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4 Mar 2024: Ever wanted to display your artwork on a punt? We are looking for student artwork relating to the theme of WATER to display on punts on the River Cam as part of Cambridge Festival Creatives. The aim of this exhibition is to see how art interacts

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23 Mar 2021: A list of commonly asked questions and answers to help you with accessing in- person and online events at the Cambridge Festival.

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17 Mar 2021: Fred Pearce is a respected author on environmental issues. His books include Fallout: A journey through the nuclear age and When the rivers run dry. He is also environment consultant for the New Scientist magazine and a former UK Environment

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22 Mar 2021: Tim Harford is an economist, broadcaster and senior columnist for the Financial Times. He will be speaking to David Spiegelhalter, Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at the University of Cambridge, about Harford's recent

23 Feb 2021: Helping you explore our wonderful world We believe that it is never too early to begin investigating the world around us. That is why we are bringing you your very own magazine packed full of exciting activities to help you explore our wonderful

9 Jun 2022: The Cambridge Festival welcomes event submissions for all those in and around Cambridge - not just those associated with the University and its Colleges! We have everything from lectures, walking tours, online talks, escape rooms, exhibitions, short

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4 Mar 2024: Two events, organised by the Møller Institute at the University of Cambridge, will see speakers discussing how the idea of leadership is moving away from a hierarchical set-up towards a focus on dialogue between leaders and followers.

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9 Jun 2021: Four themes, ten days, 364 online events, and more than 100,000 views across 175 different countries. This could only be the Cambridge Festival.

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18 Dec 2020: Search site. Contact us. Contact. We love to hear from people about our events. To contact the Festival team, please email cambridgefestival@admin.cam.ac.uk. We are looking for volunteers at the Cambridge Festival this year so if you or anyone you

15 Mar 2021: Christian Picciolini is the author of Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremism, a leader in the field of extremism intervention, prevention and disengagement and a former far-right extremist who founded the Free Radicals Project to

26 Mar 2021: Dr Pragya Agarwal is a behavioural and data scientist, author, speaker and a consultant. Her books include SWAY: Unravelling Unconscious Bias and Wish we knew what to say: Talking with children about race. She will be speaking on the panel

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23 Mar 2021: Dr Nkatha Gichuyia is an environmental design consultant and lecturer at the University of Nairobi as well as a former Gates Cambridge Scholar at the University of Cambridge. She will be a panellist in a discussion on how climate change will affect

16 Mar 2021: Helen Scales is a diver, surfer, broadcaster and writer who, as a marine biologist, has spent hundreds of hours underwater watching fish. She has spoken about the mysteries of the deep sea with Robin Ince and Brian Cox on BBC Radio 4's The Infinite

25 Nov 2022: Bookings are now closed The 2024 Cambridge Festival will featured two days of exciting and FREE talks, workshops and hands-on activities for school students (KS2 and KS3) in West Cambridge. Schools could book for one, two or all three of our main

24 Mar 2021: Dr Laura Davies leads ‘A Good Death?’, a research and impact project based in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. It uses literature to open up conversations about death and dying and draws on historical death writing to inspire new

20 Feb 2023: These questions are part of an extensive series of discussions, talks and workshops featuring climate experts: Cambridge Zero Director Professor Emily Shuckburgh; Professor Sarah Bridle, author of Food and Climate Change without the Hot Air; Gaia

22 Jan 2021: Last year, we announced a brand new, exciting festival for Cambridge, which will replace the hugely popular Cambridge Science Festival and the Cambridge Festival of Ideas. The Cambridge Festival will host an extensive series of free, online events

18 Mar 2021: Simon Baron-Cohen is Director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge and professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry. His latest book, The Pattern Seekers: a new theory of human invention, celebrates human

19 Mar 2021: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, UK, and leader of the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group. Her group's research focuses on the development of social cognition and

15 Mar 2021: Celebrity speakers, leading conservationists and youth leaders are coming together to deliver stories of hope for our natural world in a free, open-to-all virtual event running from the 26 March to 4 April 2021. Led by the Cambridge Conservation

13 Mar 2023: A key event at this year’s Cambridge Festival, which begins on Friday 17th March and runs until Sunday 2nd April, will address the future of the Cambridgeshire Fens. The Fens produce 33% of England’s vegetables and contribute over £3bn to the

9 Mar 2023: A new book about gravity, a look at what solar satellites reveal about the sun, and the potential for a new tool to explore the universe are part of a series of events related to space at this year’s Cambridge Festival. An event that promises to

10 Feb 2023: For two days only you can come to the Cambridge Festival and buy all the books featured across our events. Representatives from Waterstones Cambridge will be located in the Babbage Lecture Theatre foyer on Saturday 25 March (12pm-4pm) and Friday 31

9 Mar 2023: On Monday 27th March, a panel of experts asks, HOW CAN WE IMPROVE OUR FOOD SECURITY? The war in Ukraine and climate disasters have focused people’s minds on issues of food security. Can researchers help to address the practical and political

21 Feb 2023: You may have noticed that we've not had a printed programme in a few years and we know some of you missed that. We heard you so this year we've published our first ever Festival newspaper. Matter is your new comprehensive guide to the Festival and

19 Feb 2024: The aim of this poetry trail is to showcase student writing, draw connections between literature and botany, and provide an alternative way of navigating the gardens and interacting with the specimens it houses. Drawing on the plant profiles below,

21 Mar 2023: A world premiere play about Britain’s answer to Galileo and debates about everything from psychopaths and obsessive hoarding to food security will dominate the second week of the Cambridge Festival, culminating in a bumper weekend of events.

15 Feb 2024: These are just some of the social issues being debated at this year’s Cambridge Festival. The Festival runs from 13th to 28th March and is teeming with hundreds of events, most of them free, which celebrate the rich research being done at the

6 Mar 2023: The 2023 programme is filled with music performances, theatre shows, poetry recitals, exhibitions and more. We’re more than just science. In THE MAGIC OF CAMBRIDGE the Cambridge Pentacle Magic Club present a magical journey through the people,

8 Mar 2023: Events related to mental wellbeing figure strongly at this year’s Cambridge Festival The launch of Murray Edwards Policy Centre for the Wellbeing of Young Women and Girls heads a host of events covering everything from OCD and excessive hoarding

27 Feb 2024: All of these questions will form part of the political debates at this year’s Cambridge Festival, which runs from 13th to 28th March. Speakers include Professor David Spiegelhalter, Professor Jason Arday, Kamel Ahmed, founder of the News Movement,

28 Feb 2023: These are just some of the religion-centred debates at this year’s Cambridge Festival, which runs from 17th March to 2nd April and is one of the largest festivals of its kind in the country, featuring over 360 mostly free events. In 'Lady, have

19 Mar 2021: The Festival, which launches next Friday 26th March, hosts an extensive programme of over 350 events, tackling many of the critical global challenges affecting us all. Coordinated by the University of Cambridge, it features hundreds of prominent

17 Mar 2023: How can we make sure food shortages don’t keep happening? Can we stop fake climate news holding up action? Are we ready for a four-day working week? And how do we stop becoming more stupid? The programme features a wide-ranging series of more than

14 Feb 2023: Speakers include journalist Emily Maitlis, political sketch writer John Crace, Professor David Runciman, former host of the respected Talking Politics podcast and Dorothy Byrne, president of Murray Edwards College and former Head of News and Current

26 Mar 2024: The Animal Heartbeat is the only podcast dedicated to veterinary cardiology and has almost 17,000 downloads of the first season to date.

5 Mar 2024: The Cambridge Festival begins on 13th March and runs until the 28th. One of the largest festivals of its kind in the country, the festival is teeming with over 360 events from talks, debates, tours, walks, films, exhibitions, performances, comedy,

7 Feb 2022: Political crises, the past, present and future of eastern world orders, the outlook for feminism, new technologies and treatments for a range of diseases, and the state of our natural world top the bill at this year’s Festival, which returns with