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Sat 7 December 2013 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Autumn in Cambridge

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

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

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Magadan: life in the Russian north

A photography exhibition exploring the City and Region of Magadan.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight A world of private mystery: John Craxton, RA (1922 -2009)

A fresh retrospective on John Craxton - from his beginnings as a young hope of post-war British art, creating dark, meditative images of the natural world, to works of incredible vibrancy, light and colour from his later life in Crete.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Edmund de Waal: on white – porcelain stories from the Fitzwilliam

Come and experience the visual drama of the intervention that renowned potter and Cambridge graduate, Edmund de Waal, has staged in four interconnected ground-floor galleries of the Museum.

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 - 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

11:00AM - 3:00PM

Christmas craft

Create stunning Christmas decorations at this family workshop. We'll use plaster of paris and palnts from th Garden to create unusual textured decorations to take home with you.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Family first Saturdays

Visit our Fitz Family Welcome Point and collect materials to use in the Museum.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Family first Saturdays

On the first Saturday of each month visit our Fitz Family Welcome Point (Courtyard Entrance) and collect drawing materials, activities and trails to use throughout the Museum, exploring a variety of themes. Suitable for all ages (children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult).

2:30PM - 5:15PM

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."

7:00PM

Frame 312

Lynette delves deep into her past unravelling the secrets she was entrusted about the real story behind JFK's assignation.

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

Highlight Storytellers - Gawain & The Green

A Christmas feast of music

8:00PM - 10:00PM

CUMS symphony orchestra performs Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Shostakovich Symphony No.11 Martin Yates conductor Sergey Levitin violin

9:30PM

Improv From the Crypt

The Impronauts take you to a haunted world of dark dungeons, ghost-infested graveyards and poorly-executed experiments where the audience is the master.

11:00PM - 11:59PM

Joyful Joyful: A Journey through Gospel

Joyful Joyful is a journey through gospel music. From the torments of the soul to its release, this narration associates music, dances and poetry. The show culminates and ends in a joyful note to celebrate what we already have: life.