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Cambridge Festival 2024

The Cambridge Festival returns for 2024.

Sat 18 March 2023 9:30AM - 6:30PM

Italy’s imperial debris: spaces, objects, and fantasies of an unburied colonial past

This symposium aims to establish a dialogue between different disciplinary approaches dealing with the significance of ancient archaeological debris in imperial cultures since the early modern era.

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

Highlight Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean

Bringing together extraordinary antiquities, Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean takes visitors on a 4,000-year journey from life in the ancient Mediterranean to today.

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 Andalusian Pageant

An exhibition of paintings by Dr Elizabeth Drayson, inspired by her research into the history of the Iberian Peninsula from 711 to 1492.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Exhibition: Radium Dreams

Award-winning poet Sue Hubbard and internationally acclaimed artist Eileen Cooper RA celebrate the life and work of the groundbreaking scientist Marie Curie.

10:15AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Our Quantum World: How Quantum Technologies will Shape the Future - One Day Meeting

A one-day interdisciplinary scientific meeting organised by Professor Adrian Kent, Dr Boris Groisman, Dr Sergii Strelchuk and Professor Ron Horgan covering quantum technologies an their different aspects and varied applications.

11:00AM - 5:00PM

Lucie Rie: The Adventure of PotteryReturn to What’s on

Celebrating one of the most significant potters of the twentieth century, this major new exhibition is a rare opportunity to experience Lucie Rie’s (1902-1995) ground-breaking practice across six decades.

12:00PM - 5:00PM

Highlight Picturing the Invisible: Earthquake, Meltdown, Memory

Picturing the Invisible: Earthquake, Meltdown, Memory is an academic and artistic partnership exploring the communities ravaged by the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake. It provides a striking photographic portrait of communities living with radiation and trauma in Fukushima and neighbouring prefectures, more than a decade later.

7:30PM - 9:30PM

Academy of Great St. Mary's Orchestral concert

Orchestral concert - Sibelius: Karelia Suite Elgar: Wand of Youth Suite No. 2 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5