Children around a table top activity at Community Festival.

Community Fair

Interactive Stands

Audience Family friendlySuitable for allTeens

With over 80 interactive stalls there’s something for everyone!  From poetry to physics, music to medicine and computing to creative writing, there’s loads to discover and do – with activities on offer for all ages. Universally Manchester Festival is a great way to find out what we do at The University of Manchester and why we do it – all while having a heap of fun!

There will be an exciting and varied programme across the following venues:

What’s on in University Place? 

  • Electric dreams
  • Hidden Heroes: Animals in Science
  • Bee Eye Knowledgeable
  • The history of nursing in Manchester and inspirational nurses from the global majority
  • Imaging the Brain in Action
  • How we study cancer – Exploring current and emerging models of the disease
  • Skin and Bones
  • Microbiology- the importance of washing your hands
  • Hit me with your best shot, the truth about vaccines
  • Build A Biofilm
  • Wounds and scarring: on the inside and outside
  • How does green space affect our wellbeing?
  • What makes us human
  • From Breath to Immunity
  • Animal Investigators – How do we use animals to study our body?
  • Before You Were Born
  • Sound Advice: Top Tips for Healthy Ears
  • Saving Sickled Cells
  • Promoting Healthy Communities
  • Whitworth Sensory Play Zone
  • Baby Feeding Cosy Nook
  • Eye Never Knew That!
  • Tick Tock: Meet your Daily Biological Clock
  • We’ve got your BACK. The Amazing Human Spine
  • The Heart Experience
  • When bug-busting fails: tackling the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) crisis.
  • Cancer Challenge Room
  • Mucus, Microbes and parasites – discover the internal world in our guts!
  • Matrix Mysteries: Building the Blueprint of Life!
  • Inside the Cell: Understanding Cell Connections and Health

To help plan your visit, see location details for University Place and review the building’s accessibility features.

What’s on in the Nancy Rothwell Building? 

  • Lego Rovers
  • Virtual reality in higher education research and teaching
  • Seeing the Unseen: A Particle Physics Mystery
  • Eco-Design: Smart & Sustainable Living
  • Game Changers – up-cycling and up-skilling
  • The Pythagorean corner
  • Adventures with Volcanoes
  • Penguin Parade
  • Solar cells at Manchester
  • Explore the Universe with Jodrell Bank
  • How to Mend a Broken Heart
  • Electricity – from metals to the brain
  • Quantum Corner
  • Could my breakfast be a quantum computer?
  • Trash Talk: Taming Polymer Degradation for Smarter Recycling
  • Graphene wonders
  • What’s In Your Phone?
  • The present is the key to the past (and the future)
  • Space Rocks!
  • An Ultra-Violet World – Light, Materials and Vision!

To help plan your visit, see location details for the Nancy Rothwell Building and review the building’s accessibility features.

What’s on in the Alliance Manchester Business School? 

  • Playing the RoundView
  • Susan Stebbing’s critical thinking initiative
  • ‘We belong here’ – Access and Success at the University of Manchester
  • Connecting wellbeing and mental health – lessons from education
  • Are Friends Electric?
  • Eco Adventures: Snakes and ladders to healthy, sustainable forests
  • How Bad Are Bananas
  • The Confidence Poem
  • Hands-On Fun & Support for Families with University of Manchester Parents Network
  • Mini Grads: Dress-up Fun & Photos
  • Work with us
  • Sowing Seeds with Sister
  • How to start a business
  • Geography Pollens and Grains: Exploring the Past
  • What makes you special? And why that means we are better together
  • Seeds of Hope and Action – Chinese arts and crafts for the environment
  • Manchester – A Hive of Multilingualism
  • Ultrasound tongue imaging demonstration
  • The Works – build a bridge

To help plan your visit, see location details for the Alliance Manchester Business School and review the building’s accessibility features.

What’s on in the Henry Royce Institute Hub Building?

  • Science Inclusion Stand: ‘Is this the face of tomorrow’s scientist?’
  • CEAMS: ‘Checkmate with Nature: A Bio-Derived Tile Chessboard for Outreach and 3D Innovation’
  • Sustainable Degeneration Exhibition
  • Quiet Wellbeing Space

Find out more about the interactive stalls in this venue. To help plan your visit, see location details for the Henry Royce Institute Hub Building.

What’s on outside at Bridgeford Street?

What’s on outside near the Kilburn Building next to Prospect House?

 

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