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Mon 28 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 - 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

12:00PM - 10:00PM

Shahnameh forever

Together with the premier of Hossein Hadisi's contemporary music and dance stage work 'Zahhak, the Dragon King of Persia' the Cambridge Shahnameh Centre introduces the new Cambridge Persian Art Series. The show presents the works of young and mature artists working with the themes from the Persian ancient epic Shahnameh ('Book of Kings').

12:30PM - 1:30PM

The 'ethereal female' motif in Arctic fiction of the 19th Century

Dr Shane McCorristine, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge will give a Multi-disciplinary Gender Research Seminar.

6:00PM - 7:00PM

Highlight Antarctica, ozone and change: some links between environmental concerns

Lecture by Mr Jonathan Shanklin, British Antarctic Survey .

6:15PM - 7:30PM

Wagner's Shakespeare by Dr Patrick Carnegy

Part of the Trinity Hall Forum Lecture Series

7:30PM - 10:00PM

Zahhák: Dragon King of Persia (contemporary music and dance)

A new stage work based on the ancient Persian myth of Zahhák from the Book of Kings Also an exhibition at the foyer of the concert hall about the Persian Book of Kings