Craftswomen is a new exhibition at the Whipple Museum exploring the work of women in the British instrument trade between the 17th and 19th centuries. It exposes the often unseen work of the ‘craftswomen’ who made instruments for measuring, modelling and investigating the world.
Museum of Zoology
David Attenborough Building
Downing St
Cambridge
CB2 3EJ
08/10/2022
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11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Free
Join us for your FREE tours as our volunteer guides share their personal selection of fascinating stories about gender and sex in the animal world at the Museum of Zoology
The 2022-23 Chamber Music programme includes a diverse and exciting season of recitals to enjoy in the House at Kettle’s Yard. This year we are delighted to be welcoming back some old favourites as well as new faces to Kettle’s Yard.
Museum of Zoology
David Attenborough Building
Downing St
Cambridge
CB2 3EJ
14/10/2022
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
£5
Can you make your clothes last longer? How do you transform old clothes into something new? Join us for a fun, practical evening all about sustainable fashion.
Join curator Richard Kelleher for an exclusive introduction to the exhibition Defaced!, an exploration of the fascinating yet conflictive relationship between money, authority, and protest.
£5.00, free tickets available on request for students
The Greek and Roman body is often seen as flawless – cast from life in buff bronze and white marble, to sit upon a pedestal. But this, of course, is a lie. Classicist Caroline Vout reaches beyond texts and galleries to expose Greek and Roman bodies for what they truly were: anxious, ailing, imperfect, diverse, and responsible for a legacy as lasting as their statues.
Join us for an exciting discussion about the relationship between defacement and protest, with a fantastic panel: exhibition curator Richard Kelleher; British Museum curator Tom Hockenhull; collector Tim Millet; and artists Paula Stevens Hoare and artist Hilary Powell. This event is part of the exhibition Defaced!
Hilary Powell, artist and contributor to the Defaced! exhibition, talks about her artistic practice: making visible visceral hidden stories and structures, combining material and meaning in collective acts of salvage and experimentation. Her work plays with ideas of value - who, what and where society overlooks, and why.
Join us for an in depth look at the illuminated manuscripts on display in the Rothschild Gallery this autumn. All from medieval Britain, they tell the story of 500 years of creativity and innovation, revealed by the scientific and historical research of our MINIARE team.
Join curator Richard Kelleher on an exclusive tour of Defaced! Money, Power, Conflict, where you will explore some of the objects and artists that have told stories of political struggles, justice, and protest for the last 200 years.
Sign up to this creative workshop with artist Aida Wilde, where you will have the opportunity to learn new techniques making your own artwork based on Aida’s piece ‘Dreamboat II’.
£5, free for students/university of Cambridge staff
This talk will explore artefacts in the Defaced! exhibition associated with the Mahdist War in Sudan (1881-99) that challenge conventional understandings of ‘loot’. These framed and mounted fragments reveal a British-imperial military culture that was bound by traditions that commemorated not only victory, but also death, mourning, and defeat.
