Mon 14 October 2019 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
YOKO ONOO: LOOKING FOR ... Pieces from Grapefruit and Other Works A selection of 36 works from Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit (1964/1971) as well as other selected works. |
9:30AM - 2:30PM |
Sir Lionel Whitby: War hero, medical pioneer, Master An archive exhibition featuring highlights from a recent donation of personal papers of the eminent bacteriologist, haematologist and Regius Professor of Physic at the University (1945-56) |
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9:30AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Downing's Early Black Cantabs An archive exhibition for Black History Month celebrating the College's early black students dating back more than 100 years |
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10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Creative Connections: Portraits of Women Scientists and Artists An exhibition of photographic portraits of female scientists and artists. |
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6:00PM - 6:25PM |
To be performed by John Challenger (Assistant Director of Music, Salisbury Cathedral) |
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6:00PM - 7:00PM |
Highlight LARMOR LECTURE - Design of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds - Still Learning our ABC? The Larmor Lecture by Professor Serena Best, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge. |
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Tue 15 October 2019 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
YOKO ONOO: LOOKING FOR ... Pieces from Grapefruit and Other Works A selection of 36 works from Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit (1964/1971) as well as other selected works. |
9:15AM - 10:00AM |
Early morning curator’s tour of Seeing Sound Join Dr Rebecca Virag, exhibition co-curator, on a private exhibition guided tour for individuals and groups, before the Museum opens at 10.00. |
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9:30AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Downing's Early Black Cantabs An archive exhibition for Black History Month celebrating the College's early black students dating back more than 100 years |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fans Unfolded: Conserving the Lennox-Boyd collection Showcasing rare and exquisitely decorated fans from the collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd, allocated to the Museum by H.M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax in 2015, this display reveals the techniques behind the making, investigation and conservation of fans. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Greek goddesses are re-imagined through a feminist lens in this contemporary art exhibition by New Zealand Artist Marian Maguire. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Rembrandt and the Nude Rembrandt made etchings of female nudes during two distinct periods of his career: in the 1630s, and another two decades later. This exhibition draws attention to the beauty and power of Rembrandt’s treatment of the female form, despite attacks received from critics of the time. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Seeing Sound: Music, imagery and inspiration This exhibition brings together a remarkable range of works from the Museum’s collections to explore the ways in which artists and composers have engaged in a dialogue between sight and sound. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
The celebrated Mr Belzoni: A cultural gift to the Fitzwilliam This in-focus exhibition is centred on a new acquisition: Jan Adam Kruseman’s posthumous portrait of the celebrated adventurer, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, known as ‘The Great Belzoni’. |
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10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Creative Connections: Portraits of Women Scientists and Artists An exhibition of photographic portraits of female scientists and artists. |
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12:30PM - 2:00PM |
Talk given by Professor Arthur Petersen |
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1:10PM - 1:55PM |
Lunchtime Concert Series: The Invicta Quartet Beethoven String Quartet No.10, Op.74 The Invicta Quartet James Jones, Coco Inman, Nils Jones, Samuel Ng |
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5:00PM - 6:00PM |
“From Small Acorns……”: The Story of the Modern Slavery Garden at Chelsea Flower Show In 2016, Juliet Sargeant designed and created a gold-medal winning garden at Chelsea Flower Show, exploring the issue of modern slavery. She will share with us the story of the garden, the campaign and what can grow from small acorns. |
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5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Why Capitalists need Communists Britain faces huge challenges: inequality, public services under constant pressure, climate change - and in the long term, the impacts of automation and artificial intelligence. In Why Capitalists Need Communists, Charles Seaford explores how radical, progressive change is possible. |
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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 16 October 2019 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
YOKO ONOO: LOOKING FOR ... Pieces from Grapefruit and Other Works A selection of 36 works from Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit (1964/1971) as well as other selected works. |
9:30AM - 2:30PM |
Highlight Downing's Early Black Cantabs An archive exhibition for Black History Month celebrating the College's early black students dating back more than 100 years |
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9:30AM - 2:30PM |
Sir Lionel Whitby: War hero, medical pioneer, Master An archive exhibition featuring highlights from a recent donation of personal papers of the eminent bacteriologist, haematologist and Regius Professor of Physic at the University (1945-56) |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fans Unfolded: Conserving the Lennox-Boyd collection Showcasing rare and exquisitely decorated fans from the collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd, allocated to the Museum by H.M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax in 2015, this display reveals the techniques behind the making, investigation and conservation of fans. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Greek goddesses are re-imagined through a feminist lens in this contemporary art exhibition by New Zealand Artist Marian Maguire. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Rembrandt and the Nude Rembrandt made etchings of female nudes during two distinct periods of his career: in the 1630s, and another two decades later. This exhibition draws attention to the beauty and power of Rembrandt’s treatment of the female form, despite attacks received from critics of the time. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Seeing Sound: Music, imagery and inspiration This exhibition brings together a remarkable range of works from the Museum’s collections to explore the ways in which artists and composers have engaged in a dialogue between sight and sound. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
The celebrated Mr Belzoni: A cultural gift to the Fitzwilliam This in-focus exhibition is centred on a new acquisition: Jan Adam Kruseman’s posthumous portrait of the celebrated adventurer, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, known as ‘The Great Belzoni’. |
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10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Creative Connections: Portraits of Women Scientists and Artists An exhibition of photographic portraits of female scientists and artists. |
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4:00PM - 5:00PM |
A talk by Professor Peter Midmore Emeritus Professor of Economics and Susan Fowler Research Associate both of Aberystwyth Business School Part of the Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series |
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5:30PM - 6:30PM |
Changing the story? Women and leadership Business Executive and Cambridge researcher, Heide Baumann, examines why only 8.5% of top executives in Britain's 350 largest companies are women. |
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6:00PM - 7:30PM |
St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Martin Weale Talk Title - 'A Democratic Measure of National Income' Martin Weale is Professor at King's College, London |
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7:00PM - 8:30PM |
Highlight Improving plants: achieving food sustainability in a changing environment Join us to explore how plant science and new technologies can help feeding a growing population in the face of a rapidly changing climate. |
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7:00PM - 9:00PM |
Café Sci Cambridge: The ethics of medical data sharing Richard Milne examines social and ethical questions of genomic data sharing. |
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Thu 17 October 2019 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
YOKO ONOO: LOOKING FOR ... Pieces from Grapefruit and Other Works A selection of 36 works from Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit (1964/1971) as well as other selected works. |
10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fans Unfolded: Conserving the Lennox-Boyd collection Showcasing rare and exquisitely decorated fans from the collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd, allocated to the Museum by H.M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax in 2015, this display reveals the techniques behind the making, investigation and conservation of fans. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Greek goddesses are re-imagined through a feminist lens in this contemporary art exhibition by New Zealand Artist Marian Maguire. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Rembrandt and the Nude Rembrandt made etchings of female nudes during two distinct periods of his career: in the 1630s, and another two decades later. This exhibition draws attention to the beauty and power of Rembrandt’s treatment of the female form, despite attacks received from critics of the time. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Seeing Sound: Music, imagery and inspiration This exhibition brings together a remarkable range of works from the Museum’s collections to explore the ways in which artists and composers have engaged in a dialogue between sight and sound. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
The celebrated Mr Belzoni: A cultural gift to the Fitzwilliam This in-focus exhibition is centred on a new acquisition: Jan Adam Kruseman’s posthumous portrait of the celebrated adventurer, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, known as ‘The Great Belzoni’. |
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10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Creative Connections: Portraits of Women Scientists and Artists An exhibition of photographic portraits of female scientists and artists. |
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5:00PM - 11:00PM |
Eddington Craft Beer and Gin Festival Back by popular demand, the Eddingdon Craft Beer and Gin Festival returns this October to the stunning Storey’s Field Centre in Cambridge. |
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Fri 18 October 2019 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
YOKO ONOO: LOOKING FOR ... Pieces from Grapefruit and Other Works A selection of 36 works from Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit (1964/1971) as well as other selected works. |
9:30AM - 2:30PM |
Sir Lionel Whitby: War hero, medical pioneer, Master An archive exhibition featuring highlights from a recent donation of personal papers of the eminent bacteriologist, haematologist and Regius Professor of Physic at the University (1945-56) |
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9:30AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Downing's Early Black Cantabs An archive exhibition for Black History Month celebrating the College's early black students dating back more than 100 years |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fans Unfolded: Conserving the Lennox-Boyd collection Showcasing rare and exquisitely decorated fans from the collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd, allocated to the Museum by H.M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax in 2015, this display reveals the techniques behind the making, investigation and conservation of fans. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Greek goddesses are re-imagined through a feminist lens in this contemporary art exhibition by New Zealand Artist Marian Maguire. |
|
10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Rembrandt and the Nude Rembrandt made etchings of female nudes during two distinct periods of his career: in the 1630s, and another two decades later. This exhibition draws attention to the beauty and power of Rembrandt’s treatment of the female form, despite attacks received from critics of the time. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Seeing Sound: Music, imagery and inspiration This exhibition brings together a remarkable range of works from the Museum’s collections to explore the ways in which artists and composers have engaged in a dialogue between sight and sound. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
The celebrated Mr Belzoni: A cultural gift to the Fitzwilliam This in-focus exhibition is centred on a new acquisition: Jan Adam Kruseman’s posthumous portrait of the celebrated adventurer, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, known as ‘The Great Belzoni’. |
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10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Creative Connections: Portraits of Women Scientists and Artists An exhibition of photographic portraits of female scientists and artists. |
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3:00PM - 3:30PM |
Highlight TEA AND TALK WITH INUPIAQ ARTIST WILLY TOPKOK Join us for a cup of tea and a talk by Inupiaq artist, Willy Topkok. Hailing from the small villages of Teller and Wales, Alaska, Willy Topkok is an Inupiaq artist from the North American Arctic. |
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5:00PM - 11:59PM |
Eddington Craft Beer and Gin Festival Back by popular demand, the Eddingdon Craft Beer and Gin Festival returns this October to the stunning Storey’s Field Centre in Cambridge. |
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5:15PM - 7:15PM |
War in Raqqa, Syria: Rhetoric versus Reality Panel talk with Amnesty and Cambridge researchers who investigated the 2017 Coalition bombing of Raqqa, Syria and launch of art exhibition. The discussion will be followed by drinks (6.30pm onwards). The exhibition (Fitzpatrick Gallery, Queens College) will be open until 6th December 2019. |
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5:30PM - 8:00PM |
General Magic the Movie at Clare College Are you interested in Technology? Entrepreneurship? Start-ups? Documentary Film-Making? This history of your smartphone? If so please join for General Magic the Movie at 5.30 PM on Friday 18 October 2019. |
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7:30PM - 9:30PM |
Highlight Camerata Musica Cambridge: Lucas & Arthur Jussen, music for two pianos The brilliant Dutch brother-virtuosos, Lucas & Arthur Jussen, preform Mozart, Schubert, and Stravinsky in this concert of music for two pianos. |
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Sat 19 October 2019 | 10:00AM - 1:00PM |
Greek goddesses are re-imagined through a feminist lens in this contemporary art exhibition by New Zealand Artist Marian Maguire. |
10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fans Unfolded: Conserving the Lennox-Boyd collection Showcasing rare and exquisitely decorated fans from the collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd, allocated to the Museum by H.M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax in 2015, this display reveals the techniques behind the making, investigation and conservation of fans. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Rembrandt and the Nude Rembrandt made etchings of female nudes during two distinct periods of his career: in the 1630s, and another two decades later. This exhibition draws attention to the beauty and power of Rembrandt’s treatment of the female form, despite attacks received from critics of the time. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Seeing Sound: Music, imagery and inspiration This exhibition brings together a remarkable range of works from the Museum’s collections to explore the ways in which artists and composers have engaged in a dialogue between sight and sound. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
The celebrated Mr Belzoni: A cultural gift to the Fitzwilliam This in-focus exhibition is centred on a new acquisition: Jan Adam Kruseman’s posthumous portrait of the celebrated adventurer, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, known as ‘The Great Belzoni’. |
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10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Creative Connections: Portraits of Women Scientists and Artists An exhibition of photographic portraits of female scientists and artists. |
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12:00PM - 11:59PM |
Eddington Craft Beer and Gin Festival Back by popular demand, the Eddingdon Craft Beer and Gin Festival returns this October to the stunning Storey’s Field Centre in Cambridge. |
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3:00PM - 4:00PM |
Becoming Classical: art and the revolution in values in fifth-century B.C. Greece Lecture by Professor Robin Osborne, held as part of Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2019. |
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6:30PM - 7:45PM |
With the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge directed by Andrew Nethsingha and St John's Sinfonia led by Margaret Faultless |
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7:30PM - 9:45PM |
Highlight Stargazer Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra |
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Sun 20 October 2019 | 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Join us for the region's largest Apple Day - a celebration of all things apple including sales, tasting and identification. |
10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Creative Connections: Portraits of Women Scientists and Artists An exhibition of photographic portraits of female scientists and artists. |
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12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Fans Unfolded: Conserving the Lennox-Boyd collection Showcasing rare and exquisitely decorated fans from the collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox Boyd, allocated to the Museum by H.M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax in 2015, this display reveals the techniques behind the making, investigation and conservation of fans. |
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12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Rembrandt and the Nude Rembrandt made etchings of female nudes during two distinct periods of his career: in the 1630s, and another two decades later. This exhibition draws attention to the beauty and power of Rembrandt’s treatment of the female form, despite attacks received from critics of the time. |
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12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Seeing Sound: Music, imagery and inspiration This exhibition brings together a remarkable range of works from the Museum’s collections to explore the ways in which artists and composers have engaged in a dialogue between sight and sound. |
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12:00PM - 5:00PM |
The celebrated Mr Belzoni: A cultural gift to the Fitzwilliam This in-focus exhibition is centred on a new acquisition: Jan Adam Kruseman’s posthumous portrait of the celebrated adventurer, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, known as ‘The Great Belzoni’. |
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12:00PM - 8:00PM |
Eddington Craft Beer and Gin Festival Back by popular demand, the Eddingdon Craft Beer and Gin Festival returns this October to the stunning Storey’s Field Centre in Cambridge. |
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6:00PM - 6:25PM |
To be performed by Christopher Whitton (Director of Music, Emmanuel College, Cambridge) |
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7:00PM - 9:45PM |
Highlight Sakhya Diwali celebrations 2019 A fundraiser evening of great music, delicious Indian food and Bollywood dancing. All proceeds from the event to go to grass-root education and development oriented projects in India that Sakhya supports. |