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Sun 27 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.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Apple day

One of the region's biggest Apple Days returns to the Botanic Garden to celebrate all things apple: there'll be over thirty varieties of locally grown apple to try before you buy, plus apple edibles, apple identification and care advice. At our family apple station, there'll be apple crafts, trails and storytelling.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Perception

The Cambridge Science Centre presents an extraordinary sensory experience. The new exhibition, Perception, will use illusions to uncover how our senses and brain work and the tricks your brain uses to make sense of the world.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Hilary Beauchamp & John Dawson

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

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.

12:00PM - 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.

12:00PM - 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.

12:00PM - 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.

1:00PM - 4:00PM

Studio Sundays

Join us in the Education Studio to make your own artwork inspired by our exhibitions and collection. A chance to explore, chat, sketch, make and play. Free of charge, donations welcome.

1:15PM - 2:00PM

The Elizabethan 007: music and Intrigue at the court of Elizabeth 1

Enjoy a classical concert in the beautiful surroundings of Gallery 3 at the Fitzwilliam Museum

2:00PM - 5:00PM

The open gate by Maurice Cockrill, RA

An exhibition of paintings at Trinity Hall by Royal Academy artist, Maurice Cockrill

2:00PM - 5:00PM

Trinity Hall observed: doors and windows of an ancient college

Drawings by Colin Hayes (Trinity Hall 1962)

6:00PM - 6:25PM

Organ recital

To be performed immediately prior to Evensong by John Challenger (Assistant Director of Music, Salisbury Cathedral)