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9 Feb 2024: Come and learn about cells: the building blocks of our bodies! Our bodies contain around 100 trillion cells, which carry out a huge range of important jobs such as making energy from food, communicating messages from one part of the body to another,

9 Feb 2024: During the Cambridge Festival, students and staff from the Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts will be attending a variety of talks, events, workshops and activities.

19 Jul 2024: Faculty of Classics. 2:00pm-4:00pm on Sunday 24 March. East Barnwell Community Centre.

9 Feb 2024: Researchers from our Rising Stars training course will be popping up throughout the Festival. With subjects from economics, law and children's health, to plants and astrophysics, join us for activities and a chance to chat to our stars of the future!

9 Feb 2024: The workshop is designed for beginners and is aimed at everyone above the age of 8. Here's a chance to explore a new dance form, Kuchipudi, and learn how to use the body to tell a story. Participants will be made familiar with a brief history of the

9 Feb 2024: Play our game of statistics, skill and luck, and find out if you are truly better at throwing than your friend, or are you just lucky? Or try our bespoke board game to find out how Dr Marble will find out the best treatment to give to patients.

9 Feb 2024: Explore the history of science through the Whipple Museum’s collection of instruments, models and pictures. Use the handling boxes in the learning gallery to explore the human body, light and shadows, and a range of other scientific concepts.

9 Feb 2024: Activities are aimed at children and young adults (aged 5+) but all ages will enjoy interacting with our neuroscience researchers. First, 'All about the brain'. Play our animal matching game to learn fun facts about different types of brains.

9 Feb 2024: Throughout the history of science, people have been fascinated by the way vision works and how it can be tricked. Come along and discover how moving images can be created in different ways, how colours combine in unexpected ways and how you can tell

9 Feb 2024: Dive into the pre-frontal cortex for an off-balance, fun, emotive dance exploration of the three modes of emotional regulation: threat, drive, soothe. Award-winning Infusion Physical Theatre looks at adrenaline, dopamine and oxytocin in a multimedia

9 Feb 2024: Some of the team from the Department of Archaeology, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and the Cambridge Archaeological Unit will be showcasing the variety of research within archaeology, through a range of hands-on activities

9 Feb 2024: Most diseases start in childhood, but most health research is carried out in adults.

9 Feb 2024: Join Dr Jo for a fun and informative, interactive show as we journey around the human body, discovering wonders of biology along the way.

9 Feb 2024: Join researchers from the Department of Genetics for a variety of hands-on activities showing how genetics pops up in our everyday life.

9 Feb 2024: Join the enchanting Romani storyteller, renowned author and toymaker Richard O’Neill, often dubbed the “Romani Hans Christian Anderson”. Prepare to be captivated as he weaves his spellbinding tales, offering a delightful array of original and

9 Feb 2024: How do you wash hands correctly to help prevent the spread of infectious microbes? What do bacteria look like? Find out by looking at them through a microscope. Use craft materials to build your own microbes to learn about the structure of bacteria

9 Feb 2024: Come and join us for a chat and an ice cream with some rare flavours that may not be around much longer. What can we do to take action? How can we contribute to solve the climate crisis? Can we find solutions so we do not have to shout Ice Cream!

9 Feb 2024: In the Bubble Superstars Show, we'll be exploring bubbles of different sizes and investigating their shapes and colours too. The show is specially designed for very young children and children with special needs, so everyone can join in making

9 Feb 2024: Get hands-on with scientists from the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute to learn about the work they are doing as part of our mission for 3 in 4 people to survive cancer by 2034.

9 Feb 2024: The history of science is full of amazing stories of discovery and invention, but there are also darker stories to be told.