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Manchester Thursday 18 October – Science Sunday 28 October Festival

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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 . 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, , Venue: Science and Industry Museum Cost and booking info: Monday 22 October, 10am – 4pm Date: Thursday 18 October – Free. Drop in any time 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 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 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 Time: 10.30am – 4pm Date: Saturday 20 October – Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Sunday 21 October Time: 11am – 5pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time

Science Spectacular The Flash Bang Show As part of GameLab, you can also enjoy: Colourful chemistry, phagecraft It’s going off in a big way. Doing exactly what and supersymmetry all in one place? it says on the (exploding syrup) tin, come Community Science Showcase It can mean only one thing: Science and be blasted with colourful explosions Spectacular is back! Discover the bugs so and chemical reactions. Witness everything Brilliant things can happen with the power infectious they actually infect other bugs, from rapid colour changes to clock reactions, of the community. Makers, scientists and hunt for meteorites and get elementary gun cotton, sticky tape bombs, indoor community groups come together to solve with dark matter. With tonnes of have-a-go fireworks, hydrogen rockets, water fires and problems, create tools and use data to make activities to do and spectacular shows to phosphorus globes, and start your festival discoveries about where they live. From see, it’s guaranteed fun for all the family. with a bang. growing food, to monitoring air quality and the weather, we invite you to help us shape Audience: Families 5+ Audience: Families 5+ the future of our neighbourhoods and make Venue: and Manchester Venue: The Met them a better place to live. Museum, The University of Manchester Date: Saturday 20 October Date: Saturday 20 October Time: 4pm – 5pm Audience: Adults and families 12+ Time: 11am – 4pm Cost and booking info: £5. Booking required Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time

MICROBIhOME

Look who’s coming to dinner. And to the bathroom. And to the kitchen… Some house guests just don’t know when to leave, and thankfully, the organisms that live in your body are no exception. Explore the eclectic microbial world within you, listen to their DNA signatures, make “bioselfies” and sink beneath the biofilm on a virtual reality tour.

Audience: Families 5+ Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time

Check the website for full details of our activities

8 manchestersciencefestival.com 9 Snowtek 2018 Been Through the Mill Science Busking on Tour

Let’s get radical at this not-so-chilled The mill at Quarry Bank was a gory, gruesome It’s time to make some slime, from gloopy out ski slope snowfest. Chill Factore has place. Millworkers found themselves getting goo to slippery slop in whatever colour you teamed up with sports engineers to help ice all sorts of horrible injuries, and you can get can create. Take the fork and cork balancing enthusiasts fire up their game. Showcasing an eyeful of all the nitty-gritty, grisly details. challenge and get out of a quantum tangle everything from the physics of flips to Discover what it would have been like to work with string experiments. Keep your reflexes the latest advances in body armour, snow with a disability in the 19th century, meet sharp and brain on the ball with these crazy, aficionados will get fascinating insights into an actual mill doctor and compare historical quickfire experiments at our pop-up lab what goes on behind the scenes of the treatments with today’s medical advances. packed with laughter and silliness. world’s coolest sports. Audience: Families 3+ Slime and Crime Audience: Families 6+ Some of the demos and showcases take Venue: Quarry Bank, National Trust Venue, date and time: place on the main slope, so you’ll need Date: Monday 22 October – Lawbreakers are roving about: slimy crimey Library, to be a competent skier to take part. Friday 26 October types and grubby fingered felons. It’s up to Monday 22 October, 11.30am – 12.30pm Time: 11am – 4pm you to catch them. Choose who you want Abraham Moss Library, Audience: Adults and families 5+ Cost and booking info: to pursue in our mobile lab, exploring the Monday 22 October, 2.30pm – 3.30pm Venue: Chill Factore Free (included in venue admission fee). weird and wonderful world of chemical Library, Date: Sunday 21 October No need to book investigation. Prepare to get messy with Tuesday 23 October, 11.30am – 12.30pm Time: 6pm – 10pm slime making or make your own unique Powerhouse Library, Cost and booking info: Most of the event fingerprint keyrings to take . But be Tuesday 23 October, 3.30pm – 4.30pm is free to enjoy, but you’ll need to buy a lift Science Showdown: Electricity quick, the baddies are about to get away… Central Library, pass to ski on the slope. Reduced rate lift Wednesday 24 October, passes for skiers start from £10 Who’d win in a fight: a bulb or a blender? Audience: Families 4+ 11.30am – 12.30pm, 2.30pm – 3.30pm Household items go to war in this electrifying (under 6s to be accompanied by an adult) Library, show. Featuring live experiments and oodles Venue: Various locations, Thursday 25 October, 11.30am – 12.30pm Hidden Treasure Tour of audience participation, you are invited to see website for more info Library, come and explore the power of electricity Date: Monday 22 October – Thursday 25 October, 2.30pm – 3.30pm Walk like an Egyptian, right into the treasure and decide once and for all which electrical Friday 26 October Cost and booking info: vaults of ancient history. This magical item will be crowned champion of the Time: 11am – 11.45am, 12pm – 12.45pm, Free. Booking required mystery tour begins with a secret. The Science Showdown. 1.30pm – 2.15pm, 2.30pm – 3.15pm location will only be released 48 hours Cost and booking info: Also see Science@Central (page 13) before the event, giving you just enough time Audience: Families 5+ Free. Book on the day at the venue to crack out your hat, whip and leather coat Venue: Science and Industry Museum before you can start exploring the hidden Date: Monday 22 October – treasures of ’s Egyptian collection. Friday 26 October Time: 11am – 11.20am, 12pm – 12.20pm, Audience: Families 7+ 1pm – 1.20pm, 2pm – 2.20pm, 3pm – 3.20pm Deep Ocean Lab Venue: Secret location in Rochdale, Cost and booking info: Free. No need to book revealed 48 hours before the event with Greg Foot Date: Monday 22 October Time to get deep. No, deeper. Deeper even Time: 10am – 11am, 1pm – 2pm than that. So deep the blue turns to black… Cost and booking info: £4. Booking required Join Blue Peter science guy Greg Foot as he recounts the fascinating story of his adventure on a deep sea research vessel. He’ll talk you through his job, editing and hosting Half Earth Day videos from 1000ft down as he explored one of the world’s most mysterious ecosystems. Half Earth Day will be buzzing with brilliant Audience: Families 5+ minds sharing ideas to celebrate this global Venue: Audience: Families 8+ campaign to save half the world for all of life. Date: Monday 22 October Venue: The Lowry See plastic coughed up by seabirds, discover Time: 11am – 4pm Date: Monday 22 October ancient Egyptian beehives and find out more Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Time: 2pm – 2.45pm about our living colonies on the roof. Take Cost and booking info: a closer look at the museum’s rich collection £13 / £9 (concessions available, booking and the stories it can tell us about our fees may apply). Booking required precious planet Earth.

10 manchestersciencefestival.com 11 Manchester Mills Demos Wunderkammer

Wheels churn like the clackers. Machines May wunders never cease. Welcome the roar like thunder. Looms leap into life. Wrap ‘wunderkammer,’ also known as a cabinet of yourselves up in the mystery of the mills as curiosity. We’re inviting you to throw it open we weave together the world of Manchester’s and goggle at all the weird and wonderful diverse community of millworkers. Feel the objects from the natural and medical world. frenzy of industry as we bring to life our Discover the mysterious histories behind most prized collection of objects and turn these bizarre trinkets as they tell a story that raw cotton into fine products like calico stretches from the depths of scientific past cloth. This special edition of our regular to the present and beyond. demo will run in both English and Bengali, in honour of the many Bangladeshi mill Audience: Families 7+ workers who contributed significantly Venue: The John Rylands Library to Manchester’s Cottonopolis story. Date: Tuesday 23 October and Thursday 25 October Audience: Adults and families 5+ Time: 2pm – 4pm Venue: Science and Industry Museum Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Science@Central Date and time: Tuesday 23 October, 10.30am – 11.15am (families 5+), Sunday 28 October, Take a leaf out of our book and explore 4pm – 4.45pm (adults) the story-filled shelves and scientific Cost and booking info: Free. No need to book Waters Wacky Science Lab secrets of Manchester’s historic Central Library. Meet the people in charge of looking Grab your lab coats and join Waters after this trove of treasures and blow off scientists for this fun-filled activity session some dust as you dig around in the archives. for all the family. Get ready to play with We’ll also be getting digital with doodle pen Ibn al-Haytham: Mysteries of How We See quicksand, experiment with magnets, build activities and more. megastructures, set off stixplosions, rockets and much, much more… Audience: Families 6+ Venue: Central Library Audience: Families 5+ Date: Wednesday 24 October Venue: Science and Industry Museum Time: 11am – 4pm Date: Wednesday 24 October Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Time: 10am – 4pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Also see Science Busking on Tour (page 11)

Electricycle Avenue

You’ve heard of singing for your supper, but how about pedalling for your power? Pedals power almost everything at this cycling extravaganza. Fancy a drink? Pedal harder. More music? Pedal harder! Once you’ve done your bit, step off the bikes and hear from author and TV personality Dr Emily Grossman. You’ll also get to dive into a treasure hunt and meet some very special cycling guests. Join 1001 Inventions and discover the world Audience: Families 7+ of 10th century Arabian scientist Ibn Audience: Adults and families 5+ al-Haytham. Watch legendary actor Omar Venue: Central Library Date and time: Tuesday 23 October, Venue: Manchester Technology Centre Sharif in an exciting short film, explore and Hatch how we see with a camera obscura, learn Wednesday 24 October and Friday 26 October, 11am – 8pm, Date: Thursday 25 October about optical illusions and engage in fun Time: 11am – 3pm (families 5+), demonstrations of light, optics and vision. Saturday 27 October, 11am – 5pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time 5pm – 10pm (adults 18+) Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required

12 manchestersciencefestival.com 13 Fish Poo Can Save the World In a Right Pickle

Ever wondered how far your food has Does a little crisp and crunchy veg pickle travelled before it reaches your plate? What your fancy? Get stuck in to making your own if we could grow our own, much closer pickles and take them home to keep for the to home? Well, we can, thanks to some winter. It’s a great way to use up spare greens amazing farming techniques and a special and do your bit for the local food revolution. ingredient – fish poo! Meet the Tilapia fish, We'll make veg crowns with accompanying say “hi” to the worms and check out what’s little ones and have loads of recipes, and growing in the Geodome. pickles, to play with too. Remember to bring your own recycled jar and lid. Audience: Families 10+ Venue: Real Food Audience: Adults and families 10+ Geodome, The Manchester College Venue: Real Food Wythenshawe Tent, The (Wythenshawe Campus) Manchester College (Wythenshawe Campus) Science Stories The Ugly Animal Roadshow Date: Friday 26 October Date: Friday 26 October Time: 10.30am – 12.30pm Time: 10.30am – 12.30pm What do you get when you mix imagination, Cute don’t cut it in the animal kingdom. experimentation and a whole heap of fun? So, we’re booting adorable out the door, Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Science Stories! Get ready to make, write, and welcoming in the most monstrous, draw and more at this year’s family friendly hideous, odious, fabulous creatures we extravaganza. Wrap your head around the could find, letting you explore the incredible Image: Feedback. Photo by Perry Bindelglass Dolly the Onion: Giant Growing mathematics of weaving and feed your biology of the world’s ugliest animals. Find curiosity for food technology. Sit back, relax out what adaptations make them amazing Want to be a giant in the garden or a leek and enjoy our poetry and storytelling sessions, and how such hideous creatures evolved geek? Get your gardening gloves on and then be inspired to put pen to paper in the first place. come meet Real Food Wythenshawe’s and create your own. gardening guru, who’ll show you how to grow Audience: Families 6+ enormous onions and larger-than-life leeks. Audience: Families 5 – 11 Venue: Gallery Think big, grow big, and find out how you can Venue: Wythenshawe Forum Date: Saturday 27 October make the most of your vegetable patch. Date: Saturday 27 October Time: 1pm – 2pm, 3pm – 4pm Time: 11am – 3pm Cost and booking info: £2. Booking required Audience: Families 10+ Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Venue: Horticultural Centre Glasshouse, Wythenshawe Date: Friday 26 October Time: 1.30pm – 3pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Image: Big Fish Little Fish Events Big Fish Little Fish presents Animal Fantastical

Revel in the animal madness of this Ready Steady Rocket Every Contact Leaves a Trace family-friendly rave up. Come dance as a family while Hacienda legend DJ Chad Go ‘loco’ and celebrate the return of A crime has been committed and you’re our Jackson spins banger after banger. Sink Stephenson’s Rocket to Manchester for the only hope. Pick up your clipboard and start your teeth into everything from bubbles first time in over 180 years. Rocket was built to poking around our mobile lab taking ink to confetti cannons, balloons, crafting tables run on the and Manchester Railway, fingerprints, checking footprints and using and colouring-in murals. Meet Safari Phil’s now home to the Science and Industry digital microscopes to unravel the mystery animals, have a roaringly good time with Museum. Build your own balloon transport, with tricks of the trade from our forensic fun and games from the author of Dinosaur follow the rail trail and race your very own scientist. It’d be criminal to miss it. Atlas and much, much more. Rocket at our special family day, developed with children from a local primary school. Audience: Families 4+ Audience: Families 0 – 8 (under 6s to be accompanied by an adult) Venue: The Birdcage Audience: Families 5+ Venue: Commonplace double decker , Date: Sunday 28 October Venue: Science and Industry Museum One New Bailey Time: 2pm – 4.30pm Date: Saturday 27 October – Date: Saturday 27 October – Cost and booking info: Sunday 28 October Sunday 28 October £8.50 / £6.50 (concessions available, free Time: 10am – 5pm Time: 11am – 3.30pm for pre-walking babies). Booking required Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time

14 manchestersciencefestival.com 15 The Problem with Plastic Awesome Animals and Fun For All Ages: Epic Engineers Plastic? It’s the final straw! Piles of single- Platform for Investigation use packets and products are polluting our How would it feel to see like a sea creature? planet to devasting effect and it’s going take How do bioengineers make materials that Powered by a lot of bottle (not plastic ones) to start mimic mayfly wings or glow like a jellyfish? turning back the tide. From banning shopping Unearth the amazing ways in which evolution bags to revolutionising recycling, come and and animal mechanics are inspiring engineers find out what’s being done, and what you to develop new sensors, substances and Come face to face with some of the brightest brains with our Platform for can do to help. materials that will transform our future, Investigation (Pi) powered by Siemens. Wake up to the future of artificial where biology meets eye-popping design. Audience: Families 7+ intelligence, turn your eyes to the skies with the folk behind an extremely large Venue: Science and Industry Museum Audience: Families 7+ telescope, wise up on allergy busting and get under the skin of human evolution. Date: Wednesday 24 October Venue: Science and Industry Museum Time: 10.30am – 4pm Date: Saturday 27 October Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Time: 10.30am – 4pm Me vs Machine Best Foot Forward Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time

Artificial intelligence making you feel thick? Garlic wards off vampires, but can it ward Worried machines might steal your job? Fret off diabetes? The greatest minds of our The Superhuman Body not: computer scientists are here to help generation are thinking on their feet in the Human Evolution you beat the machines at their own game. fight against this debilitating condition, and Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s your Grapple with coding, graphics and software we’re inviting you to pick their brains. Zoom body: home to the most powerful team What skeletons are lurking in the closet of design and get stuck into activities like around our ‘driving with diabetes’ simulator, of superheroes in existence. Fight viruses, human evolution? Time to get under the skin PixelArt, ‘I, Teacher’ and Bots of Fun. try out our FootSnap app to see how healthy power up your immune system, fly around of our species’ history and find out. Explore your feet are and leave your own footprint your circulatory system and take on evil the timeline of ‘human’ evolution, discovering Audience: Families 7+ for our mural. supervillains as you discover that superhero differences between the human skeleton Venue: Science and Industry Museum powers really were inside you the whole time. and those of our ancestors and how that Date: Saturday 20 October Audience: Families 7+ influenced our capacity for speech, music, Time: 10.30am – 4pm Venue: Science and Industry Museum Audience: Families 7+ artwork and even our belief systems. Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Date: Monday 22 October Venue: Science and Industry Museum Time: 10.30am – 4pm Date: Thursday 25 October Audience: Families 7+ Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Time: 10.30am – 4pm Venue: Science and Industry Museum Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Date: Sunday 28 October Allergy Busters Also see Seven Thousand Feet (page 20) Time: 10.30am – 4pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Crack out the tissues and stock up on antihistamines – it’s time to take a nosey Biggest Eyes to the Skies at the wonderful world of allergies. Poke For the Kids, By the Kids around our giant nose to find out what’s Something extremely big is going down making you sneeze. You can also get The kids are alright. Abraham Moss’s budding in Chile. For one day only, grab a sneak experimental with microscopes, airway scientists have been busy: building cranes, peek into the fascinating universe of models and peak flow tests to find out investigating hydraulics, testing reaction The Extremely Large Telescope from the what makes us allergic, and help our team times and guillotining chocolate. Now brains behind the project at the European discover the treatments of the future. it’s time to present their findings. Come Southern Observatory. Build a telescope and be schooled by kids who’ll prove using mirrors and lasers, snap infrared Audience: Families 7+ to you once and for all that when it comes pictures of exotic planets and discover Venue: Science and Industry Museum to science, there really is no age limit. how to see through dustclouds. Date: Sunday 21 October Time: 10.30am – 4pm Audience: Families 7+ Audience: Families 7+ Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Venue: Science and Industry Museum Venue: Science and Industry Museum Date: Tuesday 23 October Date: Friday 26 October Time: 10.30am – 4pm Time: 10.30am – 4pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time

16 manchestersciencefestival.com 17 Art Meets Science Man on the Moon Changing Textiles: Ya-Chu Kang Journey through space and time in this If you’re curious about textiles, Cottonopolis Get your teenage kicks with experimental dance and visual explosions, as laser moving performance fuelled by love, fear is the place to be. Internationally renowned Taipei-based artist Ya-Chu Kang weaves shows meet laboratory, movement merges with music and concerts create colour. and Afrofuturism. Writer Keisha Thompson paints us a poignant, autobiographical her way to Manchester to soak up some From virtual soundscapes to Taiwanese textiles, you’ll never see or think about picture of fatherhood, creating a compelling inspiration for her UK premiere exhibition science in quite the same way. protagonist out of her own experiences, Changing Textiles. Ya-Chu will craft a new one who uses mathematical and scientific artwork that uncovers the fabric of the city’s references to explore the Black British industrial past and threads together the experience, masculinity and mental health. untold stories that have left a lasting imprint on the Manchester we know today. Audience: Adults and families 12+ Future Bodies Clod Ensemble’s Placebo Venue: STUN Studio at Z-arts Audience: All ages Date and time: Tuesday 16 October – Venue: Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art Death isn’t final, it’s just a glitch. Seven dancers and an audience. A room full Friday 19 October, 7.30pm – 9pm, Date: Thursday 18 October – Sunday 28 This collaboration between Unlimited of expectation, suggestion and infectious Wednesday 17 October, Thursday 18 October October (except Monday 22 October) Theatre and RashDash interrogates the idea rhythm. What is fake? What is real? What and Saturday 20 October, 1pm – 2.30pm Time: 10am – 5pm that human enhancement technologies is movement and what is medicine? Be Cost and booking info: £13 / £7 Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time mean immortality is finally within reach. enthralled by this beguiling, bewitching and (concessions available). Booking required Exploring brain implants, smart drugs, and thought-provoking dance show, one that artificial intelligence, this creative marvel celebrates the power of placebos and our Also see Beyond Man on the Moon: Poetry smashes together science fact and fiction incredible ability to make ourselves feel and Mathematics (page 26), Beyond Man on Changing Textiles: in a kaleidoscopic montage of words, music better, even when things are falling apart. the Moon: Loop Pedalling and Songwriting A Closer Look and movement. (page 26) and Beyond Man on the Moon: Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ Afrofuturism and Poetry (page 30) Meet the artist and find out more about Audience: Adults and teenagers 16+ Venue: The Lowry Ya-Chu Kang’s fascination with the city’s Venue: HOME Date: Thursday 11 October – textile heritage and its impact on the wider Date and time: Friday 28 September – Saturday 13 October world. Hear how she weaves science and Saturday 13 October 7.45pm – 9pm, Time: 8pm – 9pm technology into her work and discuss the Saturday 6 October, Wednesday 10 October Cost and booking info: Cluster possibilities presented by graphene, another and Saturday 13 October, 2.45pm – 4pm £15 / £12 (concessions available, game-changing discovery that happened Cost and booking info: booking fees apply). Booking required Science and art collide in this visual and right here in Manchester. £12.50 / £10.50 (concessions available, sound exhibition that draws charge from both fields. Each featured artist has drawn booking fees may apply). Booking required Audience: Adults and families 12+ on scientific research to create artwork Venue: Science and Industry Museum tackling everything from DNA breakdown to Placebo: A Closer Look Date: Wednesday 24 October mental health stigma and cancer treatment, Time: 11am – 3pm sparking all sorts of ideas about how close Touch Tour: Future Bodies Join Clod Ensemble Artistic Directors Suzy Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Willson and Paul Clark for a post-show art and science really are. This special event invites visually Q&A, chaired by Gianna Bouchard, as they Also see Live and Let Dye (page 29) impaired visitors to get to know the set, explore the ideas and research that underpin Audience: Adults and families 12+ explore key props and costumes and meet the performance and inspired its carefully Venue: OA Studios the performers. crafted choreography. Date: Thursday 18 October – Sunday 28 October Audience: Adults and teenagers 16+ Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ Time: 9am – 5pm Venue: HOME Venue: The Lowry Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Date and time: Saturday 13 October, Date: Friday 12 October 1pm – 2pm Time: 9pm – 9.30pm Also see Going Out With a BANG (page 38) Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required Cost and booking info: Free to ticket holders. No need to book Also see You Have Been Upgraded (page 5) Also see Placebo: Doctor You (page 25), Placebo: The Power of the Placebo Effect (page 34), Placebo: Sound Affects (page 34), and Placebo: Social Prescription (page 34) Image: Artwork by Ya-Chu Kang

18 manchestersciencefestival.com 19 Ice Queens: Fashion Joule: Energy and Engines Virtual Soundscapes and the Antarctic Celebrate steam engines, mesmerising Prick up your virtual ears and step into Audience: Adults and teenagers 13+ The catwalk’s frozen over. High fashion mechanical models and the 200th birthday musical history with a little help from Venue: Central Library meets the Antarctic tundra in this remarkable of Salford resident and experimenter in all a virtual reality headset. Wander around two Date: Thursday 18 October – collaboration between the British Antarctic things electricity and energy, James Joule. magical historical venues, St Cecilia’s Hall in Saturday 27 October (except Sundays) Survey and fashion designer Andrea Zapp. See the instruments he used to develop Edinburgh and the Chapel Royal at Linlithgow Time: 9am – 8pm (Monday – Thursday), Exploring how data and rare Antarctic his ideas and get to know the man who Palace, experiencing not only the music of 9am – 5pm (Friday and Saturday) photography can be used as a basis for fabric gave his name to an international unit of the era you’re seeing, but the sights and Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time design, this stunning display projects scientific measurement at this special display, which sensations of the spaces themselves. data over an array of clothes and garments shines a light on Joule’s world-changing work. to create a fashion line like no other. Audience: Adults Audience: Adults and families 12+ Venue: Central Library Scored in Silence Depths of my Mind Venue: St Ann’s Church Date: Thursday 18 October – Date: Thursday 18 October – December 2018 (except Sundays) Time: 9am – 8pm (Monday – Thursday), The atomic bombs that fell on Japan changed Beautiful minds make for breathtaking Saturday 20 October, the world, but deaf concept artist and backdrops in this stunning live show. Tuesday 23 October – Saturday 27 October 9am – 5pm (Friday and Saturday) Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time choreographer Chisato Minamimura wants Through a carefully choreographed mastery Time: 10am – 5pm to share with you how they changed people. of aerial acrobatics, visual theatre and Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Experience this mesmerising live signed stunning projections of the teenage performance exploring the stories of the deaf brain, you can explore just how beautiful ‘hibakusha’, survivors of the A-bombs in 1945, our minds really are. Using the latest Image: Christine Wilcox-Baker blending sound, vibration and sign language developments in neuroimaging, Scarabeus Nature Through Roman Eyes: with wearable vibrotactile technology. Aerial Theatre will bring the teenage mind A Closer Look to life in a completely new way. Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ Author, naturalist, natural philosopher, Venue: International Anthony Audience: Families 10+ soldier; Pliny the Elder had quite the life, Burgess Foundation Venue: The Lowry and this is your last chance to see it Date and time: Friday 19 October, Date and time: Friday 19 October, up close. Walk amongst the exhibits and 2pm – 3.30pm, 8pm – 9.30pm, 7.30pm – 8.30pm, Saturday 20 October, gain a startling insight into how Romans Saturday 20 October, 8pm – 9.30pm 3pm – 4pm, 7.30pm – 8.30pm understood and made use of the natural Cost and booking info: £5 / £3 Cost and booking info: world, from wonders of the animal kingdom Seven Thousand Feet (concessions available). Booking required £16 / £14 (concessions available, to botany’s finest plants and trees. Keep booking fees apply). Booking required an eye out for our pop-up station, where Marvel at the sight of seven thousand socks researchers will be on hand to showcase hanging high, as artist Christine Wilcox-Baker Scored in Silence: how the natural world has influenced socks it to diabetes with an epic installation. Depths of my Mind: modern medicine, like developments Every year, over seven thousand lower limbs A Closer Look in anti-inflammatory drugs. are amputated in the UK due to diabetes and A Closer Look Stick around after the performance this giant artwork brings that home. There’ll for a D/deaf-friendly Q&A session with Audience: Adults and families 12+ be games to play, art to do and people in Join us for a post event discussion with the artist. Find out more about the tech (exhibition), All ages (pop-up station) the know to meet, so you can discover more Artistic Director of Scarabeus Aerial Theatre used in the performance and gain a deeper Venue: Manchester Museum about how we can defeat this condition. Daniela Essart, Child and Adolescent insight in to the history and experiences Date and time: Thursday 18 October – Psychiatrist Professor Ian Goodyer and young of deaf people in nuclear fallout, from Sunday 28 October, 10am – 5pm Check the website for full details of our people involved in the creation of the show. the effects of chemicals to the power (researchers will be around to chat daily activities of the human spirit. on Tuesday 23 October – Thursday Audience: Families 10+ 25 October, 1pm – 3pm) Audience: All ages Venue: The Lowry Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Venue: Central Library Date and time: Friday 19 October, Venue: International Anthony Date: Thursday 18 October – Wednesday 14 8.45pm – 9pm Burgess Foundation November (except Sundays) Cost and booking info: Date and time: Friday 19 October, Time: 9am – 8pm (Monday – Thursday), Free to ticket holders. No need to book 3.35pm – 4.15pm, 9.35pm – 10.15pm, 9am – 5pm (Friday and Saturday) Saturday 20 October, 9.35pm – 10.15pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Cost and booking info:

Free to ticket holders. No need to book Also see Best Foot Forward (page 16)

20 manchestersciencefestival.com 21 Seeing Sound: The Science Studio The Music of the Primes Image: Jason Lock A Chromesthesia Concert Roll up your sleeves, as it’s time to get crafty. Prime numbers are mysterious, but are they Ever wanted to taste a colour? Or feel a Step into the studio and get up close and musical? Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy smell? Or see music? This chromesthesia personal with the chemicals, reactions and and composer Emily Howard certainly think concert is for you. Based on the very real elements artists use in their work. You’ll see so. Last year, they told the tale of The Music medical condition of sensory wires in the everything from sculpture design to clay of Proof, and now they are returning to brain getting muddled, experience how making and glass moulding and you’ll get present the mathematical story of The Music technology can make this phenomenon visible the chance to put your own creativity to the of the Primes. Immerse yourself in sound for the first time. See how a string quartet’s test. No prior experience necessary, just lots and numbers as part of this extraordinary music can be transformed into a breathtaking of enthusiasm and a big imagination. experience, as your hosts weave music visual display right before your eyes. and prime numbers together to create Audience: Adults and families 7+ a sense of never ending time. Audience: Adults and families 12+ Venue: Manchester Craft and Design Centre Sentinel Venue: The Stoller Hall Date: Monday 22 October – Audience: Adults and families 12+ Date: Saturday 20 October Saturday 27 October Venue: RNCM Rolling synths and electro rhythms cascade Time: 6pm – 6.45pm (doors 5.30pm) Time: 12pm – 5pm (Adults and families 7+), Date: Tuesday 23 October over live vocals, laser lighting and vibrant Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required plus late night opening Tuesday 23 October, Time: 7.30pm – 9.15pm (doors 7pm) video in this captivating show. Musician 6pm – 8pm (Adults) Cost and booking info: £6 Richard Evans and award-winning artist Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time (booking fees may apply). Booking required Valentina D'efilippo return with stunning new data visualisations and music, building on the success of last year’s event. Immerse yourself in a multi-sensory experience of the past, present and future of global warming Facing Out: culled directly from climate and migrant data Healing Through Art and bear witness to a powerful vision of the Contagion Contagion: A Closer Look planet’s most urgent issue. Roll up your sleeves and unwind, as artist Blending an atmospheric soundscape Hear from Shobana Jeyasingh and Professor Lucy Burscough invites anyone directly or Audience: Adults and families 12+ with haunting digital imagery, acclaimed John Oxford, leader in the field of vaccine indirectly affected by facial cancer to take Venue: Waterside choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh and anti-viral clinical trials, to find out more part in a therapeutic creative arts workshop. Date: Thursday 25 October commemorates the 1918 Spanish Flu about the Spanish Flu and its influence Lucy will gently guide you to discover more Time: 7pm – 9.15pm (7pm – 8pm panel pandemic by finding beauty in the bleakness. on the choreography and audiovisual about your views and perceptions of facial discussion, 8.15pm – 9.15pm performance) Watch as eight female dancers contort and experience in Contagion. cancer, explore the deep physical, mental Cost and booking info: £10 / £8 mutate together as they explore both the and emotional wound it can leave and (concessions available). Booking required resilience and the vulnerability of the human Audience: Adults and families 12+ consider ways in which together, we can body against the stark backdrop of the Venue: We’ll walk over together from the harness the healing power of the arts. You’ll Imperial War Museum. Imperial War Museum North (IWMN) reception, leave feeling lighter and knowing a little more or you can meet us at Ziferblat MediaCityUK about how slight shifts in perception and Contagion is co-commissioned by 14-18 Date: Sunday 21 October beliefs can propel us towards recovery. AudioLab NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First Time: 1pm – 2pm (departing from IWMN Audience: Adults and families 8+ World War centenary reception at 12.45pm) The AudioLab supports emerging creative Venue: Maggie's Oldham Cost and booking info: Free (refreshments talent to flourish. Tune in to Reform Radio Date: Wednesday 24 October Audience: Adults and families 12+ included). No need to book and get a behind-the-scenes look at our Time: 2pm – 4pm Venue: Imperial War Museum North festival with a team of young creatives. With Cost and booking info: Free. No need to book Date: Sunday 21 October Access All Areas passes, they will be sneaking

Time: 12pm – 12.30pm, 2.30pm – 3pm in to backstage rehearsals, getting exclusive Also see Facing Out: Portait Masterclass Cost and booking info: Free. No need to book interviews and turning their daily experiences (page 26) and Facing Out: Talking Heads into spoken word poems, debates and songs (page 35) Also see Contagion: Second for an hour-long radio show. Outbreak (page 29) Audience: Adults and families 11+ Tune in online: reformradio.co.uk Date: Friday 26 October Time: 2pm – 3pm Cost and booking info: Free

22 Image: Chris Nash manchestersciencefestival.com 23 Sonic Pixels The Vostok K Incident Make, Do and Hack Step into a world of sound with Sonic Pixels. It’s the darkest days of the Cold War. Paranoia Imagine listening to the chirping of the reigns and a British pilot is caught up in a dawn chorus, or the noises of a building bizarre Russian experiment. Welcome to The Are you ready to touch the stars, sing to the Moon and serve up some ace as heating, water and ventilation systems Vostok K Incident, an S3A and BBC drama inventions? Discover the power of the placebo, make art out of junk, gurgle and hum. Experience what it would exploring the future of radio by unlocking the dance like a planet and more. feel like to be right at the heart of this creative potential of 3D immersive sound. sound. Wander through the space and Pulling together devices like laptops, mobiles trigger speakers in real time, as you delve and tablets, hear extracts from the drama and into this amazing audio experience. meet researchers from the University of Salford who helped develop this groundbreaking idea. Placebo: Doctor You Touch the Stars Audience: Adults and families 8+ Venue: Audience: Adults and families 11+ How do placebos work? There’s only one Astro-nut and Festival science Date and time: Friday 26 October, Venue: Science and Industry Museum way to find out. Get up close and personal communicator-in-residence, Matthew 6pm – 10.30pm (preview evening), Date: Saturday 27 October with the evidence for mind-body healing Allen, invites you to reach out and touch Saturday 27 October – Time: 11am – 5pm (lasts 20 minutes, and placebo responses. Submit yourself the stars with his multi-sensory workshop Sunday 28 October, 10am – 10.30pm repeated throughout the day) to a range of exercises designed to trigger that will show that the universe really Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any Cost and booking info: Free. No need to book healing, play doctor and make your own is open to everyone. Get to grips with time (booking required for preview evening) plan to harness the power of placebos. tactile images of the sky, explore 3D printed models of objects in space, use Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ your detective skills to investigate real Did You Come Alone? Venue: The Lowry meteorites and listen to the sound of Date: Saturday 13 October gravitational waves in the fun 'Black Hole "Hi. How are you?" This is a common Time: 10am – 2.30pm Hunter game'. This workshop has been greeting used to ask about health, but Cost and booking info: designed to be visually impaired friendly. has anyone ever asked you; "did you come £6 / £4 (concessions available). alone?" We’ll be exploring these questions Booking required Audience: All ages in a short, interactive, one-on-one scenario. Venue: Science and Industry Museum This is no ordinary theatre experience, Also see Clod Ensemble’s Placebo (page 18), Date: Thursday 18 October – as you’ll play the protagonist, answering Placebo: The Power of the Placebo Effect Friday 19 October questions and attempting tasks that will (page 34), Placebo: Sound Affects (page 34) Time: 11.30am – 12pm, 1pm – 1.30pm challenge assumptions of who is involved and Placebo: Social Prescription (page 34) (workshops), 10am – 11am, in human health. 2pm – 4pm (drop in) Cost and booking info: Audience: Adults and teenagers 16+ Free. Booking required for workshops Venue: Manchester Museum Date: Saturday 27 October – Sunday 28 October Time: 12pm – 5pm Music and Mutation Cost and booking info: Free. No need to book

Music morphs, modifies and mutates into something profound in this pioneering live Image: William Ellis performance. Listen as a geneticist takes an experimental method of turning DNA sequences into musical works and puts it in the fine-tuned hands of performers. You’re invited to listen to the results, so come along and ‘hear’ mutations like you’ve never heard them before.

Audience: Adults and families 12+ Venue: Emmanuel Church Date: Saturday 27 October Time: 11am – 12.40pm (doors 10.15am) Cost and booking info: Free. No need to book

24 manchestersciencefestival.com 25 Facing Out: Portrait Masterclass Aeon: Liberation

Get face to face with the intricacies Audience: Adults 18+ It’s the near future. You’re a researcher of facial recognition and discover how Venue: Maggie's Manchester taking a tour of a cloning facility. a psychological lens can help shine a light Date: Friday 19 October Protesters suddenly burst in. What on different approaches to drawing the Time: 10.30am – 2.30pm do you do? How do you react? Welcome human face. As part of a long-term project Cost and booking info: to Aeon, an immersive theatre experience into facial cancer and reconstructive Free. No need to book exploring the moral complexities of a surgery, artist Lucy Burscough invites future where cloning is a reality. As the anyone affected by cancer, either directly Also see Facing Out: Healing tension racks up, you’ll come face-to-face or indirectly, to a life drawing class which Through Art (page 23) and with the clones whose release may pose redefines traditional perceptions of beauty. Facing Out: Talking Heads (page 35) a risk to all of humanity.

Audience: Adults and teenagers 15+ Venue: Stopford Building, Beyond Man on the Moon: Beyond Man on the Moon: The University of Manchester Date and time: Poetry and Mathematics Loop Pedalling and Songwriting Friday 19 October, 7pm – 8.15pm, Saturday 20 October 11.30am – 12.45pm, Poet, performer and rising star Keisha Keisha Thompson invites you to explore 1.30pm – 2.45pm and 3.30pm – 4.45pm Thompson will show you how she turns the connection between mathematics Cost and booking info: £8 / £6 mathematical references into creative and music using song and loop pedalling. (concessions available). Booking required stimuli and will guide you to have a go Discover Pythagoras' contribution yourself. You’ll take inspiration from the to music, immerse yourself in harmony creative processes behind her solo show and create your own soundscapes based Man on the Moon, where Keisha transforms on the themes of psychology and mental fiendishly complicated scientific processes health which are explored in her solo An Ace History of Tennis like SUVAT equations, Fibonacci sequences show Man on the Moon. Big and detailed graphs into something We’ll be serving up a lovely slice of tennis Screen beautiful. Creating art, music and poetry Audience: Adults and families 12+ history. Discover how technology transformed Bootcamp out of data, she'll encourage you to find Venue: Z-arts the sport, figure out the subtle differences creativity in the most unlikely of places. Date: Friday 19 October between court tennis and lawn tennis and Grab your clapperboard and come make Time: 1pm – 3pm see how rackets are strung and balls are movie magic at this inspiring and fun Audience: Adults and families 12+ Cost and booking info: made. You can even try out your skills on filmmaking boot camp. Unlock the power Venue: Z-arts £5. Booking required court, a smashing way to spend a Saturday. of storytelling and turn your passion for Date: Friday 19 October But don’t forget your trainers. science, engineering and technology into Time: 10am – 12pm a three minute cinematic masterpiece. Cost and booking info: £5. Booking required Audience: All ages (tours suitable for adults You’ll be one of fifteen teams immersed and teenagers 16+) in every aspect of direction, in the enviable Venue: Manchester Tennis and Racquet Club position of being guided by pros from Date: Saturday 20 October the likes of tech giants Barclays, Google, Time: 11am – 5pm, (tours run all day Microsoft and BBC. There’ll be shiny at 11.15am – 12pm, 12pm – 12.45pm, awards for the best short films, plus 1pm – 1.45pm, 2pm – 2.45pm, the chance to see your creation on the 3pm – 3.34pm and 4pm – 4.45pm) big screen at Media City. Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time (booking required for tours) Audience: Adults and teenagers 16+ Venue: MediaCityUK campus, Also see Hi-Tech Tennis (page 32) University of Salford Date: Saturday 20 October – Sunday 21 October Time: 11am – 5pm Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required Also see Man on the Moon (page 19), Beyond Man on the Moon: Afrofuturism and Poetry (page 30).

26 manchestersciencefestival.com 27 Live and Let Dye

Grab a fistful of your favourite flowers or leaves and come away with a lot more than green fingers. Colour, hue, iridescence and pigmentation are all on show. Discover how to experiment with natural colours, create patterns and transform fabric swatches as personal as your own memories with local artist Talie Linseed, who’ll be showing you how to dye like a pro. Meet us beforehand at St John’s Gardens if you would like to collect your own natural materials, such as freshly fallen petals and twigs.

Audience: Adults and families 8+ Venue: Science and Industry Museum Date: Saturday 20 October Time: 1pm – 3pm, or join us at 12.30pm by the stone monument in St John's Gardens Cost and booking info: £10 / £6 (concessions apply). Booking required

Build Your Own Storytelling and Also see Changing Textiles: Ya-Chu Kang (page 19) Internet of Things Secret Tunnels

Modems may be a thing of the internet’s Magic, reality and technology collide past, but ‘things’ are most definitely a thing in a secret underground tunnel. Grab Perfect Particles Contagion: Second Outbreak of the internet’s future. The Internet of a glow stick and imagine new worlds Things is all around us, connecting everyday as you drive the story, crafting your This is the genuine particle. Pinging all Can you dance the Flu-menco? Have you objects like fridges, toasters and even own part factual and part fantastical around us, and inside us, the universe is caught Saturday Night Fever? If that sounds toilets to the net. Come along and discover universe using drawing, writing made of up of these building blocks and we’ll like you, get to know the movers and shakers just how big the Internet of Things is about and augmented reality. help you imagine them for real. Make your at Shobana Jeyasingh Dance and delve into to get and what it means for our everyday own particle model, get stuck into painting, what inspired the choreographic choices lives. Then get stuck into building a network Audience: Teenagers 12 – 16 decorating and writing, and celebrate the in their show Contagion. You’ll see how the of your own. Venue: Brickworks incredible way these tiny things interact. architecture, dynamics and behaviour of the Date: Saturday 20 October The afternoon workshop has been designed Spanish Flu virus shaped the choreography Audience: Families 10 – 18 Time: 2pm – 4.30pm to be visually impaired friendly. as you dance, move and glide alongside Venue: Building, (including 25 minute tour) professional dancers and physically embody Manchester Metropolitan University Cost and booking info: Audience: Families 5+ everything from manifestations of mutation Date: Saturday 20 October and £4. Booking required Venue: Visitor Centre to World War I warfare. Saturday 27 October Date: Sunday 21 October Time: 10.30am – 12pm Time: 10am – 12pm, Audience: Adults and families 12+ Cost and booking info: £4. Booking required 1pm – 3pm (visually impaired friendly) Venue: The Dancehouse Cost and booking info: Date: Sunday 21 October £2.50. Booking required Time: 11am – 1pm Cost and booking info: £5. Booking required

Also see Contagion (page 22)

28 manchestersciencefestival.com 29 Art Junkies Introduction to Inkblots HackManchester Junior 2018 It’s not junk, it’s art. Or at least it soon will To ink is to think. Ever since psychotherapy be... Join artist and recycling junkie Maryanne pioneer Molly Harrower started using inkblot Royle and Dr Karl Williams, the Director for tests in psychology, they’ve been a window the Centre for Waste Management, as they into people’s minds. Mix and mingle with sift through the scrapheap, showing you how artists and academics as they take you science can turn everyday rubbish into art. through the history of inkblots, exploring Turn mundane, discarded objects into artistic their connection to queer feminist history. marvels, and take home your own creations You’ll even get to screenprint your own when you’re done. inkblot to take home on a tote bag.

Audience: Families 7+ Audience: Adults and families 12+ Venue: Littleborough Library Venue: Date: Monday 22 October Date: Friday 26 October Time: 3pm – 4.30pm Time: 2pm – 4pm Cost and booking info: £3. Booking required Cost and booking info: £6 / £10 combo ticket with Shining Molly: Love, Sex and Inkblots. Booking required

Science Rocks, Climbing Rules Also see Shining Molly: Love, Sex and Inkblots (page 35) Got a good grip on physics? Think again. Beef up your grip strength and your brain power with this ascent into rock climbing and bouldering. Forces, gravity and stability are all within reach as you scale our walls, Celestial Bodies: measure your acceleration whilst you jump The Universe in Motion and explore the friction of different rock Curious about coding? Budding engineer? surfaces. Plus, you’ll have the chance to put Time to play planet. In this part dance, Audience: Families 8+ Join us for HackManchester Junior, the the theory to the test with a climbing session. part game, part experiment, you’ll don Venue: Science and Industry Museum North West’s premiere coding competition a helium balloon suit, and let professional Date: Monday 22 October – for youngsters aged 8 – 18. Teams have Audience: Families 8+ dancers guide you in how to move like Tuesday 23 October just two days to build a working solution Venue: The Depot Climbing Centre celestial bodies. As you act out the laws Time: 8.30am – 4pm (Monday), to a series of tricky challenges. Work with Date: Wednesday 24 October of physics, you’ll get a shining insight 9am – 5.30pm (Tuesday) skilled mentors and test your digital skills Time: 1.30pm – 2.30pm (2.30pm – 3.30pm into how the universe (and your body) Cost and booking info: and high-speed working to their limits. climbing), 3.30pm – 4.30pm (4.30pm – works, discovering how everything affects Free. Booking required Prizes are awarded for the best teams. 5.30pm climbing) everything else. Cost and booking info: £3. Booking required Audience: Adults and families 8+ Venue: Science and Industry Museum Date: Saturday 27 October – Beyond Man on the Moon: Afrofuturism and Poetry Sunday 28 October Time: 11am – 11.20am, 11.40am – 12pm, In a special addition to her solo show, Audience: Adults and families 12+ 12.20pm – 12.40pm, 2pm – 2.20pm, Man on the Moon, poet and performer Venue: Chuck Gallery 2.40pm – 3pm, 3.20pm – 3.40pm, Keisha Thompson is going under the skin Date: Monday 22 October 4pm – 4.20pm and 4.40pm – 5pm of her performance to illustrate what Time: 1pm – 3pm (workshop), Cost and booking info: really goes into creating such a compelling 3pm – 3.30pm (optional tour of gallery) Free. Book on the day at the venue artistic vision. Here she explores the way Cost and booking info: £5. Booking required Afrofuturism takes the experience of being "othered" and turns it into something that Also see Man on the Moon (page 19), is otherworldly. Set against the backdrop Beyond Man on the Moon: Poetry and of the Chuck Gallery, which explores Mathematics (page 26) and Beyond Man on contemporary African art, you will explore the Moon: Loop Pedalling and Songwriting concepts of alchemy, the Enneagram (page 26). personality wheel, numerology and Ancient Egyptian philosophy. Image: Climbing Rocks by BLOCKHELDEN

30 manchestersciencefestival.com 31 Conversations

Put the future on trial and prepare to pass verdict, hear the power of music and delve headfirst into the debate on health and wellbeing. If you’re the kind of person that likes to chew over the hottest topics, then these talks are perfect for you.

Jon Ronson's HackManchester 2018 Hi-Tech Tennis Future on Trial: Psychopath Afternoon Artificial Intelligence Eat, sleep, code, repeat. HackManchester Game, tech, match. Tennis is a lot more Pull back the shower curtain on an afternoon is the UK’s only 25 hour, and most caffeine- than knocking balls over a net these days, All rise for the rise of AI. We need you to act full of psychopaths. Author Jon Ronson fuelled, annual coding competition. Pick and this is your chance to try out the latest as judge, jury and opinionator as we put the presents this fascinating, disturbing matinee your team, chug a coffee and go head gadgetry. Test out smart rackets, try out future on trial. Artificial intelligence is already show, recounting the funny, terrifying and to head with big businesses and their a digital court, play around with slo-mo changing the world, but as it gets smarter utterly mad events that led to the creation fiendishly difficult coding challenges. Push replays and handle some of the earliest are we losing control? You get to pass of his bestselling book The Psychopath yourself to the limit and show the world versions of the modern day racket. Drop verdict. Bringing together expert witnesses Test. Hear from Jon, explore the concept of your coding prowess. Impress the judges in any time in the afternoon or make and scientific leaders, we’ll pit them against and find out how it sits within to win amazing prizes and coveted trophies. an evening of it by joining our big debate. each other in a courtroom setting while you the broader mental health "industry" of Don’t forget your trainers. get the final say. medical professionals and the mass media. Audience: Adults 18+ Venue: Science and Industry Museum Audience: Adults and families 8+ Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ Date and time: Starts 12pm Venue: The Northern Venue: Greater Manchester Police Museum Venue: The Lowry Saturday 27 October, finishes 2pm Date: Saturday 27 October Date: Thursday 18 October Date: Saturday 20 October Sunday 28 October (awards ceremony Time: 2pm – 5pm, Time: 6.30pm – 7.45pm (doors 6.15pm) Time: 3pm – 5.05pm 6pm – 10pm Sunday 28 October) 6pm – 7.30pm for The Big Debate Cost and booking info: Cost and booking info: Cost and booking info: Cost and booking info: £5 / £7.50 combo ticket with Future on £24.50. Booking required £20. Booking required Free. Drop in any time (book on the day Trial: Superbugs. Booking required at the venue for The Big Debate)

Aquaponics: Also see An Ace History of Tennis (page 27) The Beat Box of Tricks Grow Your Own Greens Future on Trial: Superbugs Ever wondered how a beatboxer imitates If you haven't heard of aquaponics yet, The Human Stories Dust off your wigs and crack out your gavels, a full drum kit? Or why some singers are you soon will. Farm Urban’s team of bio- of Homelessness it’s time to get judgey. Join us in a beautiful low and husky while others are bright scientists and engineers are here to help historical courtroom as we put science on and falsetto? Prepare to be mesmerised trial, asking if it’s gone too far by creating as acoustics maestro Professor Trevor you build your own symbiotic aquaponic Can an object – and its story – challenge antibiotic resistant superbugs. Bringing Cox and singers from the RNCM give you system, where plants and fish live and the stigma of homelessness? Find out together superbug specialists, expert a fascinating earsight into the human voice. thrive together. The fish waste provides with the Museum of Homelessness in a witnesses and you, the jury, we’ll be having organic food for the growing plants and powerful, challenging and deeply moving a mock trial and inviting you to pass verdict. Audience: Adults and families 11+ the plants naturally filter the water in performance and workshop. Hear stories Venue: Band on the Wall which the fish live. You can use this as a about homelessness and explore how the Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ Date: Sunday 21 October basis for growing a range of leafy green veg act of storytelling can change attitudes Venue: Greater Manchester Police Museum Time: 1pm – 2pm (doors 12.30pm) and herbs at home, creating your very own and prejudices, as we weave together Date: Thursday 18 October Cost and booking info: £5. Booking required self-sustaining ecosystem. neuroscience research and verbatim Time: 8pm – 9.15pm (doors 7.45pm) storytelling techniques. Audience: Families 8+ Cost and booking info: £5 / £7.50 combo ticket with Future on Venue: Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art Audience: Adults and teenagers 16+ Trial: Artificial Intelligence. Booking required Date: Saturday 27 October Venue: The Federation Time: 1pm – 4pm Date: Saturday 27 October Cost and booking info: £5. Booking required Time: 2pm – 4pm (doors 1.45pm) Cost and booking info: £5. Booking required

32 manchestersciencefestival.com 33 Placebo: The Power Placebo: Sound Affects Facing Out: Talking Heads Shining Molly: of the Placebo Effect Love, Sex and Inkblots Sound affects us all. Music alters moods, Artist Lucy Burscough invites medical Can belief make you better? You better intonation changes inclination, but practitioners, patients, their friends and Meet Molly Harrower: scientist, poet believe it. Despite being an age old tool for why? Drawing on the latest research family and anyone directly or indirectly and extraordinary woman. Join us for an practising medics, the placebo effect has and technological advancements in affected by facial cancer to join her and interactive dramatised reading from the only recently become the subject of serious psychoacoustics, we invite you to explore a stellar lineup of specialists to get under remarkable diaries of Shining Molly, pioneer scientific investigation. Our panel brings the relationship between sound, acoustics the skin of facial cancers and redefine in the field of Gestalt psychology, developer together ideas from philosophy, science and wellbeing. Lend us your ears and traditional notions of disfigurement. Come of an inkblot test to help detect Nazis during and the arts to discuss what we know, decipher the psychological and physiological face to face with the people whose research World War II and one of the first women what we don’t, and what we need to better responses we have to everything from music and work leaves an impactful and visible to ever set up a clinical psychology practice. understand this incredible phenomenon. to noise pollution. scar on our lives, from psychologists of facial recognition and reconstructive surgeons Audience: Adults and teenagers 15+ Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ Audience: Adults to creative practitioners and take part Venue: The Portico Library Venue: The Lowry Venue: Gorilla in a lively discussion about the face, Date: Friday 26 October Date: Saturday 13 October Date: Tuesday 23 October identity and the impact of facial cancer. Time: 6.30pm – 7.15pm (doors 6pm) Time: 4pm – 6pm Time: 6.30pm – 8.30pm Cost and booking info: £6 / £10 combo Cost and booking info: £5. Booking required Cost and booking info: £6 / £4 Audience: Adults 18+ ticket with Introduction to Inkblots. (concessions available). Booking required Venue: Maggie's Manchester Booking required Date: Tuesday 23 October Time: 5.30pm – 6.30pm Also see Introduction to Inkblots (page 31) Image: Clod Ensemble/Manuel Vason Placebo: Social Prescription Cost and booking info: Free. No need to book

What’s the best medicine for you? Along Also see Facing Out: Healing Through with pills and prescriptions, doctors and Art (page 23) and Facing Out: Portrait You and AI nurses now have the option of prescribing Masterclass (page 26) a whole range of non-clinical community You can call me AI. Artificial intelligence services that help improve your health. So is under the microscope as the Royal come along and get up to speed about Society teams up with world leading artificial social prescription, with health professionals Question Climb intelligence research lab DeepMind. Physicist, and creative practitioners who believe that author and broadcaster Jim Al Khalili will relationships, activities and expectations Scale the heights of knowledge and powwow be hosting the debate and you’ll be invited can have a radical impact on health and with mountaineers and physicists about to put your questions to a very special lineup wellbeing. Discover how doctors are now how their ideas can get you to the top of people in the know and discover just how prescribing everything from joining choirs of your game. Socialise with Dr Suzie Imber far the boundaries of AI are being pushed. to visiting museums. and Joe Fennell over pizza and beer. Put your own questions to those who know Audience: Adults and teenagers 16+ Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ the ropes and tricks, to help you get to grips Venue: Royal Exchange Theatre Venue: The Whitworth with scaling those walls. Date: Sunday 28 October Date: Thursday 25 October Time: 5.30pm – 7pm Time: 6pm – 8pm Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ Cost and booking info: £10. Booking required Also see Clod Ensemble’s Placebo (page 18) Cost and booking info: £5 / £3 Venue: The Depot Climbing Centre and Placebo: Doctor You (page 25) (concessions available). Booking required Date: Wednesday 24 October Time: 7pm – 8pm (in conversation), 8pm – 8.30pm (climbing) Cost and booking info: £10 (includes pizza and beer/non-alcoholic drink, In Conversation: Plastics Action as well as access to the bouldering centre and shoe hire). Booking required Plastic is filling our world – and it’s Audience: Adults and teenagers 16+ something many of us want to change. Venue: Science and Industry Museum In this special in conversation event, part Date: Tuesday 23 October of the BBC’s Plastics Watch initiative, Time: 7pm – 8.15pm (doors 6.30pm) Professor Mark Miodownik from University Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required College London and BBC Radio 4’s Paddy O’Connell ask what we can do to reduce plastic pollution and clean up our planet.

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Calling all curious creatures of the night, we’re having a lock-in at the lab. Prepare to laugh so hard you cry with our after hours stand-up comedy, listen to the wordsmith wizardry of our poetry slam standoffs and enjoy exclusive events with some of our favourite stars.

Bright Club: The Big One

Scientists swap microscopes for microphones in this stand-up extravaganza. Come on down for a night of comedy as six academics leave the lab and present their research. You’ll experience stand-up routines with a surprisingly insightful (and hilarious) twist. You’ll laugh, you’ll learn, and you’ll leave with a newfound appreciation for science’s silly side.

Audience: Adults 18+ Get switched on to our supercharged Audience: Adults 18+ Venue: The Bread Shed adults-only evening of electrifying fun. Venue: Science and Industry Museum Date: Friday 19 October Experiment with the weird and wonderful Date: Wednesday 24 October Time: 8pm – 10.15pm (doors 7.30pm) things you can do with electricity, like making Time: 7pm – 10pm Cost and booking info: £5. Booking required lightbulbs work without plugging them into Cost and booking info: anything. Mess around with our miniature Free. Booking required lightning machine and take control of a fleet of robotic drones to inspect a virtual wind farm and keep the lights on.

Book Shambles Live

Get ready for a specially commissioned Experimental Words live edition of acclaimed podcast Robin and Josie’s Book Shambles. This time, Biology encounters balladry, mathematics Robin Ince will be joined by guest co-host meets metre, and chemistry collides with neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott cadence as leading scientists are paired with to chat with cognitive psychologist Manchester’s finest spoken word artists. Professor Charles Fernyhough. They’ll That’s right: Experimental Words is back! be using books as a springboard into And this time, it’s bigger than ever before. shambolic, often ludicrous and deeply Explore rhyme, rhythm, and reason through passionate conversations about literature, everything from gravitational waves to science, philosophy, comedy, politics and, electricity and biohacking – and celebrate well, everything and anything. Robin the creative similarities between science will be signing copies of his new book and the performing arts. ‘I’m a Joke and So Are You’ after the event. Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ Audience: Adults and teenager 12+ Venue: Science and Industry Museum Venue: Science and Industry Museum Date: Thursday 25 October Date: Monday 22 October Time: 8pm – 10pm (doors 7.30pm) Time: 7pm – 9pm (doors 6.30pm) Cost and booking info: £5 / £4 Cost and booking info: £6. Booking required Image: Trunkman Productions (concessions available). Booking required

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Join us at the flicks for a pick and mix of your favourite films, from animation to psychological thrillers. Celebrate 10 years of waste collecting robot Wall-E and 25 years since Jurassic Park unleashed its roar. Plus, we’ll be exploring the influence of movies on mental health, as well as recreating experiments from a cult classic favourite, bringing them to life through the wonder and magic of the silver screen.

The Story Collider Going Out With a BANG WALL-E: Stereotypes, convention and stale thinking Come along to the closing party of our 10th Anniversary Screening get smashed to smithereens as an all-female special exhibition, Cluster. The creators lineup of scientists and storytellers put of the artworks are having a shindig to share Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Pixar's a human face on their profession. Listen a little bit about how they created their masterpiece WALL-E. Watch this family rapt as real people share personal stories works. Grab a drink, enjoy the music and join favourite at our special screening, then that go far beyond the clichés of white lab the artists in painting a picture of how the explore the ruined world shown in the movie. coats, revealing what makes them get out science influenced the art and the art the Earth’s been plundered, the air’s toxic and of bed every day to do what they do. science, giving you an unprecedented insight only robots have survived, but there’s still into the creative journey. hope. Meet Earthy, use microscopes and air Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ visual nodes to investigate the air quality Venue: The Birdcage Audience: Adults 18+ and help clean up the atmosphere. Date: Friday 26 October Venue: OA Studios Time: 6.30pm – 9.30pm Date: Saturday 27 October Audience: Families 5+ Cost and booking info: £4. Booking required Time: 6pm – 9pm Venue: The Light Cinema Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Date: Saturday 20 October Time: 2.30pm – 5.30pm (2pm doors) Also see Cluster (page 19) Cost and booking info: £9 / £6 (concessions available). Booking required Image: Disney

Look Around You LIVE

Take a trip down memory lane as we share our favourite episodes from BBC comedy cult hit Look Around You. Retaining the wit, weirdness and off-the-wall wackiness of the original series, we’ll be running our own live experiments on everything from sulphur to the human brain. What could possibly go wrong?

Audience: Adults and teenagers 15+ Venue: ODEON Great Northern Date: Sunday 21 October Time: 5.30pm – 7.30pm (doors 5pm) Image: BBC Cost and booking info: £10. Booking required

38 manchestersciencefestival.com 39 Three Faces of Eve The Prestige Walks and Tours Cinema gets psychological in this screening Abracadabra, it’s time for magic tricks, and panel discussion of 1950’s classic film mysteries and more inspiring ideas The Three Faces of Eve. Delivered as part than you can shake a wand at. Director Put on your comfiest trainers and get ready for a stroll or two that will make you of trailblazing research project, Demons Christopher Nolan conjures up the story see the city in a whole new light. Take a tour of Manchester's High Voltage Test Lab of the Mind, we explore the interactions of two magicians, whose intense rivalry leads or join a walking orchestra to play the sound of the city environment. between cinema and the psy sciences them on a lifelong battle for supernatural and debate the influence of movies supremacy. Plus before the screening, on mental health narratives with mental we reveal how Victorian era magic was health professionals and historians. a scientific masterpiece and find out more about Nikola Tesla’s electrifying ideas. Lightning Strikes City Sound Walks Audience: Adults and teenagers 15+ Venue: International Anthony Audience: Adults and teenagers 16+ Danger, danger: high voltage! The air will Burgess Foundation Venue: Stockport Plaza crackle, your hair will stand on end and Date: Monday 22 October Date: Tuesday 23 October sparks will fly in this electrifying tour Time: 6.30pm – 9pm (doors 6pm) Time: 7.30pm – 8pm (talk), of Manchester's High Voltage Test Lab. Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required 8pm – 10.15pm (screening) Explore the machinery of the laboratory, Cost and booking info: find out more about the mysterious salt £8.50. Booking required fog chambers and electromagnetic screen rooms, then experience the coup de grace: a live demonstration of lightning arcing.

Audience: Adults and families 8+ Jurassic Party Venue: The High Voltage Lab, Ferranti Building, The University of Manchester Date: Saturday 20 October Time: 12pm – 12.30pm, 1pm – 1.30pm, 2pm – 2.30pm, 3pm – 3.30pm Cost and booking info: Free. Book on the day at the venue (bookings also taken from Science Spectacular, see page 8 for more info)

Imagine hearing the tones, beats and rhythms of a city generated from ambient and electrical lighting, urban light design, flashing lamp posts and passing cars. Tune up your portable synthesizer and join Noise Orchestra as we take to the Manchester streets to play the sound of the city environment. Let the city lights trigger your device, creating sounds that you can Image: weave into an industrial soundscape of noise inspired by urban architecture. Life has found a way. This year Steven Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ Audience: All ages Spielberg's dino classic turns an incredible Venue: Manchester Museum Venue: Meeting point 25, so we’re planning to celebrate with a Date: Thursday 25 October Science and Industry Museum dinosaur-themed birthday party of epic Time: 6.30pm – 10pm (doors 6pm) Date: Thursday 25 October – proportions. Tear into a host of fossil, bone Cost and booking info: Saturday 27 October and skeletal activities and sink your jaw into £10 / £6 (concessions available, Time: 6.30pm – 7.30pm, 8.30pm – 9.30pm our snack bar, before enjoying this classic booking fees may apply). Booking required Cost and booking info: £6 / £4 film alongside Stan, Manchester Museum's (concessions available). Booking required resident T-Rex. Image: The University of Manchester

40 41 Saturday 20 October Sunday 21 October At-a-Glance Guide Aeon: Liberation 27 Allergy Busters 16 An Ace History of Tennis 27 Big Screen Bootcamp 28 Big Screen Bootcamp 27 Changing Textiles: Ya-Chu Kang 19 Trailblazers Build Your Own Internet of Things 28 Community Science Showcase 9

Changing Textiles: Ya-Chu Kang 19 Contagion 22 Clod Ensemble’s Placebo 18 Community Science Showcase 9 Contagion: A Closer Look 22 Future Bodies 18 Depths of my Mind 21 Contagion: Second Outbreak 29 Man on the Moon 19 GameLab 9 GameLab 9 Placebo: A Closer Look 18 Ice Queens: Fashion and the Antarctic 20 Look Around You LIVE 39 Placebo: Doctor You 25 Jon Ronson’s Psychopath Afternoon 33 MICROBIhOME 9 Placebo: The Power of the Joule: Energy and Engines 20 Mirror Pillar 7 Placebo Effect 34 Lightning Strikes 41 Perfect Particles 29 Touch Tour: Future Bodies 18 Live and Let Dye 29 Power Playground 7

Thursday 18 October Me vs Machine 16 Snowtek 2018 10 MICROBIhOME 9 The Beat Box of Tricks 33 Daily Events Changing Textiles: Ya-Chu Kang 19 Mirror Pillar 7 The Sound of Light 8

Future on Trial: Artificial Intelligence 33 Power Playground 7 Conservation Science: Future on Trial: Superbugs 33 Science Spectacular 8 Preventing Extinction 7 Ice Queens: Fashion and the Antarctic 20 Scored in Silence 21 Monday 22 October Cluster 18 Joule: Energy and Engines 20 Scored in Silence: A Closer Look 21 Distortions in Spacetime 4 Seven Thousand Feet 20 Seeing Sound: Art Junkies 31 Electricity: The spark of life 6 Touch the Stars 25 A Chromesthesia Concert 22 Been Through the Mill 10 Frankenstein’s Frogs 7 You Have Been Upgraded 5 Seven Thousand Feet 20 Best Foot Forward 16 Nature Through Roman Eyes Virtual Soundscapes 21 Storytelling and Secret Tunnels 28 Beyond Man on the Moon: (exhibition) 20 The Flash Bang Show 8 Afrofuturism and Poetry 30 The Sound of Light 8 Book Shambles Live 36 Friday 19 October Virtual Soundscapes 21 Deep Ocean Lab with Greg Foot 11 WALL-E: 10th Anniversary Screening 39 HackManchester Junior 2018 30 Aeon: Liberation 27 Half Earth Day 10 Beyond Man on the Moon: Hidden Treasure Tour 10 Loop Pedalling and Songwriting 26 Joule: Energy and Engines 20 Beyond Man on the Moon: Mirror Pillar 7 Poetry and Mathematics 26 Science Busking on Tour 11 Bright Club: The Big One 36 Science Showdown: Electricity 10 Changing Textiles: Ya-Chu Kang 19 Seven Thousand Feet 20 Depths of my Mind 21 Slime and Crime 11 Depths of my Mind: A Closer Look 21 The Science Studio 22 Facing Out: Portrait Masterclass 26 The Sound of Light 8 Ice Queens: Fashion and the Antarctic 20 Three Faces of Eve 40 Joule: Energy and Engines 20 Virtual Soundscapes 21 Scored in Silence 21 Scored in Silence: A Closer Look 21 Seven Thousand Feet 20 Touch the Stars 25 Virtual Soundscapes 21

42 43 Tuesday 23 October Seven Thousand Feet 20 Slime and Crime 11 Been Through the Mill 10 The Science Studio 22 Changing Textiles: Ya-Chu Kang 19 The Problem with Plastic 17 Facing Out: Talking Heads 35 The Sound of Light 8 For the Kids, By the Kids 16 Virtual Soundscapes 21 HackManchester Junior 2018 30 Waters Wacky Science Lab 13 Ibn al-Haytham: Mysteries of How We See 12 Ice Queens: Fashion and the Antarctic 20 Thursday 25 October In Conversation: Plastics Action 34 Friday 26 October Going Out With a BANG 38 Joule: Energy and Engines 20 Been Through the Mill 10 HackManchester 2018 32 Manchester Mills Demos 12 Changing Textiles: Ya-Chu Kang 19 AudioLab 23 Hi-Tech Tennis 32 Mirror Pillar 7 City Sound Walks 41 Been Through the Mill 10 Ibn al-Haytham: Nature Through Roman Eyes: Electricycle Avenue 13 Biggest Eyes to the Skies 17 Mysteries of How We See 12 A Closer Look (pop-up station) 20 Experimental Words 37 Changing Textiles: Ya-Chu Kang 19 Ice Queens: Fashion and the Antarctic 20 Placebo: Sound Affects 34 Ice Queens: Fashion and the Antarctic 20 City Sound Walks 41 Joule: Energy and Engines 20 Science Busking on Tour 11 Joule: Energy and Engines 20 Dolly the Onion: Giant Growing 14 Music and Mutation 24 Science Showdown: Electricity 10 Jurassic Party 40 Fish Poo Can Save The World 14 Ready Steady Rocket 14 Seven Thousand Feet 20 Nature Through Roman Eyes: Ibn al-Haytham: Science Stories 15 Slime and Crime 11 A Closer Look (pop-up station) 20 Mysteries of How We See 12 Seven Thousand Feet 20 The Music of the Primes 23 Placebo: Social Prescription 34 Ice Queens: Fashion and the Antarctic 20 Sonic Pixels 24 The Prestige 40 Science Busking on Tour 11 In a Right Pickle 14 The Human Stories of Homelessness 32 The Science Studio 22 Science Showdown: Electricity 10 Introduction to Inkblots 31 The Science Studio 22 The Sound of Light 8 Sentinel 23 Joule: Energy and Engines 20 The Sound of Light 8 Wunderkammer 13 Seven Thousand Feet 20 Science Showdown: Electricity 10 The Ugly Animal Roadshow 15 Virtual Soundscapes 21 Slime and Crime 11 Seven Thousand Feet 20 The Vostok K Incident 24 The Science Studio 22 Shining Molly: Love, Sex and Inkblots 35 Virtual Soundscapes 21 The Sound of Light 8 Slime and Crime 11 Wednesday 24 October The Superhuman Body 17 Sonic Pixels 24 Virtual Soundscapes 21 The Science Studio 22 Sunday 28 October Been Through the Mill 10 Wunderkammer 13 The Sound of Light 8 Changing Textiles: Ya-Chu Kang 19 The Story Collider 38 Big Fish Little Fish Changing Textiles: A Closer Look 19 Virtual Soundscapes 21 presents Animal Fantastical 15 Facing Out: Healing Through Art 23 Celestial Bodies: Ibn al-Haytham: The Universe in Motion 31 Mysteries of How We See 12 Saturday 27 October Changing Textiles: Ya-Chu Kang 19 Ice Queens: Fashion and the Antarctic 20 Did You Come Alone? 24 Joule: Energy and Engines 20 Aquaponics: Grow Your Own Greens 32 Every Contact Leaves a Trace 14 Nature Through Roman Eyes: Awesome Animals and Epic Engineers 17 HackManchester 2018 32 A Closer Look (pop-up station) 20 Build Your Own Internet of Things 28 Human Evolution 17 Power: Late 37 Celestial Bodies: Manchester Mills Demos 12 Question Climb 35 The Universe in Motion 31 Ready Steady Rocket 14 Science@Central 13 Changing Textiles: Ya-Chu Kang 19 Sonic Pixels 24 Science Busking on Tour 11 City Sound Walks 41 The Sound of Light 8 Science Rocks, Climbing Rules 31 Did You Come Alone? 24 You and AI 35 Science Showdown: Electricity 10 Every Contact Leaves a Trace 14

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Booking We may need some time to organise Begin your journey of discovery Cycling these facilities, so please get in touch as at the Science and Industry Museum Most of our ticketed events have limited soon as possible using the details below. which is at the heart and hub Greater Manchester is bicycle friendly. capacity, so it’s best to book early. of Manchester Science Festival. Head to Cycle GM for up-to-date Tickets can be booked via our website. For more information about access, Our programme takes place at over information and free cycle maps. Tickets may be available on the door for please visit our website or contact 65 venues across Greater Manchester. There are bicycle racks outside some events, but we always recommend a member of the Festival team by email the Science and Industry Museum, booking in advance. [email protected] Science and Industry Museum the city’s universities and in many or call 0161 606 0169. We would love to Liverpool Road attractions across Greater Manchester. hear from you and are here to help. cycling.tfgm.com Ticket prices Manchester M3 4FP Or why not pick up a mobike to travel We have tried to keep ticket prices as low Interact scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk the city between Festival venues. as possible and a high proportion of our Share your Festival experience and join mobike.com/uk/ events are free. Where there is a charge, the discussion online. this is usually required to cover the cost Travelling to Manchester of the event. There are a selected number Metrolink Twitter: @McrSciFest #msf18 of events which offer concessions. These There are four railway stations in the city Facebook: Manchester Science Festival The Metrolink network has 92 stops are limited and subject to availability. centre (, Oxford Road, Flickr: McrSciFest across Greater Manchester and is a fast, and Victoria) and more throughout frequent way to get around Manchester. Age guidance Greater Manchester. See nationalrail.co.uk The Deansgate-Castlefield stop is closest Contact us for train timetables and fares. to the Science and Industry Museum. Visitors of all ages are welcome at our metrolink.co.uk events, unless advertised as adult 18+ or Contact us directly: Manchester is also well-served by manchestersciencefestival.com children to be accompanied by adults. We national bus services from major UK Free city centre Metroshuttle bus provide age guidance for some events to [email protected] cities. Check out nationalexpress.com 0161 606 0169 (Mon – Fri, 10am – 5pm) for information about National Express help you make the most out of your visit. Metroshuttle is a great way of getting coach services. If you have any questions, please contact around . Simply General information the Festival team. hop on or off for free. Routes 2 (green) If you’re planning to drive to Manchester, and 3 (purple) stop on Deansgate / Manchester Science Festival is produced there are numerous car parks to Access information Tonman Street, a five minute walk from by the Science and Industry Museum. choose from. the Science and Industry Museum.

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Abraham Moss Library Google Digital Garage Maggie’s Manchester Quarry Bank, National Trust Abraham Moss Centre, Crescent Road, 39-43 King Street, Manchester, M2 7AT The Robert Parfett Building, Styal, Wilmslow, , SK9 4HP , Manchester, M8 5UF events.withgoogle.com/ The Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, (postcode for sat navs) manchester.gov.uk/libraries digital-garage-manchester 15 Kinnaird Road, Manchester, M20 4QL nationaltrust.org.uk/quarry-bank maggiescentres.org/our-centres/ Band on the Wall Gorilla maggies-manchester Real Food Wythenshawe Geodome 25 Swan Street, The Northern Quarter, 54-56 Whitworth Street, and Tent, The Manchester College Manchester, M4 5JZ Manchester, M1 5WW Maggie’s Oldham (Wythenshawe Campus) bandonthewall.org thisisgorilla.com The Sir Building, Brownley Road, Wythenshawe, The Royal Oldham Hospital, Manchester, M22 9TG Barton Arcade Great Northern Rochdale Road, Oldham, OL1 2JH realfoodwythenshawe.com/projects/ 48 Barton Square, Manchester, M3 2BH 235 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 4EN maggiescentres.org/our-centres/ geodome barton-arcade.co.uk thegreatnorthern.com maggies-oldham Royal Exchange Brickworks Greater Manchester Police Museum Manchester Cathedral Visitor Centre St Ann’s Square, Manchester, M2 7DH Barton Arcade, 48 Barton Square, 57A Newton Street, Manchester, M1 1ET 10 Cateaton Street, Manchester, M3 1SQ royalexchange.co.uk Manchester, M3 2BH gmpmuseum.co.uk manchestercathedralvisitorcentre.org brickworksmcr.co.uk RNCM Harpurhey Shopping Centre Manchester Craft and Design Centre 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9RD Central Library Burgess House, Church Lane, 17 Oak Street, Northern Quarter, rncm.ac.uk St Peters Square, Manchester, M2 5PD Manchester, M9 5UQ Manchester, M4 5JD manchester.gov.uk/centrallibrary harpurheyshoppingcentre.co.uk craftanddesign.com Science and Industry Museum Liverpool Road, Manchester, M3 4FP Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art Horticultural Centre Glasshouse, Manchester Museum scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk Market Buildings, Thomas Street, Wythenshawe Park The University of Manchester, Manchester, M4 1EU Wythenshawe Road, Manchester, M23 0AB Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL St Ann’s Church cfcca.org.uk realfoodwythenshawe.com/ museum.manchester.ac.uk St Ann Street, Manchester, M2 7LF wythenshawe-park-horticultural-centre stannsmanchester.com Chill Factore Manchester Technology Centre and Hatch 7 Way, Trafford City, HOME Oxford Road, Manchester, M1 7ED Stockport Plaza Manchester, M41 7JA 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester, M15 4FN mspl.co.uk/campuses/ Mersey Square, Stockport, SK1 1SP chillfactore.com homemcr.org manchester-technology-centre stockportplaza.co.uk

Chorlton Library Imperial War Museum North Manchester Tennis and Racquet Club Stopford Building, Manchester Road, Chorlton, The Quays, Trafford Wharf Road, 33 Blackfriars Road, Salford, M3 7AQ The University of Manchester Manchester, M21 9PN Manchester, M17 1TZ mtrc.co.uk 99 Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PG manchester.gov.uk/libraries iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-north manchester.ac.uk MediaCityUK campus, University of Salford Chuck Gallery International Anthony Burgess Foundation MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, M50 2HE STUN Studio at Z-arts 166 Plymouth Grove, Manchester, M13 0AF Engine House, Chorlton Mill, salford.ac.uk/ 335 Road, Manchester, M15 5ZA chuckgallery.com 3 Cambridge Street, Manchester, M1 5BY stunlive.com/projects/spaces anthonyburgess.org Moss Side Powerhouse Library Commonplace double decker bus 140 Raby Street, Moss Side, The Birdcage One New Bailey, Salford, M3 5JL John Dalton Building, Manchester, M14 4SL Withy Grove, Manchester, M4 3AQ commonplaceevents.com Manchester Metropolitan University manchester.gov.uk/libraries birdcagelive.com Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD Didsbury Library www2.mmu.ac.uk/staff/buildings/ Newton Heath Library The Bread Shed 692 , Didsbury, john-dalton Old Church Street, Newton Heath, 126 Grosvenor Street, Manchester, M1 7HL Manchester, M20 2DN Manchester, M40 2JB bread-shed.co.uk/manchester manchester.gov.uk/libraries Lime Square manchester.gov.uk/libraries Ashton Old Road, Openshaw, The Dancehouse Emmanuel Church Manchester, M11 1DA OA Studios 10A Oxford Rd, Manchester, M1 5QA 6 Road, Didsbury, lime-sq.co.uk 24-26 King Street, Blackfriars, thedancehouse.co.uk Manchester, M20 6TR Salford, M3 7DG stjamesandemmanuel.org Littleborough Library oastudios.uk The Depot Climbing Centre Hare Hill road, Littleborough, OL15 9HE Unit N1 and N2, Central Park Estate, Gallery Oldham rochdale.gov.uk/library-services/ ODEON Great Northern 14 Mosley Road, Manchester, M17 1PG Oldham Cultural Quarter, Greaves Street, local-libraries 235 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 4EN theclimbingdepot.co.uk/manchester Oldham, OL1 1AL odeon.co.uk/cinemas/ galleryoldham.org.uk Longsight Library manchester_great_northern/225 519 Stockport Road, Manchester, M12 4NE manchester.gov.uk/libraries

48 manchestersciencefestival.com 49 Venues (continued) Programme Partners Sponsors and Contributors Lead educational partner 1001 Inventions, Abertay University, Abraham Moss Library, Abraham Moss Warriors Junior Football Club, Andrea The Federation The Portico Library Zapp, Animal Research Nexus, Archives+, Band on the 2 Federation Street, Manchester, M4 4BF 57 , Manchester, M2 3HY Wall, Barclays Digital Eagles, Barton Arcade, BBC, Big thefederation.coop theportico.org.uk Fish Little Fish, Birkbeck College, University of London, Bright Club Manchester, Brighter Sound, British Antarctic The High Voltage Lab The Stoller Hall Survey, British Association for Biological Anthropology and The University of Manchester, Sackville Hunts Bank, Manchester, M3 1DA Osteoarchaeology, British Society for Immunology, Catalyst Major sponsors Street Building, Manchester, M1 3BB stollerhall.com Science Discovery Centre, Central Library, Centre for Chinese eee.manchester.ac.uk/research/facilities/ Contemporary Art, Centre for Practice & Research in Science high-voltage-lab The Whitworth & Music, Chester Zoo, Chill Factore, Chisato Minamimura The University of Manchester, Projects, Chorlton Library, Christine Wilcox-Baker, Chuck The John Rylands Library Oxford Road, Manchester, M15 6ER Art Gallery, Clod Ensemble, Cluster Collective, Cold Star 150 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3EH whitworth.manchester.ac.uk Media, Commonplace, Contact, Cornbrook Creative, library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands Waterside Cosmic Shambles, Culture Lab, Newcastle University, Dan The Light Cinema Stockport 1 Waterside Plaza, Sale, Manchester, M33 7ZF Simpson, David McFarlane, Demons of the Mind, Diabetes UK, Didsbury Library, Dr David A. Kirby, Emmanuel Church, Redrock, Bridgefield Street, watersidearts.org Platform for Investigation (Pi) Powered by Stockport, SK1 1SA European Southern Observatory, Farm Urban, Feedback, stockport.lightcinemas.co.uk Wythenshawe Forum Gallery Oldham, Google Digital Garage, Gorilla, Great Forum Square, Wythenshawe, Northern, Greater Manchester Police Museum, Greg Foot, The Lowry Manchester, M22 5RX Grimm Up North, HAC100, Harpurhey Shopping Centre, Pier 8, The Quays, Salford, M50 3AZ wythenshaweforum.co.uk HEAD, HOME, IJAD, Imperial War Museum North, Institute thelowry.com of Physics, International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Z-Arts International Tennis Federation, Dr Jamie Gallagher, Journeys The Met 335 Stretford Road, Manchester, M15 5ZA Festival International, Katie Steckles, Keisha Thompson, Kids Programme sponsor Market Street, Bury, BL9 0BW z-arts.org in Space, Lancaster University, Lime Square, Openshaw, themet.org.uk Littleborough Library, Lonely Planet Kids, Longsight Ziferblat MediaCityUK Library, Lucy Burscough, MadLab, Maggie's Manchester, The Northern Tomorrow Building, MediaCityUK, Maggie's Oldham, Manchester Astronomical Society, Palatine Road, West Didsbury, Salford, M50 2AB Manchester Cathedral Visitor Centre, Manchester Craft Manchester, M20 3YA ziferblat.co.uk/media-city.html and Design Centre, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, thenorthern.co.uk The University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester Museum, Manchester Tennis and Racquets Club, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Marshmallow Laser Feast, Dr Matthew Allen, Microsoft, Moss Side Powerhouse Library, Museum of Homelessness, Museum of Medicine and Health, National Railway Museum, NeuroScience in Psychiatry Network, Newton Heath Library, A number of the events at Manchester Noise Orchestra, OA Studios, ODEON Great Northern, Science Festival are part of the HM Orpyx, Pilot Light TV Festival, Professor Trevor Cox, Quarry Government’s Year of Engineering programme Bank, National Trust, RAD Screenings, RashDash, Real Food made possible with the generous support of: Wythenshawe, Reform Radio, Research for the Future, Royal Northern College of Music, Rochdale Literature and Ideas Festival, Royal Exchange, Royal Society, S3A, Safari Phil, Dr Sam Illingworth, Scarabeus Aerial Theatre, ScienceGrrl, Seven Stories, Hallam University, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, SPI Club, St Ann's Church, Stockport Thanks to Plaza, Stoller Hall, STUN Studio at Z-Arts, The Birdcage, The Blair Project, The Bread Shed, The Christie Hospital, The All the team at the Science Dancehouse, The Depot Climbing Centre, The Federation, The John Rylands Library, The Light, The Lowry, The Met, and Industry Museum The Northern, The Portico Library, The Story Collider, The University of Manchester, The Whitworth, Trunkman Branding and design by Instruct Productions, Ugly Animal Preservation Society, University Web design by OH Digital of Salford, University of , University College Copywriting by Alastair James Dickie London, University of East Anglia, University of Edinburgh, Marketing support from Andrew Wilsdon University of Medical School, University of Liverpool, Unlimited Theatre, VR Manchester, Waterside, Whitworth Hall, Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum, Wythenshawe Brochure photographs Community Housing Group, Wythenshawe Forum, Ya-Chu Drew Forsyth, Chris Foster, Jason Lock Kang, Zenniz, Ziferblat Back cover Image: Marshmallow Laser Feast

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