| Sat 18 May 2013 | 8:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Cambridge schools Art Exhibition Pupils from The Leys and Arbury Primary school exhibit their work on conservation. In the last few years students have won prizes and exhibited at Saatchi gallery. the Mall Galleries, arts and the Medical Research Council at Addenbrookes. |
| 9:00AM - 4:30PM |
Highlight Read all about it! wrongdoing in Spain and England in the long nineteenth century An exhibition of nineteenth-century popular press material from Spain and England, featuring poisoners, pirates, werewolves and many other dubious characters. |
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| 9:30AM - 12:00PM |
Stories from Change; finding your own voice, with Anne French, this is a story workshop suitable for beginners and experienced storytellers. |
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| 10:00AM - 3:00PM |
Highlight Orientality: Cultural Orientalism and Mentality The topics of the speakers coming from the UK, Europe, Qatar, Turkey, Uzbekistan and the USA range from impressionist painting in Nukus and Ottoman travelogue literature, to the pragmatic Orientalism of Dyagilev's ballets, Orientalist photography and Portuguese luxury trade. |
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| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
The new Festival of Plants at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden brings together horticulture and science in a day devoted to all things plant, from propagation to pollination, from seed to shopping! Join our team of horticulturalists, plant experts and scientists from across the region for a garden event with a difference. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artowrk, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats. |
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| 10:30AM - 4:30PM |
Creativity in the bronze age - a response An intervention into MAA’s experimental World Archaeology Gallery by a group of seven contemporary craft artists, ranging from artist jewellers to potters. |
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| 10:30AM - 4:30PM |
Exploring how the Penan and Kelabit people of Borneo have shaped and been shaped by the rainforest for 50,000 years |
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| 11:30AM - 5:00PM |
From April to July visitors to Kettle's Yard will have the opportunity to see 'guests' from eight other University of Cambridge museums and collections carefully places amongst the artworks and objects in the house. |
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| 11:30AM - 5:00PM |
Katie Paterson's exhibition at Kettle's Yard brings together previous projects and new work. On display in St Peter's Church is a new piece, Fossil Necklace, a culmination of her residency at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. |
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| 1:00PM - 2:00PM |
A wonderful lunchtime series of concert |
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| 1:00PM - 2:00PM |
Highlight Oliver Griffin, family and friends Classical music from Bach to Debussy |
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| 1:30PM - 2:30PM |
'Tavaszi szél' ('spring breeze') - concert of Hungarian traditional singing and koboz music A concert of Hungarian traditional singing and koboz (lute) music by the acclaimed folk duo, Tűnde Fábri-Ivánovics and Géza Fábri |
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| 3:30PM - 4:30PM |
Songs and stories for children from Jeroen Schipper and Kathleen Van der Weerd |
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| 6:00PM |
University of Cambridge Museums open after-hours for music, art, performance, talks |
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| 6:00PM - 7:45PM |
Museums at night: the geology of wine Talk and wine tasting at Sedgwick Museum |
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| 7:30PM - 9:00PM |
Sarah Finch presents a play about Jane Austen and the Characters of Pride and Prejudice |
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| 7:30PM - 9:45PM |
Highlight CCSO plays Mahler Mahler 1st Symphony, plus Shostakovich 1st cello concerto played by Guy Johnston |
