arts

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Time, crime and how can the arts interact with a Natural World in decline?

04 Mar 2024

Each year the Cambridge Festival’s (13-28 March 2024) rich programme of events celebrates the arts across the city and this year is no exception.

The social scientist who inadvertently became a poet

25 Mar 2022

At the age of thirteen Mona Jebril found herself stranded in Gaza, becoming a refugee for the second time in her life. Her talent and determination...

Faculty of English on the University's Sidgwick Site, home to many of the faculties and departments from the School of Arts and Humanities.

Funding announced for almost 400 new doctoral places in arts and humanities

15 Aug 2018

The Open University, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge are pleased to announce the success of their bid for funding for the...

Detail from Vesalius' Epitome, one of the most influential works in western medicine, Credit: Cambridge University Library

Newton, Darwin, Shakespeare – and an envelope of ectoplasm: Cambridge University Library at 600

23 Dec 2015

In 2016, Cambridge University Library will celebrate 600 years as one of the world's greatest libraries with a spectacular exhibition of priceless...

Lucy Sercombe, Sessional Gallery Teacher and Arts Award Coordinator, the Fitzwilliam Museum, being shown a student’s portfolio.

First Arts Award week for young people in care "an entire success"

04 Jun 2014

Fifteen young people in the care of Cambridgeshire County Council have spent their half-term holidays building a portfolio of artwork inspired by the...

All the world’s a stage to Cambridge entrepreneur

28 Nov 2012

A new online talent show platform has been launched by a Cambridge graduate in the hope of confirming Shakespeare’s idea that ‘All the world’s a...

Bookings open for Cambridge Festival of Ideas

12 Sep 2012

The Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2012 has over 170 events, most of them free, which celebrate what the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences have to...

Self-taught graduate wins Festival of Ideas competition

05 Sep 2012

A University of Cambridge graduate who taught himself graphic design has won this year's Face of the Festival competition to design the Festival of...

Dreams and nightmares at the Festival of Ideas

12 Jul 2012

From the nightmare of global conflict and online Big Brothers to dreams of spiritual transcendence, this year's Cambridge Festival of Ideas will keep...