Curiosity Playground
Sneinton Market Gedling Street, NottinghamSneinton Market will play host to a series of curious sensory science installations throughout the week of the festival. Come down and have a go with these pieces that will […]
Sneinton Market will play host to a series of curious sensory science installations throughout the week of the festival. Come down and have a go with these pieces that will […]
An interactive art installation that connects with visitors and responds to their touch and movement creating tactile playful experiences through digital sensing technologies.
PRESS HEAR 3i is an interactive installation that explores ideas of society, culture and our modern
world in relation to our future. Produced in conjunction with pupils at six Nottingham/shire schools,
the artwork is interactive sounds, visual and sculptural.
Build inventive marble machines with science, technology and everyday materials. In this hands-on workshop with Bright Box Makerspace you and your child will work with artists and technologists to turn cardboard tubes, pipes and recycled materials into creative contraptions that light up and make music — or just noise!
Combine your love of baking (and eating!) with a passion for space with this creative family activity! Booking essential. To book a place for this activity please call 0115 915 […]
Join us at Nottingham Central Library for a Family Fun Day with loads of hands-on activities, including: Wonders of the Microscopic World with the University of Nottingham Maths Games with […]
Dive into a gene pool, challenge your family to a reaction-time competition and explore the journey of medicines from powder to pill. Hands-on activities in your local market.
After the roaring success of their nine-day Skateboarding in the City Festival in June, Skate Nottingham brings you a whole day of activities exploring skateboarding and its role in community development, architecture and urban design.
Flight takes place in a 40 foot shipping container in absolute darkness, using binaural 360 degree sound and sensory effects to put each audience member at the centre of intense evolving narratives. Flight explores the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics, taking audience members through two worlds, two realities and two possible outcomes to their journey. There are many worlds in which this plane lands safely. We are not responsible for your final destination.
Art + Feminism is a campaign improving coverage of gender, feminism, and the arts on Wikipedia. It is a do-it-yourself and do-it-with-others campaign teaching people of all gender identities and […]
Matt Woodham presents his debut solo exhibition Sensing Systems at Bonington Gallery from 15 Feb – 28 March 2020. The gallery will be filled with a composition of connected installations, positioning visitors within a system of light, sound and motion.
What if you could change the way a film was playing out while you were watching it? What if you could see more of what was exciting, and less of what you’re not interested in? Join Director/ researcher Richard Ramchurn from AlbinoMosquito and University of Nottingham, who have produced an interactive film that feeds of your brainwaves, to see one of over 18 billion combinations.
Explore Wollaton Hall’s secret specimen collection and be wowed by full-sized human body collages from Keith Bloody Mary and Dr Lisa Chakrabarti, exploring ageing and exercise.
How did a wild South African yam travel to Beeston in the 1950s and become a key ingredient for the manufacture of cortisone? Join us for a hands-on workshop to uncover this story and its connection to indigenous knowledge, colonial plant-hunting, pharmaceutical drugs, and conservation.
How do virtual reality games work? What would it be like to live on Mars? How does sound travel to our ears? Hands-on activities in your local library.
Come take some time out to listen to the plants, hear what they are saying and think about what you might like to say back. Join poet Matt Miller in the Camelia House for this playful and imaginative writing session.
Create your own comic book with illustration artist Francis Lowe. Use your own narratives and lived experiences to question the world we live in by creating your own cartoon characters and stories.
Paint the bones in your hands with fluorescent paint and see what happens when we turn off the lights! Build a spine using everyday materials you can find in your kitchen. Be wowed by full body anatomical painting. Join us for a fun, creative anatomy workshop suitable for all the family.
Set in a hinterland between the civilised world and the wild, Tom explores the story of one man’s journey to rediscover who he really is. This remarkable and poignant film installation fuses b-boy choreography by award-winning film maker Wilkie Branson with digital animation to create a cinematic world where it’s entirely possible to feel lonely in the midst of a crowd. With projection mapping across a uniquely layered design by Nottingham-based artist Barret Hodgson, Tom is like nothing else you’ve seen before.