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Manchester Thursday 18 October – Science Sunday 28 October Festival Produced by
Welcome to
Manchester Science Festival
It’s a huge pleasure to introduce this Create, play and experiment with science
year’s programme. at this year's Manchester Science Festival.
This Festival started life twelve years Experience what it's like to step inside a
ago as a small, grassroots event and black hole with Distortions in Spacetime,
has grown steadily to become the a brand new immersive artwork by
largest, most playful and most popular cutting-edge audiovisual pioneers
Science Festival in the country. Marshmallow Laser Feast. Play among
gravitational waves and encounter one
Here at the Science and Industry of the biggest mysteries of the universe.
Museum we’re immensely proud to
produce the Festival each year as it is Electricity: The spark of life is our
an incredible opportunity to work with headline exhibition for 2018. Explore
wonderful partners and venues across with us this vital but invisible force
Greater Manchester. All of our partners from its discovery in nature to our
continue to surprise us with new ideas high tech dependence on it today.
for ways to get more people excited Award-winning data design studio
about the science that shapes our lives. Tekja has created a new “electric”
installation that captures the sheer
On behalf of the wider Festival scale of electricity used in the North
community, I would like to extend West. This beautiful and thought-
a particularly warm welcome to all our provoking experience will encourage
new partners this year, from community you to imagine the new ways electricity
interest company Reform Radio to might be made and used in the future.
acclaimed choreographer Shobana Tekja’s work joins that of international
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Jeyasingh and Germany-based European film artist Bill Morrison and digital
Southern Observatory to name a few. sculptor John Gerrard to create
a triptych of interpretive art.
Thank you also to our fantastic sponsors.
We simply could not produce the Festival Biotechnology is advancing at incredible
without your support and commitment. speed. Step into the future at You Have 4 Headline Programme
Been Upgraded, a bold and inspiring
Whatever events you’re attending,
I promise you insights, inspiration
showcase of human enhancement and
biohacking with Unlimited Theatre.
7 Fun For All Ages
and surprises!
It takes great collaborations to create
18 Art Meets Science
Sally MacDonald Manchester Science Festival. We are
Director working with more than 100 partners 25 Make, Do and Hack
Science and Industry Museum to offer you the opportunity to explore,
discover and celebrate science by 33 Conversations
participating in bold, creative and
ambitious events taking place in 36 Science After Dark
more than 65 venues across Greater
Manchester and beyond. 39 Science On Screen
I look forward to seeing you 41 Walks and Tours
at the Festival.
42 At-a-Glance Guide
Antonio Benitez
Director 46 General Information
Manchester Science Festival
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Headline Programme
You Have Been Upgraded
Explore life, the universe and pretty much everything else in between at this Welcome to the world of tomorrow
year’s Manchester Science Festival. Experience what it might be like to step into where fantastical start-up firm Unlimited
a black hole with the stunning Distortions in Spacetime. Test the limits of human Enhancement Technologies will help you
enhancement with You Have Been Upgraded. Then discover more about the spark upgrade your operating system and indulge
that powers the world around us in Electricity: The spark of life. your inner Iron Man. Test the limits of human
enhancement by checking out high-tech
prosthetics and see how virtual reality
is revolutionising medicine. You might also
come face to face with a real life cyborg
as for one night only the museum hosts
a biohacking bash where science fiction
Distortions in Spacetime and science fact collide.
What would it feel like to step into a black Audience: Adults and teenagers 16+
hole? Prepare to be stretched, squashed Venue: Science and Industry Museum
and spaghettified as a spacetime singularity Date: Thursday 18 October
pops up in the 1830 Warehouse. Distortions Time: 7.30pm – 10pm (doors 7pm)
in Spacetime is the latest sensory creation Cost and booking info: £5. Booking required
by cutting-edge audiovisual pioneers
Marshmallow Laser Feast. Play among the Also see Future Bodies (page 18)
particle jets and see the light as you journey
through the depths of space and experience
one of the biggest mysteries of the universe
unravel all around you. It’s going to be out
of this world.
Audience: Adults and families 7+
Venue: Science and Industry Museum
Date: Thursday 18 October –
Sunday 28 October
Time: 10am – 5pm (Adults and families 7+).
Check website for special after hours
openings (Adults 18+)
Cost and booking info:
Free. Booking required (limited tickets
available to book on the day at the venue,
see website for more info)
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Electricity: The spark of life Fun For All Ages
Electricity is a powerful force of nature, Bust some moves to the sound of light, pedal for your power and find out how
spectacular and thrilling. For centuries,
humans battled to harness and control it. you can save the world with fish poo. A renewable source of fun for everyone –
Today electricity is central to our existence. with gadgets, gizmos and goo galore.
We use it without thinking about it and only
notice it when it isn’t there.
Featuring stunning commissions from three Frankenstein's Frogs Mirror Pillar
contemporary artists, Electricity: The spark
of life examines how scientists experimented They’re… ALIVE! Hop to it and discover how Take a peek into the mirror universe. Look
with electricity and how mass generation electricity powers nature. Make your own at any of these artworks directly and you’ll
and distribution changed our lives. folded paper frog, then bring your little see a complete mess, but glance through
amphibian amigo to life using static electricity, the Mirror Pillar, and all will be suddenly
Through iconic objects such as Edison the pulsating force found in everything from revealed. As the mirror bends, bounces
lightbulbs and emerging smart technologies, buzzing bees to lightning flashes. Just like and contorts light, you’ll see the artworks
we uncover how supply companies the experiments that sparked Mary Shelley’s as they’re meant to be. Gawp, marvel, then
convinced us of electricity’s importance imagination and powered up Frankenstein, make your own twisted creation in the
and explore electricity’s place in a low come and create your own franken-frog reflective world of mirror art.
carbon future. in this fun-filled craft activity.
Audience: Families 10+
This is a Wellcome Collection exhibition Audience: Families 5+ Date, venue and time:
in collaboration with Teylers Museum, Venue: Science and Industry Museum Central Library,
Netherlands and the Science and Industry Date and time: Thursday 18 October – Saturday 20 October, 10am – 4pm
Museum, Manchester Friday 19 October, 2.30pm – 4.30pm, Google Digital Garage,
Saturday 20 October – Sunday 28 October, Sunday 21 October, 11am – 4pm
Audience: Adults 11am – 4.30pm Lime Square, Openshaw,
Venue: Science and Industry Museum Cost and booking info: Monday 22 October, 10am – 4pm
Date: Thursday 18 October – Free. Drop in any time Harpurhey Shopping Centre,
Sunday 28 April 2019 Tuesday 23 October, 10am – 4pm
Time: 10am – 5pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time
Cost and booking info:
Free. Drop in any time Conservation Science:
Preventing Extinction
Power Playground
Join the conservation conversation. Wander
through Chester Zoo and The University Generate a whole lot of energy at our action
of Manchester’s pop-up lab and discover packed weekend. Discover environmentally
how they are working together to save some friendly future fuel cells and fire them up
of the world’s most endangered species. to snap a selfie with a thermal camera. See
Sulawesi crested macaques, Asian songbirds, what the future holds and explore a virtual
black rhinos and mountain zebras, they’re wind farm using drones, make your own
all featured and they all need your help. solar powered car and much, much more.
Do your bit by catching up with conservation
scientists, exploring research from the field Audience: All ages
and taking part in a live link with a Kenyan lab. Venue: Science and Industry Museum
Date: Saturday 20 October –
Audience: Families 10+ Sunday 21 October
Venue: Great Northern Time: 10am – 5pm
Date and time: Thursday 18 October – Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time
Sunday 28 October, open 24 hours
(staff from Chester Zoo will be around
to chat on Saturday 20 October –
Tuesday 23 October, 2pm – 7pm)
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time
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The Sound of Light Lead educational partner
GameLab
Get light on your feet and bust some
moves through the beats and beams in this GameLab is back with puzzles, problem-
audio-visual extravaganza of light and sound. solving and experimental gaming. We’re
Lose yourself in Noise Orchestra’s immersive teaming up with VR Manchester to bring
art installation, which transforms light into you everything from virtual reality to e-sport.
a feast for the ears using electronic gadgets Plus, you can have a go at coding drones
and paper stencils. Dance with your shadows and experience first-hand how cutting-edge
and prepare to make some shapes. research across science, tech and media
is changing the world.
Audience: All ages
Venue: Science and Industry Museum Audience: Families 5+
Date: Saturday 20 October – Venue: MediaCityUK campus,
Sunday 28 October University of Salford
Time: 10.30am – 4pm Date: Saturday 20 October –
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Sunday 21 October
Time: 11am – 5pm
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time
Science Spectacular The Flash Bang Show As part of GameLab, you can also enjoy:
Colourful chemistry, phagecraft It’s going off in a big way. Doing exactly what
and supersymmetry all in one place? it says on the (exploding syrup) tin, come Community Science Showcase
It can mean only one thing: Science and be blasted with colourful explosions
Spectacular is back! Discover the bugs so and chemical reactions. Witness everything Brilliant things can happen with the power
infectious they actually infect other bugs, from rapid colour changes to clock reactions, of the community. Makers, scientists and
hunt for meteorites and get elementary gun cotton, sticky tape bombs, indoor community groups come together to solve
with dark matter. With tonnes of have-a-go fireworks, hydrogen rockets, water fires and problems, create tools and use data to make
activities to do and spectacular shows to phosphorus globes, and start your festival discoveries about where they live. From
see, it’s guaranteed fun for all the family. with a bang. growing food, to monitoring air quality and
the weather, we invite you to help us shape
Audience: Families 5+ Audience: Families 5+ the future of our neighbourhoods and make
Venue: Whitworth Hall and Manchester Venue: The Met them a better place to live.
Museum, The University of Manchester Date: Saturday 20 October
Date: Saturday 20 October Time: 4pm – 5pm Audience: Adults and families 12+
Time: 11am – 4pm Cost and booking info: £5. Booking required Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time
MICROBIhOME
Look who’s coming to dinner. And to the
bathroom. And to the kitchen… Some house
guests just don’t know when to leave, and
thankfully, the organisms that live in your
body are no exception. Explore the eclectic
microbial world within you, listen to their
DNA signatures, make “bioselfies” and sink
beneath the biofilm on a virtual reality tour.
Audience: Families 5+
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time
Check the website for full details
of our activities
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Snowtek 2018 Been Through the Mill Science Busking on Tour
Let’s get radical at this not-so-chilled The mill at Quarry Bank was a gory, gruesome It’s time to make some slime, from gloopy
out ski slope snowfest. Chill Factore has place. Millworkers found themselves getting goo to slippery slop in whatever colour you
teamed up with sports engineers to help ice all sorts of horrible injuries, and you can get can create. Take the fork and cork balancing
enthusiasts fire up their game. Showcasing an eyeful of all the nitty-gritty, grisly details. challenge and get out of a quantum tangle
everything from the physics of flips to Discover what it would have been like to work with string experiments. Keep your reflexes
the latest advances in body armour, snow with a disability in the 19th century, meet sharp and brain on the ball with these crazy,
aficionados will get fascinating insights into an actual mill doctor and compare historical quickfire experiments at our pop-up lab
what goes on behind the scenes of the treatments with today’s medical advances. packed with laughter and silliness.
world’s coolest sports.
Audience: Families 3+ Slime and Crime Audience: Families 6+
Some of the demos and showcases take Venue: Quarry Bank, National Trust Venue, date and time:
place on the main slope, so you’ll need Date: Monday 22 October – Lawbreakers are roving about: slimy crimey Newton Heath Library,
to be a competent skier to take part. Friday 26 October types and grubby fingered felons. It’s up to Monday 22 October, 11.30am – 12.30pm
Time: 11am – 4pm you to catch them. Choose who you want Abraham Moss Library,
Audience: Adults and families 5+ Cost and booking info: to pursue in our mobile lab, exploring the Monday 22 October, 2.30pm – 3.30pm
Venue: Chill Factore Free (included in venue admission fee). weird and wonderful world of chemical Longsight Library,
Date: Sunday 21 October No need to book investigation. Prepare to get messy with Tuesday 23 October, 11.30am – 12.30pm
Time: 6pm – 10pm slime making or make your own unique Moss Side Powerhouse Library,
Cost and booking info: Most of the event fingerprint keyrings to take home. But be Tuesday 23 October, 3.30pm – 4.30pm
is free to enjoy, but you’ll need to buy a lift Science Showdown: Electricity quick, the baddies are about to get away… Central Library,
pass to ski on the slope. Reduced rate lift Wednesday 24 October,
passes for skiers start from £10 Who’d win in a fight: a bulb or a blender? Audience: Families 4+ 11.30am – 12.30pm, 2.30pm – 3.30pm
Household items go to war in this electrifying (under 6s to be accompanied by an adult) Didsbury Library,
show. Featuring live experiments and oodles Venue: Various locations, Thursday 25 October, 11.30am – 12.30pm
Hidden Treasure Tour of audience participation, you are invited to see website for more info Chorlton Library,
come and explore the power of electricity Date: Monday 22 October – Thursday 25 October, 2.30pm – 3.30pm
Walk like an Egyptian, right into the treasure and decide once and for all which electrical Friday 26 October Cost and booking info:
vaults of ancient history. This magical item will be crowned champion of the Time: 11am – 11.45am, 12pm – 12.45pm, Free. Booking required
mystery tour begins with a secret. The Science Showdown. 1.30pm – 2.15pm, 2.30pm – 3.15pm
location will only be released 48 hours Cost and booking info: Also see Science@Central (page 13)
before the event, giving you just enough time Audience: Families 5+ Free. Book on the day at the venue
to crack out your hat, whip and leather coat Venue: Science and Industry Museum
before you can start exploring the hidden Date: Monday 22 October –
treasures of Rochdale’s Egyptian collection. Friday 26 October
Time: 11am – 11.20am, 12pm – 12.20pm,
Audience: Families 7+ 1pm – 1.20pm, 2pm – 2.20pm, 3pm – 3.20pm Deep Ocean Lab
Venue: Secret location in Rochdale,
revealed 48 hours before the event
Cost and booking info: Free. No need to book
with Greg Foot
Date: Monday 22 October
Time to get deep. No, deeper. Deeper even
Time: 10am – 11am, 1pm – 2pm
than that. So deep the blue turns to black…
Cost and booking info: £4. Booking required
Join Blue Peter science guy Greg Foot as
he recounts the fascinating story of his
adventure on a deep sea research vessel. He’ll
talk you through his job, editing and hosting
Half Earth Day videos from 1000ft down as he explored one
of the world’s most mysterious ecosystems.
Half Earth Day will be buzzing with brilliant Audience: Families 5+
minds sharing ideas to celebrate this global Venue: Manchester Museum Audience: Families 8+
campaign to save half the world for all of life. Date: Monday 22 October Venue: The Lowry
See plastic coughed up by seabirds, discover Time: 11am – 4pm Date: Monday 22 October
ancient Egyptian beehives and find out more Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Time: 2pm – 2.45pm
about our living colonies on the roof. Take Cost and booking info:
a closer look at the museum’s rich collection £13 / £9 (concessions available, booking
and the stories it can tell us about our fees may apply). Booking required
precious planet Earth.
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Manchester Mills Demos Wunderkammer
Wheels churn like the clackers. Machines May wunders never cease. Welcome the
roar like thunder. Looms leap into life. Wrap ‘wunderkammer,’ also known as a cabinet of
yourselves up in the mystery of the mills as curiosity. We’re inviting you to throw it open
we weave together the world of Manchester’s and goggle at all the weird and wonderful
diverse community of millworkers. Feel the objects from the natural and medical world.
frenzy of industry as we bring to life our Discover the mysterious histories behind
most prized collection of objects and turn these bizarre trinkets as they tell a story that
raw cotton into fine products like calico stretches from the depths of scientific past
cloth. This special edition of our regular to the present and beyond.
demo will run in both English and Bengali,
in honour of the many Bangladeshi mill Audience: Families 7+
workers who contributed significantly Venue: The John Rylands Library
to Manchester’s Cottonopolis story. Date: Tuesday 23 October and
Thursday 25 October
Audience: Adults and families 5+ Time: 2pm – 4pm
Venue: Science and Industry Museum Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Science@Central
Date and time: Tuesday 23 October, 10.30am
– 11.15am (families 5+), Sunday 28 October, Take a leaf out of our book and explore
4pm – 4.45pm (adults) the story-filled shelves and scientific
Cost and booking info: Free. No need to book Waters Wacky Science Lab secrets of Manchester’s historic Central
Library. Meet the people in charge of looking
Grab your lab coats and join Waters after this trove of treasures and blow off
scientists for this fun-filled activity session some dust as you dig around in the archives.
for all the family. Get ready to play with We’ll also be getting digital with doodle pen
Ibn al-Haytham: Mysteries of How We See quicksand, experiment with magnets, build activities and more.
megastructures, set off stixplosions, rockets
and much, much more… Audience: Families 6+
Venue: Central Library
Audience: Families 5+ Date: Wednesday 24 October
Venue: Science and Industry Museum Time: 11am – 4pm
Date: Wednesday 24 October Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time
Time: 10am – 4pm
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Also see Science Busking on Tour (page 11)
Electricycle Avenue
You’ve heard of singing for your supper, but
how about pedalling for your power? Pedals
power almost everything at this cycling
extravaganza. Fancy a drink? Pedal harder.
More music? Pedal harder! Once you’ve done
your bit, step off the bikes and hear from
author and TV personality Dr Emily Grossman.
You’ll also get to dive into a treasure hunt
and meet some very special cycling guests.
Join 1001 Inventions and discover the world
Audience: Families 7+
of 10th century Arabian scientist Ibn Audience: Adults and families 5+
Venue: Central Library
al-Haytham. Watch legendary actor Omar Venue: Manchester Technology Centre
Date and time: Tuesday 23 October,
Sharif in an exciting short film, explore and Hatch
Wednesday 24 October and
how we see with a camera obscura, learn Date: Thursday 25 October
Friday 26 October, 11am – 8pm,
about optical illusions and engage in fun Time: 11am – 3pm (families 5+),
Saturday 27 October, 11am – 5pm
demonstrations of light, optics and vision. 5pm – 10pm (adults 18+)
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time
Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required
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Fish Poo Can Save the World In a Right Pickle
Ever wondered how far your food has Does a little crisp and crunchy veg pickle
travelled before it reaches your plate? What your fancy? Get stuck in to making your own
if we could grow our own, much closer pickles and take them home to keep for the
to home? Well, we can, thanks to some winter. It’s a great way to use up spare greens
amazing farming techniques and a special and do your bit for the local food revolution.
ingredient – fish poo! Meet the Tilapia fish, We'll make veg crowns with accompanying
say “hi” to the worms and check out what’s little ones and have loads of recipes, and
growing in the Geodome. pickles, to play with too. Remember to bring
your own recycled jar and lid.
Audience: Families 10+
Venue: Real Food Wythenshawe Audience: Adults and families 10+
Geodome, The Manchester College Venue: Real Food Wythenshawe Tent, The
(Wythenshawe Campus) Manchester College (Wythenshawe Campus) Science Stories The Ugly Animal Roadshow
Date: Friday 26 October Date: Friday 26 October
Time: 10.30am – 12.30pm Time: 10.30am – 12.30pm What do you get when you mix imagination, Cute don’t cut it in the animal kingdom.
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time experimentation and a whole heap of fun? So, we’re booting adorable out the door,
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time
Science Stories! Get ready to make, write, and welcoming in the most monstrous,
draw and more at this year’s family friendly hideous, odious, fabulous creatures we
extravaganza. Wrap your head around the could find, letting you explore the incredible
Image: Feedback. Photo by Perry Bindelglass Dolly the Onion: Giant Growing mathematics of weaving and feed your biology of the world’s ugliest animals. Find
curiosity for food technology. Sit back, relax out what adaptations make them amazing
Want to be a giant in the garden or a leek and enjoy our poetry and storytelling sessions, and how such hideous creatures evolved
geek? Get your gardening gloves on and then be inspired to put pen to paper in the first place.
come meet Real Food Wythenshawe’s and create your own.
gardening guru, who’ll show you how to grow Audience: Families 6+
enormous onions and larger-than-life leeks. Audience: Families 5 – 11 Venue: Gallery Oldham
Think big, grow big, and find out how you can Venue: Wythenshawe Forum Date: Saturday 27 October
make the most of your vegetable patch. Date: Saturday 27 October Time: 1pm – 2pm, 3pm – 4pm
Time: 11am – 3pm Cost and booking info: £2. Booking required
Audience: Families 10+ Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time
Venue: Horticultural Centre Glasshouse,
Wythenshawe Park
Date: Friday 26 October
Time: 1.30pm – 3pm
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Image: Big Fish Little Fish Events Big Fish Little Fish presents
Animal Fantastical
Revel in the animal madness of this
Ready Steady Rocket Every Contact Leaves a Trace family-friendly rave up. Come dance
as a family while Hacienda legend DJ Chad
Go ‘loco’ and celebrate the return of A crime has been committed and you’re our Jackson spins banger after banger. Sink
Stephenson’s Rocket to Manchester for the only hope. Pick up your clipboard and start your teeth into everything from bubbles
first time in over 180 years. Rocket was built to poking around our mobile lab taking ink to confetti cannons, balloons, crafting tables
run on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, fingerprints, checking footprints and using and colouring-in murals. Meet Safari Phil’s
now home to the Science and Industry digital microscopes to unravel the mystery animals, have a roaringly good time with
Museum. Build your own balloon transport, with tricks of the trade from our forensic fun and games from the author of Dinosaur
follow the rail trail and race your very own scientist. It’d be criminal to miss it. Atlas and much, much more.
Rocket at our special family day, developed
with children from a local primary school. Audience: Families 4+ Audience: Families 0 – 8
(under 6s to be accompanied by an adult) Venue: The Birdcage
Audience: Families 5+ Venue: Commonplace double decker bus, Date: Sunday 28 October
Venue: Science and Industry Museum One New Bailey Time: 2pm – 4.30pm
Date: Saturday 27 October – Date: Saturday 27 October – Cost and booking info:
Sunday 28 October Sunday 28 October £8.50 / £6.50 (concessions available, free
Time: 10am – 5pm Time: 11am – 3.30pm for pre-walking babies). Booking required
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time
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Fun For All Ages: The Problem with Plastic Awesome Animals and
Epic Engineers
Platform for Investigation Plastic? It’s the final straw! Piles of single-
use packets and products are polluting our How would it feel to see like a sea creature?
planet to devasting effect and it’s going take How do bioengineers make materials that
Powered by a lot of bottle (not plastic ones) to start mimic mayfly wings or glow like a jellyfish?
turning back the tide. From banning shopping Unearth the amazing ways in which evolution
bags to revolutionising recycling, come and and animal mechanics are inspiring engineers
find out what’s being done, and what you to develop new sensors, substances and
Come face to face with some of the brightest brains with our Platform for can do to help. materials that will transform our future,
Investigation (Pi) powered by Siemens. Wake up to the future of artificial where biology meets eye-popping design.
Audience: Families 7+
intelligence, turn your eyes to the skies with the folk behind an extremely large Venue: Science and Industry Museum Audience: Families 7+
telescope, wise up on allergy busting and get under the skin of human evolution. Date: Wednesday 24 October Venue: Science and Industry Museum
Time: 10.30am – 4pm Date: Saturday 27 October
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Time: 10.30am – 4pm
Me vs Machine Best Foot Forward Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time
Artificial intelligence making you feel thick? Garlic wards off vampires, but can it ward
Worried machines might steal your job? Fret off diabetes? The greatest minds of our The Superhuman Body
not: computer scientists are here to help generation are thinking on their feet in the Human Evolution
you beat the machines at their own game. fight against this debilitating condition, and Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s your
Grapple with coding, graphics and software we’re inviting you to pick their brains. Zoom body: home to the most powerful team What skeletons are lurking in the closet of
design and get stuck into activities like around our ‘driving with diabetes’ simulator, of superheroes in existence. Fight viruses, human evolution? Time to get under the skin
PixelArt, ‘I, Teacher’ and Bots of Fun. try out our FootSnap app to see how healthy power up your immune system, fly around of our species’ history and find out. Explore
your feet are and leave your own footprint your circulatory system and take on evil the timeline of ‘human’ evolution, discovering
Audience: Families 7+ for our mural. supervillains as you discover that superhero differences between the human skeleton
Venue: Science and Industry Museum powers really were inside you the whole time. and those of our ancestors and how that
Date: Saturday 20 October Audience: Families 7+ influenced our capacity for speech, music,
Time: 10.30am – 4pm Venue: Science and Industry Museum Audience: Families 7+ artwork and even our belief systems.
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Date: Monday 22 October Venue: Science and Industry Museum
Time: 10.30am – 4pm Date: Thursday 25 October Audience: Families 7+
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Time: 10.30am – 4pm Venue: Science and Industry Museum
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Date: Sunday 28 October
Allergy Busters Also see Seven Thousand Feet (page 20) Time: 10.30am – 4pm
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time
Crack out the tissues and stock up on
antihistamines – it’s time to take a nosey Biggest Eyes to the Skies
at the wonderful world of allergies. Poke For the Kids, By the Kids
around our giant nose to find out what’s Something extremely big is going down
making you sneeze. You can also get The kids are alright. Abraham Moss’s budding in Chile. For one day only, grab a sneak
experimental with microscopes, airway scientists have been busy: building cranes, peek into the fascinating universe of
models and peak flow tests to find out investigating hydraulics, testing reaction The Extremely Large Telescope from the
what makes us allergic, and help our team times and guillotining chocolate. Now brains behind the project at the European
discover the treatments of the future. it’s time to present their findings. Come Southern Observatory. Build a telescope
and be schooled by kids who’ll prove using mirrors and lasers, snap infrared
Audience: Families 7+ to you once and for all that when it comes pictures of exotic planets and discover
Venue: Science and Industry Museum to science, there really is no age limit. how to see through dustclouds.
Date: Sunday 21 October
Time: 10.30am – 4pm Audience: Families 7+ Audience: Families 7+
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Venue: Science and Industry Museum Venue: Science and Industry Museum
Date: Tuesday 23 October Date: Friday 26 October
Time: 10.30am – 4pm Time: 10.30am – 4pm
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time
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Art Meets Science Man on the Moon Changing Textiles: Ya-Chu Kang
Journey through space and time in this If you’re curious about textiles, Cottonopolis
Get your teenage kicks with experimental dance and visual explosions, as laser moving performance fuelled by love, fear is the place to be. Internationally renowned
and Afrofuturism. Writer Keisha Thompson Taipei-based artist Ya-Chu Kang weaves
shows meet laboratory, movement merges with music and concerts create colour. paints us a poignant, autobiographical her way to Manchester to soak up some
From virtual soundscapes to Taiwanese textiles, you’ll never see or think about picture of fatherhood, creating a compelling inspiration for her UK premiere exhibition
science in quite the same way. protagonist out of her own experiences, Changing Textiles. Ya-Chu will craft a new
one who uses mathematical and scientific artwork that uncovers the fabric of the city’s
references to explore the Black British industrial past and threads together the
experience, masculinity and mental health. untold stories that have left a lasting imprint
on the Manchester we know today.
Audience: Adults and families 12+
Future Bodies Clod Ensemble’s Placebo Venue: STUN Studio at Z-arts Audience: All ages
Date and time: Tuesday 16 October – Venue: Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art
Death isn’t final, it’s just a glitch. Seven dancers and an audience. A room full Friday 19 October, 7.30pm – 9pm, Date: Thursday 18 October – Sunday 28
This collaboration between Unlimited of expectation, suggestion and infectious Wednesday 17 October, Thursday 18 October October (except Monday 22 October)
Theatre and RashDash interrogates the idea rhythm. What is fake? What is real? What and Saturday 20 October, 1pm – 2.30pm Time: 10am – 5pm
that human enhancement technologies is movement and what is medicine? Be Cost and booking info: £13 / £7 Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time
mean immortality is finally within reach. enthralled by this beguiling, bewitching and (concessions available). Booking required
Exploring brain implants, smart drugs, and thought-provoking dance show, one that
artificial intelligence, this creative marvel celebrates the power of placebos and our Also see Beyond Man on the Moon: Poetry
smashes together science fact and fiction incredible ability to make ourselves feel and Mathematics (page 26), Beyond Man on Changing Textiles:
in a kaleidoscopic montage of words, music
and movement.
better, even when things are falling apart. the Moon: Loop Pedalling and Songwriting A Closer Look
(page 26) and Beyond Man on the Moon:
Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ Afrofuturism and Poetry (page 30) Meet the artist and find out more about
Audience: Adults and teenagers 16+ Venue: The Lowry Ya-Chu Kang’s fascination with the city’s
Venue: HOME Date: Thursday 11 October – textile heritage and its impact on the wider
Date and time: Friday 28 September – Saturday 13 October world. Hear how she weaves science and
Saturday 13 October 7.45pm – 9pm, Time: 8pm – 9pm technology into her work and discuss the
Saturday 6 October, Wednesday 10 October Cost and booking info: Cluster possibilities presented by graphene, another
and Saturday 13 October, 2.45pm – 4pm £15 / £12 (concessions available, game-changing discovery that happened
Cost and booking info: booking fees apply). Booking required Science and art collide in this visual and right here in Manchester.
£12.50 / £10.50 (concessions available, sound exhibition that draws charge from
booking fees may apply). Booking required both fields. Each featured artist has drawn Audience: Adults and families 12+
on scientific research to create artwork Venue: Science and Industry Museum
Placebo: A Closer Look tackling everything from DNA breakdown to Date: Wednesday 24 October
mental health stigma and cancer treatment, Time: 11am – 3pm
Touch Tour: Future Bodies Join Clod Ensemble Artistic Directors Suzy sparking all sorts of ideas about how close Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time
Willson and Paul Clark for a post-show art and science really are.
This special event invites visually Q&A, chaired by Gianna Bouchard, as they Also see Live and Let Dye (page 29)
impaired visitors to get to know the set, explore the ideas and research that underpin Audience: Adults and families 12+
explore key props and costumes and meet the performance and inspired its carefully Venue: OA Studios
the performers. crafted choreography. Date: Thursday 18 October –
Sunday 28 October
Audience: Adults and teenagers 16+ Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ Time: 9am – 5pm
Venue: HOME Venue: The Lowry Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time
Date and time: Saturday 13 October, Date: Friday 12 October
1pm – 2pm Time: 9pm – 9.30pm Also see Going Out With a BANG (page 38)
Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required Cost and booking info:
Free to ticket holders. No need to book
Also see You Have Been Upgraded (page 5)
Also see Placebo: Doctor You (page 25),
Placebo: The Power of the Placebo Effect
(page 34), Placebo: Sound Affects (page 34),
and Placebo: Social Prescription (page 34)
Image: Artwork by Ya-Chu Kang
18 manchestersciencefestival.com 19Ice Queens: Fashion Joule: Energy and Engines Virtual Soundscapes
and the Antarctic
Celebrate steam engines, mesmerising Prick up your virtual ears and step into Audience: Adults and teenagers 13+
The catwalk’s frozen over. High fashion mechanical models and the 200th birthday musical history with a little help from Venue: Central Library
meets the Antarctic tundra in this remarkable of Salford resident and experimenter in all a virtual reality headset. Wander around two Date: Thursday 18 October –
collaboration between the British Antarctic things electricity and energy, James Joule. magical historical venues, St Cecilia’s Hall in Saturday 27 October (except Sundays)
Survey and fashion designer Andrea Zapp. See the instruments he used to develop Edinburgh and the Chapel Royal at Linlithgow Time: 9am – 8pm (Monday – Thursday),
Exploring how data and rare Antarctic his ideas and get to know the man who Palace, experiencing not only the music of 9am – 5pm (Friday and Saturday)
photography can be used as a basis for fabric gave his name to an international unit of the era you’re seeing, but the sights and Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time
design, this stunning display projects scientific measurement at this special display, which sensations of the spaces themselves.
data over an array of clothes and garments shines a light on Joule’s world-changing work.
to create a fashion line like no other.
Audience: Adults
Venue: Central Library
Audience: Adults and families 12+
Venue: St Ann’s Church Date: Thursday 18 October – Scored in Silence Depths of my Mind
Date: Thursday 18 October – December 2018 (except Sundays)
Time: 9am – 8pm (Monday – Thursday), The atomic bombs that fell on Japan changed Beautiful minds make for breathtaking
Saturday 20 October, the world, but deaf concept artist and backdrops in this stunning live show.
Tuesday 23 October – Saturday 27 October 9am – 5pm (Friday and Saturday)
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time choreographer Chisato Minamimura wants Through a carefully choreographed mastery
Time: 10am – 5pm to share with you how they changed people. of aerial acrobatics, visual theatre and
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Experience this mesmerising live signed stunning projections of the teenage
performance exploring the stories of the deaf brain, you can explore just how beautiful
‘hibakusha’, survivors of the A-bombs in 1945, our minds really are. Using the latest
Image: Christine Wilcox-Baker
blending sound, vibration and sign language developments in neuroimaging, Scarabeus
Nature Through Roman Eyes: with wearable vibrotactile technology. Aerial Theatre will bring the teenage mind
A Closer Look to life in a completely new way.
Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+
Author, naturalist, natural philosopher, Venue: International Anthony Audience: Families 10+
soldier; Pliny the Elder had quite the life, Burgess Foundation Venue: The Lowry
and this is your last chance to see it Date and time: Friday 19 October, Date and time: Friday 19 October,
up close. Walk amongst the exhibits and 2pm – 3.30pm, 8pm – 9.30pm, 7.30pm – 8.30pm, Saturday 20 October,
gain a startling insight into how Romans Saturday 20 October, 8pm – 9.30pm 3pm – 4pm, 7.30pm – 8.30pm
understood and made use of the natural Cost and booking info: £5 / £3 Cost and booking info:
world, from wonders of the animal kingdom Seven Thousand Feet (concessions available). Booking required £16 / £14 (concessions available,
to botany’s finest plants and trees. Keep booking fees apply). Booking required
an eye out for our pop-up station, where Marvel at the sight of seven thousand socks
researchers will be on hand to showcase hanging high, as artist Christine Wilcox-Baker Scored in Silence:
how the natural world has influenced
modern medicine, like developments
socks it to diabetes with an epic installation.
A Closer Look Depths of my Mind:
Every year, over seven thousand lower limbs
in anti-inflammatory drugs. are amputated in the UK due to diabetes and A Closer Look
Stick around after the performance
this giant artwork brings that home. There’ll
for a D/deaf-friendly Q&A session with Join us for a post event discussion with
Audience: Adults and families 12+ be games to play, art to do and people in
the artist. Find out more about the tech Artistic Director of Scarabeus Aerial Theatre
(exhibition), All ages (pop-up station) the know to meet, so you can discover more
used in the performance and gain a deeper Daniela Essart, Child and Adolescent
Venue: Manchester Museum about how we can defeat this condition.
insight in to the history and experiences Psychiatrist Professor Ian Goodyer and young
Date and time: Thursday 18 October –
of deaf people in nuclear fallout, from people involved in the creation of the show.
Sunday 28 October, 10am – 5pm Check the website for full details of our
the effects of chemicals to the power
(researchers will be around to chat daily activities
of the human spirit. Audience: Families 10+
on Tuesday 23 October – Thursday
25 October, 1pm – 3pm) Audience: All ages Venue: The Lowry
Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ Date and time: Friday 19 October,
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Venue: Central Library
Venue: International Anthony 8.45pm – 9pm
Date: Thursday 18 October – Wednesday 14
Burgess Foundation Cost and booking info:
November (except Sundays)
Date and time: Friday 19 October, Free to ticket holders. No need to book
Time: 9am – 8pm (Monday – Thursday),
3.35pm – 4.15pm, 9.35pm – 10.15pm,
9am – 5pm (Friday and Saturday)
Saturday 20 October, 9.35pm – 10.15pm
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time
Cost and booking info:
Free to ticket holders. No need to book
Also see Best Foot Forward (page 16)
20 manchestersciencefestival.com 21Seeing Sound: The Science Studio The Music of the Primes Image: Jason Lock
A Chromesthesia Concert
Roll up your sleeves, as it’s time to get crafty. Prime numbers are mysterious, but are they
Ever wanted to taste a colour? Or feel a Step into the studio and get up close and musical? Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy
smell? Or see music? This chromesthesia personal with the chemicals, reactions and and composer Emily Howard certainly think
concert is for you. Based on the very real elements artists use in their work. You’ll see so. Last year, they told the tale of The Music
medical condition of sensory wires in the everything from sculpture design to clay of Proof, and now they are returning to
brain getting muddled, experience how making and glass moulding and you’ll get present the mathematical story of The Music
technology can make this phenomenon visible the chance to put your own creativity to the of the Primes. Immerse yourself in sound
for the first time. See how a string quartet’s test. No prior experience necessary, just lots and numbers as part of this extraordinary
music can be transformed into a breathtaking of enthusiasm and a big imagination. experience, as your hosts weave music
visual display right before your eyes. and prime numbers together to create
Audience: Adults and families 7+ a sense of never ending time.
Audience: Adults and families 12+ Venue: Manchester Craft and Design Centre Sentinel
Venue: The Stoller Hall Date: Monday 22 October – Audience: Adults and families 12+
Date: Saturday 20 October Saturday 27 October Venue: RNCM Rolling synths and electro rhythms cascade
Time: 6pm – 6.45pm (doors 5.30pm) Time: 12pm – 5pm (Adults and families 7+), Date: Tuesday 23 October over live vocals, laser lighting and vibrant
Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required plus late night opening Tuesday 23 October, Time: 7.30pm – 9.15pm (doors 7pm) video in this captivating show. Musician
6pm – 8pm (Adults) Cost and booking info: £6 Richard Evans and award-winning artist
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time (booking fees may apply). Booking required Valentina D'efilippo return with stunning new
data visualisations and music, building on
the success of last year’s event. Immerse
yourself in a multi-sensory experience of the
Facing Out: past, present and future of global warming
culled directly from climate and migrant data
Healing Through Art and bear witness to a powerful vision of the
Contagion Contagion: A Closer Look planet’s most urgent issue.
Roll up your sleeves and unwind, as artist
Blending an atmospheric soundscape Hear from Shobana Jeyasingh and Professor Lucy Burscough invites anyone directly or Audience: Adults and families 12+
with haunting digital imagery, acclaimed John Oxford, leader in the field of vaccine indirectly affected by facial cancer to take Venue: Waterside
choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh and anti-viral clinical trials, to find out more part in a therapeutic creative arts workshop. Date: Thursday 25 October
commemorates the 1918 Spanish Flu about the Spanish Flu and its influence Lucy will gently guide you to discover more Time: 7pm – 9.15pm (7pm – 8pm panel
pandemic by finding beauty in the bleakness. on the choreography and audiovisual about your views and perceptions of facial discussion, 8.15pm – 9.15pm performance)
Watch as eight female dancers contort and experience in Contagion. cancer, explore the deep physical, mental Cost and booking info: £10 / £8
mutate together as they explore both the and emotional wound it can leave and (concessions available). Booking required
resilience and the vulnerability of the human Audience: Adults and families 12+ consider ways in which together, we can
body against the stark backdrop of the Venue: We’ll walk over together from the harness the healing power of the arts. You’ll
Imperial War Museum. Imperial War Museum North (IWMN) reception, leave feeling lighter and knowing a little more
or you can meet us at Ziferblat MediaCityUK about how slight shifts in perception and
beliefs can propel us towards recovery.
Contagion is co-commissioned by 14-18 Date: Sunday 21 October AudioLab
NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First Time: 1pm – 2pm (departing from IWMN
World War centenary reception at 12.45pm) Audience: Adults and families 8+
The AudioLab supports emerging creative
Cost and booking info: Free (refreshments Venue: Maggie's Oldham
talent to flourish. Tune in to Reform Radio
Audience: Adults and families 12+ included). No need to book Date: Wednesday 24 October
and get a behind-the-scenes look at our
Venue: Imperial War Museum North Time: 2pm – 4pm
festival with a team of young creatives. With
Date: Sunday 21 October Cost and booking info: Free. No need to book
Access All Areas passes, they will be sneaking
Time: 12pm – 12.30pm, 2.30pm – 3pm in to backstage rehearsals, getting exclusive
Cost and booking info: Free. No need to book Also see Facing Out: Portait Masterclass
interviews and turning their daily experiences
(page 26) and Facing Out: Talking Heads
into spoken word poems, debates and songs
Also see Contagion: Second (page 35)
for an hour-long radio show.
Outbreak (page 29)
Audience: Adults and families 11+
Tune in online: reformradio.co.uk
Date: Friday 26 October
Time: 2pm – 3pm
Cost and booking info: Free
22 Image: Chris Nash manchestersciencefestival.com 23Sonic Pixels The Vostok K Incident Make, Do and Hack
Step into a world of sound with Sonic Pixels. It’s the darkest days of the Cold War. Paranoia
Imagine listening to the chirping of the reigns and a British pilot is caught up in a
dawn chorus, or the noises of a building bizarre Russian experiment. Welcome to The Are you ready to touch the stars, sing to the Moon and serve up some ace
as heating, water and ventilation systems Vostok K Incident, an S3A and BBC drama inventions? Discover the power of the placebo, make art out of junk,
gurgle and hum. Experience what it would exploring the future of radio by unlocking the dance like a planet and more.
feel like to be right at the heart of this creative potential of 3D immersive sound.
sound. Wander through the space and Pulling together devices like laptops, mobiles
trigger speakers in real time, as you delve and tablets, hear extracts from the drama and
into this amazing audio experience. meet researchers from the University of Salford
who helped develop this groundbreaking idea. Placebo: Doctor You Touch the Stars
Audience: Adults and families 8+
Venue: Barton Arcade Audience: Adults and families 11+ How do placebos work? There’s only one Astro-nut and Festival science
Date and time: Friday 26 October, Venue: Science and Industry Museum way to find out. Get up close and personal communicator-in-residence, Matthew
6pm – 10.30pm (preview evening), Date: Saturday 27 October with the evidence for mind-body healing Allen, invites you to reach out and touch
Saturday 27 October – Time: 11am – 5pm (lasts 20 minutes, and placebo responses. Submit yourself the stars with his multi-sensory workshop
Sunday 28 October, 10am – 10.30pm repeated throughout the day) to a range of exercises designed to trigger that will show that the universe really
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any Cost and booking info: Free. No need to book healing, play doctor and make your own is open to everyone. Get to grips with
time (booking required for preview evening) plan to harness the power of placebos. tactile images of the sky, explore 3D
printed models of objects in space, use
Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ your detective skills to investigate real
Did You Come Alone? Venue: The Lowry meteorites and listen to the sound of
Date: Saturday 13 October gravitational waves in the fun 'Black Hole
"Hi. How are you?" This is a common Time: 10am – 2.30pm Hunter game'. This workshop has been
greeting used to ask about health, but Cost and booking info: designed to be visually impaired friendly.
has anyone ever asked you; "did you come £6 / £4 (concessions available).
alone?" We’ll be exploring these questions Booking required Audience: All ages
in a short, interactive, one-on-one scenario. Venue: Science and Industry Museum
This is no ordinary theatre experience, Also see Clod Ensemble’s Placebo (page 18), Date: Thursday 18 October –
as you’ll play the protagonist, answering Placebo: The Power of the Placebo Effect Friday 19 October
questions and attempting tasks that will (page 34), Placebo: Sound Affects (page 34) Time: 11.30am – 12pm, 1pm – 1.30pm
challenge assumptions of who is involved and Placebo: Social Prescription (page 34) (workshops), 10am – 11am,
in human health. 2pm – 4pm (drop in)
Cost and booking info:
Audience: Adults and teenagers 16+ Free. Booking required for workshops
Venue: Manchester Museum
Date: Saturday 27 October –
Sunday 28 October
Time: 12pm – 5pm
Music and Mutation Cost and booking info: Free. No need to book
Music morphs, modifies and mutates into
something profound in this pioneering live Image: William Ellis
performance. Listen as a geneticist takes
an experimental method of turning DNA
sequences into musical works and puts it in
the fine-tuned hands of performers. You’re
invited to listen to the results, so come along
and ‘hear’ mutations like you’ve never heard
them before.
Audience: Adults and families 12+
Venue: Emmanuel Church
Date: Saturday 27 October
Time: 11am – 12.40pm (doors 10.15am)
Cost and booking info: Free. No need to book
24 manchestersciencefestival.com 25Facing Out: Portrait Masterclass Aeon: Liberation
Get face to face with the intricacies Audience: Adults 18+ It’s the near future. You’re a researcher
of facial recognition and discover how Venue: Maggie's Manchester taking a tour of a cloning facility.
a psychological lens can help shine a light Date: Friday 19 October Protesters suddenly burst in. What
on different approaches to drawing the Time: 10.30am – 2.30pm do you do? How do you react? Welcome
human face. As part of a long-term project Cost and booking info: to Aeon, an immersive theatre experience
into facial cancer and reconstructive Free. No need to book exploring the moral complexities of a
surgery, artist Lucy Burscough invites future where cloning is a reality. As the
anyone affected by cancer, either directly Also see Facing Out: Healing tension racks up, you’ll come face-to-face
or indirectly, to a life drawing class which Through Art (page 23) and with the clones whose release may pose
redefines traditional perceptions of beauty. Facing Out: Talking Heads (page 35) a risk to all of humanity.
Audience: Adults and teenagers 15+
Venue: Stopford Building,
Beyond Man on the Moon: Beyond Man on the Moon: The University of Manchester
Poetry and Mathematics Loop Pedalling and Songwriting Date and time:
Friday 19 October, 7pm – 8.15pm,
Saturday 20 October 11.30am – 12.45pm,
Poet, performer and rising star Keisha Keisha Thompson invites you to explore
1.30pm – 2.45pm and 3.30pm – 4.45pm
Thompson will show you how she turns the connection between mathematics
Cost and booking info: £8 / £6
mathematical references into creative and music using song and loop pedalling.
(concessions available). Booking required
stimuli and will guide you to have a go Discover Pythagoras' contribution
yourself. You’ll take inspiration from the to music, immerse yourself in harmony
creative processes behind her solo show and create your own soundscapes based
Man on the Moon, where Keisha transforms on the themes of psychology and mental
fiendishly complicated scientific processes health which are explored in her solo An Ace History of Tennis
like SUVAT equations, Fibonacci sequences show Man on the Moon. Big
and detailed graphs into something We’ll be serving up a lovely slice of tennis Screen
beautiful. Creating art, music and poetry
out of data, she'll encourage you to find
Audience: Adults and families 12+
Venue: Z-arts
history. Discover how technology transformed
the sport, figure out the subtle differences
Bootcamp
creativity in the most unlikely of places. Date: Friday 19 October between court tennis and lawn tennis and Grab your clapperboard and come make
Time: 1pm – 3pm see how rackets are strung and balls are movie magic at this inspiring and fun
Audience: Adults and families 12+ Cost and booking info: made. You can even try out your skills on filmmaking boot camp. Unlock the power
Venue: Z-arts £5. Booking required court, a smashing way to spend a Saturday. of storytelling and turn your passion for
Date: Friday 19 October But don’t forget your trainers. science, engineering and technology into
Time: 10am – 12pm
a three minute cinematic masterpiece.
Cost and booking info: £5. Booking required Audience: All ages (tours suitable for adults You’ll be one of fifteen teams immersed
and teenagers 16+) in every aspect of direction, in the enviable
Venue: Manchester Tennis and Racquet Club position of being guided by pros from
Date: Saturday 20 October the likes of tech giants Barclays, Google,
Time: 11am – 5pm, (tours run all day Microsoft and BBC. There’ll be shiny
at 11.15am – 12pm, 12pm – 12.45pm, awards for the best short films, plus
1pm – 1.45pm, 2pm – 2.45pm, the chance to see your creation on the
3pm – 3.34pm and 4pm – 4.45pm) big screen at Media City.
Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any
time (booking required for tours) Audience: Adults and teenagers 16+
Venue: MediaCityUK campus,
Also see Hi-Tech Tennis (page 32) University of Salford
Date: Saturday 20 October –
Sunday 21 October
Time: 11am – 5pm
Cost and booking info:
Free. Booking required
Also see Man on the Moon (page 19), Beyond Man on the Moon: Afrofuturism and Poetry
(page 30).
26 manchestersciencefestival.com 27Live and Let Dye
Grab a fistful of your favourite flowers or
leaves and come away with a lot more than
green fingers. Colour, hue, iridescence and
pigmentation are all on show. Discover how
to experiment with natural colours, create
patterns and transform fabric swatches as
personal as your own memories with local
artist Talie Linseed, who’ll be showing you
how to dye like a pro. Meet us beforehand
at St John’s Gardens if you would like to
collect your own natural materials, such
as freshly fallen petals and twigs.
Audience: Adults and families 8+
Venue: Science and Industry Museum
Date: Saturday 20 October
Time: 1pm – 3pm, or join us at 12.30pm by
the stone monument in St John's Gardens
Cost and booking info: £10 / £6
(concessions apply). Booking required
Build Your Own Storytelling and Also see Changing Textiles: Ya-Chu Kang
(page 19)
Internet of Things Secret Tunnels
Modems may be a thing of the internet’s Magic, reality and technology collide
past, but ‘things’ are most definitely a thing in a secret underground tunnel. Grab Perfect Particles Contagion: Second Outbreak
of the internet’s future. The Internet of a glow stick and imagine new worlds
Things is all around us, connecting everyday as you drive the story, crafting your This is the genuine particle. Pinging all Can you dance the Flu-menco? Have you
objects like fridges, toasters and even own part factual and part fantastical around us, and inside us, the universe is caught Saturday Night Fever? If that sounds
toilets to the net. Come along and discover universe using drawing, writing made of up of these building blocks and we’ll like you, get to know the movers and shakers
just how big the Internet of Things is about and augmented reality. help you imagine them for real. Make your at Shobana Jeyasingh Dance and delve into
to get and what it means for our everyday own particle model, get stuck into painting, what inspired the choreographic choices
lives. Then get stuck into building a network Audience: Teenagers 12 – 16 decorating and writing, and celebrate the in their show Contagion. You’ll see how the
of your own. Venue: Brickworks incredible way these tiny things interact. architecture, dynamics and behaviour of the
Date: Saturday 20 October The afternoon workshop has been designed Spanish Flu virus shaped the choreography
Audience: Families 10 – 18 Time: 2pm – 4.30pm to be visually impaired friendly. as you dance, move and glide alongside
Venue: John Dalton Building, (including 25 minute tour) professional dancers and physically embody
Manchester Metropolitan University Cost and booking info: Audience: Families 5+ everything from manifestations of mutation
Date: Saturday 20 October and £4. Booking required Venue: Manchester Cathedral Visitor Centre to World War I warfare.
Saturday 27 October Date: Sunday 21 October
Time: 10.30am – 12pm Time: 10am – 12pm, Audience: Adults and families 12+
Cost and booking info: £4. Booking required 1pm – 3pm (visually impaired friendly) Venue: The Dancehouse
Cost and booking info: Date: Sunday 21 October
£2.50. Booking required Time: 11am – 1pm
Cost and booking info: £5. Booking required
Also see Contagion (page 22)
28 manchestersciencefestival.com 29You can also read
