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Cambridge Festival 2024

The Cambridge Festival returns for 2024.

Sun 25 January 2015 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Exhibition of the history and evolution of St Michael's Church

The History and evolution of St Michael's church.

10:00AM - 4:45PM

Languages and Cultures: sampling Chinese and Spanish

The day will focus on two languages (Spanish and Chinese), with both language and cultural input. We hope it will provide an opportunity to revisit a language you already know and to ‘taste’ a new one, or to ‘taste’ two new languages!

10:00AM - 4:45PM

Religious Studies: religion and health, sickness and salvation

What has religion to do with health?

11:30AM - 5:00PM

Beauty and Revolution

The Poetry and Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay

12:00PM - 5:00PM

1914: war and money

World War I consumed vast quantities of money as well as lives. This display of coins, medals, banknotes and government bonds provides an insight into the desperate measures that had to be used to maintain a supply of money, from the transition of gold coinage at the outbreak of war in 1914 to inflationary paper money by 1918 when the great European empires fell.

12:00PM - 5:00PM

Fatal consequences: the Chapman Brothers and Goya’s disasters of war

The Chapman Brothers’ Disasters of War takes Goya’s print series of the same title and reinvents and extends the imagery and horrors with a cornucopia of ideas from later wars and modern culture. This exhibition shows different versions of the Chapman Bothers’ set, together with a selection from Goya’s original series.

12:00PM - 5:00PM

Highlight Silent partners artist & mannequin from function to fetish

Silent Partners is the first exhibition uncovering the evolution of the artist’s mannequin. It will show how, from being an inconspicuous studio tool, a piece of equipment as necessary as easel, pigments and brushes, the lay figure became the fetishised subject of the artist’s painting, and eventually, in the 20th century, a work of art in its own right.

1:00PM - 4:00PM

Studio Sundays

Drop in practical art workshops for families with children of all ages. Join us in the Learning Studio to make your own artwork inspired by our exhibitions and collection. A chance to explore, chat, sketch, make and play.

6:00PM - 6:25PM

Organ recital

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