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Events aimed to spark children’s imaginations, join us for story-telling events to hands-on activities all designed to inspire and excite – expect plenty of chaos and maybe a bit of order!
Sparks is supported by Shepherd Group.
Festival themes
- Structures of the Mind: Architecture and Innovation
- Arts and Society: Order, Chaos and Culture
- Revealing the Ancient World
- Creative Writing
- Empire and Trade
- Eoforwic: A celebration of Anglian York
- Economic growth for the many, not the few
- An Appetite for Food
- Interventions in Healthcare
- Maps and Exploration
- Murder They Wrote
- Performance
- Religion and Science
- Science: Out of the lab
- Shadows of War
- Sparks
- Our brain: The unknown frontier
- Transport and Tribulations: Going the extra mile
- The war that changed our world
Festival focus days
- Future of Food
Saturday 14 June- Economic Growth for the Many, not the Few
Friday 20 June- Murder They Wrote
Saturday 21 June