WHAT'S ON

Until lions write their own history ... and exhibition by artist Deanna Tyson

A rare opportunity to witness a collection of striking and informative images from the world of Archaeology and Anthropology

9:00AM - 5:00PM

An eclectic exhibition of painted and stitched kimono, wall hangings, soft sculptures and paintings at the Alison Richard Building.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Gail de Cordova

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Paintings by Gail de Cordava Gail achieved a 1st class Hons degree in Fine Art from Exeter College of Art and Design in 1981. She currently lives in Cambridge and has exhibited widely in the UK, Spain and Sweden.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Read all about it! wrongdoing in Spain and England in the long nineteenth century

An exhibition of nineteenth-century popular press material from Spain and England, featuring poisoners, pirates, werewolves and many other dubious characters.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

The permeability of prison; Maurice Nyagumbo in Rhodesia, 1959-1079

Martha Haversham gained a dance degree at Roehampton Institute and worked in the theatre before transferring to fine art. Charcoal and material of tangibility is intrinsic to her work as this represents the dance of carbon atoms and the continuance of life.

3:15PM - 6:00PM

Highlight A conversation with Francis Pryor from Time Team - SOLD OUT

Francis Pryor will recollect and discuss his life as an archaeologist and human being.

5:00PM - 6:00PM

Part of the Centre of African Studies' Michaelmas Term Seminar Series on 'Law, Crime and Justice in Africa'

6:00PM - 8:00PM

Sing that thing!

In our workshops we will explore stories of objects through singing songs connected and inspired by them. The music featured will include both traditional and contemporary styles as well as some composed by the group.

7:45PM - 10:30PM

ADC/Footlights Pantomime 2013: The Princess and the Pea

This year’s ADC/Footlights Pantomime brings together comedy, music and drama for a night of cockle-warming, rib-tickling, souffle-rising Christmas fun."

9:30PM

Gag-amemnon

An hour of standup from regular Cambridge comedians Charlie Palmer, Milo Edwards and Henry Anderson-Elliott.

Tue 3 December 2013

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Dillistone and A.E. Students from Hills Road 6th form College

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Until lions write their own history ... and exhibition by artist Deanna Tyson

A rare opportunity to witness a collection of striking and informative images from the world of Archaeology and Anthropology

9:00AM - 5:00PM

An eclectic exhibition of painted and stitched kimono, wall hangings, soft sculptures and paintings at the Alison Richard Building.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Gail de Cordova

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Paintings by Gail de Cordava Gail achieved a 1st class Hons degree in Fine Art from Exeter College of Art and Design in 1981. She currently lives in Cambridge and has exhibited widely in the UK, Spain and Sweden.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Read all about it! wrongdoing in Spain and England in the long nineteenth century

An exhibition of nineteenth-century popular press material from Spain and England, featuring poisoners, pirates, werewolves and many other dubious characters.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight A world of private mystery: John Craxton, RA (1922 -2009)

A fresh retrospective on John Craxton - from his beginnings as a young hope of post-war British art, creating dark, meditative images of the natural world, to works of incredible vibrancy, light and colour from his later life in Crete.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Edmund de Waal: on white – porcelain stories from the Fitzwilliam

Come and experience the visual drama of the intervention that renowned potter and Cambridge graduate, Edmund de Waal, has staged in four interconnected ground-floor galleries of the Museum.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight The night of longing: love and desire in Japanese prints

An exhibition of Japanese woodcuts and books of the Edo and Meiji periods (18th and 19th centuries) depicting lovers from literature and life.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Martha Haversham gained a dance degree at Roehampton Institute and worked in the theatre before transferring to fine art. Charcoal and material of tangibility is intrinsic to her work as this represents the dance of carbon atoms and the continuance of life.

10:30AM - 4:30PM

An evening with Edmund de Waal

A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections

1:15PM

Art speak

Enjoy half an hour looking at and talking about art.

7:00PM

To mark the opening of his intervention at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Edmund de Waal will be telling the story of the West’s obsession with Chinese porcelain and how this has informed his own work.

7:00PM

ADC/Footlights Pantomime 2013: The Princess and the Pea

Lynette delves deep into her past unravelling the secrets she was entrusted about the real story behind JFK's assignation.

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 - 10:30PM

This year’s ADC/Footlights Pantomime brings together comedy, music and drama for a night of cockle-warming, rib-tickling, souffle-rising Christmas fun."

9:30PM

Three White Guys and Bhargav

The Impronauts take you to a haunted world of dark dungeons, ghost-infested graveyards and poorly-executed experiments where the audience is the master.

11:00PM

A night of standup comedy featuring some of the best and most prolific comedians from the Cambridge comedy circuit.

Wed 4 December 2013

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Dillistone and A.E. Students from Hills Road 6th form College

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Until lions write their own history ... and exhibition by artist Deanna Tyson

A rare opportunity to witness a collection of striking and informative images from the world of Archaeology and Anthropology

9:00AM - 5:00PM

An eclectic exhibition of painted and stitched kimono, wall hangings, soft sculptures and paintings at the Alison Richard Building.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Gail de Cordova

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Paintings by Gail de Cordava Gail achieved a 1st class Hons degree in Fine Art from Exeter College of Art and Design in 1981. She currently lives in Cambridge and has exhibited widely in the UK, Spain and Sweden.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Read all about it! wrongdoing in Spain and England in the long nineteenth century

An exhibition of nineteenth-century popular press material from Spain and England, featuring poisoners, pirates, werewolves and many other dubious characters.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight A world of private mystery: John Craxton, RA (1922 -2009)

A fresh retrospective on John Craxton - from his beginnings as a young hope of post-war British art, creating dark, meditative images of the natural world, to works of incredible vibrancy, light and colour from his later life in Crete.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Edmund de Waal: on white – porcelain stories from the Fitzwilliam

Come and experience the visual drama of the intervention that renowned potter and Cambridge graduate, Edmund de Waal, has staged in four interconnected ground-floor galleries of the Museum.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight The night of longing: love and desire in Japanese prints

An exhibition of Japanese woodcuts and books of the Edo and Meiji periods (18th and 19th centuries) depicting lovers from literature and life.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Martha Haversham gained a dance degree at Roehampton Institute and worked in the theatre before transferring to fine art. Charcoal and material of tangibility is intrinsic to her work as this represents the dance of carbon atoms and the continuance of life.

10:30AM - 4:30PM

Open classes in modern Hebrew

A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections

1:00PM - 2:00PM

Open classes in Modern Hebrew Michaelmas Term 2013 Foundation course

1:15PM

University Challenge : conservators versus collections

With Richard Farleigh, Newton paper conservator, paintings, drawings and prints.

2:15PM

Israeli film club - Michaelmas Term 2013

All films are in Hebrew with English sub-titles.

6:30PM - 8:00PM

Life clubs - Self improvement workshops Cancelled

This event has been cancelled. Life clubs was created in 2004 by Nina Grunfeld, best-selling author of The Life Book. Sessions are every Wednesday.

7:00PM

Public open evenings at the Institute of Astronomy

Lynette delves deep into her past unravelling the secrets she was entrusted about the real story behind JFK's assignation.

7:00PM - 9:00PM

Astronomy talks and public observing (if clear!) every Wednesday evening during the winter season.

7:45PM - 10:30PM

ADC/Footlights Pantomime 2013: The Princess and the Pea

This year’s ADC/Footlights Pantomime brings together comedy, music and drama for a night of cockle-warming, rib-tickling, souffle-rising Christmas fun."

8:00PM - 10:00PM

CUMS concert orchestra performs Mendelssohn and Brahms

Cambridge University Musical Society’s second symphony orchestra Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture Brahms Alto Rhapsody Mendelssohn Symphony No.4 Alastair Chilvers conductor Anna Harvey mezzo-soprano

9:30PM

CU Show Choir: Gleefully Ever After

The Impronauts take you to a haunted world of dark dungeons, ghost-infested graveyards and poorly-executed experiments where the audience is the master.

11:00PM - 11:59PM

CU Show Choir returns to the stage bringing together three well known stories with a musical twist.

Thu 5 December 2013

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Dillistone and A.E. Students from Hills Road 6th form College

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Until lions write their own history ... and exhibition by artist Deanna Tyson

A rare opportunity to witness a collection of striking and informative images from the world of Archaeology and Anthropology

9:00AM - 5:00PM

An eclectic exhibition of painted and stitched kimono, wall hangings, soft sculptures and paintings at the Alison Richard Building.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Gail de Cordova

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Paintings by Gail de Cordava Gail achieved a 1st class Hons degree in Fine Art from Exeter College of Art and Design in 1981. She currently lives in Cambridge and has exhibited widely in the UK, Spain and Sweden.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Read all about it! wrongdoing in Spain and England in the long nineteenth century

An exhibition of nineteenth-century popular press material from Spain and England, featuring poisoners, pirates, werewolves and many other dubious characters.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight A world of private mystery: John Craxton, RA (1922 -2009)

A fresh retrospective on John Craxton - from his beginnings as a young hope of post-war British art, creating dark, meditative images of the natural world, to works of incredible vibrancy, light and colour from his later life in Crete.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Edmund de Waal: on white – porcelain stories from the Fitzwilliam

Come and experience the visual drama of the intervention that renowned potter and Cambridge graduate, Edmund de Waal, has staged in four interconnected ground-floor galleries of the Museum.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight The night of longing: love and desire in Japanese prints

An exhibition of Japanese woodcuts and books of the Edo and Meiji periods (18th and 19th centuries) depicting lovers from literature and life.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Martha Haversham gained a dance degree at Roehampton Institute and worked in the theatre before transferring to fine art. Charcoal and material of tangibility is intrinsic to her work as this represents the dance of carbon atoms and the continuance of life.

10:30AM - 4:30PM

ADC/Footlights Pantomime 2013: The Princess and the Pea

A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections

2:30PM - 5:15PM

This year’s ADC/Footlights Pantomime brings together comedy, music and drama for a night of cockle-warming, rib-tickling, souffle-rising Christmas fun."

7:00PM

Native oysters: conserving a commercially fished species

Lynette delves deep into her past unravelling the secrets she was entrusted about the real story behind JFK's assignation.

7:30PM - 9:00PM

Cass Bromley will talk about the history of oyster fishing, the ecological importance of oysters and environmental sustainability of oyster fishing.

7:30PM - 10:00PM

Highlight A Chamber Christmas Oratorio

Bach's Christmas Oratorio, performed by Solomon's Knot Baroque Collective

7:45PM - 10:30PM

ADC/Footlights Pantomime 2013: The Princess and the Pea

This year’s ADC/Footlights Pantomime brings together comedy, music and drama for a night of cockle-warming, rib-tickling, souffle-rising Christmas fun."

9:30PM

CU Show Choir: Gleefully Ever After

The Impronauts take you to a haunted world of dark dungeons, ghost-infested graveyards and poorly-executed experiments where the audience is the master.

11:00PM - 11:59PM

CU Show Choir returns to the stage bringing together three well known stories with a musical twist.

Fri 6 December 2013

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Dillistone and A.E. Students from Hills Road 6th form College

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Until lions write their own history ... and exhibition by artist Deanna Tyson

A rare opportunity to witness a collection of striking and informative images from the world of Archaeology and Anthropology

9:00AM - 5:00PM

An eclectic exhibition of painted and stitched kimono, wall hangings, soft sculptures and paintings at the Alison Richard Building.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Gail de Cordova

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Magadan: life in the Russian north

Paintings by Gail de Cordava Gail achieved a 1st class Hons degree in Fine Art from Exeter College of Art and Design in 1981. She currently lives in Cambridge and has exhibited widely in the UK, Spain and Sweden.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Read all about it! wrongdoing in Spain and England in the long nineteenth century

An exhibition of nineteenth-century popular press material from Spain and England, featuring poisoners, pirates, werewolves and many other dubious characters.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

A photography exhibition exploring the City and Region of Magadan.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight A world of private mystery: John Craxton, RA (1922 -2009)

A fresh retrospective on John Craxton - from his beginnings as a young hope of post-war British art, creating dark, meditative images of the natural world, to works of incredible vibrancy, light and colour from his later life in Crete.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Edmund de Waal: on white – porcelain stories from the Fitzwilliam

Come and experience the visual drama of the intervention that renowned potter and Cambridge graduate, Edmund de Waal, has staged in four interconnected ground-floor galleries of the Museum.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight The night of longing: love and desire in Japanese prints

An exhibition of Japanese woodcuts and books of the Edo and Meiji periods (18th and 19th centuries) depicting lovers from literature and life.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Martha Haversham gained a dance degree at Roehampton Institute and worked in the theatre before transferring to fine art. Charcoal and material of tangibility is intrinsic to her work as this represents the dance of carbon atoms and the continuance of life.

10:30AM - 4:30PM

A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections

7:00PM

ADC/Footlights Pantomime 2013: The Princess and the Pea

Lynette delves deep into her past unravelling the secrets she was entrusted about the real story behind JFK's assignation.

7:45PM - 10:30PM

This year’s ADC/Footlights Pantomime brings together comedy, music and drama for a night of cockle-warming, rib-tickling, souffle-rising Christmas fun."

9:30PM

Joyful Joyful: A Journey through Gospel

The Impronauts take you to a haunted world of dark dungeons, ghost-infested graveyards and poorly-executed experiments where the audience is the master.

11:00PM - 11:59PM

Joyful Joyful is a journey through gospel music. From the torments of the soul to its release, this narration associates music, dances and poetry. The show culminates and ends in a joyful note to celebrate what we already have: life.

Sat 7 December 2013

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Dillistone and A.E. Students from Hills Road 6th form College

9:00AM - 4:30PM

Highlight Read all about it! wrongdoing in Spain and England in the long nineteenth century

An exhibition of nineteenth-century popular press material from Spain and England, featuring poisoners, pirates, werewolves and many other dubious characters.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Magadan: life in the Russian north

Gail de Cordova

10:00AM - 4:00PM

A photography exhibition exploring the City and Region of Magadan.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight A world of private mystery: John Craxton, RA (1922 -2009)

A fresh retrospective on John Craxton - from his beginnings as a young hope of post-war British art, creating dark, meditative images of the natural world, to works of incredible vibrancy, light and colour from his later life in Crete.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Edmund de Waal: on white – porcelain stories from the Fitzwilliam

Come and experience the visual drama of the intervention that renowned potter and Cambridge graduate, Edmund de Waal, has staged in four interconnected ground-floor galleries of the Museum.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Perception

The Cambridge Science Centre presents an extraordinary sensory experience. The new exhibition, Perception, will use illusions to uncover how our senses and brain work and the tricks your brain uses to make sense of the world.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight The night of longing: love and desire in Japanese prints

An exhibition of Japanese woodcuts and books of the Edo and Meiji periods (18th and 19th centuries) depicting lovers from literature and life.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Martha Haversham gained a dance degree at Roehampton Institute and worked in the theatre before transferring to fine art. Charcoal and material of tangibility is intrinsic to her work as this represents the dance of carbon atoms and the continuance of life.

10:30AM - 4:30PM

ADC/Footlights Pantomime 2013: The Princess and the Pea

A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections

11:00AM - 3:00PM

Christmas craft

Create stunning Christmas decorations at this family workshop. We'll use plaster of paris and palnts from th Garden to create unusual textured decorations to take home with you.

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

On the first Saturday of each month visit our Fitz Family Welcome Point (Courtyard Entrance) and collect drawing materials, activities and trails to use throughout the Museum, exploring a variety of themes. Suitable for all ages (children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult).

2:30PM - 5:15PM

This year’s ADC/Footlights Pantomime brings together comedy, music and drama for a night of cockle-warming, rib-tickling, souffle-rising Christmas fun."

7:00PM

ADC/Footlights Pantomime 2013: The Princess and the Pea

Lynette delves deep into her past unravelling the secrets she was entrusted about the real story behind JFK's assignation.

7:45PM - 10:30PM

This year’s ADC/Footlights Pantomime brings together comedy, music and drama for a night of cockle-warming, rib-tickling, souffle-rising Christmas fun."

8:00PM - 9:30PM

Highlight Storytellers - Gawain & The Green

A Christmas feast of music

8:00PM - 10:00PM

CUMS symphony orchestra performs Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Shostakovich Symphony No.11 Martin Yates conductor Sergey Levitin violin

9:30PM

Joyful Joyful: A Journey through Gospel

The Impronauts take you to a haunted world of dark dungeons, ghost-infested graveyards and poorly-executed experiments where the audience is the master.

11:00PM - 11:59PM

Joyful Joyful is a journey through gospel music. From the torments of the soul to its release, this narration associates music, dances and poetry. The show culminates and ends in a joyful note to celebrate what we already have: life.

Sun 8 December 2013

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Dillistone and A.E. Students from Hills Road 6th form College

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Gail de Cordova

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Perception

The Cambridge Science Centre presents an extraordinary sensory experience. The new exhibition, Perception, will use illusions to uncover how our senses and brain work and the tricks your brain uses to make sense of the world.

10:00AM - 6:00PM