Mon 22 May 2017 | 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Exhibition by Cambridge artists Julia Ball and Loukas Morley |
9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Discarded History: The Genizah of Medieval Cairo This exhibition provides a window on the life of a community a thousand years ago – a Jewish community in the centre of a thriving Islamic empire, international in outlook, multicultural in make up, devout to its core. |
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9:30AM - 4:30PM |
Chivalry re-imagined: Collecting and displaying Renaissance armour in the late 19th century |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
An exhibition by artist Issam Koubaj commemorating those lost at sea while attempting flight from Syria to the island of Lesbos. |
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Tue 23 May 2017 | 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Exhibition by Cambridge artists Julia Ball and Loukas Morley |
9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Discarded History: The Genizah of Medieval Cairo This exhibition provides a window on the life of a community a thousand years ago – a Jewish community in the centre of a thriving Islamic empire, international in outlook, multicultural in make up, devout to its core. |
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10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight The Year That Made Antarctica Over dinner in the spring of 1950 a party of scientists produced an ambitious proposal for a global year of science: the International Geophysical Year was born. With a heavy emphasis on Antarctica, thousands of people from dozens of countries came together to learn about our planet. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Elephants, Deities and Ashoka’s Pillar: Coins of India from antiquity to the present As part of the commemoration in 2017 of the 70th anniversary of Indian independence - marked by the UK-India Year of Culture - this exhibition, drawn from the Fitzwilliam’s world-class numismatic collection, will explore the history of India through coins produced from the 4th century BC until recent times. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Honey from Many Flowers: Carl Wilhelm Kolbe and Salomon Gessner’s Idylls Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (1759–1835), produced prints after a set of landscape drawings by Salomon Gessner (1730-88), which capture the Romantic period’s preoccupation with the pastoral idyll and delight in the natural world. This exhibition showcases a recently acquired complete set of Kolbe’s twenty-five etchings, issued in five parts from 1805-11. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
An exhibition by artist Issam Koubaj commemorating those lost at sea while attempting flight from Syria to the island of Lesbos. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Madonnas & Miracles Peer through the keyhole of the Italian Renaissance home and discover a hidden world of religious devotion. Bringing together a wealth of objects, including jewellery, ceramics, books, sculptures and paintings, the exhibition invites us into a domestic sphere that was charged with spiritual significance. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum Showcasing over 100 samplers from the Museum’s excellent but often unseen collection, this display highlights the importance of samplers as documentary evidence of past lives. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sea to Shore: Paintings by Alfred Wallis & Christopher Wood Kettle’s Yard at the Fitzwilliam Museum This third display from the Kettle’s Yard collection brings together paintings by Alfred Wallis and Christopher Wood that are inspired by the sea and shore. |
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5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Tim O'Reilly - The WTF Economy Tim O'Reilly speaks on how our future world will be shaped by technology |
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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 |
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Wed 24 May 2017 | 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Exhibition by Cambridge artists Julia Ball and Loukas Morley |
9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Discarded History: The Genizah of Medieval Cairo This exhibition provides a window on the life of a community a thousand years ago – a Jewish community in the centre of a thriving Islamic empire, international in outlook, multicultural in make up, devout to its core. |
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10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight The Year That Made Antarctica Over dinner in the spring of 1950 a party of scientists produced an ambitious proposal for a global year of science: the International Geophysical Year was born. With a heavy emphasis on Antarctica, thousands of people from dozens of countries came together to learn about our planet. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Elephants, Deities and Ashoka’s Pillar: Coins of India from antiquity to the present As part of the commemoration in 2017 of the 70th anniversary of Indian independence - marked by the UK-India Year of Culture - this exhibition, drawn from the Fitzwilliam’s world-class numismatic collection, will explore the history of India through coins produced from the 4th century BC until recent times. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Honey from Many Flowers: Carl Wilhelm Kolbe and Salomon Gessner’s Idylls Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (1759–1835), produced prints after a set of landscape drawings by Salomon Gessner (1730-88), which capture the Romantic period’s preoccupation with the pastoral idyll and delight in the natural world. This exhibition showcases a recently acquired complete set of Kolbe’s twenty-five etchings, issued in five parts from 1805-11. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
An exhibition by artist Issam Koubaj commemorating those lost at sea while attempting flight from Syria to the island of Lesbos. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Madonnas & Miracles Peer through the keyhole of the Italian Renaissance home and discover a hidden world of religious devotion. Bringing together a wealth of objects, including jewellery, ceramics, books, sculptures and paintings, the exhibition invites us into a domestic sphere that was charged with spiritual significance. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum Showcasing over 100 samplers from the Museum’s excellent but often unseen collection, this display highlights the importance of samplers as documentary evidence of past lives. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sea to Shore: Paintings by Alfred Wallis & Christopher Wood Kettle’s Yard at the Fitzwilliam Museum This third display from the Kettle’s Yard collection brings together paintings by Alfred Wallis and Christopher Wood that are inspired by the sea and shore. |
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6:00PM - 8:00PM |
Join us for a panel discussion on four different world religions and hear how traditions and personal experiences of faith are revealed in people’s homes today. |
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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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7:30PM |
Highlight Endellion String Quartet & Guy Johnston Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert String Quintet |
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Thu 25 May 2017 | 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Exhibition by Cambridge artists Julia Ball and Loukas Morley |
9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Discarded History: The Genizah of Medieval Cairo This exhibition provides a window on the life of a community a thousand years ago – a Jewish community in the centre of a thriving Islamic empire, international in outlook, multicultural in make up, devout to its core. |
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10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight The Year That Made Antarctica Over dinner in the spring of 1950 a party of scientists produced an ambitious proposal for a global year of science: the International Geophysical Year was born. With a heavy emphasis on Antarctica, thousands of people from dozens of countries came together to learn about our planet. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Elephants, Deities and Ashoka’s Pillar: Coins of India from antiquity to the present As part of the commemoration in 2017 of the 70th anniversary of Indian independence - marked by the UK-India Year of Culture - this exhibition, drawn from the Fitzwilliam’s world-class numismatic collection, will explore the history of India through coins produced from the 4th century BC until recent times. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Honey from Many Flowers: Carl Wilhelm Kolbe and Salomon Gessner’s Idylls Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (1759–1835), produced prints after a set of landscape drawings by Salomon Gessner (1730-88), which capture the Romantic period’s preoccupation with the pastoral idyll and delight in the natural world. This exhibition showcases a recently acquired complete set of Kolbe’s twenty-five etchings, issued in five parts from 1805-11. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
An exhibition by artist Issam Koubaj commemorating those lost at sea while attempting flight from Syria to the island of Lesbos. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Madonnas & Miracles Peer through the keyhole of the Italian Renaissance home and discover a hidden world of religious devotion. Bringing together a wealth of objects, including jewellery, ceramics, books, sculptures and paintings, the exhibition invites us into a domestic sphere that was charged with spiritual significance. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum Showcasing over 100 samplers from the Museum’s excellent but often unseen collection, this display highlights the importance of samplers as documentary evidence of past lives. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sea to Shore: Paintings by Alfred Wallis & Christopher Wood Kettle’s Yard at the Fitzwilliam Museum This third display from the Kettle’s Yard collection brings together paintings by Alfred Wallis and Christopher Wood that are inspired by the sea and shore. |
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5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Humane Automation; The Political Economy of Working with - Rather than Against - Machines Frank Pasquale is the author of 'The Black Box Society' and visiting fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) |
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8:00PM - 10:00PM |
Kettle's Yard chamber series: Llyr Williams Currently undertaking a Beethoven piano sonata cycle at the Wigmore Hall and at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff, Llyr Williams has been described by The Guardian as a “natural Beethovenian”. |
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Fri 26 May 2017 | 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Exhibition by Cambridge artists Julia Ball and Loukas Morley |
9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Discarded History: The Genizah of Medieval Cairo This exhibition provides a window on the life of a community a thousand years ago – a Jewish community in the centre of a thriving Islamic empire, international in outlook, multicultural in make up, devout to its core. |
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10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight The Year That Made Antarctica Over dinner in the spring of 1950 a party of scientists produced an ambitious proposal for a global year of science: the International Geophysical Year was born. With a heavy emphasis on Antarctica, thousands of people from dozens of countries came together to learn about our planet. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Elephants, Deities and Ashoka’s Pillar: Coins of India from antiquity to the present As part of the commemoration in 2017 of the 70th anniversary of Indian independence - marked by the UK-India Year of Culture - this exhibition, drawn from the Fitzwilliam’s world-class numismatic collection, will explore the history of India through coins produced from the 4th century BC until recent times. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Honey from Many Flowers: Carl Wilhelm Kolbe and Salomon Gessner’s Idylls Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (1759–1835), produced prints after a set of landscape drawings by Salomon Gessner (1730-88), which capture the Romantic period’s preoccupation with the pastoral idyll and delight in the natural world. This exhibition showcases a recently acquired complete set of Kolbe’s twenty-five etchings, issued in five parts from 1805-11. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
An exhibition by artist Issam Koubaj commemorating those lost at sea while attempting flight from Syria to the island of Lesbos. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Madonnas & Miracles Peer through the keyhole of the Italian Renaissance home and discover a hidden world of religious devotion. Bringing together a wealth of objects, including jewellery, ceramics, books, sculptures and paintings, the exhibition invites us into a domestic sphere that was charged with spiritual significance. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum Showcasing over 100 samplers from the Museum’s excellent but often unseen collection, this display highlights the importance of samplers as documentary evidence of past lives. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sea to Shore: Paintings by Alfred Wallis & Christopher Wood Kettle’s Yard at the Fitzwilliam Museum This third display from the Kettle’s Yard collection brings together paintings by Alfred Wallis and Christopher Wood that are inspired by the sea and shore. |
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6:00PM - 7:00PM |
Routledge Lecture in Philosophy 2017 Professor Peter Singer will give the 10th Routledge Lecture in Philosophy entitled "The Point of View of the Universe: Defending Sidgwick's Ethics". He will examine how much of Henry Sidgwick's utilitarianism is still defensible today. |
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6:00PM - 9:00PM |
An evening of sketching in the Museum of Classical Archaeology's atmospheric Cast Gallery. |
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Sat 27 May 2017 | 9:00AM - 4:30PM |
Highlight Discarded History: The Genizah of Medieval Cairo This exhibition provides a window on the life of a community a thousand years ago – a Jewish community in the centre of a thriving Islamic empire, international in outlook, multicultural in make up, devout to its core. |
10:00AM - 1:00PM |
An exhibition by artist Issam Koubaj commemorating those lost at sea while attempting flight from Syria to the island of Lesbos. |
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10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight The Year That Made Antarctica Over dinner in the spring of 1950 a party of scientists produced an ambitious proposal for a global year of science: the International Geophysical Year was born. With a heavy emphasis on Antarctica, thousands of people from dozens of countries came together to learn about our planet. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Elephants, Deities and Ashoka’s Pillar: Coins of India from antiquity to the present As part of the commemoration in 2017 of the 70th anniversary of Indian independence - marked by the UK-India Year of Culture - this exhibition, drawn from the Fitzwilliam’s world-class numismatic collection, will explore the history of India through coins produced from the 4th century BC until recent times. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Honey from Many Flowers: Carl Wilhelm Kolbe and Salomon Gessner’s Idylls Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (1759–1835), produced prints after a set of landscape drawings by Salomon Gessner (1730-88), which capture the Romantic period’s preoccupation with the pastoral idyll and delight in the natural world. This exhibition showcases a recently acquired complete set of Kolbe’s twenty-five etchings, issued in five parts from 1805-11. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Madonnas & Miracles Peer through the keyhole of the Italian Renaissance home and discover a hidden world of religious devotion. Bringing together a wealth of objects, including jewellery, ceramics, books, sculptures and paintings, the exhibition invites us into a domestic sphere that was charged with spiritual significance. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum Showcasing over 100 samplers from the Museum’s excellent but often unseen collection, this display highlights the importance of samplers as documentary evidence of past lives. |
|
10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sea to Shore: Paintings by Alfred Wallis & Christopher Wood Kettle’s Yard at the Fitzwilliam Museum This third display from the Kettle’s Yard collection brings together paintings by Alfred Wallis and Christopher Wood that are inspired by the sea and shore. |
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10:00AM - 6:00PM |
When the Heavens Meet the Earth brings together selected works from Robert Devereux’s contemporary art collection, highlighting his commitment to emerging artists who challenge Western preconceptions of, and hegemony over, cultural expression and contemporary art. |
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7:30PM - 9:45PM |
Highlight CCSO concert Concert of music by Liadov, Britten and Rachmaninov |
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Sun 28 May 2017 | 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Elephants, Deities and Ashoka’s Pillar: Coins of India from antiquity to the present As part of the commemoration in 2017 of the 70th anniversary of Indian independence - marked by the UK-India Year of Culture - this exhibition, drawn from the Fitzwilliam’s world-class numismatic collection, will explore the history of India through coins produced from the 4th century BC until recent times. |
12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Honey from Many Flowers: Carl Wilhelm Kolbe and Salomon Gessner’s Idylls Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (1759–1835), produced prints after a set of landscape drawings by Salomon Gessner (1730-88), which capture the Romantic period’s preoccupation with the pastoral idyll and delight in the natural world. This exhibition showcases a recently acquired complete set of Kolbe’s twenty-five etchings, issued in five parts from 1805-11. |
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12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Madonnas & Miracles Peer through the keyhole of the Italian Renaissance home and discover a hidden world of religious devotion. Bringing together a wealth of objects, including jewellery, ceramics, books, sculptures and paintings, the exhibition invites us into a domestic sphere that was charged with spiritual significance. |
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12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum Showcasing over 100 samplers from the Museum’s excellent but often unseen collection, this display highlights the importance of samplers as documentary evidence of past lives. |
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12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Sea to Shore: Paintings by Alfred Wallis & Christopher Wood Kettle’s Yard at the Fitzwilliam Museum This third display from the Kettle’s Yard collection brings together paintings by Alfred Wallis and Christopher Wood that are inspired by the sea and shore. |
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6:00PM - 6:25PM |
To be performed by Ian Wicks (Director of Music, Salisbury Cathedral School) |