Saturday 22 October

workshop #1

Kitchen Cupboard Chemistry: You will: make glue from skimmed milk! Release oxygen from your washing powder, carbon dioxide from your cake mixtures and hydrogen gas from lemon juice and see how to identify these gases.

Suitable for ages 7-12 . Book free tickets: Collection on the day. Bring cash!

Time 10.30-11.30   &  2.00-3.00

 

 

workshop #2

Elements KAPA – Learning the table of elements is a tedious chore at school, but a gripping game at home if you learn by playing Top Trumps. Richard Cope will play a game with you, and you will earn some amazing stories about  the elements.

Suitable for all ages. Book free tickets: Collection on the day. Bring cash!

Time 12.00-1.00 

 

Sunday 23 October workshop #1

Lyrical Planet – Famed songwriter John Hinton and Richard Robinson inspire families to understand ecology through song. Ecology will no longer be the Cinderella of science. We will honour the carbon cycle through the medium of a round.

Suitable for all ages. Book free tickets: Collection on the day. Bring cash!

Time 10.30-11.30   &  2.00-3.00

 

 

workshop #2

Planet B – A family-friendly session of explanations, demonstrations and games that answer some of the main questions about Climate Change. Party balloons help to show how CO2 works, plate juggling demonstrates ecological stress, etc

Suitable for all ages. Book free tickets: Collection on the day. Bring cash!

Time 12.00-1.00

Monday 24 October workshop #1

Fizz Pop Science: Crazy Chemists Worksop – Explore chemical reactions in this hands-on session. From colour changing liquids to slimy putty (every child will make a pot to take home), this is sure to get a reaction from everyone!

Suitable for 7+ Tickets TBA

Time 10.30-11.30   &  2.00-3.00

 

 

workshop #2

Puzzling Paper –  Learn some easy magic tricks to amaze your friends using nothing but a piece of paper and simple science. Key-hole surgery, mind-reading and a fart machine, using just a piece of paper? Can this be true?

Suitable for all ages.  Collection on the day. Bring cash!

Time 12.00-1.00

Tuesday 25 October

Once You Were a Dinosaur Snack – Discover your secret history by studying your peculiar present – Yawning? Goosebumps?  Hiccups? They make no sense, until you understand your evolutionary past.

Suitable for all ages. Book free tickets: Collection on the day. Bring cash!

Time 10.30-11.30   &  2.00-3.00

 

 

workshop

Evolve or Die! – in which we find out how evolution works, the hard way, by designing an animal and watching it duck and weave through a string of catastrophes (like you did, way back). Only the fittest will survive

Suitable for all ages. Free Collection on the day. Bring cash!

Workshop 12.00 – 1.00

Wednesday 26 October workshop #1

Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast – The kitchen is a weird place – at least until you’ve got a bit of breakfast inside you. In this workshop you will discover why jugs dribble, why water is sticky, and why the toast ALWAYS lands butter-side down.

Suitable for all ages. Book free tickets: Collection on the day. Bring cash!

Time 10.30-11.30   &  2.00-3.00

 

 

workshop #2

The Joy of Nothing Air is vital for life. Absence of air is vital for living – from piston engines to weather systems, we find that vacuums – partial or complete – help to make the world go round – literally.

Suitable for all ages. Free: Collection on the day. Bring cash!

Time 12.00 – 1.00

 

Thursday 27 October

Science Magic & Magic Science – Always a festival favourite, Ian B Dunne returns with some fantastic equipment to make you make gape, gasp, wonder and laugh.

Suitable for 4-104 year-olds. Tickets TBA

Time 10.30-11.30   &  2.00-3.00

 

 

Workshop

Static But Not Still – Electricity is taking over. This workshop looks at electricity’s frightening past as well its brilliant present and awesome future. It seems it could do anything!

Suitable for all ages. Free: Collection on the day. Bring cash!

Time 12.00 – 1.00

Friday 28 October – Zoom workshop

Zoom Into Your Senses – A Zoom call with a difference! Here we find out how much Zoom’s eyes and ears are like ours, and how in crucial ways they are different, plus we see how other animals Zoom. Who’s senses are most sensible?

Suitable for all ages. Tickets TBA. Zoom link TBA

Times  10am – 11am  &  12pm – 1pm

Saturday 29 October workshop

Pocket Science Funfair – It looks like a funfair. It IS a funfair, but each of the attractions has a bit of science sneaked in. This time trees are the magical guests; not tree ents, but tree entertainers will be putting them through their paces

Suitable for all ages 7+ Tickets TBA

All day  10.30am – 4.00pm

Sunday 30 October on Zoom

Are We Nearly Here Yet?  The true story of the nutty Universe, crazy planet Earth, chaotic evolution and lucky old You! Six weekly Zooms from Sunday 30th to just before Christmas, following you from the Big Bang till today – bang up to date

Suitable for all ages. Tickets £13.82 for series of 6 weekly talks. Zoom link TBA

Time 10.00 – 11.00am

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