Home

Events around Cambridge

Yesterday

  1. Beginnings art exhibition
    • Start time: 10:00am
    • End date: Tuesday, June 18th
    • End time: 07:00pm
    • Published: Monday, June 17th

    • For the past twenty years, Barrie Ormsby has been a member of Bear Park Artists Cooperative, sharing a studio attached to a community centre, formerly a Miners’ Welfare Hall, with Romey Chaffer and John Foker. The Cooperative has worked in schools, in hospitals and for trade unions, and offers a programme of workshops for adults and children. The artists’ creative practice is always placed at the heart of the Cooperative’s work. Barrie Ormsby has made murals in diverse contexts, including a medical centre and a football stadium. More recently, he became interested in narrative again, after struggling to avoid it for many years. For this exhibition, ‘Beginnings’, four large pastel drawings (3.5mx1m) address the evolutionary process; smaller oil paintings revisit the biblical myth of Eden. The exhibition also includes landscapes from west Durham, compositions after music and using the triangle — an ancient symbol for the earth — and works responding to events in the social landscape. For the last thirty years, Barrie Ormsby has worked in and from the same small patch of landscape in west Durham, recording the reclamation of two pit heaps by nature, working from the motif and in the studio. Many of the forms and colours experienced there have informed his visual language. The music-inspired pieces in the exhibition began as drawings made whilst listening to either live or recorded music, worked up into paintings later.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  2. Read all about it! wrongdoing in Spain and England in the long nineteenth century
    • Start time: 10:00am
    • End date: Tuesday, June 18th
    • End time: 07:00pm
    • Published: Tuesday, April 16th

    • This exhibition at Cambridge University Library displays some unique chapbooks (cheap pamphlets) and broadsides (early posters) which were the nineteenth-century equivalent of the tabloid press, describing many different acts of wrongdoing in dramatic ways to attract readers. In Spain only about one in five adults could read, so Spanish chapbooks were often in verse, and had a lot of vivid illustrations. In England more than half the population could read, meaning the books published for this audience had more complex texts and fewer pictures - though they were often equally as dramatic. The exhibition traces the lifecycle of wrongdoing, from highly – and sometimes gruesomely – illustrated books showing children how to behave well, through the consequences of breakdowns in family relationships, to the final retribution for convicted offenders. Characters in the display include bandits, drunkards, drowners, murderous women and numerous other reprobates – not all of whom were brought to justice.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  3. Fashioning Switzerland: portraits and landscapes by Markus Dinkel and his contemporaries
    • Start time: 11:00am
    • End date: Tuesday, June 18th
    • End time: 06:00pm
    • Published: Thursday, April 11th

    • An exhibition of Swiss watercolours and prints featuring a rare selection of finely drawn and coloured portraits of Swiss women in regional costume and by he Bernese artist Markus Dinkel (1762-1832). These are accompanied by other artists' picturesque views of the Swiss landscape, largely etched and each one delicately hand finished in watercolours. The prints and drawings on show were made in the century before the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848, at a time when foreign tourists were discovering the delights of the various cantons (districts). The images show an affectionate attachment to Swiss landscape and culture, felt not only by those native to the country, but by the many foreign visitors who collected them as a permanent reminders of their travels.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  4. Gathering light
    • Start time: 11:00am
    • End date: Tuesday, June 18th
    • End time: 06:00pm
    • Published: Monday, April 22nd

    • The provocative exhibition takes a rare view of the discipline through the eyes of patients and researchers. The photographs capture the unique relationship between patient and doctor and the hope and human spirit wrapped up in research projects. The Gathering Light exhibition was commissioned by the Joint Research Office at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH), with support from UCLH Arts, and first opened at UCH Street Gallery in April 2012. The work is the result of a ground-breaking project in which five clinical researchers and their patients collaborated with award-winning photographer Clare Park to explore their feelings about the challenging journey in clinical research. The focus is on ‘translational research’ where researchers work to transform scientific discoveries into new treatments that have a direct effect on patient care. It covers some of the most cutting edge areas of medicine including the development of gene therapy for patients with blood cancers and the study of the effect of exercise and extreme conditions on the body. Translational research is often described as research that takes us ‘from bench to bedside’. It is very much like a journey from basic science in the laboratory to the ultimate purpose of research - patient treatments. For some patients getting involved in research can be a way of finding hope and purpose. For others it is a way of helping future generations. For researchers the process can be perplexing, exciting or sometimes even gruelling.'

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  5. Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals
    • Start time: 11:00am
    • End date: Tuesday, June 18th
    • End time: 06:00pm
    • Published: Tuesday, May 7th

    • A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artwork, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats. Some feature panoramic views of landscapes and stylised images of colonial warfare. Others depict allegorical scenes featuring classical figures and heraldic animals. These fascinating objects enable us to explore the diverse histories of many parts of Asia and Africa. They also provide a unique insight into the British Empire, its conflicts and its self-image.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  6. Ingeborg Zu Schleswig-Holstein: new dimensions of abstraction
    • Start time: 11:00am
    • End date: Tuesday, June 18th
    • End time: 07:00pm
    • Published: Wednesday, February 27th

    • Werkstattgalerie presents works by Ingeborg zu Schleswig-Holstein: a new abstractness that, in reality, is a different kind of concretion. The first phases of “abstract art” outgrew the traditional figurativeness, breaking out from the anecdotal quality of narrative painting with its orientation toward recognizability. Now a new abstraction with its very own direction has arrived on the scene. Since long a virtual world has dominatingly confronted conventional reality. The “New Abstraction” no longer abstracts from existing reality, but emancipates itself from conventional definitions and views of what is permitted to count as real: possible, imagined, explorable realities open up. S-H finds an expression of her own that joins the photos from astrophysics and microscopic worlds. She also overcomes the principles of traditional composition. Her pictures do not develop in relation to things; instead, the artist takes up certain energies, follow them, and carry them further. Such energies manifest themselves as movements or colors, for example. Giving them expression is a process that is itself energetic – one can also say gestural – and that gradually condenses and spreads in layers. Accordingly, the viewer needs time to penetrate into the suggested constellations that emerge between the layers of painting, colors, or gestures. Their interplay is revealed on the horizon of time. After her work with Andy Warhol, Ingeborg zu Schleswig-Holstein took up and radicalized the intentions of early pioneers like Nay and DeKooning. The result is her own worlds of color, which are now developing in a new rigor. Their inner dynamism radiates an intense calm that draws the visitor into their discoveries.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  7. Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji
    • Start time: 11:30am
    • End date: Tuesday, June 18th
    • End time: 05:30pm
    • Published: Wednesday, June 5th

    • Chiefs and Governors: Art and Power in Fiji draws on MAA’s exceptional collection of Fijian artefacts, photographs and archives, a collection closely linked to the early colonial history of Fiji and the foundation of the Museum. Many objects were acquired in the 1870s by Sir Arthur Gordon, the first Governor of Fiji, his officials, and Baron Anatole von Hügel, founding curator of the museum. Von Hügel travelled within Fiji between 1874 and 1877, a period coinciding with Fiji’s entry into the British Empire. It is the dialogue between Fijian Chiefs and British Governors, which gives the exhibition its name. On display will be whale ivory ornaments, wooden figures, and richly patterned barkcloths (masi). The astonishing range of material is a testament to the creativity and expertise of its makers, and some of the objects on display rank among the greatest masterpieces of Polynesian art.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  8. Creativity in the bronze age - a response
    • Start time: 11:30am
    • End date: Tuesday, June 18th
    • End time: 05:30pm
    • Published: Wednesday, April 10th

    • This is an intervention into MAA’s experimental World Archaeology Gallery by a group of seven contemporary craft artists, ranging from artist jewellers to potters. Their work, which is displayed in and around six of the museum’s recently refurbished hundred-year-old display cases alongside Bronze Age items from the museum’s collection, is a direct expression of their engagement with the creativity and craft of the European Bronze Age, c. 2500 – 800 BC. The artists have experienced excavations of Bronze Age sites in Hungary, handled precious Bronze Age razors at the National Museet in Denmark, and explored key sites in the UK alongside archaeologists, including Stonehenge in Wiltshire. This is the story, told through their work, of their Bronze Age explorations so far. The CinBA Artists: Mary Butcher, Basketry Artist Susan Kinley, Multimedia Artist Helen Marton, Ceramic Artist Syann Van Niftrik, Jewellery Artist Julian Stair, Potter Sheila Teague and Gary Wright, Artist Jewellers The CinBA Makers Engagement project has been facilitated by the Crafts Council and the University of Southampton, with generous support from the University of Cambridge, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, the National Museum of Denmark, the Natural History Museum of Vienna, Zagreb Archaeological Museum, Lejre Archaeological Park (Sagnlandet)

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  9. House guests
    • Start time: 12:30pm
    • End date: Tuesday, June 18th
    • End time: 06:00pm
    • Published: Thursday, April 11th

    • From April to July visitors to Kettle's Yard will have the opportunity to see 'guests' from eight other University of Cambridge museums and collections carefully places amongst the artworks and objects in the house. We hope the guests, from butterflies to Inuit carving, will inspire visitors to discover more about the other Cambridge University museums and to see Kettle’s Yard in a new light. The House Guests have been selected by the museums’ directors in collaboration with Kettle’s Yard Associate Artist Jeremy Millar. “It is not simply the beauty of the artworks collected at Kettle’s Yard that makes it such an extraordinary place, but rather how these are placed amongst domestic items, and gathered natural objects. By inviting objects from the collections of the University of Cambridge Museums to visit, too, such juxtapositions will be made all the more diverse, and richer as a result.” Jeremy Millar, 2013 Part of the project is a collaboration with the Critical Writing in Art and Design programme at the Royal College of Art. The students will be contributing to a publication that accompanies the exhibition, featuring interviews with museum curators and essays by Jeremy Millar and Lizzie Fisher, curator at Kettle’s Yard, available from late May.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  10. Katie Paterson
    • Start time: 12:30pm
    • End date: Tuesday, June 18th
    • End time: 06:00pm
    • Published: Thursday, April 11th

    • “Katie Paterson’s art enables us to engage with forces that are too intangible and too immense for us to experience in other ways” Art Monthly Katie Paterson has earned widespread acclaim for work that tackles some of the big questions about our place on earth. Her work often involves collaborating with leading scientists and researchers across the world. The exhibition brings together previous projects and new work. Inside this desert lies the tiniest grain of sand saw Paterson working with experts in nanotechnology to take a grain of sand and carve it to just 0.00005mm across – which she then buried deep within the Sahara desert. A photograph of Paterson standing amongst the dunes, features in the exhibition, a contemplation of the monumental elevating the minute.

On display in St Peter’s Church is a new piece, Fossil Necklace, a culmination of her residency at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. The necklace comprises over 150 beads carved from fossils that chart the evolution of life on earth. From a dinosaur tooth to a squid’s backbone, the oldest fossil is around 3.5 billion years old. Other works in the exhibition approach the themes of time and scale in different ways. As The World Turns is a record player moving imperceptibly slowly, in time with the rotation of the Earth. An ancient meteorite, fallen to earth and buried, is discovered and remade in Campo del Cielo, Field of Sky. The meteorite has been cast, melted then re-cast into a new version of itself that visitors can touch. The artist hopes to return it to space one day.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  11. Art Speak
    • Start time: 02:15pm
    • End date: Tuesday, June 18th
    • End time: 02:45pm
    • Published: Wednesday, April 17th

    • Meet at the Courtyard Entrance to the Fitzwilliam Museum for a half hour of looking and talking about art.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  12. University social club swimming
    • Start time: 08:15pm
    • End date: Tuesday, June 18th
    • End time: 09:15pm
    • Published: Thursday, April 26th

    • Each week one lane is opened for the more enthusiastic swimmer. We also set aside a second lane for families, with children who use floats, etc. The middle area is set aside for general swimming, but at a more reasonable pace. If you fancy stopping for a chat, then you can.

    • View this event in Google Calendar

Today

  1. The twits
    • Start time: 12:00am
    • End date: Wednesday, June 19th
    • End time: 12:45am
    • Published: Wednesday, May 22nd

    • Mr and Mrs Twit are disgusting. Really disgusting. They play horrible pranks on each other, they bake birds into pies, they smell because they never wash and they hate children. But worst of all, they keep monkeys in their back garden. In cages. It's time for the monkeys to get their revenge on these two most revolting creatures... This darkly comic adaptation of Dahl’s book will bring a magical spectacle to the ADC stage, through the use of UV Blacklight technology, recreating Dahl’s chaotic story with vivid animation, mind-boggling illusion, and ear-feastingly good music by Jeff Carpenter.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  2. Beginnings art exhibition
    • Start time: 10:00am
    • End date: Wednesday, June 19th
    • End time: 07:00pm
    • Published: Monday, June 17th

    • For the past twenty years, Barrie Ormsby has been a member of Bear Park Artists Cooperative, sharing a studio attached to a community centre, formerly a Miners’ Welfare Hall, with Romey Chaffer and John Foker. The Cooperative has worked in schools, in hospitals and for trade unions, and offers a programme of workshops for adults and children. The artists’ creative practice is always placed at the heart of the Cooperative’s work. Barrie Ormsby has made murals in diverse contexts, including a medical centre and a football stadium. More recently, he became interested in narrative again, after struggling to avoid it for many years. For this exhibition, ‘Beginnings’, four large pastel drawings (3.5mx1m) address the evolutionary process; smaller oil paintings revisit the biblical myth of Eden. The exhibition also includes landscapes from west Durham, compositions after music and using the triangle — an ancient symbol for the earth — and works responding to events in the social landscape. For the last thirty years, Barrie Ormsby has worked in and from the same small patch of landscape in west Durham, recording the reclamation of two pit heaps by nature, working from the motif and in the studio. Many of the forms and colours experienced there have informed his visual language. The music-inspired pieces in the exhibition began as drawings made whilst listening to either live or recorded music, worked up into paintings later.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  3. Read all about it! wrongdoing in Spain and England in the long nineteenth century
    • Start time: 10:00am
    • End date: Wednesday, June 19th
    • End time: 07:00pm
    • Published: Tuesday, April 16th

    • This exhibition at Cambridge University Library displays some unique chapbooks (cheap pamphlets) and broadsides (early posters) which were the nineteenth-century equivalent of the tabloid press, describing many different acts of wrongdoing in dramatic ways to attract readers. In Spain only about one in five adults could read, so Spanish chapbooks were often in verse, and had a lot of vivid illustrations. In England more than half the population could read, meaning the books published for this audience had more complex texts and fewer pictures - though they were often equally as dramatic. The exhibition traces the lifecycle of wrongdoing, from highly – and sometimes gruesomely – illustrated books showing children how to behave well, through the consequences of breakdowns in family relationships, to the final retribution for convicted offenders. Characters in the display include bandits, drunkards, drowners, murderous women and numerous other reprobates – not all of whom were brought to justice.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  4. Fashioning Switzerland: portraits and landscapes by Markus Dinkel and his contemporaries
    • Start time: 11:00am
    • End date: Wednesday, June 19th
    • End time: 06:00pm
    • Published: Thursday, April 11th

    • An exhibition of Swiss watercolours and prints featuring a rare selection of finely drawn and coloured portraits of Swiss women in regional costume and by he Bernese artist Markus Dinkel (1762-1832). These are accompanied by other artists' picturesque views of the Swiss landscape, largely etched and each one delicately hand finished in watercolours. The prints and drawings on show were made in the century before the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848, at a time when foreign tourists were discovering the delights of the various cantons (districts). The images show an affectionate attachment to Swiss landscape and culture, felt not only by those native to the country, but by the many foreign visitors who collected them as a permanent reminders of their travels.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  5. Gathering light
    • Start time: 11:00am
    • End date: Wednesday, June 19th
    • End time: 06:00pm
    • Published: Monday, April 22nd

    • The provocative exhibition takes a rare view of the discipline through the eyes of patients and researchers. The photographs capture the unique relationship between patient and doctor and the hope and human spirit wrapped up in research projects. The Gathering Light exhibition was commissioned by the Joint Research Office at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH), with support from UCLH Arts, and first opened at UCH Street Gallery in April 2012. The work is the result of a ground-breaking project in which five clinical researchers and their patients collaborated with award-winning photographer Clare Park to explore their feelings about the challenging journey in clinical research. The focus is on ‘translational research’ where researchers work to transform scientific discoveries into new treatments that have a direct effect on patient care. It covers some of the most cutting edge areas of medicine including the development of gene therapy for patients with blood cancers and the study of the effect of exercise and extreme conditions on the body. Translational research is often described as research that takes us ‘from bench to bedside’. It is very much like a journey from basic science in the laboratory to the ultimate purpose of research - patient treatments. For some patients getting involved in research can be a way of finding hope and purpose. For others it is a way of helping future generations. For researchers the process can be perplexing, exciting or sometimes even gruelling.'

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  6. Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals
    • Start time: 11:00am
    • End date: Wednesday, June 19th
    • End time: 06:00pm
    • Published: Tuesday, May 7th

    • A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artwork, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats. Some feature panoramic views of landscapes and stylised images of colonial warfare. Others depict allegorical scenes featuring classical figures and heraldic animals. These fascinating objects enable us to explore the diverse histories of many parts of Asia and Africa. They also provide a unique insight into the British Empire, its conflicts and its self-image.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  7. Ingeborg Zu Schleswig-Holstein: new dimensions of abstraction
    • Start time: 11:00am
    • End date: Wednesday, June 19th
    • End time: 07:00pm
    • Published: Wednesday, February 27th

    • Werkstattgalerie presents works by Ingeborg zu Schleswig-Holstein: a new abstractness that, in reality, is a different kind of concretion. The first phases of “abstract art” outgrew the traditional figurativeness, breaking out from the anecdotal quality of narrative painting with its orientation toward recognizability. Now a new abstraction with its very own direction has arrived on the scene. Since long a virtual world has dominatingly confronted conventional reality. The “New Abstraction” no longer abstracts from existing reality, but emancipates itself from conventional definitions and views of what is permitted to count as real: possible, imagined, explorable realities open up. S-H finds an expression of her own that joins the photos from astrophysics and microscopic worlds. She also overcomes the principles of traditional composition. Her pictures do not develop in relation to things; instead, the artist takes up certain energies, follow them, and carry them further. Such energies manifest themselves as movements or colors, for example. Giving them expression is a process that is itself energetic – one can also say gestural – and that gradually condenses and spreads in layers. Accordingly, the viewer needs time to penetrate into the suggested constellations that emerge between the layers of painting, colors, or gestures. Their interplay is revealed on the horizon of time. After her work with Andy Warhol, Ingeborg zu Schleswig-Holstein took up and radicalized the intentions of early pioneers like Nay and DeKooning. The result is her own worlds of color, which are now developing in a new rigor. Their inner dynamism radiates an intense calm that draws the visitor into their discoveries.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  8. Monumental ceramic vessels of colour and Navajo style weaving
    • Start time: 11:00am
    • End date: Wednesday, June 19th
    • End time: 06:00pm
    • Published: Monday, May 13th

    • Nicholas Rena has been described as "the most ambitious sculptor using ceramic at present in the UK” for his installations of “great power” by the Edmund de Waal. Collected by the Louvre, Carnegie Institute, V and A, and displayed in 10 Downing Street, Rena 's powerful press moulded earthenware vessels in bold modernist colours are noted for their exceptional beauty, presence and perfect finish. Rena's aim is to re -invest familiar forms with power and substance, to provide vessels that are consciously ceremonial as a reminder of traditions almost lost, and as a reproach to a world going virtual. Nicholas Rena gained a M.A. in Architecture from the University of Cambridge (1986) and a M.A. in Ceramics from the Royal College of Art (1995). He was awarded the Art Fund Award (2010) and the acclaimed Jerwood Contemporary Makers prize (2008). This joint exhibition is the first time his work has been exhibited in Cambridge for 14 years. St Ives weaver Stella Benjamin has taken the specialist textile tradition of Navajo weaving and made it her own, creating rugs and wall hangings in minimalist designs with the highly accomplished craftsmanship this demanding form requires. Benjamin uses hand spun Turkish yarns which she dyes herself to achieve rich saturated colours and a subtle variety of tones. Exhibiting infrequently, Benjamin's work is highly sought after for both its originality and technical virtuosity.The late Breon O'Casey described her fields of colour as "works of art of the highest calibre". Benjamin was shortlisted for the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize (1997).

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  9. Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji
    • Start time: 11:30am
    • End date: Wednesday, June 19th
    • End time: 05:30pm
    • Published: Wednesday, June 5th

    • Chiefs and Governors: Art and Power in Fiji draws on MAA’s exceptional collection of Fijian artefacts, photographs and archives, a collection closely linked to the early colonial history of Fiji and the foundation of the Museum. Many objects were acquired in the 1870s by Sir Arthur Gordon, the first Governor of Fiji, his officials, and Baron Anatole von Hügel, founding curator of the museum. Von Hügel travelled within Fiji between 1874 and 1877, a period coinciding with Fiji’s entry into the British Empire. It is the dialogue between Fijian Chiefs and British Governors, which gives the exhibition its name. On display will be whale ivory ornaments, wooden figures, and richly patterned barkcloths (masi). The astonishing range of material is a testament to the creativity and expertise of its makers, and some of the objects on display rank among the greatest masterpieces of Polynesian art.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  10. Creativity in the bronze age - a response
    • Start time: 11:30am
    • End date: Wednesday, June 19th
    • End time: 05:30pm
    • Published: Wednesday, April 10th

    • This is an intervention into MAA’s experimental World Archaeology Gallery by a group of seven contemporary craft artists, ranging from artist jewellers to potters. Their work, which is displayed in and around six of the museum’s recently refurbished hundred-year-old display cases alongside Bronze Age items from the museum’s collection, is a direct expression of their engagement with the creativity and craft of the European Bronze Age, c. 2500 – 800 BC. The artists have experienced excavations of Bronze Age sites in Hungary, handled precious Bronze Age razors at the National Museet in Denmark, and explored key sites in the UK alongside archaeologists, including Stonehenge in Wiltshire. This is the story, told through their work, of their Bronze Age explorations so far. The CinBA Artists: Mary Butcher, Basketry Artist Susan Kinley, Multimedia Artist Helen Marton, Ceramic Artist Syann Van Niftrik, Jewellery Artist Julian Stair, Potter Sheila Teague and Gary Wright, Artist Jewellers The CinBA Makers Engagement project has been facilitated by the Crafts Council and the University of Southampton, with generous support from the University of Cambridge, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, the National Museum of Denmark, the Natural History Museum of Vienna, Zagreb Archaeological Museum, Lejre Archaeological Park (Sagnlandet)

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  11. House guests
    • Start time: 12:30pm
    • End date: Wednesday, June 19th
    • End time: 06:00pm
    • Published: Thursday, April 11th

    • From April to July visitors to Kettle's Yard will have the opportunity to see 'guests' from eight other University of Cambridge museums and collections carefully places amongst the artworks and objects in the house. We hope the guests, from butterflies to Inuit carving, will inspire visitors to discover more about the other Cambridge University museums and to see Kettle’s Yard in a new light. The House Guests have been selected by the museums’ directors in collaboration with Kettle’s Yard Associate Artist Jeremy Millar. “It is not simply the beauty of the artworks collected at Kettle’s Yard that makes it such an extraordinary place, but rather how these are placed amongst domestic items, and gathered natural objects. By inviting objects from the collections of the University of Cambridge Museums to visit, too, such juxtapositions will be made all the more diverse, and richer as a result.” Jeremy Millar, 2013 Part of the project is a collaboration with the Critical Writing in Art and Design programme at the Royal College of Art. The students will be contributing to a publication that accompanies the exhibition, featuring interviews with museum curators and essays by Jeremy Millar and Lizzie Fisher, curator at Kettle’s Yard, available from late May.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  12. Katie Paterson
    • Start time: 12:30pm
    • End date: Wednesday, June 19th
    • End time: 06:00pm
    • Published: Thursday, April 11th

    • “Katie Paterson’s art enables us to engage with forces that are too intangible and too immense for us to experience in other ways” Art Monthly Katie Paterson has earned widespread acclaim for work that tackles some of the big questions about our place on earth. Her work often involves collaborating with leading scientists and researchers across the world. The exhibition brings together previous projects and new work. Inside this desert lies the tiniest grain of sand saw Paterson working with experts in nanotechnology to take a grain of sand and carve it to just 0.00005mm across – which she then buried deep within the Sahara desert. A photograph of Paterson standing amongst the dunes, features in the exhibition, a contemplation of the monumental elevating the minute.

On display in St Peter’s Church is a new piece, Fossil Necklace, a culmination of her residency at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. The necklace comprises over 150 beads carved from fossils that chart the evolution of life on earth. From a dinosaur tooth to a squid’s backbone, the oldest fossil is around 3.5 billion years old. Other works in the exhibition approach the themes of time and scale in different ways. As The World Turns is a record player moving imperceptibly slowly, in time with the rotation of the Earth. An ancient meteorite, fallen to earth and buried, is discovered and remade in Campo del Cielo, Field of Sky. The meteorite has been cast, melted then re-cast into a new version of itself that visitors can touch. The artist hopes to return it to space one day.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  13. The genies on the stairs: a 3,000 year journey from Assyria to Cambridge
    • Start time: 02:15pm
    • End date: Wednesday, June 19th
    • End time: 03:00pm
    • Published: Wednesday, April 17th

    • Join Eleanor Robson, University of Cambridge, for a lunchtime talk at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Admission is by token, available from 12.45 on the day of talk.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  14. The things some things say
    • Start time: 07:00pm
    • End date: Wednesday, June 19th
    • End time: 08:30pm
    • Published: Wednesday, January 30th

    • The Things Some Things Say will encourage participants to imagine life from the literal or metaphorical perspective of objects, through story-telling or drawing. Participants will work with their favoured way of communicating - words, pictures or both. Sessions will be held on one Wednesday a month throughout 2013. Each workshop can be treated as a stand-alone experience or participants can attend all workshops and work on a more ambitious project. Each session will begin with a series of small literary or graphic tasks to get the creative juices flowing, then participants will be released to work on their own projects.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  15. Life clubs - Self improvement workshops
    • Start time: 07:30pm
    • End date: Wednesday, June 19th
    • End time: 09:00pm
    • Published: Wednesday, January 9th

    • It is said that recent research shows that people who attend Life Clubs for six or more weeks feel happier, more confident and clearer about what they want from life. You can join the workshops at anytime.

    • View this event in Google Calendar

Tomorrow

  1. The twits
    • Start time: 12:00am
    • End date: Thursday, June 20th
    • End time: 12:45am
    • Published: Wednesday, May 22nd

    • Mr and Mrs Twit are disgusting. Really disgusting. They play horrible pranks on each other, they bake birds into pies, they smell because they never wash and they hate children. But worst of all, they keep monkeys in their back garden. In cages. It's time for the monkeys to get their revenge on these two most revolting creatures... This darkly comic adaptation of Dahl’s book will bring a magical spectacle to the ADC stage, through the use of UV Blacklight technology, recreating Dahl’s chaotic story with vivid animation, mind-boggling illusion, and ear-feastingly good music by Jeff Carpenter.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  2. Beginnings art exhibition
    • Start time: 10:00am
    • End date: Thursday, June 20th
    • End time: 07:00pm
    • Published: Monday, June 17th

    • For the past twenty years, Barrie Ormsby has been a member of Bear Park Artists Cooperative, sharing a studio attached to a community centre, formerly a Miners’ Welfare Hall, with Romey Chaffer and John Foker. The Cooperative has worked in schools, in hospitals and for trade unions, and offers a programme of workshops for adults and children. The artists’ creative practice is always placed at the heart of the Cooperative’s work. Barrie Ormsby has made murals in diverse contexts, including a medical centre and a football stadium. More recently, he became interested in narrative again, after struggling to avoid it for many years. For this exhibition, ‘Beginnings’, four large pastel drawings (3.5mx1m) address the evolutionary process; smaller oil paintings revisit the biblical myth of Eden. The exhibition also includes landscapes from west Durham, compositions after music and using the triangle — an ancient symbol for the earth — and works responding to events in the social landscape. For the last thirty years, Barrie Ormsby has worked in and from the same small patch of landscape in west Durham, recording the reclamation of two pit heaps by nature, working from the motif and in the studio. Many of the forms and colours experienced there have informed his visual language. The music-inspired pieces in the exhibition began as drawings made whilst listening to either live or recorded music, worked up into paintings later.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  3. MRC open week
    • Start time: 10:00am
    • End date: Thursday, June 20th
    • End time: 11:00pm
    • Published: Monday, June 10th

    • During Open Week events are taking place; from photography exhibitions to scientific debates and hands-on science activities for kids, you can explore the work of the MRC for yourself. Some working labs are open with scientists on hand to talk about their research, and demonstrations, talks and showcase events bring into focus the depth and breadth of the life-changing work of the MRC.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  4. Read all about it! wrongdoing in Spain and England in the long nineteenth century
    • Start time: 10:00am
    • End date: Thursday, June 20th
    • End time: 07:00pm
    • Published: Tuesday, April 16th

    • This exhibition at Cambridge University Library displays some unique chapbooks (cheap pamphlets) and broadsides (early posters) which were the nineteenth-century equivalent of the tabloid press, describing many different acts of wrongdoing in dramatic ways to attract readers. In Spain only about one in five adults could read, so Spanish chapbooks were often in verse, and had a lot of vivid illustrations. In England more than half the population could read, meaning the books published for this audience had more complex texts and fewer pictures - though they were often equally as dramatic. The exhibition traces the lifecycle of wrongdoing, from highly – and sometimes gruesomely – illustrated books showing children how to behave well, through the consequences of breakdowns in family relationships, to the final retribution for convicted offenders. Characters in the display include bandits, drunkards, drowners, murderous women and numerous other reprobates – not all of whom were brought to justice.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  5. Fashioning Switzerland: portraits and landscapes by Markus Dinkel and his contemporaries
    • Start time: 11:00am
    • End date: Thursday, June 20th
    • End time: 06:00pm
    • Published: Thursday, April 11th

    • An exhibition of Swiss watercolours and prints featuring a rare selection of finely drawn and coloured portraits of Swiss women in regional costume and by he Bernese artist Markus Dinkel (1762-1832). These are accompanied by other artists' picturesque views of the Swiss landscape, largely etched and each one delicately hand finished in watercolours. The prints and drawings on show were made in the century before the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848, at a time when foreign tourists were discovering the delights of the various cantons (districts). The images show an affectionate attachment to Swiss landscape and culture, felt not only by those native to the country, but by the many foreign visitors who collected them as a permanent reminders of their travels.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  6. Gathering light
    • Start time: 11:00am
    • End date: Thursday, June 20th
    • End time: 06:00pm
    • Published: Monday, April 22nd

    • The provocative exhibition takes a rare view of the discipline through the eyes of patients and researchers. The photographs capture the unique relationship between patient and doctor and the hope and human spirit wrapped up in research projects. The Gathering Light exhibition was commissioned by the Joint Research Office at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH), with support from UCLH Arts, and first opened at UCH Street Gallery in April 2012. The work is the result of a ground-breaking project in which five clinical researchers and their patients collaborated with award-winning photographer Clare Park to explore their feelings about the challenging journey in clinical research. The focus is on ‘translational research’ where researchers work to transform scientific discoveries into new treatments that have a direct effect on patient care. It covers some of the most cutting edge areas of medicine including the development of gene therapy for patients with blood cancers and the study of the effect of exercise and extreme conditions on the body. Translational research is often described as research that takes us ‘from bench to bedside’. It is very much like a journey from basic science in the laboratory to the ultimate purpose of research - patient treatments. For some patients getting involved in research can be a way of finding hope and purpose. For others it is a way of helping future generations. For researchers the process can be perplexing, exciting or sometimes even gruelling.'

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  7. Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals
    • Start time: 11:00am
    • End date: Thursday, June 20th
    • End time: 06:00pm
    • Published: Tuesday, May 7th

    • A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artwork, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats. Some feature panoramic views of landscapes and stylised images of colonial warfare. Others depict allegorical scenes featuring classical figures and heraldic animals. These fascinating objects enable us to explore the diverse histories of many parts of Asia and Africa. They also provide a unique insight into the British Empire, its conflicts and its self-image.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  8. Ingeborg Zu Schleswig-Holstein: new dimensions of abstraction
    • Start time: 11:00am
    • End date: Thursday, June 20th
    • End time: 07:00pm
    • Published: Wednesday, February 27th

    • Werkstattgalerie presents works by Ingeborg zu Schleswig-Holstein: a new abstractness that, in reality, is a different kind of concretion. The first phases of “abstract art” outgrew the traditional figurativeness, breaking out from the anecdotal quality of narrative painting with its orientation toward recognizability. Now a new abstraction with its very own direction has arrived on the scene. Since long a virtual world has dominatingly confronted conventional reality. The “New Abstraction” no longer abstracts from existing reality, but emancipates itself from conventional definitions and views of what is permitted to count as real: possible, imagined, explorable realities open up. S-H finds an expression of her own that joins the photos from astrophysics and microscopic worlds. She also overcomes the principles of traditional composition. Her pictures do not develop in relation to things; instead, the artist takes up certain energies, follow them, and carry them further. Such energies manifest themselves as movements or colors, for example. Giving them expression is a process that is itself energetic – one can also say gestural – and that gradually condenses and spreads in layers. Accordingly, the viewer needs time to penetrate into the suggested constellations that emerge between the layers of painting, colors, or gestures. Their interplay is revealed on the horizon of time. After her work with Andy Warhol, Ingeborg zu Schleswig-Holstein took up and radicalized the intentions of early pioneers like Nay and DeKooning. The result is her own worlds of color, which are now developing in a new rigor. Their inner dynamism radiates an intense calm that draws the visitor into their discoveries.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  9. Monumental ceramic vessels of colour and Navajo style weaving
    • Start time: 11:00am
    • End date: Thursday, June 20th
    • End time: 06:00pm
    • Published: Monday, May 13th

    • Nicholas Rena has been described as "the most ambitious sculptor using ceramic at present in the UK” for his installations of “great power” by the Edmund de Waal. Collected by the Louvre, Carnegie Institute, V and A, and displayed in 10 Downing Street, Rena 's powerful press moulded earthenware vessels in bold modernist colours are noted for their exceptional beauty, presence and perfect finish. Rena's aim is to re -invest familiar forms with power and substance, to provide vessels that are consciously ceremonial as a reminder of traditions almost lost, and as a reproach to a world going virtual. Nicholas Rena gained a M.A. in Architecture from the University of Cambridge (1986) and a M.A. in Ceramics from the Royal College of Art (1995). He was awarded the Art Fund Award (2010) and the acclaimed Jerwood Contemporary Makers prize (2008). This joint exhibition is the first time his work has been exhibited in Cambridge for 14 years. St Ives weaver Stella Benjamin has taken the specialist textile tradition of Navajo weaving and made it her own, creating rugs and wall hangings in minimalist designs with the highly accomplished craftsmanship this demanding form requires. Benjamin uses hand spun Turkish yarns which she dyes herself to achieve rich saturated colours and a subtle variety of tones. Exhibiting infrequently, Benjamin's work is highly sought after for both its originality and technical virtuosity.The late Breon O'Casey described her fields of colour as "works of art of the highest calibre". Benjamin was shortlisted for the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize (1997).

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  10. Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji
    • Start time: 11:30am
    • End date: Thursday, June 20th
    • End time: 05:30pm
    • Published: Wednesday, June 5th

    • Chiefs and Governors: Art and Power in Fiji draws on MAA’s exceptional collection of Fijian artefacts, photographs and archives, a collection closely linked to the early colonial history of Fiji and the foundation of the Museum. Many objects were acquired in the 1870s by Sir Arthur Gordon, the first Governor of Fiji, his officials, and Baron Anatole von Hügel, founding curator of the museum. Von Hügel travelled within Fiji between 1874 and 1877, a period coinciding with Fiji’s entry into the British Empire. It is the dialogue between Fijian Chiefs and British Governors, which gives the exhibition its name. On display will be whale ivory ornaments, wooden figures, and richly patterned barkcloths (masi). The astonishing range of material is a testament to the creativity and expertise of its makers, and some of the objects on display rank among the greatest masterpieces of Polynesian art.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  11. Creativity in the bronze age - a response
    • Start time: 11:30am
    • End date: Thursday, June 20th
    • End time: 05:30pm
    • Published: Wednesday, April 10th

    • This is an intervention into MAA’s experimental World Archaeology Gallery by a group of seven contemporary craft artists, ranging from artist jewellers to potters. Their work, which is displayed in and around six of the museum’s recently refurbished hundred-year-old display cases alongside Bronze Age items from the museum’s collection, is a direct expression of their engagement with the creativity and craft of the European Bronze Age, c. 2500 – 800 BC. The artists have experienced excavations of Bronze Age sites in Hungary, handled precious Bronze Age razors at the National Museet in Denmark, and explored key sites in the UK alongside archaeologists, including Stonehenge in Wiltshire. This is the story, told through their work, of their Bronze Age explorations so far. The CinBA Artists: Mary Butcher, Basketry Artist Susan Kinley, Multimedia Artist Helen Marton, Ceramic Artist Syann Van Niftrik, Jewellery Artist Julian Stair, Potter Sheila Teague and Gary Wright, Artist Jewellers The CinBA Makers Engagement project has been facilitated by the Crafts Council and the University of Southampton, with generous support from the University of Cambridge, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, the National Museum of Denmark, the Natural History Museum of Vienna, Zagreb Archaeological Museum, Lejre Archaeological Park (Sagnlandet)

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  12. House guests
    • Start time: 12:30pm
    • End date: Thursday, June 20th
    • End time: 06:00pm
    • Published: Thursday, April 11th

    • From April to July visitors to Kettle's Yard will have the opportunity to see 'guests' from eight other University of Cambridge museums and collections carefully places amongst the artworks and objects in the house. We hope the guests, from butterflies to Inuit carving, will inspire visitors to discover more about the other Cambridge University museums and to see Kettle’s Yard in a new light. The House Guests have been selected by the museums’ directors in collaboration with Kettle’s Yard Associate Artist Jeremy Millar. “It is not simply the beauty of the artworks collected at Kettle’s Yard that makes it such an extraordinary place, but rather how these are placed amongst domestic items, and gathered natural objects. By inviting objects from the collections of the University of Cambridge Museums to visit, too, such juxtapositions will be made all the more diverse, and richer as a result.” Jeremy Millar, 2013 Part of the project is a collaboration with the Critical Writing in Art and Design programme at the Royal College of Art. The students will be contributing to a publication that accompanies the exhibition, featuring interviews with museum curators and essays by Jeremy Millar and Lizzie Fisher, curator at Kettle’s Yard, available from late May.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  13. Katie Paterson
    • Start time: 12:30pm
    • End date: Thursday, June 20th
    • End time: 06:00pm
    • Published: Thursday, April 11th

    • “Katie Paterson’s art enables us to engage with forces that are too intangible and too immense for us to experience in other ways” Art Monthly Katie Paterson has earned widespread acclaim for work that tackles some of the big questions about our place on earth. Her work often involves collaborating with leading scientists and researchers across the world. The exhibition brings together previous projects and new work. Inside this desert lies the tiniest grain of sand saw Paterson working with experts in nanotechnology to take a grain of sand and carve it to just 0.00005mm across – which she then buried deep within the Sahara desert. A photograph of Paterson standing amongst the dunes, features in the exhibition, a contemplation of the monumental elevating the minute.

On display in St Peter’s Church is a new piece, Fossil Necklace, a culmination of her residency at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. The necklace comprises over 150 beads carved from fossils that chart the evolution of life on earth. From a dinosaur tooth to a squid’s backbone, the oldest fossil is around 3.5 billion years old. Other works in the exhibition approach the themes of time and scale in different ways. As The World Turns is a record player moving imperceptibly slowly, in time with the rotation of the Earth. An ancient meteorite, fallen to earth and buried, is discovered and remade in Campo del Cielo, Field of Sky. The meteorite has been cast, melted then re-cast into a new version of itself that visitors can touch. The artist hopes to return it to space one day.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  14. House guests
    • Start time: 02:10pm
    • End date: Thursday, June 20th
    • End time: 02:40pm
    • Published: Tuesday, April 16th

    • Join Dr Mark Elliot, Curator for Anthropology, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology and students from the Critical Writing Programme at the Royal College of Art for a lunchtime talk at Kettle's Yard.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  15. House guests
    • Start time: 02:10pm
    • End date: Thursday, June 20th
    • End time: 02:40pm
    • Published: Tuesday, April 16th

    • Join Heather Lane, Librarian and Keeper of Collections, The Polar Museum, Scott Polar Research Institute and students from the Critical Writing Programme at the Royal College of Art.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  16. Professor David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS: putting life into numbers - how statistical science has transformed health care
    • Start time: 07:30pm
    • End date: Thursday, June 20th
    • End time: 08:30pm
    • Published: Wednesday, March 20th

    • As part of the International Year of Statistics 2013 the Statistical Laboratory and the MRC Biostatistics Unit are co-hosting a celebratory series of 1-hour public lectures A Summer Reception will follow Professor David Spiegelhalter’s talk.

    • View this event in Google Calendar

Friday, June 21st

  1. The twits
    • Start time: 12:00am
    • End date: Friday, June 21st
    • End time: 12:45am
    • Published: Wednesday, May 22nd

    • Mr and Mrs Twit are disgusting. Really disgusting. They play horrible pranks on each other, they bake birds into pies, they smell because they never wash and they hate children. But worst of all, they keep monkeys in their back garden. In cages. It's time for the monkeys to get their revenge on these two most revolting creatures... This darkly comic adaptation of Dahl’s book will bring a magical spectacle to the ADC stage, through the use of UV Blacklight technology, recreating Dahl’s chaotic story with vivid animation, mind-boggling illusion, and ear-feastingly good music by Jeff Carpenter.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  2. Beginnings art exhibition
    • Start time: 10:00am
    • End date: Friday, June 21st
    • End time: 07:00pm
    • Published: Monday, June 17th

    • For the past twenty years, Barrie Ormsby has been a member of Bear Park Artists Cooperative, sharing a studio attached to a community centre, formerly a Miners’ Welfare Hall, with Romey Chaffer and John Foker. The Cooperative has worked in schools, in hospitals and for trade unions, and offers a programme of workshops for adults and children. The artists’ creative practice is always placed at the heart of the Cooperative’s work. Barrie Ormsby has made murals in diverse contexts, including a medical centre and a football stadium. More recently, he became interested in narrative again, after struggling to avoid it for many years. For this exhibition, ‘Beginnings’, four large pastel drawings (3.5mx1m) address the evolutionary process; smaller oil paintings revisit the biblical myth of Eden. The exhibition also includes landscapes from west Durham, compositions after music and using the triangle — an ancient symbol for the earth — and works responding to events in the social landscape. For the last thirty years, Barrie Ormsby has worked in and from the same small patch of landscape in west Durham, recording the reclamation of two pit heaps by nature, working from the motif and in the studio. Many of the forms and colours experienced there have informed his visual language. The music-inspired pieces in the exhibition began as drawings made whilst listening to either live or recorded music, worked up into paintings later.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  3. MRC open week
    • Start time: 10:00am
    • End date: Friday, June 21st
    • End time: 11:00pm
    • Published: Monday, June 10th

    • During Open Week events are taking place; from photography exhibitions to scientific debates and hands-on science activities for kids, you can explore the work of the MRC for yourself. Some working labs are open with scientists on hand to talk about their research, and demonstrations, talks and showcase events bring into focus the depth and breadth of the life-changing work of the MRC.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  4. Read all about it! wrongdoing in Spain and England in the long nineteenth century
    • Start time: 10:00am
    • End date: Friday, June 21st
    • End time: 07:00pm
    • Published: Tuesday, April 16th

    • This exhibition at Cambridge University Library displays some unique chapbooks (cheap pamphlets) and broadsides (early posters) which were the nineteenth-century equivalent of the tabloid press, describing many different acts of wrongdoing in dramatic ways to attract readers. In Spain only about one in five adults could read, so Spanish chapbooks were often in verse, and had a lot of vivid illustrations. In England more than half the population could read, meaning the books published for this audience had more complex texts and fewer pictures - though they were often equally as dramatic. The exhibition traces the lifecycle of wrongdoing, from highly – and sometimes gruesomely – illustrated books showing children how to behave well, through the consequences of breakdowns in family relationships, to the final retribution for convicted offenders. Characters in the display include bandits, drunkards, drowners, murderous women and numerous other reprobates – not all of whom were brought to justice.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  5. Fashioning Switzerland: portraits and landscapes by Markus Dinkel and his contemporaries
    • Start time: 11:00am
    • End date: Friday, June 21st
    • End time: 06:00pm
    • Published: Thursday, April 11th

    • An exhibition of Swiss watercolours and prints featuring a rare selection of finely drawn and coloured portraits of Swiss women in regional costume and by he Bernese artist Markus Dinkel (1762-1832). These are accompanied by other artists' picturesque views of the Swiss landscape, largely etched and each one delicately hand finished in watercolours. The prints and drawings on show were made in the century before the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848, at a time when foreign tourists were discovering the delights of the various cantons (districts). The images show an affectionate attachment to Swiss landscape and culture, felt not only by those native to the country, but by the many foreign visitors who collected them as a permanent reminders of their travels.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  6. Gathering light
    • Start time: 11:00am
    • End date: Friday, June 21st
    • End time: 06:00pm
    • Published: Monday, April 22nd

    • The provocative exhibition takes a rare view of the discipline through the eyes of patients and researchers. The photographs capture the unique relationship between patient and doctor and the hope and human spirit wrapped up in research projects. The Gathering Light exhibition was commissioned by the Joint Research Office at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH), with support from UCLH Arts, and first opened at UCH Street Gallery in April 2012. The work is the result of a ground-breaking project in which five clinical researchers and their patients collaborated with award-winning photographer Clare Park to explore their feelings about the challenging journey in clinical research. The focus is on ‘translational research’ where researchers work to transform scientific discoveries into new treatments that have a direct effect on patient care. It covers some of the most cutting edge areas of medicine including the development of gene therapy for patients with blood cancers and the study of the effect of exercise and extreme conditions on the body. Translational research is often described as research that takes us ‘from bench to bedside’. It is very much like a journey from basic science in the laboratory to the ultimate purpose of research - patient treatments. For some patients getting involved in research can be a way of finding hope and purpose. For others it is a way of helping future generations. For researchers the process can be perplexing, exciting or sometimes even gruelling.'

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  7. Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals
    • Start time: 11:00am
    • End date: Friday, June 21st
    • End time: 06:00pm
    • Published: Tuesday, May 7th

    • A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artwork, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats. Some feature panoramic views of landscapes and stylised images of colonial warfare. Others depict allegorical scenes featuring classical figures and heraldic animals. These fascinating objects enable us to explore the diverse histories of many parts of Asia and Africa. They also provide a unique insight into the British Empire, its conflicts and its self-image.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  8. Ingeborg Zu Schleswig-Holstein: new dimensions of abstraction
    • Start time: 11:00am
    • End date: Friday, June 21st
    • End time: 07:00pm
    • Published: Wednesday, February 27th

    • Werkstattgalerie presents works by Ingeborg zu Schleswig-Holstein: a new abstractness that, in reality, is a different kind of concretion. The first phases of “abstract art” outgrew the traditional figurativeness, breaking out from the anecdotal quality of narrative painting with its orientation toward recognizability. Now a new abstraction with its very own direction has arrived on the scene. Since long a virtual world has dominatingly confronted conventional reality. The “New Abstraction” no longer abstracts from existing reality, but emancipates itself from conventional definitions and views of what is permitted to count as real: possible, imagined, explorable realities open up. S-H finds an expression of her own that joins the photos from astrophysics and microscopic worlds. She also overcomes the principles of traditional composition. Her pictures do not develop in relation to things; instead, the artist takes up certain energies, follow them, and carry them further. Such energies manifest themselves as movements or colors, for example. Giving them expression is a process that is itself energetic – one can also say gestural – and that gradually condenses and spreads in layers. Accordingly, the viewer needs time to penetrate into the suggested constellations that emerge between the layers of painting, colors, or gestures. Their interplay is revealed on the horizon of time. After her work with Andy Warhol, Ingeborg zu Schleswig-Holstein took up and radicalized the intentions of early pioneers like Nay and DeKooning. The result is her own worlds of color, which are now developing in a new rigor. Their inner dynamism radiates an intense calm that draws the visitor into their discoveries.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  9. Monumental ceramic vessels of colour and Navajo style weaving
    • Start time: 11:00am
    • End date: Friday, June 21st
    • End time: 06:00pm
    • Published: Monday, May 13th

    • Nicholas Rena has been described as "the most ambitious sculptor using ceramic at present in the UK” for his installations of “great power” by the Edmund de Waal. Collected by the Louvre, Carnegie Institute, V and A, and displayed in 10 Downing Street, Rena 's powerful press moulded earthenware vessels in bold modernist colours are noted for their exceptional beauty, presence and perfect finish. Rena's aim is to re -invest familiar forms with power and substance, to provide vessels that are consciously ceremonial as a reminder of traditions almost lost, and as a reproach to a world going virtual. Nicholas Rena gained a M.A. in Architecture from the University of Cambridge (1986) and a M.A. in Ceramics from the Royal College of Art (1995). He was awarded the Art Fund Award (2010) and the acclaimed Jerwood Contemporary Makers prize (2008). This joint exhibition is the first time his work has been exhibited in Cambridge for 14 years. St Ives weaver Stella Benjamin has taken the specialist textile tradition of Navajo weaving and made it her own, creating rugs and wall hangings in minimalist designs with the highly accomplished craftsmanship this demanding form requires. Benjamin uses hand spun Turkish yarns which she dyes herself to achieve rich saturated colours and a subtle variety of tones. Exhibiting infrequently, Benjamin's work is highly sought after for both its originality and technical virtuosity.The late Breon O'Casey described her fields of colour as "works of art of the highest calibre". Benjamin was shortlisted for the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize (1997).

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  10. Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji
    • Start time: 11:30am
    • End date: Friday, June 21st
    • End time: 05:30pm
    • Published: Wednesday, June 5th

    • Chiefs and Governors: Art and Power in Fiji draws on MAA’s exceptional collection of Fijian artefacts, photographs and archives, a collection closely linked to the early colonial history of Fiji and the foundation of the Museum. Many objects were acquired in the 1870s by Sir Arthur Gordon, the first Governor of Fiji, his officials, and Baron Anatole von Hügel, founding curator of the museum. Von Hügel travelled within Fiji between 1874 and 1877, a period coinciding with Fiji’s entry into the British Empire. It is the dialogue between Fijian Chiefs and British Governors, which gives the exhibition its name. On display will be whale ivory ornaments, wooden figures, and richly patterned barkcloths (masi). The astonishing range of material is a testament to the creativity and expertise of its makers, and some of the objects on display rank among the greatest masterpieces of Polynesian art.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  11. Creativity in the bronze age - a response
    • Start time: 11:30am
    • End date: Friday, June 21st
    • End time: 05:30pm
    • Published: Wednesday, April 10th

    • This is an intervention into MAA’s experimental World Archaeology Gallery by a group of seven contemporary craft artists, ranging from artist jewellers to potters. Their work, which is displayed in and around six of the museum’s recently refurbished hundred-year-old display cases alongside Bronze Age items from the museum’s collection, is a direct expression of their engagement with the creativity and craft of the European Bronze Age, c. 2500 – 800 BC. The artists have experienced excavations of Bronze Age sites in Hungary, handled precious Bronze Age razors at the National Museet in Denmark, and explored key sites in the UK alongside archaeologists, including Stonehenge in Wiltshire. This is the story, told through their work, of their Bronze Age explorations so far. The CinBA Artists: Mary Butcher, Basketry Artist Susan Kinley, Multimedia Artist Helen Marton, Ceramic Artist Syann Van Niftrik, Jewellery Artist Julian Stair, Potter Sheila Teague and Gary Wright, Artist Jewellers The CinBA Makers Engagement project has been facilitated by the Crafts Council and the University of Southampton, with generous support from the University of Cambridge, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, the National Museum of Denmark, the Natural History Museum of Vienna, Zagreb Archaeological Museum, Lejre Archaeological Park (Sagnlandet)

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  12. House guests
    • Start time: 12:30pm
    • End date: Friday, June 21st
    • End time: 06:00pm
    • Published: Thursday, April 11th

    • From April to July visitors to Kettle's Yard will have the opportunity to see 'guests' from eight other University of Cambridge museums and collections carefully places amongst the artworks and objects in the house. We hope the guests, from butterflies to Inuit carving, will inspire visitors to discover more about the other Cambridge University museums and to see Kettle’s Yard in a new light. The House Guests have been selected by the museums’ directors in collaboration with Kettle’s Yard Associate Artist Jeremy Millar. “It is not simply the beauty of the artworks collected at Kettle’s Yard that makes it such an extraordinary place, but rather how these are placed amongst domestic items, and gathered natural objects. By inviting objects from the collections of the University of Cambridge Museums to visit, too, such juxtapositions will be made all the more diverse, and richer as a result.” Jeremy Millar, 2013 Part of the project is a collaboration with the Critical Writing in Art and Design programme at the Royal College of Art. The students will be contributing to a publication that accompanies the exhibition, featuring interviews with museum curators and essays by Jeremy Millar and Lizzie Fisher, curator at Kettle’s Yard, available from late May.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  13. Katie Paterson
    • Start time: 12:30pm
    • End date: Friday, June 21st
    • End time: 06:00pm
    • Published: Thursday, April 11th

    • “Katie Paterson’s art enables us to engage with forces that are too intangible and too immense for us to experience in other ways” Art Monthly Katie Paterson has earned widespread acclaim for work that tackles some of the big questions about our place on earth. Her work often involves collaborating with leading scientists and researchers across the world. The exhibition brings together previous projects and new work. Inside this desert lies the tiniest grain of sand saw Paterson working with experts in nanotechnology to take a grain of sand and carve it to just 0.00005mm across – which she then buried deep within the Sahara desert. A photograph of Paterson standing amongst the dunes, features in the exhibition, a contemplation of the monumental elevating the minute.

On display in St Peter’s Church is a new piece, Fossil Necklace, a culmination of her residency at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. The necklace comprises over 150 beads carved from fossils that chart the evolution of life on earth. From a dinosaur tooth to a squid’s backbone, the oldest fossil is around 3.5 billion years old. Other works in the exhibition approach the themes of time and scale in different ways. As The World Turns is a record player moving imperceptibly slowly, in time with the rotation of the Earth. An ancient meteorite, fallen to earth and buried, is discovered and remade in Campo del Cielo, Field of Sky. The meteorite has been cast, melted then re-cast into a new version of itself that visitors can touch. The artist hopes to return it to space one day.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  14. BGS inaugural Georgia day at Pembroke College Cambridge
    • Start time: 03:00pm
    • End date: Friday, June 21st
    • End time: 07:30pm
    • Published: Thursday, June 13th

    • 2.00pm – 4.15pm Welcome by Sir Richard Dearlove, Master of Pembroke College Introduction by Craig Oliphant, director British Georgian Society Keynote address by Speaker David Usupashvili, Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia Georgia - Political Challenges and Constitutional Solutions Followed by a panel discussion chaired by Sir Richard Dearlove, and including David Usupashvili, with Sir Tony Brenton, Judith Gough, David Howarth and General Sir Garry Johnson 4.30pm – 6.30pm Introduction by Dr Hubertus Jahn, who will chair this section Professor Charles Melville and Dr Firuza Melville, Visramiani - the Georgian perception of the Persian love story 5.05pm Professor Donald Rayfield, A Decade of Chaos and a Decade of Change – as Georgian Writers have Perceived them 5.45pm Reception with Georgian wine and songs from Chela and Buska

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  15. BioBlitz
    • Start time: 04:00pm
    • End date: Friday, June 21st
    • End time: 05:00pm
    • Published: Wednesday, May 29th

    • Starting at 3pm on Friday June 21 2013, experts, volunteers and members of the public will be racing against time to count as many species of animals and plants as possible in Wandlebury Country Park. We’ll be looking for bats, birds, flowers, insects, small mammals, butterflies, moths and more!

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  16. Bioblitz - Guided afternoon wildlife walk at Wandlebury Country Park
    • Start time: 04:00pm
    • End date: Friday, June 21st
    • End time: 05:00pm
    • Published: Tuesday, June 11th

    • Join Jon Gibbs, Senior Ranger on a guided walk around Wandlebury Country Park. Suitable for 12+years.

    • View this event in Google Calendar
  17. Bioblitz - Reptile and amphibian walk at Wandlebury Country Park
    • Start time: 05:00pm
    • End date: Friday, June 21st
    • End time: 06:00pm
    • Published: Tuesday, June 11th

    • Join Frances Cooper, Interpretation Ranger and search out reptiles and amphibians at Wandlebury Country Park. Suitable for 12+ years.

    • View this event in Google Calendar

You can also view all the events at Wolfson College on College website - http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/events/list/all

Or You can use the following iCal file directly to integrate all events into your own calendar application - webcal://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/ical/all/calendar.ics

You can use the link directly to integrate all events into your own calendar application.