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Sat 23 November 2013 9:00AM - 4:30PM

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.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Art exhibition

Gail de Cordova

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Enduring visions

Paintings by Gail de Cordava Gail achieved a 1st class Hons degree in Fine Art from Exeter College of Art and Design in 1981. She currently lives in Cambridge and has exhibited widely in the UK, Spain and Sweden.

10:00AM - 12:30PM

The open gate by Maurice Cockrill, RA

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

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

Highlight Martha Haversham: blue on white III

Martha Haversham gained a dance degree at Roehampton Institute and worked in the theatre before transferring to fine art. Charcoal and material of tangibility is intrinsic to her work as this represents the dance of carbon atoms and the continuance of life.

10:30AM - 12:00PM

Rubber band powered fixed wing aircraft

Investigate aerofoils and wings in this hands on family activity at the Department of Engineering

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.

1:00PM - 2:30PM

Rubber band powered fixed wing aircraft

Investigate aerofoils and wings in this hands on family activity at the Department of Engineering

7:00PM

And The Horse You Rode In On

Ten men. Two sides of the river. One night in the early 20th Century; in a world torn apart.

7:30PM - 9:45PM

Highlight City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra concert

Concert of music by Walton, Holst, Bloch and Tchaikovsky. The soloist in the Bloch is the winner of the District Final of the Rotary Young Musician 2013.

7:45PM - 10:30PM

Confusions

From a mother unable to escape from baby talk to a farcical village fete: five interlinked short plays presented by Cambridge’s freshest dramatic talent.

8:00PM

CUMS Chorus - Mendelssohn Elijah

CUMS Chorus performs Mendelssohn Elijah in King's College Chapel, conducted by Stephen Cleobury.

9:30PM

An Earlier Heaven

Lying comatose in a hospital bed, Alice has a very busy day ahead of her. A new and relentlessly inventive pitch black comedy.

11:00PM - 11:59PM

The Penelopiad

Margaret Atwood’s retelling of the story of Odysseus from the point of view of his wife, Penelope. What’s a mother to do?