| Mon 10 March 2014 | 8:00AM - 5:00PM |
Engineering in action |
| 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 - 5:00PM |
Exhibition by Roeland Verhallen and Ash Summers Exhibitions by Roeland Verhallen and Ash Summers at the Alison Richard Building. |
|
| 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
SURFACE – An exhibition of contemporary abstract prints by Patricia Grant and Susan Mealing |
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| 9:00AM - 10:00PM |
Highlight Cambridge Science Festival 2014 The Science Festival aims to provide the public with opportunities to explore and discuss issues of scientific interest and concern and to raise aspirations by encouraging young people to consider a career in science, technology, engineering or mathematics. |
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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 - 6:00PM |
Highlight Cordelia Spalding: museum of infinities The Museum of Infinities is a purposeful Paradox. |
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| 11:00AM - 4:00PM |
Whale ivory and chiefly power - the life of a Fijian breastplate A fascinating workshop and talk based on the breastplate that once adorned Tanoa Visawaqa, a powerful Fijian chief in the mid-nineteenth century. |
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| 12:30PM - 1:30PM |
Post industrial masculinities: the embodied response to unemployment and class subordination Cancelled Simon Coates, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies will give a Multi-disciplinary Gender Research Seminar. |
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| 12:45PM - 2:00PM |
Highlight Lent lunches - exploring criminal justice A series of sessions with talks and discussion over Soup and Bread |
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| 2:00PM - 2:20PM |
The eggcellent Mathematics of spin How and why do eggs spin the way they do? Join Professor Keith Moffatt as he shows you, with the power of mathematics, how eggs and spinning toys behave when in a twist. |
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| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
Divided Kingdom: social class and inequality in modern Britain A five-week course from the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall - course begins 24th February. |
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| 2:15PM - 5:00PM |
All films are in Hebrew with English sub-titles. |
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| 5:00PM - 6:00PM |
Mediating Voice: writing letters to address the public at a local radio station in Mopti, Mali Part of the Centre of African Studies Lent term seminar series: Media and Intellectual Productions in Africa's Pasts and Presents |
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| 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Highlight Can you text a divorce? negotiating women’s rights in law and society This is the first of three major, public Humanitas Lectures in Women's Rights, given by academic and regular BBC contributor, Professor Mona Siddiqui. |
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| 6:00PM - 7:00PM |
Electric and hybrid powered aircraft - making energy go further A lecture by Dr Paul Robertson, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge |
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| 7:15PM - 9:15PM |
A five-week course from the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall - course begins 24th February. |
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| Tue 11 March 2014 | Times TBC |
Conspiracy and democracy film series: 39 steps (1935) There will be a screening of the film with a talk by Professor David Trotter (University of Cambridge) |
| 8:00AM - 5:00PM |
Engineering in action |
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| 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 - 5:00PM |
Exhibition by Roeland Verhallen and Ash Summers Exhibitions by Roeland Verhallen and Ash Summers at the Alison Richard Building. |
|
| 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
SURFACE – An exhibition of contemporary abstract prints by Patricia Grant and Susan Mealing |
|
| 9:00AM - 10:00PM |
Highlight Cambridge Science Festival 2014 The Science Festival aims to provide the public with opportunities to explore and discuss issues of scientific interest and concern and to raise aspirations by encouraging young people to consider a career in science, technology, engineering or mathematics. |
|
| 10:00AM - 12:00PM |
Enslaved! A history of slavery through the ages A five-week course from the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall - course begins 25th February. |
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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'. |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Sea monsters to sonar: mapping the polar oceans This exhibition traces the development and use of maps of the Polar oceans and coastlines. The gallery space will be transformed into a trail of discovery revealing imagined and established trade routes, and journeys made for scientific discovery. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight A world of private mystery: John Craxton, RA (1922 -2009) A fresh retrospective on John Craxton - from his beginnings as a young hope of post-war British art, creating dark, meditative images of the natural world, to works of incredible vibrancy, light and colour from his later life in Crete. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
From root to tip: Botanical art in Britain This exhibition brings together a selection of watercolours from the Fitzwilliam’s outstanding collection of botanical art. It draws on over 300 years of work by both professional and amateur artists, tracing a history of flower drawing in Britain. |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Cordelia Spalding: museum of infinities The Museum of Infinities is a purposeful Paradox. |
|
| 10:30AM - 4:30PM |
Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections |
|
| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
A five-week course from the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall - course begins 25th February. |
|
| 2:15PM - 5:00PM |
All films are in Hebrew with English sub-titles. |
|
| 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Highlight Mary in Christian-Muslim relations This is the second of three major public Humanitas Lectures in Women's Rights, given by academic and regular BBC contributor, Professor Mona Siddiqui. |
|
| 7:15PM - 8:15PM |
University social club swimming Cancelled This event has been cancelled. Lane swimming available every Tuesday for University and non-University individuals |
|
| 7:15PM - 9:15PM |
Writing non-fiction: bringing the past to life A five-week course from the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall - course begins 25th February. |
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| 8:00PM - 10:00PM |
CUMS Concert Orchestra performs Beethoven and Schoenberg Beethoven Ruins of Athens Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4 Schoenberg Accompaniment to a Film Scene Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No.2 Benedict Collins-Rice conductor Jâms Coleman (CUMS Concerto Competition prize-winner) piano |
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| Wed 12 March 2014 | 8:00AM - 5:00PM |
Engineering in action |
| 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 - 5:00PM |
Exhibition by Roeland Verhallen and Ash Summers Exhibitions by Roeland Verhallen and Ash Summers at the Alison Richard Building. |
|
| 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
SURFACE – An exhibition of contemporary abstract prints by Patricia Grant and Susan Mealing |
|
| 9:00AM - 10:00PM |
Highlight Cambridge Science Festival 2014 The Science Festival aims to provide the public with opportunities to explore and discuss issues of scientific interest and concern and to raise aspirations by encouraging young people to consider a career in science, technology, engineering or mathematics. |
|
| 10:00AM - 12:00PM |
Humps and bumps, houses and hedges A five-week course from the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall - course begins 26th February. |
|
| 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'. |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Sea monsters to sonar: mapping the polar oceans This exhibition traces the development and use of maps of the Polar oceans and coastlines. The gallery space will be transformed into a trail of discovery revealing imagined and established trade routes, and journeys made for scientific discovery. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight A world of private mystery: John Craxton, RA (1922 -2009) A fresh retrospective on John Craxton - from his beginnings as a young hope of post-war British art, creating dark, meditative images of the natural world, to works of incredible vibrancy, light and colour from his later life in Crete. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
From root to tip: Botanical art in Britain This exhibition brings together a selection of watercolours from the Fitzwilliam’s outstanding collection of botanical art. It draws on over 300 years of work by both professional and amateur artists, tracing a history of flower drawing in Britain. |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Cordelia Spalding: museum of infinities The Museum of Infinities is a purposeful Paradox. |
|
| 10:30AM - 4:30PM |
Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections |
|
| 1:15PM - 2:00PM |
Stalking Egyptian blue: making and investigating the 1st synthetic pigment A lunchtime talk at the Fitzwilliam Museum with Jennifer Merchant & Abigail Graville, Conservators (Antiquities). |
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| 2:15PM - 5:00PM |
All films are in Hebrew with English sub-titles. |
|
| 5:00PM |
Highlight Sandars lectures 2014 University Library. Sandars Lectures 2014. The Lectures entitled Samuel Sandars as Collector of Illuminated Manuscripts will be delivered by Professor Nigel Morgan, Emeritus Honorary Professor of the History of Art, University of Cambridge. |
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| 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
From the feminine to feminism: women in Islamic thought and literature This is the final one of three major public Humanitas Lectures in Women's Rights, given by academic and regular BBC contributor, Professor Mona Siddiqui. |
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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 - 9:00PM |
Public open evenings at the Institute of Astronomy Astronomy talks and public observing (if clear!) every Wednesday evening during the winter season. |
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| Thu 13 March 2014 | 8:00AM - 5:00PM |
Engineering in action |
| 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 - 5:00PM |
Exhibition by Roeland Verhallen and Ash Summers Exhibitions by Roeland Verhallen and Ash Summers at the Alison Richard Building. |
|
| 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
SURFACE – An exhibition of contemporary abstract prints by Patricia Grant and Susan Mealing |
|
| 9:00AM - 10:00PM |
Highlight Cambridge Science Festival 2014 The Science Festival aims to provide the public with opportunities to explore and discuss issues of scientific interest and concern and to raise aspirations by encouraging young people to consider a career in science, technology, engineering or mathematics. |
|
| 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'. |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Sea monsters to sonar: mapping the polar oceans This exhibition traces the development and use of maps of the Polar oceans and coastlines. The gallery space will be transformed into a trail of discovery revealing imagined and established trade routes, and journeys made for scientific discovery. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight A world of private mystery: John Craxton, RA (1922 -2009) A fresh retrospective on John Craxton - from his beginnings as a young hope of post-war British art, creating dark, meditative images of the natural world, to works of incredible vibrancy, light and colour from his later life in Crete. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
From root to tip: Botanical art in Britain This exhibition brings together a selection of watercolours from the Fitzwilliam’s outstanding collection of botanical art. It draws on over 300 years of work by both professional and amateur artists, tracing a history of flower drawing in Britain. |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Cordelia Spalding: museum of infinities The Museum of Infinities is a purposeful Paradox. |
|
| 10:30AM - 4:30PM |
Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections |
|
| 2:00PM - 4:30PM |
A new five week course, which focuses on a variety of different themes to discover, interact and engage with a wide range of objects and paintings in the Museum’s collection. The course is led by Sarah Burles, Art Historian and Museum Educator, in partnership with Cambridge Art Tours. |
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| 5:00PM |
Andrew Chamblin memorial lecture The eighth Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture, entitled "The Pointless Universe", will be given by Professor Michael Green FRS. |
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| 7:30PM - 9:00PM |
Highlight Getting off the nuclear ladder: a Panel discussion with Kate Hudson and Julien Huppert Kate Hudson, the General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) – the largest peace movement in the western world – and Julien Huppert, Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge, will make the case for nuclear disarmament. |
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| Fri 14 March 2014 | 8:00AM - 5:00PM |
Engineering in action |
| 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 - 5:00PM |
Exhibition by Roeland Verhallen and Ash Summers Exhibitions by Roeland Verhallen and Ash Summers at the Alison Richard Building. |
|
| 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
SURFACE – An exhibition of contemporary abstract prints by Patricia Grant and Susan Mealing |
|
| 9:00AM - 10:00PM |
Highlight Cambridge Science Festival 2014 The Science Festival aims to provide the public with opportunities to explore and discuss issues of scientific interest and concern and to raise aspirations by encouraging young people to consider a career in science, technology, engineering or mathematics. |
|
| 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'. |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Sea monsters to sonar: mapping the polar oceans This exhibition traces the development and use of maps of the Polar oceans and coastlines. The gallery space will be transformed into a trail of discovery revealing imagined and established trade routes, and journeys made for scientific discovery. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight A world of private mystery: John Craxton, RA (1922 -2009) A fresh retrospective on John Craxton - from his beginnings as a young hope of post-war British art, creating dark, meditative images of the natural world, to works of incredible vibrancy, light and colour from his later life in Crete. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
From root to tip: Botanical art in Britain This exhibition brings together a selection of watercolours from the Fitzwilliam’s outstanding collection of botanical art. It draws on over 300 years of work by both professional and amateur artists, tracing a history of flower drawing in Britain. |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Cordelia Spalding: museum of infinities The Museum of Infinities is a purposeful Paradox. |
|
| 10:30AM - 4:30PM |
Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections |
|
| 12:30PM - 1:00PM |
Lunchtime concert- Stephen Perse Foundation Concerts given by talented young musicians |
|
| 1:00PM - 2:00PM |
Italian galleries highlight tour Learn all about the highlight pieces of art (paintings, sculpture, furniture, maiolica and glass) in the Italian Galleries. Practice your Italian in this art and language event with Victoria Avery, Keeper of Applied Arts. In collaboration with La Dante Italian Cultural Centre, Cambridge. |
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| 5:00PM - 7:00PM |
Draw up a chair and meet an object! Items from across the University of Cambridge Museums will be visiting the Fitzwilliam, along with the people who investigate how they were made and why some of them change over time. See the clues we look for when examining an object and discuss the decisions we take about conservation. |
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| 5:00PM - 8:00PM |
Enjoy an after hours viewing of A world of private mystery: John Craxton, RA (1922-2009), as well as a screening of the film Dhiava: The Autumn Journey, introduced by the film’s narrator, Tim Salmon. Film starts at 18.00. |
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| Sat 15 March 2014 | 8:00AM - 5:00PM |
Engineering in action |
| 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 - 6:00PM |
SURFACE – An exhibition of contemporary abstract prints by Patricia Grant and Susan Mealing |
|
| 9:00AM - 10:00PM |
Highlight Cambridge Science Festival 2014 The Science Festival aims to provide the public with opportunities to explore and discuss issues of scientific interest and concern and to raise aspirations by encouraging young people to consider a career in science, technology, engineering or mathematics. |
|
| 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'. |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Sea monsters to sonar: mapping the polar oceans This exhibition traces the development and use of maps of the Polar oceans and coastlines. The gallery space will be transformed into a trail of discovery revealing imagined and established trade routes, and journeys made for scientific discovery. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight A world of private mystery: John Craxton, RA (1922 -2009) A fresh retrospective on John Craxton - from his beginnings as a young hope of post-war British art, creating dark, meditative images of the natural world, to works of incredible vibrancy, light and colour from his later life in Crete. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
From root to tip: Botanical art in Britain This exhibition brings together a selection of watercolours from the Fitzwilliam’s outstanding collection of botanical art. It draws on over 300 years of work by both professional and amateur artists, tracing a history of flower drawing in Britain. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
The Cambridge Science Centre presents an extraordinary sensory experience. The new exhibition, Perception, will use illusions to uncover how our senses and brain work and the tricks your brain uses to make sense of the world. |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Cordelia Spalding: museum of infinities The Museum of Infinities is a purposeful Paradox. |
|
| 10:30AM - 4:30PM |
Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections |
|
| 1:00PM - 1:30PM |
Lunchtime concert by the Cantores Singers Birdsong and Coffee |
|
| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
Draw up a chair and meet an object! Items from across the University of Cambridge Museums will be visiting the Fitzwilliam, along with the people who investigate how they were made and why some of them change over time. See the clues we look for when examining an object and discuss the decisions we take about conservation. |
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| 3:00PM - 5:00PM |
We invite everyone to our Big Tea Party, and the opportunity to look around our new facilities, and to hear of our plans. |
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| 5:30PM - 8:30PM |
Highlight Colours of India Sakhya : Cambridge Friends of India invites you to celebrate HOLI with COLOURS OF INDIA -An evening of dance and music from across India- and introducing GURIA to Cambridge in its fight against child trafficking in India. Homemade Indian snacks included in the ticket price! All proceeds will go to grass-root charities in India that Sakhya supports. |
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| 7:30PM |
Cambridge Philharmonic concert Mahler Symphony No 3 |
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| Sun 16 March 2014 | 8:00AM - 5:00PM |
Engineering in action |
| 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 - 6:00PM |
SURFACE – An exhibition of contemporary abstract prints by Patricia Grant and Susan Mealing |
|
| 9:00AM - 10:00PM |
Highlight Cambridge Science Festival 2014 The Science Festival aims to provide the public with opportunities to explore and discuss issues of scientific interest and concern and to raise aspirations by encouraging young people to consider a career in science, technology, engineering or mathematics. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
The Cambridge Science Centre presents an extraordinary sensory experience. The new exhibition, Perception, will use illusions to uncover how our senses and brain work and the tricks your brain uses to make sense of the world. |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Cordelia Spalding: museum of infinities The Museum of Infinities is a purposeful Paradox. |
|
| 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Highlight A world of private mystery: John Craxton, RA (1922 -2009) A fresh retrospective on John Craxton - from his beginnings as a young hope of post-war British art, creating dark, meditative images of the natural world, to works of incredible vibrancy, light and colour from his later life in Crete. |
|
| 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
From root to tip: Botanical art in Britain This exhibition brings together a selection of watercolours from the Fitzwilliam’s outstanding collection of botanical art. It draws on over 300 years of work by both professional and amateur artists, tracing a history of flower drawing in Britain. |
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| 6:30PM |
Service of dedication and commissioning of the newal of the building lead by Stephen Conway, Bishop of Ely, with the choir of Great St Mary’s. Followed by wine reception |
