Ye Olde Hack Day 5/4/13 11:30AM - 6PM

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Catch the Victorian spirit of ingenious and fantastical mechanical invention by making a low-tech automaton controlled by cams, cogs and...

Mitch Altman workshop 5/3/13 2PM - 6PM

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Mitch Altman is in town on Friday May 3, and will be giving one of his famous workshops at MadLab! Mitch has taught thousands of people to...

Manchester Game Jam 4/28/13 10AM - 5PM

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Are you a coder, artist or audio designer interested in videogame design? Or, are you a gamer who’s curious about how videogames are put...

MadLab CIC planning meeting 4/23/13 7PM - 9PM

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Help shape our future! MadLab is becoming a Community Interest Company (CIC) and needs your help. Please come along on Tuesday 23rd April...

Victoria and Albert Museum Day trip 4/20/13 10AM - 7PM

On 20th April, MadLab will leave the sunny streets of Manchester to go and visit the London Victorian and Albert museum (V&A). This outing...

Workers of Manchester - Past and Present 4/5/13 6PM - 9PM

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MadLab Penny Theatre presents a night of films for your viewing entertainment. Come one, come all to the greatest show in the...

Manchester Game Jam 3/30/13 10AM - 5PM

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Are you a coder, artist or audio designer interested in videogame design? Or, are you a gamer who’s curious about how videogames are put...

Oral History Afternoon Tea 3/27/13 2PM - 4PM

Oral History Afternoon Tea Calling all residents of the Northern Quarter, past and present - we want to hear your stories!MadLab is taking...

MoSI Trip 3/23/13 11AM - 3PM

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The Industrial Revolution was a turning point in world history, touching every aspect of our lives. Particular to Manchester, major...

Geek Fun Fair 2/28/13 6PM - 9PM

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Roll up, roll up! Ladies and gentlemen, geeks of all ages! Come down to the greatest Geek Fun Fair in Manchester. This event is an...

Manchester Game Jam 2/24/13 10AM - 5PM

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Are you a coder, artist or audio designer interested in videogame design? Or, are you a gamer who’s curious about how videogames are put...

GameJam 1/12/13 10AM - 5PM

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Open Badges 1/10/13 2PM - 5PM

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Join us to find out more about the Open Badges project. Developed by Mozilla, Open Badges are an infrastructure to provide accreditation of...

Engels' Night 12/18/12 6:30PM - 8:30PM

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The Northern Quarter of Manchester is known for it's creative energy and bright young things with grand ideas. This is not a recent...

getKanban 11/24/12 9AM - 1PM

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Run by: Ash Moran & Royd Brayshay Cost: £10 (this is a donation to the MadLab for providing the venue) Pay on the day = £12  See...

GameJam 11/18/12 10AM - 5PM

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The Manchester Game Jam is pleased to announce our November jam, which will be the first of our new shorter monthly events. We'll be back...

getKanban Quick Play 11/14/12 6:30PM - 9PM

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  See also: getKanban Advanced Play on Saturday 14th November - this is a longer, more detailed version of the game but also requires no...

Culturing bioluminescent bacteria 11/4/12 2PM - 6PM

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Bioluminescent means ‘living light’. In this workshop, you can make your own living lights simply using fish from the market and a couple...

USB Microscopes 11/4/12 10AM - 1PM

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Dismantle USB webcams and turn them into digital microscopes. All it takes is a screwdriver, some glue and a couple of hours - after...

Bacterial painting 11/3/12 2PM - 4PM

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The first ever microbial art was created by the father of penicillin, Alexander Fleming, who drew a stick figure in bacteria. Come join...

Home-made 'Agar dishes' 11/3/12 10AM - 1PM

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Bacteria need food to grow on. Usually it's a nutrient broth in agar, but we'll be showing you how to make some tasty microbial grub out...

Robot Hackday 2012 10/27/12 10AM - 4PM

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It's that time of year again! MadLab will be hosting our famous annual Robot Hackday during the Manchester Science Festival 2012. Work...

Self Cloning (AKA Genetic Modification for beginners) 8/30/12 7PM - 9PM

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Self-cloning is a super simple form of genetic modification which involves recreating the behaviour of naturally occurring bacteria in a...

Manchester GameJam 8/25/12 10AM - 8/26/12 5PM

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On Sunday 26th, there'll be a massive Northern Quarter party taking place on Thomas Street and Edge Street.  This means that from 12pm -...

DIYbio July: Brazilian Bloodsuckers and DIY Microscopes. 7/26/12 7PM - 9PM

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Our next DIYbio event is a bit of a 2-in-1 with Dr. Rod Dillon, lecturer in Life Sciences at Lancaster University and co-director of the...

Manchester Raspberry Jam 7/14/12 10AM - 3PM

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The format of the event will be in the style of an ‘unconference’ – with talks, demos, tutorials and workshops going on throughout the day...

Manchester Raspberry Jam 6/9/12 10AM - 3PM

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Come along to the MadLab for a day playing with your (or somebody else’s) brand new Raspberry Pi! We’ll start with a ‘Getting Started’...

Transit of Venus 2012 6/5/12 8PM

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One of the rarest astronomical events is happening next month for the last time in all our lifetimes – the transit of Venus. To mark the...

Leila Khaled - Icon of Palestinian Liberation launch 5/25/12 7PM - 10PM

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Dubbed 'the poster girl of Palestinian militancy', Leila Khaled's image flashed across the world after she hijacked a passenger jet in...

Patchworks presents… Catapult 5/15/12 10AM - 4PM

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Explore the perils and possibilities of self-exploration through hacking, home brew electronics and hands-on biostatistics. Is the...