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Cambridge Festival 2024

The Cambridge Festival returns for 2024.

Mon 19 October 2020 9:00AM

Bitesize Botanics

Small windows into what's happening in CUBG

9:00AM

Family Activities at home

Fun family activities for you to try at home.

9:00AM

Heavenly Gardens

BBC One – Heavenly Gardens with Alexander Armstrong

9:00AM - 11:59PM

Plant Quiz

Plant Quiz

12:00PM - 4:00PM

Great St.Mary's Tower

Tower is now open at Great St. Mary's the University Church with panoramic views of the colleges and Cambridge.

Tue 20 October 2020 9:00AM

Bitesize Botanics

Small windows into what's happening in CUBG

9:00AM

Family Activities at home

Fun family activities for you to try at home.

9:00AM

Heavenly Gardens

BBC One – Heavenly Gardens with Alexander Armstrong

9:00AM - 11:59PM

Plant Quiz

Plant Quiz

12:00PM - 4:00PM

Great St.Mary's Tower

Tower is now open at Great St. Mary's the University Church with panoramic views of the colleges and Cambridge.

3:00PM - 4:00PM

Getting started with MATLAB for scientific programming

Join us for an online workshop on how to develop your first MATLAB code.

3:00PM - 5:00PM

‘A Veritable Volcano’ The Life and Legacy of Admiral Lord ‘Jacky’ Fisher

Online talks and panels organised by the Churchill Archives Centre to commemorate and debate the life and legacy of Admiral Lord ‘Jacky’ Fisher (1841-1920).

4:00PM - 6:00PM

Highlight Seeing the Invisible: The Dark Matter Puzzle with Dr Tina Potter

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN continues to search for new, exotic particles that could explain Dark Matter. Dr Tina Potter will introduce the LHC and the largest of the four main detectors, ATLAS. She will show you how and why scientists search for a rich array of new particles predicted by Supersymmetry and the latest results from these searches.

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

Wed 21 October 2020 9:00AM

Bitesize Botanics

Small windows into what's happening in CUBG

9:00AM

Family Activities at home

Fun family activities for you to try at home.

9:00AM

Heavenly Gardens

BBC One – Heavenly Gardens with Alexander Armstrong

9:00AM - 11:59PM

Plant Quiz

Plant Quiz

12:00PM - 4:00PM

Great St.Mary's Tower

Tower is now open at Great St. Mary's the University Church with panoramic views of the colleges and Cambridge.

4:00PM - 5:00PM

Do far-right mayors increase the probability of hatecrimes? Evidence from Italy

Mr Alessio Romarri from the University of Barcelona will be presenting "Do far-right mayors increase the probability of hatecrimes?"

Thu 22 October 2020 9:00AM

Bitesize Botanics

Small windows into what's happening in CUBG

9:00AM

Family Activities at home

Fun family activities for you to try at home.

9:00AM

Heavenly Gardens

BBC One – Heavenly Gardens with Alexander Armstrong

9:00AM - 11:59PM

Plant Quiz

Plant Quiz

12:00PM - 4:00PM

Great St.Mary's Tower

Tower is now open at Great St. Mary's the University Church with panoramic views of the colleges and Cambridge.

5:00PM - 6:30PM

(UN)SETTLING EPISTEMOLOGIES THROUGH DIGITAL TOOLS

Come to our interactive launch to explore how knowledge in the digital space forms and transforms as you test out new tools.

6:00PM - 7:30PM

The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the delivery of clinical education and training and the implications for future learning

The pandemic has not only had an impact on the delivery of health care across all systems, it has also affected the delivery of education for all clinical learners and practitioners. Through an inter-professional lens, three particular areas will be examined – syllabus delivery, assessments, and well-being and vulnerability.

Fri 23 October 2020 9:00AM

Bitesize Botanics

Small windows into what's happening in CUBG

9:00AM

Family Activities at home

Fun family activities for you to try at home.

9:00AM

Heavenly Gardens

BBC One – Heavenly Gardens with Alexander Armstrong

9:00AM - 11:59PM

Plant Quiz

Plant Quiz

12:00PM - 4:00PM

Great St.Mary's Tower

Tower is now open at Great St. Mary's the University Church with panoramic views of the colleges and Cambridge.

6:00PM - 7:00PM

In conversation with Honorary Fellows Jackie Ashley and Sarah Sands

A talk with Lucy Cavendish College Honorary Fellows Jackie Ashley and Sarah Sands

Sat 24 October 2020 9:00AM

Bitesize Botanics

Small windows into what's happening in CUBG

9:00AM

Family Activities at home

Fun family activities for you to try at home.

9:00AM

Heavenly Gardens

BBC One – Heavenly Gardens with Alexander Armstrong

9:00AM - 12:30PM

Cambridge University Botanic Garden Adult online courses September 2020

Introduction to garden design. Tutor: Paul Herrington. A fun and relaxed course over five morning sessions to help you design or re-think your own garden.

9:00AM - 11:59PM

Plant Quiz

Plant Quiz

12:00PM - 4:00PM

Great St.Mary's Tower

Tower is now open at Great St. Mary's the University Church with panoramic views of the colleges and Cambridge.

1:00PM - 4:00PM

Cambridge University Botanic Garden Adult online courses September 2020

Introduction to garden design. Tutor: Paul Herrington A fun and relaxed course over five afternoon sessions to help you design or re-think your own garden.

Sun 25 October 2020 9:00AM

Bitesize Botanics

Small windows into what's happening in CUBG

9:00AM

Family Activities at home

Fun family activities for you to try at home.

9:00AM

Heavenly Gardens

BBC One – Heavenly Gardens with Alexander Armstrong

9:00AM - 11:59PM

Plant Quiz

Plant Quiz

11:00AM - 12:30PM

Highlight Science walking tours

Enjoy a 90 minute physical (not virtual) walking tour of Cambridge with a Green Badge Guide. Hear stories of Issac Newton's cat, a docor who put his patient inside a horse, and a scientist who died studying his chickens, and much more.

12:00PM - 4:00PM

Great St.Mary's Tower

Tower is now open at Great St. Mary's the University Church with panoramic views of the colleges and Cambridge.