Casting New Light

Museum of Classical Archaeology

The Museum of Classical Archaeology is home to more than 600 plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture. But our plaster casts are a funny type of object: betwixt and between, with one foot in the ancient world and the other in more recent history.Join us on this tour to look ...

Free Sunday Concert in CB1 - Sunday 16th August

CB1 Community

Sunday 16th August, Simon Day on the Clayton Hotel Lawn, 12.30-2.00Simon Day is a regular on the Cambridge live music circuit, singing a wide range of soulful acoustic covers of classic and modern pop, rock, indie and soul music. With a huge back catalogue and powerhouse ...

COMMON GROUND: Register your interest

Cambridge City Council

COMMON GROUND is a new free networking series for Cambridge creatives, led by Cambridge City Council and taking place at Permit Room Cambridge by Dishoom.These informal morning sessions will bring people from across Cambridge’s creative community together to meet, exchange ide...

Cambridge City Council Grants Programmes open Tuesday 04 August 2026

Cambridge City Counci

Cambridge City Council's grant programmes will open for applications through the grants portal on Tuesday 04 August 2026, with a closing date of Tuesday 22 September 2026.Funding opportunities:Sustainable City GrantsSupporting projects that contribute to a more environmentally...

Bach/Pärt: Eternal Beauty

Mystery, wonder and sounds to refresh the spirit, as Academy of Ancient Music and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir perform timeless testaments to faith. Arvo Pärt and Johann Sebastian Bach: two passionate believers united by a stream of music as beautiful, as enduring a...

The Royall Consort

The Royall Consort of King Charles I was at the cutting edge of 17th century music, and today it lives again with Academy of Ancient Music. King Charles I was a connoisseur of the visual arts, but he had exquisite taste in music, too, and the brilliant young composer and court...

The Art of the Harpsichord

Harpsichordist Alastair Ross plays Bach, Handel, Laschanzky and their contemporaries – celebrating an instrument that liberated the baroque imagination. In the baroque era, the harpsichord was the bleeding edge of music technology. It was an instrument of infinite possibilitie...

1765: Times of Transition

Mozart, Haydn, Telemann and Philidor: four composers in a passionate age, reinventing music on the wing. A dynamic start to a season of music that defies convention. They called it “sturm und drang” - “storm and stress” - and for a few tempestuous years in the 1760s, it seemed...

Cyanotype Workshop: Botanical Print T-Shirts

Steph Norwood - Textile Artist

Experiment with cyanotype photography to create a botanical-printed t-shirt.Use cyanotype printing to design your own nature-inspired t-shirt. These light-sensitive prints are incredibly fun to experiment with. They are also great for capturing intricate botanical forms such a...

Cambridge City Council Grants Briefing - in Person

Cambridge City Council

Any organisation considering applying for Cambridge City Council grant funding should attend the in-person information session on Wednesday 12 August from 1:30pm-4:00pm at The Meadows Community Centre. The session will provide an overview of the grant programmes, eligibility r...