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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.

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Cambridge University Library stages first public play in its 600-year history

01 May 2019

Performance marked the launch of digital edition of Arthur Schnitzler's works and archive.

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Henry Peacham, 'Silvius', from Minerva Britanna (1612)

Into the woods with Shakespeare

02 Oct 2017

The Shakespearean Forest reimagines the real forests that our greatest playwright evoked in his works. The final book of renowned scholar, Anne...

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Music in the tree of life

Music in the tree of life

18 Mar 2015

Modern scientific methods for mapping the evolution of species are being applied to centuries-old hand-copied music, providing new inspiration for...

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Following the money

25 Apr 2014

Does performance-related pay work? Dr Jonathan Trevor explores the issues.

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Portrait from 1585 thought to be of 21-year-old Christopher Marlowe

Marlowe: a year-long celebration of a brilliant playwright and poet

04 Nov 2013

An ambitious programme, celebrating the birth of poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe 450 years ago, will begin later this month with a rare...

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Enter Zahhák, Dragon King of Persia

25 Oct 2013

To be performed in Cambridge on Monday 28 October Zahhák, Dragon King of Persia is the retelling of a myth taken from the Shahnama or ‘Book of Kings...

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Not Amused

Music in the making

01 Oct 2013

An investigation into how musicians find creative inspiration has identified four key ingredients needed for creative expression. It also shows that...

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Financial injection

Can you put a price on health?

23 May 2013

As health services strive to improve quality and reduce costs, researchers study the benefits – and the pitfalls – of ‘pay for performance’ in...

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The first book of fashion

01 May 2013

Fashion conveys complex messages. The recreation of an outfit taken from one of an extraordinary series of Renaissance portraits reveals how one man...

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Thalian Theatre, Wilmington, NC

Acts of creativity, audiences and us

05 Mar 2013

A conference in Cambridge next month will explore the notion of performance as a dynamic means of looking at the complex interactions between works...

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Tapping Away

Two-step, nerve-tap, tanglefoot

05 Nov 2012

On 6 November Professor Steven Connor will give a talk at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities on the affinity between...

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