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Colonialism, Race & Health: Visions of Black health and healing

13 September 2025 - 12:00

The Black-E - Main Space

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Bionically Beautiful: Tilly Lockey

13 September 2025 - 19:30

The Black-E - Main Space

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Out and open: Queer cabaret

13 September 2025 - 18:30

The Black-E - The Chamber Theatre

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Geophonic: A rock and walk performance

13 September 2025 - 14 September 2025

Bluecoat

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Gut feeling: How new weight loss drugs work

13 September 2025 - 14:30

The Black-E - Main Space

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Searching for science’s invisible women

13 September 2025 - 16:30

Bluecoat - Performance Space

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Uncovering connections between science and slavery in Liverpool

13 September 2025 - 14:00

The Black-E

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Focus on accessibility at the Festival

Find out more about some of the enhanced accessibility at some of our events, including audio descriptions, BSL interpretation and quiet spaces.

Geist brings the hunt for the 'Ghost Particle' to Liverpool

The British Science Festival and Culture Liverpool will be showing ‘Geist’ by This is Loop (artists Harriet Lumby and Alan Hayes) in the centre of Liverpool at Liverpool ONE from the 10 – 14 September.

Our 2025 Community Grant awardees

We're pleased to be able to support six new projects across the Liverpool City Region as part of the 2025 British Science Festival.

The power of plants: eight events to dig into at this year’s British Science Festival

From fungal galaxies to berry-powered solar cells, this year’s Festival is blooming with plant-themed events. Explore flora through photography, uncover Liverpool’s urban wild side, trace the medicinal uses of plants past and present, and more.

Five health and humanity highlights from this year’s British Science Festival

Among over 100 free activities, a number of events will explore medicine, inequality, and healing that goes beyond the science.   Taking a people-centred approach, these events share the voices, stories and lived experiences that shape modern healthcare.

Exploring the wonders of space: five unmissable British Science Festival events

Exploring the wonders of space: five unmissable British Science Festival events – perfect for those with their head in the stars.  

The British Science Festival is heading to Liverpool in 2025

Celebrating the 194th anniversary of the Festival, and working in partnership with the two co-hosting universities, the British Science Association will bring its flagship event to the city of Liverpool for the first time since 2008.

The British Science Festival is one of Europe’s longest-running science festivals, hosted at a new location each year. The Festival provides a platform for scientists and social scientists, innovators and inventors, researchers and artists, to bring their work to the general public.

The British Science Festival is heading to Liverpool in 2025