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Tue 22 October 2013 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight "Village" - painting exhibition

A traditional Chinese Painting Exhibition of Northern China villages by Yang Xiaomin

8:00AM - 5:00PM

A traditional Chinese painting exhibition of northern China villages

Selected artworks from Mr. YANG Xiaomin - Deputy director of Centre for Eastern Painting and Calligraphy Art of Nanjing University, China.

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Until lions write their own history ... and exhibition by artist Deanna Tyson

An eclectic exhibition of painted and stitched kimono, wall hangings, soft sculptures and paintings at the Alison Richard Building.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Paintings from Audley End and earlier work

Paintings from Audley End and earlier work by Tony Rothon and Sarah Nutley

9:00AM - 6:00PM

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.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Landscapes of exploration

Landscapes of Exploration is a joint exhibition presented by The Polar Museum and the Ruskin Gallery.

10:00AM - 4:30PM

Landscapes of exploration

Landscapes of Exploration is a joint exhibition presented by The Polar Museum and the Ruskin Gallery.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Origins of the Afro Comb

Discover the extraordinary 6,000-year history of African hair combs in this joint exhibition between the Fitzwilliam Museum and Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight The night of longing: love and desire in Japanese prints

An exhibition of Japanese woodcuts and books of the Edo and Meiji periods (18th and 19th centuries) depicting lovers from literature and life.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Hilary Beauchamp & John Dawson

An exhibition of works inspired by the artist's experiences teaching at Holloway Prison

10:30AM - 4:30PM

Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji

A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections

11:30AM - 5:00PM

Pedro Barateiro: we belong to the people when we're outside

Portuguese artist Pedro Barateiro has developed a new film taking as its starting point two particular objects, a letter from the artist Constantin Brancusi and the painting Composition, 1936 by Portuguese abstract artist Maria Helena Vieira da Silva.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

Sophy Rickett: objects in the field

In 2011 and 2012 Sophy Rickett made regular visits to the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University as an Associate Artist. Her new photographs are a response to meeting a retired fellow of the Institute, the scientist Dr Roderick Willstrop.

4:00PM - 5:30PM

Visual anthropological perspectives on South Asian society

Part of 'Visual rhetoric and modern South Asian history' course which examines the importance of theories of visual culture to teaching modern South Asian history. It introduces Cambridge University academics, students and researchers of South Asia to media research skills required when exploring the ideologies conveyed by the visual dimension of South Asia’s modern history.

5:00PM - 7:00PM

If you are not a conspiracy theorist then you are an idiot

An open lecture with Charles Pigden at CRASSH supported by the Leverhulme funded Conspiracy and Democracy Research Project

5:15PM - 6:45PM

Film screening: Look a Doll! – My Mother’s Story - film by Liliane Lijn

Look a Doll! – My Mother’s Story (1998 – 2000) explores Lijn’s mother’s childhood in Russia and Poland, using interviews, photomontage and archive film clips.

7:00PM

Monkey Bars

Life is a playground; so who better to ask about adult life than children?

7:15PM - 8:15PM

University social club swimming Cancelled

This event has been cancelled. Lane swimming available every Tuesday for University and non-University individuals

7:45PM - 10:30PM

Jerusalem

Sex, drugs and trance music. That’d be village gala day. A vision of contemporary England pitting ancient Albion against commercialism.

9:30PM

Spleen: A New Sketch Show

It's varied. It’s anybody’s guess. It's spleen. You’d be a fool not to book a ticket.