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Sat 31 March 2012 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Celebrity doodles for Ethiopia

Celebrity Doodles for Ethiopia

9:00AM - 4:30PM

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.

9:00AM - 8:00PM

Highlight Swimmers by Quentin Blake

Works created for the new Maternity Wing of the University Hospital at Angers, France

9:00AM - 5:00PM on Sat 26 May 2012

Pick of the month London calling: an exhibition of paintings by Vic Stedman

An exhibition of paintings for sale by local artist Vic Stedman.

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

Highlight Edgelands

Prints by George Shaw and Michael Landy

10:00AM - 5:00PM

England and the Dutch Republic in the age of Vermeer

Coins and medals from the 17th-century

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Nikoo Tarkhani

Exhibition by Iranian artist

11:30AM - 2:00PM

Saturday drawing

Fortnightly drawing workshops. With artists David Kefford and Jane Waterhouse

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.

7:30PM - 9:30PM

Bach - St John passion performed by Collegium Laureatum

Bach – St. John Passion by Collegium Laureatum Conductor: Ian Cobb (In performing version by Peter Pears & Imogen Holst) Venue: West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge