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Our planet & beyond

Exploring Earth and the impact we have on our home planet, and looking into our skies and space. 

What can we do to live greener lives? Is there life beyond planet earth? Gaze up at the night sky, get creative with junk and explore our green city by foot.

a few suggestions...

The beagle has landed

The Beagle has landed!

Fri 30 Oct 2009 19.30 - 21.00 at The Manchester Museum

Celebrate Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday with comedy as The Missing, Inc. bring to life a wildly inaccurate account of Darwin’s voyage on HMS Beagle. This is no history lesson: the show is full of audience participation, songs and all-round silliness.

Planets in space

Deep time cabaret

Fri 30 Oct 2009 19.30 - 21.00 at MOSI

The show is a humorous and anarchic production that mixes theatre, Eastern European Absurdism, folk songs and dances with film and animation to create a visually evocative and powerful story about the wonder of the universe and our place in it.

An arid desert

The Earth after us

Tue 27 Oct 2009 19.30 - 20.30 at Blackwell Bookshop

If aliens came to Earth 100 millions years in the future, what traces would they find of long-extinct humanity's brief reign on the planet?

bird nest

RSPB: Wild wonders of nature

Mon 26 Oct 2009 to Thu 29 Oct 2009 at MOSI

Did you know a baby swift will leave its nest in Manchester and fly continuously for 4 years? Come along and find out more amazing facts about nature.