Fri 13 June 2014 | 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 - 3:30PM |
Climate change & food security marketplace At the Climate Change & Food Security Marketplace: Showcase innovative thinking and projects Engage in open dialogue and focused networking Foster connections that could lead to new collaborations to increase resilience in food security and combat poverty and inequality. |
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9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Dirt, fire & sky - an exhibition by Sue Shepherd An exhibition by Sue Shepherd at the Alison Richard Building |
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9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Turning ideas into reality, award winning designer Tom Karen showcases examples of his drawings spanning more than six decades in the design industry. |
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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. |
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9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Literature of the liberation: the French experience in print 1944–1946 An exhibition commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Paris, showing books published, mainly in France, after the liberation of Paris and before the end of 1946. |
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9:00AM - 6:30PM |
Flesh wounds: David Holbrook and D-Day David Holbrook landed in Normandy as a twenty-one year old tank commander on D-Day, 6 June 1944. His 1966 novel 'Flesh wounds' recounted his experiences. This small exhibition draws on Holbrook's literary archive, held in the University Library, to mark the 70th anniversary of the invasion. |
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10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight Delivery by design: stamps in Antarctica Philately will get you everywhere...even Antarctica! Explore the art and history of stamps from Antarctica. |
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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'. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Building an Empire: money, trade and power in the age of Charlemagne This exhibition marks the 1200th anniversary of the death of Charlemagne, ‘beacon, king and father of Europe’. A selection of the finest medieval coins from the Fitzwilliam Museum’s own collection (Frankish, Anglo- Saxon, Viking, Byzantine and Islamic) will be on show to illustrate the complex political, economic and cultural ties of the period. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Discoveries: art, science and exploration from the University of Cambridge Museums The first major exhibition to bring together the fascinating collections from all eight University of Cambridge Museums. Discoveries displays objects that span millennia; from artworks to scientific artefacts, historic instruments to rare zoological specimens. This exhibition is a smaller version of that displayed at London’s Two Temple Place. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
La Grande Guerre: French prints of the First World War See the first 7 months of WWI dramatically illustrated in the colour lithographs & wood-engravings of the series La Grande Guerre. Scenes of action in the form of battles, sieges & airstrikes are punctuated by moments of relative repose, including commemorations, award ceremonies & depictions of the Allied forces, such as the English & Scottish taking five o’clock tea & Indian soldiers at prayer. |
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10:30AM - 4:30PM |
Highlight Buddha's word: the life of books in Tibet and Beyond The first exhibition of Tibetan material in Cambridge, and the first time in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’s history that its Buddhist collections will be showcased in an exhibition. |
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11:30AM - 5:00PM |
Visitors to Lift Off! will be submersed in Gustav Metzger’s world of creative experimentation and activism between the late 1950s and early 1970s. Bringing together archive, film, sculpture and installations, this ambitious exhibition focuses on Metzger’s auto-creative work. |
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12:30PM - 1:00PM |
A free lunchtime concert given by young musicians |
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2:30PM - 6:00PM |
The clash of empires: world war I and the middle east To mark this hundredth anniversary of WWI, a two-day conference to be held at the University of Cambridge, will examine the clash between Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire, and its related impact on the social and political causes of the Ottoman collapse. |
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9:00PM - 11:00PM |
Clare Jazz is back with a bang in May Week in collaboration with the Cambridge Jazz Weekend! See two top class acts in Valia Calda and EM - not to be missed! |