Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard house for the Jim and Helen Ede Concert with the Van Kuijk Quartet.
The Van Kuijk offers its characteristic accuracy of articulation and intonation, along with an observance of the composer’s expressive markings that really makes the music leap off the page. – The Strad
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Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House with the Agate Quartet.
They played [Brahms’s] first quartet with restless intensity but with a hint of sweetness behind the severity, sounding both warm and threatening. I suspect the composer would have been pleased. – The Times
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Gesualdo (arr. A Jurkovic): Canzon Francese del Principe
Bartók: String Quartet No.6
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Brahms: String Quartet in C minor Op.51 No.1
Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard house with Jordan Bak and Richard Uttley.
This sophisticated selection is considered and beautifully performed, Bak showcasing his instrument’s resonant power in solo and chamber works. – BBC Music Magazine
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Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House with Susan Tomes.
Tomes grips the eye as well as the ear, for she has mastered the art of throwaway perfectionism in music that’s in her blood. – Backtrack
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Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House with the Carducci Quartet.
Assured intricacy and exuberant intensity. – The Guardian
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David Matthews: Quartet No.10
Beethoven: String Quartet No.8 in E minor, Op.59 No.2
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Dvořák String Quartet: No.12 in F major Op.96, ‘American’
Discover complex, intriguing and challenging stories about power within our collections.
Join us for an opportunity to share and exchange stories and ideas linked to the University of Cambridge Museum's investigation of the legacies of empire and enslavement, power and memory with our communities and audiences.
What is your experience as a woman of having a career in the sciences or trying to enter the sciences? Did you face any challenges due to gender inequalities? What does it feel like to be heard or unheard? What does it feel like to be respected or disregarded? What does it feel like to be hidden or silenced?
We are looking for women who have worked or work in the sciences to spend a creative afternoon at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science getting hands-on making a zine, and exploring your experiences within the field of science.
Join us at Kettle’s Yard for a panel discussion about our current exhibition Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery, with exhibition curator Rachel Dedman and artists Aya Haidar and Maeve Brennan. In this panel discussion the speakers will discuss themes emerging from the exhibition, such the role of Palestinian embroidery today and the ways in which this traditional practice is expressed in contemporary art.
£10 (£8 Friends, £5 Students), booking required
Join us in the galleries for an informal exhibition tour of Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery with Kettle’s Yard Curator and Exhibitions Manager, Guy Haywood.
FREE, come along
Image: Detail of dress from Beit Dajan, 1930s. From the collection of George M. Al-Ama. © the Whitworth, The University of Manchester. Photography by Ruth Wedgbury.
Join Cambridge Visual Culture and Kettle’s Yard for a screening of the documentary film Stitching Palestine (dir. Carol Mansour, 2017) featuring the testimonies of twelve diasporic Palestinian women connected by the practice of tatreez, followed by a panel conversation with speakers on the cultural histories and identities reflected in Palestinian embroidery.
FREE, booking required
Image: Still from Stitching Palestine (2017)
