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Tue 29 November 2022 10:00AM - 12:00PM

Highlight Will Carter - Man of Letters

An exhibition of the works of Will Carter OBE: a master craftsman - printer, typographer, calligrapher, carver of wood and slate - for whom good design was “a matter of seeing the simplest way of doing something, which is usually the best”. He is regarded as amongst the finest lettering artists of his generation and the post-war era.

10:00AM - 1:00PM

ONLINE COURSE Illustrating crab apples on architects’ parchment

Learn how to create a beautiful illustration of green crab apples on this unusual surface

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest

This new exhibition is the first of its kind to examine the interplay between money, power and dissent over the last 200 years – with a key strand of the show exploring the role of the individual in protesting for rights and representation.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Life is Still Life

Life is Still Life presents an exciting selection of modern and contemporary works by women artists in the genre of still life.

11:00AM - 5:00PM

Pick of the month Paint Like the Swallow Sings Calypso

Kettle’s Yard is pleased to present Paint Like the Swallow Sings Calypso, a major new exhibition curated in dialogue with artists Paul Dash (b. 1946, Barbados), Errol Lloyd (b. 1943, Jamaica) and John Lyons (b. 1933, Trinidad).

1:00PM - 2:00PM

From NOMA to POMA: the case for overlapping magisteria

by Dr Nick Spencer - Part of The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion Michaelmas Research Seminar Series

1:30PM - 4:30PM

Highlight Enslavement and Salvation at Queens’ College: an Old Library exhibition

Following two years’ research, this exhibition investigates Queens’ College’s links to the Atlantic Slave Trade, exploring the complex lives and worlds of a variety of Queens’ members through books and other objects they left behind.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Highlight Will Carter - Man of Letters

An exhibition of the works of Will Carter OBE: a master craftsman - printer, typographer, calligrapher, carver of wood and slate - for whom good design was “a matter of seeing the simplest way of doing something, which is usually the best”. He is regarded as amongst the finest lettering artists of his generation and the post-war era.

5:30PM - 7:00PM

Thinking Against Babylon, One Beat at a Time: Black Music as Radical, De-colonial Epistemology

What is radical and de-colonial about Black music as an instrument for radical thought?

7:00PM - 8:00PM

Highlight The Really Popular Book Club: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Cambridge University Library's Keeper of Early Manuscripts comes to talk to us about Umberto Eco's historical murder mystery.

7:30PM - 10:00PM

The Country and the City

Cambridge University Wind Orchestra Concert