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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.

9:30AM - 12:00PM

Anne French story workshop

Stories from Change; finding your own voice, with Anne French, this is a story workshop suitable for beginners and experienced storytellers.

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.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Festival of plants

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.

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.

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.

10:30AM - 4:30PM

The cultured rainforest

Exploring how the Penan and Kelabit people of Borneo have shaped and been shaped by the rainforest for 50,000 years

11:30AM - 5:00PM

House guests

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.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

Katie Paterson

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.

1:00PM - 2:00PM

Lindsay Stemp concert series

A wonderful lunchtime series of concert

1:00PM - 2:00PM

Highlight Oliver Griffin, family and friends

Classical music from Bach to Debussy

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

3:30PM - 4:30PM

Remarkable garments

Songs and stories for children from Jeroen Schipper and Kathleen Van der Weerd

6:00PM

Museums at night

University of Cambridge Museums open after-hours for music, art, performance, talks

6:00PM - 7:45PM

Museums at night: the geology of wine

Talk and wine tasting at Sedgwick Museum

7:30PM - 9:00PM

Yours ever Jane

Sarah Finch presents a play about Jane Austen and the Characters of Pride and Prejudice

7:30PM - 9:45PM

Highlight CCSO plays Mahler

Mahler 1st Symphony, plus Shostakovich 1st cello concerto played by Guy Johnston