| Wed 4 March 2015 | 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Private lives of print: The use and abuse of books 1450-1550 An exhibition of over 50 of Cambridge University Library's wonderful early printed books, selected for the stories they tell about the use of books in the first hundred years after the invention of printing. |
| 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Embodied memories – another perspective on research in Africa Photographic exhibition by Ashley Ouvrier. |
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| 10:00AM - 3:30PM |
Orchid Festival 2015: the pollinators are coming... Enjoy the Glasshouse Range transformed for this year's Orchid Festival from Saturday 7 February – Sunday 22 March 2015 and discover some unique plant and pollinator relationships. |
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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 |
Modern heroism: printmaking and the legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte An exhibition to mark the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. Highlights of the exhibition include prints by Charlet and Raffet, who contributed to Napoleon’s heroic legacy through glorifying war and military personnel; works by Delacroix and Gericault that respond to the drama and tragedy of the period; and satirical prints by Daumier. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Moonstrips: Eduardo Paolozzi and the printed collage 1965-72 Eduardo Paolozzi’s use of found images and words cut from popular magazines and scientific journals played a formative role in the development of British art in the 1950s and 60s. He adapted the technique of collage to printed media in spectacular sets – often seen as highlights of Pop Art. |
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| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Rowena Comrie Rowena Comrie’s art is concerned with confronting the contemporary sublime using specific metaphors to express this concept. Previously she has taken flight as her subject, creating a major body of work. |
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| 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Circuit curates: Gaudier-Brzeska The Circuit group are curating a display in Helen’s bedroom in Kettle’s Yard that explores the artist’s fascination with birds. The display includes sculptures, ink drawings and sketchbooks. |
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| 2:30PM - 3:30PM |
'The Kids are Not All Right: LGBT+ Student Lives beyond the Happy Normal and the Suicidal Exception' Even before the It Gets Better Project launched in 2010, universities were portrayed as places where LGBT+ youth could be happy and free from the bullying and social isolation that often characterizes their lives in school and at home, but... |
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| 5:00PM |
The Lectures entitled Henry Bradshaw and the Foundations of Codicology will be delivered by Professor Richard Beadle, Professor of Medieval English Literature and Palaeography, University of Cambridge. |
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| 6:30PM - 8:00PM |
Life clubs - Self improvement workshops Cancelled This event has been cancelled. Life clubs was created in 2004 by Nina Grunfeld, best-selling author of The Life Book. Sessions are every Wednesday. |
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| 7:00PM - 9:30PM |
Introduced and with discussion led by Lucy Bland (Anglia Ruskin University) Free admission. All welcome. |
