WHAT'S ON

Highlight A Soviet design for life: the Catherine Cooke collection of 20th-century Russian architecture and design

This selling exhibition brings together a selection of handprinted works made by a variety of traditional and innovative techniques.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

An exhibition of stunning examples of twentieth-century Russian design and architecture, including posters, books, packaging, postcards, pop-up books and many more fascinating items.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Exhibition at Clare Hall

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Clare Wardman

Through painting and drawing, Clare Wardman investigates the movement of natural light and shadow.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Roberta Booth MA, is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, whose career has spanned over 35 years, with her work being exhibited world wide.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles.

Tue 25 September 2012

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight A Soviet design for life: the Catherine Cooke collection of 20th-century Russian architecture and design

This selling exhibition brings together a selection of handprinted works made by a variety of traditional and innovative techniques.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

An exhibition of stunning examples of twentieth-century Russian design and architecture, including posters, books, packaging, postcards, pop-up books and many more fascinating items.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection

Exhibition at Clare Hall

10:00AM - 5:00PM

See works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, as well as prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Edgelands

Prints by George Shaw and Michael Landy

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China

Featuring over 350 treasures in jade, gold, silver, bronze and ceramics, discover the secrets of ancient China’s 2000 year old royal tombs. This exhibition is part of the London 2012 Festival and is the largest exhibition of ancient royal treasures ever to travel outside China.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Clare Wardman

Through painting and drawing, Clare Wardman investigates the movement of natural light and shadow.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Roberta Booth MA, is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, whose career has spanned over 35 years, with her work being exhibited world wide.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Soccer and the intelligence services: why they matter?

The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Portals to the world

An art appreciation course designed specially for people with demetia and their carers at the Fitzwilliam Museum.

7:00PM - 9:00PM

The 1883 cup final, the only occasion when the working class was able to take on the upper class. No public school team ever made it to the finals again with momentous consequences. Equally momentous was the founding of MI5, the first British organisation to try to recruit clever women. For the first time some of the gents found that their secretaries were better educated than they were.

7:15PM - 8:15PM

University social club swimming Cancelled

This event has been cancelled. Lane swimming available every Tuesday for University and non-University individuals

7:45PM

Intriguing and shocking by turns, Thrill Me explores the toxic relationship of two wealthy, intelligent Chicago students dubbed in history as the ‘thrill killers’.

Wed 26 September 2012

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight A Soviet design for life: the Catherine Cooke collection of 20th-century Russian architecture and design

This selling exhibition brings together a selection of handprinted works made by a variety of traditional and innovative techniques.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

An exhibition of stunning examples of twentieth-century Russian design and architecture, including posters, books, packaging, postcards, pop-up books and many more fascinating items.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection

Exhibition at Clare Hall

10:00AM - 5:00PM

See works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, as well as prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Edgelands

Prints by George Shaw and Michael Landy

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China

Featuring over 350 treasures in jade, gold, silver, bronze and ceramics, discover the secrets of ancient China’s 2000 year old royal tombs. This exhibition is part of the London 2012 Festival and is the largest exhibition of ancient royal treasures ever to travel outside China.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Clare Wardman

Through painting and drawing, Clare Wardman investigates the movement of natural light and shadow.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Roberta Booth MA, is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, whose career has spanned over 35 years, with her work being exhibited world wide.

1:15PM - 2:00PM

The works of Kan Yasuda

Enjoy a lunchtime talk in Seminar Room 3 at the Fitzwilliam Museum.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Validity theory and validation: never the twain shall meet?

The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles.

3:30PM - 5:00PM

Is it possible that modern validity theory is just too abstract, confusing or unclear to scaffold effective practice?

5:00PM - 6:30PM

Highlight Need and nature of a new scientific revolution

Microsoft research's Stephen Emmott will be speaking on the consequences of over-population and the difficult technological and societal choices we face in addressing the global challenges of the 21st century.

7:45PM

Intriguing and shocking by turns, Thrill Me explores the toxic relationship of two wealthy, intelligent Chicago students dubbed in history as the ‘thrill killers’.

Thu 27 September 2012

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight A Soviet design for life: the Catherine Cooke collection of 20th-century Russian architecture and design

This selling exhibition brings together a selection of handprinted works made by a variety of traditional and innovative techniques.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

An exhibition of stunning examples of twentieth-century Russian design and architecture, including posters, books, packaging, postcards, pop-up books and many more fascinating items.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection

Exhibition at Clare Hall

10:00AM - 5:00PM

See works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, as well as prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Edgelands

Prints by George Shaw and Michael Landy

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China

Featuring over 350 treasures in jade, gold, silver, bronze and ceramics, discover the secrets of ancient China’s 2000 year old royal tombs. This exhibition is part of the London 2012 Festival and is the largest exhibition of ancient royal treasures ever to travel outside China.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Clare Wardman

Through painting and drawing, Clare Wardman investigates the movement of natural light and shadow.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Roberta Booth MA, is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, whose career has spanned over 35 years, with her work being exhibited world wide.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Talking about things: a lecture by Ludmilla Jordanova

The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

The Lawrence room

Girton College has an extremely unusual Egyptian mummy called Hermione, which can now be viewed in the College’s small museum.

6:00PM - 7:30PM

7:45PM

Intriguing and shocking by turns, Thrill Me explores the toxic relationship of two wealthy, intelligent Chicago students dubbed in history as the ‘thrill killers’.

Fri 28 September 2012

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight A Soviet design for life: the Catherine Cooke collection of 20th-century Russian architecture and design

This selling exhibition brings together a selection of handprinted works made by a variety of traditional and innovative techniques.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

An exhibition of stunning examples of twentieth-century Russian design and architecture, including posters, books, packaging, postcards, pop-up books and many more fascinating items.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection

Exhibition at Clare Hall

10:00AM - 5:00PM

See works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, as well as prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Edgelands

Prints by George Shaw and Michael Landy

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China

Featuring over 350 treasures in jade, gold, silver, bronze and ceramics, discover the secrets of ancient China’s 2000 year old royal tombs. This exhibition is part of the London 2012 Festival and is the largest exhibition of ancient royal treasures ever to travel outside China.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Clare Wardman

Through painting and drawing, Clare Wardman investigates the movement of natural light and shadow.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Roberta Booth MA, is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, whose career has spanned over 35 years, with her work being exhibited world wide.

1:00PM - 2:00PM

Highlight Luke Berryman piano recital

Lunchtime concert

2:00PM - 4:00PM

The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles.

7:45PM

Intriguing and shocking by turns, Thrill Me explores the toxic relationship of two wealthy, intelligent Chicago students dubbed in history as the ‘thrill killers’.

8:00PM - 10:00PM

Highlight QuintEssential: in Venetia - the glories of the most serene republic

QuintEssential Sackbut and Cornett Ensemble, with Nicholas Mulroy (tenor) A programme to mark the four-hundredth anniversary of the death of Giovanni Gabrieli (c1557 -1612).

Sat 29 September 2012

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight A Soviet design for life: the Catherine Cooke collection of 20th-century Russian architecture and design

This selling exhibition brings together a selection of handprinted works made by a variety of traditional and innovative techniques.

9:00AM - 4:30PM

An exhibition of stunning examples of twentieth-century Russian design and architecture, including posters, books, packaging, postcards, pop-up books and many more fascinating items.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection

Exhibition at Clare Hall

10:00AM - 5:00PM

See works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, as well as prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Edgelands

Prints by George Shaw and Michael Landy

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China

Featuring over 350 treasures in jade, gold, silver, bronze and ceramics, discover the secrets of ancient China’s 2000 year old royal tombs. This exhibition is part of the London 2012 Festival and is the largest exhibition of ancient royal treasures ever to travel outside China.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Clare Wardman

Through painting and drawing, Clare Wardman investigates the movement of natural light and shadow.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Winifred Nicholson: music in colour

Roberta Booth MA, is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, whose career has spanned over 35 years, with her work being exhibited world wide.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

The third of our ongoing Artist in Focus displays, this exhibition takes a close look at one of the most important artists in the collection, Winifred Nicholson.

12:00PM - 1:00PM

Highlight VivaBiancaLuna Biffi: Fermate il passo

VivaBiancaLuna Biffi (soprano, viola d'arco) performs a one-woman mini-drama about love, woven from enchanting frottole from late 15th and early 16th century Italy.

1:30PM - 3:30PM

Family workshop on early Italian music

Cambridge Early Music in partnership with La Dante in Cambridge is hosting a special event to give children the chance to be taught by an internationally known musician. The workshop will focus on the Italian frottola, the secular song popular in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles.

3:00PM

New Poetry

Reading and translations of poetry by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi at the Fitzwilliam Museum.

7:00PM - 10:30PM

Highlight Music as therapy International

Concert

7:30PM - 9:30PM

Highlight French piano music 1880-1920: unveiling the hidden masters

A series of five concert lectures by Patrick Hemmerlé

7:45PM

Intriguing and shocking by turns, Thrill Me explores the toxic relationship of two wealthy, intelligent Chicago students dubbed in history as the ‘thrill killers’.

Sun 30 September 2012

8:00AM - 5:00PM

This selling exhibition brings together a selection of handprinted works made by a variety of traditional and innovative techniques.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Exhibition at Clare Hall

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Clare Wardman

Through painting and drawing, Clare Wardman investigates the movement of natural light and shadow.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Winifred Nicholson: music in colour

Roberta Booth MA, is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, whose career has spanned over 35 years, with her work being exhibited world wide.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

The third of our ongoing Artist in Focus displays, this exhibition takes a close look at one of the most important artists in the collection, Winifred Nicholson.

12:00PM - 1:00PM

Highlight Julian Perkins clavichord recital

Julian Perkins plays music for clavichord by Frescobaldi, Handel, Pasquini, Froberger, Domenico Scarlatti and Alessandro Scarlatti

12:00PM - 5:00PM

Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection

See works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, as well as prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso.

12:00PM - 5:00PM

Highlight Edgelands

Prints by George Shaw and Michael Landy

12:00PM - 5:00PM

Highlight The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China

Featuring over 350 treasures in jade, gold, silver, bronze and ceramics, discover the secrets of ancient China’s 2000 year old royal tombs. This exhibition is part of the London 2012 Festival and is the largest exhibition of ancient royal treasures ever to travel outside China.

2:00PM - 4:00PM