Mill Road Fringe Comedy
Having warmed up at Edinburgh and Cambridge's own Commoners' Comedy, our five comedians are ready to take on Mill Road..... The evening will be led by award-winning comedians Kit Loyd and Ollie West, with support from Ali Warwood, Mark Ahier and Steve Ward. Free entry, hosted by Mill Road Fringe
| Mon 2 September | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
An exhibition of paintings, etchings and linocuts by Louise Stebbing, Jane Ashdown and Bette Spektorov. |
| 10:00AM |
Photography Competition – Weird and Wonderful in Cambridge University Botanic Garden The Botanic Garden is delighted to partner again with the International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) to offer this free-to-enter competition. |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight 70 Years of New Hall & Murray Edwards College 70 years ago, New Hall opened as the third foundation for women at the University of Cambridge on a shoestring with just 16 students. This exhibition traces the history of a women's college, |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Exhibition: The Goddess, the Deity & the Cyborg Drawing from the works in The Women’s Art Collection as well as loans from public and private collections, the exhibition explores the enduring appeal of the goddess and traces how artists have adapted and even transformed the goddess into an ambiguous figure undefined by gender or even bodily form. |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Order of the Golden Lily Family Trail You are invited to a Summer of Botany at Cambridge University Botanic Garden with family trails and activities throughout the summer. |
|
| 11:00AM - 5:00PM |
This is the first major solo exhibition in the UK of work by Megan Rooney (b. 1985, South Africa). Her paintings have an irresistible life and energy, renewing the potential of abstraction to embody the richness of the visual world. |
|
| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
George Mallory: Magdalene to the Mountain An exhibition reflecting on the life and career of George Mallory. |
|
| Tue 3 September | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
An exhibition of paintings, etchings and linocuts by Louise Stebbing, Jane Ashdown and Bette Spektorov. |
| 10:00AM |
Photography Competition – Weird and Wonderful in Cambridge University Botanic Garden The Botanic Garden is delighted to partner again with the International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) to offer this free-to-enter competition. |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight 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 |
Highlight National Treasures: Botticelli in Cambridge Sandro Botticelli’s masterpiece ‘Venus and Mars’ is the highlight of our exciting new display exploring ideas of sex and power, gender and the body through classical mythology and Italian art of the 1400s and 1500s. |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight 70 Years of New Hall & Murray Edwards College 70 years ago, New Hall opened as the third foundation for women at the University of Cambridge on a shoestring with just 16 students. This exhibition traces the history of a women's college, |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Exhibition: The Goddess, the Deity & the Cyborg Drawing from the works in The Women’s Art Collection as well as loans from public and private collections, the exhibition explores the enduring appeal of the goddess and traces how artists have adapted and even transformed the goddess into an ambiguous figure undefined by gender or even bodily form. |
|
| 11:00AM - 5:00PM |
This is the first major solo exhibition in the UK of work by Megan Rooney (b. 1985, South Africa). Her paintings have an irresistible life and energy, renewing the potential of abstraction to embody the richness of the visual world. |
|
| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
George Mallory: Magdalene to the Mountain An exhibition reflecting on the life and career of George Mallory. |
|
| Wed 4 September | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
An exhibition of paintings, etchings and linocuts by Louise Stebbing, Jane Ashdown and Bette Spektorov. |
| 10:00AM |
Photography Competition – Weird and Wonderful in Cambridge University Botanic Garden The Botanic Garden is delighted to partner again with the International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) to offer this free-to-enter competition. |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight 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 |
Highlight National Treasures: Botticelli in Cambridge Sandro Botticelli’s masterpiece ‘Venus and Mars’ is the highlight of our exciting new display exploring ideas of sex and power, gender and the body through classical mythology and Italian art of the 1400s and 1500s. |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight 70 Years of New Hall & Murray Edwards College 70 years ago, New Hall opened as the third foundation for women at the University of Cambridge on a shoestring with just 16 students. This exhibition traces the history of a women's college, |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Exhibition: The Goddess, the Deity & the Cyborg Drawing from the works in The Women’s Art Collection as well as loans from public and private collections, the exhibition explores the enduring appeal of the goddess and traces how artists have adapted and even transformed the goddess into an ambiguous figure undefined by gender or even bodily form. |
|
| 11:00AM - 5:00PM |
This is the first major solo exhibition in the UK of work by Megan Rooney (b. 1985, South Africa). Her paintings have an irresistible life and energy, renewing the potential of abstraction to embody the richness of the visual world. |
|
| 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Highlight ALISON WILDING RA: By the Mark - and the Line below the Loaf An exhibition of four decades of drawings by Alison Wilding RA. |
|
| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
George Mallory: Magdalene to the Mountain An exhibition reflecting on the life and career of George Mallory. |
|
| Thu 5 September | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
An exhibition of paintings, etchings and linocuts by Louise Stebbing, Jane Ashdown and Bette Spektorov. |
| 10:00AM |
Photography Competition – Weird and Wonderful in Cambridge University Botanic Garden The Botanic Garden is delighted to partner again with the International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) to offer this free-to-enter competition. |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight 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 |
Highlight National Treasures: Botticelli in Cambridge Sandro Botticelli’s masterpiece ‘Venus and Mars’ is the highlight of our exciting new display exploring ideas of sex and power, gender and the body through classical mythology and Italian art of the 1400s and 1500s. |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight 70 Years of New Hall & Murray Edwards College 70 years ago, New Hall opened as the third foundation for women at the University of Cambridge on a shoestring with just 16 students. This exhibition traces the history of a women's college, |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Exhibition: The Goddess, the Deity & the Cyborg Drawing from the works in The Women’s Art Collection as well as loans from public and private collections, the exhibition explores the enduring appeal of the goddess and traces how artists have adapted and even transformed the goddess into an ambiguous figure undefined by gender or even bodily form. |
|
| 11:00AM - 5:00PM |
This is the first major solo exhibition in the UK of work by Megan Rooney (b. 1985, South Africa). Her paintings have an irresistible life and energy, renewing the potential of abstraction to embody the richness of the visual world. |
|
| 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Highlight ALISON WILDING RA: By the Mark - and the Line below the Loaf An exhibition of four decades of drawings by Alison Wilding RA. |
|
| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
George Mallory: Magdalene to the Mountain An exhibition reflecting on the life and career of George Mallory. |
|
| Fri 6 September | 12:00AM |
Pick of the month Open Cambridge A celebration of local history, Open Cambridge is back taking place 6-15 September 2024. |
| 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
An exhibition of paintings, etchings and linocuts by Louise Stebbing, Jane Ashdown and Bette Spektorov. |
|
| 10:00AM |
Photography Competition – Weird and Wonderful in Cambridge University Botanic Garden The Botanic Garden is delighted to partner again with the International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) to offer this free-to-enter competition. |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight 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 - 4:00PM |
The Candia Skull: from Minoan Crete to 17th-century Cambridge A display about the discovery of a fossilised skull in 17th-century Crete and the findings of recent scientific investigation. Visitors are advised that this exhibition contains human remains. |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
A self-guided trail around the Wolfson College gardens featuring extracts of poetry written by Wolfson staff and students from our latest WolfWords poetry anthology "a little branch". |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
A self-guided Tree Trail around the beautiful and varied garden 'rooms' of the grounds at Wolfson College. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight National Treasures: Botticelli in Cambridge Sandro Botticelli’s masterpiece ‘Venus and Mars’ is the highlight of our exciting new display exploring ideas of sex and power, gender and the body through classical mythology and Italian art of the 1400s and 1500s. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Life Within Landscapes: Caribbean - Cambridge Art, Now This exhibition is a celebration of the Caribbean landscape and the people that inhabit it - the remarkable flora and the fauna, unique colours and light, diverse forms of visual expression and tapestry of cultures. |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight 70 Years of New Hall & Murray Edwards College 70 years ago, New Hall opened as the third foundation for women at the University of Cambridge on a shoestring with just 16 students. This exhibition traces the history of a women's college, |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Exhibition: The Goddess, the Deity & the Cyborg Drawing from the works in The Women’s Art Collection as well as loans from public and private collections, the exhibition explores the enduring appeal of the goddess and traces how artists have adapted and even transformed the goddess into an ambiguous figure undefined by gender or even bodily form. |
|
| 11:00AM - 5:00PM |
This is the first major solo exhibition in the UK of work by Megan Rooney (b. 1985, South Africa). Her paintings have an irresistible life and energy, renewing the potential of abstraction to embody the richness of the visual world. |
|
| 12:00PM - 2:00PM |
The Wren Library at Trinity College is one of Christopher Wren’s great masterpieces of architecture. Come and admire the building and view our exhibitions which this year feature our Byron collection and books about gardening. |
|
| 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Highlight ALISON WILDING RA: By the Mark - and the Line below the Loaf An exhibition of four decades of drawings by Alison Wilding RA. |
|
| 1:30PM - 3:30PM |
Newnham and Bletchley Park: Women’s Work in World War II A new exhibition unveiled earlier this year tells the incredible story of Newnham College women’s war work, at Bletchley Park and beyond. More than 70 students and alumnae were secretly recruited for World War Two codebreaking work at Bletchley Park, thanks partly to the personal connections of three Newnham women, Alda Milner-Barry, former Principal Pernel Strachey and Ray Strachey. |
|
| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
George Mallory: Magdalene to the Mountain An exhibition reflecting on the life and career of George Mallory. |
|
| 3:00PM - 4:00PM |
Arthur Eddington - Physicist, Astronomer and Quaker A new area in Cambridge has been named after Arthur Eddington but who was he? This talk will introduce the man behind the great scientific discoveries. |
|
| 5:30PM - 7:00PM |
Lies, Spies and Double-Dealing: A Cambridge Spy Tour A walking tour which unmasks the long tradition of Cambridge spying, from the earliest days of the university to recent times; from Christopher Marlowe to Anthony Blunt, via James Bond. Tours are led by Green Badge Guides. |
|
| 6:00PM - 8:00PM |
Come and explore Girton's only nature reserve! |
|
| 6:30PM - 7:30PM |
'Energy walk': Cambridge's former gasworks Free walking tour that explores the impact of the former Cambridge gasworks on local society, economy and the environment. Duration: ~60 mins (~1km walking distance). |
|
| 6:30PM - 7:30PM |
Rape Crisis Volunteers - 40 years strong Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre was founded by volunteers 42 years ago. To this day, they are a crucial part of the organisation. Join us to learn the history of the centre and the incredible work our volunteers do, as well as learn more about how to join us as a volunteer. There will be opportunities for questions too! |
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| Sat 7 September | 12:00AM |
Pick of the month Open Cambridge A celebration of local history, Open Cambridge is back taking place 6-15 September 2024. |
| 10:00AM |
Photography Competition – Weird and Wonderful in Cambridge University Botanic Garden The Botanic Garden is delighted to partner again with the International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) to offer this free-to-enter competition. |
|
| 10:00AM - 1:00PM |
Family Activity: Minibeast Hotels Help wildlife find somewhere to shelter over the winter by making a lovely minibeast hotel that you can put out in your garden or leave in the Schools Garden at the Botanic Garden. |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Cambridge Buddhist Centre: Festival Theatre tours and Open Day Come and see what the Cambridge Buddhist Centre has to offer, including tours of the historic Festival Theatre. |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight 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 - 4:00PM |
The Candia Skull: from Minoan Crete to 17th-century Cambridge A display about the discovery of a fossilised skull in 17th-century Crete and the findings of recent scientific investigation. Visitors are advised that this exhibition contains human remains. |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
The Famous Facets of The Painted Church 'The Famous Facets of The Painted Church' will enable visitors to take a deeper look into the people connected with All Saints Church including the architect GF Bodley, Arts & Crafts Artists like William Morris, Ford Madox Brown and Edward Burne-Jones and the ecclesiastical textiles of Watts & Co, a firm co founded 150 years ago by Bodley. |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
A self-guided trail around the Wolfson College gardens featuring extracts of poetry written by Wolfson staff and students from our latest WolfWords poetry anthology "a little branch". |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
A self-guided Tree Trail around the beautiful and varied garden 'rooms' of the grounds at Wolfson College. |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
The Wren Library at Trinity College is one of Christopher Wren’s great masterpieces of architecture. Come and admire the building and view our exhibitions which this year feature our Byron collection and books about gardening. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight National Treasures: Botticelli in Cambridge Sandro Botticelli’s masterpiece ‘Venus and Mars’ is the highlight of our exciting new display exploring ideas of sex and power, gender and the body through classical mythology and Italian art of the 1400s and 1500s. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Art Exhibition: 'Life Within Landscapes' Visit Wolfson's latest art exhibition, 'Life Within Landscapes', showcasing works by three Cambridge-based female contemporary artists, inspired by their Caribbean heritage, open to the public, Saturday and Sundays, 10am - 5pm. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Life Within Landscapes: Caribbean - Cambridge Art, Now This exhibition is a celebration of the Caribbean landscape and the people that inhabit it - the remarkable flora and the fauna, unique colours and light, diverse forms of visual expression and tapestry of cultures. |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight 70 Years of New Hall & Murray Edwards College 70 years ago, New Hall opened as the third foundation for women at the University of Cambridge on a shoestring with just 16 students. This exhibition traces the history of a women's college, |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Exhibition: The Goddess, the Deity & the Cyborg Drawing from the works in The Women’s Art Collection as well as loans from public and private collections, the exhibition explores the enduring appeal of the goddess and traces how artists have adapted and even transformed the goddess into an ambiguous figure undefined by gender or even bodily form. |
|
| 11:00AM - 12:00PM |
'Energy walk': Cambridge's former gasworks Free walking tour that explores the impact of the former Cambridge gasworks on local society, economy and the environment. Duration: ~60 mins (~1km walking distance). |
|
| 11:00AM - 5:00PM |
This is the first major solo exhibition in the UK of work by Megan Rooney (b. 1985, South Africa). Her paintings have an irresistible life and energy, renewing the potential of abstraction to embody the richness of the visual world. |
|
| 12:00PM - 4:00PM |
Guided tours of Abbey House, relax in the large walled garden |
|
| 12:00PM - 4:00PM |
Open Garden and exhibit at Cambridge Access Surgery Join us for a special event at Cambridge Access Surgery (CAS, an NHS GP surgery for people experiencing homelessness) during the Open Cambridge festival this September. |
|
| 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Highlight ALISON WILDING RA: By the Mark - and the Line below the Loaf An exhibition of four decades of drawings by Alison Wilding RA. |
|
| 1:30PM - 2:30PM |
Cambridge Off-The-Beaten-Track Walking Tour No ordinary walking tour! This will include various things we are quietly confident will be new even to locals and we’ll go to one site that holds more than a few fascinating stories – the University Library site! |
|
| 1:30PM - 3:30PM |
Newnham and Bletchley Park: Women’s Work in World War II A new exhibition unveiled earlier this year tells the incredible story of Newnham College women’s war work, at Bletchley Park and beyond. More than 70 students and alumnae were secretly recruited for World War Two codebreaking work at Bletchley Park, thanks partly to the personal connections of three Newnham women, Alda Milner-Barry, former Principal Pernel Strachey and Ray Strachey. |
|
| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
George Mallory: Magdalene to the Mountain An exhibition reflecting on the life and career of George Mallory. |
|
| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
Networking from Ancient India to Iran and Beyond A small exhibition of books, coins and manuscripts from the Trust's collections exploring the transmission of ideas through language, arts and commerce across 2000 years of South and Central Asian History. |
|
| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
Talk: Goddesses and Islands with Gill Perry Join us for an afternoon with art historian Gill Perry on her upcoming book 'Islands and Contemporary Art'. |
|
| 2:00PM - 5:00PM |
Maracatu: Afro-Brazilian percussion workshop Experience a hands-on music workshop with "Baque Trovão" (the Beat of Thunders). Participants will learn the basics of the percussive elements of Maracatu, a fun and powerful Afro-Brazilian cultural tradition nearly 400 years old in Recife-Brazil. You will also witness the performance of our vibrant music and community. The workshop will be followed by socialisation at the local pub. |
|
| 3:00PM - 4:00PM |
A talk by Geoffrey Durham (author of 'What Do Quakers Believe?') on the visionary whose heretical beliefs electrified the nation 370 years ago and who still inspires Quakers today. |
|
| Sun 8 September | 12:00AM |
Pick of the month Open Cambridge A celebration of local history, Open Cambridge is back taking place 6-15 September 2024. |
| 10:00AM |
Photography Competition – Weird and Wonderful in Cambridge University Botanic Garden The Botanic Garden is delighted to partner again with the International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) to offer this free-to-enter competition. |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
The Famous Facets of The Painted Church 'The Famous Facets of The Painted Church' will enable visitors to take a deeper look into the people connected with All Saints Church including the architect GF Bodley, Arts & Crafts Artists like William Morris, Ford Madox Brown and Edward Burne-Jones and the ecclesiastical textiles of Watts & Co, a firm co founded 150 years ago by Bodley. |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
A self-guided trail around the Wolfson College gardens featuring extracts of poetry written by Wolfson staff and students from our latest WolfWords poetry anthology "a little branch". |
|
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
A self-guided Tree Trail around the beautiful and varied garden 'rooms' of the grounds at Wolfson College. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Art Exhibition: 'Life Within Landscapes' Visit Wolfson's latest art exhibition, 'Life Within Landscapes', showcasing works by three Cambridge-based female contemporary artists, inspired by their Caribbean heritage, open to the public, Saturday and Sundays, 10am - 5pm. |
|
| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Life Within Landscapes: Caribbean - Cambridge Art, Now This exhibition is a celebration of the Caribbean landscape and the people that inhabit it - the remarkable flora and the fauna, unique colours and light, diverse forms of visual expression and tapestry of cultures. |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight 70 Years of New Hall & Murray Edwards College 70 years ago, New Hall opened as the third foundation for women at the University of Cambridge on a shoestring with just 16 students. This exhibition traces the history of a women's college, |
|
| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Exhibition: The Goddess, the Deity & the Cyborg Drawing from the works in The Women’s Art Collection as well as loans from public and private collections, the exhibition explores the enduring appeal of the goddess and traces how artists have adapted and even transformed the goddess into an ambiguous figure undefined by gender or even bodily form. |
|
| 11:00AM - 5:00PM |
This is the first major solo exhibition in the UK of work by Megan Rooney (b. 1985, South Africa). Her paintings have an irresistible life and energy, renewing the potential of abstraction to embody the richness of the visual world. |
|
| 11:30AM - 1:00PM |
Lies, Spies and Double-Dealing: A Cambridge Spy Tour A walking tour which unmasks the long tradition of Cambridge spying, from the earliest days of the university to recent times; from Christopher Marlowe to Anthony Blunt, via James Bond. Tours are led by Green Badge Guides. |
|
| 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Highlight National Treasures: Botticelli in Cambridge Sandro Botticelli’s masterpiece ‘Venus and Mars’ is the highlight of our exciting new display exploring ideas of sex and power, gender and the body through classical mythology and Italian art of the 1400s and 1500s. |
|
| 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Highlight ALISON WILDING RA: By the Mark - and the Line below the Loaf An exhibition of four decades of drawings by Alison Wilding RA. |
|
| 1:00PM - 2:00PM |
'Energy walk': Cambridge's former gasworks Free walking tour that explores the impact of the former Cambridge gasworks on local society, economy and the environment. Duration: ~60 mins (~1km walking distance). |
|
| 1:30PM - 2:30PM |
Cambridge Off-The-Beaten-Track Walking Tour No ordinary walking tour! This will include various things we are quietly confident will be new even to locals and we’ll go to one site that holds more than a few fascinating stories – the University Library site! |
|
| 2:30PM - 4:00PM |
Sex and the City: Cambridge Women, Town and Gown A guided tour through the lovely centre of Cambridge which explores the inspiring, shocking and delightful stories of its women. From poets to bedders, from scientists to social reformers - get to know some of these amazing hidden figures. |