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 2 October 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

Conference: life and afterlife in Han China

Exhibition at Clare Hall

10:00AM - 5:00PM

A conference in conjunction with The Search for Immortality exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum.

10:00AM - 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.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Life and afterlife in Han China

This conference, organised in conjunction with The Search for Immortality exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Musuem, brings together over fifteen leading sinologists and art historians from the UK, the US, continental Europe, as well as mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Snow Country: Woodcuts of the Japanese Winter

Stunning woodblock prints exploring the snow-bound landscapes and winter pastimes of Japan.

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.

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.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

William Blake: ahead of his time? ahead of ours?

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.

5:30PM - 7:00PM

Malcolm Guite will give an introduction to William Blake in four talks, entitled: Introducing Blake; Songs of Innocence and Experience; Blake and Jesus; Blake as a Prophet.

7:00PM

Electra's daddy's been killed. Her mummy's fucking the murderer. In a post-Freudian world, revenge is a sexual awakening.

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

Marking the launch of CAST's 13th stage tour, this year's production explodes onto the stage with a stark, visceral, physically powerful rendering of one of Shakespeare's most vibrant tragedies. Devastatingly poignant and startlingly comic, Antony and Cleopatra sets a rising star against a hero in decline, while pushing to breaking point the passion that could topple empires.

9:30PM

Inspired by Norman MacCaig’s poem ‘Interruption to a Journey’ and devised from anonymous memories and anecdotes collected from strangers, this play combines naturalism with physical theatre and music to create a haunting and beautiful tale.

11:00PM

The Cambridge Footlights present the final five performances of their 2012 international tourshow, perfect strangers.

Wed 3 October 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

Conference: life and afterlife in Han China

Exhibition at Clare Hall

10:00AM - 5:00PM

A conference in conjunction with The Search for Immortality exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum.

10:00AM - 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.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Life and afterlife in Han China

This conference, organised in conjunction with The Search for Immortality exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Musuem, brings together over fifteen leading sinologists and art historians from the UK, the US, continental Europe, as well as mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Snow Country: Woodcuts of the Japanese Winter

Stunning woodblock prints exploring the snow-bound landscapes and winter pastimes of Japan.

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.

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.

1:15PM - 2:00PM

Trouble with termites

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

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.

7:00PM

Public open evenings at the Institute of Astronomy

Electra's daddy's been killed. Her mummy's fucking the murderer. In a post-Freudian world, revenge is a sexual awakening.

7:00PM - 9:00PM

Astronomy talks and public observing

7:45PM

Marking the launch of CAST's 13th stage tour, this year's production explodes onto the stage with a stark, visceral, physically powerful rendering of one of Shakespeare's most vibrant tragedies. Devastatingly poignant and startlingly comic, Antony and Cleopatra sets a rising star against a hero in decline, while pushing to breaking point the passion that could topple empires.

9:30PM

Inspired by Norman MacCaig’s poem ‘Interruption to a Journey’ and devised from anonymous memories and anecdotes collected from strangers, this play combines naturalism with physical theatre and music to create a haunting and beautiful tale.

11:00PM

The Cambridge Footlights present the final five performances of their 2012 international tourshow, perfect strangers.

Thu 4 October 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 Snow Country: Woodcuts of the Japanese Winter

Stunning woodblock prints exploring the snow-bound landscapes and winter pastimes of Japan.

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

Standard setting and maintaining using expert judgement

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.

10:30AM - 12:30PM

A look at a fundamental issue in assessment. This session will look at the role of expert judgement in standard setting and maintaining, the methods used for capturing expert judgements (e.g. Angoff, Bookmark, Awarding, rank-ordering) and an evaluation of these methods.

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.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Re-thinking the historical canon: the priorities and casualties of mainstream history

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.

5:00PM - 6:00PM

Professor Norman Davies, FBA, will present the Second Annual Zdanowich Lecture to be given as part of the Cambridge University Polish Lecture Series.

7:00PM

Conserving the small things that run the world

Electra's daddy's been killed. Her mummy's fucking the murderer. In a post-Freudian world, revenge is a sexual awakening.

7:30PM - 9:00PM

Ed Turner will talk about the diversity of insects and their conservation.

7:45PM

Marking the launch of CAST's 13th stage tour, this year's production explodes onto the stage with a stark, visceral, physically powerful rendering of one of Shakespeare's most vibrant tragedies. Devastatingly poignant and startlingly comic, Antony and Cleopatra sets a rising star against a hero in decline, while pushing to breaking point the passion that could topple empires.

9:30PM

Inspired by Norman MacCaig’s poem ‘Interruption to a Journey’ and devised from anonymous memories and anecdotes collected from strangers, this play combines naturalism with physical theatre and music to create a haunting and beautiful tale.

11:00PM

The Cambridge Footlights present the final five performances of their 2012 international tourshow, perfect strangers.

Fri 5 October 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 Snow Country: Woodcuts of the Japanese Winter

Stunning woodblock prints exploring the snow-bound landscapes and winter pastimes of Japan.

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.

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.

12:30PM - 1:00PM

Highlight Lunchtime concert

Free concerts for all

12:30PM - 3:00PM

Highlight Free concert by the perse foundation

A stunning series of free concerts

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.

7:00PM

Electra's daddy's been killed. Her mummy's fucking the murderer. In a post-Freudian world, revenge is a sexual awakening.

7:45PM

Marking the launch of CAST's 13th stage tour, this year's production explodes onto the stage with a stark, visceral, physically powerful rendering of one of Shakespeare's most vibrant tragedies. Devastatingly poignant and startlingly comic, Antony and Cleopatra sets a rising star against a hero in decline, while pushing to breaking point the passion that could topple empires.

9:30PM

Inspired by Norman MacCaig’s poem ‘Interruption to a Journey’ and devised from anonymous memories and anecdotes collected from strangers, this play combines naturalism with physical theatre and music to create a haunting and beautiful tale.

11:00PM

The Cambridge Footlights present the final five performances of their 2012 international tourshow, perfect strangers.

Sat 6 October 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

9:30AM - 12:00PM

Trans|figur|ation

An exhibition of painting and sculpture by Helene Fesenmaier

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 Snow Country: Woodcuts of the Japanese Winter

Stunning woodblock prints exploring the snow-bound landscapes and winter pastimes of Japan.

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.

11:00AM - 1:00PM

Jamaican music and dance

Launch of two short documentary films on 'Jonkonnu' and 'Sound Systems' at the Fitzwilliam Museum.

11:00AM - 3:00PM

Autumn colours

Have fun collecting fallen treasures in the Garden and use these as inspiration to create colourful autumn artworks.

11:00AM - 4:30PM

Highlight Poetry in performance

Take part in this rare poetry in performance workshop with poet, author, and film director Leo Aylen.

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.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Family first Saturdays

Visit our Fitz Family Welcome Point and collect materials to use in the Museum.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Family First Saturdays

Join us at the Fitzwilliam Museum for activities and trail throughout the galleries.

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.

7:00PM

Electra's daddy's been killed. Her mummy's fucking the murderer. In a post-Freudian world, revenge is a sexual awakening.

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

Marking the launch of CAST's 13th stage tour, this year's production explodes onto the stage with a stark, visceral, physically powerful rendering of one of Shakespeare's most vibrant tragedies. Devastatingly poignant and startlingly comic, Antony and Cleopatra sets a rising star against a hero in decline, while pushing to breaking point the passion that could topple empires.

9:30PM

Inspired by Norman MacCaig’s poem ‘Interruption to a Journey’ and devised from anonymous memories and anecdotes collected from strangers, this play combines naturalism with physical theatre and music to create a haunting and beautiful tale.

11:00PM

The Cambridge Footlights present the final five performances of their 2012 international tourshow, perfect strangers.

Sun 7 October 2012

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.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection

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 - 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.

12:00PM - 5:00PM

Highlight Snow Country: Woodcuts of the Japanese Winter

Stunning woodblock prints exploring the snow-bound landscapes and winter pastimes of Japan.

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.

1:15PM

Music Concert

Enjoy a classical concert in the beautiful surroundings of Gallery 3 at the Fitzwilliam Museum.

2:00PM - 4:00PM