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Cambridge Festival 2024

The Cambridge Festival returns for 2024.

Sun 15 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.

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.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

Gustav Metzger: lift off!

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.

12:00PM - 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.

12:00PM - 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.

12:00PM - 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.

12:15PM - 1:15PM

Errollyn Wallen: songs with piano

New Music concert at Kettle's Yard

3:00PM - 5:30PM

Sri Chinmoy concert

A concert of spiritual and meditative music

6:00PM - 6:25PM

Organ recital

To be performed by Joseph Wicks (Organ Scholar, St John's College)

7:00PM - 10:30PM

Jazz@Churchill

The Churchill Music Society and Jazz@John's present to you a feast of modern Jazz in the state of the art Music Centre.