WHAT'S ON

The hours of healing - an exhibition by printmaker Ruth Oinn

An exhibition by Sue Shepherd at the Alison Richard Building

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Ruth Oinn is showing a series of twenty-six prints, which have been a year in the making. Celebrating the centenary of Britten’s birth, the works have been created around Britten's operas, by revisiting several much loved works, poring over librettos and seeing productions at Aldeburgh and Glyndebourne.

9:30AM - 4:30PM

Learn the ancient & sustainable technique of cob building and be part of an amazing public art project by Karen Guthrie & Nina Pope, creating a 'model village of the future' - a walk-through scale model of the paths, houses & shops planned for the future North West Cambridge Development.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

1989-2014 and counting: Lynne Strover Gallery celebrates 25 years

With an international reputation as an artist working through collage across different media, this new work by Charlotte Hodes has been informed by the influential 1856 book The Grammar of Ornament by architect Owen Jones, one of the most important design theorists of the 19th century.

11:00AM - 4:00PM

From 18 April to 5 May 2014 Lynne Strover Gallery in Fen Ditton will be celebrating twenty five years in the contemporary art scene in Cambridge with a special exhibition, featuring much-loved pieces collected during the gallery’s quarter century. Over the years Lynne has built strong relationships with artists, including several featured in Cambridge museum collections.

12:00PM - 5:00PM

This exhibition displays a beautiful selection of books produced by The Rampant Lions Press since their last retrospective exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1982.

5:00PM - 7:00PM

Highlight Holocaust Denial: A Flat Earth Theory or a Clear and Present Danger?

A public talk by Professor Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies (Emory University).

Tue 6 May 2014

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Sula Rubens is currently working as Artist in Residence at The Michaelhouse. You are welcome to talk to her about her work.

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight The Leys School

This annual exhibition has proved to be a festival for young creative talent.

9:00AM - 5:00PM

The hours of healing - an exhibition by printmaker Ruth Oinn

An exhibition by Sue Shepherd at the Alison Richard Building

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Ruth Oinn is showing a series of twenty-six prints, which have been a year in the making. Celebrating the centenary of Britten’s birth, the works have been created around Britten's operas, by revisiting several much loved works, poring over librettos and seeing productions at Aldeburgh and Glyndebourne.

9:30AM - 4:30PM

The art of the Grand Tour

Learn the ancient & sustainable technique of cob building and be part of an amazing public art project by Karen Guthrie & Nina Pope, creating a 'model village of the future' - a walk-through scale model of the paths, houses & shops planned for the future North West Cambridge Development.

10:00AM - 12:00PM

A five-week course from the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall - course begins 29th April.

10:00AM - 12:00PM

Wild places of Cambridgeshire

A five-week course from the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall - course begins 29th April.

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

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

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

This exhibition displays a beautiful selection of books produced by The Rampant Lions Press since their last retrospective exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1982.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

With an international reputation as an artist working through collage across different media, this new work by Charlotte Hodes has been informed by the influential 1856 book The Grammar of Ornament by architect Owen Jones, one of the most important design theorists of the 19th century.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

The architecture of pilgrimage

Art & Life: 1920-1931 Ben nicholson, Winifred nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis & William Staite Murray

2:00PM - 4:00PM

A five-week course from the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall - course begins 29th April.

5:00PM - 6:45PM

The Power and peril of narrative: policy-relevant research using the British birth cohort studies

Professor Jane Elliott, Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at the Institute of Education, London, will be giving a talk of interest to researchers in the social sciences.

7:00PM - 8:00PM

Row the Amazon with Mark de Rond and Anton Wright

2077 miles. Two men. One boat. A long way from the University of Cambridge.

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

Visions of the future: predictions past and present

A five-week course from the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall - course begins 29th April.

7:30PM - 8:30PM

Highlight What do we mean by 'music'? (and how can we make sense of it?)

A free public lecture at Madingley Hall by Professor Ian Cross, Director of the Centre for Music and Science, University of Cambridge.

Wed 7 May 2014

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Sula Rubens is currently working as Artist in Residence at The Michaelhouse. You are welcome to talk to her about her work.

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight The Leys School

This annual exhibition has proved to be a festival for young creative talent.

9:00AM - 5:00PM

The hours of healing - an exhibition by printmaker Ruth Oinn

An exhibition by Sue Shepherd at the Alison Richard Building

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Ruth Oinn is showing a series of twenty-six prints, which have been a year in the making. Celebrating the centenary of Britten’s birth, the works have been created around Britten's operas, by revisiting several much loved works, poring over librettos and seeing productions at Aldeburgh and Glyndebourne.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Literature of the liberation: the French experience in print 1944–1946

An exhibition commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Paris, showing books published, mainly in France, after the liberation of Paris and before the end of 1946.

9:30AM - 4:30PM

Cambridge explorations: following in the footsteps of Cambridge's scientific explorers

Learn the ancient & sustainable technique of cob building and be part of an amazing public art project by Karen Guthrie & Nina Pope, creating a 'model village of the future' - a walk-through scale model of the paths, houses & shops planned for the future North West Cambridge Development.

10:00AM - 12:00PM

A five-week course from the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall - course begins 30th April.

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 30th April.

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

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

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

This exhibition displays a beautiful selection of books produced by The Rampant Lions Press since their last retrospective exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1982.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Poverty, disease and medicine

With an international reputation as an artist working through collage across different media, this new work by Charlotte Hodes has been informed by the influential 1856 book The Grammar of Ornament by architect Owen Jones, one of the most important design theorists of the 19th century.

10:05AM - 12:05PM

A five-week course from the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall - course begins 30th April.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

St Catharines political economy seminars: William Brown

Art & Life: 1920-1931 Ben nicholson, Winifred nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis & William Staite Murray

2:15PM

Israeli film club

All films are in Hebrew with English sub-titles.

6:00PM - 7:30PM

Highlight Architect of the year 2014, Alex de Rijke

Architect of the Year Alex de Rijke will give an illustrated public talk. His work has been described as having a lightness of touch that is joyful, flamboyant and unique. DRMM’s RIBA award winning Sliding House in Suffolk and WoodBlock House in London are cited as examples of projects pushing boundaries in British residential design.

6:00PM - 7:30PM

The next St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity, will be given by William Brown on 'The Use of Supply Chain Disruption to Fight for Workers' Rights'. All are welcome.

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.

7:15PM - 9:15PM

Writing with style

A five-week course from the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall - course begins 30th April.

7:30PM - 9:30PM

Excluded but not defeated: the constructive resilience of Bahá’ís in Iran in light of education denial

In this presentation, Dr. Ghanea will explore the themes of exclusion, constructive resilience, and education access as they apply to the current political situation in Iran, where Bahá’ís and other minority groups are systematically denied human rights. Her talk will be accompanied by portions of the 30-minute documentary Education Under Fire.

Thu 8 May 2014

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Sula Rubens is currently working as Artist in Residence at The Michaelhouse. You are welcome to talk to her about her work.

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight The Leys School

This annual exhibition has proved to be a festival for young creative talent.

9:00AM - 5:00PM

The hours of healing - an exhibition by printmaker Ruth Oinn

An exhibition by Sue Shepherd at the Alison Richard Building

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Ruth Oinn is showing a series of twenty-six prints, which have been a year in the making. Celebrating the centenary of Britten’s birth, the works have been created around Britten's operas, by revisiting several much loved works, poring over librettos and seeing productions at Aldeburgh and Glyndebourne.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Literature of the liberation: the French experience in print 1944–1946

An exhibition commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Paris, showing books published, mainly in France, after the liberation of Paris and before the end of 1946.

9:00AM - 9:00PM

A series of events in memory of the late Professor Thurstan Shaw

9:30AM - 4:30PM

Ediacaran Enigmas: resolving the fossil record of early animals

Learn the ancient & sustainable technique of cob building and be part of an amazing public art project by Karen Guthrie & Nina Pope, creating a 'model village of the future' - a walk-through scale model of the paths, houses & shops planned for the future North West Cambridge Development.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

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

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

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

This exhibition displays a beautiful selection of books produced by The Rampant Lions Press since their last retrospective exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1982.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

With an international reputation as an artist working through collage across different media, this new work by Charlotte Hodes has been informed by the influential 1856 book The Grammar of Ornament by architect Owen Jones, one of the most important design theorists of the 19th century.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

Poussin’s extreme unction: Art and sacrament in an age of controversy

Art & Life: 1920-1931 Ben nicholson, Winifred nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis & William Staite Murray

6:30PM - 8:30PM

Learn more about the subject of Nicolas Poussin’s moving masterpiece Extreme Unction and the historical context in which it was painted from Eamon Duffy, Professor of the History of Christianity, University of Cambridge. Includes a reception and an opportunity to view Poussin’s painting after the talk.

8:00PM - 10:00PM

Bartosz Woroch, violin & Robert Thompson, piano

Performing works by Bach, Strauss and Beethoven

Fri 9 May 2014

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Sula Rubens is currently working as Artist in Residence at The Michaelhouse. You are welcome to talk to her about her work.

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight The Leys School

This annual exhibition has proved to be a festival for young creative talent.

9:00AM - 5:00PM

The hours of healing - an exhibition by printmaker Ruth Oinn

An exhibition by Sue Shepherd at the Alison Richard Building

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Ruth Oinn is showing a series of twenty-six prints, which have been a year in the making. Celebrating the centenary of Britten’s birth, the works have been created around Britten's operas, by revisiting several much loved works, poring over librettos and seeing productions at Aldeburgh and Glyndebourne.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Literature of the liberation: the French experience in print 1944–1946

An exhibition commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Paris, showing books published, mainly in France, after the liberation of Paris and before the end of 1946.

9:00AM - 9:00PM

A series of events in memory of the late Professor Thurstan Shaw

9:30AM - 4:30PM

Ediacaran Enigmas: resolving the fossil record of early animals

Learn the ancient & sustainable technique of cob building and be part of an amazing public art project by Karen Guthrie & Nina Pope, creating a 'model village of the future' - a walk-through scale model of the paths, houses & shops planned for the future North West Cambridge Development.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

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

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

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

This exhibition displays a beautiful selection of books produced by The Rampant Lions Press since their last retrospective exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1982.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

A history of the earth in 9,400 objects: the collection of Dr John Woodward (1665-1728)

With an international reputation as an artist working through collage across different media, this new work by Charlotte Hodes has been informed by the influential 1856 book The Grammar of Ornament by architect Owen Jones, one of the most important design theorists of the 19th century.

11:00AM - 3:45PM

A workshop exploring the collection of Dr John Woodward, one of the world’s oldest intact geological collections.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

The Enigma of Igbo Ukwu: exploring the origins of West African Civilization Thurstan Shaw's Memorial event

Art & Life: 1920-1931 Ben nicholson, Winifred nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis & William Staite Murray

4:00PM - 7:00PM

Thurstan Shaw's excavations at Igbo Ukwu, Nigeria, revealed an astonishing array of elaborate cast bronzes and imported beads dating to the late first millennium A.D. In this lecture, Professor McIntosh will consider the implications of these finds for understanding early civilization in Africa. This is one of a series of Memorial events held in honour of the late Thurstan's Shaw

5:30PM - 6:45PM

Ramsay Murray lecture 2014

Selwyn College's annual Ramsay Murray Lecture. Speaker: John Deathridge on "Power and Violence in Wagner's Ring"

6:30PM - 7:30PM

Dr Tao Wang from Sotheby’s: ‘Pricing Art: Early Chinese Bronzes on the Market’

How has bronze as an essential invention of the ancient Chinese civilisation become a highly valuable ‘commodity’ that is worth several million dollars today?

Sat 10 May 2014

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Sula Rubens is currently working as Artist in Residence at The Michaelhouse. You are welcome to talk to her about her work.

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight The Leys School

This annual exhibition has proved to be a festival for young creative talent.

9:00AM - 4:30PM

Highlight Literature of the liberation: the French experience in print 1944–1946

An exhibition commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Paris, showing books published, mainly in France, after the liberation of Paris and before the end of 1946.

9:00AM - 9:00PM

Ediacaran Enigmas: resolving the fossil record of early animals

A series of events in memory of the late Professor Thurstan Shaw

10:00AM - 4:00PM

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

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

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

This exhibition displays a beautiful selection of books produced by The Rampant Lions Press since their last retrospective exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1982.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

With an international reputation as an artist working through collage across different media, this new work by Charlotte Hodes has been informed by the influential 1856 book The Grammar of Ornament by architect Owen Jones, one of the most important design theorists of the 19th century.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

Madrigals with The Wren Choir

Art & Life: 1920-1931 Ben nicholson, Winifred nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis & William Staite Murray

12:30PM - 1:00PM

A short performance of madrigals

8:00PM - 10:00PM

Highlight Jamie Phillips conducts Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra with oboist Melanie Ragge

Haydn Symphony No. 88 Martinu Oboe Concerto Bartok Romanian Folk Dances Beethoven Symphony No.8 Jamie Phillips conductor Melanie Ragge oboe

Sun 11 May 2014

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Sula Rubens is currently working as Artist in Residence at The Michaelhouse. You are welcome to talk to her about her work.

9:00AM - 9:00PM

A series of events in memory of the late Professor Thurstan Shaw

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Selected works by Rhonda Whitehead

With an international reputation as an artist working through collage across different media, this new work by Charlotte Hodes has been informed by the influential 1856 book The Grammar of Ornament by architect Owen Jones, one of the most important design theorists of the 19th century.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Selected paintings and works on paper, in mixed media and oil capture and record the surface loss, imperfections and characteristics of erosion and time on man made surfaces.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

Art & Life: 1920-1931 Ben nicholson, Winifred nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis & William Staite Murray

12:00PM - 5:00PM

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.

12:00PM - 5:00PM