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Events open to the public from the University of Cambridge

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Sat 7 November 9:00AM - 4:30PM

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

A free exhibition at Cambridge University Library.

9:30AM - 4:30PM

Remaking After Trauma: The Role of the Church

A one-day course for church leaders as well as active church members and parachurch volunteers, featuring talks and workshops by experienced practitioners and teachers.

10:00AM - 12:00PM

Transformation Within: A Conscious Connected Breathwork Journey

An invitation to gently turn inward and reconnect with yourself beneath the noise of everyday life. Through guided breath, you’ll be supported to soften the body, quiet the mind, and explore what is ready to be felt, released, or understood.

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 Call to Art: William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites

Discover the radical vision for the future that lies behind the pioneering decorative designs and romantic storytelling of British designer and activist William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelite artists.

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

An Enamel Revolution: China and the World

Discover the fusion of art, technology and international trade that pushed the boundaries of enamel decoration in China from the 1600s.

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.

12:00PM - 5:00PM

No Provenance

A major new artist project by Cambridge-based artist Issam Kourbaj (b. 1963, Syria), presented across the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology and The Heong Gallery In Cambridge.

12:00PM - 6:00PM

Max Livesey: The Production of History 1978

The Production of History 1978 is a site-specific sculptural installation which dramatises a fictional historian’s research into the Leper Chapel, Cambridge, in the late 20th Century.

1:00PM - 4:00PM

Mill Road Book Fest

Mill Road Book Fest featuring book swaps, recommendations, zine-making workshop, children's activities, pop-up cafe

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)

3:00PM - 5:00PM

Crime & Nourishment

The return of our much-loved multi-author crime and mystery fiction event!

7:30PM - 9:15PM

Highlight Scarlatti: Stabat Mater and the music of seventeenth-century Rome

Music to stir the soul!