All are invited (muggles included) to indulge their curiosity through a broad variety of activities, from wand making and spell writing, to chatting with a ghost or pitting your wit against a witch.
The fun and interactive ‘magic’ taster classes are run by Arts and Humanities PhD students and will give a glimpse into the research happening within the University’s South West Doctoral Training Partnership (ESRC).
The event, from 11am to 4pm, forms part of a Fun Palace weekend being hosted by the University of Bristol’s Elizabeth Blackwell Institute to launch Healthy City Week.
The public are invited to a diverse range of activities throughout the weekend, including portrait making on a moving train, customising YoBikes with health research and covering the Bristol Ferry in pom poms featuring health advice.
Fun Palaces is a global campaign to encourage community-led arts and science activities. Bristol now has its own Fun Palace ambassador, Ellie Shipman, whose role is to encourage more locally-led Fun Palaces and to initiate new collaborations between health researchers and Bristol communities.
She said: “Taking part in a Fun Palace is an amazing opportunity to share your skills, find out more about your city and this year, learn about health with researchers and your neighbours through coming together and having fun.”
The University of Bristol is the only university to have been chosen by the Wellcome Trust to run one of the five UK Fun Palace hubs.
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