Immerse yourself in the microscopic world of bacteria and be guided through their microbial landscape on an interactive journey using a choose-your-own-adventure comic book. 

Over the COVID-19 pandemic, we all learnt a lot about how viruses act, and the importance of developing drugs to protect us from them. Use your new-found expertise in this lab-inspired escape room experience.

How do we ignore distractions? Are some things more distracting than others? Uncover the answers to these questions while discovering how researchers study attention spans by playing FrootStroop!  

Times: 18:30; 20:30 (booking not required)

What happens when improv comedy meets cutting edge research? Find out at Leicester’s first Improversity – an improvised sketch show inspired by Leicester-based research.

Anna Feigenbaum and team members from Bournemouth University’s Science, Health and Data Communication Research Centre invite you to drop by their InstaScience booth and explore how artists are using visual storytelling to share science with audiences around the world.  

In this activity, work with De Montfort University researchers who are creating cheaper, more environmentally-friendly, air filtering devices.

In this experiment, you are invited to ‘unlearn’ societal time and develop your own zeitgeber (time-giver) over the course of 24 to 48 hours. The idea is to start afresh with what we call time.  

This audiovisual artwork created by Bret Battey from De Montfort University invites you to contemplate a continually transforming immersive landscape, driven by mathematical processes.

Stop by the upcycling station, run by De Montfort University lecturer and artist, Mary O’Neill, and her students to create beautiful art pieces and meaningful artefacts from old textiles and everyday wastes. 

Manhattan 34 Cellar Bar, across the road from LCB Depot

18:00-19:00 Voyage to a comet’s underworld!  

This spoken word performance with De Montfort University’s poet, Siobhan Logan, will transport us into the comet’s dark underworld.

19:20-20:05 A fantastical journey to the antipathies

Join Simon Perril from De Montfort University as he premieres his latest poem about the imaginary voyage of displaced fantastical characters aboard refugee ship The Stateless, on a quest to find the mythical lands ‘the Antipathies’.

20:30-21:30

Manhattan 34 Cellar Bar, across the road from LCB Depot

The same code that creates the web pages and apps we use everyday can be used to create music. In this one-of-a-kind performance, experience how a virtual companion complements a human live coder to create new and unique music right before your eyes and ears.

22:00-23:00

Manhattan 34 Cellar Bar, across the road from LCB Depot

Forces expert, Johann Ostmeyer from the University of Liverpool, tells us why beer mats and CDs make terrible frisbees. Using high speed cameras, and a variety of demonstrations, he’ll introduce you to the basics of torque, a measure of how much a force acting on an object causes that object to rotate.