incredible Meet conservationists to find out what
100,000 times a day – but what makes it you can do to make your garden more
tick? And what happens when something inviting for wildlife. Make bird feeders
goes wrong? Take a look at living heart and toad abodes and see results from
cells under a microscope, hear more Chester Zoo’s Wildlife Connections
about how this vital organ works and talk project, including dormouse monitoring
about what your heart has in common in North Wales; and the recovery of pine
with a lump of dough and your phone. martens: carnivores which are thought
to have become extinct in England and
Audience: Families 5+ Wales in the 1900's.
Venue: Museum of Science and Industry
Date: Saturday 22 October Audience: Families 8+
Time: 10.30am – 4pm Venue: Museum of Science and Industry
Cost and booking info: Date: Monday 24 October
Free. Drop in any time Time: 10.30am – 4pm
Cost and booking info:
Free. Drop in any time
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Pi: Dalton and colour vision Pi: Accelerating discoveries
To mark 250 years since the birth How can scientists find invisible
of scientist John Dalton, see a live particles? How does antimatter
dissection of a sheep’s eye to discover behave? Discover the latest scientific
the anatomy of colour vision; and play breakthroughs made using cutting-
with camouflage and colour matching edge particle accelerator and detector
tests. Dalton discovered his own colour technology. Experience the VELA particle
vision deficiency by comparing the accelerator in an immersive 360-degree
colours of threads and yarns, which you show, see a positron-emission particle
can see for yourself. Plus, find out what tracking device in action and find out
it’s like to be colour blind with modern how detectors reveal natural radiation
simulations and games. and cosmic rays all around us.
Audience: Families 8+ Audience: Families 8+
Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Venue: Museum of Science and Industry
Date: Tuesday 25 October Date: Friday 28 October
Time: 10.30am – 4pm Time: 10.30am – 4pm
Cost and booking info: Cost and booking info:
Free. Drop in any time Free. Drop in any time
Pi: Code-driven trains Pi: Weather fairground
Be among the first to use new BBC How does the weather affect your life?
micro:bit technology to help keep Right across the world, every single
driverless trains on the move, by coding day, people make decisions based on
your way through rail-themed challenges both forecasts and realities. Inspired by
presented by Siemens. These include this, the Met Office has created some
creating a warning system, so your train weather-themed demonstrations with a
automatically slows down when it senses classic fairground theme.
moisture on the track; and a digital
solution to help commuters take the Audience: Families 8+
fastest tube route home. Venue: Museum of Science and Industry
Date: Saturday 29 October –
Audience: Families 8+ Sunday 30 October
Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Time: 10.30am – 4pm
Date: Thursday 27 October Cost and booking info:
Time: 11am – 4pm Free. Drop in any time
Cost and booking info:
Free. Drop in any time
manchestersciencefestival.com 15Make, do and hack
Get stuck into programming robots, jewellery-making, competitive coding,
handling real space rocks and creating your own mini-world of plant life. And
how would YOU save Manchester from a devastating flood?
Ocular Bionica: Hands-onica
Create your own low-tech animations
inspired by Ocular Bionica, artist Lucy
Burscough’s stop-frame animated film
about hybrid human-digital vision. You
can also chat to Lucy about the making
of the film and the cutting-edge bionic
technology explored within it.
Audience: Adults and families 7+
Venue and date: Manchester Royal Eye
Hospital Atrium (Thursday 20 October,
Friday 21 October, Tuesday 25 October
and Thursday 27 October), Manchester
Museum (Monday 24 October, Wednesday
26 October and Friday 28 October)
Time: 11am – 2pm
Cost and booking info:
Free. Drop in any time
Image: Lucy Burscough
Aeon
Manchester eSports
tournament Take part in the drama at pioneering
medical trials facility Arcadia Life
Gather together to play your favourite Sciences and work with scientists
eSports with fellow fans, as tournaments on interactive challenges to fight an
for League Of Legends and Hearthstone outbreak. You’ll also meet those working
get underway. You’ll also hear talks by on the front line to control infectious
design and development specialists about diseases like Ebola, Zika, SARS and HIV,
how new eSports games are developed; as specialists reveal what viruses are and
a process which involves a wide range of how they’re analysed.
creative and technological skills.
Audience: Adults and families 12+
Audience: Families 12 – 17 (juniors), Venue: Michael Smith Building, University
Adults 18+ (masters) of Manchester
Venue: John Dalton Building, Manchester Date: Saturday 22 October
Metropolitan University Time: 11am – 12pm, 1pm – 2pm,
Date: Saturday 22 October 3pm – 4pm
Time: 10am – 1pm (juniors), 1pm – 4pm Cost and booking info:
(masters) £7.50. Booking required
Cost and booking info:
Free. Booking required.
Spectators welcome
16After the bees: Poetry Heartstart
meets science
This free, hands-on training session will
Albert Einstein predicted that: “If the teach you how to do CPR. You’ll also
bee disappeared off the surface of the learn how to deal with an unconscious
globe, then man would only have four person; recognise the signs and
years of life left.” Take part in a workshop symptoms of a heart attack; and tackle
exploring this idea and see a series choking and serious bleeding. While not
of visual artworks comprising moving a qualification-driven experience, this
images, portraiture, photography, writing workshop aims to equip you with basic
and sculpture, informed by beekeepers, first-aid skills that may help you cope in
ecologists and sustainability specialists. an emergency situation.
Audience: Adults Audience: Adult and families 14+
Venue: Manchester Museum Venue: The Lowry
Date: Saturday 22 October Date: Saturday 22 October
Time: 2pm – 4pm Time: 3pm – 5pm
Cost and booking info: Cost and booking info:
Free. Book on the day at the venue
Free. Booking required
Terrarium workshop
Create your own terrarium – a mini-world
of greenery inside a glass container – to
take home, with advice from professional
local florists and gardeners. Plus, plant
scientist Amanda Bamford will be on
hand to explain how plants live in a
terrarium environment.
Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+
Venue: Museum of Science and Industry
Date: Sunday 23 October
Time: 11am – 1pm, 2pm – 4pm
Cost and booking info:
Image: Megan Powell £30, £45, £65. Booking required
Image: The Glass Gardener
manchestersciencefestival.com 17A few feet up
Interact with two performers and
their periscope, as they explain how
history can illuminate why we still
use periscopes today. Join them for a
workshop exploring how light bends,
including making your own periscope.
You’ll also get to see how reflection
and refraction make periscopes work,
giving us new views of our environment
and world.
Audience: Families 8 – 14
Venue: Museum of Science and Industry
Image: HackManchester Date: Monday 24 October
Time: 11am – 11.45am, 1.45pm – 2.30pm,
3.15pm – 4pm
HackManchester: Cost and booking info:
Junior edition Free. Book on the day at the venue
HackManchester creates a junior edition
of the popular coding competition, set
over two days with the support of expert Balmy science
mentors. There’ll be challenges, prizes
and lots of fun, ending with an Look at properties of materials as you
awards ceremony. make a personalised lip balm, choosing
your favourite flavour, colour and
Please note, commitment to both packaging. This workshop encourages the
sessions is essential understanding of the science of everyday
products through experimentation.
Audience: Families 8 – 18
Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Audience: Families 7+
Date: Monday 24 October – Venue: Museum of Science and Industry
Tuesday 25 October Date: Tuesday 25 October
Time: 8.30am – 4pm Time: 10am – 11am, 2pm – 3pm
Cost and booking info: Cost and booking info:
Free. Booking required Free. Book on the day at the venue
Image: Same Difference
18Mesh: Workshops
Try your hand at 3D modelling with Sumit
Sarkar, one of the leading artists involved
in the Festival’s Mesh exhibition. You’ll be
guided in the basics of 3D sculpture and
progress to advanced digital techniques,
then receive a 3D print of your work at
the end of the project.
Please note, commitment to all sessions
within your age group is essential
Venue: Z-Arts
Audience, date and time: Ages 11 – 14,
Tuesday 25 October – Wednesday 26
October, 2pm – 4pm Image: The University of Central Lancashire
Ages 15 – 18, Thursday 27 October –
Friday 28 October, 2pm – 4pm
Adults, Tuesday 25 October – Friday 28 Smartphone microscope
October, 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Cost and booking info: Make a Zoombox, a clever fold-up
Free. Booking required box that turns a smartphone into a
microscope. Use it to take a look at
everyday objects magnified by 10, then
take it with you to experiment with at
home. To take part, you’ll just need a
Mission Mars smartphone (preferably your own)...
Build and program a Lego Mindstorm Audience: Families 7+
Rover machine to explore a model of the Venue: Museum of Science and Industry
Mars landscape. You’ll navigate issues Date: Thursday 27 October
from real-life space missions like NASA Time: 10am – 5pm
Curiosity and ESA ExoMars, which seek to Cost and booking info:
determine whether life has ever existed Free. Drop in any time
on the planet.
Audience: Families 10 – 15
Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Downpour!
Date: Wednesday 26 October
Time: 10am – 12.30pm, 1.30pm – 4pm Work in teams against the clock to
Cost and booking info: tackle a devastating flooding crisis
Free. Book on the day at the venue in Manchester, in this high-pressure,
interactive street game. Rain has been
falling steadily, the rivers have risen
and defences are about to be breached.
Gather scientific information, manage
your resources and consider communities
and wildlife as you make your decisions
to protect the city’s future.
Audience: Adults and teenagers 16+
Venue: YHA Manchester Castlefield
Date: Saturday 29 October
Time: 10.30am – 4.30pm
Cost and booking info:
£3.50. Booking required
Image: Museum of Science and Industry
manchestersciencefestival.com 19HackManchester: Adult edition HackManchester: Adult
awards ceremony
Compete in a coding competition in the
heart of Manchester, culminating in an Following the HackManchester coding
awards ceremony. Teams of developers competition for over-18s, the judges
and designers have just 25 hours to wow select winners from competing teams
the judges and help showcase northern of developers and designers. Celebrate
talent. Under 18? Check out the junior and network with peers, while enjoying
edition (p18). a showcase of the north west’s technical
talent. The ticket price includes a hot
Audience: Adults 18+ buffet and drinks.
Venue: Museum of Science and Industry
Date and time: Starts 12pm Saturday 29 Audience: Adults 18+
October, finishes 2pm Sunday Venue: Museum of Science and Industry
30 October Date: Sunday 30 October
Cost and booking info: Time: 6pm – 10.30pm
£20. Booking required Cost and booking info:
£20. Booking required
Formula Bolton Make a silver ring
How are Formula 1 racing cars designed Have a go at sawing, soldering and
and manufactured? Get hands-on with texturing metal by making your very own
various stages of the process, guided by ring to take home. In this workshop you’ll
engineers and scientists. Experience 3D get an insight into the science behind the
computer-assisted design, 3D printing craft of jewellery making, including how
and routing, wind tunnel testing and metal reacts to heat.
analysis, materials research and model
car racing testing. Plus, make your own Audience: Adults and teenagers 12+
model car and race it against the rest. Venue: Manchester Craft and Design
Centre
Audience: Ages 5+ Date: Sunday 30 October
Venue: UTC Bolton Time: 11am – 1pm, 2pm – 4pm
Date: Saturday 29 October Cost and booking info:
Time: 10am – 2pm £30 (includes silver ring).
Cost and booking info: Booking required
Free. Drop in any time
Mushroom hack
Get involved with innovative mushroom
growing. Join farmers and scientists to
brainstorm and design open-source tools
to help mushroom growers all over the
world. No growing experience required –
simply a creative, open mind. Lunch
and refreshments provided.
Audience: Adults 18+
Venue: The Shed, Manchester
Metropolitan University
Date: Saturday 29 October
Time: 11am – 6pm
Cost and booking info:
Image: Squirrel Nation
Free. Booking required
20Art meets science
Play with senses and the mind’s sensibilities as science is reflected in music,
theatre and images. Hear time and space interpreted in concertos, confront
worldwide healthcare issues and explore sound through your hands and eyes.
Equinox
Take a kaleidoscopic tour of time and
space as Manchester Camerata performs
Equinox, by violin star Henning Kraggerud,
which is written in 24 different keys and
depicts 24 hours and 24 time zones. The
composition comprises four concertos
and is interspersed with a narration
written by Jostein Gaarder.
Audience: All ages
Venue: Albert Hall
Date: Sunday 16 October
(trailblazer event)
Time: 3pm – 6pm
Cost and booking info:
£22 – £37 (concessions and student
tickets available). Booking required Image: Kaupo Kikkas
B!rth
How do different nations approach
childbirth? Watch the plays of seven
leading female writers from Brazil, China,
India, Kenya, Syria, UK and the USA as
they examine the vast inequalities in
worldwide healthcare. Each performance
is intended to provoke debate in the
fields of science, art, academic, politics
and charity.
Audience: Adults
Venue: Royal Exchange Theatre
Date: Wednesday 19 October –
Saturday 22 October (trailblazer event)
Time: Various times (check website
for more info)
Image: Royal Exchange Theatre Cost and booking info:
£5 – £12 (multi-ticket offers available).
Booking required
manchestersciencefestival.com 21Imagining Medicine
Hammers, vacuum cleaners and duck
beaks: see how 16th and 17th-century
surgical procedures have been reimagined
through the photography of Dr Sian
Bonnell. Based on images in The John
Rylands Library collections, these playful
yet intriguing photographs will make you
think again about medical illustration.
Audience: Adults and families 12+
Venue: The John Rylands Library
Image: Manchester Museum Date: Thursday 20 October – Sunday 30
October
Animal kingdom: Stereoscopic Time: 10am – 5pm (Tuesday - Saturday),
12pm – 5pm (Sunday - Monday)
images of natural history Cost and booking info:
Free. Drop in any time
Artist Jim Naughten has brought a
mesmerising collection of natural history Also see An evening of Imagining
images to life in three dimensions, using Medicine (p29).
stereoscopic photography. See sets of
mounted skeletons and wet specimens
from museum collections, each
photographed from a right-eye and left- International images
eye perspective.
for science
Audience: All ages
Venue: Manchester Museum Look beyond your everyday view of the
Date: Thursday 20 October – world to see how science, engineering
Sunday 30 October and medicine surround every aspect
Time: 10am – 5pm of our lives, through a variety of
Cost and booking info: photographic images depicting biology,
Free. Drop in any time astronomy and lots more. You’ll also
consider the intimate link between
science and photographic processes,
which involve chemistry and optics.
Capturing science:
Audience: All ages
Images past and present Venues: Royal Exchange Theatre, Corn
Exchange and Manchester Cathedral
Come to the Historic Reading Room to Date: Thursday 20 October –
see science themed images in medicine, Sunday 30 October
astronomy, engineering and industry. Time: 10am – 5.30pm (some venues open
earlier, check website for more info)
Audience: All ages Cost and booking info:
Venue: The John Rylands Library Free. Drop in any time
Date: Thursday 20 October –
Sunday 30 October
Time: 10am – 5pm (Tuesday - Saturday),
12pm – 5pm (Sunday - Monday)
Cost and booking info:
Free. Drop in any time
22Ocular Bionica
This painted stop-frame animation film
tells the story of Ray, a patient who has
lost his central vision to age-related
macular degeneration. He becomes
the first person with this condition to
see with help from new technologies,
highlighting advances in the treatment
of sight loss and what they mean
for humanity.
Audience: Adults and families 7+
Venue and time: Manchester Royal Eye
Hospital (8am – 8.15pm), Manchester Image: Lucy Burscough
Museum (10am – 5pm)
Date: Thursday 20 October –
Sunday 30 October
Silent Signal
Cost and booking info:
Free. Drop in any time This exhibition of six animations explores
new ways of thinking about the human
Also see Ocular Bionica: Hands-onica (p16) body, using contributions from leading
and Manchester Museum: Late (p31). biomedical scientists. See the journeys
made by infectious diseases, battles
with bacteria, intercellular memory, the
science of sleep, the link between biology
and machines and how scientists imagine
their own work.
Audience: Adults
Venue: MediaCityUK campus, University
of Salford
Date: Thursday 20 October –
Sunday 30 October
Image: Museum of Science and Industry Time: 10am – 4pm
Cost and booking info:
Free. Drop in any time
Sensory sound pit
What does the world look like when
you perceive sound through your hands
and eyes, as well as your ears? Enter an
immersive, tactile environment where
sound is represented by shape, touch,
motion and visuals, inspired by current
neuroscience research into the way the
brain responds to sound.
Audience: All ages
Venue: MediaCityUK campus, University
of Salford
Date and time: Thursday 20 October –
Sunday 23 October (10am – 4pm),
Monday 24 October – Wednesday 26
October (1pm – 4pm)
Cost and booking info:
Image: Silent Signal
Free. Drop in any time
manchestersciencefestival.com 23Extinction or survival
Image: Tom Svensson, conservation photographer
From the dodo to the giant earwig, lots
Audience: All ages
of species have become extinct since
Venue: Manchester Museum
life first evolved. Consider conservation
Date: Friday 21 October –
issues as you view an exhibition about
Sunday 30 October
extinction, which looks at how humans
Time: 10am – 5pm
have influenced the survival of animal
Cost and booking info:
and plant species. What could we all be
Free. Drop in any time
doing to make a difference?
Ryoichi Kurokawa: Unfold
Image: Ryoichi Kurokawa (based on scientific data from CEA Paris-Saclay)
Experience an audio-visual representation Audience: All ages
of how the solar system was born and Venue: MediaCityUK campus, University
how our galaxy might evolve. Japanese of Salford
artist Ryoichi Kurokowa’s new body of Date: Saturday 22 October –
work is based on data taken from giant Sunday 23 October
molecular clouds in space – data which Time: 10am – 4pm
may hold the secrets to the birth of stars. Cost and booking info:
Free. Drop in any time
24Am I Dead Yet?
Death is no longer a moment. It is a
process. A process that can be reversed,
as considered in this production by
Unlimited Theatre. See two friends talk
and sing about what happens when we
die, how we think about dying and, most
importantly, how some of us might be
brought back.
Audience: Adults
Venue: The Lowry
Date: Saturday 22 October
TIme: 8pm – 9pm (performance),
9.15pm – 9.45pm (post-show talk)
Cost and booking info:
£12. Booking required
Also see Death Café (p36) and Image: Unlimited Theatre
Heartstart (p17).
Scientific studios
What makes our plates safe to eat from?
How do you go from a sheep to a scarf?
How does a sheet of metal become a
spoon? See the chemical reactions and
processes which help craftspeople make
their products, such as the melting points
and material make-ups of metal, glass,
ceramics, textiles, plastics and ink.
Audience: Adults and families 3+
Venue: Manchester Craft and Design
Centre
Date: Monday 24 October –
Saturday 29 October
Time: 2pm – 5pm
Cost and booking info:
Image: Chris Payne Photography Free. Drop in any time
manchestersciencefestival.com 25Mesh
See the premiere of an exhibition of 3D
printed fine art sculpture, featuring six
leading artists who specialise in this
pioneering field. Keith Brown, Bruce
Gernand, Annie Cattrell, Jon Isherwood,
James Hutchinson and Sumit Sarkar
present newly commissioned sculptures
and acclaimed existing works.
Audience: All ages
Venue: Benzie Building, Manchester
Metropolitan University
Date: Monday 24 October (preview),
Tuesday 25 October – Friday 28 October
Time: 6pm – 8pm (preview), 9am – 5pm Image: MESH
Cost and booking info:
Free. Drop in any time
Museums Of The New Age
Also see Mesh: Conversations (p37) and
Mesh: Workshops (p19). Jean-Philippe Calvin, composer-in-
residence at London’s Science Museum,
has created a new score for 1927 silent
film Museums Of The New Age. Hear
his music performed live while the film
is screened, after a talk revealing more
about science, museums and society in
the early 20th century.
Audience: Adults and families 11+
Venue: Museum of Science and Industry
Date: Friday 28 October
Time: 7pm – 8.30pm
Cost and booking info:
£5. Booking required
Image: Museum of Science and Industry
Elements: Poetry in Experimental words
molecular motion
Biology meets balladry, physics
Be immersed in a poetic and scientific encounters pentameter and chemistry
experience of all the senses, as poet confronts cadence, as leading scientists
and meteorologist Rachel McCarthy are paired with some of Manchester’s
performs works from her acclaimed finest spoken-word artists to compete in
poetry collection Elements. Meanwhile, a science slam show. The result? A diverse
Dr Frank Mair and Dr Steven Rossington display of rhyme, rhythm and reason,
complement Rachel’s words with visual, which celebrates the creative similarities
olfactory and audio stimuli. between science and the performing arts.
Audience: Adults Audience: Adults 18+
Venue: School of Chemistry, The Venue: The Eagle Inn
University of Manchester Date: Friday 28 October
Date: Thursday 27 October Time: 7.30pm – 9pm
Time: 7pm – 8pm Cost and booking info:
Cost and booking info: £4. Booking required
£5. Booking required
26Breaking The Code
Can machines think? Is it possible to
build a machine that thinks for itself? This
classic play by Hugh Whitemore is set in
the leafy surroundings of Bletchley Park at
the height of the Second World War, where
a brilliant young mathematician named
Alan Turing was creating a machine to
secure victory for Britain.
Audience: Adults
Venue: Royal Exchange Theatre
Date: Friday 28 October –
Saturday 29 October
Time: 7.30pm
Cost and booking info:
£16.50 – £39 (concessions and student
tickets available). Booking required
Also see Talking the code (p38). Image: Royal Exchange Theatre
The music of Star Wars: Episodes I to VII
Image: Joel Chester
Feel the full force of the Hallé as the
Audience: Adults and families 7+
renowned orchestra performs highlights
Venue: The Bridgewater Hall
from John Williams’ scores for the Star
Date: Saturday 29 October
Wars films. Packed with some of the
Time: 6.15pm – 7pm (pre-show talk),
most recognisable cinematic themes of
7.30pm – 9.45pm (performance)
all time, this concert packs more punch
than an Imperial blaster. There’s also a Cost and booking info:
£13.50 – £43 (concessions available).
free pre-show talk on the science behind
Booking required
Star Wars. Dress to impress.
manchestersciencefestival.com 27Science after dark
It’s time for some proper grown-up fun, with the scientific secrets of casinos,
a tasty menu of microbiological street food and a behind-the-scenes look at
some of the Festival’s most intriguing innovations. You’re also invited to our
10th birthday party.
Cloud Crash: Preview The science of gambling
with Guardian Live
Acclaimed Paris-based artists HeHe,
recipients of the Cape Farewell Lovelock This cabaret-style show explores the
Art Commission, present a special viewing different scientific aspects of gambling,
of their new work Cloud Crash. The bar like the probability of winning and
will be open as HeHe discuss how their the reliability of luck. Mathematician
installations offer a cultural response to Katie Steckles crunches the numbers
James Lovelock’s work, while scientists while neuroscientist Niki Ray explains
from the Natural Environment Research what goes on inside your head and
Council reveal their latest research psychologist Paul Seager reveals secrets
into atmospherics. of body language and bluffing. Casino
Royale-style black-tie dress is optional,
Audience: Adults but warmly encouraged.
Venue: Museum of Science and Industry
Date: Thursday 20 October Audience: Adults 18+
Time: 6pm – 8pm Venue: Manchester235 Casino
Cost and booking info: Date: Saturday 22 October
Free. Booking required Time: 7pm – 10pm
Cost and booking info:
£12. Booking required
Global science, local impact
Hear how scientific grand challenges are Sustainable eating:
connected to the citizens of Manchester, A reusable menu
as world-leading European scientists
work with local students and artists to Tuck into a menu of sustainable foods,
put big issues under the microscope. as the chef explains its health benefits
These include population health and and environmental importance. With
wellbeing, food security, land use and food wastage increasing across the
sustainable transport. Join the debate planet – especially by supermarkets
and consider which actions you’d take. and hospitality venues – this experience
examines the reuse and repurposing of
Audience: Adults and families 12+ ingredients such as bread and vegetables.
Venue: Number 70 Oxford Street You’ll also learn how to prepare a tasty,
Date: Friday 21 October sustainable meal at home.
Time: 5.30pm – 8.30pm
Cost and booking info: Audience: Adults
Free. Booking required Venue: Marriott Victoria and Albert
Date: Sunday 23 October –
Friday 28 October
Time: 7pm – 9pm, 8pm – 10pm,
9pm – 11pm
Cost and booking info:
£24. Booking required
28Insert coffee to begin
Manchester has a vibrant coffee scene,
including a community of independent
coffee shops and roasters. Baristas are
increasingly encouraged to understand
the science of coffee – and now you can,
too, as you see and taste the effects of
different elements in each cup.
Audience: Adults
Venue: Grindsmith Pod
Date: Monday 24 October –
Tuesday 25 October
Time: 6pm – 8pm Image: Museum of Science and Industry
Cost and booking info: £10. Booking
required
An evening of
Imagining Medicine
Girl Geek dinner: Space Talk to the artist behind the Imagining
rocks on ice Medicine exhibition. Dr Sian Bonnell
photographed students from the
An evening of networking, food and good University of Manchester as they re-
company with Manchester Girl Geeks. enacted illustrations of historical surgical
Make new friends and hear from guest procedures. You can also see the Medical
speaker, Dr Katherine Joy, who’ll be talking Collection up-close and enjoy the gothic
about hunting for meteorites in Antarctica architecture of the library after hours.
– and what this can tell us about the
geological history of planets. Under-16s Audience: Adults 18+
must be accompanied by an adult. Venue: The John Rylands Library
Date: Wednesday 26 October
Audience: Adults and families 12+ Time: 6pm – 8pm
Venue: NoHo Cost and booking info:
Date: Tuesday 25 October Free. Booking required
Time: 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Cost and booking info:
£5. Booking required
Engineering Showoff
From the brains behind Bright Club and
The Story Collider Science Showoff comes Engineering
Showoff, a chance to hear the funny
Enjoy an evening of true, personal stories side of building and looking after the
with a science twist. Five storytellers structures, technology and ideas that
plucked from the Festival line-up share surround us. Engineers from the north
their exciting tales of how science has west’s universities and businesses take
touched their lives. Some stories are to the stage as stand-up comedians,
heartbreaking, some are hilarious, but sharing jokes and anecdotes from their
they’re all true – and, in one way or professional lives.
another, they’re all about science.
Audience: Adults 18+
Audience: Adults 18+ Venue: Pub/Zoo
Venue: International Anthony Date: Wednesday 26 October
Burgess Foundation Time: 7pm – 10.30pm
Date: Tuesday 25 October Cost and booking info:
Time: 6.30pm – 9pm £5. Booking required
Cost and booking info:
£8. Booking required
manchestersciencefestival.com 29Ginesis Menus made by microbes:
Street food
If you love gin, you’ll love this. Experience
the biology of taste and talk about Feast on a range of ingredients that owe
chemical processes including distillation, their production to microorganisms.
infusion and the impact of water. Local Manchester Metropolitan University
specialist Charlie Hooson-Sykes and a microbiologists have teamed up with
member of the Royal Society of Chemistry Grub Mcr to showcase dishes made by
host, while explaining how our past some of Manchester’s best street food
experiences affect which tastes we enjoy. stalls. Bring friends and a big appetite.
Audience: Adults 18+ Audience: Adults 18+
Venue: Chetham’s Library Venue: The Runaway Brewery
Date: Wednesday 26 October Date: Wednesday 26 October
Time: 7pm – 10pm Time: 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Cost and booking info: Cost and booking info:
£20. Booking required £20. Booking required
Manchester Science Festival’s 10th birthday party
Image: Museum of Science and Industry
The Festival celebrates its 10th birthday
this year – which is a very fine excuse Audience: Adults 18+
to throw a party. Grab a slice of cake Venue: Museum of Science and Industry
and celebrate as you look at the science Date: Thursday 27 October
behind birthday parties, including the Time: 7pm – 10.30pm
psychology of clowns, the maths of Cost and booking info:
cake cutting and the fluid dynamics of Free. Booking advised
chocolate fountains.
30Rumnaissance
How have past experiences affected how
we taste and what we like? Join local
specialist Steven James to discover the
chemistry of rum, from distillation to the
ageing process. Different barrels, storage
conditions and exposure to water all play
a part in the finished product.
Audience: Adults 18+
Venue: Chetham’s Library
Date: Thursday 27 October
Time: 7pm – 10pm
Cost and booking info:
£20. Booking required
Image: Museum of Science and Industry
Es-scent-ial science Whiskyology
Explore the science behind scent by Enjoy a tutored tasting of Scotland’s
meeting perfume makers, who explain finest export with local whisky
how chemicals are used to create enthusiasts, who’ll explore the tradition
different, multi-layered fragrances. You of whisky-making and explain the science
can also find your individual scent with behind the distiller’s art. Work your way
experience profiling and visit sensory through six very special drams, discussing
stations to identify your favourite smells. the differences between drinking, tasting
and nosing; and malty myths that should
Audience: Adults 18+ be dismissed.
Venue: Harvey Nichols Manchester
Date: Thursday 27 October Audience: Adults 18+
Time: 6pm – 9pm Venue: Chetham’s Library
Cost and booking info: Date: Friday 28 October
£15. Booking required Time: 7pm – 10pm
Cost and booking info:
£20. Booking required.
Manchester Museum: Late
Enjoy a late-night view of the museum
with the launch of vision technology-
inspired project Ocular Bionica and an
after-hours look at the Animal Kingdoms
exhibition. You can also take a science
literary tour hosted by authors from the
Very Short Introductions book series,
going behind the scenes and exploring
topics as diverse as the ice age and
molecular biology.
Audience: Adults
Venue: Manchester Museum
Date: Thursday 27 October
Time: 6pm – 9pm
Cost and booking info:
Free. Booking advised Image: Robie Basak
manchestersciencefestival.com 31Nobel Prize disco
Image: Museum of Science and Industry
No festival is complete without a
disco, so in honour of Andre Geim and Audience: Adults 18+
Konstantin Novoselov’s Nobel Prize- Venue: Museum of Science and Industry
winning isolation of graphene, we present Date: Friday 28 October
the Nobel Prize disco. Come dressed as Time: 10pm – 2am
your favourite Nobel Prize winner - or Cost and booking info:
winning discovery – and get ready to £5. Booking required
throw some shapes. Einstein moustaches
at the ready…
After School Science Amorance
Club: Colour
What does it take to fall in love?
Miss the fun bits of your school science Is it simply a matter of finding the
lessons? Then you’ll be pleased to hear right person, or is there a scientific
that After School Science Club is back. explanation for what brings two people
Join mathematician Katie Steckles and together? Take part in an experiment
some colourful science stars for an to see whether you can fall in love with
adults-only evening of demonstrations somebody during the Festival. Both
and interactive fun. Plus a bar. And no couples and singles are welcome, so
homework (hurrah!). book your table to dine with an open
mind.
Audience: Adults 18+
Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Audience: Adults 18+
Date: Saturday 29 October Venue: Ziferblat
Time: 6.30pm – 9.30pm Date: Saturday 29 October
Cost and booking info: Time: 7.30pm – 10.30pm
£9.50. Booking advised Cost and booking info:
£30 for two (includes dinner).
Booking required
32Science on screen
Meet some of the people behind pioneering works like the BBC’s Horizon
documentary series and the spectacular effects in sci-fi epic Interstellar.
Plus, explore the scientific realities of popular films featuring space
adventures, tornadoes and viral epidemics.
Adam Chodzko presents
Deep Above
Delve into the relationship between
psychology and climate change as you
watch artist Adam Chodzko’s new film,
Deep Above. Moving image and sound
are used to explore our self-deceptions,
examining the zones between the
rational and irrational – and mind and
body – while adopting the languages of
meditation, hypnosis and ‘self help’.
Audience: Adults and teenagers 13+
(under 18s to be accompanied by
an adult)
Venue: Texture
Date: Saturday 22 October
Time: 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Cost and booking info: Image: Adam Chodzko
Free. Booking required
Star Trek: First Contact –
20th anniversary
Watch a special screening of 1996 film
Star Trek: First Contact and talk about
the science and history of the Star
Trek universe, with super-fans Dr Jamie
Gallagher and Chris Dunford. In the film,
Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart)
and the crew of the USS Enterprise face
off against terrifying deep-space force
The Borg. Could it ever happen for real?
Audience: Adults and families 12+ (under
12s to be accompanied by an adult)
Venue: Odeon, The Printworks
Date: Sunday 23 October
Time: 7.30pm – 10.30pm
Cost and booking info:
£8. Booking required
Image: Paramount Pictures
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