What's On: What's On

Wed 9 May 2012

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Cows, bowers and towers

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.

9:00AM - 11:00PM

Cambridge & London 2012

Over 300 Olympians have been associated with the University as former students, academics and staff. To celebrate London 2012, the University is hosting a variety of events highlighting the City’s Olympic links and the cultural diversity of countries competing in the Games.

9:00AM - 5:00PM on Wed 4 July 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 - 12:00PM

Humps, bumps, buildings and hedges: walking through history

This new short course is a set of five fieldtrips around the theme of medieval landscape. Each session will be based on a different site, each within 15 miles of Cambridge and each focusing on a different general topic.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection

See works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, as well as prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Edgelands

Prints by George Shaw and Michael Landy

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China

Featuring over 350 treasures in jade, gold, silver, bronze and ceramics, discover the secrets of ancient China’s 2000 year old royal tombs. This exhibition is part of the London 2012 Festival and is the largest exhibition of ancient royal treasures ever to travel outside China.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Lys Hansen: across the divide

The core of this exhibition is a selected group of major canvases on the theme of war and peace and family relationships.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Photography exhibition "il faut que je sois"

The photographic essay “il faut que je sois” (it must be that I am) was shot in Paris by Roeland Verhallen – a Cambridge graduate researcher in visual perception – using black and white medium format film and a Hasselblad 503CX. It explores the concept of time, the necessity of being, and ancestry.

11:30AM - 4:30PM

Highlight Alfred Wallis: ships and boats

Selected works from the collection will be on show in the exhibition gallery during the building work. In a series of small, focused displays familiar works will be presented in new ways and with contextual material from the archive and the reserve collection that is not normally available to the public.

1:15PM - 2:00PM

The King of Nanyue and the barbarians

A lunchtime talk for the exhibition The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China, the largest exhibition of ancient Chinese royal treasures ever to travel outside China.

1:20PM - 2:00PM

Raleigh music society recital

Jo-Yee Chung (Syndney Sussex '15) - piano Joseph Davies (Trinity '15) - cello Present: Schumann: Five Pieces in Folk Style Lutoskawski: Grave Brahms: Rhapsody in G minor, Op. 78 No. 2

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.

4:15PM - 5:45PM

Wednesday club

Weekly art club for 8-11s

5:00PM - 6:30PM

Pillow and mirror: absence as subjectivity

Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chinese Studies 2012: Wu Hung

6:00PM - 7:00PM

Highlight Clare Hall ashby lecture 2012: 'in the eye of the storm: journalists under fire'

John Fisher Burns, London Chief at the New York Times and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, presents 'In the Eye of the Storm: Journalists under Fire'

7:30PM - 9:30PM

Highlight Endellion String Quartet

Back to Beethoven with the most revolutionary of his early quartets, to be followed by Mendelssohn’s stormy and tragic last quartet, written in the state of anguish and devastation caused by his sister Fanny’s death. Finally, we shall have a mystery item for which we shall be joined by a Cambridge student.

WHAT'S ON

Events open to the public from the University of Cambridge

Wed 9 May 2012	8:00AM - 5:00PM	Cows, bowers and towers Cows, bowers and towers
	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.
	9:00AM - 11:00PM	Cambridge & London 2012 Over 300 Olympians have been associated with the University as former students, academics and staff. To celebrate London 2012, the University is hosting a variety of events highlighting the City’s Olympic links and the cultural diversity of countries competing in the Games.
	9:00AM - 5:00PM on Wed 4 July 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 - 12:00PM	Humps, bumps, buildings and hedges: walking through history This new short course is a set of five fieldtrips around the theme of medieval landscape. Each session will be based on a different site, each within 15 miles of Cambridge and each focusing on a different general topic.
	10:00AM - 5:00PM	Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection See works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, as well as prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso.
	10:00AM - 5:00PM	Highlight Edgelands Prints by George Shaw and Michael Landy
	10:00AM - 5:00PM	Highlight The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China Featuring over 350 treasures in jade, gold, silver, bronze and ceramics, discover the secrets of ancient China’s 2000 year old royal tombs. This exhibition is part of the London 2012 Festival and is the largest exhibition of ancient royal treasures ever to travel outside China.
	10:00AM - 6:00PM	Highlight Lys Hansen: across the divide The core of this exhibition is a selected group of major canvases on the theme of war and peace and family relationships.
	10:00AM - 6:00PM	Photography exhibition "il faut que je sois" The photographic essay “il faut que je sois” (it must be that I am) was shot in Paris by Roeland Verhallen – a Cambridge graduate researcher in visual perception – using black and white medium format film and a Hasselblad 503CX. It explores the concept of time, the necessity of being, and ancestry.
	11:30AM - 4:30PM	Highlight Alfred Wallis: ships and boats Selected works from the collection will be on show in the exhibition gallery during the building work. In a series of small, focused displays familiar works will be presented in new ways and with contextual material from the archive and the reserve collection that is not normally available to the public.
	1:15PM - 2:00PM	The King of Nanyue and the barbarians A lunchtime talk for the exhibition The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China, the largest exhibition of ancient Chinese royal treasures ever to travel outside China.
	1:20PM - 2:00PM	Raleigh music society recital Jo-Yee Chung (Syndney Sussex '15) - piano Joseph Davies (Trinity '15) - cello Present: Schumann: Five Pieces in Folk Style Lutoskawski: Grave Brahms: Rhapsody in G minor, Op. 78 No. 2
	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.
	4:15PM - 5:45PM	Wednesday club Weekly art club for 8-11s
	5:00PM - 6:30PM	Pillow and mirror: absence as subjectivity Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chinese Studies 2012: Wu Hung
	6:00PM - 7:00PM	Highlight Clare Hall ashby lecture 2012: 'in the eye of the storm: journalists under fire' John Fisher Burns, London Chief at the New York Times and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, presents 'In the Eye of the Storm: Journalists under Fire'
	7:30PM - 9:30PM	Highlight Endellion String Quartet Back to Beethoven with the most revolutionary of his early quartets, to be followed by Mendelssohn’s stormy and tragic last quartet, written in the state of anguish and devastation caused by his sister Fanny’s death. Finally, we shall have a mystery item for which we shall be joined by a Cambridge student.