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Mon 9 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.

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.

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.

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.

12:30PM - 1:30PM

Feminist Tales of the Italian Resistance

Ms Beatrice Balfour, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, will give a multi-disciplinary gender research seminar on 'Feminist Tales of the Italian Resistance'. Feminist Tales of the Italian Resistance

5:00PM - 6:00PM

Pick of the month History of art slade lecture series 2014-15 - Prof Mary Miller

A Thing Of Wonder: The Hand-held Object Of The Ancient Maya

5:00PM - 6:30PM

Fertility, Gender and the Family in Twentieth-Century East Africa

Seminar by Dr Shane Doyle, University of Leeds This Talk is part of the Centre of African Studies Lent term Seminar Series 'Gender in Africa'

5:30PM - 6:30PM

Highlight WiSETI Annual Lecture 2015 - "The Mobile Revolution: From M-Health to M-Powering Women"

Professor Rachel McKendry will address the challenges for women in science.

6:00PM - 7:00PM

Highlight Between rock and a hard place: soil, the ambiguous material

A lecture by Professor Malcolm Bolton FREng of the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

7:30PM - 9:00PM

Try your hand in Orchard Park

Do you live in North Cambridge? Park Arts Group and Kettle’s Yard invite you to join us at Orchard Park Community Centre for a creative chinwag. Artists from Kettle’s Yard will inspire you to Try Your Hand at a variety of art forms.