Festival Opening

Dallas Campbell

Dallas Campbell, presenter of BBC Bang Goes the Theory, opens the Gravity Fields Festival. Come and celebrate the start of the festival week at this free event.

The High Energy Frontier – The Large Hadron Collider

Professor Valerie Gibson

Cambridge Professor of High Energy Physics returns to Grantham to give the opening science presentation of the festival. The latest news and discoveries from CERN. SOLD OUT.

The Explosive Sun and the Northern Lights

Dr. Pål Brekke

Enjoy the Northern Lights? The Sun is the source of their beauty and affects society in many ways.

Visualise:Reloaded

Science made simple ltd

A mischievous mix of physical theatre and live science demonstrations from an award-winning company with a passion for science, engineering and maths.

Stardome

National Space Centre at St Wulfram's Church

Escape into a mobile planetarium recreating a dark night sky with hundreds of brilliant points of light splashed across the inside of the dome. 6+.

Family Science: Whizz Bang Workshop

Kesteven and Grantham Girls School

Show times at 10am and 11.15am. We have an exciting opportunity for you to attend a fun session of science experiments. 11.15am show - SOLD OUT.

The Bubble Show SORRY SOLD OUT

The Science Museum

11am show now SOLD OUT, additional show now at 1pm. Be a Bubbleologist with the biggest bubbles you will ever see! Bubbles of all sizes going up, down, this and that way, with help from the audience! 3 to 11 years.

Newton's Instruments

Dr Jonathan Hare

Beautiful recreations of seventeenth century scientific apparatus demonstrated by Dr Jonathan Hare. Age 10+. SOLD OUT

The Bubble Show SORRY SOLD OUT

The Science Museum

Be a Bubbleologist with the biggest bubbles you will ever see! Bubbles of all sizes going up, down, this and that way, with help from the audience! 3 to 11 years. ADDITIONAL SHOW

Planets, Stars, Life and the Cosmos

Professor Martin Rees

An illustrated talk by the Astronomer Royal and former President of the Royal Society, describes the cosmos revealed by modern astronomy. He unveils a panorama of planets, stars and galaxies. 12+. SOLD OUT.

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: A Story told with Gravity

Dr Marty Jopson

Join Dr Marty Jopson, the BBC One Show's resident scientist, for a family science show, as he delves into the story of how Newton came up with his ideas on gravity. 7+

The Bubble Show

The Science Museum

Be a Bubbleologist with the biggest bubbles you will ever see! Bubbles of all sizes going up, down, this and that way, with help from the audience! At Stamford Arts Centre. 3 to 11 years

Visualise:Reloaded

Science made simple ltd

A mischievous mix of physical theatre and live science demonstrations from an award-winning company with a passion for science, engineering and maths. 5+.

Family Mass Boomerang Making Day

Dr Hugh Hunt

"My boomerang will come back", Sessions through the day to build your own boomerang with the help of expert boomerang maker from the University of Cambridge, Australian born, Dr Hugh Hunt, and his students. Age 8+

Material World

The Science Museum

Dive into the weird world of materials in which no jelly baby, Barbie doll or paint tin is safe! In this fast-paced and fact-packed show we explore why the world is the way it is. 11+

Stardome

National Space Centre at St Wulfram's Church

Escape into a mobile planetarium recreating a dark night sky with hundreds of brilliant points of light splashed across the inside of the dome. 6+

Newton and Religion

Prof. Rob Iliffe, Helen Martin and Dr. Philip Ball

Is Newton in Heaven ? Newton wrote more about religion than about mathematics and science and his writings and religious beliefs are a source of endless fascination.

Isaac Newton: An Outsider in the Age of Curiosity

Dr Philip Ball

Vice, Virtue and Mathematics. The Scientific Revolution founded on fact or curiosity?

Visualise:Reloaded

Science made simple ltd

A mischievous mix of physical theatre and live science demonstrations from an award-winning company with a passion for science, engineering and maths. 5+.

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: A Story told with Gravity

Dr Marty Jopson

Join Dr Marty Jopson, the BBC One Show's resident scientist, for a family science show, as he delves into the story of how Newton came up with his ideas on gravity. 7+.

Screening of 'In the Shadow of the Moon'

Chris Riley

Join co-producer Chris Riley for a screening of his acclaimed film 'In the Shadow of the Moon'. Age 12+.

Human Spaceflight – Fantasy or our Future?

Anu Ojha

An exploration of what human spaceflight has achieved. Will humans follow in the footsteps of robotic missions to Mars and the outer planets? And will we one day settle in space ? Age 11+

An Astronomer, His Friend and Their Teacher

Helen Martin

Two Grantham boys - America's first modern astronomer, Arthur Storer, his famous friend, Sir Isaac Newton and their extraordinary teacher, Henry Stokes.

Nature's Calendar Since Newton

Professor Tim Sparks

The Woodland Trust in Grantham coordinates the UK scheme for recording phenology. Professor Tim Sparks reports on the subject’s history and recent discoveries.

On the Brilliant Colours of Newton's Peacock Feather

Professor Pete Vukusic

How does the peacock get its colour? Newton’s early insight informs the current study of iridescent colour production. Age 12+.

Ask the Astronomer & Moongaze

Dr Chris Lintott

Ask Chris anything astronomical and see if he can draw inspiration from Isaac Newton’s childhood home and the famous apple tree. Join him and local astronomers afterwards to look at the night sky over Woolsthorpe Manor. 8+.

Astronomy and Poetry

Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Poems with an astronomical or space theme selected by leading astrophysicist, Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell, with readings of some of the poems.

Dambusters: The Engineering of the Bouncing Bomb

Hilary Costello

What was science behind the Dambusters’ Raid? The story of engineers re-creating the raid for Channel 4. 14+

Opening a New Window on the Universe

Professor Martin Hendry

There is a new space race. An international group of more than 800 scientists are hoping to detect for the first time 'gravitational waves'. 15+

Ten True Things About Vision

Dr Ben Craven

RE-SCHEDULED EVENT FROM LAST-NIGHT DUE TO WEATHER RESTRICTIONS. What’s the truth about our remarkable gift of sight? Much of what you read just isn’t true! See what is. 12+

Conference - Science and Technology Support for Business

SKDC and De Montfort University

A conference for small and medium size companies seeking science and technology development advice, funding and support. With speakers and advice on European funding streams.

Isaac Newton and the Sensorium of God

Dr Stuart Clark

Isaac Newton: quintessential scientist – also alchemist, maverick theologian, and arch-heretic. Just what did Newton mean when he called the Universe: The Sensorium of God?

Never at Rest – Newton and his Revolutionary Discoveries

Professor Raymond Flood

One of the world’s greatest mathematicians, Newton made discoveries in mathematics that revolutionised the world and remain important today.

Let's Particle

Dr. Hugh Hunt, Professor Val Gibson & Dr. Katie Steckles

From balls to the Higgs Boson, Newton to now. An entertaining dialogue between Dr Hugh Hunt (representing Newton's balls) and Professor Val Gibson (representing the cutting edge of particle collisions), compered by Mathematician, Dr Katie Steckles.

Songs of the Stars: the Real Music of the Spheres

Professor Don Kurtz

The real sounds of the stars. See, hear and learn about the relationship of music to stellar sounds.

Science Pub Quiz

Dr Ben Craven

Ask me one on …… science. A pub quiz but you don’t have to be a genius to take part. 18+

Stones from the Sky

Profesor Colin Pillinger

Professor Colin Pillinger 2011 Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize winner, brings his Royal Society lecture to Grantham.

Music and Deep Time

Jem Finer, Musician and Professor Pedro Ferreira, University of Oxford

Jem Finer and Pedro Ferreira discuss how art can illustrate scientific concepts. Chaired by Siân Ede, author of Art & Science.

Stardome

National Space Centre at St Wulfram's Church

SOLD OUT Escape into a mobile planetarium recreating a dark night sky with hundreds of brilliant points of light splashed across the inside of the dome.

Transformation of the Town

Grantham - as you have never seen it! The town centre comes alive with Newton-themed processions, spectacle, professional and community performers.

Screening of 'In the Shadow of the Moon'

Chris Riley

Join co-producer Chris Riley for a screening of his acclaimed film 'In the Shadow of the Moon'. At Stamford Arts Centre. 12+.

Science Pub Quiz

Dr Ben Craven

Ask me one on …… science. A pub quiz but you don’t have to be a genius to take part. 18+