Festival Fringe Family Fun Afternoon
Event details
Join us for an afternoon of energetic, creative, crafty, puzzling, scientific and historical fun with the University of York’s Humanities Research Centre at this year’s Festival Fringe Family Fun Afternoon.
Activities are particularly suitable for five to 11-year-olds, but other family members are welcome too.
No ticket needed – just come along.
Activities include:
Build a bandstand
Join our bandstand for some improvised music making. Grab an instrument and let’s go.
Can you teach a robot right from wrong?
Unlike most humans, robots can have a very hard time telling right from wrong - and they need your help! In this activity, children will interact with a real robot dog, teaching it how to solve problems and guiding it through tricky situations. Can you help our robot make the right choices?
Exploring the fairy tale structure
Come and explore the fairy tale structure, by immersing yourselves in a journey through a storybook. This is an interactive experience to role play fairy tale characters.
Get pamphleteering!
Although pamphlets are usually small, brief and cheap to make, they also represent the first steps of a publishing career. In this session, using different available materials to design our own covers and interior pages, we will get pamphleteering to discover who we are.
Ghost in the piano
Come and experiment with our unique sound machine, create your own sounds and explore the future of music technology.
Letterpress printing
Get a glimpse into York’s rich history of print by using our portable press to print your own souvenir postcard. You’ll learn what it means to lock up a forme and all about an innovative self-inking machine designed in 1918.
Margaret Cavendish's mind lab
Welcome to Margaret Cavendish's Mind Lab! Step back in time to the 1660s, enter Margaret's science lab, and try your hand at some experiments of your own. Look through our microscope, experiment with magnets, and unleash your inner scientist.
The masticatory system: jaws, muscles and teeth
Come along to this station where you can explore the masticatory system (chewing system). Activities will include mapping out our chewing muscles with skin safe pens, making models of skulls and muscles to take home, and looking at how teeth work as tools to crush food with a special bit of equipment. There will also be a range of skulls that show how animal chewing systems are adapted to different diets.
What home means to me
What does home mean to you? What things do you think are important to home? How does home relate to who you are and how you fit in the world? In this activity, you can design and create your dream home using crayons, paints, stickers and other arts and crafts.
Image credit: Alex Holland, University of York
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