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Cambridge Festival 2024

The Cambridge Festival returns for 2024.

Sat 17 June 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

CNHS 98th Conversazione: Wonders of the Natural World

The Cambridge Natural History Society's annual exhibition contains displays on many aspects of natural history and provides an opportunity to find out more from local experts and organisations.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Highlight MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology: Family-friendly Open Day

Step inside the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and become a scientist for the day! Take part in amazing hands-on activities: see your own cells using a microscope, go on a Nobel treasure hunt or extract DNA from fruit. The lab is open to all with an exciting programme of talks, tours and hands-on activities, so whether you are five or fifty, there will be something for everyone.

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.

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.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

From Kabul to Kolkata: Highlights of Indian painting in the Fitzwilliam Museum

The Fitzwilliam’s second exhibition to mark the 70th anniversary of Indian independence, showcases a selection of Indian miniature paintings and drawings, ranging in date from the 16th to 19th century.

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.

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.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight The Best of All Possible Worlds: Quentin Blake and The Folio Society

Sir Quentin Blake is the UK’s best loved illustrator. See his original illustrations for four classics – The Golden Ass, Candide, Fifty Fables of La Fontaine and Riddley Walker.

12:00PM - 2:30PM

Hidden Lives: A Story of Discovery

The latest exhibition at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton combines archaeology with cutting-edge genomics research to unearth the secrets of some early South Cambridgeshire residents.

6:30PM - 7:30PM

Lucy Cavendish Singers: Your heart's desire

An early evening concert of close harmony, traditional and folk music in aid of 'Send a Cow' - a charity improving the lives of thousands of families in Africa

7:30PM - 9:30PM

Concert to commemorate the Quincentenary of the start of the Reformation in Europe

The Academy of Great St. Mary's orchestral and choral concert to commemorate the Quincentenary of the start of the Reformation in Europe.

8:00PM

Cambridge Graduate Orchestra

Brahms and Schumann

8:00PM - 10:00PM

Sir Roger Norrington conducts Bach's Mass in B Minor

Sir Roger Norrington, Principal Guest Conductor of Cambridge University Musical Society, returns to conduct one of Bach’s most celebrated masterpieces, the B Minor Mass, in the glorious surroundings of King’s College Chapel.