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Throes of the Modernist Dream: Prints by Rachel Whiteread, Grayson Perry and Sarah Morris from the Paragon Press

An exhibition of contemporary prints by Rachel Whiteread, Grayson Perry and Sarah Morris from the Paragon Press contending with the urban world and “the death throes of the modernist dream.”

Sat 4 February 2023 10:00AM - 1:00PM

ONLINE COURSE Introduction to garden design

Join RHS medal-winning garden designer Paul Herrington and start designing your own garden

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Light. Time. Space. – an exhibition of photographs by Robin Stemp

Enjoy an exhibition by Robin Stemp - a Cambridge-based photographer who captures enigmatic still lifes and unpopulated interiors, as well as unusual aspects of the built environment seen on her travels.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Signs for the Living: an exhibition by Hannah Lister

Visit Wolfson's latest exhibition 'Signs for the Living' featuring work by Hannah Lister, winner of this year's Wolfson Royal Academy Schools Graduate prize.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Life is Still Life

Life is Still Life presents an exciting selection of modern and contemporary works by women artists in the genre of still life.

10:30AM - 5:30PM

Eastern Early Music Forum: Choral Workshop on William Byrd

William Byrd’s astonishing musical legacy will be widely celebrated during 2023, as we mark 400 years since his death.

11:00AM - 12:00PM

LGBTQ+ Bridging Binaries Tours at the Museum of Zoology

Join our volunteer guides as they share their personal selection of fascinating stories about gender and sex in the animal world at the Museum of Zoology

11:00AM - 5:00PM

Pick of the month Paint Like the Swallow Sings Calypso

Kettle’s Yard is pleased to present Paint Like the Swallow Sings Calypso, a major new exhibition curated in dialogue with artists Paul Dash (b. 1946, Barbados), Errol Lloyd (b. 1943, Jamaica) and John Lyons (b. 1933, Trinidad).

12:00PM - 5:00PM

Highlight GAVIN TURK: IN SEARCH OF ARIADNE

A new exhibition by artist Gavin Turk opens on 6 October 2022. In Search of Ariadne unravels the cultural meme of the reclining figure in art. What is the reclining figure? Why is this something that artists have been intrigued with for centuries and where does this form originate?

7:30PM - 9:20PM

The Rite of Spring

A concert by the City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra

7:30PM - 9:30PM

City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra

Strauss 'Ein Heldenleben' plus percussion concerto played by BBC Young Musician Jordan Ashman

8:00PM - 10:00PM

From Darkness to Light | Cambridge University Chamber Choir and Collegium Musicum

A specially-devised programme of music from Bach cantatas with readings and additional works by J.C Bach and Schütz Cambridge University Chamber Choir Cambridge University Collegium Musicum Margaret Faultless director and violin Nicholas Mulroy director and tenor