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Mon 20 June 2022 12:00AM

Refugee Week

Under this year’s theme “Whoever. Wherever. Whenever. Everyone has the right to seek safety”, the Refugee Hub of the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement Cambridge Refugee Week includes panels, films and poetry workshops. For further information, please see https://www.humanmovement.cam.ac.uk/events/cambridge-refugee-week.

9:00AM - 7:00PM

Louise Stebbing: A retrospective - 40 years of printmaking

An exhibition of printmaking at the Alison Richard Building.

9:30AM - 6:30PM

CLASSROOM COURSE Flowering plant taxonomy and systematics 5 day intensive course

An intensive course introducing flowering plant families to committed amateurs, undergraduates, graduates and professionals

6:15PM - 7:45PM

Iyengar Yoga Class

Small class with experienced teacher Robert Ashman.

7:00PM - 8:00PM

Broadway and Beyond!

A musical theatre spectacle!

Tue 21 June 2022 9:00AM - 7:00PM

Louise Stebbing: A retrospective - 40 years of printmaking

An exhibition of printmaking at the Alison Richard Building.

9:30AM - 6:30PM

CLASSROOM COURSE Flowering plant taxonomy and systematics 5 day intensive course

An intensive course introducing flowering plant families to committed amateurs, undergraduates, graduates and professionals

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Hockney's Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction

One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer with an exhibition across The Fitzwilliam Museum and The Heong Gallery, Downing College.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Hockney’s Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction

One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer with an exhibition across The Fitzwilliam Museum and The Heong Gallery, Downing College.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight True to Nature: Open Air Painting in Europe 1780

In this unique exhibition, explore the inventive ways artists in the 18th and 19th centuries recorded fleeting moment in nature, capturing the effects of light, drama, and atmosphere first-hand in the open air.

7:00PM - 8:00PM

Zoology Live! 2022

Join us for our annual Zoology Live! 2022

Wed 22 June 2022 9:00AM - 7:00PM

Louise Stebbing: A retrospective - 40 years of printmaking

An exhibition of printmaking at the Alison Richard Building.

9:30AM - 5:00PM

CLASSROOM COURSE Flowering plant taxonomy and systematics 5 day intensive course

An intensive course introducing flowering plant families to committed amateurs, undergraduates, graduates and professionals

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Hockney's Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction

One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer with an exhibition across The Fitzwilliam Museum and The Heong Gallery, Downing College.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Hockney’s Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction

One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer with an exhibition across The Fitzwilliam Museum and The Heong Gallery, Downing College.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight True to Nature: Open Air Painting in Europe 1780

In this unique exhibition, explore the inventive ways artists in the 18th and 19th centuries recorded fleeting moment in nature, capturing the effects of light, drama, and atmosphere first-hand in the open air.

6:00PM - 7:00PM

#LivefromLucy: Pride Month - "Having children as a matter of Pride: Gay men, surrogacy and queer reproductive justice" with Dr Marcin Smietana

To mark Pride Month, Dr Marcin Smietana will be discussing queer reproductive justice.

7:00PM - 8:00PM

Zoology Live! 2022

Join us for our annual Zoology Live! 2022

Thu 23 June 2022 9:00AM - 7:00PM

Louise Stebbing: A retrospective - 40 years of printmaking

An exhibition of printmaking at the Alison Richard Building.

9:30AM - 5:00PM

CLASSROOM COURSE Flowering plant taxonomy and systematics 5 day intensive course

An intensive course introducing flowering plant families to committed amateurs, undergraduates, graduates and professionals

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Hockney's Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction

One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer with an exhibition across The Fitzwilliam Museum and The Heong Gallery, Downing College.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Hockney’s Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction

One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer with an exhibition across The Fitzwilliam Museum and The Heong Gallery, Downing College.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight True to Nature: Open Air Painting in Europe 1780

In this unique exhibition, explore the inventive ways artists in the 18th and 19th centuries recorded fleeting moment in nature, capturing the effects of light, drama, and atmosphere first-hand in the open air.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

almost unthought - experimental works in aluminium by Silvano Cattai

Clare Hall Art Committee presents an exhibition of experimental works in aluminium by Silvano Cattai.

6:00PM - 7:00PM

Forgotten Crops Society Dialogue Series: The Global Food Crisis: How should we respond?

Our global food system faces unprecedented challenges; Professor Sayed Azam-Ali OBE discusses ideas and examples of how we can transform our food system for good.

6:00PM - 7:30PM

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.

Fri 24 June 2022 9:00AM - 7:00PM

Louise Stebbing: A retrospective - 40 years of printmaking

An exhibition of printmaking at the Alison Richard Building.

9:30AM - 5:00PM

CLASSROOM COURSE Flowering plant taxonomy and systematics 5 day intensive course

An intensive course introducing flowering plant families to committed amateurs, undergraduates, graduates and professionals

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Hockney's Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction

One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer with an exhibition across The Fitzwilliam Museum and The Heong Gallery, Downing College.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Hockney’s Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction

One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer with an exhibition across The Fitzwilliam Museum and The Heong Gallery, Downing College.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight True to Nature: Open Air Painting in Europe 1780

In this unique exhibition, explore the inventive ways artists in the 18th and 19th centuries recorded fleeting moment in nature, capturing the effects of light, drama, and atmosphere first-hand in the open air.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

almost unthought - experimental works in aluminium by Silvano Cattai

Clare Hall Art Committee presents an exhibition of experimental works in aluminium by Silvano Cattai.

11:00AM - 12:00PM

Pepys Library Tours

A tour of the Pepys Library with Dr Jane Hughes, Pepys Librarian and Fellow of Magdalene College.

5:00PM

BioBlitz 2022

Welcome to BioBlitz 2022! 24 hours of bookable talks & activities at Cambridge University Botanic Garden

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 James Blunt, via James Bond. The tour will be led by Green Badge Guides.

Sat 25 June 2022 7:00AM - 5:00PM

BioBlitz 2022

Welcome to BioBlitz 2022! 24 hours of bookable talks & activities at Cambridge University Botanic Garden

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Art exhibition: 'Kill or Cure'

Lethal or life-giving? Wolfson's exciting contemporary art exhibition explores the potential of animals, plants, and substances from the natural world to ‘Kill’ and/or ‘Cure’.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Hockney's Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction

One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer with an exhibition across The Fitzwilliam Museum and The Heong Gallery, Downing College.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Hockney’s Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction

One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer with an exhibition across The Fitzwilliam Museum and The Heong Gallery, Downing College.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight True to Nature: Open Air Painting in Europe 1780

In this unique exhibition, explore the inventive ways artists in the 18th and 19th centuries recorded fleeting moment in nature, capturing the effects of light, drama, and atmosphere first-hand in the open air.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

almost unthought - experimental works in aluminium by Silvano Cattai

Clare Hall Art Committee presents an exhibition of experimental works in aluminium by Silvano Cattai.

11:00AM - 12:00PM

LGBTQ+ Bridging Binaries Guided Tours

Join our volunteer guides as they share their personal selection of fascinating stories about gender and sex in the animal world at the Museum of Zoology

2:00PM - 5:30PM

CamCRAG charity arts event and auction

The Cambridge charity CamCRAG is hosting an arts event in support of Ukrainian and other refugees.

2:30PM - 4:30PM

Uncomfortable Cambridge Tours

Discover Cambridge in a different way on this guided walking tour, focusing on the uncomfortable stories of power and privilege which have shaped both the university and the city.

7:30PM - 9:20PM

Rhapsody in Blue

An all-American programme played by the City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra

7:30PM - 9:30PM

Phonoramas: Tonal journeys for the pianoforte

Join Clare Hall for a pianoforte concert by Patrick Hemmerlé, the College's Musician-in-Residence, this June.

Sun 26 June 2022 10:00AM - 5:00PM

Art exhibition: 'Kill or Cure'

Lethal or life-giving? Wolfson's exciting contemporary art exhibition explores the potential of animals, plants, and substances from the natural world to ‘Kill’ and/or ‘Cure’.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Hockney's Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction

One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer with an exhibition across The Fitzwilliam Museum and The Heong Gallery, Downing College.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Hockney’s Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction

One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer with an exhibition across The Fitzwilliam Museum and The Heong Gallery, Downing College.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight True to Nature: Open Air Painting in Europe 1780

In this unique exhibition, explore the inventive ways artists in the 18th and 19th centuries recorded fleeting moment in nature, capturing the effects of light, drama, and atmosphere first-hand in the open air.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

almost unthought - experimental works in aluminium by Silvano Cattai

Clare Hall Art Committee presents an exhibition of experimental works in aluminium by Silvano Cattai.

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 James Blunt, via James Bond. The tour will be led by Green Badge Guides.

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.

2:30PM - 4:30PM

Uncomfortable Cambridge Tours

Discover Cambridge in a different way on this guided walking tour, focusing on the uncomfortable stories of power and privilege which have shaped both the university and the city.