Gold of The Great Steppe will display an archaeological sensation. Hundreds of outstanding 2,700 year old gold artefacts recently discovered in the extraordinary ancient burial mounds built by the Saka people in East Kazakhstan will be exhibited for the first time in the UK.
Magdalene Odundo DBE is one of the greatest ceramic artists working today. Her distinctive, burnished vessels are informed by a range of art and craft traditions from around the world.
This display marks 50 years since Odundo moved from Kenya to Cambridge to take an Art Foundation Course at Cambridge School of Art.
Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House featuring Nicholas Daniel, oboe and Huw Watkins on piano.
Some of the best oboe playing you’ll hear anywhere. Record Review
Join us for an online panel discussion with exhibition artist Sutapa Biswas, black feminist writer Lola Olufemi and writer and curator Gilane Tawadros. We will explore formal and conceptual considerations that are key to the language of Biswas’ art, whilst also looking at her contribution to the Black Arts Movement – a cluster of politicised artistic activities by artists of colour.
Tabea Debus is one of the most exciting young musicians in the early music worldClassic FM
Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House featuring Tabea Debus on recorder and Toby Carr on lute.
Early Years Studio is a fun, creative, immersive experience for children aged 0-4. The sessions are designed with early years development in mind. Artists draw upon their expertise as early years facilitators and use the Kettle’s Yard ethos and collection to create sessions where babies, toddlers and their carers can experience and learn together.
A guest film programme of shorts curated by award-winning Greenlandic filmmaker Inuk Jørgensen on the themes of Storytelling & Life including a 30 minute recorded discussion with the filmmakers.
Online Film Festival. Not in person at the Polar Museum.
07/11/2021
8:00 AM - 11:00 PM
$7
Celebrating 2021 International Inuit Day, Native Spirit Festival, in partnership with The Polar Museum and Inuk filmmaker & actor, Vinnie Karetak, present shorts and animations from Nunavut bringing stories of Inuit survivance in the Arctic and tales of supernatural and horror.
Join us in our Clore Learning Studio for free, practical art making workshops. Respond to the displays and exhibitions to make your own artworks. Get creative with artists and our education volunteers, no previous art experience needed!
Join us online for a conversation between ceramic artist Magdalene Odundo DBE and organising Curator, Helen Ritchie, who will discuss Magdalene Odundo in Cambridge.
Join Rebecca Roberts, Curator of Gold of the Great Steppe, for a spotlight talk in the 'Gold of the Great Steppe' exhibition, introducing key themes and highlight objects.
Join us in our Clore Learning Studio for free, practical art making workshops. Respond to the displays and exhibitions to make your own artworks. Get creative with artists and our education volunteers, no previous art experience needed!
As we take in the splendour and beauty of the gold artefacts from the Great Steppe, we can’t help but wonder about their prehistoric makers and users: Where did they obtain the precious metal? What tools and techniques did they employ to turn it into the elaborate artefacts we admire today? How did they learn their skills? Were these objects used in life, or made for the dead? Scientific analyses provide some answers but also raise new questions.
The Consone Quartet are a young string quartet with a really big future. They play with perfect intonation, tremendous attack, and impeccable historical style. All the four instruments work together with such intelligence and imagination, that I would happily listen to them every day.Sir Roger Norrington
Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House featuring The Consone Quartet.
Enjoy an after-hours evening at the Museum with an opportunity to visit the Gold of the Great Steppe exhibition, pop-up talks, workshops (booking required) and late night shopping.
Drawing from our rich holdings of paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics and sculpture, ‘Women: makers and muses’ is the first display in an on-going series highlighting work by women throughout the history of art and from across the globe. A series of films made in response to the display in which curators offer further thoughts on featured artworks will be followed by a Q&A with Jane Munro and Rebecca Birrell.
Rebeca Omordia is half Romanian, half Nigerian – and it’s a powerful combination! Rebeca’s technique knows no bounds but, more importantly, she plays with a depth of insight and understanding which is all too rare today. Julian Lloyd Webber, London Magazine
Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House featuring pianist Rebeca Omordia.
They get to the heart and soul of Haydn’s paradoxical affections The Scotsman
Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House featuring The Maxwell Quartet and Anthony Friend.
Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House featuring pianist Melvyn Tan.
…the most thoughtful, elegant and refined of pianists… everything seemed to illuminate everything else. The Guardian UK
Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House featuring the Solem Quartet.
…it was the Solem Quartet’s strong emotional connection to [the] music which really shone through. I have no doubt that the future of Classical Music is safe in their hands. The Yorkshire Times
Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House featuring Fenella Humphreys on solo violin.
...Humphreys’s utter absorption and delight shines forth at every turn… strong-toned, easy fluidity and immaculate technique… Gramophone Magazine
Join us for the last concert of our 2021-22 Chamber Music season in the Kettle’s Yard House, featuring Alexander Baillie on cello and pianist Nigel Yandell.
