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Sun 19 May 2013 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Deep and meaningful images of our ocean- opening night talk by Professor Callum Roberts

The Opening night for this spectacular exhibition is 20 May 2013, 6pm - 7:30pm. Our oceans and coastlines host some of the most productive ecosystems on earth, providing food and livelihoods to millions of people around the world. From small-scale local fishing communities to international fishing fleets, the bounty of the oceans has sustained local and national economies for centuries.

9:30AM - 10:30AM

Worship: Roly Bains - holy fool

Performer and priest Roly Bains' unique form of innovative worship. a 9 year old boy said "I loved your show - you made Christ serious but funny"

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.

12:00PM - 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.

1:15PM - 2:00PM

Ensemble 1728

Lucy Brown (clarinet), Joey Edwards (cello) and Simon Brown (piano) perform pieces by Brhams, Kreisler, Sarasate, Bazzini and Bach.

6:00PM - 6:25PM

Organ recital

To be performed by Andrew Nethsingha (Director of Music, St John’s College)

7:30PM - 9:00PM

Imagining Cambridge - cloud-capped towers

A talk from Novelist Jill Paton-Walsh. Using a real place as setting for a work of fiction is a two-way affair. the fiction becomes satisfyingly solid, but the place itself dissolves; a novel is a very misleading guide book! she will talk about the interface between city and setting in her detective novels.