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Sat 8 February 2014 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Exhibition: humour in colour

Yunoki Textiles, Curated by Miles Dodd

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Magadan: life in the Russian north

A photography exhibition exploring the City and Region of Magadan.

10:00AM - 4:30PM

February orchid festival

The exotic allure of the tropical orchid will take centre stage in a special display in the Botanic Garden's Glasshouse Range.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight A world of private mystery: John Craxton, RA (1922 -2009)

A fresh retrospective on John Craxton - from his beginnings as a young hope of post-war British art, creating dark, meditative images of the natural world, to works of incredible vibrancy, light and colour from his later life in Crete.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Edmund de Waal: on white – porcelain stories from the Fitzwilliam

Come and experience the visual drama of the intervention that renowned potter and Cambridge graduate, Edmund de Waal, has staged in four interconnected ground-floor galleries of the Museum.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

From root to tip: Botanical art in Britain

This exhibition brings together a selection of watercolours from the Fitzwilliam’s outstanding collection of botanical art. It draws on over 300 years of work by both professional and amateur artists, tracing a history of flower drawing in Britain.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Perception

The Cambridge Science Centre presents an extraordinary sensory experience. The new exhibition, Perception, will use illusions to uncover how our senses and brain work and the tricks your brain uses to make sense of the world.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Marilyn Johns

The small selection of paintings exhibited here have been chosen by Marilyn Johns because they incorporate images and allusions that reflect a lifetime's association with the art of Italy.

10:15AM - 4:00PM

Source

One-to-one advice, gallery tours and studio space for students preparing for art exams, in particular GCSE and A Level.

10:30AM - 4:30PM

Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji

A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections

1:30PM - 2:30PM

‘The Romantic Cello’ – a concert of music for cello and piano

‘The Romantic Cello’ – a concert of music for cello and piano, performed by Linda Lin (cello) and Ian Brown (piano)

2:00PM - 4:45PM

Highlight The pirates of Penzance

This February, let the CU Gilbert & Sullivan Society transport you to Victorian Cornwall as we present our grand Mainshow.

4:00PM - 5:00PM

Highlight Soul food: "a sense of time"

Soul Food is a monthly community devotional event featuring live music, audio-visual pieces, and readings from various authors, sources and Faiths—indigenous, ancient and modern—from all over the world.

7:45PM - 10:30PM

Highlight The pirates of Penzance

This February, let the CU Gilbert & Sullivan Society transport you to Victorian Cornwall as we present our grand Mainshow.