Manchester Thursday 20 October – Sunday 30 October Science Supported by Festival

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Produced by #msf16 manchestersciencefestival.com Welcome to Manchester Science Festival

Over the last ten years Manchester Every October, our Festival creates a Science Festival has grown to become place for innovative, surprising and the most popular science festival in meaningful experiences, where people England. of all ages can ignite their curiosity in science. This year the Festival marks the culmination of Manchester's For 2016, some of the programme celebrations as European City of highlights include Paris-based artists Science. People and organisations HeHe, who deliver three original from across the city have come art installations at the Museum of together as never before to showcase Science and Industry, to creatively scientific achievements produced in explore the atmosphere around us. Manchester and across the world. The partnerships that make this The Chronarium Sleep Lab at Festival so successful are stronger Manchester Arndale will offer an than ever and mean we can be even immersive environment exploring more ambitious this year and in the role of public space in promoting years to come. Thank you so much health and wellbeing in the city. to all our partners and funders Public Service Broadcasting will - this programme reflects your take your imagination on a space inventiveness, your creativity and journey with a specially commissioned commitment. performance of their album The Race for Space at the beautiful Albert Hall. It's an amazing programme and whether you're a regular or a new The greatest strength of our Festival visitor, I promise you a fantastic time. is our unique alliance of partners. See you there! Together, we have curated more than 150 experiences where you can Sally MacDonald, explore, discover and create science Director, Museum of Science with us. and Industry We look forward to seeing you at the Festival.

Antonio Benitez, Manchester Science Festival Director

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Front cover Image: Loop.pH 2 Back cover image: Museum of Science and Industry Image: Museum of Science and Industry

Contents

04 Headline programme 06 Fun for all ages 16 Make, do and hack 21 Art meets science 28 Science after dark 33 Science on screen 36 Conversations 39 Walks and tours 40 At-a-glance guide 44 General information

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Manchester Science Festival is proud to present three firsts in the intertwining worlds of art, science and music. See atmospheric cloud research brought to life through surprising artistic interventions, experience a sleep laboratory in a shopping centre and enjoy a unique music performance inspired by the space race.

Image: HeHe

The Chronarium Sleep Lab Immerse yourself in the UK premiere of The Chronarium by Loop.pH. This public sleep laboratory aims to transform a bustling public space into a communal haven for relaxation and wellbeing. Lie back and rest inside hanging swings, while an audiovisual experience aims to reset your circadian rhythm for better, more harmonious sleep. The Chronarium was originally commissioned by FutureEverything Singapore and debuted with a fully booked run in 2015.

Audience: All ages (under 14s to be accompanied by an adult) Venue: Manchester Arndale Date: Thursday 20 October – Sunday 30 October Time: 11am – 8pm (Monday – Friday), 11am – 7pm (Saturday), 11.30am – 5.30pm (Sunday) Cost and booking info: Free. Book on the day at the venue

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Image: Loop.pH Image: Dan Kendall Cloud Crash

For the world premiere of Cape Farewell’s 2016 Lovelock Art Commission, Paris- based artists HeHe have taken inspiration from James Lovelock, the Museum of Science and Industry’s collection and the research of the Natural Environment Research Council. Three new site- specific works depict micro-climates and manufactured airspaces of artificially engineered clouds, in an imaginative appropriation of atmospheric cloud research. In their engagement with the industrial landscape, HeHe blur the boundaries between natural and man- made clouds.

Also see Cloud Crash: Preview (p28) and Cloud Crash: Artist tours (p39).

Audience: All ages Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Date: Thursday 20 October – Friday 3 February 2017 Time: 10am – 5pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time

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Public Service Broadcasting: The Race For Space Acclaimed electronic music outfit Public Service Broadcasting play their hit album The Race For Space in its entirety for the very first time, accompanied by a brass section and musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music, including a string quintet and 13-piece choir. This special event will be preceded by an exploration of the stories of the American and Soviet space race at the heart of the songs; and insights into the making of the album from J Willgoose, Esq, in conversation with Jodrell Bank’s Professor Tim O’Brien.

Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ Venue: Albert Hall Date: Thursday 20 October Time: 7.30pm – 11pm Cost and booking info: £27.50. Booking required

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Image: Loop.pH Image: Dan Kendall Fun for all ages

The Festival is a playground for everyone. Be immersed in virtual reality, see exciting new research in astronomy, help make a giant megapixel display and watch a robot orchestra made from recycled junk. And take part in lots of wacky experiments, of course...

Pinhole peepers

This family craft workshop celebrates one of the museum’s most prized collection items – the eyes of renowned scientist John Dalton. Create a pinhole camera with a twist, adding eyes and lashes of your own design to recreate the inner workings of sight.

Audience: Families 4+ Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Date: Thursday 20 October – Sunday 30 October Time: 2pm – 4pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time

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Salford science jam

See the natural delights of our planet in a ‘forest of curiosity’, where writers, Image: MovISee/ Cho Yen-Ting poets and actors team up with scientists, naturalists, geographers and environmentalists to take you on an MovISee interactive journey of discovery. Build Lego robots, experience life among living MovISee is an interactive experience machines and have a go at many other devised by artist Yen-Ting Cho, which exciting, hands-on activities. uses the movement of the human body to create digital images. Become Audience: All ages part of the artwork and explore the Venue: MediaCityUK campus, science and technology behind this University of Salford unique, collaborative, motion-capture Date: Saturday 22 October – performance. Sunday 23 October Time: 10am – 4pm All ages Audience: Cost and booking info: Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Free. Drop in any time Date: Saturday 22 October Time: 10am – 5pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time

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Once the preserve of science fiction, virtual reality has now taken the world Audience: All ages by storm. See how this truly immersive Venue: Museum of Science and Industry experience is being used in fields as Date: Saturday 22 October – diverse as entertainment and education, Sunday 23 October art and journalism. Try out different Time: 10am – 5pm virtual reality devices and experience Cost and booking info: what the future holds. Free. Drop in any time

The science and beauty Autumn studio of peatlands Get close to patterns in art and nature, Peat bogs are richly biodiverse and a as you discuss how living things respond source of fascination for many scientists. to the world around them with artists Look at resident plant life, invertebrates and scientists. You can also create your and microbes through microscopes; see own colourful works to take home; and demonstrations of how bogs store carbon consider what makes us human. Plus, and affect water; and find out more take part in drop-in printmaking activities about the preserving powers of peat. inspired by bio images. Plus, hear a recording of a new poem about peatlands by Ralph Hoyte. Audience: Families 5+ Venue: The Whitworth Audience: All ages Date: Saturday 22 October – Venue: Hulme Community Garden Centre Sunday 30 October Date: Saturday 22 October Time: 11am – 3pm Time: 10.30am – 3.30pm Cost and booking info: Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Free. Drop in any time

Image: Sally Gilford

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Big draw at the Whitworth The extraordinary enticement of exotic plants Get closer than ever to the gallery’s collections and be inspired by patterns Identify exotic plants and hear the tales in art and nature to create your own of eminent adventurer Professor Jigget, colourful artworks. Working with who reveals his history of adventures scientists, use this process to explore while discovering wonders of the natural what makes us human – and how living world. This mix of botany and storytelling things respond to the world around them. also includes the opportunity to see items from the historic archive of Audience: Families 5+ Quarry Bank. Venue: The Whitworth Date: Saturday 22 October Audience: Families 5+ Time: 11am – 3pm Venue: Central Library Cost and booking info: Date: Saturday 22 October Free. Drop in any time Time: 12pm – 12.30pm, 1pm – 1.30pm, 2.00pm – 2.30pm Cost and booking info: Free. No need to book Audio illusions and other curiosities Investigate acoustic illusions and other Artist Sundays auditory phenomena with live musicians and academics. Hear phantom melodies Enjoy creative challenges designed for that magically appear from rapidly all the family by extraordinary artists, repeating patterns of tones and rhythms, after picking up a specially-made family impossibly seeming to get faster and bag from the learning studio. Explore the faster; and spiralling notes that go gallery then show the artists what forever upwards. you’ve created.

Audience: Adults and families 7+ Audience: Families 5+ Venue: Low Four, Old Granada Studios Venue: The Whitworth Date: Saturday 22 October Date: Sunday 23 October and Time: 12pm – 1pm, 3pm – 4pm, Sunday 30 October 6pm – 7pm Time: 11am – 4pm Cost and booking info: Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required Free. Drop in any time

8 Royal Society Science Exhibition

From astronomy and the environment to glaciers and our gut, this exhibition is a collision of the UK’s most exciting new science and technology. Meet scientists from across the country and get stuck into interactive activities for all ages.

Audience: Adults and families 7+ Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Date: Monday 24 October – Friday 28 October Time: 11am – 5pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Image: The Royal Society

Hunting for infections Big telescopes science show

When pauper children worked at the mill, Find out why Jodrell Bank has such a big they were often invaded by gruesome telescope and what it’s used for. Plus, parasites. Find out more about these discover why it’s shaped like a bowl worms and creepy crawlies on a special and how it works with other telescopes tour of the Apprentice House, then follow around the world. You’ll also use a a trail to see how infections spread. You spectroscope to see the range of colours can also play games to find out how emitted by stars. mathematics can protect the natural environment. Audience: Families 5+ Venue: Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre Audience: Families 5+ Date: Monday 24 October – Venue: Quarry Bank Friday 28 October Date: Monday 24 October – Time: 11am – 11.30am, 12pm – 12.30pm, Friday 28 October 2pm – 2.30pm, 3pm – 3.30pm Time: 10.30am – 4.30pm Cost and booking info: Included in Cost and booking info: Included in admission fee. Book on the day admission fee. Drop in any time at the venue

Image: Anthony Holloway, Jodrell Bank Observatory

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Manchester megapixel Science showdown

Help build and colour in a giant megapixel Vote for the winner as two sides battle it display with mathematicians Katie out to prove that their live experiments Steckles, Matt Parker and our sponsor are the most exciting. Watch explosions, Siemens. You’ll also find out how digital surprising science, secret message displays work and see yourself presented revelations and some gravity-defying as pixels in a spreadsheet. activities.

Audience: Adults and families 7+ Audience: All ages Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Date: Monday 24 October – Date: Monday 24 October – Sunday 30 October Sunday 30 October Time: 11am – 4pm (except Wednesday 26 October) Cost and booking info: Time: 11am – 11.30am, 12pm – 12.30pm, Free. Drop in any time 1pm – 1.30pm, 2pm – 2.30pm, 3pm – 3.30pm Cost and booking info: Free. No need to book Spells and smells

Have you ever wanted to see everyday things turn into something spectacular? Counting chaos Inspired by Roald Dahl’s book George’s Marvellous Medicine, this Help the Liverpool Road Railway Station special collaboration with Rochdale’s Master identify and count mystery boxes Literature and Ideas Festival brings you of fruit, cattle and a menagerie of circus experiments, wacky science stories and animals. Set in 1900, this multi-sensory, the chance to create your own interactive show encourages skills in potion poem. investigation and problem-solving.

Audience: Families 6+ Audience: Families 0 – 6 Venue: Ellenroad Engine House Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Date: Monday 24 October Date: Monday 24 October – Time: 10.30am – 11.30am, Sunday 30 October 2.30pm – 3.30pm Time: 11.30am – 11.50am, Cost and booking info: 12.30pm – 12.50pm £2. Booking required Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time

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Nightshade Science busking

Help create an enchanted garden with Have a go at some quick-fire science oversized origami, twisted vines and demonstrations which explore some very massive paper sculptures. This large-scale complex ideas. Plus, discover more about installation will be built during the half- locally based organisations and how term school holiday – and you’ll also get their research, science and technology is to know the darker side of plants, which relevant to our everyday lives. can be carnivorous, parasitic and poisonous. Audience: All ages Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Audience: All ages Date: Tuesday 25 October – Venue: Gallery Oldham Thursday 27 October Date: Monday 24 October – Time: 10am – 5pm Friday 28 October Cost and booking info: Time: 12pm – 4pm Free. Drop in any time Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time

The hitchhiker’s guide Into the blue to the solar system

Explore a working research aeroplane and Hold and study real pieces of the Moon, talk to scientists about how they measure collected by the Apollo astronauts, as well and monitor the environment. Centred on as pieces of Mars and 4.5-billion-year-old the sea and sky, this experience from the meteorites. Plus, take part in a meteorite National Environment Research Council impacting experiment, plan your own has four themes – water, air, energy and space mission, see how volcanic eruptions health – and looks at how they relate reshape the surface of a planet and watch to each other. a comet being created.

Audience: Adults and families 5+ Audience: All ages Venue: The Runway Visitors Park, Venue: Manchester Museum Manchester Airport Date: Tuesday 25 October Date: Tuesday 25 October – Time: 11am – 4pm Saturday 29 October Cost and booking info: Time: 9am– 4.30pm Free. Drop in any time Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required

manchestersciencefestival.com 11 Robot orchestra: Live

Watch as Manchester’s robot orchestra performs alongside human musicians, including the band Family Ranks, Cul-de- Sac and flautist Gavin Osborn, conducted by a life-sized robot called Graphene built by Siemens. The robot players are made from a mix of recycled old instruments, electronics and junk. Image: Museum of Science and Industry Audience: Families 5+ Sublime science Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Date: Wednesday 26 October A chance for children to make gooey Time: 11am – 11.30am, 1pm – 1.30pm, slime and yummy sweets. Plus, watch 3pm – 3.30pm interactive experiments featuring fizzing Cost and booking info: potions, bubbles, flying giant smoke Free. No need to book rings, wacky noises and tornado races. The organisers are so engaging that they actually won the rare honour of an investment on BBC television programme Dragon’s Den.

Audience: Families 5+ Venue, date and time: Withington Library, Tuesday 25 October, 11.30am – 12.30pm Abraham Moss Library, Tuesday 25 October, 2.30pm – 3.30pm Central Library, Wednesday 26 October, 12.30pm – 1.30pm, 2.30pm – 3.30pm Longsight Library, Thursday 27 October, 11.30am – 12.30pm Forum Library, Image: The University of Manchester Thursday 27 October, 2.30pm – 3.30pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Science@Central

Lots to do for the whole family. Have a Young inventors go at an invention of your own, make slime and see some of the library’s most New smart materials, developments in prized collections up-close. Plus, chat energy harvesting and new ways to repair to a library conservation officer about our bodies are all being researched in how he’s spent the last 30 years adapting Bolton, as scientists look for solutions to equipment to preserve valuable books. today’s problems. In this workshop, young inventors are invited to talk about new Audience: All ages ideas and discover Bolton’s Venue: Central Library engineering history. Date: Wednesday 26 October Time: 11.30am – 4pm Audience: Families 3+ Cost and booking info: Venue: Hall i’th Wood Free. Drop in any time Date: Tuesday 25 October Time: 12pm – 2pm Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required 12 Messy science

Time to get messy with messy science, messy biology and messy maths. Meet scientists and students from the University of Bolton as you watch a volcano erupt, discover the energy in magnets, make electricity from a lemon and take the starch test.

Audience: Families 3 – 11 Venue: University of Bolton Date: Friday 28 October Time: 10.30am – 12pm, 2pm – 3.30pm Image: Museum of Science and Industry Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required Pliable plastics

Experiment with the mouldability of plastic, using different processing Science spectacular techniques like injection moulding, 3D printing and vacuum forming. This A fun-filled family day of science interactive experience will also explore challenges, live experiments, and recycling issues... and, just for fun, most interactive demonstrations. Help us moulded articles will have an intriguing draw some sketchy science, crack our connection to fictional spy James Bond. top secret computer codes, play with Moon rocks and meteorites, find out Audience: Families 3+ how the body fights disease, investigate Venue: Museum of Science and Industry the building blocks of life, explore the Date: Thursday 27 October – science of saving species and much, Friday 28 October much more. Time: 10am – 4.30pm Cost and booking info: Audience: Families 5 – 11 Free. Drop in any time Venue: Manchester Museum Date: Saturday 29 October Time: 10am – 4pm Cost and booking info: Stepping inside a camera Free. Drop in any time Sit inside a giant camera, formed by the waiting room inside a railway station – then see the outside world flipped upside down as it is projected on the walls. Science stories In this art installation by Lizzie King and Craig Tattersall, you’ll find out how Science is full of incredible tales of analogue photography works by seeing a discovery and exploration. Come along to camera use light to cast images. this event and create your own science stories, using words, sounds and images. Audience: All ages Venue: Manchester Victoria Train Station Audience: Families 5– 11 Date: Friday 28 October Venue: Wythenshaw Forum Centre Time: 10am – 4pm Date: Saturday 29 October Cost and booking info: Time: 11am – 3pm Free. Drop in any time Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time

manchestersciencefestival.com 13 Fun for all ages: Platform for investigation

Discover some of the most cutting-edge research in today’s scientific world with the Platform for investigation (Pi), supported by Siemens. Get involved with live experiments, chat to scientists and play games to explore how science affects our everyday lives.

Pi: #Datasaveslives

See how software engineers develop new fitness technologies and design an app of your own. You can also take part in an experiment to see whether heart rate and cognitive performance are linked; help review and discuss the results of all activities; and share your experiences via Tweets and selfies.

Audience: Families 8+ Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Date: Sunday 23 October Time: 10.30am – 4pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Image: Museum of Science and Industry

Pi: Sounds like heart work Pi: Wildlife connections

The human heart beats an incredible Meet conservationists to find out what 100,000 times a day – but what makes it you can do to make your garden more tick? And what happens when something inviting for wildlife. Make bird feeders goes wrong? Take a look at living heart and toad abodes and see results from cells under a microscope, hear more Chester Zoo’s Wildlife Connections about how this vital organ works and talk project, including dormouse monitoring about what your heart has in common in North Wales; and the recovery of pine with a lump of dough and your phone. martens: carnivores which are thought to have become extinct in England and Audience: Families 5+ Wales in the 1900's. Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Date: Saturday 22 October Audience: Families 8+ Time: 10.30am – 4pm Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Cost and booking info: Date: Monday 24 October Free. Drop in any time Time: 10.30am – 4pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time

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Pi: Dalton and colour vision Pi: Accelerating discoveries

To mark 250 years since the birth How can scientists find invisible of scientist John Dalton, see a live particles? How does antimatter dissection of a sheep’s eye to discover behave? Discover the latest scientific the anatomy of colour vision; and play breakthroughs made using cutting- with camouflage and colour matching edge particle accelerator and detector tests. Dalton discovered his own colour technology. Experience the VELA particle vision deficiency by comparing the accelerator in an immersive 360-degree colours of threads and yarns, which you show, see a positron-emission particle can see for yourself. Plus, find out what tracking device in action and find out it’s like to be colour blind with modern how detectors reveal natural radiation simulations and games. and cosmic rays all around us.

Audience: Families 8+ Audience: Families 8+ Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Date: Tuesday 25 October Date: Friday 28 October Time: 10.30am – 4pm Time: 10.30am – 4pm Cost and booking info: Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Free. Drop in any time

Pi: Code-driven trains Pi: Weather fairground

Be among the first to use new BBC How does the weather affect your life? micro:bit technology to help keep Right across the world, every single driverless trains on the move, by coding day, people make decisions based on your way through rail-themed challenges both forecasts and realities. Inspired by presented by Siemens. These include this, the Met Office has created some creating a warning system, so your train weather-themed demonstrations with a automatically slows down when it senses classic fairground theme. moisture on the track; and a digital solution to help commuters take the Audience: Families 8+ fastest tube route home. Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Date: Saturday 29 October – Audience: Families 8+ Sunday 30 October Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Time: 10.30am – 4pm Date: Thursday 27 October Cost and booking info: Time: 11am – 4pm Free. Drop in any time Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time manchestersciencefestival.com 15 Make, do and hack

Get stuck into programming robots, jewellery-making, competitive coding, handling real space rocks and creating your own mini-world of plant life. And how would YOU save Manchester from a devastating flood?

Ocular Bionica: Hands-onica

Create your own low-tech animations inspired by Ocular Bionica, artist Lucy Burscough’s stop-frame animated film about hybrid human-digital vision. You can also chat to Lucy about the making of the film and the cutting-edge bionic technology explored within it.

Audience: Adults and families 7+ Venue and date: Manchester Royal Eye Hospital Atrium (Thursday 20 October, Friday 21 October, Tuesday 25 October and Thursday 27 October), Manchester Museum (Monday 24 October, Wednesday 26 October and Friday 28 October) Time: 11am – 2pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Image: Lucy Burscough

Aeon Manchester eSports tournament Take part in the drama at pioneering medical trials facility Arcadia Life Gather together to play your favourite Sciences and work with scientists eSports with fellow fans, as tournaments on interactive challenges to fight an for League Of Legends and Hearthstone outbreak. You’ll also meet those working get underway. You’ll also hear talks by on the front line to control infectious design and development specialists about diseases like Ebola, Zika, SARS and HIV, how new eSports games are developed; as specialists reveal what viruses are and a process which involves a wide range of how they’re analysed. creative and technological skills. Audience: Adults and families 12+ Audience: Families 12 – 17 (juniors), Venue: Michael Smith Building, University Adults 18+ (masters) of Manchester Venue: John Dalton Building, Manchester Date: Saturday 22 October Metropolitan University Time: 11am – 12pm, 1pm – 2pm, Date: Saturday 22 October 3pm – 4pm Time: 10am – 1pm (juniors), 1pm – 4pm Cost and booking info: (masters) £7.50. Booking required Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required. Spectators welcome

16 After the bees: Poetry Heartstart meets science This free, hands-on training session will Albert Einstein predicted that: “If the teach you how to do CPR. You’ll also bee disappeared off the surface of the learn how to deal with an unconscious globe, then man would only have four person; recognise the signs and years of life left.” Take part in a workshop symptoms of a heart attack; and tackle exploring this idea and see a series choking and serious bleeding. While not of visual artworks comprising moving a qualification-driven experience, this images, portraiture, photography, writing workshop aims to equip you with basic and sculpture, informed by beekeepers, first-aid skills that may help you cope in ecologists and sustainability specialists. an emergency situation.

Audience: Adults Audience: Adult and families 14+ Venue: Manchester Museum Venue: The Lowry Date: Saturday 22 October Date: Saturday 22 October Time: 2pm – 4pm Time: 3pm – 5pm Cost and booking info: Cost and booking info: Free. Book on the day at the venue Free. Booking required

Terrarium workshop

Create your own terrarium – a mini-world of greenery inside a glass container – to take home, with advice from professional local florists and gardeners. Plus, plant scientist Amanda Bamford will be on hand to explain how plants live in a terrarium environment.

Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Date: Sunday 23 October Time: 11am – 1pm, 2pm – 4pm Cost and booking info: Image: Megan Powell £30, £45, £65. Booking required

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manchestersciencefestival.com 17 A few feet up

Interact with two performers and their periscope, as they explain how history can illuminate why we still use periscopes today. Join them for a workshop exploring how light bends, including making your own periscope. You’ll also get to see how reflection and refraction make periscopes work, giving us new views of our environment and world.

Audience: Families 8 – 14 Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Image: HackManchester Date: Monday 24 October Time: 11am – 11.45am, 1.45pm – 2.30pm, 3.15pm – 4pm HackManchester: Cost and booking info: Junior edition Free. Book on the day at the venue HackManchester creates a junior edition of the popular coding competition, set over two days with the support of expert Balmy science mentors. There’ll be challenges, prizes and lots of fun, ending with an Look at properties of materials as you awards ceremony. make a personalised lip balm, choosing your favourite flavour, colour and Please note, commitment to both packaging. This workshop encourages the sessions is essential understanding of the science of everyday products through experimentation. Audience: Families 8 – 18 Museum of Science and Industry Venue: Audience: Families 7+ Monday 24 October – Date: Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Tuesday 25 October Date: Tuesday 25 October 8.30am – 4pm Time: Time: 10am – 11am, 2pm – 3pm Cost and booking info: Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required Free. Book on the day at the venue

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18 Mesh: Workshops

Try your hand at 3D modelling with Sumit Sarkar, one of the leading artists involved in the Festival’s Mesh exhibition. You’ll be guided in the basics of 3D sculpture and progress to advanced digital techniques, then receive a 3D print of your work at the end of the project.

Please note, commitment to all sessions within your age group is essential

Venue: Z-Arts Audience, date and time: Ages 11 – 14, Tuesday 25 October – Wednesday 26 October, 2pm – 4pm Image: The University of Central Lancashire Ages 15 – 18, Thursday 27 October – Friday 28 October, 2pm – 4pm Adults, Tuesday 25 October – Friday 28 Smartphone microscope October, 6.30pm – 8.30pm Cost and booking info: Make a Zoombox, a clever fold-up Free. Booking required box that turns a smartphone into a microscope. Use it to take a look at everyday objects magnified by 10, then take it with you to experiment with at home. To take part, you’ll just need a Mission Mars smartphone (preferably your own)...

Build and program a Lego Mindstorm Audience: Families 7+ Rover machine to explore a model of the Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Mars landscape. You’ll navigate issues Date: Thursday 27 October from real-life space missions like NASA Time: 10am – 5pm Curiosity and ESA ExoMars, which seek to Cost and booking info: determine whether life has ever existed Free. Drop in any time on the planet.

Audience: Families 10 – 15 Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Downpour! Date: Wednesday 26 October Time: 10am – 12.30pm, 1.30pm – 4pm Work in teams against the clock to Cost and booking info: tackle a devastating flooding crisis Free. Book on the day at the venue in Manchester, in this high-pressure, interactive street game. Rain has been falling steadily, the rivers have risen and defences are about to be breached. Gather scientific information, manage your resources and consider communities and wildlife as you make your decisions to protect the city’s future.

Audience: Adults and teenagers 16+ Venue: YHA Manchester Castlefield Date: Saturday 29 October Time: 10.30am – 4.30pm Cost and booking info: £3.50. Booking required Image: Museum of Science and Industry

manchestersciencefestival.com 19 HackManchester: Adult edition HackManchester: Adult awards ceremony Compete in a coding competition in the heart of Manchester, culminating in an Following the HackManchester coding awards ceremony. Teams of developers competition for over-18s, the judges and designers have just 25 hours to wow select winners from competing teams the judges and help showcase northern of developers and designers. Celebrate talent. Under 18? Check out the junior and network with peers, while enjoying edition (p18). a showcase of the north west’s technical talent. The ticket price includes a hot Audience: Adults 18+ buffet and drinks. Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Date and time: Starts 12pm Saturday 29 Audience: Adults 18+ October, finishes 2pm Sunday Venue: Museum of Science and Industry 30 October Date: Sunday 30 October Cost and booking info: Time: 6pm – 10.30pm £20. Booking required Cost and booking info: £20. Booking required

Formula Bolton Make a silver ring

How are Formula 1 racing cars designed Have a go at sawing, soldering and and manufactured? Get hands-on with texturing metal by making your very own various stages of the process, guided by ring to take home. In this workshop you’ll engineers and scientists. Experience 3D get an insight into the science behind the computer-assisted design, 3D printing craft of jewellery making, including how and routing, wind tunnel testing and metal reacts to heat. analysis, materials research and model car racing testing. Plus, make your own Audience: Adults and teenagers 12+ model car and race it against the rest. Venue: Manchester Craft and Design Centre Audience: Ages 5+ Date: Sunday 30 October Venue: UTC Bolton Time: 11am – 1pm, 2pm – 4pm Date: Saturday 29 October Cost and booking info: Time: 10am – 2pm £30 (includes silver ring). Cost and booking info: Booking required Free. Drop in any time

Mushroom hack

Get involved with innovative mushroom growing. Join farmers and scientists to brainstorm and design open-source tools to help mushroom growers all over the world. No growing experience required – simply a creative, open mind. Lunch and refreshments provided.

Audience: Adults 18+ Venue: The Shed, Manchester Metropolitan University Date: Saturday 29 October Time: 11am – 6pm Cost and booking info: Image: Squirrel Nation Free. Booking required

20 Art meets science

Play with senses and the mind’s sensibilities as science is reflected in music, theatre and images. Hear time and space interpreted in concertos, confront worldwide healthcare issues and explore sound through your hands and eyes.

Equinox

Take a kaleidoscopic tour of time and space as Manchester Camerata performs Equinox, by violin star Henning Kraggerud, which is written in 24 different keys and depicts 24 hours and 24 time zones. The composition comprises four concertos and is interspersed with a narration written by Jostein Gaarder.

Audience: All ages Venue: Albert Hall Date: Sunday 16 October (trailblazer event) Time: 3pm – 6pm Cost and booking info: £22 – £37 (concessions and student tickets available). Booking required Image: Kaupo Kikkas

B!rth

How do different nations approach childbirth? Watch the plays of seven leading female writers from Brazil, China, India, Kenya, Syria, UK and the USA as they examine the vast inequalities in worldwide healthcare. Each performance is intended to provoke debate in the fields of science, art, academic, politics and charity.

Audience: Adults Venue: Royal Exchange Theatre Date: Wednesday 19 October – Saturday 22 October (trailblazer event) Time: Various times (check website for more info) Image: Royal Exchange Theatre Cost and booking info: £5 – £12 (multi-ticket offers available). Booking required

manchestersciencefestival.com 21 Imagining Medicine

Hammers, vacuum cleaners and duck beaks: see how 16th and 17th-century surgical procedures have been reimagined through the photography of Dr Sian Bonnell. Based on images in The John Rylands Library collections, these playful yet intriguing photographs will make you think again about medical illustration.

Audience: Adults and families 12+ Venue: The John Rylands Library Image: Manchester Museum Date: Thursday 20 October – Sunday 30 October Animal kingdom: Stereoscopic Time: 10am – 5pm (Tuesday - Saturday), 12pm – 5pm (Sunday - Monday) images of natural history Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Artist Jim Naughten has brought a mesmerising collection of natural history Also see An evening of Imagining images to life in three dimensions, using Medicine (p29). stereoscopic photography. See sets of mounted skeletons and wet specimens from museum collections, each photographed from a right-eye and left- International images eye perspective. for science Audience: All ages Venue: Manchester Museum Look beyond your everyday view of the Date: Thursday 20 October – world to see how science, engineering Sunday 30 October and medicine surround every aspect Time: 10am – 5pm of our lives, through a variety of Cost and booking info: photographic images depicting biology, Free. Drop in any time astronomy and lots more. You’ll also consider the intimate link between science and photographic processes, which involve chemistry and optics. Capturing science: Audience: All ages Images past and present Venues: Royal Exchange Theatre, Corn Exchange and Manchester Cathedral Come to the Historic Reading Room to Date: Thursday 20 October – see science themed images in medicine, Sunday 30 October astronomy, engineering and industry. Time: 10am – 5.30pm (some venues open earlier, check website for more info) Audience: All ages Cost and booking info: Venue: The John Rylands Library Free. Drop in any time Date: Thursday 20 October – Sunday 30 October Time: 10am – 5pm (Tuesday - Saturday), 12pm – 5pm (Sunday - Monday) Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time

22 Ocular Bionica

This painted stop-frame animation film tells the story of Ray, a patient who has lost his central vision to age-related macular degeneration. He becomes the first person with this condition to see with help from new technologies, highlighting advances in the treatment of sight loss and what they mean for humanity.

Audience: Adults and families 7+ Venue and time: Manchester Royal Eye Hospital (8am – 8.15pm), Manchester Image: Lucy Burscough Museum (10am – 5pm) Date: Thursday 20 October – Sunday 30 October Silent Signal Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time This exhibition of six animations explores new ways of thinking about the human Also see Ocular Bionica: Hands-onica (p16) body, using contributions from leading and Manchester Museum: Late (p31). biomedical scientists. See the journeys made by infectious diseases, battles with bacteria, intercellular memory, the science of sleep, the link between biology and machines and how scientists imagine their own work.

Audience: Adults Venue: MediaCityUK campus, University of Salford Date: Thursday 20 October – Sunday 30 October Image: Museum of Science and Industry Time: 10am – 4pm Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Sensory sound pit

What does the world look like when you perceive sound through your hands and eyes, as well as your ears? Enter an immersive, tactile environment where sound is represented by shape, touch, motion and visuals, inspired by current neuroscience research into the way the brain responds to sound.

Audience: All ages Venue: MediaCityUK campus, University of Salford Date and time: Thursday 20 October – Sunday 23 October (10am – 4pm), Monday 24 October – Wednesday 26 October (1pm – 4pm) Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Image: Silent Signal

manchestersciencefestival.com 23 Extinction or survival

Image: Tom Svensson, conservation photographer

From the dodo to the giant earwig, lots Audience: All ages of species have become extinct since Venue: Manchester Museum life first evolved. Consider conservation Date: Friday 21 October – issues as you view an exhibition about Sunday 30 October extinction, which looks at how humans Time: 10am – 5pm have influenced the survival of animal Cost and booking info: and plant species. What could we all be Free. Drop in any time doing to make a difference?

Ryoichi Kurokawa: Unfold

Image: Ryoichi Kurokawa (based on scientific data from CEA Paris-Saclay)

Experience an audio-visual representation Audience: All ages of how the solar system was born and Venue: MediaCityUK campus, University how our galaxy might evolve. Japanese of Salford artist Ryoichi Kurokowa’s new body of Date: Saturday 22 October – work is based on data taken from giant Sunday 23 October molecular clouds in space – data which Time: 10am – 4pm may hold the secrets to the birth of stars. Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time

24 Am I Dead Yet?

Death is no longer a moment. It is a process. A process that can be reversed, as considered in this production by Unlimited Theatre. See two friends talk and sing about what happens when we die, how we think about dying and, most importantly, how some of us might be brought back.

Audience: Adults Venue: The Lowry Date: Saturday 22 October TIme: 8pm – 9pm (performance), 9.15pm – 9.45pm (post-show talk) Cost and booking info: £12. Booking required

Also see Death Café (p36) and Image: Unlimited Theatre Heartstart (p17).

Scientific studios

What makes our plates safe to eat from? How do you go from a sheep to a scarf? How does a sheet of metal become a spoon? See the chemical reactions and processes which help craftspeople make their products, such as the melting points and material make-ups of metal, glass, ceramics, textiles, plastics and ink.

Audience: Adults and families 3+ Venue: Manchester Craft and Design Centre Date: Monday 24 October – Saturday 29 October Time: 2pm – 5pm Cost and booking info: Image: Chris Payne Photography Free. Drop in any time

manchestersciencefestival.com 25 Mesh

See the premiere of an exhibition of 3D printed fine art sculpture, featuring six leading artists who specialise in this pioneering field. Keith Brown, Bruce Gernand, Annie Cattrell, Jon Isherwood, James Hutchinson and Sumit Sarkar present newly commissioned sculptures and acclaimed existing works.

Audience: All ages Venue: Benzie Building, Manchester Metropolitan University Date: Monday 24 October (preview), Tuesday 25 October – Friday 28 October Time: 6pm – 8pm (preview), 9am – 5pm Image: MESH Cost and booking info: Free. Drop in any time Museums Of The New Age Also see Mesh: Conversations (p37) and Mesh: Workshops (p19). Jean-Philippe Calvin, composer-in- residence at London’s Science Museum, has created a new score for 1927 silent filmMuseums Of The New Age. Hear his music performed live while the film is screened, after a talk revealing more about science, museums and society in the early 20th century.

Audience: Adults and families 11+ Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Date: Friday 28 October Time: 7pm – 8.30pm Cost and booking info: £5. Booking required Image: Museum of Science and Industry

Elements: Poetry in Experimental words molecular motion Biology meets balladry, physics Be immersed in a poetic and scientific encounters pentameter and chemistry experience of all the senses, as poet confronts cadence, as leading scientists and meteorologist Rachel McCarthy are paired with some of Manchester’s performs works from her acclaimed finest spoken-word artists to compete in poetry collection Elements. Meanwhile, a science slam show. The result? A diverse Dr Frank Mair and Dr Steven Rossington display of rhyme, rhythm and reason, complement Rachel’s words with visual, which celebrates the creative similarities olfactory and audio stimuli. between science and the performing arts.

Audience: Adults Audience: Adults 18+ Venue: School of Chemistry, The Venue: The Eagle Inn University of Manchester Date: Friday 28 October Date: Thursday 27 October Time: 7.30pm – 9pm Time: 7pm – 8pm Cost and booking info: Cost and booking info: £4. Booking required £5. Booking required 26 Breaking The Code

Can machines think? Is it possible to build a machine that thinks for itself? This classic play by Hugh Whitemore is set in the leafy surroundings of Bletchley Park at the height of the Second World War, where a brilliant young mathematician named Alan Turing was creating a machine to secure victory for Britain.

Audience: Adults Venue: Royal Exchange Theatre Date: Friday 28 October – Saturday 29 October Time: 7.30pm Cost and booking info: £16.50 – £39 (concessions and student tickets available). Booking required

Also see Talking the code (p38). Image: Royal Exchange Theatre

The music of Star Wars: Episodes I to VII

Image: Joel Chester

Feel the full force of the Hallé as the renowned orchestra performs highlights Audience: Adults and families 7+ The Bridgewater Hall from John Williams’ scores for the Star Venue: Saturday 29 October Wars films. Packed with some of the Date: most recognisable cinematic themes of Time: 6.15pm – 7pm (pre-show talk), all time, this concert packs more punch 7.30pm – 9.45pm (performance) than an Imperial blaster. There’s also a Cost and booking info: free pre-show talk on the science behind £13.50 – £43 (concessions available). Star Wars. Dress to impress. Booking required

manchestersciencefestival.com 27 Science after dark

It’s time for some proper grown-up fun, with the scientific secrets of casinos, a tasty menu of microbiological street food and a behind-the-scenes look at some of the Festival’s most intriguing innovations. You’re also invited to our 10th birthday party.

Cloud Crash: Preview The science of gambling with Guardian Live Acclaimed Paris-based artists HeHe, recipients of the Cape Farewell Lovelock This cabaret-style show explores the Art Commission, present a special viewing different scientific aspects of gambling, of their new work Cloud Crash. The bar like the probability of winning and will be open as HeHe discuss how their the reliability of luck. Mathematician installations offer a cultural response to Katie Steckles crunches the numbers James Lovelock’s work, while scientists while neuroscientist Niki Ray explains from the Natural Environment Research what goes on inside your head and Council reveal their latest research psychologist Paul Seager reveals secrets into atmospherics. of body language and bluffing. Casino Royale-style black-tie dress is optional, Audience: Adults but warmly encouraged. Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Date: Thursday 20 October Audience: Adults 18+ Time: 6pm – 8pm Venue: Manchester235 Casino Cost and booking info: Date: Saturday 22 October Free. Booking required Time: 7pm – 10pm Cost and booking info: £12. Booking required Global science, local impact Hear how scientific grand challenges are Sustainable eating: connected to the citizens of Manchester, A reusable menu as world-leading European scientists work with local students and artists to Tuck into a menu of sustainable foods, put big issues under the microscope. as the chef explains its health benefits These include population health and and environmental importance. With wellbeing, food security, land use and food wastage increasing across the sustainable transport. Join the debate planet – especially by supermarkets and consider which actions you’d take. and hospitality venues – this experience examines the reuse and repurposing of Audience: Adults and families 12+ ingredients such as bread and vegetables. Venue: Number 70 Oxford Street You’ll also learn how to prepare a tasty, Date: Friday 21 October sustainable meal at home. Time: 5.30pm – 8.30pm Cost and booking info: Audience: Adults Free. Booking required Venue: Marriott Victoria and Albert Date: Sunday 23 October – Friday 28 October Time: 7pm – 9pm, 8pm – 10pm, 9pm – 11pm Cost and booking info: £24. Booking required

28 Insert coffee to begin

Manchester has a vibrant coffee scene, including a community of independent coffee shops and roasters. Baristas are increasingly encouraged to understand the science of coffee – and now you can, too, as you see and taste the effects of different elements in each cup.

Audience: Adults Venue: Grindsmith Pod Date: Monday 24 October – Tuesday 25 October Time: 6pm – 8pm Image: Museum of Science and Industry Cost and booking info: £10. Booking required An evening of Imagining Medicine Girl Geek dinner: Space Talk to the artist behind the Imagining rocks on ice Medicine exhibition. Dr Sian Bonnell photographed students from the An evening of networking, food and good University of Manchester as they re- company with Manchester Girl Geeks. enacted illustrations of historical surgical Make new friends and hear from guest procedures. You can also see the Medical speaker, Dr Katherine Joy, who’ll be talking Collection up-close and enjoy the gothic about hunting for meteorites in Antarctica architecture of the library after hours. – and what this can tell us about the geological history of planets. Under-16s Audience: Adults 18+ must be accompanied by an adult. Venue: The John Rylands Library Date: Wednesday 26 October Audience: Adults and families 12+ Time: 6pm – 8pm Venue: NoHo Cost and booking info: Date: Tuesday 25 October Free. Booking required Time: 6.30pm – 8.30pm Cost and booking info: £5. Booking required Engineering Showoff

From the brains behind Bright Club and The Story Collider Science Showoff comes Engineering Showoff, a chance to hear the funny Enjoy an evening of true, personal stories side of building and looking after the with a science twist. Five storytellers structures, technology and ideas that plucked from the Festival line-up share surround us. Engineers from the north their exciting tales of how science has west’s universities and businesses take touched their lives. Some stories are to the stage as stand-up comedians, heartbreaking, some are hilarious, but sharing jokes and anecdotes from their they’re all true – and, in one way or professional lives. another, they’re all about science. Audience: Adults 18+ Audience: Adults 18+ Venue: Pub/Zoo Venue: International Anthony Date: Wednesday 26 October Burgess Foundation Time: 7pm – 10.30pm Date: Tuesday 25 October Cost and booking info: Time: 6.30pm – 9pm £5. Booking required Cost and booking info: £8. Booking required manchestersciencefestival.com 29 Ginesis Menus made by microbes: Street food If you love gin, you’ll love this. Experience the biology of taste and talk about Feast on a range of ingredients that owe chemical processes including distillation, their production to microorganisms. infusion and the impact of water. Local Manchester Metropolitan University specialist Charlie Hooson-Sykes and a microbiologists have teamed up with member of the Royal Society of Chemistry Grub Mcr to showcase dishes made by host, while explaining how our past some of Manchester’s best street food experiences affect which tastes we enjoy. stalls. Bring friends and a big appetite.

Audience: Adults 18+ Audience: Adults 18+ Venue: Chetham’s Library Venue: The Runaway Brewery Date: Wednesday 26 October Date: Wednesday 26 October Time: 7pm – 10pm Time: 7.30pm – 9.30pm Cost and booking info: Cost and booking info: £20. Booking required £20. Booking required

Manchester Science Festival’s 10th birthday party

Image: Museum of Science and Industry

The Festival celebrates its 10th birthday this year – which is a very fine excuse Audience: Adults 18+ to throw a party. Grab a slice of cake Venue: Museum of Science and Industry and celebrate as you look at the science Date: Thursday 27 October behind birthday parties, including the Time: 7pm – 10.30pm psychology of clowns, the maths of Cost and booking info: cake cutting and the fluid dynamics of Free. Booking advised chocolate fountains.

30 Rumnaissance

How have past experiences affected how we taste and what we like? Join local specialist Steven James to discover the chemistry of rum, from distillation to the ageing process. Different barrels, storage conditions and exposure to water all play a part in the finished product.

Audience: Adults 18+ Venue: Chetham’s Library Date: Thursday 27 October Time: 7pm – 10pm Cost and booking info: £20. Booking required

Image: Museum of Science and Industry

Es-scent-ial science Whiskyology

Explore the science behind scent by Enjoy a tutored tasting of Scotland’s meeting perfume makers, who explain finest export with local whisky how chemicals are used to create enthusiasts, who’ll explore the tradition different, multi-layered fragrances. You of whisky-making and explain the science can also find your individual scent with behind the distiller’s art. Work your way experience profiling and visit sensory through six very special drams, discussing stations to identify your favourite smells. the differences between drinking, tasting and nosing; and malty myths that should Audience: Adults 18+ be dismissed. Venue: Harvey Nichols Manchester Date: Thursday 27 October Audience: Adults 18+ Time: 6pm – 9pm Venue: Chetham’s Library Cost and booking info: Date: Friday 28 October £15. Booking required Time: 7pm – 10pm Cost and booking info: £20. Booking required. Manchester Museum: Late

Enjoy a late-night view of the museum with the launch of vision technology- inspired project Ocular Bionica and an after-hours look at the Animal Kingdoms exhibition. You can also take a science literary tour hosted by authors from the Very Short Introductions book series, going behind the scenes and exploring topics as diverse as the ice age and molecular biology.

Audience: Adults Venue: Manchester Museum Date: Thursday 27 October Time: 6pm – 9pm Cost and booking info: Free. Booking advised Image: Robie Basak

manchestersciencefestival.com 31 Nobel Prize disco

Image: Museum of Science and Industry

No festival is complete without a disco, so in honour of Andre Geim and Audience: Adults 18+ Konstantin Novoselov’s Nobel Prize- Venue: Museum of Science and Industry winning isolation of graphene, we present Date: Friday 28 October the Nobel Prize disco. Come dressed as Time: 10pm – 2am your favourite Nobel Prize winner - or Cost and booking info: winning discovery – and get ready to £5. Booking required throw some shapes. Einstein moustaches at the ready…

After School Science Amorance Club: Colour What does it take to fall in love? Miss the fun bits of your school science Is it simply a matter of finding the lessons? Then you’ll be pleased to hear right person, or is there a scientific that After School Science Club is back. explanation for what brings two people Join mathematician Katie Steckles and together? Take part in an experiment some colourful science stars for an to see whether you can fall in love with adults-only evening of demonstrations somebody during the Festival. Both and interactive fun. Plus a bar. And no couples and singles are welcome, so homework (hurrah!). book your table to dine with an open mind. Audience: Adults 18+ Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Audience: Adults 18+ Date: Saturday 29 October Venue: Ziferblat Time: 6.30pm – 9.30pm Date: Saturday 29 October Cost and booking info: Time: 7.30pm – 10.30pm £9.50. Booking advised Cost and booking info: £30 for two (includes dinner). Booking required

32 Science on screen

Meet some of the people behind pioneering works like the BBC’s Horizon documentary series and the spectacular effects in sci-fi epicInterstellar . Plus, explore the scientific realities of popular films featuring space adventures, tornadoes and viral epidemics.

Adam Chodzko presents Deep Above

Delve into the relationship between psychology and climate change as you watch artist Adam Chodzko’s new film, Deep Above. Moving image and sound are used to explore our self-deceptions, examining the zones between the rational and irrational – and mind and body – while adopting the languages of meditation, hypnosis and ‘self help’.

Audience: Adults and teenagers 13+ (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult) Venue: Texture Date: Saturday 22 October Time: 7.30pm – 9.30pm Cost and booking info: Image: Adam Chodzko Free. Booking required

Star Trek: First Contact – 20th anniversary

Watch a special screening of 1996 film Star Trek: First Contact and talk about the science and history of the Star Trek universe, with super-fans Dr Jamie Gallagher and Chris Dunford. In the film, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of the USS Enterprise face off against terrifying deep-space force The Borg. Could it ever happen for real?

Audience: Adults and families 12+ (under 12s to be accompanied by an adult) Venue: Odeon, The Printworks Date: Sunday 23 October Time: 7.30pm – 10.30pm Cost and booking info: £8. Booking required Image: Paramount Pictures

manchestersciencefestival.com 33 The philosopher’s scone

Enjoy an afternoon tea with miniature cakes and pastries inspired by the world of Harry Potter, as author Roger Highfield explains how magic really works. There’ll also be a screening of Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone. Fancy dress is a must.

Audience: All ages (talk 11+) Date: Monday 24 October Venue: Harvey Nichols Manchester, Second Floor Bar and Brasserie Time: 11am – 2pm Cost and booking info: £22 (adult), £12 (child). Booking required Image: Universal Pictures

BBC Natural History: Twister: The science Behind the scenes behind tornadoes

BBC Natural History has been making Watch a screening of classic disaster groundbreaking wildlife documentaries movie Twister, then hear from a team for more than 50 years, capturing some of tornado specialists about the science of the most mesmerising moments in the behind these destructive phenomena natural world on film. In this exclusive and the events of the film. Can real-life behind-the-scenes event, the creators tornadoes really pick up cows and whirl of programmes such as Planet Earth and them around? Life in the Air reveal the stories behind the shots. Audience: Adults and families 14+ (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult) Audience: All ages Date: Monday 24 October Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Venue: Gorilla Date: Monday 24 October Time: 7pm – 10pm Time: 7pm – 9pm Cost and booking info: Cost and booking info: £8. Booking required £5. Booking required

Image: BBC

34 Scanning the Horizon

Image: Warner Bros

Image: BBC Contagion The BBC’s Horizon documentary series has examined scientific ideas for five Watch critically acclaimed 2011 thriller decades. But how many of its predictions filmContagion , followed by a Q&A session have come true? Enjoy unique access with scientists involved in viral outbreaks to clips from the vaults, to see past like Ebola, SARS and HIV. Discuss the innovations and theories about life in the popularity of pandemic scenarios on 21st century, then discuss them in the screen, how science is depicted in mass bar afterwards with editor Steve Crabtree entertainment and the real-life fight and other special guests. against infectious diseases.

Audience: Adults Audience: Adults and families 12+ (under Venue: HOME 12s to be accompanied by an adult) Date: Wednesday 26 October Venue: Waterside Arts Centre Time: 4pm – 5.30pm Date: Wednesday 26 October Cost and booking info: Time: 7pm – 10pm Free. Booking required Cost and booking info: £5. Booking required

Interstellar

How did Christopher Nolan’s spectacular 2014 science fiction filmInterstellar present such accurate images of space? Go on a journey with the film’s Oscar- winning visual effects supervisor Paul Franklin, as he reveals how his pioneering team used real scientific data and worked with scientists. Plus, watch the film itself and hear about space time and black holes, with extragalactic astronomist Carole Mundell.

Audience: Adults and families 12+ Venue: Odeon, The Printworks Date: Wednesday 26 October Time: 7pm – 11pm Cost and booking info: £8. Booking required

Image: Warner Brothers

manchestersciencefestival.com 35 Conversations

When it comes to science, there’s always plenty to say. Debate with explorers, adventurers, artists and thinkers as they delve into topics like neuroscience, endurance, natural phenomena and even death.

Maths on display Death café

Join mathematician and Josh Award Gather with friends and strangers alike to winner Dr Katie Steckles for an eat cake, drink tea and discuss death in introduction to the mathematics behind an informal setting. This event is hosted photographs and digital displays. Find out by Unlimited Theatre to complement their how colour images are stored, displayed performance of Am I Dead Yet?, aiming and compressed; learn about Katie’s to increase awareness of death-related massive megapixel project at this year’s issues and help people make the most Festival; and discover how a simple of life. spreadsheet can be so much more. Audience: Adults Audience: Adults Venue: The Lowry Venue: MediaCityUK campus, Date: Saturday 22 October University of Salford Time: 12pm – 2pm Date: Friday 21 October Cost and booking info: Time: 6pm – 8pm Free. Booking required Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required

The Idiot Brain with Guardian Live

Join Guardian science blogger and Image: Danilo Moroni neuroscientist Dean Burnett and comedian Toby Hadoke for a lighthearted Through & Out2: look at the most inefficient, bizarre and irrational workings of the human brain. In conversation Hear how the illogical nature of our brains can affect our everyday world, including Get a sneak peek into the inner workings of installation performance Through why a glass of wine might improve our 2 memory. & Out , which combines sport, dance, science and technology. The performance Audience: Adults itself features a person continuously Venue: Museum of Science and Industry rope-skipping for 45 minutes, while Date: Friday 21 October sensors on their body feed augmented Time: 7pm – 8.30pm reality data about their physiological Cost and booking info: status to a mobile app. £8. Booking required Audience: Adults and families 8+ Venue: Twenty Twenty Two Date: Sunday 23 October Time: 2pm – 3pm Cost and booking info: £3. Booking required 36 Aurora: In search of the northern lights

Take a journey through Scandinavia, Canada and Svalbard in a conversation with adventurous plasma physicist Dr Melanie Windridge, the author of new book Aurora. Do we really understand the northern lights? Hear about the physics behind this stunning natural phenomenon.

Audience: Adults Venue: Godlee Observatory Date: Sunday 23 October Time: 3pm – 4pm Cost and booking info: Image: "Aurora Borealis" (CC BY 2.0) £4. Booking required by Lenny K Photography

Your choice Mesh: Conversations Play an interactive board game to See a 3D printer in action, as the get an insight into the challenges artists from the Festival’s Mesh 3D and complexities of cancer research. sculpture exhibition talk about their Developed with theatre company Rising work. Join Keith Brown, Annie Cattrell, Ape and Cancer Research UK, the Bruce Gernand, James Hutchinson, Jon game invites participants to become Isherwood and Sumit Sarkar to hear researchers for the evening and use their about their techniques and scientific skills to beat cancer. journeys. Audience: Adults 16+ Audience: Adults and families 11+ Venue: Ziferblat Venue: Benzie Building, Manchester Date: Wednesday 26 October Metropolitan University Time: 6pm – 8pm Date: Monday 24 October Cost and booking info: Time: 4pm – 6pm Free. Booking required Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required The art and science of dementia The science of games Join scientists and creatives to explore Dissect Nintendo’s Pokémon computer how art, science and the general public game series with other fans, talking can help support those living with about the story, gameplay and scientific dementia. Plus, take an up-close and elements – especially evolutionary personal look at how social connectivity biology. Many Pokémon characters have and artistic expression can improve real-life counterparts and their abilities wellbeing and care. are based on traits found in nature. Audience: Adults and teenagers Date: Wednesday 26 October Venue: Citylabs Audience, venue and time: Families 7+, Date: Wednesday 26 October The Shed, 2pm – 4pm Time: 6pm – 7.30pm Adults, The Castle Hotel, 8pm – 10pm Cost and booking info: Cost and booking info: Free. Booking required Free. Booking required manchestersciencefestival.com 37 Playing the echo

Hear about echoes and the distortions caused by curves, then listen as two percussionists demonstrate the strange acoustic properties of the reading room at one of Manchester’s biggest libraries. You can create your own unique listening experience through the path you take in the room, then take part in a Q&A session.

Audience: Adults Venue: Central Library Date: Wednesday 26 October Time: 6.30pm – 7.30pm Image: "Hooked Into Machine" (CC BY-ND 2.0) Cost and booking info: by Shan Sheehan Free. Booking required Frankenstein 2.0 Thought X: Physics into fiction Two hundred years ago, Mary Shelley had a dream that made her question what Science is always telling tales. See it meant to be a living thing – and the live re-enactments of classic thought result was her groundbreaking novel, experiments from the history of physics Frankenstein. Today, Mary’s dream could – including the Twin Paradox, Galileo’s become reality, thanks to advances in Pisa Experiment, Poincare’s Sphereworld medicine and nanotechnology. Should we – and hear short stories from new be excited or terrified? Join the debate. anthology Thought X. Audience: Adults and teenagers 14+ Audience: Adults 18+ Venue: The Portico Library Venue: Godlee Observatory Date: Saturday 29 October Date: Wednesday 26 October Time: 3pm – 5pm Time: 6.30pm – 8.30pm Cost and booking info: Cost and booking info: £6 (advance)/£5 (library members and Free. Booking required concessions). £7/£6 on the door. Booking advised

Is a mathematician human? Talking the code Dr Jonathan Swinton talks about a 1949 seminar in which pioneering Before watching acclaimed play Breaking mathematician Alan Turing discussed The Code, hear more about Alan Turing’s artificial intelligence (AI). It was during work and his ongoing scientific legacy. this seminar that some of the world’s Guest speaker Dr Jonathan Swinton first scepticisms about AI were raised. led 2012 research project Turing’s Can a machine think? Can it love? You’ll Sunflowers, which built upon the famous also hear a rare recording from 1976 by mathematician’s study of Fibonacci Max Newman, which discusses Turing and patterns in sunflower seed heads. There’ll his work. also be the chance to ask questions.

Audience: Adults Audience: Adults Venue: The Portico Library Venue: Royal Exchange Theatre Date: Friday 28 October Date: Saturday 29 October Time: 6.30pm – 7.30pm Time: 5pm – 6pm Cost and booking info: Cost and booking info: £6 (advance)/£5 (library members and Free. Booking required concessions). £7/£6 on the door. Booking 38 advised Tours

Navigate the solar system by bike, follow in the footsteps of great Manchester scientist John Dalton and get a glimpse into the extraordinary history behind the science in our city today.

John Dalton: Father of science Cycle the solar system

Walk through the places that were Join artist Nick Sayers and astronomer important to the life of John Dalton, Megan Argo for a three-mile cycle ride popularly regarded as Manchester’s first along the Fallowfield Loop, exploring our great scientist. Hear about his pioneering solar system at a scale of 1:1,000,000,000 work in the fields of atomic theory, colour (one to a billion). See the very different blindness and weather monitoring, in the sizes and environments of the Sun, eight year that marks the 250th anniversary of planets and asteroid belt as you get more his birth. familiar with our neighbourhood in space. Please dress for all weathers. Audience: Adults Venue: Meet outside the Manchester Audience: Adults and families 11+ Art Gallery entrance Venue: Meet at St Werburgh’s Road Date: Saturday 22 October Metrolink stop Time: 11am – 12.30pm Date: Sunday 23 October Cost and booking info: Time: 11am – 1.30pm, 2.30pm – 5pm £8. No need to book Cost and booking info: £8 individuals, £25 families (2 adults, 2 children). Booking required Cloud Crash: Artist tours Join artists HeHe on a journey to discover Back of beyond tour their three artworks Airbag, Burnout and Diamonds In The Sky, which form Cape Head behind the scenes at the museum Farewell’s Lovelock Art Commission. to uncover the science embedded in Manchester’s past. With curators, Audience: All ages you’ll uncover the everyday and the Venue: Museum of Science and Industry extraordinary in this playful tour. Date: Saturday 22 October Time: 12pm – 12.30pm, 2pm – 2.30pm, Audience: Adults 4pm – 4.30pm Venue: Museum of Science and Industry Cost and booking info: Date: Sunday 23 October – Free. No need to book Monday 24 October Time: 1.30pm – 2.30pm Cost and booking info: Free. Book on the day at the venue

manchestersciencefestival.com 39 Saturday 22 October At-a-glance guide Aeon p16 Adam Chodzko presents Deep Above p33 Trailblazers After the bees: Poetry meets science p17 B!rth p21 Am I Dead Yet? p25 Equinox p21 Animal kingdom: Stereoscopic images of natural history p22 Thursday 20 October Audio illusions and other curiosities p08 Animal kingdom: Stereoscopic Autumn studio p07 images of natural history p22 B!rth p21 B!rth p21 Big draw at the Whitworth p08 Capturing science: Capturing science: Images past and present p22 Images past and present p22 Cloud Crash p05 Cloud Crash p05 Cloud Crash: Preview p28 Cloud Crash: Artist tours p39 Imagining Medicine p22 Death café p36 International images for science p22 Extinction or survival p24 Ocular Bionica p23 Heartstart p17 Ocular Bionica: Hands-onica p16 Imagining Medicine p22 Pinhole peepers p06 International images for science p22 Public Service Broadcasting: John Dalton: Father of science p39 The Race For Space p05 Manchester eSports tournament p16 Sensory soundpit p23 MovISee p06 Silent Signal p23 Ocular Bionica p23 The Chronarium Sleep Lab p04 Pi: Sounds like heart work p14 Pinhole peepers p06 Friday 21 October Ryoichi Kurokawa: Unfold p24

Salford science jam p06 Animal kingdom: Stereoscopic Sensory sound pit p23 images of natural history p22 Silent Signal p23 B!rth p21 The Chronarium Sleep Lab p04 Capturing science: Images past and present p22 The extraordinary enticement of exotic plants p08 Cloud Crash p05 The science and beauty Extinction or survival p24 of peatlands p07 Global science, local impact p28 The science of gambling Imagining Medicine p22 with Guardian Live p28 International images for science p22 Virtual reality playground p07 Maths on display p36 Ocular Bionica p23 Sunday 23 October Ocular Bionica: Hands-onica p16 Pinhole peepers p06 Artist Sundays p08 Sensory soundpit p23 Animal kingdom: Stereoscopic Silent Signal p23 images of natural history p22 The Chronarium Sleep Lab p04 Aurora: In search of the The Idiot Brain with Guardian Live p36 northern lights p37 40 Autumn studio p07 Ocular Bionica: Hands-onica p16 Back of beyond tour p39 Pi: Wildlife connections p14 Capturing science: Pinhole peepers p06 Images past and present p22 Royal Society Science Exhibition p09 Cloud Crash p05 Science showdown p10 Cycle the solar system p39 Scientific studios p25 Extinction or survival p24 Sensory soundpit p23 Imagining Medicine p22 Silent Signal p23 International images for science p22 Spells and smells p10 Ocular Bionica p23 Sustainable eating: Pi: #Datasaveslives p14 A reusable menu p28 Pinhole peepers p06 The Chronarium Sleep Lab p04 Ryoichi Kurokawa: Unfold p24 The philosopher’s scone p34 Salford science jam p06 Twister: The science Sensory sound pit p23 behind tornadoes p34 Silent Signal p23 Star Trek: First Contact – Tuesday 25 October 20th anniversary p33 Sustainable eating: Animal kingdom: Stereoscopic A reusable menu p28 images of natural history p22 Terrarium workshop p17 Autumn studio p07 The Chronarium Sleep Lab p04 Balmy science p18 Through & Out2: In conversation p36 Big telescopes science show p09 Virtual reality playground p07 Capturing science: Images past and present p22 Monday 24 October Cloud Crash p05 Counting chaos p10 A few feet up p18 Extinction or survival p24 Animal kingdom: Stereoscopic Girl Geek dinner: images of natural history p22 Space rocks on ice p29 Autumn studio p07 HackManchester: Junior edition p18 Back of beyond tour p39 Hunting for infections p09 BBC Natural History: Imagining Medicine p22 Behind the scenes p34 Insert coffee to begin p29 Big telescopes science show p09 International images for science p22 Capturing science: Into the blue p11 Images past and present p22 Manchester megapixel p10 Cloud Crash p05 Mesh p26 Counting chaos p10 Mesh: Workshops p19 Extinction or survival p24 Nightshade p11 HackManchester: Junior edition p18 Ocular Bionica p23 Hunting for infections p09 Ocular Bionica: Hands-onica p16 Imagining Medicine p22 Pi: Dalton and colour vision p15 Insert coffee to begin p29 Pinhole peepers p06 International images for science p22 Royal Society Science Exhibition p09 Manchester megapixel p10 Science busking p11 Mesh (preview) p26 Science showdown p10 Mesh: Conversations p37 Scientific studios p25 Nightshade p11 Sensory soundpit p23 Ocular Bionica p23 Silent Signal p23 41 Sublime science p12 Sustainable eating: Sustainable eating: A reusable menu p28 A reusable menu p28 The art and science of dementia p37 The Chronarium Sleep Lab p04 The Chronarium Sleep Lab p04 The hitchhiker’s guide The science of games p37 to the solar system p11 Thought X: Physics into fiction p38 The Story Collider p29 Your choice p37 Young inventors p12 Thursday 27 October Wednesday 26 October Animal kingdom: Stereoscopic Animal kingdom: Stereoscopic images of natural history p22 images of natural history p22 Autumn studio p07 An evening of Imagining Medicine p29 Big telescopes science show p09 Autumn studio p07 Capturing science: Big telescopes science show p09 Images past and present p22 Capturing science: Cloud Crash p05 Images past and present p22 Counting chaos p10 Cloud Crash p05 Elements: Poetry in Contagion p35 molecular motion p26 Counting chaos p10 Es-scent-ial science p31 Engineering Showoff p29 Extinction or survival p24 Extinction or survival p24 Hunting for infections p09 Ginesis p30 Imagining Medicine p22 Hunting for infections p09 International images for science p22 Imagining Medicine p22 Into the blue p11 International images for science p22 Manchester megapixel p10 Interstellar p35 Manchester Museum: Late p31 Into the blue p11 Mesh p26 Manchester megapixel p10 Mesh: Workshops p19 Menus made by microbes: Manchester Science Festival’s street food p30 10th birthday party p30 Mesh p26 Nightshade p11 Mesh: Workshops p19 Ocular Bionica p23 Mission Mars p19 Ocular Bionica: Hands-onica p16 Nightshade p11 Pi: Code-driven trains p15 Ocular Bionica p23 Pinhole peepers p06 Ocular Bionica: Hands-onica p16 Pliable plastics p13 Pinhole peepers p06 Royal Society Science Exhibition p09 Playing the echo p38 Rumnaissance p31 Robot orchestra: Live p12 Science busking p11 Royal Society Science Exhibition p09 Science showdown p10 Scanning the Horizon p35 Scientific studios p25 Science@Central p12 Silent Signal p23 Science busking p11 Smartphone microscope p19 Scientific studios p25 Sublime science p12 Sensory soundpit p23 Sustainable eating: Silent Signal p23 A reusable menu p28 Sublime science p12 The Chronarium Sleep Lab p04

42 Friday 28 October Cloud Crash p05 Counting chaos p10 Animal kingdom: Stereoscopic Downpour! p19 images of natural history p22 Extinction or survival p24 Autumn studio p07 Formula Bolton p20 Big telescopes science show p09 Frankenstein 2.0 p38 Breaking The Code p27 HackManchester: Adult edition p20 Capturing science: Imagining Medicine p22 Images past and present p22 International images for science p22 Cloud Crash p05 Into the blue p11 Counting chaos p10 Manchester megapixel p10 Experimental words p26 Mushroom hack p20 Extinction or survival p24 Ocular Bionica p23 Hunting for infections p09 Pi: Weather fairground p15 Imagining Medicine p22 Pinhole peepers p06 International images for science p22 Science showdown p10 Into the blue p11 Science spectacular p13 Is a mathematician human? p38 Science stories p13 Manchester megapixel p10 Scientific studios p25 Mesh p26 Silent Signal p23 Mesh: Workshops p19 Talking the code p38 Messy science p13 The Chronarium Sleep Lab p04 Museums Of The New Age p26 The music of Star Wars: Nightshade p11 Episodes I to VII p27 Nobel Prize disco p32 Ocular Bionica p23 Sunday 30 October Ocular Bionica: Hands-onica p16 Pi: Accelerating discoveries p15 Animal kingdom: Stereoscopic Pinhole peepers p06 images of natural history p22 Pliable plastics p13 Artist Sundays p08 Royal Society Science Exhibition p09 Autumn studio p07 Science showdown p10 Capturing science: Scientific studios p25 Images past and present p22 Silent Signal p23 Cloud Crash p05 Stepping inside a camera p13 Counting chaos p10 Sustainable eating: Extinction or survival p24 A reusable menu p28 HackManchester: The Chronarium Sleep Lab p04 Adult awards ceremony p20 Whiskyology p31 HackManchester: Adult edition p20 Imagining Medicine p22 Saturday 29 October International images for science p22 Make a silver ring p20 After School Science Club: Colour p32 Manchester megapixel p10 Amorance p32 Ocular Bionica p23 Animal kingdom: Stereoscopic Pi: Weather fairground p15 images of natural history p22 Pinhole peepers p06 Autumn studio p07 Science showdown p10 Breaking the Code p27 Silent Signal p23 Capturing science: The Chronarium Sleep Lab p04 Images past and present p22 43 Visiting Manchester

Begin your journey of discovery Cycling at the Museum of Science and Industry, which is at the heart Greater Manchester is bicycle friendly. of Manchester Science Festival. Head to Cycle GM for up-to-date information and free cycle maps of Museum of Science and Industry Greater Manchester. There are bicycle Liverpool Road racks outside the Museum of Science Castlefield and Industry, the city’s universities Manchester and in many attractions across M3 4FP Greater Manchester. msimanchester.org.uk cycling.tfgm.com

Metrolink Travelling to Manchester The Metrolink tram network has 92 stops There are four railway stations in the city across Greater Manchester and is a fast, centre (Piccadilly, Oxford Road, Deansgate frequent way to get around Manchester. and Victoria) and more throughout The Deansgate-Castlefield stop is closest Greater Manchester. See nationalrail.co.uk to the Museum of Science and Industry. for train timetables and fares. metrolink.co.uk

Manchester is also well-served by Free city centre Metroshuttle bus national bus services from major UK cities. Check out nationalexpress.com Metroshuttle is a great way of getting for information about National Express around Manchester city centre. Simply coach services. hop on or off for free. Routes 2 (green)

and 3 (purple) stop on Deansgate / If you’re planning to drive to Manchester, Tonman Street, a five minute walk from there are numerous car parks to the Museum of Science and Industry. choose from. tfgm.com/metroshuttle

Please visit manchestersciencefestival. com/your-visit/venues for more General transport information information on how to get to Festival venues. For up-to-date information about public transport in Manchester, visit the Walking Transport for Greater Manchester (TFGM) website: The best way to get around Manchester tfgm.com city centre is on foot. You can cross the city in around 20 minutes.

44 About the Festival

Booking specialist services to make the event as Most of our ticketed events have comfortable for our visitors as possible. limited capacity, so book early to avoid disappointment. Tickets can be booked For more information about access, via our website and most of them are please visit our website or contact a available from See Tickets. See Tickets member of the Festival team on also operates a 24 hour ticket booking 0161 606 0169 or email us phone line (0871 220 0260). All calls [email protected]. to See Tickets are charged at 10p per We would love to hear from you and are minute plus network extras. Some of our here to help. events use a different ticketing agent, depending on the venue. Full details can Interact be found on our website. Share your Festival experience and join Ticket prices the discussion online. twitter.com/mcrscifest #msf16 We have tried to keep ticket prices as facebook.com/manchestersciencefestival low as possible and a high proportion flickr.com/mcrscifest of our events are free. Where there is a charge, this is usually required to cover Contact us the cost of the event. As ticket prices have been kept as low as possible, there Contact us directly: are only a select number of events which manchestersciencefestival.com have concessions. These are limited and [email protected] subject to availability. 0161 606 0169 (Mon – Fri, 10am – 5pm)

Age guidance General information

Visitors of all ages are welcome at our Manchester Science Festival is produced events, unless advertised as Adult 18+ or by the Museum of Science and Industry, children to be accompanied by adults. We part of the Science Museum Group. provide age guidance for some events to help you make the most out of your visit. The Museum of Science and Industry (as If you have any questions, please contact part of the Science Museum Group) is an the Festival team. exempt charity as listed in the Schedule 3 of the Charities Act 2011 and is Access information recognised as charitable by HM Revenue & Customs. Our HM Revenue & Customs Manchester Science Festival is committed tax exemption number is XN63797. to ensuring all our events are as open and accessible as possible. We would Please note: All information is correct at welcome your feedback and suggestions the time of going to print. The Festival to help us achieve this vision. reserves the right to change events or This programme is available as a information in the event of unforeseen downloadable PDF from the Festival circumstances. Any changes will be website. Large print format programmes reflected on the Festival website; please can be posted on request. check the website before your event. manchestersciencefestival.com Where required, the Festival may be able to source BSL interpretation, hearing loops, audio typists and numerous other

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01: Abraham Moss Library 16: HOME Crescent Road, Crumpsall, M8 5UF 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester, M15 4FN manchester.gov.uk/libraries homemcr.org

02: Albert Hall 17: Hulme Community Garden Centre 27 Peter Street, Manchester, M2 5QR 28 Old Birley Street, St. George’s, alberthallmanchester.com Manchester, M15 5RG hulmegardencentre.org.uk 03: Benzie Building, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University 18: International Anthony Higher Ormond Street, Manchester, M15 6BG Burgess Foundation art.mmu.ac.uk 3 Cambridge Street, Manchester, M1 5BY anthonyburgess.org 04: Central Library St Peters Square, Manchester, M2 5PD 19: Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre manchester.gov.uk/libraries Macclesfield, SK11 9DL (SK11 9DW for SatNav) 05: Chetham’s Library jodrellbank.net Long Millgate, Manchester, M3 1SB chethams.org.uk 20: John Dalton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University 06: Citylabs Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD Nelson Street, Manchester, M13 9NQ sci-eng.mmu.ac.uk mspl.co.uk 21: Longsight Library 07: Corn Exchange Manchester 519 Stockport Road, Manchester, M12 4NE Exchange Street, Manchester, M4 3TR manchester.gov.uk/libraries cornexchangemanchester.co.uk 22: Low Four, Old Granada Studios 08: Ellenroad Engine House 2 Atherton Street, Manchester, M3 3GS Elizabethan Way, Newhey, Rochdale, lowfour.tv OL16 4LE ellenroad.org.uk 23: Manchester Arndale Market Street, Manchester, M4 3AQ 09: Forum Library manchesterarndale.com Forum Square, Wythenshawe, M22 5RX manchester.gov.uk/libraries 24: Manchester Art Gallery Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3JL 10: Gallery Oldham manchesterartgallery.org Greaves Street, Oldham, OL1 1AL galleryoldham.org.uk 25: Manchester Cathedral Victoria Street, Manchester, M3 1SX 11: Godlee Observatory manchestercathedral.org Sackville Street Building, Manchester, M60 1QD 26: Manchester Craft and Design Centre manastro.co.uk 17 Oak Street, Manchester, M4 5JD craftanddesign.com 12: Gorilla 54-56 Whitworth Street West, Manchester, 27: Manchester Museum M1 5WW The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, thisisgorilla.com Manchester, M13 9PL museum.manchester.ac.uk 13: Grindsmiths Pod Greengate Square, Victoria Bridge, 28: Manchester Royal Eye Hospital Salford, M3 5AS Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9WL grindsmith.com cmft.nhs.uk/royal-eye

14: Hall i’th Wood 29: Manchester Victoria Train Station Green Way (off Crompton Way), Bolton, Station Approach, Todd Street, BL1 8UA Manchester, M3 1WY boltonmuseums.org.uk/historic-halls nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations

15: Harvey Nichols Manchester, 30: Manchester235 Casino Second Floor Bar and Brasserie 2 Watson Street, Manchester, M3 4LP 21 New Cathedral Street, Manchester, M1 1AD manchester235.com harveynichols.com 46 31: Marriott Victoria and Albert 48: The Lowry Water Street, Manchester, M3 4JQ Pier 8, Salford Quays, M50 3AZ marriott.co.uk thelowry.com

32: MediaCityUK campus, 49: The Portico Library University of Salford 57 Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3HY Salford Quays, M50 2HE theportico.org.uk salford.ac.uk 50: The Runaway Brewery 33: Michael Smith Building, 4 Millgate, Dantzic Street, Manchester, The University of Manchester M4 4JW Dover Street, Manchester, M13 9PT therunawaybrewery.com manchester.ac.uk 51: The Runway Visitor Park, 34: Museum of Science and Industry Manchester Airport Liverpool Road, Manchester, M3 4FP Sunbank Lane, Altrincham, WA15 8XQ msimanchester.org.uk book.manchesterairport.co.uk/manweb.nsf/ Content/runwayvisitorpark 35: Number 70 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH 52: The Shed, mmu.ac.uk/oxford-street Manchester Metropolitan University Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD 36: NoHo diginnmmu.com Stevenson Square, Manchester, M1 1FB noho-bar.com 53: The Whitworth Oxford Road, Manchester, M15 6ER 37: Odeon, The Printworks whitworth.manchester.ac.uk 27 Withy Grove, Manchester, M4 2B theprintworks.com/the_place/venues/odeon 54: Twenty Twenty Two 20 Dale Street, Manchester, M1 1EZ 38: Pub/Zoo twentytwentytwo.co.uk 126 Grosvenor Street, Manchester, M1 7HL pubzoomanchester.co.uk 55: University of Bolton Deane Road, Bolton, BL3 5AB 39: Quarry Bank bolton.ac.uk Styal, Wilmslow, SK9 4LA nationaltrust.org.uk/quarry-bank 56: UTC Bolton The Stroller Building, University of Bolton, 40: Royal Exchange Theatre Bolton, BL3 5AG St Ann’s Square, Manchester, M2 7DH utcbolton.org royalexchange.co.uk 57: Waterside Arts Centre 41: School of Chemistry, 1 Waterside Plaza, Sale, M33 7ZF The University of Manchester watersideartscentre.co.uk Brunswick Street, Manchester, M13 9PL manchester.ac.uk 58: Withington Library 410 Wilmslow Road, Withington, M20 3BN 42: St Werburgh’s Road Metrolink stop manchester.gov.uk/libraries Chorlton, M21 0XN metrolink.co.uk 59: Wythenshawe Forum Forum Centre, Forum Square, 43: Texture Wythenshawe, M22 5RX 67 Lever Street, Manchester, M1 1FL wythenshaweforum.co.uk texture-mcr.com 60: YHA Manchester Castlefield 44: The Bridgewater Hall Potato Wharf, Manchester, M3 4NB Lower Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3WS yha.org.uk/hostel/manchester bridgewater-hall.co.uk 61: Z-Arts 45: The Castle Hotel 335 Stretford Road, Hulme, M15 5ZA 66 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LE z-arts.org thecastlehotel.info 62: Ziferblat 46: The Eagle Inn 1st Floor, 23 Edge Street, Manchester, 18-19 Collier Street, Salford, M3 7DW M4 1HW eagleinn.info ziferblat.co.uk

47: The John Rylands Library 150 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3EH manchester.ac.uk/library/rylands

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Manchester Science Festival Team Noel Tegg Duty Manager Antonio Benitez Festival Director Anna Taylor Duty Manager Carole Keating Creative Producer Sharon Tourish Duty Manager Tania Mahmoud Partnerships and Tristan Nixon Casual Duty Manager Collaborative Programme Manager Gary Jennett Estates Manager Penelope Hill Programme Stephen Hoyle Gallery Coordinator Maintenance Manager Tony Stamp Digital Technician With support from Gilberto Moleiro Digital Technician Rosie Mawdsley Contemporary Science Programme Coordinator Jamie-leigh Hargreaves Steering group Assistant Producer Sally MacDonald Director Museum Rowena Hamilton Senior of Science and Industry Exhibitions Manager Natalie Ireland Head of Learning Deborah Kell Exhibitions and Public Programmes Project Manager Suzanne Davies Head of Development Theresa Macaulay Exhibitions Sheralee Lockhart Head of Operations Production Coordinator Kim Gowland Head of Marketing Alice Cliff Curator of Science and Communications and Technology Georgina Young Head Curator Nancy Hopkins Marketing Manager Rowena Hamilton Acting Head Rachel Witkin Senior Marketing of Exhibitions and Interpretation Officer Paula Gill Project Kate Campbell-Payne Management Accountant Communications Officer Rachel Furst Senior Press Officer Branding and design by Instruct Mike Perry Website Manager Web design by OH Digital Rachel Laycock Senior Copy writing by Woodshed Development Executive Technical production by Universal Live Paula Gill Assistant Management Accountant Adam Flint Creative Content and Event Developer Shea Taylor Explainer Team Leader Chris McGrail Explainer Team Leader Philippa Hornsby Explainer Team Leader Nicholas Maciej-Hulme Visitor Experience Manager

50 Programme partners Sponsors and contributors Produced by Albert Hall, Alzheimer’s Research UK, BBC Blue Room, BBC Natural History Unit, Big STEM Communications Network, British Heart Foundation, British Science Association, Cancer Research UK, Cape Farewell, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Chester Zoo, Cold Star Media, Comma Press, Corn Headline sponsor Exchange, Dr David A. Kirby, Dr Melanie Windridge, EuroScience Open Forum, FutureEverything, Gallery Oldham, Ginfuelled, Gorilla, Grimm Up North, GROW, Guardian Live, HackManchester, Manchester Science Festival is proud Hall i’th Wood, Halle Concerts to be part of the Curiosity Project by Society, Harvey Nichols Manchester, Siemens, a three-year engagement Health eResearch Centre, HeHe, Hey! programme, aiming to inspire the Manchester, HOME, Institute of Physics, next generation of engineers. Invisible Dust, Jodrell Bank Discovery For more information visit Centre, Jorge Crecis, JuniorSTEM, siemens.co.uk/curiosity-project Katie Steckles, Lancaster University, Lizzie King and Craig Tatters, Loop.ph, Low Four, Old Granada Studios, Lucy Lead educational sponsor Burscough, Manchester235, Manchester Arndale, Manchester Camerata, Manchester Cathedral, Manchester Craft and Design Centre, Manchester Girl Geeks, Manchester Libraries, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester Museum, Manchester Polymer Group, Manchester Royal Eye Major sponsor Hospital, Manchester Victoria Train Station, Marriott Victoria and Albert Hotel, MESH, Met Office, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Natural Environment Research Council, New Manchester Walks, Nick Sayers, Oropendola Productions, Professor Jonathan Swinton, Public Service Programme sponsor Broadcasting, Quarry Bank, Rochdale Ideas and Literature Festival, Royal Exchange Theatre, Royal Institution, Royal Northern College of Music, Royal

Photographic Society, Royal Society, h e Same Difference, Scarlett Erskine, l pi flow smoothl Science Museum, Science Showoff, ng life y Squirrel Nation, The Glass Gardener, The John Rylands Library, The Lowry, Supporters circle The Portico Library, The University of Manchester, The Whitworth, University of Renold PLC, Mills and Reeve Bolton, University of Central Lancashire, University of Salford, Unlimited Theatre, UTC Bolton, Wythenshawe Forum Centre

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