What's on

Zones

Explore our zones, the themed areas at the heart of the Festival. Each one is packed full of interactive exhibits, creative workshops, and live demonstrations!

Events

Explore the extraordinary at the Great Exhibition Road Festival! Discover a selection of some events from the 2025 Festival weekend and look out for the new 2026 Festival events programme in spring 2026. Enter the times of your visit in the filters below to see what's on then and click on the hearts to create your own list of favourites.

Adults only

Beads and Biomes

Young people

Grantham Climate Art Prize

Family event

Molecule Detectives

Family event

Hidden Colours: The Magic of Materials

Adults only

Science Cabaret

All Ages

Cell Painting workshop

All Ages

Butterfly Wing Workshop

All Ages

Rocky Worlds: Beauty in Planetary Science

All Ages

World of Cell-Craft

All Ages

Building Memories

Family event

Drop-in Design: The Circulation Department

All Ages

AurorART

Family event

Wattowns Wonderful Windmill Workshop

Family event

Pond Dipping

Family event

Create your own Wuschel - Arts, Craft and Storytelling

Family event

French stories from around the world

All Ages

Future Food Live

Adults only

Insect Yoga

All Ages

The Quantum Disco

All Ages

Earthbeat Underground Cèilidh

Family event

Wuschel Explores the World - First German Words with Wuschel the Alien

Young people

Coding & German

Family event
Young people

A Family Journey to French Language

Adults only

Bollywood Beats and Brainwaves

Family event

Yoga and German for Children

Ages 16+

German Taster Session