What's On: What's On

Today

9:00AM - 5:00PM

An exhibition of photographs of volcanoes and major volcanic eruptions, their hazards and consequences (1980 to the present).

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Shelf Lives: Four Centuries of Collectors and their Books

Ten great book collectors whose volumes have enriched the University Library's holdings from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries.

10:00AM - 11:30AM

Creative chaos

Monthly drop-in art sessions for pre-school children and their carers. Just come and have fun making whatever you want. Admission is first come, first served.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Highlight These Rough Notes: Captain Scott's last expedition

A chance to see unique manuscripts from the archive of Captain Scott's Terra Nova Expedition (1910-13) on show to commemorate the centenary of the first British expedition to the attain the South Pole.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

England and the Dutch Republic in the age of Vermeer

Coins and medals from the 17th-century

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Grey matters: Graphite

Discover the extraordinary expressive potential of the pencil in a display ranging from 17th-century miniatures on vellum to compositional sketches by George Romney and William Blake, and drawings by Ingres and Degas.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Trail: beauty walk

Pick up a map which leads you on a beauty walk around the Fitzwilliam and nominate the painting or object you find the most beautiful.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Work, rest and play: Women and children in prints after Chardin

This exhibition investigates the appeal of Chardin’s familial imagery for the 18th-century public, and takes a close look at the skill of the printmakers who interpreted his canvases into graphic art.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Braided together

Hair in the work of contemporary women artists

1:00PM - 5:00PM

Artists in focus: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

Selected works from the collection will be on show in the exhibition gallery during the closure of the house extension. The first of these displays will look at the work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

People’s portraits exhibition

The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

The Lawrence room

Girton College has an extremely unusual Egyptian mummy called Hermione, which can now be viewed in the College’s small museum.

5:30PM - 7:30PM

Exploitation and protection

Lecture considering control and ownership issues of intellectual property and its exploitation.. Followed by free drinks reception from 6.30pm.

5:30PM - 7:30PM

Highlight Grey matters: A conversation

A conversation with artist Christopher Cook, poet John Kinsella and Jane Munro from the Fitzwilliam Museum on the importance of the grey scale in art - an event for the exhibition Grey Matters: Graphite

6:00PM - 7:00PM

Highlight In conversation with Dame Stella Rimington

A discussion with the leading author, ex-Director General of MI5 and Chair of the 2011 Man Booker Prize judges

7:00PM - 9:00PM

Oleanna

One professor. One student. A man. A girl. Accusations are made. We see no evidence. Truth doesn't matter any more.

7:30PM - 9:00PM

Keeping the skies alive with swifts

Dick Newell will talk about reversing the decline in swifts.

7:45PM - 10:30PM

Canterbury Tales

You are warmly invited to attend an evening of storytelling. Prepare yourself for bawdiness, humour, tragedy and merriment in a quick tour through Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’.

9:30PM - 11:00PM

Machine of death

The machine can predict, with complete accuracy, how you are going to die. Morbid, yes. But interesting. And fun.

11:00PM - 11:59PM

Bereavement the musical

Bereavement is a song and dance. Watch people singing and dancing about it.

WHAT'S ON

Events open to the public from the University of Cambridge

Twilight at the museums

Today	9:00AM - 5:00PM	Highlight Volcanoes: beauty and menace An exhibition of photographs of volcanoes and major volcanic eruptions, their hazards and consequences (1980 to the present).
	9:00AM - 6:00PM	Highlight Shelf Lives: Four Centuries of Collectors and their Books Ten great book collectors whose volumes have enriched the University Library's holdings from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
	10:00AM - 11:30AM	Creative chaos Monthly drop-in art sessions for pre-school children and their carers. Just come and have fun making whatever you want. Admission is first come, first served.
	10:00AM - 4:00PM	Highlight These Rough Notes: Captain Scott's last expedition A chance to see unique manuscripts from the archive of Captain Scott's Terra Nova Expedition (1910-13) on show to commemorate the centenary of the first British expedition to the attain the South Pole.
	10:00AM - 5:00PM	England and the Dutch Republic in the age of Vermeer Coins and medals from the 17th-century
	10:00AM - 5:00PM	Grey matters: Graphite Discover the extraordinary expressive potential of the pencil in a display ranging from 17th-century miniatures on vellum to compositional sketches by George Romney and William Blake, and drawings by Ingres and Degas.
	10:00AM - 5:00PM	Trail: beauty walk Pick up a map which leads you on a beauty walk around the Fitzwilliam and nominate the painting or object you find the most beautiful.
	10:00AM - 5:00PM	Highlight Work, rest and play: Women and children in prints after Chardin This exhibition investigates the appeal of Chardin’s familial imagery for the 18th-century public, and takes a close look at the skill of the printmakers who interpreted his canvases into graphic art.
	10:00AM - 6:00PM	Highlight Braided together Hair in the work of contemporary women artists
	1:00PM - 5:00PM	Artists in focus: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Selected works from the collection will be on show in the exhibition gallery during the closure of the house extension. The first of these displays will look at the work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
	2:00PM - 4:00PM	People’s portraits exhibition The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles.
	2:00PM - 4:00PM	The Lawrence room Girton College has an extremely unusual Egyptian mummy called Hermione, which can now be viewed in the College’s small museum.
	5:30PM - 7:30PM	Exploitation and protection Lecture considering control and ownership issues of intellectual property and its exploitation.. Followed by free drinks reception from 6.30pm.
	5:30PM - 7:30PM	Highlight Grey matters: A conversation A conversation with artist Christopher Cook, poet John Kinsella and Jane Munro from the Fitzwilliam Museum on the importance of the grey scale in art - an event for the exhibition Grey Matters: Graphite
	6:00PM - 7:00PM	Highlight In conversation with Dame Stella Rimington A discussion with the leading author, ex-Director General of MI5 and Chair of the 2011 Man Booker Prize judges
	7:00PM - 9:00PM	Oleanna One professor. One student. A man. A girl. Accusations are made. We see no evidence. Truth doesn't matter any more.
	7:30PM - 9:00PM	Keeping the skies alive with swifts Dick Newell will talk about reversing the decline in swifts.
	7:45PM - 10:30PM	Canterbury Tales You are warmly invited to attend an evening of storytelling. Prepare yourself for bawdiness, humour, tragedy and merriment in a quick tour through Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’.
	9:30PM - 11:00PM	Machine of death The machine can predict, with complete accuracy, how you are going to die. Morbid, yes. But interesting. And fun.
	11:00PM - 11:59PM	Bereavement the musical Bereavement is a song and dance. Watch people singing and dancing about it.