What's on
Explore the extraordinary at the Great Exhibition Road Festival! Discover our 2024 events and keep an eye out in spring 2025 when we'll release our new programme of events for the next Festival weekend on 7-8 June 2025. 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.
Zones
Explore our zones, the themed content areas at the heart of the Festival or explore all our events below.
From robotic friends and revolutionary tech to green transport and smarter AI, explore how humans and machines will interface, interact and influence the future.
How can we help our planet to flourish? Investigate air pollution, discover the urban wildlife around us, and find out about the future of animals around the world.
Express yourself with a flourish! Make artwork and share your ideas alongside artists, scientitsts and engineers.
Try out awesome activities, games and experiments created specially for families with children under 12, alongside family-friendly shows and pop-up movement sessions.
Make and decorate your own wind capturing, spinning wooden turbines with experts from Imperial College London's Energy Futures Lab.
Help us build a giant HE-ARTwork that will form the beating heart of the Great Exhibition Road Festival!
Create your own BodyBot buddy as you explore the flexible, stringy and squishy world of mini robots that travel inside our bodies.
Journey off-planet and explore the solar system, the cosmos and the technology that will help us reach the stars in our out-of-this-world Space Zone.
Slow down, relax and engage your senses. Join artist Maria Gomez Diez to explore textures and smells, before making your own wellbeing bracelet or creating a craft materials plant for our community flourishing wall.
Drip colourful paints and create a beautiful artwork inspired by fluorescent brain images as you uncover how our brain cells communicate with one another.
Decorate your own icy balls of celestial shrapnel and watch their tails stretch out behind them as they face the solar wind.
Create a talisman to offer protection for yourself or on behalf of a loved one, species, ecology or society.
Join the food waste revolution! Delve into the world of sustainable creativity and create your very own artwork as you explore innovative solutions to food waste.
Discover innovations addressing the challenges faced by our planet through interactive activities and thought-provoking exhibits.
From mosaic self-portraits to infectious arcade games, science meets art in this 18+ festival zone to create a truly unique and inspiring experience for adults.
An ode to a cell! Write your own rhyme, spit out a sonnet or hurl out a haiku as you delve into poetry with a microscopic twist.
Come and play against an AI agent trained with reinforcement learning on a classic Atari 2600 game, can you beat its score?
How does it feel to sing or play a game with a stranger? Get involved and find out how a sense of connectedness is shaped by how we communicate with each other.
Design your own facepaint and see if your face art has what it takes to fool facial recognition technology.
Discover the future of food, what it means to us and how what we eat may change.
From AI-gaming to mosquito tunes, VR for mental health and electric racing, discover the ideas transforming your future in this space tailor-made for and by 13 to 25-year-olds.
From our organs to our limbs, and everything in between, journey through the body to explore all of the marvellous elements, big and small, that make up us!
Join local librarians in our fun-packed, story-filled tent for sing-alongs, ryhme and move sessions or some chilled-out time with a book, for children aged 0-5 and their families.
Create an eco-friendly plant pot to plant your next green goal. Nurture and grow your plant as your new sustainable habit grows along with it.
Explore the history of music through hands-on crafting activities and the inspiring collections of the Royal College of Music Museum.
Design your dream bedroom for a perfect night's sleep with artist Katie Kennedy and Imperial College London sleep researchers investigating the importance of rest.
Get something off your chest and add your voice to a sprawling patchwork quilt of individual truths, protest slogans and personal confessions.
Get crafty at this bug making workshop, exploring the versatility of paper and its applications in science, engineering, design and art.
Join us to build Happy City and explore how we can create content communities. Explore technology that could shape cities of the future and add to our growing model town
Make your very own coral inspired hat, and find out how NHM scientists are helping marine wildlife flourish.
Contribute your own self-portrait to a giant, shared hanging mobile as we celebrate diversity and the unique elements that make each of us who we are.
Curious about German and contemporary global issues? The Gimagine Award may just be for you!
Learn about the cultures of Japan and unleash your creativity with fun activities inspired by Japan House London’s new exhibition 'Design Discoveries: Towards a DESIGN MUSEUM JAPAN'.
Make your own super energy-efficient car, test its aerodynamics, and earn a place on our marvellous motors leaderboard!
From clean powered cities to greener electronics, get charged up as we explore the latest sustainable solutions.
Join Imperial scientists who are investigating the air we breathe, inside and outside our homes! Come and make a giant artwork with them as you share your ideas about air pollution.
What will the plants and animals of the future look like as they adapt to climate change? Get creative and share your ideas with artists and scientists exploring biodiversity.
Explore new flavours and ingredients, as chefs and scientists whip up dishes that you can sample right there and then!
Solve puzzles, crack codes, and uncover hidden messages as you dive into our escape room based on a real-world drug trial. Can you enrol the patient before the time runs out?
Join us for an engaging taster lesson and learn your first phrases in German! During our session, you will get a glimpse of what our German lessons looks like and see how our communities flourish through languages and communication.
Come and learn your first phrases of German with the cartoon "Ein Tag in Berlin"! Discover Berlin and the German language through the adventures of a group of young people and get inspired to learn German yourself!
Grab a pair of headphones and learn how AI behaviour can come from simple dance instructions.
Come along to One Click Away! A fun filled dance performance about waste and the environment.
Join our energetic singalong workshop, get to know Felix & Franzi, and learn some fun songs and animals in German!
Get to know the story of little alien Wuschel, their exciting journey to Germany (illustrated by Axel Scheffler) and create your own Wuschel out of paper!
This bookable relaxed session is for families with members who are neurodiverse and need a quieter, calmer environment. Book in to explore the Family Fun Zone with fewer crowds. Try out some experiments, play, make, meet scientists and engineers, and enjoy a story.
Join us for yoga and learn some German! In this yoga and games session, you and your children will learn some basic German vocabulary whilst stretching with some Asana yoga.