Manchester Science Festival 2011
22 - 30 October 2011

What's On for Adults

Show events

In one list Day by day
Car Track Jam (Fully booked) Sat 22 Oct 2011 11am - 2pm University of Bolton dance Think, feel, move: Through the eyes of a dancer Sat 22 Oct 2011 2pm and 3 more Capitol Theatre Daisy Gaia: The Cabaret Sat 22 Oct 2011 5.30pm - 7pm The Manchester Museum Digital The magic of Harry Potter! Can we make cloaking a reality? (fully booked) Sun 23 Oct 2011 2pm - 3pm John Rylands Library Polar Polar Sun 23 Oct 2011 3pm, 7pm Royal Northern College of Music Timandra and Matt Your Days Are Numbered: The maths of death (Fully booked) Sun 23 Oct 2011 7.30pm - 9.30pm MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry) Humphry Davy Poetry and science: Humphry Davy Mon 24 Oct 2011 6pm - 8pm City Library Lights What Made the Hatter Mad? Tue 25 Oct 2011 6.30pm The Portico Library & Gallery Singing Computers rock our music world Tue 25 Oct 2011 7.30pm - 8.30pm Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama Cassettes Amazing acoustics Wed 26 Oct 2011 10am - 4pm The Trafford Centre (Bandstand) Brain sketch
Café Scientifique: Genetics of human intelligence Wed 26 Oct 2011 6pm - 8pm KRO Bar, Oxford Road Candles Possible Worlds Wed 26 Oct 2011 7.30pm - 9pm
(8pm start)
Nexus Art Cafe
Bubble Hatful of science Thu 27 Oct 2011 12 noon - 5pm Salford Lads' Club A splash in a pool of water Barometer Live: Weather and climate evening Thu 27 Oct 2011 5.15pm - 8pm The Manchester Museum Balls of coloured wool Stitch a solar system at MOSI Fri 28 Oct 2011 11am - 3pm MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry) Science Junkie Science Junkie LIVE Fri 28 Oct 2011 11am - 4pm The Plaza, Lowry Outlet Mall It is rocket science Out of this world: A spacetacular Manchester adventure (Fully booked) Fri 28 Oct 2011 6pm
Bar and activities from 6pm; event starts 7.30pm
MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry)
Traffic at night Essays from the cutting edge Sat 29 Oct 2011 11am - 12 noon Blackwell's Bookshop Research, Multi color test tubes over white background Chemistry show in British Sign Language Sat 29 Oct 2011 1pm - 2pm University Place Numbers Mathematics, magic and playing the guitar Sat 29 Oct 2011 3.30pm - 4.30pm Blackwell's Bookshop Ginger biscuits Why ginger takes the biscuit in helping save the stag beetle Sun 30 Oct 2011 12 noon - 1pm The Manchester Museum Volcano Fire and ice: What makes volcanoes dangerous? (Fully booked) Sun 30 Oct 2011 2pm - 3pm The Manchester Museum Helen Storey Primitive Streak: In conversation with Helen Storey Sun 30 Oct 2011 2pm - 3.30pm Royal Exchange Theatre UV hand How clean are your hands? Mon 24 Oct 2011 & Tue 25 Oct 2011 at 11am - 4pm The Trafford Centre (Bandstand) DIYBio DIYBio Summit Sat 29 Oct 2011 to Sun 30 Oct 2011
10am - 5pm
MadLab
BBC Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage (Fully Booked) Fri 14 Oct 2011 7.30pm - 9pm University Place Julie Bertagna & Future Manchester Sat 15 Oct 2011 11am - 12.30pm The Midland Small mammal survery in Alex Park Sat 22 Oct 2011 8am Alexandra Park, Moss side Robot hackday (Fully booked) Sat 22 Oct 2011 10am - 4pm MadLab The private life of atoms Sat 22 Oct 2011 11am - 12 noon Blackwell's Bookshop Celebrating trees Sat 22 Oct 2011 11am - 4pm The Manchester Museum Alan Turing: Tortured genius of the Computer Age Sat 22 Oct 2011 11am - 1pm
(Guided walk)
The Manchester Museum
The Devil's Garden Sat 22 Oct 2011 1pm - 2pm The Manchester Museum A history in 40 moments Sat 22 Oct 2011 2pm - 3pm Blackwell's Bookshop John Dalton: Father of science Sat 22 Oct 2011 2pm - 4pm
(Guided walk)
Manchester Visitor Information Centre
Quantum field theory and the hunt for an orderly universe Sat 22 Oct 2011 3.30pm - 4.30pm Blackwell's Bookshop The world's first railways Sun 23 Oct 2011 12 noon - 2pm
(Guided walk)
Victoria Station
Girl Geeks Tea Party: Mathematical origami (Fully booked) Sun 23 Oct 2011 2pm - 4pm MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry) Stand Up Maths (Fully booked) Sun 23 Oct 2011 2pm - 3pm MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry) Alan Turing and Morphogenesis (Fully booked) Sun 23 Oct 2011 2pm - 3pm MadLab Josh Award 2011 (Event date change) Sun 23 Oct 2011 7.30pm - 9.30pm MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry) Science busking with Siemens Mon 24 Oct 2011 10.30am - 4pm MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry) Better faster stronger: Human performance in sport (Fully booked) Mon 24 Oct 2011 2pm - 4pm The University of Salford Laughter yoga workshop (Fully booked) Mon 24 Oct 2011 5.30pm - 6.30pm Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama Fukushima and the future of nuclear energy (Fully booked) Mon 24 Oct 2011 6.15pm - 8pm
(6.30pm start)
John Rylands Library
The Bad Bugs Bookclub: Zombie Wars! Mon 24 Oct 2011 6.30pm - 8pm Lass O'Gowrie Pub Science busking with Waters Tue 25 Oct 2011 10.30am - 4pm MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry) Zombie Science 1Z (Fully booked) Tue 25 Oct 2011 11am - 12 noon, 2pm - 3pm, 4pm - 5pm International Anthony Burgess Foundation Dialogues: art and science (Fully booked) Tue 25 Oct 2011 6pm - 8.30pm The Whitworth Art Gallery Artificial Intelligence, bionics and consciousness (Fully booked) Tue 25 Oct 2011 6.15pm - 8pm
(6.30pm start)
John Rylands Library
Field of genes: DNA testing to find future Olympic champions Tue 25 Oct 2011 6.30pm - 8pm MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry) Modelling Monsters: Workshop and pub quiz (Fully booked) Tue 25 Oct 2011 7pm - 10pm Lass O'Gowrie Pub Power Fest Wed 26 Oct 2011 11am - 3pm Trencherfield Mill Salford scifest (Fully booked) Wed 26 Oct 2011 12 noon - 5pm The University of Salford Mummies in medicine and the imagination (Event cancelled) Wed 26 Oct 2011 2.30pm - 3.30pm The Manchester Museum Holograms in action Wed 26 Oct 2011 6.30pm - 7.30pm John Dalton Building Louder than bombs (Fully booked) Thu 27 Oct 2011 6pm - 7pm Salford Lads' Club Bright Club Manchester (Fully booked) Thu 27 Oct 2011 7.30pm - 10.15pm The Deaf Institute Amoeba to Zebra (Fully booked) Fri 28 Oct 2011 12 noon - 1.30pm, 3pm - 4.30pm The Manchester Museum Stitch a solar system at Manchester Museum Sat 29 Oct 2011 11am - 3pm The Manchester Museum Relativity for all Sat 29 Oct 2011 2pm - 3pm Blackwell's Bookshop We'll meet again Sun 30 Oct 2011 12 noon - 4pm Stockport Art Gallery and War Memorial Manchester Girl Geeks and Teawitter present: Science Jamboree (fully booked) Sun 30 Oct 2011 1pm - 5pm MadLab Dr Sketchy's: Scientific sketchorama (fully booked) Sun 30 Oct 2011 7pm - 9.30pm MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry) FameLab UK regional heat Sat 3 Dec 2011 11am - 11.45am, 12.15pm - 1pm MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry) Knit a galaxy for the Manchester Science Festival Fri 16 Sep 2011 12 noon - 2pm, Sat 24 Sep 2011 2pm - 4pm & Tue 27 Sep 2011 12 noon - 2pm The Manchester Museum Meet the telecommunication engineers Sat 15 Oct 2011 & Sun 16 Oct 2011 at 10.30am - 3.30pm MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry) Motion Disabled Fri 21 Oct 2011 to Sun 23 Oct 2011
6pm - 7am (visible when dark)
John Dalton Building
BBC Bang Goes The Theory LIVE Experience (Fully Booked) Sat 22 Oct 2011 11am - 2pm and 3 more Campfield Market Hall (near MOSI) The Golden Ratio Fri 30 Sep 2011 to Sun 20 Nov 2011
Mon-Sat 10am - 7pm; Sun 12pm - 6pm
Nexus Art Cafe
Images of research photography competition Mon 3 Oct 2011 to Fri 28 Oct 2011
10am - 5pm daily
John Rylands Library
Primitive Streak @ Royal Exchange Theatre You can view pieces at Royal Exchange on Mondays - Fridays 9.30am - 7.30pm (Wed closed from 2.30pm), Saturdays 9.30am - 3.30pm and Sundays 11am - 5pm Royal Exchange Theatre Primitive Streak @ Debenhams Thu 13 Oct 2011 to Sun 30 Oct 2011
Pieces on display in the store window
Debenhams
QR-3D Exhibition Sat 22 Oct 2011 to Sun 30 Oct 2011
Tues-Sat 12pm - 8pm; Sun 12pm - 6pm
Cornerhouse
Microbiology and art Sat 22 Oct 2011 to Thu 10 Nov 2011
11am - 5pm
MadLab
Aeolus Acoustic Wind Pavilion Sat 22 Oct 2011 to Sun 4 Dec 2011 & Sat 22 Oct 2011 10am to Sun 13 Nov 2011 5pm
10am - 5pm daily
MediaCityUK, University of Salford building
Alan Turing and Life’s Enigma Sat 24 Mar 2012 to Sun 18 Nov 2012 The Manchester Museum