Wonder Art and Science on the Brain 2 Mar–10 Apr A season to light up the mind with film, theatre, music, talks and participation #wonderseason barbican.org.uk/wonder Wonder #wonderseason Art and Science on the Brain barbican.org.uk/wonder © Heidi Cartwright Heidi © Sautoy du Marcus Persona Institut Film Svensk © The Barbican’s season Wonder: Art and The very nature of the season has already Science on the Brain puts the growing broken down barriers, since it followed the Barbican Weekender Prof Marcus du Sautoy Wonder on Film relationship between the arts and decision of the British Neuroscience Association 2–3 Mar / Page 3 2 Mar / Page 8 2 Mar–10 Apr / Page 9 neuroscience under the microscope. to hold their science conference BNA 2013: Among the headline attractions in Festival of Neuroscience at the Barbican. this collaboration with the Wellcome Wonder will bring together neuroscientists Trust are an audio-visual lecture on the from around the world to exchange the theme of consciousness from Oxford latest knowledge about brain research. Professor of Public Understanding of Science Marcus du Sautoy, a free ‘We really wanted to give the public a sense weekend of art and science events, of what is going on in the building as well as and a talk by comedian Ruby Wax give the scientists a sense they are in an arts about her struggle with depression. centre,’ said Sean Gregory, the Barbican’s director of creative learning. Perhaps one of The season will also feature films about the most outward-looking elements, Gregory neuroscience and mental health and a believes, will be this year’s Barbican Box theatrical recreation of a 19th-century Parisian project, put together with the innovative theatre

debating salon. For du Sautoy, the old company Complicite thanks to the long-held © Tommy Ga-Ken Wan © Guerilla Science © Robert Kingham distinction between the ’two cultures’ of science interest in neuroscience of Simon McBurney, and the arts is finally, and rightly, fading away. its artistic director. A battered suitcase, full The Salon Project Wonder Street Fair Grey Soul of London He believes imagination has always been of clues about a particular scientist and their 4–14 Apr / Page 13 7, 8 and 9 Apr / Page 14 7 and 8 Apr / Page 19 important in science, just as rigorous analysis discoveries, will be delivered to participating has always been useful to the artist. ‘In science schools in surrounding London boroughs. our common sense is often our worst enemy,’ he says. Du Sautoy, who worked with McBurney on A Disappearing Number, is also keen to be The Wellcome Trust has long supported part of a season that brings arts and science activities that allow scientists and artists to together. ‘Scientists and artists are often engage on an equal footing but has rarely homing in on the same structures. Keats brought their activities to the public on such wrote “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”, a large scale. Dr Amy Sanders, of the Trust’s but I wonder whether the truth is that we Special Projects team, says ’science is part call things beautiful when we recognise of culture and we are excited about this something useful in their structures.’ opportunity to bring people into contact with the latest research and to enable scientists Vanessa Thorpe

to look at their work from new perspectives.’ © Ruby Wax Leadership Collection Wellcome © McBeth Glen © Researchers are at the heart of the Wonder For more information on Barbican Box, season, whether talking about their work at please visit barbicanbox.org.uk Ruby Wax Packed Lunch I'm a Neuroscientist Get

Introduction the Salon, competing for the public votes 8 Apr / Page 20 8–10 Apr / Page 21 Me Out of Here LIVE! at a glance Wonder in ‘I’m a neuroscientist get me out of here 9 Apr / Page 21 ...’ or knitting neurons in the Street Fair. 1 2 2–3 Mar, 11am–6pm, Barbican foyers Sat and Sun 11.15am, 12.30pm, 1.45pm, 3pm, 4.15pm and 5.30pm Barbican Mezzanine floor, level M Jelly Brain Dissection Wonder Weekender: Guerilla Science Come and dissect, discuss and digest the Brain Waves most complex thing in the known universe.

Explore the evolutionary history of the brain #wonderseason with Guerilla Science as they serve up Art and neuroscience put their heads together a range of delectable jelly brain creations this March for an array of creative events that from across the animal kingdom. are sure to blow your mind. Bring your family and your friends along for two brainy days of Free, sign up on the day dance, theatre, music and art for all ages. Join us on a journey into the Barbican’s grey Christopher Green © Tom L Russell Sat and Sun 11am–6pm matter and uncover facts, fiction and have fun Hammerson Room, Mezzanine level with all things cerebral – it’s a no-brainer. Sat 11am–7pm, Sun 11am–6pm ClubStage, level -1 Memory Clinic The Singing Hypnotist’s Tent Guerilla Science Christopher Green and friends Guerilla Science invite you to explore Experience the amazing power of the human your memories and leave one for safe- mind and the mysteries of mesmerism as keeping in our collection of test tube The Singing Hypnotist sings you into a treasures, designed by artist Evy Jokhova. trance. Learn how the mind can be set free Plus, join Grand Master of Memory Ed Cooke of everyday concerns and feel better than to learn how to remember you ever thought possible. Live hypnosis everything you never thought you could. will be performed on willing volunteers Free, drop in from the audience by accredited stage hypnotist Christopher Green. Sat and Sun 11am–6pm Volunteers, who must be aged 18 or Mezzanine, level M over, can refuse at any point to continue taking part in the performance Sonic Tour of the Brain Free, sign up on the day Guerilla Science What does the brain sound like? Join Guerilla Science and their giant brain as they take you Sat and Sun 11am–6pm through a range of recordings, from hissing Stalls floor foyer, level -1 hair cells to singing cortices. Discover what we α, β, γ, δ, θ, μ can learn about the brain, just by listening to it. (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Theta, Mu) Free, drop in James Bulley and Daniel Jones α, β, γ, δ, θ, μ is a musical composition that Sat and Sun 11am–6pm explores the rhythms and properties of neural Fountain Room, Level G activity, following the same patterns observed Knit a Neuron in physical brainwaves. Just as your thoughts and feelings emerge from the collective effects British Society for Immunology of countless electrical impulses in your brain, Pick up your needles and hooks and knit this composition emerges from countless a neuron as we chat about the brain. musical elements – each one played by a Barbican Weekender Barbican visitor to the piece on their smartphone. Free, drop in Weekender Barbican For further details on how to log on and play your brainwave, visit barbican.org.uk/wonder

3 Free, drop in 4 Sat 2.15pm and Sun 1.30pm Sat 3.45pm and Sun 3.15pm Sat and Sun 11am–6pm Freestage, level G Freestage, level G Curve Exit, level G Naked Neuroscience I’m a neuroscientist get Ping Pong Plus

Wonder Naked Scientists me out of here – LIVE! Venice as a Dolphin Cambridge University’s Naked Scientists Are male and female brains different? Is the Table tennis as you’ve never seen (or heard) take you on an interactive journey through brain more like a sponge or a computer? it before. Every shot you play will come the workings of the nervous system. Volunteer Do we really only use ten percent of our back to haunt you as you do battle, not brain? Join comedian, songstress and science

if you want to find out how to read your just against your opponent, but against #wonderseason brainwaves, activate your muscles electrically, presenter Helen Arney, who puts five brain the limitations of your own perception. learn how to fool your senses and more. scientists on the spot with your questions as they compete on stage for your vote to win ’I’m Free, drop in Free, drop in a neuroscientist get me out of here’ – LIVE! Free, drop in Sat and Sun 12 noon–2pm Sat and Sun 11am–6pm, and 3pm–5pm Fountain Room, level G Ground floor foyers, level G Build-a-Brain Sat 1.45pm and 3.15pm, Sun 1pm and 2.30pm Navigate your Neuron Dr Lizzie Burns Ground Floor Foyer, level G MzTek Dr Lizzie Burns Scientist-turned-artist guides Brain Flash Use soft-circuit electronics to make a wearable, you through different parts of the brain to Join Dr Peter Lovatt and his team of interactive neuron glove with MzTek - using help you make a work of art. At the end of the dancers to learn the 'Brain Flash’: our brain- electricity to send the signal from a touch session, you can take your brain home with you. inspired flash mob. Learn a few simple moves sensor on the finger, through lights all the Free, drop in and become part of a human brain wave. way up the arm to a buzzer in the elbow. You can learn the dance on the day or in Free, sign up on the day advance at barbican.org.uk/wonder Free, drop in

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Sat 12.15pm and Sun 12 noon, Freestage, level G, Brains Showoff The people who bring you Science Showoff bring you a chaotic half-hour of brain-related comedy, music, sketches, demonstrations

Barbican Weekender Barbican and talks. Hosted by Dr Suze Kundu, fresh Weekender Barbican from her stint on Radio 4, every performance is unique.

Free, drop in Dr Peter Lovatt © Ian Scott 5 6 Sat and Sun 11am–6pm Sat 5pm, Freestage, level G Ground floor foyer, level G Barbican Young Poets 3-2-1 Ignition Consciousness The Barbican Young Poets get cerebral 2 Mar 7.30pm, Hall

Wonder Ignite! as they delve into the wonders and mysteries Join Marcus du Sautoy, BBC presenter and Can you smell a thought? Can you map of neuroscience, diving deep for stimulus and epiphanies to present on stage through finely Professor of Mathematics at the University a memory? Ignite! presents activities to of Oxford, as he takes you on a journey into tempt your curiosity. There’ll be jars to crafted poetry and spoken word. Expect synaptic sparks and anything but grey matter. consciousness for a performance-lecture that peer in and sniff at, thoughts to create and combines music, specially conceived visuals, #wonderseason space to ask the brain-related questions Free, drop in lighting design and interactive experiences. you’ve always wanted answered. Du Sautoy and his guests explain how we Free, drop in can see inside the workings of the brain and ask questions such as ’What happens as our Sun 5pm, Freestage, level G brain performs different tasks?’, ’How much of my brain can I remove before I would lose Music of the Mind my sense of I?’, and ’Can a machine ever be Like nothing you’ve ever heard out loud before, conscious or be deemed intelligent?’ Music of the Mind opens doors to a whole Just voted into the Top 100 DJs of 2012 on new world of possibility. This is a performance Resident Advisor, James Holden is a British of several tracks from Finn Peters’ Music electronic music artist and DJ who studied of the Mind album, using brain computer mathematics at Oxford University. He performs interfaces (BCI), traditional instruments and his soundtrack for the evening which explores laptops. Performed by Finn Peters, Prof sound and consciousness. Soho-based design Mark, Dr Mick Grierson and Dr Matthew studio one of us provides the visuals for the Yee-King, this special software allows the Barbican Young Poets © Katie Henfrey lecture, drawing on archive footage from the musicians to literally think music into being. Wellcome Trust. Free, drop in Sat and Sun 11am–8pm Produced by the Barbican The Curve, level G in association with Lumin Random International: Sat and Sun 11.30am–6pm Tickets £15–20 Ground floor foyer, level G Rain Room Brain Food Contemporary art studio Random International invites you to experience Compass what it’s like to control the rain. Can Stimulate your little grey cells with a selection of you push aside your learnt behaviours hot food and tasty snacks from our brain food to move carefully through rain, putting stall, available throughout the Weekender. your trust in the work to the test? Admission free Please check online for queue times Sat and Sun 11am–6pm Foyers Rain Room has been made possible through Consciousness Pods the generous support of the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art. Five plasma screens around the foyers will each offer a different audiovisual Supported using public funding insight into the nature of consciousness, by Arts Council England. covering the following themes: A Tour of the Brain, Emerging Consciousness, Sat 11am–6pm and Sun 11am–2.30pm Tricking the Brain, Switching Consciousness Balcony, level 1 Off and Heightened Consciousness. Brain Flash Warm Up Free, drop in Barbican Weekender Barbican Dr Peter Lovatt Consciousness Warm up for the big Brain Flash event in our DIY practice zone.

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Wonder Running across the Weekender (2–3 Mar), Brain Awareness Week (11–17 Mar) and BNA2013 Festival of Neuroscience (7–10 Apr), our film programme explores the links

between the arts and neuroscience and #wonderseason examines the human mind on screen. With mainstream and art-house features and shorts, we address current debates in neuroscience, © Svensk Film Institut consider how movies have questioned our definitions of mental health and sanity, and Persona look at the representation of neurological and psychiatric conditions in cinema. Tickets Standard £10.50 online/£11.50 on the door Barbican Members Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind © Focus Features £8.40 online/£9.20 on the door Sat 2 Mar 3pm, Cinema 3 Sun 10 Mar 2pm, Cinema 3 Concessions 15 £9.50 online/£10.50 on the door Eternal Sunshine A Woman Under the Influence 15 Under 18s £6 of the Spotless Mind In one of the greatest performances in Joel (Jim Carrey) tries to erase all memories cinema history, Gena Rowlands stars as of Clementine (Kate Winslet) when the Mabel, a suburban housewife suffering relationship goes sour. However, in the middle a mental breakdown. As her behaviour of a shady, brain-zapping procedure, Joel becomes increasingly erratic, her husband realises that he doesn’t want to forget and tries (Peter Falk) struggles to cope. to hide his memories of her, before it’s too late. US 1974 John Cassavetes 147 min US 2004 Michel Gondry 108 min + Introduction What if you could erase unpleasant memories – would you and should you? Dr Anders Sandberg considers this question before the film.

Sun 3 Mar 3pm, Cinema 3 Mission to Lars 12A Tom Spicer has Fragile X Syndrome and lives in a care home in Devon. When his siblings promise to make his dream of meeting his hero, Lars Ulrich, the heavy metal drummer from Metallica, a reality, what starts out an exciting adventure soon becomes a nightmare. UK 2012 Dirs James Moore and William Spicer 74 min Wonder on Film on Wonder + Introduction on Film Wonder Producer Kate Spicer and director Will Spicer, Tom’s siblings, discuss A Woman Under the Influence © Ronald Grant Archive 9 living with Fragile X syndrome. 10 Sun 10 Mar 4.30pm, Cinema 1 Sat 16 Mar 4pm, Cinema 3 Sun 7 Apr 6pm, Cinema 1 A Page of Madness PG Persona 15 + live accompaniment On a remote island, psychiatric nurse Alma Fiend

Wonder by In The Nursery (Bibi Andersson) cares for famous actress Elisabeth (Liv Ullmann), who has stopped Silent Film and Live Music series speaking. An admirer of Elisabeth's beauty Without Director Teinosuke Kinugasa uses a and talent, Alma allows her identity to PG* dazzling array of photographic techniques, merge with that of her ward… at least, that a Face camera angles and expressionist lighting may be what’s happening here. One of In this fun British B-movie, human thoughts #wonderseason to tell the moving story of a former sailor the most debated art films ever, its radical are transformed into brain-sucking creatures who takes a job at an asylum in order to disjunctions attempt to represent the interior that terrorise a US military base. A special be close to his wife, who is a patient. In experience of her psychological state. effects bonanza, it climaxes in an outrageous the Nursery’s unique musical blend of Sweden 1966 Ingmar Bergman 83 min gun battle against flying, splattering brains. the symphonic and the modern comes to fruition in this live accompaniment +ScreenTalk Come early to experience the Wonder to the Japanese silent masterpiece. Street Fair and stay after the screening Madness has been a popular subject in film – to challenge your disembodied brain Japan 1926 Dir Teinosuke Kinugasa 75 min and yet the complaint is often that cinema has with body illusions and mind tricks. only ever contributed to the stigmatisation of mental illness. Is this the case? With Dr Peter UK 1958 Arthur Crabtree 71 min Byrne (Consultant Psychiatrist at Newham University Hospital and Director of Public Education at the Royal College of Psychiatrists), Sal Anderson (Institute of Inner Vision), and film-makers Gregory Hilton and Dolly Sen.

Sun 17 Mar 2–6pm, Cinema 3

Cinema and Psychosis Event ’Cinema and Psychosis’ is a pan-European group of theorists, filmmakers, psychiatrists, psychologists and neuropsychologists that pioneers research into the interface between film and psychiatry. Join them for a fascinating afternoon of talks and screenings launching The Institute of Inner Vision: an Fiend Without a Face, Courtesy of the BFI exciting new academic initiative that places cinema at the centre of an exploration of Mon 8 Apr 6pm, Cinema 3 Mon 8 Apr 8pm, Cinema 3 the subjective experience of psychosis. 15* 12A All Divided Selves The Manchurian Candidate Event curated by Sal Anderson, with thanks to

the Wellcome Trust and The London College of The Turner-prize nominated film by artist and One of the greatest paranoid thrillers and musician Luke Fowler forms an intriguing nastiest political satires ever: Korean War A Page of Madness © Kinugasa Productions Communication at the University of the Arts London. portrait of Glasgow-born psychiatrist R D veteran Major Marco (Frank Sinatra) Tickets £5; free for the unwaged Sat 16 Mar 2pm, Cinema 3 Laing, who spearheaded the social and unravels a Communist plot to brainwash his 18* cultural revolutions of the 1960s. Fowler’s old platoon and turn war hero Raymond Clean, Shaven collage weaves archival material with his Shaw (Laurence Harvey) into a human Just released from an institution, Peter own filmic observations into an engrossing weapon against fellow American PoWs. goes in search of his missing daughter; exploration of Laing’s brilliant mind. US 1962 John Frankenheimer 126 min en route, he is plagued by hallucinations, UK 2011 Dir Luke Fowler 93 min and falls under suspicion of murder. Peter’s + Inroduction lacerated, hallucinatory perceptions of the Kathleen Taylor, author of The Brain world are suggested through expressionistic

Wonder on Film on Wonder Supremacy, asks whether it is possible Film on Wonder sound design and skilful use of imagery, to erase or implant memories and plunging us headfirst into the perspective explores what it would take to turn a of a schizophrenic protagonist. person into a would-be assassin.

11 US 1993 Lodge Kerrigan 79 min 12 4 –14 Apr Timed entry: 6pm, 6.30pm, 7pm, The Pit Untitled Projects Wonder The Salon Project #wonderseason The Salon Project recreates the exclusive meetings at the heart of what was French society’s golden age – an era of change, excess and inquiry. Relive its splendour, Mary and Max © Soda Pictures contrast it with the present, and imagine Tue 9 Apr 6pm, Cinema 3 what the future will hold in this beautifully crafted night of fashion and conversation. Mary and Max 12A Your evening begins in the Barbican Oscar-winning director Adam Elliot’s dressing rooms, where you will be costumed claymation feature is a whimsical yet poignant in full period evening dress before account of the pen-pal friendship between the emerging into a mirrored impression chubby, lonely, eight-year-old Australian Mary of a 19th-century Parisian salon. Dinkle and an obese, autistic and middle-aged New Yorker, Max Horovitz. Featuring the vocal As you mingle with guests, pioneers talents of Eric Bana, Toni Colette, Philip in their fields will provoke discussion, Seymour Hoffman and Barry Humphries. speaking on subjects at the vanguard of 21st-century thought: science, Australia 2009 Dir Adam Elliot 92 min politics, technology and the arts. Tickets £35 Tue 9 Apr 8pm, Cinema 3 Age guidance 16+ (contains nudity) 12A The English Surgeon Presented in partnership with What’s it like to possess God-like surgical SPILL Festival of Performance powers, but fail to save a life? Shot in Ukraine, Supported by Creative Scotland. this documentary is an intimate portrait of neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, as he Originally created with Traverse Theatre, confronts the dilemmas of the doctor-patient Edinburgh and Citizens Theatre, Glasgow. relationship on his latest mission to Kiev. UK 2007 Dir Geoffrey Smith 93 min Sun 7 Apr 12 noon–6pm, Mon 8 and Tue 9 Apr 12 noon–7.30pm, Barbican Foyers + ScreenTalk with Henry Marsh After our screening, hear the English Surgeon himself talk about his life Wonder and work as a neuroscientist. Street Fair

Wed 10 Apr 8pm, Cinema 3 The Barbican Foyer springs to life with Titicut Follies 15* free, drop in activities, performance, A landmark in documentary film-making interaction and demonstrations. From and a disturbing look at the treatment of cave painting to motion sensors, the criminally insane. Quietly observing eye-trackers to body illusions, activities and procedures with inmates, come and knit a neuron, test your Wonder on Film on Wonder guards, social workers and psychiatrists at reactions, and pit your wits against Wonder Street Fair the Bridgewater Hospital in Massachusetts, brain scientists. With over twenty this extraordinarily powerful film was different activities to stimulate, inspire and amuse your little grey cells. banned in the US for over 25 years. The Salon Project © Tommy Ga-Ken Wan 13 14 US 1967 Dir Fred Wiseman 84 min Sun 7 Apr 12 noon–6pm, Mon 8 and Tue A Sixth Sense and Beyond Forget-me-not: Amazing Brain Cell 9 Apr 12 noon–7.30pm, Barbican foyers Psychology, University of Sheffield Connections Have you ever wanted an extra sense? Explore Department of Neuroscience, King’s College the mysterious world of sensory augmentation, London, Institute of Psychiatry

Wonder Wonder and decide what extra sense you would have. What happens when our memories fail? Free, drop in Pick up your pipe cleaners, jigsaw pieces Street Fair and Plasticine and find out what happens when dementia strikes. See how researchers What Your Eyes Can Tell Us are trying to understand these illnesses. Walking without a Brain About Your Mind #wonderseason School of Psychology and Neuroscience Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Free, drop in University of St. Andrews Birkbeck, University of London Although our brains control much of what we How do young children develop the do, our spinal cords can also control complex cognitive skills necessary to interact with behaviours such as walking. See a spinal cord others? Using eye-trackers and virtual up close and witness how we can measure the experiences, gain insight into your gaze Neurotrauma electrical signals that power our movement. behaviour, and learn what it says about you. Free, drop in Free, drop in Stimulating Game to Stimulate the Brain Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford The Beuchet Chair Beastly Brains Move your body to solve number games Psychology, University of York The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh as motion sensors display the intriguing The Mind in the Cave Fool your visual system and shrink your How do animal brains compare to ours? Play connection between neuroscience, with beanbag brains, discover some amazing friends on the magical Beuchet Chair. Learn psychology and education behind The Mind in the Cave about the conflict between our 2D and animal facts and find out how a brain disease mathematical learning. You’ll never do Guerilla Archaeology 3D perceptions, and capture your illusion in sheep is helping scientists to understand your times tables the same again. Put on a blindfold, pick up some ochre with a specially positioned camera. human diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Free, drop in or charcoal and take your mind back to Free, drop in Free, drop in the earliest days of cave painting. Learn how phosphenes – patterns generated How does what you see in the absence of light – might connect Body Illusions: Can you fool the brain affect your balance? our brains to the origins of art. about what the body is like? Brain Sciences, Imperial College London Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University Have you ever sat on a train and thought you Free, drop in College London were moving, but in fact you were completely Using mirrors and deceptively simple still? Test how much your balance is affected perceptual illusions, experience the by what you see with an illusory spinning Knit a Neuron surprising ways in which the brain can disc and only your senses to guide you. University of Exeter and British Society of produce the experience of touch. Immunology Free, drop in Free, drop in Stop by and knit a neuron while chatting about all things brainy. Come with questions, comments and observations for brain Reaction Time Race Neurotrauma: Traumatic Brain Injury, scientists and take up your needles to make Recovery and Emergency Treatment Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, an installation of woolly brain cells. Neurotrauma and Division of Brain Sciences, University of Oxford Imperial College London Test your motor processes on the reaction Free, drop in Traumatic brain injury is the most common machine. Harness your competitive spirit and cause of death in the under 40s. In a bring home a reaction tester of your own. collaboration between Imperial, the Royal Free, drop in College of Surgeons and London’s Air Ambulance, try your hand at simulated brain surgery, record your brain waves, Are you Smarter than a …? witness up-close magic tricks and more. Ginny Smith in association with the

Free, drop in Cambridge Science Centre Wonder Street Fair Compare yourself to an elephant, six-month Wonder Street Fair old baby and even a crow. What games do you excel at, and can a chimp outsmart you?

The Beuchet Chair Free, drop in Knit a Neuron 15 16 Neurocomic Open your Mind Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology Naked Neuroscientists, University College London University of Cambridge Joined by illustrator and neuroscientist team Take an interactive journey through the wonder Neurocomic, gaze at slides of real brain workings of the nervous system. The tissue stained with ‘black reaction’ to unveil Naked Scientists will use volunteers individual neurons. Get your sketch pad to read brainwaves and investigate how ready to draw what you see and learn about our senses can be fooled into seeing and the challenges of visualising the brain. feeling imaginary things and even how #wonderseason Free, drop in they can pick up when we are lying. Free, drop in 3-2-1 Ignition Pop-up Shop Ignite! Lionel, the Spaceship of our Can you smell a thought? Can you map Imagination a memory? Ignite! presents activities to Sound of Science tempt your curiosity. There’ll be jars to Meet Lionel, the Spaceship of our Imagination: peer in and sniff at, thoughts to create and a unique cinema in a campervan. Showing space to ask the brain-related questions a range of neuroscience footage and you’ve always wanted answered. films, enter the Spaceship and begin Free, drop in your journey into the mind… Free, drop in Musical Muscles The Crick’s Science Buskers Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University – Brain Edition An amazing instrument you can play using the electrical signals in your muscles. The Francis Crick Institute Make music with your hands, your feet or Meet a range of scientists as they dazzle even your face. Learn how these signals you with visual experiments, puzzles and become movement and how they can be illusions. Science buskers will challenge your used to help people with disabilities. grey cells with simple demonstrations that bring to life the wide world of neuroscience. Free, drop in Free, drop in

Superlatively, Actually Awake Analogue Drawing inspiration from the case study of British musicologist Clive Wearing, this specially created looping experience places you inside an audio performance that explores what it means to have only moment-to-moment consciousness. Free, drop in

Neurocomic Wonder Street Fair Wonder Street Fair The Crick Science Buskers 17 18 What Makes Me Me? A Treasure Hunt for the Neural Basis of Behaviour School of Life Sciences, Kingston University Take an interactive journey through the foyer wonder of the Barbican where you can track down, meet and talk to the individual parts that make up our brains. Come face to face with an amygdala and hippocampus to find out what they do, and what makes them so special. #wonderseason Free, drop in

Sonic Tour of the Brain Changing Minds through Neuroscience Inspired Fashion Sonic Tour of the Brain Biological Sciences, University of Southampton Guerilla Science Marvel at this installation where fashion What does the brain sound like? Join Guerilla meets the mind, and designers inspired by Science and their giant brain as they take neuroscientists and patients have interpreted you through a range of recordings – from brain diseases through the medium of clothes. firing neurons to hissing hair cells and singing cortices – and discover how much we can Free, drop in learn about the brain just by listening to it.

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Sun 7 and Mon 8 Apr 2.30pm Walking Tour: The Grey Soul Ruby Wax Mon 8 Apr 7.30pm, Hall of London Join comedian, actress and converted Robert Kingham leads a walk around neuroscientist Ruby Wax for a journey from the Finsbury, the lesser-known London district heights of fame to the depths of mental illness to the north-west of the Barbican. The and back again. How has understanding her writer Arthur Machen (1863–1947) called brain shaped Ruby’s career, depression and it ’a district both devious and obscure’ and life itself? As she has learned to handle her promised that the explorer would find ’wonder, mental illness, and with a growing number mystery, awe, the sense of a new world and of degrees in brain sciences under her belt, an undiscovered realm’. What kept drawing Ruby’s perception and understanding of her Machen back to this place? Robert explores condition offers a fascinating insight into the how the history of an area can imprint way our mind and spirit works. But how much itself on the psychology of one person, and does understanding her own brain change what this tells us about our subconscious this perception and what’s actually going on in relationship with our urban environment. there? This is her tale. Tickets £5 Tickets £8/£10 Ruby Wax Ruby Wonder Street Fair To book please call 0207 001 9844 or visit www.museumoflondon.org/events Programmed in partnership with the Museum of London 19 20

8–10 Apr 1–1.45pm, Conservatory The Wellcome Trust Getting here and booking The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable barbican.org.uk/visitor-information Packed Lunch foundation dedicated to achieving

Wonder Packed Lunch travels to the Barbican from extraordinary improvements in human Our address its regular home at Wellcome Collection, and animal health. It supports the Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS with a special series of events exploring brightest minds in biomedical research neuroscience and the city. Find out about and the medical humanities. Underground the effect of the modern workplace on Its breadth of support includes public our circadian rhythms; how our brains Barbican, Moorgate, St Paul’s, Bank, #wonderseason engagement, education and the application of Liverpool Street and Mansion House. navigate the urban environment; and research to improve health. It is independent how city life affects our minds, all in the of both political and commercial interests. space of a supercharged lunch hour. Train www.wellcome.ac.uk Liverpool Street, Farringdon and Blackfriars. City Thameslink services serve Barbican, Mon 8 Apr Moorgate and Cannon Street. Navigating the City, with Hugo © Glen McBeth British Neuroscience Spiers, Lecturer in Cognitive and Association Car park Perceptual Brain Science, UCL Tue 9 Apr 7.30pm, Cinema 1 The British Neuroscience Association is Four car parks, two off Beech Street the largest UK organisation representing and two off Silk Street near the main Tue 9 Apr I’m a all aspects of neuroscience from ion entrance. Alternative parking is Body Clocks, with Katharina Wulff, channels to whole animal behaviour to available in Aldersgate Street. Senior Research Scientist, University of Oxford neuroscientist, neuroscience applications in the clinic. BNA 2013: Festival of Neuroscience is the BNA’s Bus biennial scientific meeting taking place The following bus routes operate near the Wed 10 Apr get me out of from 7-10 April 2013 at the Barbican. Barbican: 8, 11, 23, 26, 35, 42, 43, 47, 48, 55, Gambling, with Henrietta Bowden- www.bna2013.com 56, 76,78, 100, 133, 141, 149, 172, 214, 242, Jones, Honorary Clinical Senior here – LIVE! 243, 271, 344 (7 days a week); 4, (Mon–Sat); Lecturer, Imperial College London 21, 25, 521 (Mon–Fri). Late buses: N35, Are male and female brains different? Is the N55, N243, 43, 205, 214, N76, N133. Admission free brain more like a sponge or a computer? Do Barbican Centre Advance booking advised we really only use ten percent of our brain? A world-class arts and learning Pitch your questions to our brave brain scientists organisation, the Barbican pushes the Booking Information as they compete on stage for your vote to win boundaries of all major art forms including ’I’m a neuroscientist get me out of here’ – LIVE! dance, film, music, theatre and visual Phone 0844 848 3397 Join comedian, songstress and presenter arts. Its creative learning programme In person – advance box office Helen Arney, as she puts brain scientists further underpins everything it does. (10am–8pm Mon–Sat, 12pm–8pm Sun/bank holidays) on the spot with your questions. The winner To find out more and get involved will receive a donation to the charity of visit barbican.org.uk Booking transaction fees may apply their choice – all they need is your vote. barbican.org.uk/wonder These neuroscientists are ready to take Stay up to date with the Barbican on your most challenging questions. From events and special offers, sign up for whether you’re smarter than a dolphin, to e-updates at barbican.org.uk why you like opera – what will you ask? Follow us on Twitter and tweet #wonderseason Tickets £5 Like us on Facebook Packed Lunch Packed booking and Information 21 22