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Mon 30 April 2012 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Art and faith- new ways of seeing

Innovative art exhibition which seeks to explore inter-faith dialogue in the world of aesthetics.

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Interfaith art

Interfaith Art by Laura Kettle

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Shelf Lives: Four Centuries of Collectors and their Books

Ten great book collectors whose volumes have enriched the University Library's holdings from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries.

9:00AM - 8:00PM

Highlight Swimmers by Quentin Blake

Works created for the new Maternity Wing of the University Hospital at Angers, France

9:00AM - 5:00PM on Mon 25 June 2012

Pick of the month London calling: an exhibition of paintings by Vic Stedman

An exhibition of paintings for sale by local artist Vic Stedman.

10:00AM - 12:00PM

Reading Tolstoy and Flaubert in English

This new short course at Madingley Hall will consider problems and theories of translation and, at the same time, will engage you in a close reading of two world masterpieces: Lev Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, and Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Lys Hansen: across the divide

The core of this exhibition is a selected group of major canvases on the theme of war and peace and family relationships.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Art as power and performance: Byzantine and modern art compared and contrasted

For the Byzantines, art was a craft central to their culture and lavishly supported by the state. From the ‘Modern’ period on, ‘artists’ have fulfilled a more variable role in society. This new short course at Madingley Hall will help you develop your analytical skills in both these periods of art, opening up new areas of knowledge of Byzantine society and of the way art is consumed today.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

People’s portraits exhibition

The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles.

5:00PM - 7:00PM

Highlight Pasolini's Teorema (1968): roundtable on film and literature with Ali Smith and others

The Cambridge Screen Media Group at CRASSH starts the new term with a roundtable on film and literature focusing on Pier Paulo Pasolini’s 1968 film, Teorema.

5:00PM - 11:59PM

Lifting the veil: Iran past and present

Discover the other face of Iran.

5:30PM - 6:30PM

Highlight Lys Hansen: Across the Divide - Artist's Talk

Lys Hansen, a former President of the Society of Scottish Artists, is a colourful, dynamic artist, known for her powerful figurative and expressionistic style. She will be discussing her Across the Divide exhibition showing at the New Hall Art Collection.