Explorers Fair: The Ball Run Factory

Broadway 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Work with artists and technologists to build inventive marble machines with science, technology and everyday materials.

£12 – £15

Science at 38 Carrington Street

38 Carrington Street 38 Carrington Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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. 

Free

LEGO® Robotics Lab

Broadway 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Explore creative coding and build robotic inventions in this workshop led by Bright Box Makerspace.

£12 – £15

Explorers Fair: Tilt Brush Tutorials

Broadway 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.

£30 – £40

The Big Problem

Wollaton Hall Wollaton Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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!

Free

You Can Make History – Re-Imagining the City

38 Carrington Street 38 Carrington Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.

Free

Explorers Fair: Superhero Gadgets Lab

Broadway 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Get creative with technology by designing superhero-inspired gadgets and gizmos.

£12 – £15

Explorers Fair: Tilt Brush Tutorials

Broadway 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.

£30 – £40

The Big Problem

Wollaton Hall Wollaton Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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. 

Free

Radford-Lenton Rocket Challenge

Radford - Lenton Library Lenton Boulevard, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Put your engineering skills to the test with this city-wide competition.

Free

Experience Virtual Reality

Broadway 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Play, learn and be creative in virtual reality at these interactive demonstrations.

£20 – £25

Bilborough Rocket Challenge

Bilborough Library Bracebridge Drive, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Put your engineering skills to the test with this city-wide competition.

Free

Super Food Super Heroes

Lakeside Arts University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Carve and sculpt fruits and vegetables to create your own edible superfood heroes, then see if they can power an LED light.

£5

Experience Virtual Reality

Broadway 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Play, learn and be creative in virtual reality at these interactive demonstrations.

£20 – £25

Drawing Energy

Lakeside Arts University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom

In this workshop you'll be able to draw to noisy rhythmic music, alongside some very peaceful and sotto voce mark-making.

Free

Southglade Park Rocket Challenge

Southglade Park Library Southglade Road, Bestwood, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Put your engineering skills to the test with this city-wide competition.

Free

Out of this World

Lakeside Arts University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom

See the night sky and navigate through the constellations inside the wonderful world of Inflativerse, the University of Nottingham’s inflatable planetarium.

£5

Experience Virtual Reality

Broadway 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Play, learn and be creative in virtual reality at these interactive demonstrations.

£20 – £25

Explorers Fair: The Ball Run Factory

Broadway 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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!

£12

Meteor Strike Cookie Baking

Green's Windmill & Science Centre Windmill Lane, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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 […]

£4

Wikipedia EditAThon Social: Women Scientists

Backlit Gallery Alfred House, Ashley Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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 expressions to edit Wikipedia. Why? > Less than 10% of editors on Wikipedia are women. > Wikipedia is the largest and most popular general reference […]

Free

Yams, hormones and bioprospecting: from Buffelskloof to Beeston

Bromley House Library Angel Row, Nottingham

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.

£4 – £5

Plant Blindness Workshop: Meet with Matt Miller

Wollaton Hall Wollaton Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.

Free

Comic Book Conversations

Lakeside Arts University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.

£8

UV BODY PAINTING: HOW YOUR BODY WORKS

Broadway 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.

Free

Explorers Fair: The Ball Run Factory

Broadway 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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 […]

£12

ZoMotion: Zoetrope Animation Workshop

Broadway 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.

£3.50

Salt Dough Modelling

Green's Windmill & Science Centre Windmill Lane, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Use salt dough and your imagination to make a creation of your own invention - the more curious the better!

£3

Plant Blindness Workshop: Conducting Nature with Callum Mulligan

Wollaton Hall Wollaton Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.

Free

Plant Blindness Workshop: Drawing Sound with Gina Mollett

Wollaton Hall Wollaton Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.

Free

Explorers Fair: Virtual Sculpture Workshop

Broadway 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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 […]

£3.50

Explorers Fair: Interactive Art Experiments

Broadway 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.

Space Rover Lego Workshop (Strelley)

Strelley Library Strelley Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.       […]

Free

National Videogame Musuem @ FOSAC

Lakeside Arts University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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!

£8

Theramin Workshop

Theatre Royal Theatre Square, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.

Free

Makey Makey Music (Hyson Green)

Hyson Green Library Mary Potter Centre, 76 Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Explore how to make music and instruments out of fruit, veg and recycled stuff in this fun family digital session at Hyson Green Library.

Free

Build A Cardboard City

Lakeside Arts University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.

£8

Space Rover Lego Workshop (Wollaton)

Wollaton Library Bramcote Lane, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.       […]

Free

Learn to Sew with Conductive Thread and Circuits

Lakeside Arts University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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 […]

£8

Young Physicist for a Day

Lakeside Arts University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.

£5

Space Rover Lego Workshop (Meadows)

Meadows Library Wilford Grove, Meadows, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.         […]

Free

Teacher CPD – Science Capital with Jane Banham

Zoom

Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity is working with Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire SLP to run 3 CPD sessions about curiosity-led learning for teachers.

Free

Neurons at Work workshops

Wollaton Library Bramcote Lane, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.

Free

Make your own rocketcar and launch it

Mansfield Central Library Four Seasons Centre, W Gate, Mansfield

Join this rocket building workshop. Your Mission: Build your own rocketcar and blast off!

Free

Strawberry DNA Extraction Workshops

Meadows Library Wilford Grove, Meadows, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.

Free

The Garden of Just Because Workshops at Wollaton Hall

Wollaton Hall Wollaton Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.

Free

The Garden of Just Because Workshops at Broadway

Broadway 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.

Free

Make your own rocket and launch it

Retford Library Churchgate, Retford, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Join this rocket building workshop. Your Mission: Build your own rocket and blast off!

Free

Make a Virus Workshop

Clifton Library Southchurch Drive, Clifton, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Viruses can be sweet! Join this workshop and build your own virus.

Free

Make your own rocketcar and launch it

Newark Library Beaumond Gardens, Baldertongate, Newark, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Join this rocket building workshop. Your Mission: Build your own rocketcar and blast off!

Free

Make your own rocket and launch it

Bulwell Library Bulwell Riverside Centre, Main Street, Bulwell, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Join this rocket building workshop. Your Mission: Build your own rocket and blast off!

Free

The Art of Activism

Lakeside Arts University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.

£8

Make your own rocketcar and launch it

Arnold Library 161 Front Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Join this rocket building workshop. Your Mission: Build your own rocketcar and blast off!

Free

Make your own rocket and launch it

Kirkby in Ashfield Library Ashfield Precinct, Kirkby in Ashfield

Join this rocket building workshop. Your Mission: Build your own rocketcar and blast off!

Free

3D Antibody Challenge Workshop

Hyson Green Library Mary Potter Centre, 76 Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.

Free

Make your own rocket and launch it

Bilborough Library Bracebridge Drive, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Join this rocket building workshop. Your Mission: Build your own rocket and blast off!

Free

Art/Science Workshop

Bean Block Unit 24 St Marks Lane, Place, Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Join this art/science workshop with local artist Elaine Winter.

Free

Tinkering with Scribble Bots

Lakeside Arts University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.

£8

Build your own app workshop

Bulwell Library Bulwell Riverside Centre, Main Street, Bulwell, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Create your own app in this 'No Code' software development workshop.

Free

Make your own rocket and launch it

Worksop Library Memorial Avenue, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Join this rocket building workshop. Your Mission: Build your own rocket and blast off!

Free

Make your own rocket and launch it

St Ann's Valley Library St Ann's Valley Centre, 2 Livingstone Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Join this rocket building workshop. Your Mission: Build your own rocket and blast off!

Free

Get hands-on with Sygnature Discovery Workshops

St Ann's Valley Library St Ann's Valley Centre, 2 Livingstone Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Join scientists from local company Sygnature Discovery for some hands-on activities exploring the world of bioscience.

Free

Mindbenders workshops

Aspley Library Nuthall Road, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.

Free

Make a Protein

Meadows Library Wilford Grove, Meadows, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Build your own protein using plastic iron beads and take it home with you.

Free

Fractal Fun

West Bridgford Library Bridgford Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Fun with Maths!

Free

Pointy Domes

West Bridgford Library Bridgford Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Fun with Maths!

Free

Entangled Enigmas Workshop at Bilsthorpe Library

Bilsthorpe Library 1 The Crescent, Bilsthorpe, Newark, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Prepare for an extraordinary mathematical journey where ropes, slime, and topology converge in this workshop. Booking essential.

Free

Science Activities at the Lenton Centre

Lenton Centre Willoughby Street, Lenton, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Come along and join in some fun, hands-on science activities at The Lenton Centre. Booking essential.

Free

Entangled Enigmas Workshop at Harworth & Bircotes Library

Harworth & Bircotes Library Scrooby Road, Bircotes, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Prepare for an extraordinary mathematical journey where ropes, slime, and topology converge in this workshop. Booking essential.

Free

Colourful Chemistry: Into A World of Surprises at Southwell Minster

Southwell Minster Church Street, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

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.

Free

Bird Box Making at Mansfield Museum

Mansfield Museum Leeming Street, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

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

£7.50

Science Busking Workshop at Langold Library

Langold Library Doncaster Road, Langold, Nottinghamshire

Come and have a go with some weird and wacky science experiments made from household objects that make you go ‘oooh!’. Booking essential.

Free

Wind Turbine Workshops at the DH Lawrence Birthplace Museum

DH Lawrence Birthplace Museum 8a Victoria Street, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Build your own wind turbine to power a light or raise a lift in this workshop exploring the future of energy. Booking essential.

Free

Colourful Chemistry: Into A World of Surprises at Arnold Library

Arnold Library 161 Front Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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.

Free

Puzzles and Games at Woodthorpe Library

Woodthorpe Library 5 Wensley Rd, Woodthorpe, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

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.

Free

Marble Maths Workshop at Mansfield Woodhouse Library

Mansfield Woodhouse Library 8 Church Street, Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

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.

Free

Making pigments from plants at Lakeside Arts

Lakeside Arts University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Make pigments from a range of plant-based sources and use them to create an artwork of your own. Booking essential.

£8

Colourful Chemistry: Into A World of Surprises at Burton Joyce Library

Burton Joyce Library 10 Meadow Lane, Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

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.

Free

Magnets Workshop with UKAEA at Worksop Library

Worksop Library Memorial Avenue, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

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.

Free

Eureka! Workshop at Stapleford Library

Stapleford Library 25 Church Street, Stapleford, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

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.

Free

Cityscapes at Lakeside Arts

Lakeside Arts University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Get crafty and make your own table-top Green city of the future made from recycled materials. Booking essential.

£8
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