Manchester Thursday 19 October – Science Sunday 29 October Festival

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I’m delighted to present the programme From an early-morning science rave for this year’s Manchester Science to a science rap jukebox, this year’s Festival, proudly produced by the programme is as bold, creative and Museum of Science and Industry. ambitious as ever, and we can’t wait for you to join us for another city-wide Ours is now the most popular science celebration of science. festival in this country. For our audiences – from and beyond 2017 has witnessed the rise of the robots – it’s full of opportunities to experience as never before; barely a day goes by inspiring science, in all sorts of without a new development in artificial unexpected places. intelligence. To help you make sense of this rapidly advancing science we present For our many partners, it’s a fantastic Robots, a new exhibition revealing the platform to test out new ideas in 500-year quest to make machines human. science communication and support the development of skills in science, We’re delighted to be working with technology, engineering and maths the Croatian arts collective Numen / across the region. For Use to bring their award-winning immersive artwork Tape to Manchester The Festival programme just gets better for the very first time. Inspired by spider and better, and there really is something silk and engineered from sticky tape, here for everyone. this enormous web will take over the Museum of Science and Industry’s A huge thank you to our funders, historic 1830 Warehouse. sponsors and partners whose support makes this Festival possible. With technology progressing faster than ever, it’s hard to keep up with the We look forward to seeing you! latest inventions and developments. So Contents we warmly welcomed the much-loved Sally MacDonald Tomorrow’s World back to the BBC Director earlier this year, and are celebrating 04 Headline Programme Museum of Science and Industry its return with an exclusive live and interactive show at the museum that will also be streamed online. 06 Fun For All Ages

Read on to discover our full programme of 18 Make, Do and Hack events, curated in collaboration with our fantastic network of festival partners. 23 Art Meets Science Lead Educational Sponsor I hope you enjoy the festival. 28 Science After Dark

Antonio Benitez 30 Science on Screen Director Manchester Science Festival 32 Conversations

Media Partner 36 At-a-Glance Guide 40 General Information

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This year has seen the rise of the robots – and they’re invading Manchester Science Is your spidey sense tingling? That’ll be Festival. Our headline exhibition Robots explores mankind’s 500-year quest to because award-winning artists Numen/For create itself in robotic form, and asks where technology might take us next. Use have transformed the 1830 Warehouse Continuing the theme of robots of the future, our special Tomorrow’s World Live into a giant spider’s web made from sticky event asks what the march of the machines will mean for life as we know it. And tape. Inspired by the incredible engineering finally, get an amazing spider’s eye view of the historic 1830 Warehouse withTape , properties of spider silk, you can clamber into the rafters and get an arachnid’s-eye an immersive experience that takes you inside an enormous arachnid’s lair. view of the webbed world according to our eight-legged friends.

Audience: All ages Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Robots Date: Thursday 19 October - Sunday 29 October The robots are coming. In fact, the robots Time: 10am - 5pm (all ages), 6pm - 9pm are already here. We often think of robots (adults 18+) as a modern invention, but we’ve been Cost and booking info: harnessing the power of robotics for more Free. Book on the day at the venue than 500 years. Get close to a unique collection of over 100 robots, from a 17th century dancing wine goblet and an animatronic baby, to Maria from 1927 film classicMetropolis and a news-reading android from Japan. Image: Numen/For Use Go behind the scenes and glimpse recent developments in robotic research, and discover how robots are being built to resemble us, interact with us and think like us. Robots explores our obsession with recreating ourselves in human form, and what it truly means to be a human Tomorrow’s World Live in a robotic world. Tomorrow’s World was the show that Audience: Adults and families 7+ introduced the nation to mobile phones Venue: Museum of Science and Industry and laser eye surgery – and now it’s returned Date: Thursday 19 October - as a new live and digital interactive vision of Thursday 19 April 2018 the future. With the help of special guests, Time: 10am - 5pm our audience at the museum and around Cost and booking info: the world online and Facebook Live, we’ll be £8 / £5 (concessions available, free for asking - how will robots impact our lives and children 6 and under). Booking required shape our future?

Audience: Adults 18+ Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Supported by Media Partner Date: Monday 23 October Time: 7pm The Zochonis Cost and booking info: Charitable Trust Free. Booking required Sponsors

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Get up close to a T-Rex, play with new robot pals, have an afternoon rave, gear up for some experimental gaming, sing a science song or have a go at some hip-hop experimentation – there’s more fun than a laboratory full of specially-engineered funbots to be had. For children, teens and the young at heart.

Dinosaurs in the Wild Scribble Bots Image: The University of Manchester Travel back 67 million years and encounter Scribble bots are hours of fun. Design ‘em, living dinosaurs as they’ve never been seen build ‘em, set ‘em loose: unleash your inner before. This exhilarating blend of live-action inventor and use coloured pens to chart your theatre, cutting-edge audiovisual effects and bot’s doodles. Will your bot stay on course? the latest palaeontological knowledge will Will it go rogue? Will it pick a fight with Science Spectacular Quantum of Science immerse you in unforgettable interactive other bots? Get ready for a rollicking robo Bubble science, dancing robots, bugs and Scientific phenomena have never been quite experiences that will make you feel as though adventure that poses all sorts of interesting moon rock: it’s all happening at the Science so… explosive. We'll take you on a whistle- you’re actually there amongst dinosaurs, questions about swarm behaviour. Spectacular. Join us for a fun-filled day of stop tour of science and sound where you'll roaming free in the cruel Eden of the Late challenges, experiments and interactive discover how waviness relates to magnetism, Cretaceous Period. Audience: Families 7+ demonstrations, and chat to the amazing why quantum physics is so badly behaved Venue: Museum of Science and Industry scientists and engineers behind some of and just what it is that makes fireworks quite Audience: Families 5+ Date: Thursday 19 October - the world’s most incredible discoveries. so fiery. It’s the very quantum of science. Venue: EventCity Sunday 29 October Date: Thursday 19 October - Sunday 29 Time: 2pm - 4pm Audience: Families 5+ Audience: Families 8+ October (additional dates available) Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Venue: Whitworth Hall and Manchester Venue: School of Chemistry, Time: 9.30am - 5pm Museum, The University of Manchester The University of Manchester Cost and booking info: Date: Saturday 21 October Date: Saturday 21 October £29.50 - £18 (concessions and group rates Time: 11am - 4pm Time: 4pm - 5pm available). Booking required Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Cost and booking info: £5 / £2.50 (concessions available). Booking required Robots Playground

Ever wanted to take a robodog for walkies? Take part in a fun-filled day of playing Super Science Day around with the latest robot technology. This magically mechanical menagerie will see you In the game of drones, you win or you fly. sink your metal mitts into all things robotic. Science is taking over Central Library, where You’ll talk, tinker and dance with a Nao robot, you’ll code and fly a real life drone. And programme robots to navigate a maze and that’s just the start. Roll up your sleeves even take Miro the robodog for a stroll. at our science workshops or mix up a storm in our pop-up lab. Audience: All ages Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Audience: All ages Date: Saturday 21 October - Venue: Central Library Sunday 22 October Date: Saturday 21 October Time: 10am - 5pm Time: 12pm - 4pm Cost and booking info: Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Free. Drop in any time (see festival website for details of bookable drone workshop)

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6 manchestersciencefestival.com 7 Science @ AquAIRium brought to us by Step into the blue by entering the AquAIRium, an immersive dry aquarium that brings every sight, sound and scent of the ocean to life in an art-science installation. Discover marine biology, how the ocean works, the ethics of aquaria, conservation, and how digital and virtual displays are revolutionising our experience of the deep blue seas.

Audience: All ages Venue: MediaCityUK campus, University of Salford Date: Saturday 21 October - Sunday 22 October Time: 11am - 5pm Science in the House Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time House music meets live-mixed 3D visuals in this incredible audiovisual experience. You can enjoy graphics and images from the Large Hadron Collider and the Higgs boson flying around on-screen, plus the science of particle and accelerator physics, all set to a soundtrack that harmonises both sight and sound.

Audience: All ages Venue: MediaCityUK campus, University of Salford Date: Saturday 21 October - Sunday 22 October Time: 11am - 5pm, runs for 30 minutes Library of Fake News #CitizenScience Showcase GameLab and repeated throughout the day Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time With fake news making fake headlines What happens when science meets people Puzzles, problem-solving and PlayStations: over the last (very real) 12 months, power? Everything. From classifying planets it’s all about experimental gaming at how do we sort fact from fiction? Pay a to exploring our natural world, you can now GameLab. From controllable digital fish to visit to MediaCity’s Library of Fake News, play your part in bringing science to life. the latest virtual reality, eSport demos, retro and discover what fake news actually is, All over the world, citizen science projects platforms and interactive VJ events across how the truth popped its clogs, and why are popping up, so come and celebrate three floors of activity, you can do it all. misinformation could mean that now more real people-powered experiments in this You can even bring your dog, as we’ll explain than ever, seeing is no longer believing. showcase of projects from across the how new technology tracks canine health North and beyond. and makes our furry friends healthier. Audience: Adults and families 12+ Venue: MediaCityUK campus, Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ Audience: All ages University of Salford Venue: MediaCityUK campus, Venue: MediaCityUK campus, Date: Saturday 21 October - University of Salford University of Salford Friday 27 October Date: Saturday 21 October - Date: Saturday 21 October - Time: 10am - 5pm Sunday 22 October Sunday 22 October Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Time: 11am - 5pm Time: 11am - 5pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time

8 Image: "Aquarium" (CC BY 2.0) by jakemohan manchestersciencefestival.com 9 Build a Bug a Home Meteorites and Fireballs The Scienceworks

Snug as a bug in a… twig house? Every creepy The sky is falling! Take cover from meteors, Fancy giving a bee an origami bouquet, or crawly needs a cosy cubbyhole to go home fireballs and all other falling rocks at Quarry making a teeny tiny hot air balloon? Join us to, so why not make your very own? Come Bank. Sky debris has been studied here since for a different dose of fun every day at The meet the bug boffins from Zoo as the 1800s (the owners built an observatory Scienceworks. Discover how 3D films are they teach you to make insect houses out of back in the day), and you can go back to that made larger than life, enjoy food for thought twigs, grit, grot and grime. You can even take first space age with interactive activities on what happens when we chew, and get up your creation home with you afterwards. and experiments about meteors, fireballs, close and personal with all things science. friction and more. Audience: Families 4+ Audience: Adults and families 4+ Venue: Exchange Shopping Centre Audience: Families 6 - 11 Venue: The Printworks Date: Sunday 22 October Venue: Quarry Bank, National Trust Date: Monday 23 October - Friday 27 October Time: 2pm - 3pm Date: Monday 23 October - Friday 27 October Time: 12pm - 4pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Time: 11am - 4pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Cost and booking info: Free (included in Human vs. Machine venue admission fee). Drop in any time Bat Safari Human and machine go head to head in the ultimate battle of metal vs minds. This show Bats, man: they’re everywhere… Join us as features an array of fiendishly difficult tests Meteorites and Fireballs: the batty folk from Chester Zoo swoop down and experiments, some that can be done on Rochdale with special workshops on our by human, others by machine. Who does it Cosmodome furry, flappy, fangy friends. We’ll teach you best? The audience will decide. Come along Come and see space up close and personal. where to find them, how to spot them and for a light-hearted look into the science, Step under an interactive inflatable even take you on a bat safari. By the end ethics and future of automation. cosmodome and explore the sky, space you’ll be a bonafide bat sleuth, promise. Audience: Families 7+ and the things that fall out of it. Fireballs, meteorites and all other sorts of celestial Audience: Families 7+ Venue: Museum of Science and Industry phenomena are raining down, and the Venue: Pioneers Museum, Rochdale Date: Monday 23 October - physicists from The University of York are Date: Sunday 22 October Friday 27 October here to explain it all. Time: 5pm - 7pm Time: 11am - 11.20am, 12pm - 12.20pm, Cost and booking info: £3. Booking required 1pm - 1.20pm, 2pm - 2.20pm, 3pm - 3.20pm Cost and booking info: Free. No need to book Audience: Families 6+ Venue: Quarry Bank, National Trust Date: Monday 23 October - Friday 27 October Time: 11am - 4pm, repeated every To Space and Beyond 30 minutes Cost and booking info: Image: The University of Manchester The space aces of Jodrell Bank present a live £2 (plus venue admission fee, booking fees science show that’s out of this world. Learn may apply). Booking required how the on-site Lovell Telescope has been Ensonglopedia of Science pushing back the final frontier since the '50s, It’s sing-along science time. Tune into the and take part in an interactive science show A-Z of science, with a song for each letter exploring the future of space travel, covering of the alphabet, played on an eclectic range everything from unmanned orbital missions of instruments and in a mash-up of musical to reusable spacecraft and space tourism. genres. The lyrics are packed with fascinating facts and rib-tickling refrains. It's music to Audience: Families 7+ your ears, and will strike a chord with every Venue: Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre audience. This is one performance you won’t Date: Monday 23 October - Friday 27 October want to miss. and Monday 30 October - Friday 3 November 11am - 11.45am, 12pm - 12.45pm, Time: Audience: Adults and families 7+ 2.30pm - 3.15pm Venue: Central Library

Cost and booking info: Date: Monday 23 October Free (included in venue admission fee). Time: 2.30pm - 3.30pm Book on the day at the venue Cost and booking info: Free. No need to book

10 manchestersciencefestival.com 11 The Science of Happiness The Lost Program Mark Thompson's at Morning Gloryville Spectacular Science Show History’s first programmer, Ada Lovelace, The trick to happiness is all in your head. needs your help finding a lost program. How spectacular is the science in your That’s what the shiny, happy people from Interactive theatre company Produced Moon everyday life? Explore the magical properties Morning Gloryville want to show you. And invite you on a 20 minute audio adventure of matter with exploding elephants' yes, you did read the time right. The pioneers about computers, ciphers and the beauty toothpaste, vortex generating dustbins, of sober morning raving invite you to be bold of technology. You just need headphones, a dancing goo, vanishing beakers and even fiery and try an innovative approach to wellness. smartphone and a curious mind. Pringles tubes. TV astronomer and author So set your alarm and rave your way into Mark Thompson has come down to earth to the day. Audience: Families 8+ explore the science of the ordinary. Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Audience: All ages Date: Wednesday 25 October Audience: Families 6+ Venue: The Wonder Inn Time: 11am - 4pm Venue: The Edge Theatre & Arts Centre Date: Wednesday 25 October Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Date: Thursday 26 October Time: 6.30am - 10.30am Time: 1pm - 2pm, 3pm - 4pm Cost and booking info: Cost and booking info: £8 / £6 £14 (£10 early bird). Booking required Image: Dominic Simpson and Voodoo Imaging A Masterclass in Movement (concessions available). Booking required

Science’s sprightly toes are tapping with Reporting for Duty this family dance and science masterclass, inspired by Manchester Museum’s It’s World War II, and the warship Eva Maria collections. Find out how science helps us is about to be destroyed by a huge torpedo. understand what happens in the brain and Its last hope is extraordinary inventor Hedy body when we dance, and how dance affects Lamarr. And you! Interactive theatre company our movement and feelings. You can try out Produced Moon invite you on an audio some dance moves, use your imagination, adventure all about frequency hopping, a and even measure your own movement. technology that gives us everything from Wi-Fi to Bluetooth. You just need Audience: Families 7+ headphones, a smartphone, and quick Venue: Manchester Museum wits to save everyone on board. Date: Wednesday 25 October Time: 11.30am - 12.15pm, 1pm - 1.45pm Audience: Families 10+ Cost and booking info: Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Free. Book on the day at the venue Date: Wednesday 25 October Time: 11am - 4pm Moonshadows and Starlight Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Science @ Central Waters Wacky Lab Starry, starry night… Visit Jodrell Bank for an unmissable after-hours evening of stargazing Take a leaf out of our book and come Come along to the Waters Wacky Lab to as seasoned astronomers show you how to and explore how science affects the meet our scientists and get hands-on with a navigate the skies and locate the stars using secret-filled and story-lined corridors of range of experiments. Be amazed by magnets, everything from planispheres to telescopes. Manchester Central Library. Get elbow deep get messy in quicksand and get hands-on Get up close and personal with the moon in moonrocks and meteorites, dig around in to learn about sound, time-of-flight, mass through a large-scale lunar projection and our archives, meet a real-life conservator, spectrometry and chromatography in an hear first-hand from astronomers how they discover the fascinating history of science exciting showcase of science. use the Lovell Telescope to piece together in the city and get hands-on with the information on the stars and planets in our collections (as well as some LEGO robots) Audience: All ages solar system, plus much more. in the afternoon. Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Date: Thursday 26 October Audience: Families 8+ Audience: All ages Time: 10am - 5pm Venue: Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre Venue: Central Library Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Date: Thursday 26 October and Date: Wednesday 25 October Thursday 2 November Time: 11am - 4pm Time: 6.30pm - 9.30pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Cost and booking info: £8. Booking required

Also see LEGO Robotics (page 20) 12 manchestersciencefestival.com 13 Messy Science Hip Hop Science Stop Weekender

This event is a complete and utter mess. We’ve got tabletop volcanoes, biology experiments that have run wild, head-to- head competitions with know-it-all maths lecturers and of course: space rocket mice. Science is all about messing around with the universe, so come and join us for a series of interactive demonstrations and exhibits designed to teach you to do exactly that.

Audience: Families 3 - 11 Venue: Chancellor's Building, University of Date: Friday 27 October Time: 12pm - 2pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time

How I Hacked My Way Into Space Science gets streetwise this weekend with In 2010, Jon Spooner accidentally set up Jon Chase, the 2017 winner of the Josh Audience: Families 8+ his own space agency. In a shed. Based out Award, our annual science communication Venue: Museum of Science and Industry of his garden, the Unlimited Space Agency competition. Listen to science raps from Date: Saturday 28 October - (UNSA) started as a fun way to tell stories across the globe, discover science through Sunday 29 October about science to children and ended with graffiti, and delve into the tech that helped Time: 10am - 5pm him working with some of the world’s most create the culture of hip-hop. Plus see how Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time prestigious space and science organisations. science can be explored using everyday This is the story of how even the smallest products and waste materials that most Also see Hip Hop Science Stop (page 33). person can achieve their seemingly people throw away. impossible dreams.

Audience: Families 7+ Venue: The Lowry Science Stories Big Fish Little Fish Date: Friday 27 October - Saturday 28 October Are you ‘arty,’ or ‘science-y’? Or both? Take Eat, sleep, rave, research! Get out your Time: 12.30pm - 1.10pm, 4pm - 4.40pm one part science, two parts imagination dancing shoes and head to the best family Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required and a big dollop of creativity and the result rave in town, featuring DJ Mark XTC with Image: Lucia Helenka (tickets available from Monday 16 October) is Science Stories. Filled with hands-on bubbles, glitter cannons, balloons, craft experiments, scientific poetry, digital doodles tables, colouring-in mural, baby chill and food science, this event mixes science area and licensed bar. Themed around and creativity together so thoroughly you ‘spooky science’, this party is also part of can’t tell them apart. Manchester’s Halloween in the City festival and will have fancy dress, live science Audience: Families 5 - 11 experiments, activities run by Chester Venue: Forum Zoo and much more. Date: Saturday 28 October Time: 11am - 3pm Audience: All ages Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Venue: The Birdcage Date: Sunday 29 October Time: 2pm - 4.30pm Cost and booking info: £8.50 / £6.50 (concessions available, free for pre-walking babies). Booking required

14 manchestersciencefestival.com 15 Fun For All Ages: Pi: Made in Manchester Pi: Baffled by Brains? Discover the innovation happening right Baffled by brains? Curious about dementia? Platform for Investigation here in Manchester as Pi is taken over by Join researchers from the University of local inventors, researchers and companies. Salford's School of Environment and Life Powered by Discover how you can “print” amazingly Sciences and the Salford Institute for shaped pancakes, the technology keeping us Dementia to explore the world of brains. safe from hackers and criminals online and Build, create, touch and play in this many more activities based on cutting-edge interactive event which aims to highlight the Meet the people carrying out some of the most cutting-edge science in the country, research developed in the city. exciting dementia research taking place at the University of Salford. with our Platform for Investigation (Pi) Powered by Siemens. The Pi features live Audience: Adults and families 7+ experiments and fun science discoveries, offering the chance to get involved Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Audience: Adults and families 7+ through computer games, treasure hunts and even digging up skeletons. Date: Wednesday 25 October Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Time: 10.30am - 4pm Date: Saturday 28 October Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Time: 10.30am - 4pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Pi: Flow Pi: Meteorite Hunt No rain dances please. Experience the Spotting rocks from space is easy when Pi: The Great City Health Check awesome power of water with hi-tech they’re still hurtling through the sky. But once Pi: Seeing Into the Invisible activities, stories and games. Be a rainmaker they’ve landed, how can we tell them from We’re taking Manchester’s pulse, getting the with Microsoft Kinect, play giant flood snakes other boulders, stones or pebbles? Try out blood pumping and measuring the strength What’s the link between a particle and ladders and tell stories about colossal some space sleuthing yourself by trying out of our city. Huff and puff your way around accelerator and an iceberg lettuce? You can floods, plus much more. the tricks and techniques used by astro- experiments that test muscle power, zoom find both of them in a salad bowl. Find out geologists from the Earth and Solar System down a web of CGI veins and arteries, spot how, and discover other amazing science Audience: Adults and families 7+ team at the University of Manchester. the difference between diseased and healthy including how we use light to determine Venue: Museum of Science and Industry blood vessels and trace the journey of blood the atomic structure of materials and how Date: Saturday 21 October Audience: Adults and families 7+ around the body in our pump action game. infra-red can improve medical diagnosis Time: 10.30am - 4pm Venue: Museum of Science and Industry with specialists from the STFC Daresbury Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Date: Monday 23 October Audience: Adults and families 7+ Laboratory. Plus take a virtual tour of Time: 10.30am - 4pm Venue: Museum of Science and Industry VELA, one of the fastest pulsing particle Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Date: Thursday 26 October accelerators in the world. Pi: The Bare Bones Time: 10.30am - 4pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Audience: Adults and families 7+ Everybody’s (and every body’s) skeleton Pi: Killer Fungus Venue: Museum of Science and Industry is different. Ask an osteoarchaeologist. Date: Sunday 29 October Time: 10.30am - 4pm We’re getting under the skin for a good old Mushrooms aren’t always fun, guys. They can Pi: What’s Engineering Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time anatomical poke around all things bone- be deadly - and so can yeasts and moulds. related. We’ll have you digging up skeletons, Join us as we spotlight just how dangerous Got to Do With It? playing match-the-skull and attempting bone fungal infections can be, featuring app-based Whoever knew engineering could be so jigsaw as you learn the ins-and-outs of the treasure hunt game Outbreak!, computer exciting? Meet the Royal Academy of human skeleton. games, 3D printed fungi, a human manikin, Engineering as they run a series of interactive arts and crafts activities and a time-lapse demonstrations that invite you to ask “just Audience: Adults and families 7+ video of fungal infection spreading. Get to what is engineering?” The answer will cover Venue: Museum of Science and Industry know the real Fungus the Bogeyman. You’ll everything from music and robots to genetic Date: Sunday 22 October need a smartphone for the app-based game. Time: 10.30am - 4pm labs and state-of-the-art cyber-security on an unmissable day out for the whole family. Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Audience: Adults and families 7+ Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Audience: Adults and families 7+ Date: Tuesday 24 October Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Time: 10.30am - 4pm Date: Friday 27 October Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Time: 10.30am - 4pm Cost and booking info: Free. 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16 manchestersciencefestival.com 17 Under Glass: Make, Do and Hack Drafted in Movement

Blending art and anatomy, physiotherapy and Feeling inventive? Then get ready to make everything from pirate radios to vegan dance, this surprisingly scientific life drawing leather. Enjoy a huge celebration of technologists and makers, immersive and session puts the human body, and the way interactive games as well as a giant hackathon where you can pit yourself it moves, front and centre. Beginners and seasoned sketchers alike will gain a new against a series of fiendish challenges. understanding of artistic and physiological views of the body, witnessing up close the extraordinary possibilities of bodies trained for strength and flexibility. Under Glass: From Object to Specimen Audience: Adults Venue: The Lowry Get up close and personal with precious Date: Saturday 21 October 19th century medical instruments that let Time: 4pm - 6pm doctors measure, represent and capture Cost and booking info: £6 / £4 bodily functions such as pulse and breath (concessions available). Booking required for the first time. Artist Sheila Ghelani will lead participants through an interactive Also see Under Glass (page 24), Under Glass: From Object to Specimen (page 18) experience that lays bare a fascinating Image: Clod Ensemble Under Glass. era in the history of medicine. and Under Glass: Beauty and Destruction Photography by Manuel Vason (page 33). Audience: Adults Venue: The Portico Library The Art and Craft of Foley Date: Saturday 21 October Time: 11am - 2pm Go behind the scenes and sound out the Cost and booking info: £6 / £4 secret world of Foley artists, the unseen (concessions available). Booking required stars of the silver screen. Explore the hidden technique of designing, performing and Also see Under Glass (page 24), recording sound effects for film and TV, Under Glass: Drafted in Movement (page 19) discover the science behind the art and have and Under Glass: Beauty and Destruction a go at creating and recording your very own (page 33). Foley audio. Sound good?

Audience: Families 7+ Aeon: Patient X LEGO Space Rovers Venue: Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art There’s been an outbreak - a deadly Boldly going where no LEGO has gone Date: Saturday 21 October contagion grips Arcadia Life Sciences, before, LEGO Space Rovers let kids get Time: 2pm - 4pm Pirate Radio and you are urgently needed to help hands-on with artificial intelligence, using Cost and booking info: £4. Booking required identify the source behind the pandemic. space bots fit for the moon. Program your Go radio gaga as we explore the science and Welcome to Aeon: Patient X, an immersive LEGO rover to move about new planets, tech behind broadcasting and transmitting theatre experience that uses real science, control it from across the universe and so pirate radio in this workshop. Find out augmented reality and a smartphone app to much more. It’s one small step for future how the ultra-low wattage of self-made show you all about the science of contagion. engineers, and one giant leap for LEGO-kind. transmitters cheekily circumvented public broadcasting laws back in the day, and build Audience: Adults and teenagers 15+ Audience: Families 7 - 12 your very own mini FM transmitter, just like Venue: Michael Smith Building, The Venue: Museum of Science and Industry they did in '70s Japan. University of Manchester Date: Saturday 21 October - Date: Saturday 21 October Sunday 29 October Audience: Adults and teenagers 16+ Time: 11am - 12pm, 1pm - 2pm, 3pm - 4pm Time: 11.30am - 12.30pm, 1.30pm - 2.30pm Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Cost and booking info: £8 / £6 Cost and booking info: Date: Sunday 22 October (concessions available). Booking required Free. Book on the day at the venue Time: 1pm - 4pm Cost and booking info: £4. Booking required

18 manchestersciencefestival.com 19 HackManchester Junior Facing Out: Part One HackManchester

The future masters of code are hacking Imagine not recognising your own face. Facing Can you hack this 24 hour mega the Museum of Science and Industry... Out is a two-year exploration of living with coding event? Welcome to the 2017 Join us as we transform the museum into altered appearance by portrait painter, HackManchester, a hackathon where teams a tech playground, with mentors, judges Lucy Burscough. Meet Eleanor Crook, a world of developers, designers and thinkers have and sponsors setting kids and young people renowned anatomical sculptor and sculpt just 24 hours to solve fiendish challenges. aged 8-18 coding challenges to channel their your own wax face, muscle by muscle, from Attracting the brightest and most brilliant untapped creative potential. With all sorts the skull up. Revealing, thought-provoking and creative minds, it’s a great place to win of tantalising prizes up for grabs, it’s a insightful, this is an event not to be missed. prizes, challenge yourself and meet other hackathon like no other. talented developers. Audience: Adults Audience: Families 8 - 18 Venue: The Whitworth Audience: Adults 18+ Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Date: Wednesday 25 October Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Date: Monday 23 October - Time: 10am - 4pm Date and time: Starts 12pm Saturday 28 Tuesday 24 October LEGO Robotics Cost and booking info: October, finishes 3pm Sunday 29 October Time: 9am - 4pm (Monday), Free (£10 refundable on attendance). Cost and booking info: £25. Booking required 9am - 5pm (Tuesday) Get ready for the LEGO invasion. Calling all Booking required Cost and booking info: master builders and LEGO lovers: the building Free. Booking required bricks of so many fun days are coming to Also see Facing Out: Part Two (page 35). HackManchester Awards Show town. Make your very own LEGO robots in a workshop that’ll get you elbow deep in the Following our marathon 24-hour coding event, colourful bricks. Use innovative software to this is an opportunity to celebrate, reflect and bring your creations to life using sensors, hand out the winning prizes after a long, long motors, lights and more. Perfect for kids (and weekend. Prizes include Best in Show, Best for secret big kids). Some assembly required. Company, Best University Team as well as the individual winners from each challenge. Audience: Families 7 - 11 Venue, date and time: Audience: Adults 18+ Central Library, Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Saturday 21 October, 11am - 1pm, 2pm - 4pm Date: Sunday 29 October Library, Time: 6pm - 10pm Tuesday 24 October, 10.30am - 12.30pm Cost and booking info: Library, £20, including food and drink Tuesday 24 October, 2.30pm - 4.30pm (free for HackManchester ticket holders). North City Library, Booking required Thursday 26 October, 10.30am - 12.30pm Library, Science Goes Splat! Thursday 26 October, 2.30pm - 4.30pm Cost and booking info: Free. Science may be messy, but it’s always fun. Booking required Head to your local library for a masterclass Hats Off to vLeather!

in messiness, featuring erupting volcanoes Also see Science @ Central (page 12). made of exploding plasticine and gooey, Fashion yourself something green and oozey, non-Newtonian Oobleck fluids. gorgeous at our vegan leather event. Roll up your sleeves, and get stuck in. Craft your own sample made entirely from kombucha to make a fancy hat trim, Audience: Families 5+ (Under 8s to be beautiful brooch or unique hair accessory. accompanied by an adult) It’s all the couture, with none of the cruelty: Venue, date and time: you’d be mad as a hatter to miss it. Brooklands Library, Monday 23 October, 2.30pm - 4.30pm Audience: Adults and teenagers 16+ Beswick Library, Venue: Hat Works, Tuesday 24 October, 2pm - 3.30pm Date: Thursday 26 October Powerhouse Library, and Saturday 28 October Thursday 26 October, 3.30pm - 4.30pm Time: 10.30am - 1pm (Thursday), 2pm - Cost and booking info: 4.30pm (Saturday) Free. Drop in any time (limited capacity) Cost and booking info: £10. Booking required

20 manchestersciencefestival.com 21 A Grand Exposition Art Meets Science

Get ready for experiences that are not only thought-provoking – but beautiful. From the music of maths to mind-bending gameworlds, biological balladry and gorgeous live performances inspired by climate change and migration, prepare for a new slant on science.

The Music Of Proof: What Does Maths Sound Like?

Is there maths hidden inside music? Is there music hidden in maths? Join PRiSM (the Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music) at the RNCM to explore the eternal connection and differences between the art of music and the science of maths. With Image: Rafael Milčić composer Emily Howard and mathematician Marcus du Sautoy. With a nod to The Great Exhibition of 1851, Audience: Adults and families 8+ we present A Grand Exposition, a three-day Venue: Mill Audience: Adults and families 12+ celebration of the region’s diverse community Date: Friday 27 October - Venue: RNCM of artists, makers and creative technologists. Sunday 29 October Date: Wednesday 4 October (trailblazer event) Blending art, entertainment and science, Time: 11am - 11pm Time: 7.30pm - 8.30pm the event spans everything from artworks Cost and booking info: Free entry, with Cost and booking info: £5. Booking required to maker workshops, illuminated talks and a mix of free and paid for workshops, live performances. talks and performances. Check the Also see The Music of Proof: The Second website for more info Movement (page 27). Image: Lorraine Macfarlain

The Great Energy Escape 8 Minutes

Crystal Maze meets Breakout in this brand Join us for an exploration of the spectacular new interactive game from Carbon Co-op forces at work in the universe. Alexander and Energy Democracy Greater Manchester. Whitley Dance Company’s stunning Drawing on energy data produced by the 8 Minutes is inspired by images and real lives of people from across Greater data from solar research. Blending high- Manchester, it’s a race against time to reduce definition cosmic imagery with a specially- emissions whilst keeping the lights on. Based composed electroacoustic score, 8 Minutes captures our curiosity and wonder for this on the systems that make, use and share Image: Johan Persson our energy, this game explores current issues unimaginably vast subject. and dilemmas which you must solve through compromise and collaboration. 8 Minutes: A Closer Look Audience: Adults Venue: The Lowry Audience: Adults and families 8+ (under 14s Join Alexander Whitley and Dr Hugh Mortimer Date: Tuesday 10 October (trailblazer event) to be accompanied by an adult) from the STFC RAL Space for a pre-show Time: 8pm - 9pm. Venue: Manchester Museum discussion and Q&A. You’ll hear more about Pre-show discussion 7pm - 7.45pm Date: Saturday 28 October - the cutting-edge research that inspired the Cost and booking info: £16.50 / £14.50 Sunday 29 October show and how art and science collide to (concessions available), pre-show discussion Time: 11am - 4pm produce dazzling results. free to ticket holders. Booking required Cost and booking info: Pay as you feel (minimum £1). Booking required

22 manchestersciencefestival.com 23 Under Glass Reena Saini Kallat Women of Science

Equal parts medical laboratory, museum Acclaimed artist Reena Saini Kallat has exhibit and living art installation, Clod delved into Manchester Museum’s natural Ensemble’s Under Glass presents a series science and human cultures collections for of human specimens within glass containers. her solo exhibition. Featuring a Encounter a shy ‘wallflower’, a couple newly-commissioned sculpture, Chorus, negotiating their space in a bed-like petri plus works exploring nationhood and dish and much more in this award-winning Partition, this thought-provoking exhibition examination of the different ways we see animates the museum with new meanings and understand the human body. and inquiries into ideas of identity, memory, history and the natural world. Under Glass: A Closer Look Audience: All ages On Thursday 19 October, ticket holders Venue: Manchester Museum of Under Glass are invited to join a short Date: Thursday 19 October - discussion and Q&A with artistic directors Sunday 29 October Suzy Willson and Paul Clark. Chaired by Time: 10am - 5pm Gianna Bouchard, editor of Performance and Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time the Medical Body, it will explore the themes that inspired this award-winning human art Image: The University of Manchester installation, and will question some of the Physics Pics philosophical and ethical issues around the medical gaze and the ethics of display. Can you capture dark matter? Shoot Science is not, and never has been, just string theory? Snap Schrödinger's cat?* for men. Women of Science presents a Audience: All ages If the answer is yes, then this photography remarkable digital photography exhibition Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ Venue: The People's History Museum competition could be for you. Physics Pics that shares the stories of women working Venue: The Lowry Date: Thursday 19 October - gives audiences of all ages the chance to and studying in Science, Technology, Date: Wednesday 18 October - Sunday 29 October illustrate the interesting world of physics (and Engineering and Maths (STEM). Showcasing Saturday 21 October Time: 10am - 5pm more broadly, science) with photography. the achievements, struggles and attitudes of a Time: 6.30pm - 7.15pm and 8pm - 8.45pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time For details on how to enter the competition, diverse range of female scientists, prepare to (Wednesday - Friday), 3pm - 3.45pm, check the website. If you prefer to look but be impressed and inspired in equal measure. 6.30pm - 7.15pm and 8pm - 8.45pm not shoot, you can view the winning pics in a (Saturday). mini exhibition. Come along, and see the way Post-show discussion the world is made through a different lens. 8.50pm - 9.30pm (Thursday) *Schrödinger’s cat may be dead and/or alive. Cost and booking info: £15.50, pre-show discussion free to ticket Sentinel Noisy Library Audience: Adults and families 5+ holders. Booking required Venue: Manchester Central Library If walls could talk – would a library have Sinewy synths, ethereal vocals and electro Date: Thursday 19 October - much to say? Find out for yourself at The Also see Under Glass: From Object to rhythms meld seamlessly with lasers and Saturday 28 October John Rylands Library, where you can hear Specimen (page 18), Under Glass: Drafted in cutting-edge lighting and data visualisation Time: 9am - 8pm (Monday - Thursday), the spaces around you come to life with Movement (page 19) and Under Glass: Beauty for this captivating live performance inspired 9am - 5pm (Friday - Saturday) sound, inspired by the building itself. Climb and Destruction (page 33). by climate change and forced migration. Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Written and performed by Richard Evans, staircases through a symphony of the sea, this inspiring show will be followed by an hear the acoustics of the Library being in-depth panel discussion on the show's ‘played’ and never judge a book by its compelling, challenging and thought- cover again. provoking themes. Audience: Adults and families 7+ Audience: Adults and families 12+ Venue: The John Rylands Library Venue: Waterside Arts Centre Date: Saturday 21 October - Date: Thursday 19 October Friday 27 October Time: 8pm - 10pm Time: 10am - 5pm (Tuesday - Saturday) Cost and booking info: £10 / £8 12pm - 5pm (Sunday and Monday) (concessions available). Booking required Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time

24 manchestersciencefestival.com 25 The Science Studio Sing ‘til You’re Grinning

Take a pinch of art and a dab of science Discover the science of singing your heart out and you get craft. Step into The Science – and how hitting those high notes affects Studio and get up close and personal with your health. Exercise your vocal chords the chemicals, reactions and elements with the Eccles Daytime Choir and find out artists use every day. A week of public the five ways that being part of a choir can demonstrations explain a range of weird, improve your health and wellbeing. wonderful and curious processes in action, and interactive workshops will show you just Audience: Adults how much science underpins everything. Venue: Eccles Gateway and Library Date: Thursday 26 October Audience: Adults and families 7+ Time: 2.30pm - 3.30pm Venue: Manchester Craft and Design Centre Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required Date: Monday 23 October - Saturday 28 October Image: Ravi Deepres Time: 2pm - 5pm Experimental Words Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Biology meets balladry, physics encounters free verse and chemistry confronts cadence, Atomos Born to Sum The Music of Proof: as leading scientists are paired with some The Second Movement of Manchester’s finest spoken-word artists Wayne McGregor CBE is a multi award- Ever noticed popstars are all secret maths to compete in a science slam show. The winning choreographer and director, nerds? FameLab 2016 champion Want even more mathematical musicality? result? A diverse display of rhyme, rhythm and internationally renowned for trailblazing Kyle D Evans has. Join the maths muso/ Then you’ll like the sound of this. Following reason that celebrates the creative similarities innovations in performance. Join us for a guitar-slinging geek as he takes you on a on from The Music of Proof: What Does between science and the performing arts. screening and discussion of Atomos, in which comedic romp through pop, pointing out the Maths Sound Like?, this evening will see McGregor’s choreography, performed by maths hiding in your favourite music, from everything from a performance by a specially Audience: Adults 18+ his company of ten world-class dancers, is Beyonce's song titles to Kate Bush's fondness assembled string quartet, to a debate about Venue: The Eagle Inn woven into an intense 70 minute film, taking for pi. Perfect for nerds and novices alike, it’ll whether you really can hear maths in music, Date: Thursday 26 October creative points of departure from atomised open your eyes. And your ears. using real audience data. Time: 8pm - 10pm film, music and biometric data. Cost and booking info: £5 / £3 (concessions Audience: Adults and families 14+ Audience: Adults and families 12+ available). Booking required Audience: Adults and teenagers 12+ Venue: Martin Harris Centre for Music Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Venue: Texture and Drama Date: Tuesday 24 October Date: Saturday 21 October Date: Monday 23 October Time: 7.30pm - 9pm Adrift Time: 5pm - 7pm Time: 7.30pm - 8.30pm Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required Cost and booking info: £4. Booking required Space – it’s vast, mysterious… and full of Also see The Music of Proof: What Does junk. Join us for Adrift and get a glimpse Maths Sound Like? (page 23). into the increasing environmental hazards All the Delicate Duplicates of living in a cosmic junkyard. This short film tells the story of the perils of space debris Immerse yourself in a gameworld that blurs Musical Cosmos hiding on the edge of the atmosphere. fantasy and scientific realism. Bending minds and reality, All the Delicate Duplicates has Did you know that pulsars can sing? Sound Audience: Adults and families 5+ been constructed with a mix of English and artist Gary Fisher invites you to join him as he Venue: The Whitworth computer code to create a language where creates soundscapes made from deep space Date: Saturday 28 October meanings are nested inside each other. Join recordings captured by the listening devices Time: 10am - 5pm us for a showcase of the game, followed of Jodrell Bank and Manchester Museum. Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any by a chat about the role of gaming and Drop into his open studio / laboratory and see time, repeated every 15 minutes technology in literature and storytelling. Gary weave a brand new musical composition from the raw sounds of cosmic science. Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ Venue: International Anthony Audience: Adults Burgess Foundation Venue: Manchester Museum Date: Sunday 22 October Date: Wednesday 25 October Time: 3pm - 5pm Time: 10am - 5pm Cost and booking info: £4. Booking required Image: Joe Watson Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time 26 manchestersciencefestival.com 27 Festival of the Spoken Nerd: Science After Dark You Can't Polish A Nerd

When the sun dips down, the science springs up. You can expect grown-up Nerd, nerd, nerd; nerd is the word. Everyone’s scientific fun, covering everything from special underground experiences to favourite geeky trio are back with a new show refreshingly kid-free playgrounds. that puts the ‘ooh’ into zoology, the ‘fun’ into fundamental theorem and the ‘recursion’ into recursion... Mixing up a veritable periodic table of science, songs and spreadsheets, they’ll tickle your ribs and light your Bunsen burner. Full-frontal nerdity guaranteed.

Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ Smart Cities Venue: The Lowry Date: Sunday 22 October Get involved in an immersive and engaging Time: 8pm - 10.30pm Image: Rosemary Rance/ADR Creative debate about how to meet Manchester’s Cost and booking info: £19.50 / £15 future energy demands. Discover how (concessions available). Booking required international science is transforming efforts to tackle climate change as you consider energy scenarios, biofuels and batteries. Add your voice to an interactive discussion of how to make Manchester a world-leading Robots: Late smart city and debate what the impacts could be for our future. Think you’re too old to play with robots? Computer says no. Get ready for a fun-filled, Audience: Adults and families 11+ adults-only evening of playing around with Venue: Number 70 Oxford Street the latest robotics research. Watch a robot Date: Friday 20 October pull the perfect pint, teach a robot head Time: 5.30pm - 8pm how to talk and even challenge a robot Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required to a dance-off.

Audience: Adults 18+ Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Going Underground Video Jam Takeover Date: Wednesday 25 October Time: 7pm - 10pm After School Science Club: Science comes to Stockport. Or rather, to Video Jam are taking over Manchester Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required just beneath it… Join us on a tour of the Museum, creating original soundtracks to Blocks town’s famous air raid shelters, exploring some specially-selected flicks. Set against secret tunnels and meeting microbiologists, the cinematic backdrop of the fossils gallery, Only blockheads think LEGO’s just for kids. radar engineers and nurses along the way. under the dinosaur skeletons, watch and Our night out for adults who miss their You’ll get an insight into the science and tech listen as talented musicians jam along to a school science lessons is back for a third of the '30s and '40s and how far we’ve come blend of science films from the archives. year running, and this time we’re partnering since the darkest days of WWII. with LEGOLAND Discovery Centre to Audience: Adults provide a giant LEGO table alongside talks, Audience: Adults Venue: Manchester Museum experiments and hands-on activities, themed Venue: Stockport Air Raid Shelters Date: Friday 20 October around everything from mental blocks to the Date: Friday 20 October Time: 7.30pm - 10pm building blocks of the universe. As always, Time: 7pm - 9pm Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required there’s a bar – and no homework! Cost and booking info: £10 / £8. Booking required Audience: Adults 18+ Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Date: Saturday 28 October Time: 7pm - 10pm Cost and booking info: £9.50. Booking required

28 manchestersciencefestival.com 29 Science on Screen

Settle down with the popcorn for a selection of silver screen specials. From alien hunting to a long lost cache of secret films, classic sci-fi and groundbreaking dance, there’s something for everyone.

X-Files: The Truth Is Out There RoboCop: 30th Anniversary Screening Do you still want to believe? Join Mulder, Scully and friends for a celebration of the Dead or alive, you’re coming... to see spookiest sci-fi show in history. There will RoboCop. Celebrate the 30th anniversary be big screen showings of classic X-Files of Paul Verhoeven's classic sci-fi bloodbath episodes, with real life alien hunters sharing with a special director's cut screening. the latest scientific discoveries that could Once the bad guys are safely locked away, get us one step closer to discovering if the hear from a special line-up of panellists truth is out there. FBI-issue fancy dress talking technological law enforcement, (or tin hats) are a must. biomechanics and the continued prescience of the film 30 years on. Audience: Adults 18+ Venue: Gorilla Audience: Adults 18+ Date: Monday 23 October Venue: Gorilla Time: 7pm - 11pm Date: Wednesday 25 October Cost and booking info: £10. Booking required Time: 7pm - 11pm Image: 20th Century Fox Television Cost and booking info: £10. Booking required

Dawson City: Frozen Time

This screening’s been a long time coming. Lost for half a century, 500 films were discovered buried under a sub-arctic swimming pool in a remote part of Canada. Dawson City: Frozen Time is a feature film that quite literally pieces together history and features rare footage from the early silent era. Filmmaker Bill Morrison joins us with archivists and conservation specialists for a post screening insight into this scrupulous and fascinating process.

Audience: Adults and teenagers 12+ Venue: HOME Date: Friday 27 October Time: 5.45pm - 8.25pm Cost and booking info: £9 / £7 (concessions available). Booking required

Image: Courtesy of Kathy Jones Gates, Hypnotic Pictures, Picture Palace Pictures

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Image: Orion Pictures Under Glass: Conversations Beauty and Destruction

Do artists and scientists look at bodies Be part of the conversation, as our specially-curated panellists chinwag over differently? And does knowing more about everything from the everyday to the philosophical. From the trials and tribulations the body make it more beautiful – or destroy of the courtroom, to opera, sex and burgers, these talks with a twist will leave its appeal? These are just some of the you hungry for more. questions raised by Clod Ensemble’s Under Glass and discussed by artists and medics at this thought-provoking event.

Reproduction 2.0 Audience: Adults Venue: Manchester Museum Human reproduction is entering a new era. Date: Friday 20 October Join leading scientists Professor Sir Doug Time: 6pm - 7.30pm Turnbull, Professor Magdalena Zernicka- Cost and booking info: £5 / £3. Image: College of DuPage STEM Professional Goetz and Professor Robin Lovell-Badge to Booking required Deve (CC BY 2.0) by COD Newsroom uncover how far science has progressed - from the very first test tube baby in , Also see Under Glass (page 24), Under Glass: to creating GM babies and even artificial From Object to Specimen (page 18) and Stuffed embryos. Where will this revolution in Under Glass: Drafted in Movement(page 19). procreation take us next? Taxidermy. Powerful stuff. Creative and clever in equal measure, this is the subject Audience: Adults 16+ of Stuffed, a fascinating talk and practical Venue: Museum of Science and Industry demonstration by leading taxidermist Jack Date: Thursday 19 October Fishwick. We'll take you under the skin of the Time: 7pm - 8.15pm craft, peeling away the layers of history and Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required ethics that surround it.

Audience: Adults and families 10+ (under 16s to be accompanied by an adult) Venue: Gallery Oldham Electrifying the Voice Date: Saturday 21 October Time: 1pm - 4pm What’s the greatest musical instrument Cost and booking info: ever made? No, not the recorder... the £5 / £2.50 (concessions available). human voice. Our singers and scientists mix Booking required scientific analysis with musical interludes, Hip Hop Science Stop exploring the versatility of voice. Is opera Not so long ago in a galaxy not so far away… really different from musical theatre? How Pop along to MediaCityUK and meet our Josh have microphones changed the way people CSI Manchester Award winner Jon Chase, as he explains all sing? Can you be trained to be tuneful? about science through science fiction, the From Sherlock Holmes to CSI, forensics Come along to hear all about it. technology powering hip hop and how rap fascinates us. Head over to Minshull Street can help people to engage with science. Crown Court, a stunning Victorian court to Audience: Adults and families 11+ Plus find out how you can do your own explore where science meets criminal justice. Venue: Chetham's Library experiments with items bought from your You’ll learn the history of forensics, study Date: Thursday 19 October local pound shop. state-of-the-art techniques and even take Time: 7.30pm - 8.30pm part in a mock trial. Will you interpret the Cost and booking info: £4 / £2 Audience: Adults evidence correctly, or convict an innocent (concessions available). Booking required Venue: MediaCityUK campus, man? The game’s afoot.

University of Salford Part of BBC Opera Passion. Head over Date: Friday 20 October Audience: Adults and families 12+ earlier to the Museum of Science and Time: 5.30pm - 6.30pm Venue: Minshull Street Crown Court Industry and you could be part of a series Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required Date: Saturday 28 October of experiments on the human voice. Image: Trevor Cox Time: 12pm - 4pm Check the website for more info. Also see Hip Hop Science Stop Weekender Cost and booking info: £4. Booking required (page 15).

32 manchestersciencefestival.com 33 The Burger Apocalypse Facing Out: Part Two Robot World

If meat is murder, are burgers environmental Portrait painter Lucy Burscough continues What does the future hold for robots and assault? This entertaining and highly her exploration of what it means to live humans working together? This interactive participatory talk explains how to create with an altered or disfigured appearance. discussion will explore the impact of artificial the “perfect” burger, one that’s healthy, tasty Hear first-hand accounts and talk through intelligence (AI) on jobs and consider the and good for the environment. Learn how whether engaging with artworks and art pros and cons of the rise of the robots. to cut your food carbon footprint, reduce practice can improve resilience and well- From automation in industry to AI in the food waste and save money. being in people whose faces have been recruitment process, discover how close affected by facial cancers and surgical we are to living in a robot world. Audience: Adults and families 11+ reconstruction. Venue: Rapha Manchester Clubhouse Audience: Adults and families 12+ Date: Saturday 21 October Audience: Adults Venue: Bright Building, Time: 2.30pm - 3.30pm Venue: The Whitworth Manchester Science Cost and booking info: £4. Booking required Date: Thursday 26 October Date: Thursday 26 October Time: 10am - 4pm Time: 6pm - 7.30pm Cost and booking info: Free (£10 refundable Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required on attendance). Booking required People Like Me Also see Facing Out: Part One (page 21). Tear up teen magazines and play a personality quiz that’ll give you a real future. People Like Me is a playful, interactive way for mums and daughters* to discover more about their potential to build a fun and rewarding future in the fields of science, technology, engineering or maths (STEM). Could you be the next big future biologist, engineer or programmer? Meet some of our STEM Ambassadors and find out. *Siblings, dads and grandparents also welcome.

Audience: Families 10 - 14 Venue: The East Hub Employment Centre Date: Wednesday 25 October Time: 11am - 12pm, 2pm - 3pm Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required 600 People Into the Grey Zone “We step out of our solar system into the universe seeking only peace and friendship…” Dare you delve into the “grey zone” - the So says the message on the Voyager twilight world of consciousness between spacecraft. But what really is out there? awareness, sleep, coma and death? Discover Stellar wobble. The mirror test. Capitalist how neuroscientist Dr Adrian Owen proved chimps and murderous dolphins: it’s a big it was possible to communicate with universe. Somewhere between stand-up people thought to be in a vegetative state, and astrophysics, this is a simple show investigate the biggest ever study of sleep, about big ideas that’ll make you question and explore the twilight zone between what it is to be human. awareness and eternal rest.

Audience: Adults and families 12+ Audience: Adults 16+ Venue: 53two Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Date: Tuesday 24 October Date: Thursday 26 October Time: 8pm - 9.05pm Time: 7.30pm - 8.45pm Cost and booking info: £4. Booking required Image: Paul Mayne Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required

34 manchestersciencefestival.com 35 Sunday 22 October To Space and Beyond 10 At-a-Glance Guide Women of Science 25 #CitizenScience Showcase 8 X-Files: The Truth Is Out There 30 All the Delicate Duplicates 26 AquaAIRium 9 Trailblazers Saturday 21 October Bat Safari 10 Tuesday 24 October

Build a Bug a Home 10 8 Minutes 23 #CitizenScience Showcase 8 Dinosaurs in the Wild 6 600 People 34 8 Minutes: A Closer Look 23 Aeon: Patient X 18 Festival of the Spoken Nerd 29 Dinosaurs in the Wild 6 The Music of Proof: AquaAIRium 9 GameLab 9 HackManchester Junior 20 What Does Maths Sound Like? 23 Atomos 26 LEGO Space Rovers 18 Human vs. Machine 10 Under Glass 24 Dinosaurs in the Wild 6 Library of Fake News 8 LEGO Robotics 20 GameLab 9 Noisy Library 25 LEGO Space Rovers 18 LEGO Space Rovers 18 Physics Pics 24 Library of Fake News 8 Thursday 19 October Library of Fake News 8 Pi: The Bare Bones 16 Meteorites and Fireballs 11 Noisy Library 25 Dinosaurs in the Wild 6 Pirate Radio 19 Meteorites and Fireballs: Cosmodome 11 Physics Pics 24 Electrifying the Voice 32 Reena Saini Kallat 24 Noisy Library 25 Pi: Flow 16 Physics Pics 24 Robots 4 Physics Pics 24 Quantum of Science 7 Reena Saini Kallat 24 Robots Playground 6 Pi: Killer Fungus 16 Reena Saini Kallat 24 Reproduction 2.0 32 Science in the House 9 Reena Saini Kallat 24 Robots 4 Robots 4 Scribble Bots 6 Robots 4 Robots Playground 6 Scribble Bots 6 Tape 5 Science Goes Splat! 20 Science in the House 9 Sentinel 25 Women of Science 25 Scribble Bots 6 Science Spectacular 7 Tape 5 Tape 5 Scribble Bots 6 Under Glass 24 The Music of Proof: Stuffed 33 The Second Movement 27 Under Glass: A Closer Look 24 Monday 23 October Super Science Day 7 The Science Studio 27 Women of Science 25 Tape 5 Born to Sum 26 The Scienceworks 11 The Art and Craft of Foley 19 Dinosaurs in the Wild 6 To Space and Beyond 10 Friday 20 October The Burger Apocalypse 34 Ensonglopedia of Science 11 Women of Science 25 Under Glass 24 HackManchester Junior 20 Dinosaurs in the Wild 6 Under Glass: Human vs. Machine 10 Drafted in Movement 19 Going Underground 28 LEGO Space Rovers 18 Under Glass: Library of Fake News 8 Hip Hop Science Stop 33 From Object to Specimen 18 Meteorites and Fireballs 11 Physics Pics 24 Women of Science 25 Reena Saini Kallat 24 Meteorites and Fireballs: Cosmodome 11 Robots 4 Noisy Library 25 Scribble Bots 6 Physics Pics 24 Smart Cities 28 Pi: Meteorite Hunt 16 Tape 5 Reena Saini Kallat 24 Under Glass 24 Robots 4 Under Glass: Beauty and Destruction 33 Science Goes Splat! 20 Video Jam Takeover 28 Scribble Bots 6 Women of Science 25 Tape 5 The Science Studio 27 The Scienceworks 11 Tomorrow's World Live 5

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A Masterclass in Movement 13 A Grand Exposition 22 Dinosaurs in the Wild 6 Dawson City: Frozen Time 30 Facing Out: Part One 21 Dinosaurs in the Wild 6 Human vs. Machine 10 How I Hacked My Way Into Space 14 LEGO Space Rovers 18 Human vs. Machine 10 Library of Fake News 8 LEGO Space Rovers 18 Meteorites and Fireballs 11 Library of Fake News 8 Meteorites and Fireballs: Cosmodome 11 Messy Science 14 Musical Cosmos 27 Meteorites and Fireballs 11 Noisy Library 25 Meteorites and Fireballs: Cosmodome 11 People Like Me 34 Noisy Library 25 Physics Pics 24 Physics Pics 24 Pi: Made in Manchester 17 Pi: What's Engineering Reena Saini Kallat 24 Got To Do With It? 17 Sunday 29 October Reporting for Duty 12 Reena Saini Kallat 24 A Grand Exposition 22 RoboCop: 30th Anniversary Screening 30 Robots 4 Thursday 26 October Big Fish Little Fish 15 Robots 4 Scribble Bots 6 Dinosaurs in the Wild 6 Robots: Late 29 Tape 5 Dinosaurs in the Wild 6 HackManchester 21 Scribble Bots 6 The Science Studio 27 Experimental Words 27 HackManchester Awards Show 21 Science @ Central 12 The Scienceworks 11 Facing Out: Part Two 35 Hip Hop Science Stop Weekender 15 Tape 5 To Space and Beyond 10 Hats Off to vLeather! 21 LEGO Space Rovers 18 The Lost Program 13 Women of Science 25 Human vs. Machine 10 Library of Fake News 8 The Science of Happiness Into the Grey Zone 35 at Morning Gloryville 12 Pi: Seeing Into the Invisible 17 LEGO Robotics 20 The Science Studio 27 Saturday 28 October Reena Saini Kallat 24 LEGO Space Rovers 18 The Scienceworks 11 Robots 4 Library of Fake News 8 To Space and Beyond 10 A Grand Exposition 22 Scribble Bots 6 Mark Thompson's Spectacular Adrift 27 Tape 5 Women of Science 25 Science Show 13 After School Science Club: Blocks 29 The Great Energy Escape 22 Meteorites and Fireballs 11 CSI Manchester 33 Women of Science 25 Meteorites and Fireballs: Cosmodome 11 Dinosaurs in the Wild 6 Moonshadows and Starlight 13 HackManchester 21 Noisy Library 25 Hats Off to vLeather! 21 Physics Pics 24 Hip Hop Science Stop Weekender 15 Pi: The Great City Health Check 17 How I Hacked My Way Into Space 14 Reena Saini Kallat 24 LEGO Space Rovers 18 Robots 4 Library of Fake News 8 Robot World 35 Physics Pics 24 Science Goes Splat! 20 Pi: Baffled by Brains? 17 Scribble Bots 6 Reena Saini Kallat 24 Sing 'til You're Grinning 27 Robots 4 Tape 5 Science Stories 15 The Science Studio 27 Scribble Bots 6 The Scienceworks 11 Tape 5 To Space and Beyond 10 The Great Energy Escape 22 Waters Wacky Lab 13 The Science Studio 27 Women of Science 25 Women of Science 25 38 39 Visiting Manchester About the Festival

Begin your journey of discovery Cycling Booking For more information about access, at the Museum of Science and Industry, please visit our website or contact which is at the heart and hub of Greater Manchester is bicycle friendly. Most of our ticketed events have a member of the Festival team on Manchester Science Festival. Our Head to Cycle GM for up-to-date limited capacity, so book early to avoid 0161 606 0169 or email us at programme takes place at over 50 venues information and free cycle maps of disappointment. Tickets can be booked [email protected]. across Greater Manchester. Greater Manchester. There are bicycle via our website. Tickets may be available We would love to hear from you racks outside the Museum of Science on the door for some events, but we and are here to help. Museum of Science and Industry and Industry, the city’s universities always recommend booking in advance Road and in many attractions across to avoid disappointment. Interact Greater Manchester. Manchester cycling.tfgm.com M3 4FP Ticket prices Share your Festival experience and join the discussion online. msimanchester.org.uk Or why not pick up a mobike to travel We have tried to keep ticket prices as twitter.com/mcrscifest #msf17 the city between festival venues. low as possible and a high proportion facebook.com/manchestersciencefestival mobike.com/uk/ of our events are free. Where there is a flickr.com/mcrscifest Travelling to Manchester charge, this is usually required to cover Metrolink There are four railway stations in the city the cost of the event. As ticket prices Contact us centre (, Oxford Road, have been kept as low as possible, there The Metrolink network has 92 stops are only a select number of events which Contact us directly: and Victoria) and more throughout across Greater Manchester and is a fast, Greater Manchester. See nationalrail.co.uk have concessions. These are limited and manchestersciencefestival.com frequent way to get around Manchester. subject to availability. [email protected] for train timetables and fares. The Deansgate-Castlefield stop is closest 0161 606 0169 (Mon – Fri, 10am – 5pm) to the Museum of Science and Industry. Manchester is also well-served by metrolink.co.uk Age guidance national services from major UK General information cities. Check out nationalexpress.com Free city centre Metroshuttle bus Visitors of all ages are welcome at our for information about National Express events, unless advertised as adult 18+ or Manchester Science Festival is produced coach services. by the Museum of Science and Industry. Metroshuttle is a great way of getting children to be accompanied by adults. We

around . Simply provide age guidance for some events to If you’re planning to drive to Manchester, The Museum of Science and Industry (as hop on or off for free. Routes 2 (green) help you make the most out of your visit. there are numerous car parks to part of the Science Museum Group) is an and 3 (purple) stop on Deansgate / If you have any questions, please contact choose from. exempt charity as listed in the Schedule Tonman Street, a five minute walk from the Festival team. 3 of the Charities Act 2011 and is the Museum of Science and Industry. Please visit recognised as charitable by HM Revenue tfgm.com/metroshuttle Access information manchestersciencefestival.com/venues & Customs. Our HM Revenue & Customs

for more information on how to get to Manchester Science Festival is committed tax exemption number is XN63797. Festival venues. General transport information to ensuring all our events are as open and accessible as possible. We would Please note: All information is correct at Walking For up-to-date information about welcome your feedback and suggestions the time of going to print. The Festival public transport in Manchester, visit to help us achieve this vision. reserves the right to change events or The best way to get around Manchester the Transport for Greater Manchester This programme is available as a information in the event of unforeseen city centre is on foot. You can cross the (TFGM) website: downloadable PDF from the Festival circumstances. Any changes will be city in around 20 minutes. tfgm.com website. Large print format programmes reflected on the Festival website; please can be posted on request. check the website before your event. manchestersciencefestival.com Where required, the Festival may be able to source BSL interpretation, hearing loops, audio typists and numerous other specialist services to make the event as enjoyable for our visitors as possible.

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01: 53two 14: Hat Works, Stockport 26: Museum of Science and Industry 40: The Edge Theatre & Arts Centre Lawrence House, 8 Albion Street, Wellington Mill, Wellington Road South, Liverpool Road, Manchester, M3 4FP Manchester Road, Manchester, M21 9GL Manchester, M1 5LN Stockport, SK3 0EU msimanchester.org.uk edgetheatre.co.uk 53two.com stockport.gov.uk 27: North City Library 41: The John Rylands Library 02: Beswick Library 15: HOME Rochdale Road, Manchester, Greater 150 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3EH 60 Grey Mare Lane, Manchester, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester, M15 4FN Manchester, M9 4AF library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands Greater Manchester, M11 3DS homemcr.org manchester.gov.uk/libraries manchester.gov.uk/libraries 42: The Lowry 16: International Anthony 28: Number 70 Oxford Street Pier 8, The Quays, Salford, M50 3AZ 03: Bright Building Burgess Foundation 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH thelowry.com Pencroft Way, Manchester Science Park, 3 Cambridge Street, Manchester, M1 5BY mmu.ac.uk/oxford-street Manchester, M15 6GZ anthonyburgess.org 43: The People's History Museum mspl.co.uk 29: One Manchester East Hub Left Bank, , Manchester, 17: Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre Bellevue House, 27 Garrett Way, , M3 3ER 04: Brooklands Library Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK11 9DW Manchester, M18 8HE phm.org.uk Moor Road, Manchester, jodrellbank.net www.onemanchester.co.uk Greater Manchester, M23 9BP 44: The Portico Library manchester.gov.uk/libraries 18: Longsight Library 30: Pioneers Museum, Rochdale 57 Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3HY 519 Stockport Road, Manchester, 31 Toad Lane, Rochdale, OL12 0NU theportico.org.uk 05: Central Library Greater Manchester, M12 4NE rochdalepioneersmuseum.coop St Peters Square, Manchester, M2 5PD manchester.gov.uk/libraries 45: The Printworks manchester.gov.uk/libraries 31: Quarry Bank, National Trust 27 Withy Grove, Manchester, M4 2BS 19: Manchester Craft and Design Centre Styal, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 4LA theprintworks.com 06: Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art 17 Oak Street, Manchester, M4 5JD nationaltrust.org.uk/quarry-bank Market Buildings, Thomas Street, craftanddesign.com 46: The Whitworth Manchester, M4 1EU 32: Rapha Manchester Clubhouse University of Manchester, Oxford Road, cfcca.org.uk 20: Manchester Museum 5 St Ann's Passage, Manchester, M2 6AD Manchester, M15 6ER The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, rapha.cc/gb/en/clubhouses/manchester whitworth.manchester.ac.uk 07: Chancellor's Building, Mancheser, M13 9PL University of Bolton museum.manchester.ac.uk 33: Royal Northern College of Music 47: The Wonder Inn Deane Road, Bolton, BL3 5AB 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9RD 29 Shudehill, Manchester, M4 2AF bolton.ac.uk 21: Martin Harris Centre for Music rncm.ac.uk and Drama 48: Rochdale Exchange Shopping Centre 08: Chetham's Library The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, 34: School of Chemistry, Newgate, Rochdale, OL16 1YL Long Millgate, Manchester, M3 1SB Manchester, M13 9PL The University of Manchester rochdaleexchange.co.uk library.chethams.com martinharriscentre.manchester.ac.uk Brunswick Street, Manchester, M13 9PL chemistry.manchester.ac.uk 49: Waterside Arts Centre 09: Didsbury Library 22: MediaCityUK campus, 1 Waterside Plaza, Sale, Manchester, 692 Wilmslow Road, Manchester, University of Salford 35: Stockport Air Raid Shelters M33 7ZF Greater Manchester, M20 2DN Salford Quays, M50 2HE 61 Chestergate, Stockport, SK1 1NE watersideartscentre.co.uk manchester.gov.uk/libraries salford.ac.uk/mediacityuk stockport.gov.uk 50: Whitworth Hall and 10: Eccles Gateway and Library 23: Michael Smith Building, 36: Talbot Mill Manchester Museum 28 Barton Lane, Eccles, Salford, M30 0TU The University of Manchester 44 Ellesmere Street, Manchester, M15 4JY The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, salfordcommunityleisure.co.uk Dover Street, Manchester, Greater agrandexposition.cornbrookcreative.uk Mancheser, M13 9PL Manchester, M13 9PT museum.manchester.ac.uk 11: EventCity manchester.ac.uk 37: Texture Phoenix Way, , Manchester, M41 7TB 67 Lever Street, Manchester, M1 1FL 51: Withington Library eventcity.co.uk 24: Minshull Street Crown Court texture-mcr.com 410 Wilmslow Road, Manchester, Minshull Street, Manchester, M1 3FS Greater Manchester, M20 3BN 12: Gallery Oldham courttribunalfinder.service.gov.uk/courts/ 38: The Birdcage manchester.gov.uk/libraries Cultural Quarter, Greaves Street, manchester-crown-court-minshull-st Withy Grove, Manchester, M4 3AQ Oldham, OL1 1AL birdcagelive.com 52: Wythenshawe Forum galleryoldham.org.uk 25: Moss Side Powerhouse Library Simonsway, Wythenshawe, M22 5RX 140 Raby Street, Manchester, Greater 39: The Eagle Inn wythenshaweforum.co.uk 13: Gorilla Manchester, M14 4SL 19-19 Collier Street, Salford, M3 7DW 54-56 Whitworth Street West, Manchester, manchester.gov.uk/libraries eagleinn.info M1 5WW thisisgorilla.com

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Festival Team and Supporters Programme Partners Sponsors and Contributors Lead educational sponsor

The Team Alexander Whitley Dance Company, Anki, Beswick Library, Big Fish Little Fish, Body, Eyes and Movement (BEAM) Lab, The University of Manchester, Brooklands Library, Carbon Coop, Caroline Yan Zheng, Central Antonio Benitez Festival Director Philippa Hornsby Explainer Team Leader Library, Central Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, Carole Keating Creative Producer Danielle Bryers Explainer Team Leader Centre for Appearance Research, University of the Tania Seher Wilson Partnerships and Peter Boyle Volunteer West of , Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Major sponsors Centre for Gothic Studies, Manchester Metropolitan Collaborative Programme Manager Coordinator Projects University, Centre for Practice and Research in Gina Cooke Contemporary Science Michael Sharkey Visitor Experience Manager Music, Chester Zoo, Chetham's Library, CityCo, Clod Ensemble, Cold Star Media, Cornbrook Creative, Dan Programme Producer Sharon Tourish Duty Manager Simpson, Didsbury Library, Dinosaurs in the Wild UK Georgina Wells Contemporary Science John Rooney Duty Manager Limited, Dr Tony Curran, Eccles Gateway and Library, Programme Coordinator Tristan Nixon Duty Manager Energy Democracy Greater Manchester, Environment Agency, Evidently, Festival of the Spoken Nerd, Foxdog Pi Platform for Investigation Powered by Holly Jones Contemporary Science Barry Smith Site Operations Manager Studios, Fun Science, Gallery Oldham, Gorilla, Greater Programme Coordinator Stephen Hoyle Gallery Maintenance Manager Manchester Higher, Greater Manchester Skeptics Jane Brown Exhibitions Project Manager Tony Stamp Digital Technician Society, HAC100, Hive Learning Networks, HOME, IJAD Dance Company, Institute of Physics, Jeremy Benn Theresa Macauley Exhibitions Gilberto Moleiro Digital Technician Associates (JBA) consulting, Jo Eagle, Jodrell Bank Project Manager Mhairi Boyle Learning Support Officer Discovery Centre, Jon Chase, Katie Steckles, Kyle D Programme sponsor MSF Evans, Lancaster University, Longsight Library, Low Four Sallyann Browning Senior Studio, Lucy Burscough, Macclesfield Astronomical Exhibitions Coordinator Society, Maggie's Centre, Manchester Craft & Design Alice Cliff Curator of Science Steering group Centre, Manchester Fungal Infection Group (MFIG), The University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan and Technology Sally MacDonald Director Museum of University, Manchester Museum, Mark Thompson, Nancy Hopkins Marketing Manager Science and Industry Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, Mechanisms Programme sponsors Robots Kat Harrison-Dibbits Press and Antonio Benitez Festival Director of Behaviour Research Group, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, MediaCityUK PR Manager Natalie Ireland Interim Head of campus, University of Salford, Morning Gloryville, Rachel Witkin Senior Marketing Officer Learning North Moss Side Powerhouse Library, Museum of Science and Industry, North City Library, North West Film Kate Campbell-Payne Jennifer Brooke Interim Head of Learning Archive, NOVARS, The University of Manchester, Communications Officer and Public Programmes Numen / For Use, Ohbot, One Manchester Housing Mike Perry Website Manager Caroline Savage Head of Development Association, Oxford e-Research Centre, Pilot Light TV Festival, Pioneers Museum, Plymouth University, Amy Bregan Senior Sheralee Lockhart Head of Operations Produced Moon, Quarry Bank, RAD Screenings, Development Manager Kim Gowland Head of Marketing Rapha Manchester Clubhouse, Robot Orchestra, Rebecca Bentham Senior and Communications RNCM, Rochdale Literature and Ideas Festival, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society, Royal Society Robots supported by Development Manager Georgina Young Head Curator of Chemistry, Salford Community Leisure, School of Rachel Laycock Senior Rachel Knight Head of Exhibitions Chemistry, The University of Manchester, ScienceGrrl, The Zochonis Charitable Trust Sebastian Conran, STEM Learning, STFC RAL Space, Development Executive and Gallery Projects Stockport Council, The Biochemical Society, The Adam Flint Creative Content Paula Gill Management Accountant British Association for Biological Anthropology and MSF Supporter Circle and Event Developer Osteoarchaeology, The Crafty Robot, The Eagle Inn, The East Hub Employment Centre, The Edge Theatre Renold PLC Laura Alty Learning and Public Branding and design by Instruct & Arts Centre, The European Commission's Joint Programmes Coordinator Web design by OH Digital Research Centre, The John Rylands Library, The Lowry, Helen Thackray Learning Copy writing by Alastair James Dickie The People's History Museum, The Portico Library, Media Partner: Robots The Printworks, The Whitworth, The Wonder Inn, Media Partner: MSF Operations Manager University of Bolton, University of Liverpool, University Rosie Mawdsley STEM Ambassador Brochure photographs of , University of Manchester, University of Salford, University of York, Unlimited Theatre, Valiant, Video Hub Manager Drew Forsyth Jam, VR Manchester, Waterside Arts Centre, Wellcome Jennifer Lobo STEM Ambassador Chris Foster Trust Strategic Award for Medical Mycology & Fungal Engagement Officer Jason Lock Immunology (WTSA MMFI), University of Aberdeen, Wheatsheaf Shopping Centre, Withington Library, Shea Taylor Explainer Team Leader Women of Science, Wythenshawe Forum, Zoolab

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