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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Monika Haeger – Inside Stasi: The Art of Translation and Adaptation for the Stage
Storyhouse Garret Theatre Hunter Street, ChesterThis event will be led by Dr Stef Kerrigan and Dr Richard Millington and will include an audience Q&A. This presentation is the first public sharing of an ongoing collaborative project between staff
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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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Mobile phones in schools: Necessary tool or toxic distraction?
Chester Town Hall 33 Northgate Street, ChesterWith research indicating that 90% of children own a mobile phone by their eleventh birthday, but increasing concerns about their effect on mental health and online safety, how do we find the right balance, and how do we implement policies that are manageable for schools and supportive of both the education and wellbeing of children and young people? With increasing pressure on schools to act, what are the challenges they face and how might these be addressed?
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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.