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Fri 16 October 9:00AM - 4:00PM

Other than Words: A Sense of Release in the Presence of Art

Clare Hall is delighted to host Other than Words: A Sense of Release in the Presence of Art, a new exhibition of recent paintings by Jerry Scott.

9:00AM - 6:30PM

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

A free exhibition at Cambridge University Library.

9:00AM - 7:00PM

Knowledge in a Fractured World

Marking twenty?five years of interdisciplinary research and public engagement at CRASSH, this special anniversary exhibition looks at knowledge?making across and beyond the academic and artistic community.

9:10AM - 10:00AM

Restart a Heart Day

Join us for Restart a Heart Day, where you can learn life-saving CPR skills and help make a difference in our community!

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 - 5:00PM

A Mughal Songbook: Art, Music and Empire

Experience the vibrant world of song, poetry and performance of Mughal South Asia from around 1750 to 1850.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Exhibition: Folklore

Folklore, is an exploration of stories from Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, and beyond. Featuring tales of people, magic, medicine, and the things that we still can’t quite explain.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

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 - 6:00PM

What Remains

Through contemporary artists, What Remains celebrates 40 years since The Women's Art Collection acquired its first artwork.

11:00AM - 5:00PM

Sunil Gupta: Life with a Camera, 1970 – Now

This major survey exhibition will reveal Sunil Gupta’s (b.1953, New Delhi) pioneering contribution to photography over five decades.

11:00AM - 5:00PM

The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing

The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing asks how we remember, commemorate and reconcile with the past. Bringing together the practices of Maisy Aykroyd, Theo Panagopoulos and Sid White Jones, the exhibition takes flowers as a central motif across moving image, photography and printmaking.

12:00PM - 12:50PM

Restart a Heart Day

Join us for Restart a Heart Day, where you can learn life-saving CPR skills and help make a difference in our community!

1:10PM - 2:00PM

Restart a Heart Day

Join us for Restart a Heart Day, where you can learn life-saving CPR skills and help make a difference in our community!

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Misery and Beauty: Harry Becker's Portrait of East Anglian Farm Labour around the Great War

The Robert Cripps Gallery's MT26 exhibition focuses on East Anglian farm labour around the First World War, as portrayed in the haunting pictures of Harry Becker (1865-1928)

2:40PM - 3:30PM

Restart a Heart Day

Join us for Restart a Heart Day, where you can learn life-saving CPR skills and help make a difference in our community!

3:45PM - 4:35PM

Restart a Heart Day

Join us for Restart a Heart Day, where you can learn life-saving CPR skills and help make a difference in our community!

5:00PM

ANDREW CHAMBLIN MEMORIAL LECTURE 2026

The twentieth Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture, entitled "Singularities in Space and Time", will be given by Professor Gary Horowitz (University of California, Santa Barbara).

5:30PM - 6:20PM

Restart a Heart Day

Join us for Restart a Heart Day, where you can learn life-saving CPR skills and help make a difference in our community!

5:30PM - 7:00PM

Lies, Spies and Double-Dealing: A Cambridge Spy Tour

A walking tour which unmasks the long tradition of Cambridge spying, from the earliest days of the university to recent times; from Christopher Marlowe to Anthony Blunt, via James Bond. Tours are led by Green Badge Guides.

7:00PM - 9:30PM

The Big Bike Film Night

The Big Bike Film Night is on a mission – bringing the best short cycling films from around the world together for you.