Join us for this months Open Saturday event, where we will bring you a variety of activities, topical conversations and a virtual tour of the campus, all brought to you from the comfort of your home.

This September’s Open Saturday theme is set around the current pandemic, and how our campus technicians have been using computer coding to find solutions to questions like: How can we trace the virus around the country? How can you get scientists to stop leaving the fridge doors open? We need your help, to solve the mystery.

Join a virtual tour, guiding you through our 125 acres site from the beautiful 18th Century Hinxton Hall to the cutting-edge sequencing laboratories, and finishing at the wilds of the wetlands nature reserve.

There will also be the opportunity for face-to-face virtual chat with the researchers and technicians, in our fun filled Talkaoke session! This will be hosted by The People Speak.

Feel free to attend everything, or just drop in for one or two of the activities.

2:00-2:30 -- Introduction and tour of the campus

2:30-3:15 -- Activity 1 : How Micro:bit’s provide Tech in the Lab (interactive coding demo)

2:30-3:15 -- Activity 2: Using DNA sequence to design a diagnostic test

3:15-3:30 -- Activity 3: Story of a Covid Sample: From physical to Digital (talk)

3:30-3:45 -- Activity 4: Trace the spread of the virus

3:45-5:00 -- Talkaoke with our technicians, hosted by The People Speak

Talkaoke

Talkaoke is a live, television-style talk show popping out at festivals, clubs, galleries, conferences, on the street and online too! The format is simple: the host sits in the middle of a round table, and you sit around the outside and talk about whatever comes up. In this experimental online version we connect from The People Speak studio in East London and use multiple screens to reflect the 360 degree experience of a real life Talkaoke table.

The People Speak

We collaborate with partners internationally and in the UK, including every Tate gallery, The Science Museum, In-Situ (Pendle), Ravensbourne University and Ice-9 (Norway). Our formats include The Slice Is Right – pizza making under various political systems, Segue – generative, instant film-making factory, Who Wants To Be…? – direct democracy game show, and our flagship pop-up talk show Talkaoke.