Explorers Fair: The Ball Run Factory
Broadway 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, United KingdomWork with artists and technologists to build inventive marble machines with science, technology and everyday materials.
Work with artists and technologists to build inventive marble machines with science, technology and everyday materials.
Pop in for exhibitions and hands-on activities about how computers use sensors, how to grow a garden up a wall and the future of cities.
Explore creative coding and build robotic inventions in this workshop led by Bright Box Makerspace.
An introduction to making three-dimensional artwork in virtual reality. Explore how virtual reality can be used to make three-dimensional artworks in these artist-led tutorials using Oculus Rift.
Family activities in the Hall and Park about 'The Big Problem' - the impact of humans on their environment. Get the chance to handle real museum objects and specimens!
Join us for an all-ages workshop hosted by Long Live Southbank and Skate Nottingham to look at how skateboarding can RADically change the architecture and design of Nottingham's unloved and underused spaces.
Get creative with technology by designing superhero-inspired gadgets and gizmos.
An introduction to making three-dimensional artwork in virtual reality. Explore how virtual reality can be used to make three-dimensional artworks in these artist-led tutorials using Oculus Rift.
Family activities in the Hall and Park about ‘The Big Problem’ – the impact of humans on their environment. Get the chance to handle real museum objects and specimens! These activities will be particularly suited to people with additional needs and disabilities.
Put your engineering skills to the test with this city-wide competition.
Play, learn and be creative in virtual reality at these interactive demonstrations.
Put your engineering skills to the test with this city-wide competition.
Carve and sculpt fruits and vegetables to create your own edible superfood heroes, then see if they can power an LED light.
Play, learn and be creative in virtual reality at these interactive demonstrations.
In this workshop you'll be able to draw to noisy rhythmic music, alongside some very peaceful and sotto voce mark-making.
Put your engineering skills to the test with this city-wide competition.
See the night sky and navigate through the constellations inside the wonderful world of Inflativerse, the University of Nottingham’s inflatable planetarium.
Play, learn and be creative in virtual reality at these interactive demonstrations.
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 6878. There will be six 45 minute sessions at 10.15am, 11am, 11.45am, 1pm, 1.45pm & 2.30pm. Accessibility Information: All of the centre and […]
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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.
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.
Build inventive marble machines with science, technology and everyday materials. In collaboration with Bright Box Makerspace. Use recycled and everyday materials to design and construct amazing ball runs. In this hands-on workshop led by Kisha Bradley from Bright Box Makerspace you and your child will turn cardboard tubes, pipes and wooden tracks into creative contraptions.Make your marble […]
Learn how to be an animator in this hands-on creative workshop with artist, sculptor and animator Karl Wilby.
Karl Wilby’s ZoMotion Zoetropes are light-based animated sculptures. Sequences of individual 3D models rotate and are illuminated to create live 3D animations; a moving sculpture in front of your eyes.
Use salt dough and your imagination to make a creation of your own invention - the more curious the better!
Explore plants, circuits and music. Try out plants that play music when you touch them and make your own. Join technologist Callum Mulligan in the Great Hall for this fun family friendly drop in.
What does sound look like? How does it feel? Join artist Gina Mollett in the Camellia House for this playful and imaginative art workshop exploring experimental and creative ways to capture sound through line, colour, shape and texture.
Create amazing Augmented Reality sculptures with artists and designers Studio Above&Below. Using the landscape of Hockley as a starting point, children will hunt for found objects to use in the creation of digital sculptures. Through storytelling, experimentation and mind-mapping, the sculptures will be transformed into Augmented Reality and placed around Broadway and Broad Street as […]
In this free, drop in activity, experiment with using conductive materials, inks and paint to create interactive artworks that light up, make music and respond to touch.
Help us create an interactive mural with conductive paint and create your own interactive drawings, paintings or cards to take home.
Build and programme your own prototype space rover ideal for exploring distant planets in this hands-on workshop! The workshop will use Lego WeDo 2.0 software. No charge for workshop but please book to avoid disappointment! Accessibility The library has an accessible ramped entrance with automatic doors and is all ground level. […]
Recently, The National Videogame Museum bought a space ship. The problem, is, it doesn’t have any controls. Join this fun workshop and help us build a way to LAND THIS SPACESHIP!
Find out about how the electronic music you hear today was first started more than a century ago. It’s also your chance to get hands-on – or rather hands-off – with the Theremin – the world’s first commercial electronic instrument which you play without touch and which celebrates its 100-year anniversary in 2020.
Explore how to make music and instruments out of fruit, veg and recycled stuff in this fun family digital session at Hyson Green Library.
Calling all budding engineers! Using boxes, tape and recycled materials, design and create your own city of the future. Led by Associate Artist Sian Watson.
Build and programme your own prototype space rover ideal for exploring distant planets in this hands-on workshop! The workshop will use Lego WeDo 2.0 software. No charge for workshop but please book to avoid disappointment! Accessibility The library has an accessible ramped entrance with manual doors and is all ground level. […]
Learn to combine the world of textiles with electronic components to create soft and flexible circuits. Stitch with conductive thread and integrate a felt landscape with LED lights. Basic hand sewing experience is recommended but not required. The event will take place in the Performing Arts Studio. Accessibility There is designated disabled car parking across […]
Become a young physicist for the day. Cover topics from the world of physics, including: energy, forces, gravity, teleportation, wormholes, quantum physics to name a few – this session will be full of discussions, maths, demonstrations and experiments.
Build and programme your own prototype space rover ideal for exploring distant planets in this hands-on workshop! The workshop will use Lego WeDo 2.0 software. No charge for workshop but please book to avoid disappointment! Accessibility The library has an accessible ramped entrance with automatic doors and is all ground level. […]
Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity is working with Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire SLP to run 3 CPD sessions about curiosity-led learning for teachers.
Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity is working with Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire SLP to run 3 CPD sessions about curiosity-led learning for teachers.
Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity is working with Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire SLP to run 3 CPD sessions about curiosity-led learning for teachers.
Join us on a journey of discovery to find out what the Brain looks like and does inside your head, to how it might trick you all day, everyday.
Join this rocket building workshop. Your Mission: Build your own rocketcar and blast off!
Synthetic biologists from the University of Nottingham will guide you through a simple recipe to isolate a clump of pure DNA visible to the naked eye.
Join this workshop and investigating the secret life of owls and create your own seed bomb.
An interactive installation inspired by the micro view of a garden and the invisible world underneath the soil. It is a place where fairy rings and science meet. Join artist Roma Patel for a workshop exploring the installation and creating your very own clay fungi sculptures to take away.
An interactive installation inspired by the micro view of a garden and the invisible world underneath the soil. It is a place where fairy rings and science meet. Join artist Roma Patel for a workshop exploring the installation and creating your very own clay fungi sculptures to take away.
Join this rocket building workshop. Your Mission: Build your own rocket and blast off!
Viruses can be sweet! Join this workshop and build your own virus.
Join this rocket building workshop. Your Mission: Build your own rocketcar and blast off!
Join this rocket building workshop. Your Mission: Build your own rocket and blast off!
Explore how The Eye As Witness exhibition inspires us to look at how past campaigns have used art and design to communicate messages to the public and use a variety of techniques including drawing, collage, and paint to create your own campaign designs.
Join this rocket building workshop. Your Mission: Build your own rocketcar and blast off!
Join this rocket building workshop. Your Mission: Build your own rocketcar and blast off!
Investigate the 3D world of COVID-19 tests and discover how lateral flow tests work. Become a scientist by taking on our protein structure design challenge using our specialist molecular modelling kits.
Join this rocket building workshop. Your Mission: Build your own rocket and blast off!
Join this art/science workshop with local artist Elaine Winter.
Create your own scribble bot using recycled materials such as cardboard, pens, battery packs and motors to build your own robot that will dance and draw.
Create your own app in this 'No Code' software development workshop.
Join this rocket building workshop. Your Mission: Build your own rocket and blast off!
Join this rocket building workshop. Your Mission: Build your own rocket and blast off!
Join scientists from local company Sygnature Discovery for some hands-on activities exploring the world of bioscience.
Come and play in our amazing psychology funfair and discover some weird and wonderful things about how your brain works, plus make your own brain hat and neuron to take home.
Build your own protein using plastic iron beads and take it home with you.
Fun with Maths!
Fun with Maths!
Prepare for an extraordinary mathematical journey where ropes, slime, and topology converge in this workshop. Booking essential.
Come along and join in some fun, hands-on science activities at The Lenton Centre. Booking essential.
Prepare for an extraordinary mathematical journey where ropes, slime, and topology converge in this workshop. Booking essential.
Meet the Lush team, get creative and make your own bath bombs in this fun, family workshop. Booking essential.
Dive into hands-on experiments using everyday household items to unravel the secrets of pH, states of matter, density and much more, making fundamental chemistry concepts come alive in a vibrant, practical way. Booking essential.
Join us for this fun family workshop to build your own wooden bird box to decorate and take home. Sessions at 10:30am, 11:30am and 12:30pm. Advanced booking is essential - £7.50 per child, adult goes free. Book tickets
Come and have a go with some weird and wacky science experiments made from household objects that make you go ‘oooh!’. Booking essential.
Build your own wind turbine to power a light or raise a lift in this workshop exploring the future of energy. Booking essential.
Dive into hands-on experiments using everyday household items to unravel the secrets of pH, states of matter, density and much more, making fundamental chemistry concepts come alive in a vibrant, practical way. Booking essential.
Join Maths Blast for an unforgettable journey where tangrams, Rubik's cubes, escapology puzzles, board games, and dissection puzzles converge to create an experience that will challenge and captivate all ages. Booking essential.
In "Marble Maths," children will step into the realm of equations, variables, and problem-solving through the innovative use of scales and marbles. Booking essential.
A short children-friendly introduction to the brain and how different neurotransmitters are related to different emotions. Booking essential.
Make pigments from a range of plant-based sources and use them to create an artwork of your own. Booking essential.
Dive into hands-on experiments using everyday household items to unravel the secrets of pH, states of matter, density and much more, making fundamental chemistry concepts come alive in a vibrant, practical way. Booking essential.
Participants will work with magnets and batteries to create small electromagnets which mimic the large powerful electromagnets that UKAEA use in fusion energy machines. Booking essential.
Join Maths Blast and dive into the world statistics and scientific questioning through captivating experiments and interactive activities at Stapleford Library. Booking essential. Booking essential.
Get crafty and make your own table-top Green city of the future made from recycled materials. Booking essential.