May Day celebrations filled the streets of Earlsdon yesterday as one of Coventry's most popular and cherished events, the Earlsdon Festival, returned for its fifth year to the heart of the Earlsdon community.

The festival featured market stalls, a cake competition, music concerts, talks, poetry, a history walk, antiques valuations and an activity day.

WEIG of course wanted to join in the fun, so our team members Faduma, Maria, Minkyung, Cameron, Dmitry, and Bryn went along with Pat to promote the work of Mary Courtney, our Artist in Residency. Her aim is to uncover the vast mine of beautiful and beguiling images generated by chemists that are never seen by anyone else, and bring them out to the public. We went along to the festival to help share the strangeness and wonder of the stuff our world is made of, the stuff that is out of range of ordinary sight, for example below:

Faduma Maddar, NADH oxidation deposition surface (dubbed "Toast in Space")

Find out more about what went on at the Earlsdon Festival, and read more Mary Courtney's project and collaboration with us.