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Wed 6 June 2012 8:00AM - 5:00PM

The Jesus prayer illustrated

An exhibition in the Chancel to encourage meditation on the global and cosmic signifiance of Christ. The exhibition includes framed pictures on static screens, and a continuous loop of prayer and image frames.

8:00AM - 5:00PM

The Middle East: nile valley hope and dreams

Photography of The Most Rev Dr Mouneer Hanna Anis

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 - 11:00PM

Cambridge & London 2012

Over 300 Olympians have been associated with the University as former students, academics and staff. To celebrate London 2012, the University is hosting a variety of events highlighting the City’s Olympic links and the cultural diversity of countries competing in the Games.

10:00AM - 12:00PM

Swashbucklers

For 9-12 year olds

10:00AM - 12:00PM

The cool club - secrets of the deep

Activities for children aged 7-11 who like exploring, making things, doing science and meeting interesting people

10:00AM - 4:00PM

The edge of beyond: the Antarctic paintings of Dafila Scott

An exhibition of Antarctic work by landscape and wildlife artist Dafila Scott

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection

See works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, as well as prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Edgelands

Prints by George Shaw and Michael Landy

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China

Featuring over 350 treasures in jade, gold, silver, bronze and ceramics, discover the secrets of ancient China’s 2000 year old royal tombs. This exhibition is part of the London 2012 Festival and is the largest exhibition of ancient royal treasures ever to travel outside China.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Laura Havenhand

Large scale portraits made out of representative imagery challenging society’s normal actions that lead to the subjugation of individuals.

11:30AM - 4:30PM

Highlight Alfred Wallis: ships and boats

Selected works from the collection will be on show in the exhibition gallery during the building work. In a series of small, focused displays familiar works will be presented in new ways and with contextual material from the archive and the reserve collection that is not normally available to the public.

1:15PM - 2:00PM

Gateways to paradise: Twin towers in early Chinese art

With Dr Li-kuei Chien, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge.

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

The friends financial panel

The annual meeting of the friends financial panel.

7:30PM - 10:00PM

Conflict , change and survival

Episcopal/Anglican Diocese of Egypt with North Africa and the Horn of Africa within the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East. The Diocese with a small team reaches out to so many in need, including refugees, over a very wide area, at this challenging time of political instability, and working with other Christian denominations and other Faiths. “To reach the unreached for Christ.”