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Wed 23 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 - 12:30PM

Grading

Training event: Making the right grading decisions - a discussion of issues, challenges and outcomes by Cambridge Assessment expert Mark Dowling. Part of the Assessment Practice series.

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

10:30AM - 4:30PM

The lost world (part 2)

The Lost World (Part 2) is a solo exhibition by Julie Gough simultaneously installed in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and at Contemporary Art Tasmania (CAT), Hobart.

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.

1:00PM - 2:00PM

Open classes in modern Hebrew

Open classes in Modern Hebrew Michaelmas Term 2013 Foundation course

1:15PM

Healthy, humours and paintings

With Spike Bucklow, Research Scientist, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

2:15PM

Israeli film club - Michaelmas Term 2013

All films are in Hebrew with English sub-titles.

3:00PM

Healthy, humours and paintings

With Spike Bucklow, Research Scientist, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

5:00PM - 6:30PM

The lattey lecture: what authority does the word of God have in the Catholic Church?

Fr Timothy Radcliffe OP, former Master General of the Dominicans,who will deliver the 2013 Lattey Lecture on Catholic Social Teaching and Biblical Studies.

6:30PM - 8:00PM

Life clubs - Self improvement workshops Cancelled

This event has been cancelled. Life clubs was created in 2004 by Nina Grunfeld, best-selling author of The Life Book. Sessions are every Wednesday.

7:00PM

Monkey Bars

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

7:00PM - 8:00PM

How to do macroeconomics in an age of uncertainty: methodology & theory (lecture 1 and 2) With Professor Jesper Jespersen

Lecture one will begin with an analysis of macroeconomic development in the past and how can it be explained? In this lecture the importance of methodology and how to choose a relevant model, where uncertainty is represented, is discussed.

7:00PM - 8:00PM

Highlight What's wrong with wrongdoing?

A free public lecture at Madingley Hall by Professor Alison Sinclair, Professor of Modern Spanish Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge.

7:00PM - 9:00PM

Public open evenings at the Institute of Astronomy

Astronomy talks and public observing (if clear!) every Wednesday evening during the winter season.

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.

8:00PM - 9:30PM

Halloween stories - Cambridge storytellers

Tales to chill the blood

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.

11:00PM - 11:59PM

Songs for a New World

It’s about one moment...’ Jason Robert Brown’s stunning song cycle revolves around that one decisive moment when your whole world can change.