One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer with an exhibition across The Fitzwilliam Museum and The Heong Gallery, Downing College.
Through both traditional and cutting-edge ways of making art, the exhibition explores Hockney’s obsession with how we see the world, and how our world of time and space can be captured on the surface of a flat picture.
- Read more about The Mystery of the Moonflower – an interactive twilight adventure with Maddie & Greg
Join award-winning TV presenters Maddie Moate & Greg Foot (Maddie’s Do You Know?, Blue Peter, Let’s Go Live) for a unique interactive twilight adventure!
Watch along LIVE to help Maddie and Greg find clues, solve puzzles and search the tropical rainforests and deserts of Cambridge University Botanic Garden’s Glasshouses by night to solve the Mystery of the Moonflower.
Our 2022 Kettle’s Yard Student Programmer Emily Bretz has created this series titled Return to Normality performed by University of Cambridge Students.
In this concert two groups from the University’s Instrumental Award Scheme, auditioned by Professor Margaret Faultless, present a challenging and invigorating programme of works.
Student music concerts take place in the Kettle’s Yard House, and are seated on a first come first seated basis.
FREE, come along
Our 2022 Kettle’s Yard Student Programmer Emily Bretz has created this series titled Return to Normality performed by University of Cambridge Students.
For the final concert of the series musical theatre comes to Kettle’s Yard as members of The Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society present some of their favourites, interspersed with student-composed numbers.
Student music concerts take place in the Kettle’s Yard House, and are seated on a first come first seated basis.
FREE, come along
Our 2022 Kettle’s Yard Student Programmer Emily Bretz has created this series titled Return to Normality performed by University of Cambridge Students.
How has Covid-19 impacted composition? Emily invited students to submit their responses to this question, and this concert showcases three of the best, performed by members of the University’s New Music Ensemble.
Student music concerts take place in the Kettle’s Yard House, and are seated on a first come first seated basis.
FREE, come along
Our 2022 Kettle’s Yard Student Programmer Emily Bretz has created this series titled Return to Normality performed by University of Cambridge Students.
For this first concert, Emily Trubshaw and friends start the programme with the Brahms piano quintet.
Student music concerts take place in the Kettle’s Yard House, and are seated on a first come first seated basis.
FREE, come along
Pianist, composer and technologist Zubin Kanga has for some years been working with world-leading technology researchers to create the Cyborg Soloists project. A multimedia extravaganza, this unmissable season finale will incorporate roller-coaster visuals with themes ranging from the cult of Celtic river goddesses to the simplicity of wind in the trees.
With the link between Dinosaurs and birds now firmly established, work to uncover how and when modern bird diversity arose is well underway. Assistant Professor Daniel Field, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge and Strickland Curator of Ornithology, University Museum of Zoology will discuss some of the exciting new discoveries he and his research group have made including finding one of the best preserved fossil bird skulls in the world.
A spotlight gallery talk with Suzanne Reynolds, Assistant Keeper in the Department of Manuscripts and Printed Books.
Prized for its durability and its lustre, gold was crucial to the illumination of luxury manuscripts in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This short talk looks at the different ways illuminators used gold, focussing on a small group of richly decorated Italian manuscripts on display in the Upper Marlay gallery.
You booking also includes a ticket for general admission to the museum.
Kettle’s Yard is delighted to be one of several institutions around the world celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of Ivorypress, a renowned publisher of artists’ books based in Madrid.
