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9 Feb 2024: Join Cambridge Festival for a free weekend of talks, workshops and hands-on activities for the whole family! From Amazing Animals to Romani storytelling, from bubble science to virtual reality; this is a weekend full of ideas to spark your curiosity

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.

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: 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: 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