Gemma Gibb

HackManchester creates a junior edition of the popular coding competition, set over two days with the support of expert mentors. There’ll be challenges, prizes and lots of fun, ending with an awards ceremony.

From astronomy and our environment to glaciers and our gut, the exhibition is a collision of the UK’s most exciting new science and technology. Meet scientists from across the country and get stuck in to interactive activities for all ages.

In collaboration with the Manchester Science Festival, CFCCA presents MoviSee an interactive and participatory event using the movement of the human body as a starting point.

Vote for the winner as two sides battle it out to prove that their live experiments are the most exciting. Watch explosions, surprising science, secret message revelations and some gravity-defying activities.

Help build and colour in a giant megapixel display. Find out how digital displays work and see yourself presented as pixels in a spreadsheet.

Light up your Saturday with incredible music, dance and a showstopping finale of sound and light in this spectacular free celebration of the Hindu festivals of Dashehra and Diwali.

Get down to Contact this Saturday as it is transformed into a family friendly creative paradise. Fly a virtual kite in spectacular settings across the world, DJ, dance and draw on the windows.

An epic family adventure across Manchester city centre. Solve a code to access the notorious Dr Dee’s spinetingling palace of curiosities that has emerged for the first time in 421 years.

Enter the world of Harry Potter and experience a family afternoon tea like with Roger Highfield, author of The Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works followed by a screening of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

This exciting new re-imagining presents the Peter Pan tale for the first time from Wendy Darling’s perspective – and we can’t wait to know her story.

A family friendly production of Snow Queen at Ancoats’ award-winning theatre.

Dance all day long to stirring sounds from top artists and the peerless children’s singer-songwriter David Gibb.