What Am I Looking At? Following Chester’s Buildings Through Time
Chester is filled with beautiful and distinctive buildings, but in a place where people have lived for more than two thousand years, things are rarely as they seem.
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Chester Town Hall 33 Northgate Street, Chester
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Hidden Histories Beneath Our Feet: How Digital Tools Reveal Local Stories
Chester Picturehouse Unit 10 Hunter Street, Chester, United KingdomThrough visual examples from local heritage sites, including castles and community spaces, this session explores how technology can reconnect people with the stories beneath their feet, and inspire new ways of seeing familiar places.
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Can You Spot the Traitor? The Psychology Behind The Traitors
Chester Picturehouse Unit 10 Hunter Street, Chester, United KingdomMissing The Traitors now the series has finished? Join this interactive session exploring the psychology behind the show.
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Cheshire Prize for Literature Awards Evening
University of Chester Exton Park School of Education University of Chester, Parkgate Road, ChesterThe Cheshire Prize for Literature showcases the literary talents of writers with a connection to the Cheshire area. Now in its 22nd year, the awards evening will announce the winners in the primary, secondary and adult categories for poetry, short stories, children’s literature and scriptwriting.
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Research is a Laugh – Stand-Up Comedy Night!
Storyhouse Garret Theatre Hunter Street, ChesterThink academic research isn’t your thing? Think again! Join us for an evening stand-up comedy, a new event for 2026!
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Postgraduate Research Exhibition
Chester Town Hall 33 Northgate Street, ChesterThe postgraduate research exhibition will feature current research being conducted at the University of Chester across a variety of disciplines. The research will be presented via posters, detailing what the researcher is doing, how they are doing it, and what impact this could have.
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The Peaces We Keep, Make, Transform
Chester Town Hall 33 Northgate Street, ChesterThis is a participatory art work inviting visitors to sit, pause, and write a promise of peace for themselves, someone they love, or the wider world. You may keep it, dissolve it in water, or place it in a box.
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Retracing Footsteps: The Past, Present and Future of Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon
Chester Town Hall 33 Northgate Street, ChesterYr Wyddfa / Snowdon is Wales's most iconic mountain, hosting 650,000 visitors each year. This exhibition takes us on a journey that considers the past, present, and sustainable future of the mountain.
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The Rows of Chester: A Unique Creation or a Unique Survival?
Chester Town Hall 33 Northgate Street, ChesterThe uniqueness of Chester's Rows lies first in the imaginative adaptation of a common medieval building form to the city's hilly site. However, they would not have seemed so unusual had comparable buildings elsewhere survived better. The talk will look at parallels for the building type, how it was adapted to the landscape, and the historical circumstances that prompted it.
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The Royal Institution: Energy LIVE!
University of Chester Exton Park Campus - Binks Building Parkgate Road, ChesterEnergy LIVE! is an exciting audience led show, for primary school children, delving into the different stores of energy and how they affect our lives. Through lively, fire-based demonstrations we take the intimidation out of the terminology around energy and show you just how simple this subject can be.
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Supporting the next generation: inter-generational mentoring – how “the old” can mentor “the young”.
Chester Town Hall 33 Northgate Street, ChesterThe MACIE (Mentoring And Coaching In Education) research group have undertaken extensive research into mentoring, and what works well when mentoring relationships are successful. In this interactive workshop session we will take you through what we have learnt from our research into mentoring in education settings, and apply it to real life situations that you can use in your everyday interactions.
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Promises to Ourselves
Storyhouse Garret Theatre Hunter Street, ChesterAn exciting and thought provoking drama, dance and musical exploration of the hopes and aspirations of the students at Lymm High School and how they envisage their futures.