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Thu 24 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

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

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.

1:10PM - 2:00PM

An introduction to Pedro Barateiro

A lunchtime talk by Guy Haywood, Assistant Curator.

1:15PM

It’s not easy being green: exploring the use of green pigments and mixtures in manuscript illumination

With Dr Paola Ricciardi, Research Associate, Manuscript and Printed Books.

5:30PM - 6:30PM

A postgenomic perspective on sex and gender

Professor John Dupré gives the Michaelmas 2013 Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professorship Lecture.

7:00PM

Monkey Bars

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

7:30PM - 9:00PM

The House Sparrow survey of Cambridge

Bob Jarman will talk about reasons why House Sparrows have declined throughout Western Europe including the UK.

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 - 10:00PM

Hyeyoon Park violin, and Florian Uhlig piano

Bach, Schumann, Arvo Pärt, Franck

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.