Join us on 29 April, 13 May and 3 June for a three day online event series.

Touch is our first sense. Through touch we make art, stake a claim to what we own and those we love, express our faith, our belief, our anger. Touch is how we leave our mark and find our place in the world; touch is how we connect. Drawing on works of art spanning four thousand years and from across the globe, this exhibition explores the fundamental role of touch in human experience, and offers new ways of looking.

Plants have been used in the beauty and fragrance industry for thousands of years, from ancient times up until the present day. This exhibition features a range of works from our exceptional botanical collection, including watercolours, perfume vessels and scent bottles.

An exhibition of works by the artist Alfred Wallis.

Learn how The Society of Dilettanti influenced the Georgian landscape garden

This half-day session with Botanic Garden Director, Professor Beverley Glover, will explore the concept of colour in plants

Join art critic Martin Gayford for a talk on his new book 'Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy' 

Learn how, far from being a desert, Fenland is a biodiversity hotspot that merits study and conservation

Join us for an online discussion of the Anatomies of Touch with a specially invited panel: Psychologist and broadcaster Claudia Hammond, hand surgeon James Hopkinson-Woolley, and artist Jane Dixon. The event will be chaired by Suzanne Reynolds and Elenor Ling, Co-Curators of 'The Human Touch'.

This course will explore the chemistry and botany of the main edible plant families that contribute fruits and vegetables to the human diet

Science on Sundays is a programme of free, informal, monthly science talks, bringing the latest discoveries in plant science, as well as research linked to the plant collection at CUBG, to our visitors in a 30 minute nutshell. 

Join us for an online conversation exploring the life and work of Alfred Wallis, inspired by our current exhibition Alfred Wallis Rediscovered.

Taking inspiration from horticulture, history and literature we will explore how gardens and plants can be a "fatal attraction"

Take your hand sewing skills further with this traditional Dresden plate ‘chrysanthemum’ block

Come on a journey to far flung places to find out where our familiar and not so familiar spices come from

In this online talk Dr Amy Tobin, curator of Exhibitions, Research and Events at Kettle’s Yard explores gender, art making, performance and desire in the works by three women artists featured in The Human Touch exhibition: Alexis Hunter, Ketty La Rocca and Geta Bratescu.

Kettle’s Yard is pleased to present Untitled: art on the conditions of our time. This exhibition brings together work by 10 British African diaspora artists with a focus on how their innovative practices ask important questions about some of the most important cultural and political issues of our turbulent times. 

Science on Sundays is a programme of free, informal, monthly science talks, bringing the latest discoveries in plant science, as well as research linked to the plant collection at CUBG, to our visitors in a 30 minute nutshell. 

Science on Sundays is a programme of free, informal, monthly science talks, bringing the latest discoveries in plant science, as well as research linked to the plant collection at CUBG, to our visitors in a 30 minute nutshell.