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Mon 1 December 2025 9:00AM - 6:30PM

Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World

Illuminated by medieval manuscripts, Cambridge University Library's exhibition explores a complex and intriguing world of medieval medicine.

9:00AM - 7:00PM

Family Matters: Holding you up

18 artists’ photographs, paintings, performances, films, sculptures, toys and drawings offer us imaginative and playful ways to consider the impacts of family.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Little Robin's Christmas Trail

Join Little Robin in the Botanic Garden to find some festive plants.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Visit the Winter Garden

Enjoy flowers, foliage, stems, structure and scent throughout the winter months.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

An exhibition of paintings and monoprints by Benita Kevill-Davies

Clare Hall is pleased to present an exhibition by Benita Kevill-Davies, from 28th November 2025 to 8th January 2026. The exhibition is open for public viewing, 10am to 5pm, seven days a week.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Escape from Colditz - Papercuts, Collage and Installation

The Robert Cripps Gallery is delighted to announce the upcoming exhibition by Leipzig-based artist Annette Schröter. Inspired in part by her origins near Colditz Castle in Germany and by the tales of wartime derring-do immortalised in the 1970s BBC TV series “Colditz”, Escape from Colditz is a contemplation on the theme of escape or escapism presented in a unique series of papercuts and collage.

3:00PM - 5:00PM

Indexed Beings

Screening of 'Indexed Beings' followed by a Q&A with film director Helen Knowles and Indigenous leader Soraida Chindoy Buesaquillo.

5:30PM - 7:00PM

Women of Troy and Hecabe: Psychiatry, theatre, and contemporary society

In this talk, the psychiatrist and poet Femi Oyebode (Doppelganger, Madness at the Theatre, Sim’s Symptoms in the Mind) will unpack Euripides’ tragedies Trojan Women and Hecabe, reflecting on the traumatic experiences of war, the drive to migrate, and the social and psychiatric responses to immigrant status.