Displays of Power exhibition extended until 5 September 2020

UCL partner The Crick Institute invites you to take a peek behind the scenes of its world-class research at its first Discovery Day of talks and workshops this Saturday.[[{"fid":"4779","view_mode":"large","fields":{"format":"large","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Crick Discovery Day kaleidoscope","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_caption[und][0][format]":"limited_html","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"large","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Crick Discovery Day kaleidoscope","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_caption[und][0][format]":"limited_html","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"link_text":null,"attributes":{"height":"800","width":"1200","class":"media-element file-large"}}]]Family activities include making your own fluorescent kaleidoscope, and making a friend's arm twitch using nothing but the power of your brain and a couple of electrodes. You are also requested to leave the ‘poo taboo’ at home, to discover your body’s second brain - the gut - in the first of the Discovery Day talks.If all that wasn’t enough, the institute’s friendly scientists will be on hand throughout the day to demonstrate their research and answer your burning scientific questions.[[{"fid":"4783","view_mode":"large","fields":{"format":"large","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Crick Institute scientist","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Crick Institute scientist","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_caption[und][0][format]":"limited_html","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"large","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Crick Institute scientist","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Crick Institute scientist","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_caption[und][0][format]":"limited_html","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"link_text":null,"attributes":{"height":"240","width":"700","class":"media-element file-large"}}]]Dedicated to understanding the biology of health and disease, the Crick Institute helps to develop and translate discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease and stroke.The institute is made up of over 1500 scientists from the Medical Research Council (MRC), Cancer Research UK, Wellcome, Imperial College London, King's College London and UCL - making it the biggest biomedical research facility under a single roof in Europe.[[{"fid":"4775","view_mode":"large","fields":{"format":"large","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Crick Institute building","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Crick Institute building","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_caption[und][0][format]":"limited_html","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"large","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Crick Institute building","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Crick Institute building","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_caption[und][0][format]":"limited_html","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"link_text":null,"attributes":{"height":"448","width":"685","class":"media-element file-large"}}]]The Discovery Day will run from 10.00 and 16.00 on Saturday 17 June. To explore the full programme visit: bit.ly/crickdiscoveryThis event is part of the MRC Festival of Medical Research which runs 17-25 June. For more information visit: bit.ly/mrcfestival2017

[[{"fid":"14737","view_mode":"medium","fields":{"height":"1292","width":"1934","class":"media-element file-large","format":"medium","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Claudio Schwarz via Unsplash","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"height":"1292","width":"1934","class":"media-element file-large","format":"medium","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Claudio Schwarz via Unsplash","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"attributes":{"height":"1292","width":"1934","class":"media-element file-medium"}}]]Out of Touch: A Festival of Intimacy is a day-long festival of intimate performances, conversations and interactions that responds to the themes of touch and intimacy, and asks what intimacy has meant whilst living through the Covid19 pandemic. Contributing work will be created by artists, UCL students and academics, and the event will take place across UCL’s Bloomsbury Theatre, Grant Museum, Petrie Museum and a variety of outdoor spaces in between. Whether you are a student, academic, artist or any combination of the three, we invite you to pitch ideas for the festival that responds to the themes, can work within social distance measures, and be open to being performed in unusual spaces across the UCL Culture venues.We are interested in small scale work which has a ‘pop up’ feel as well as large scale ideas. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary pieces and those which push you and the audience out of comfort zones. We are open to all types of performance from dance, theatre, music, spoken word and poetry, circus, comedy, multimedia as well as talks and facilitated conversations. This is a funded opportunity and the application deadline is 9am on Friday 26 February 2021. The Festival is due to take place on Sat 19 June 2021.To enter, complete the Word document form below and send it to sylvia.harrison@ucl.ac.uk.[[{"fid":"14729","view_mode":"small","fields":{"format":"small"},"link_text":"Out of Touch Festival Open Call information (PDF)","type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"small"}},"attributes":{"class":"file media-element file-small"}}]][[{"fid":"14741","view_mode":"small","fields":{"format":"small"},"link_text":"Out of Touch Festival application form (Word Doc)","type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"small"}},"attributes":{"class":"file media-element file-small"}}]]