24th White Heat Sunday
Online ticket sales have ended. There are tickets available on the door all day.
Crazed creatives, mad makers and instant inventors get to grips with robots, zombies, a mass of crafts, a raft of music, glue, paint and mess. Build Brighton’s in here somewhere with stars of the Mini-Maker Faire, and the Incredible Machine, if there’s room. Make something new. Wear something old.
Full refreshments available
Sunday 24th February
10am-4pm Sallis Benney Theatre, 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton, BN2 0JY
Recommended 8+. All under 16s must be accompanied by an adult. Tickets £5 available online or on the door, and includes entry to Blind Tiger next door for more activities. Entry to Blind Tiger alone £3 on the door.
Spotty Spinny Wheel
The wheel is about two metres across. You stand in front of it and as it spins you fall over. You can’t help yourself. Really. Give it a go.
Electronic guitar maker
Learn about basic electronics and how to wire up your own musical instruments. Once you’ve constructed it you’ll get the chance to rock out and play some tunes. Arduinitar is a build-it-yourself electronic guitar, based around the Arduino component, created by the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London.
Cracking Mosaics
Christine Lloyd Walker shows basic mosaic techniques. Make a piece to photograph or take home. She demonstrates and advises on mosaic making and shows some finished pieces.
Felt Phones
Felt a Mobile Phone Pouch… using just wool, soap and water! Follow the wet felting technique to create a seamless case to fit your own phone with absolutely no gluing or sewing involved! Felt Artist Karen Rao will guide you through the feltmaking process.
Steady Hands
The fairground favourite: Easy to make, challenging to play, satisfying to win.
Light (Theremin) Fantastic
Normal theremins produce note by picking up changes in the magentic field caused by the player’s hand. Light theremins use light to the same effect. Simple, but eerie.
Build Brighton
Gadget workshops all day with Brighton entrepreneurs at the cutting edge – and the soldering edge – of electronics.
Cooperative maze
To get the ball through the maze is easy, until your friends help you. With four people trying to work together it is much more tricky.
Bubble Food
One of the most interesting tricks of Heston Blumenthal’s ‘molecular gastronomy’ cookery is a chemical process you can learn easily and use when you cook. Here Lynne Mason turns liquids into spheres like caviar.
Walkabout skeleton. Please don’t feed him.
Giant Tangram
The mosaic puzzle with a kaleidoscope of solutions. Bigger and better than ever
The Incredible Machine
Build a daft machine with levers and pulleys, string and weights, to send a signal round the room. The incredible machine builds up during the day, becoming incredibler and incredibler.
Swimming With Plankton
Plunge into the hypnotic submarine world of microscopic plankton. An ethereal underwater projection reveals the beauty of phytoplankton on a human scale.…
Toys ARRRRGH! Us
Toys Arrrrgh Us are earning quite a reputation for genetically modified toys. Here they dissect some kiddy toys to expose the beautiful, simple mechanisms inside.
Play With Your Food
We can see all sorts of animal possibilities in the humble vegetable. Can you? Hands-on food-based crafts. A-maizing!
Design Departures
Students from the 3D Design department of the University of Brighton show inspiring, interactive objects and products that explore different aspects of physical, environmental and social science.
Frighton
Ben Simpson, from the famous joke shop, Frighton, is a cartoonist in the Beano tradition. How do they do it? You can learn at the feet of a master
City Books
Full range of popular science books for young and old.
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