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Sat 24 February 2018 9:00AM - 4:30PM

Landscapes Below: Mapping and the New Science of Geology

Landscapes Below celebrates a period of experimental geological map-making in the 19th century, focusing on the use of colour in geological maps and on the development of a visual vocabulary for the new science.

10:00AM - 1:00PM

Queer Antiquities: a Museum Trail

A trail in the Museum of Classical Archaeology to celebrate LGBT History Month.

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

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

The Object of My Affection: stories of love from the Fitzwilliam collection

Love is very much in the air in this exhibition, which contains objects alive with the range of emotions that it commands; from admiration and affection, joy and passion, longing and despair, to insults, indifference, grief and remembrance.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Stephen Chambers: The Court of Redonda

The Heong Gallery is delighted to announce the UK presentation of The Court of Redonda – a major solo exhibition by Stephen Chambers RA, following its highly acclaimed unveiling as a Collateral Event of the 2017 Venice Biennale.

1:30PM - 4:00PM

Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore

Cambridge University Opera Society Mainshow 2018

5:00PM - 7:00PM

Varsity Concert: Oxford & Cambridge University Wind Orchestras

Join the Oxford and Cambridge University Wind Orchestras for this Varsity joint concert in Trinity College Chapel.

7:30PM - 9:30PM

Academy of Great St. Mary's Christmas Orchestral Concert

Orchestral concert: Weber: Oberon Overture Brahms: Symphony No. 3 Schumann: Introduction, Scherzo and Finale

7:45PM - 10:15PM

Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore

Cambridge University Opera Society Mainshow 2018