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Endelion String Quartet – New Season
2018-19 is a very special season for The Endelion String Quartet, In January 2019 they will celebrate 40 years of playing wonderful music together. For twenty-seven of those years they have been Cambridge University’s ‘Quartet in Residence’, making Cambridge a precious home for them. Andrew Watkinson, Leader. Concerts begin at 7.30 pm. Beginnning on Wednesday, 24 October 2018 with Mendelssohn (String Quartet, Opus 44, No. 1), Britten (String Quartet No. 3, Opus 94) and Beethoven (String Quartet, Opus 59, No.…
Find out more »Fitzwilliam Museum – Highlight Exhibitions
Fitzwilliam Museum Programme for special exhibitions. Collecting and Giving: Highlights from the Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor bequest - 4 December 2018 – 3 March 2019 (Gallery 10). In 2015, the Museum received an exceptional collection of paintings, drawings, ceramics, glass and bronzes from Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, through the Art Fund. Highlights from the collection will be on display for the first time, including drawings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Ruskin, William Orpen, Walter Sickert and Gwen John,…
Find out more »Othello – Cambridge University European Theatre Group
"Farewell the tranquil mind; farewell content." It's the 'Swinging Sixties'. Free Jazz is growing. Within a smokey, dimly lit club Iago plots his scheme to overthrow Othello, the Moor. With jazz standards oozing in the background, relationships swing amongst the perils of suspicion and deceit. Jealousy, the green eyed monster, is lurking in the shadows. Othello is a powerful exploration of the human condition and the disaster that can arise from our emotions. Trust is eroded and innocence is corrupted…
Find out more »My Fair Lady
‘By George, she’s got it!’ Fall in love all over again with England’s favourite flower girl in this fresh, memorable production of the classic musical My Fair Lady, by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. Performed by award-winning musical theatre company Cambridge Operatic Society (CaOS), My Fair Lady follows the blossoming of feisty Cockney flower seller Eliza Doolittle into the polished, sophisticated woman she was meant to be – under the tutelage of demanding Professor Henry Higgins. Featuring much loved…
Find out more »Winter Tree Walk at Wandlebury
Step out this January into the beautiful winter scenery of the Country Park on a fascinating guided walk around Wandlebury. Learn how to identify our native tree species in winter using bark, buds, shape and form (and leaves and seeds when available!) and then put your knowledge to the test – a perfect relaxing afternoon in the outdoors. NB: This is a free event but donations are always welcome. Dress warmly for being outside and wear sturdy shoes. Meet at…
Find out more »PechaKucha Night
PechaKucha 20x20 is a simple presentation format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically and you talk along to the images. Share your creative project or passion and entertain the crowd, e-mail ann at the e-mail above and she’ll send you everything you need to know to create a great PechaKucha presentation. Even if you don’t have a presentation, you are still welcome to go along and watch . Contact: e-mail ann@annhawkins.com https://www.pechakucha.org/cities/cambridge
Find out more »A Clockwork Orange
Written in 1962, filmed by Kubrick in 1971, and adapted for the theatre by the author as a play with music in 1987, Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange is infamous, controversial, and above all, iconic. A study in free will, behavioural conditioning and the state, it follows the fortunes of young Alex and his droogs, with a bit of the Ultraviolence and the old in-out in-out. So what’s it going to be then, eh? Tolchoking, dratsing and kicks in the…
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