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Tue 22 April 2014 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Lindsay Stemp exhibition

Lindsay Stemp Retrospective this will be a first exhibition at Michaelhouse for Lindsay Stemp

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Sula Rubens- artist in residence

Sula Rubens is currently working as Artist in Residence at The Michaelhouse. You are welcome to talk to her about her work.

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Dirt, fire & sky - an exhibition by Sue Shepherd

An exhibition by Sue Shepherd at the Alison Richard Building

9:00AM - 5:00PM

The hours of healing - an exhibition by printmaker Ruth Oinn

Ruth Oinn is showing a series of twenty-six prints, which have been a year in the making. Celebrating the centenary of Britten’s birth, the works have been created around Britten's operas, by revisiting several much loved works, poring over librettos and seeing productions at Aldeburgh and Glyndebourne.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Art exhibition

SURFACE – An exhibition of contemporary abstract prints by Patricia Grant and Susan Mealing

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Ediacaran Enigmas: resolving the fossil record of early animals

This new display is a snapshot of the research taking place in the department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge on fossils from the 540-580 million year old Ediacaran Period, known as the 'Ediacaran Biota'.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Sea monsters to sonar: mapping the polar oceans

This exhibition traces the development and use of maps of the Polar oceans and coastlines. The gallery space will be transformed into a trail of discovery revealing imagined and established trade routes, and journeys made for scientific discovery.

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

The Rampant Lions Press: A letterpress odyssey

This exhibition displays a beautiful selection of books produced by The Rampant Lions Press since their last retrospective exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1982.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Follow the Fellow: A Multimedia Art Project

The project ‘Follow the Fellow’ started in 2010. It is led by the Austrian writer and performance artist Elke Papp, the French photographer and art historian Genevieve Guetemme and the Finnish photographer and video artist Anna Maija Kesonen. All three are followers themselves and met in Cambridge.

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

11:30AM - 5:00PM

Art & life

Art & Life: 1920-1931 Ben nicholson, Winifred nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis & William Staite Murray

11:45AM

Highlight Mere's commemoration Sermon on ‘the readiness is all’

The Reverend Canon Jeremy Davies, of Corpus Christi College, will preach in commemoration of John Mere.

5:00PM - 7:00PM

Kathleen Stock: 'sexual objectification, perception, and images'

Kathleen Stock, Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sussex, will talk on 'Sexual Objectification, Perception, and Images'.

7:15PM - 8:15PM

University social club swimming Cancelled

This event has been cancelled. Lane swimming available every Tuesday for University and non-University individuals