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Events open to the public from the University of Cambridge

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Tue 5 May 9:00AM - 6:30PM

Highlight Living Water: Poetry, Art and the Fight for Clean Rivers

A free exhibition at Cambridge University Library.

9:00AM - 7:00PM

Shape Shifters

In this exhibition, abstraction is expressed in a female form – not from a biological or essentialist perspective, but as a plurality of voices that take the abstract to new depths.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Hidden Histories

Explore the hidden histories of the Polar Museum in this new label display. From the female figures in polar history to the origins of Inuit art; follow the stories around the museum exhibits and discover something new.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

‘Infinite Variations’ – A 60th Anniversary Exhibition of Art in the Life of Clare Hall

Clare Hall is delighted to present its 60th Anniversary exhibition of artworks collected over the years.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Exhibition: Making Angelina: The World of Helen Craig

Step inside the world of Angelina Ballerina as the Museum of Cambridge opens a new exhibition ‘Making Angelina: The World of Helen Craig’!

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Frank Bowling: Seeking the Sublime

Experience the dynamic paint, vivid colour, and bold vision of contemporary British painter Frank Bowling. Celebrating a career lasting nearly seven decades, our exciting display brings together a lifetime of the artist’s work.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

War Craft

What can artworks and objects made in times of war reveal about the pain, peril and lifechanging experiences of conflict and our instincts to seek out hope and humanity through creativity and making?

11:00AM - 5:00PM

Handpicked: Painting Flowers from 1900 to Today

Inspired by the presence of freshly cut flower displays and paintings in the Kettle’s Yard house, this exhibition will present works featuring flowers by artists spanning across the 20th and 21st centuries.

11:00AM - 5:00PM

Kenji Umeda: a journey

This display will exhibit never-before-seen drawings by Kenji Umeda (1948-2019), alongside sculpture, prints and letters between the artist and Jim Ede.

1:00PM - 2:00PM

The Imagined Conflict: On Science and God

On 5th May at 1pm Prof. Sverre Holm will give a seminar entitled ‘The Imagined Conflict: On Science and God’. A light sandwich lunch will be provided from 12:30pm in the Shasha Suite, Woolf Building, Westminster College, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

1:00PM - 2:30PM

Hidden Cambridge: The Walking Tour – The Unusual, The Quirky and The Downright Bizzare!

Hidden Cambridge’s latest and surely most entertaining city centre walking tour led by a Cambridge Green Badge Guide

5:00PM - 6:30PM

Slaughterhouse Struggle: Space, Time, and Ideology in Beirut’s class conflicts of the 1960s.

Slaughterhouse Struggle: Space, Time, and Ideology in Beirut’s class conflicts of the 1960s. Join members of the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies for a lecture presented by MAC Research Fellow, Dr Diala Lteif.

5:30PM - 6:45PM

The rise of local cartography in Europe, 12th-14th century

A talk by Juliette Dumasy (Université d’Orléans) in the 'Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography' series.

6:00PM - 7:15PM

What the hell is going on with... power?

Join Dr Eliane Glaser, author and BBC producer, and Prof Clare Chambers to explore where and how power is exerted today – both overtly and covertly, in public and in private – and why the term seems to have fallen out of fashion at a time when we need it more than ever. They will be joined by award-winning novelist Joanna Kavenna and author and broadcaster Phil Tinline.

7:45PM - 9:30PM

Highlight Medea at the ADC Theatre

Bold adaptation of Euripides' classic tragedy, performed by a talented student company of BAME actors, creatives and crew members. Range of enriching talks and events included in your ticket.