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Cambridge Festival 2024

The Cambridge Festival returns for 2024.

Fri 26 May 2023 12:00AM

Participate in behavioural research at Cambridge Judge Business School

Become a member of our participant pool, support academic research and get paid for it (£10/hour). There is no need to be a student or affiliated with the University of Cambridge.

9:00AM - 6:30PM

Highlight Raymond Briggs: A Retrospective

A new exhibition at Cambridge University Library celebrates the life, work and legacy of the award-winning author and illustrator.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean

Bringing together extraordinary antiquities, Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean takes visitors on a 4,000-year journey from life in the ancient Mediterranean to today.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Exhibition: Radium Dreams

Award-winning poet Sue Hubbard and internationally acclaimed artist Eileen Cooper RA celebrate the life and work of the groundbreaking scientist Marie Curie.

11:00AM - 12:30PM

Environmental emergencies in the Indo-Pacific

The Indo-Pacific Roundtable 2023, Panel 1

11:00AM - 5:00PM

Lucie Rie: The Adventure of PotteryReturn to What’s on

Celebrating one of the most significant potters of the twentieth century, this major new exhibition is a rare opportunity to experience Lucie Rie’s (1902-1995) ground-breaking practice across six decades.

1:30PM - 3:00PM

The end of globalisation?

Indo-Pacific Roundtable 2023, Panel 2

3:30PM - 5:00PM

Britain's role in the Indo-Pacific

The Indo-Pacific Roundtable 2023, Panel 3

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.

5:30PM - 7:00PM

The Emergence of Arctic Resources: impacts on geopolitics, the green transition and sustainability

A talk from the former EU Ambassador to the Arctic, Honorary Wolfson Fellow Marie Anne Coninsx, on the emergence of arctic resources in a warming climate and their impact on geopolitics, the green transition and sustainability.

7:30PM - 8:30PM

Haunted Cambridge Ghost Tours

Cambridge guides' scariest storytellers take you to the darker byways of our city, where the spirits of the dead still hover ...