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Cambridge Festival 2024

The Cambridge Festival returns for 2024.

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Pick of the month Cambridge Festival 2024

The Cambridge Festival returns for 2024.

9:00AM - 7:00PM

Cambridge Creative Encounters Exhibition

The Cambridge Creative Encounters exhibition showcases the creative outcomes of the 2023 edition of the project, bringing together researchers from the University of Cambridge and creative professionals.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Highlight Hidden Histories

Explore the hidden histories of the Polar Museum in this new label display. From the female figures in polar history to the origins of Inuit art; follow the stories around the museum exhibits and discover something new.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Beneath Our Feet: Archaeology of the Cambridge Region

A new exhibition at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology explores the traces of where people have lived, worked and died for thousands of years in Cambridgeshire.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Crazy Cone Caper self-led trail

Join us for a fantastic whodunit mystery this winter and track down who has been stealing seeds from pinecones!

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Student Poetry Trail

Embark on the enchanting Student Poetry Trail at the Botanic Garden. Discover the hidden voices of plants through poetry!

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Exhibition: The Goddess, the Deity & the Cyborg

Drawing from the works in The Women’s Art Collection as well as loans from public and private collections, the exhibition explores the enduring appeal of the goddess and traces how artists have adapted and even transformed the goddess into an ambiguous figure undefined by gender or even bodily form.

10:00AM - 5:00PM on Fri 14 June

Highlight William Blake’s Universe

Discover William Blake’s universe and a constellation of European artists seeking spirituality in their lives and art in response to war, revolution and political turbulence.

11:00AM - 5:00PM

Issam Kourbaj: Urgent Archive

Since 2011 Issam Kourbaj’s artwork has responded to the ongoing conflict in Syria, and reflects on the suffering of his fellow Syrians and the destruction of his cultural heritage.

12:30PM - 2:30PM

Newnham and Bletchley Park exhibition

This exhibition tells the incredible story of Newnham College women’s war work, at Bletchley Park and beyond.

1:15PM - 2:00PM

Tales from the trowel's edge: New archaeological sites on the island of Samos

A lunchtime talk with Dr Michael Loy

6:00PM - 7:30PM

Health Justice and International recruitment of health workers

The fifth seminar in a series centred on Health Justice, which will focus on the topic of international recruitment of health workers in relation to health justice.

7:00PM - 8:00PM

Highlight The Really Popular Book Club: Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

Join Cambridge University Library for our monthly online book club. Open to all!

7:00PM - 9:00PM

Biblical Justice for Transforming the World

Biblical Justice for Transforming the World is designed both for those working in social justice ministry and for anyone else seeking to relate their faith more effectively to public life. Through readings, conversation and reflection on participant’s experience, we will explore a compelling biblical and theological underpinning for justice work in our contemporary world, with a focus on poverty.