Exploration Zone
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts
Extend your horizons in our Exploration Zone. We have shows, workshops, lectures for all ages and interests.
Hull Science Festival 2018.
All shows, workshops, lectures
- Sold out
Chemistry in Minecraft
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Join global Minecraft mentor Joel Mills and University of Hull students through an interactive chemistry-packed Minecraft workshop. Explore molecular structures....
WorkshopFor ages 8+1.00-2.00pm1 Hour - Sold out
Control Freak
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Have fun experimenting with robotics, control systems and electronics....
WorkshopFor ages 8+10.30-11.30am, 12.30-13.30pm, 2.30-3.30pm1 Hour - New show
The Demo Show: Tricks of the mind
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Prepare yourselves to have the wool pulled over your eyes as we take an interactive look into brain boggling science of illusions....
ShowFor ages 7+12.30-1.20pm50 Minutes - New show
Featured: The Demo Show: Use the Force
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: May the Mass times Acceleration be with you, as Phil Bell-Young takes you through an interactive look into the phenomenal science of forces....
ShowFor ages 8+12.30-1.20pm50 Minutes - Sold out
Destroy this book in the name of science
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Join author, performer and science enthusiast Mike Barfield to tear apart his books and create ace science things from The Hoop Glider to Einstein Nodder, and Turtle Racers....
WorkshopFor ages 7+11.30am-12.30pm1 Hour - New workshop
Distortions in Spacetime
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Step into a mind-blowing virtual environment that puts you on the edge of a black hole! Then experience what it might feel like to tumble into it....
WorkshopFor all ages10.00am-4.00pmEvery 10 Minutes - New show
Featured: DR Death and The Medi-Evil Medicine Show
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: A historically and scientifically accurate panto for children and other childish people....
ShowFor ages 8+10.30-11.20am50 Minutes - New lecture
Get hands on with eye surgery
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Not for the squeamish! Eye surgeon Dr Colin Vize demonstrates what’s involved when he carries out operations on one of the most important organs of the human body.
LectureFor ages 11+12.30-13.30pm1 Hour - New show
Hack Your Brain
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Ginny Smith gives a tour through the workings of your brain and nervous system....
ShowFor ages 8+10.00am-10.50am50 Mins - New lecture
How does it all fit
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Some 25 feet of intestines, 206 bones, and a heart the size of your fist. These are just a few of the thousands of structures that make up our bodies....
LectureFor ages 11+2.30-3.20pm50 Minutes - Sold out
Hull Raspberry Pi Jam
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Learn, share and tinker with digital projects made using the world-renowned credit card-sized Raspberry Pi computer....
WorkshopFor ages 8+10.00am-12.00pm2 Hours - Sold out
Lab Rascals – Slime & jelly worms workshop
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Chemistry of all things gooey and learn the surprising truth about what slime has in common with plastics, wood and protein....
WorkshopFor ages 6+10.30-11.30am, 12.30-13.30pm, 2.30-3.30pm1 Hour - Sold out
Mastering Memory
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Super science communicator Ginny Smith takes you on a tour of your brain. She’ll show you what happens when we learn and store memories....
WorkshopFor ages 9+12.30-13.30pm, 2.30-3.30pm1 Hour - New workshop
Meet the Yorkshire Ambulance Service
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: What goes on inside an Ambulance? Come along to the state-of-the-art Allam medical building and meet the Yorkshire Ambulance crew.
WorkshopFor ages 5+10.30-11.30am, 12.00-1.00pm, 2.00-3.00pm1 Hour - New show
Physics Gets to the Heart of the Matter
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Dr Heather Williams has shared a stage with Brian Cox and Alice Roberts, she's worked on BBC's Bang Goes the Theory and now she's here to explain how her work in Medical....
ShowFor ages 8+2.30-3.20pm50 Minutes - Sold out
Planetarium
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Explore the universe in our fantastic, inflatable, giant planetarium.....
WorkshopFor ages 8+12.00-12.45pm, 2.00-2.45pm45 Minutes - Sold out
Robot Forensics
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Build your own robotic crime scene investigator using a remote control buggy and your ingenuity.
WorkshopFor ages 8+10.30-11.30am, 12.30-13.30pm, 2.30-3.30pm1 Hour - New workshop
Save a life with CPR
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Come along to The University of Hull's state-of-the-art medical building and learn some skills that might help you to save a life!
WorkshopFor age 8+10.30-11.30am, 12.15-1.15pm, 2.00-3.00pm1 Hour - New lecture
Supercomputing life in future oceans: how will the future smell?
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: In this interactive lecture we will explore how future ocean conditions affect smell molecules that are used by marine animals to find their food....
LectureFor ages 10+11.30am-12.30pm1 Hour - New show
SWAT! A Fly’s Guide to Staying Alive
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: Mike Barfield’s very funny and informative family friendly show all about fly and insect survival, based on his book 'SWAT! A Fly's Guide to Staying Alive!'....
ShowFor ages 6+2.30-3.20pm50 Minutes - New workshop
What’s It Like To Be A Surgeon? Operating Theatre
Doors open 15 minutes before event starts: How science festival workshop: Step into our operating theatre and the shoes of the surgical team.
WorkshopFor ages 8+10.30-11.30am, 12.15-1.15pm, 2.00-3.00pm1 Hour