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Wed 30 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 - 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

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 - 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.

1:00PM - 2:00PM

Feminine frontiers of faith

An inspirational session with women of faith in leadership, featuring Laura Janner-Klausner, Rabbi to the Movement for Reform Judaism, and Julie Siddiqi, Executive Director of the Islamic Society of Britain.

1:00PM - 2:00PM

Open classes in modern Hebrew

Open classes in Modern Hebrew Michaelmas Term 2013 Foundation course

1:15PM

Models of collaboration: artistic interventions in a fifteenth-century book of hours

With Dr Deirdre Jackson, Research Associate, Manuscripts and Printed Books.

2:15PM

Israeli film club - Michaelmas Term 2013

All films are in Hebrew with English sub-titles.

6:00PM - 7:30PM

St Catharine's political economy seminar series on the Economics of Austerity

Andy Ross will give a talk on 'Prudent fiscal consolidation versus reckless austerity and the limits of capitalism'. All are welcome.

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 - 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 - 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

The Magic Flute

Mozart's most popular opera is united with its crowd-pleasing intentions. Comedy, anguish and spectacle abound: a rare opportunity to see Cambridge's finest vocal talent.

8:00PM

Shoot Coward! Three Plays from Latin America

Three countries. Three playwrights. Three plays from Latin America, brought to the UK stage for the first time.

11:00PM - 11:59PM

Cowsdrinkmilk

Acclaimed sketch troupe CowsDrinkMilk (Edinburgh Fringe, BBC Radio 4 Extra, Footlights Smokers) present an hour of uncontrollable comedy.

11:00PM - 11:59PM

Gender the Elephant

Inspired by the writing of Jim Jarmusch (Coffee and Cigarettes) and Richard Cameron (Can't Stand Up For Falling Down), as well as the work of feminist artists Claude Cahun, Jenny Saville, and Caryl Churchill (Top Girls), this one-woman play takes you on the peculiar journey of Bess and Bobby."