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Cambridge Festival of Ideas

October 21st, 2009 No Comments

Just a quick note to say that the Cambridge Festival of Ideas starts today. Their programme is hugely wide, from a plant orchestra at the Botanic Gardens to curators at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology sharing their favourite pieces from the museum, to an Intaglio printmaking workshop, plus talks, performances, hands on workshops. It’s [...]

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Cinema by punt

August 29th, 2009 No Comments

Cambridge Film Festival have released their schedule for their September festival. What looks most magical is night time screenings by punt – a totally Cambridge experience.

As they say on their website “Imagine yourself sitting in a punt as it glides through the atmospheric, nocturnal stillness of the Cam, a glass of bubbly in hand, cinema [...]

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Latitude

July 3rd, 2009 No Comments

The Latitude festival is landing in Suffolk in less than a fortnight. If you don’t know it, it’s the grown ups’ summer festival. Think Radio 2 and Radio 4, not Radio 1 and Kiss FM. There are bands, lots of good ones, but their common feature is probably that they are bands you can dance [...]

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Norwich and Norfolk Festival

May 1st, 2009 No Comments

The Norwich and Norfolk Festival opens today for two weeks of world-class performance. Its an energetic and varied programme that runs the gamut from classical and contemporary music to caberet, burlesque, and all kinds of contemporary performance. The festival started in 1772 as a classical music festival, but has grown to be much more.
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Full of festivals

March 5th, 2009 1 Comment

It struck me today that Cambridge, in particular, overflows with festivals. Whatever your hyperspecialised desire, there is probably a festival that will include it in this town. I just got an email from the Food and Drink festival about their fundraising quiz, where you go and drink wine and eat cheese and try and answer [...]

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Birds Eye View is coming to Cambridge

February 28th, 2009 1 Comment

Birds Eye View will be fetching up at the Picture House Cambridge on Sunday 8th March as part of International Womens Day with a programme of interesting short films by women directors. Not many people in this country know there is an international womens day – it’s not something we think about so much here, [...]

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