Wed 11 October 2017 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Art Exhibition of Paintings by Stefan Luszczak An exhibition of original paintings by Stefan Luszczak |
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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9:00AM - 7:00PM |
To commemorate the many meanings of freedom in South Asia in 1947, the Centre of South Asian Studies is holding the first ever public exhibition of its collections. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Degas, Caricature and Modernity: Daumier, Gavarni, Keene Edgas Degas (1834-1917) possessed what his friend Walter Sickert (1860-1942) described as ‘a rollicking and somewhat bear-like sense of fun’. This exhibition looks at three caricaturists and satirists whose work Degas admired and collected in large numbers: Honoré Daumier (1808-79), Paul Gavarni (1804-66) and Charles Keene (1823-91). |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Degas: a passion for perfection The Fitzwilliam Museum will mark the centenary of Degas’s death with an exhibition that will exhibit its holdings of works by the artist – the most extensive and representative in the UK. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Degas’s Drinker: portraits by Marcellin Desboutin Edgar Degas’s famous painting In a Café (L’Absinthe, 1875-6), features a dissolute bearded man whom Degas modeled on his characterful friend and fellow artist Marcellin Desboutin (1832-1902). Both men shared a passion for printmaking and this exhibition explores the Museum’s rare collection of Desboutin’s sensitively executed prints in drypoint |
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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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6:00PM - 7:30PM |
St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Ian Hodge Talk Title: 'Neoliberalism, Institutional Blending and the Governance of Rural Land’ All are welcome. This seminar series is supported by the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Economics and Policy Group at the Cambridge Judge Business School. |
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6:00PM - 8:00PM |
Talk: Revealing the past and present Join Dr Marc Haber and Dr Michal Szpak from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to discover how DNA research is revealing more about us; from our past and our present. |
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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. |