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Manchester Science Festival 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 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. Contents 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, showcase of human enhancement and I promise you insights, inspiration 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 2 Cover Image: Marshmallow Laser Feast Image: Chris Foster manchestersciencefestival.com 3 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) 4 Image: Marshmallow Laser Feast 5 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 6 Image: Museum of London manchestersciencefestival.com 7 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.
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