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Sat 17 October 9:00AM - 4:30PM

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

A free exhibition at Cambridge University Library.

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.

10:30AM - 3:30PM

The Art of The Rag Rug with Lu Mason

Discover the craft of traditional rag rug making in this workshop with artist and experienced rug maker Lu Mason. Perfect for beginners and textile enthusiasts, this session introduces two classic rag rug methods – hookie and proddie/clippie.

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.

2:00PM - 6:00PM

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)

7:30PM - 9:00PM

Continuum | Renewal

“Renewal” traces the quiet shift from night’s stillness towards morning, as the first light slowly emerges from the silence of darkness.

7:30PM - 9:20PM

Concert by City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra

Music by Webern, Rachmaninov and Beach including the second piamo concerto by Rachmaninov

8:00PM - 9:30PM

International Organ Recital – Isabelle Demers

Organist Isabelle Demers presents a recital on the new St John's College organ