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Wed 27 November 2013 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Autumn in Cambridge

Dillistone and A.E. Students from Hills Road 6th form College

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

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.

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

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 - 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 - 2:00PM

Open classes in modern Hebrew

Open classes in Modern Hebrew Michaelmas Term 2013 Foundation course

1:15PM

Being modern in Britain: Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth

With Julia Tozer, former Head of Education.

2:15PM

Israeli film club - Michaelmas Term 2013

All films are in Hebrew with English sub-titles.

5:30PM

Highlight 'All manner of books': Cambridge University Press and its new museum

A talk organised by the Friends of Cambridge University Library. This event will be preceded by the Annual General Meeting of the Friends.

5:30PM - 6:30PM

I could be anyone

An autobiographical performance based on the adolescence of a Cambridge person with dyslexia, before the word became relevant

6:00PM - 7:30PM

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

Özlem Onaran will give a talk on 'What happens to growth when there is a global race to the bottom in the share of labour?' 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 - 9:00PM

Nudging public policy: behavioural economics and beyond with Dr David Halpern

Dr David Halpern is a senior fellow at the Institute for Government, currently on secondment to both No.10 and the Cabinet Office full time to head the Behavioural Insight Team, and support on the Big Society and wellbeing agendas.

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

ADC/Footlights Pantomime 2013: The Princess and the Pea

This year’s ADC/Footlights Pantomime brings together comedy, music and drama for a night of cockle-warming, rib-tickling, souffle-rising Christmas fun."

8:00PM - 9:30PM

Storytelling - Eros and Psyche

Eros and Psyche with Sally Pomme Clayton presented by cambridge storytellers

9:30PM

Jitters

It’s Martha’s wedding but there are oh so many things that could go wrong… Come and watch as every one of them does in this comic new play.