Five reasons to visit the British Science Festival 2025 in Liverpool

Top pick: Out and open: Queer cabaret

With over 120 events to choose from, you're spoilt for choice. And that's why we've highlighted a couple of our favourites for you to check out! Kicking things off with the Out and open: Queer cabaret, you'll enjoy all the bells and whistles of a typical cabaret show, but run by a Liverpool-based collective of young LGBTQIA+ people, Young Homotopia, with an important storyline around mental health woven in. Alternatively, journey deep into the stories of Liverpool's landscapes with Geophonic – a rock and sound walk performance where sci-fi meets rave culture in one truly unique experience. We'll see you there.

Top pick: Palaces: A sculpture made of milk teeth and magic

The British Science Festival brings science and art together in the most unexpected of ways. Take Palaces by Gina Czarnecki at the Museum of Liverpool, for example – a crystal resin sculpture featuring hundreds of milk teeth donated by children across the UK. And then there's Fungal galaxies at Liverpool ONE – a photography installation that unearths the hidden beauty of the tiny organisms living inside plants. Or, check out Electrons in wonderland at Kaz Gardens, where scientists will take you on an explorative journey through the human body and its 18.9 quintillion billion electrons.

Top pick: Bionically beautiful: Tilly Lockey

The Festival also brings together a collection of the most influential change makers of today for insightful and inspiring talks. Learn about the future of bionics and human augmentation with model and activist Tilly Lockey, join sport scientists from Liverpool and Everton Football clubs to explore the science behind sporting success at the highest level at Peak performance: 50 years of sport science and be part of vital conversations about health inequalities at Colonialism, race & health: visions of Black health and healing.

Top pick: MOONFACE

MOONFACE is a brilliant and bonkers performance that takes you on a journey through the solar system, exploring solar system colonialism from our celestial neighbours' perspective. Expect drag-style numbers, disaster survivor testimonies and a whole lot of movement inspired by gravitational pull! And if that's not caught your attention, there's also something pretty intriguing about a performance called 'The greatest science demonstrations. Ever!', right? Without revealing too much, it says to 'expect the unexpected' so buckle up for an impressive science-y showdown! Oh, and believe it or not, science rappers do exist – catch Jon Chase and his sensationally scientific bars live on the streets of Liverpool.

Top pick: Fembots and dinosaurs: Scientific illustration workshop

Want to get crafty and creative with big ideas in science? Head to one of the many workshops on offer to you, like Fembots and dinosaurs, a scientific illustration workshop where you'll delve into how dinosaurs and fembots are represented in pop culture – then draw your own! On the other hand, you could try your hand (see what we did there) at a creative writing workshop at Archive adventures, or even join researchers in an Art for democracy experiment focused on social change. And unbelievably, there are still so many more incredible workshops to choose from! Our advice? Book in advance, as understandably they're selling like hot cakes – or hot lava, if you prefer a more scientific context. 

Check out the full programme to find out which events are drop-ins or ticketed – then book your FREE tickets to the events, talks, performances or workshops you want to be a part of here!

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