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Celebrate Cambridge’s iconic landmarks and uncover new treasures this September at Open Cambridge

11 Aug 2025

Bookings are now open for Open Cambridge 2025 (12-21 September). This September the public can enjoy tours of College gardens, exhibitions from...

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Cambridge Festival of Film 2023

08 May 2025

Sit back and enjoy on-demand films from the Cambridge Festival 2023.

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Cambridge Festival of Film 2022

08 May 2025

Sit back and enjoy on-demand films from the Cambridge Festival 2022.

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Record-breaking Cambridge Festival 2025 ends on a high, uniting 45,000 visitors in celebration of ideas, discovery and dialogue

10 Apr 2025

The fifth Cambridge Festival has drawn to a triumphant close, having welcomed a record-breaking 45,000 visitors across 385 events during 17 inspiring...

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Wallace R. Harper's granddaughter, Karen Harper.  (Jane Sponagle/CBC)

From family archive to stage: The remarkable journey of ‘Not for a cat’ play at the Cambridge Festival

31 Mar 2025

A recently rediscovered play, Not for a Cat: A Play for the Nuclear Age, will be premiering at the Cambridge Festival. The play was originally...

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Students make antibody keychains during a workshop with the MRC Toxicology Unit

Students from across the country get a taste of studying at Cambridge at the Cambridge Festival

27 Mar 2025

Over 500 KS2 and KS3 students from as far away as Warrington got the chance to experience studying at the University of Cambridge with a selection of...

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Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Dr Martin Ruehl

19 Mar 2025

Dr Martin Reuhl is a Senior Lecturer in German Intellectual History in the Faculty of History and a University Associate Professor in German History...

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Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Dr Itab Shuayb

19 Mar 2025

Dr Itab Shuayb is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Engineering Design Centre at the University of Cambridge. She is also a professor of inclusive...

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Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Katherine Hasegawa

17 Mar 2025

Katherine Hasegawa is an emerging and independent Venezuelan ARTivist based in Cambridge. Since 2019, Katherine been using real money as an artistic...

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Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Professor Paul Bays

11 Mar 2025

Paul Bays is a Professor of Computation and Cognition in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He investigates the nature of...

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Cambridge Festival celebrates pioneering women for International Women’s Day

07 Mar 2025

For International Women’s Day (8 March), the Cambridge Festival (19 March – 4 April) is celebrating some of the remarkable contributions of women...

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Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Professor Hiranya Peiris

06 Mar 2025

Hiranya Peiris holds the Professorship of Astronomy (1909) at Cambridge, the first woman to do so in the 115-year history of this prestigious chair...

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