Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House with the Agate Quartet.
They played [Brahms’s] first quartet with restless intensity but with a hint of sweetness behind the severity, sounding both warm and threatening. I suspect the composer would have been pleased. – The Times
Programme
Gesualdo (arr. A Jurkovic): Canzon Francese del Principe
Bartók: String Quartet No.6
Interval
Brahms: String Quartet in C minor Op.51 No.1
Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard house with Jordan Bak and Richard Uttley.
This sophisticated selection is considered and beautifully performed, Bak showcasing his instrument’s resonant power in solo and chamber works. – BBC Music Magazine
Programme
Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House with Susan Tomes.
Tomes grips the eye as well as the ear, for she has mastered the art of throwaway perfectionism in music that’s in her blood. – Backtrack
Programme
Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard House with the Carducci Quartet.
Assured intricacy and exuberant intensity. – The Guardian
Programme
David Matthews: Quartet No.10
Beethoven: String Quartet No.8 in E minor, Op.59 No.2
Interval
Dvořák String Quartet: No.12 in F major Op.96, ‘American’
Discover complex, intriguing and challenging stories about power within our collections.
Join us for an opportunity to share and exchange stories and ideas linked to the University of Cambridge Museum's investigation of the legacies of empire and enslavement, power and memory with our communities and audiences.
Join us at Kettle’s Yard for a panel discussion about our current exhibition Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery, with exhibition curator Rachel Dedman and artists Aya Haidar and Maeve Brennan. In this panel discussion the speakers will discuss themes emerging from the exhibition, such the role of Palestinian embroidery today and the ways in which this traditional practice is expressed in contemporary art.
£10 (£8 Friends, £5 Students), booking required
Join us in the galleries for an informal exhibition tour of Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery with Kettle’s Yard Curator and Exhibitions Manager, Guy Haywood.
FREE, come along
Image: Detail of dress from Beit Dajan, 1930s. From the collection of George M. Al-Ama. © the Whitworth, The University of Manchester. Photography by Ruth Wedgbury.
Join Cambridge Visual Culture and Kettle’s Yard for a screening of the documentary film Stitching Palestine (dir. Carol Mansour, 2017) featuring the testimonies of twelve diasporic Palestinian women connected by the practice of tatreez, followed by a panel conversation with speakers on the cultural histories and identities reflected in Palestinian embroidery.
FREE, booking required
Image: Still from Stitching Palestine (2017)
Join us at for a special talk in the Kettle’s Yard house with Rachel Dedman, curator of our exhibition Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery. Rachel will trace the evolution of embroidered dress in Palestine over the last century: from embroidery’s historical traditions to its politicisation after 1948, its role in resistance and its significance today.
Join us in the galleries for an informal exhibition tour of Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery with Kettle’s Yard Assistant Curator (Projects) Naomi Polonsky.
FREE, come along
