Cambridge Open Studios – various studios open their doors to the public to see how they make their crafts. We recommend The Cambridge Museum of Technology (the old Pump Station down on the river behind tescos on Newmarket Road).

6th to 28th July 2024 at the weekends only.

For more information visit: http://camopenstudios.co.uk/

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CAMBRIDGE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL

Performances across Cambridge in College gardens – A highlight of the summer.

8th July to 24th August 2024

Antony & Cleopatra

Hamlet

A Midsummer’s Nights Dream

Even if you are not a Shakespeare buff you can still sit and enjoy a live performance in a college garden that is usually closed to the public on a summer’s evening.

Just bring your own picnic and a blanket and relax and be entertained.

Usually starts at 7:30pm and on every evening except Sundays’.

See more information here: http://bit.ly/1pYKluz

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The largest folk music event in the United Kingdom … not to be missed.

25th July to 28th July 2024

Location: Cherry Hinton Hall                Time: all day and night

Cost: £126 for the whole festival or around £55 for Saturday or Sunday

More information including the line up visit:-

https://www.cambridgelive.org.uk/folk-festival/

25th to 28th July 2024

Grown from nothing now one of the main events of the summer.

Love – Music – Colour – Food – Lake Swimming

£250 for a ticket! … but worth it

https://www.secretgardenparty.com/#!/home/

Who is headlining the event this year:-

TO BE CONFIRMED … .going back to small stages

CAMBRIDGE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL

Performances across Cambridge in College gardens – A highlight of the summer.

8th July to 24th August 2024

Antony & Cleopatra

Hamlet

A Midsummer’s Nights Dream

Even if you are not a Shakespeare buff you can still sit and enjoy a live performance in a college garden that is usually closed to the public on a summer’s evening.

Just bring your own picnic and a blanket and relax and be entertained.

Usually starts at 7:30pm and on every evening except Sundays’.

See more information here: http://bit.ly/1pYKluz

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Evensong during Michaelmas Term at Kings College Chapel

Michaelmas Term being 8th Oct to 6th Dec 2024

This is the most special thing that anyone can do when they visit Cambridge. Allowing the public to enjoy Evensong is an incredibly generous gift by the college and it must be appreciated as a privilege. There are lots of things to do in Cambridge but this should be at the top of anyone’s list. Soak up the voices of the choir under the vaulted ceiling of Kings College Chapel. Bask in the splendour and the majesty of this remarkable chapel and it’s talented members of the college.

As a visitor we recommend that you arrive at 4:55pm at the front entrance to the college on Kings Parade and then you will be at the front of the queue that will form behind you. 5pm they will let you into the college and make your way to the south door. 5:15pm you will be allowed into the chapel and be directed to a seat. 5:30pm Evensong will start.

There is no need to sing or pray but stand up when everyone else stands up and sit down when everyone else sits down.

Be respectful by dressing appropriately, not talking and not taking photographs.

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DETAILED INFORMATION

Easter Term Evensong will start on Tuesday 3rd October and runs nearly non-stop until Friday 1st December 2023.

*Closed Mondays’

Easter Sunday has a morning Holy Eucharist at 10:30am and a special Festival Evensong at 3:30pm

Wednesdays’ are the Kings Voices being students and choristers

Thursdays’ is Holy Eucharist

Sundays’ is Holy Eucharist at 10:30am and Evensong at 3:30pm

Evensong does not operate during Christmas but there are lots of winter concerts to enjoy. Evensong and coral services start back up again on Tuesday 16th January 2024 for the Lent Term finishing on Friday 15th March for Easter. You can always check future term dates here: https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/term-dates-and-calendars

For more detailed information about what you may bring and precisely what service is on visit: http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/events/chapel-services.html

Evensong during Michaelmas Term at Kings College Chapel

Michaelmas Term being 8th Oct to 6th Dec 2024

This is the most special thing that anyone can do when they visit Cambridge. Allowing the public to enjoy Evensong is an incredibly generous gift by the college and it must be appreciated as a privilege. There are lots of things to do in Cambridge but this should be at the top of anyone’s list. Soak up the voices of the choir under the vaulted ceiling of Kings College Chapel. Bask in the splendour and the majesty of this remarkable chapel and it’s talented members of the college.

As a visitor we recommend that you arrive at 4:55pm at the front entrance to the college on Kings Parade and then you will be at the front of the queue that will form behind you. 5pm they will let you into the college and make your way to the south door. 5:15pm you will be allowed into the chapel and be directed to a seat. 5:30pm Evensong will start.

There is no need to sing or pray but stand up when everyone else stands up and sit down when everyone else sits down.

Be respectful by dressing appropriately, not talking and not taking photographs.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

DETAILED INFORMATION

Easter Term Evensong will start on Tuesday 3rd October and runs nearly non-stop until Friday 1st December 2023.

*Closed Mondays’

Easter Sunday has a morning Holy Eucharist at 10:30am and a special Festival Evensong at 3:30pm

Wednesdays’ are the Kings Voices being students and choristers

Thursdays’ is Holy Eucharist

Sundays’ is Holy Eucharist at 10:30am and Evensong at 3:30pm

Evensong does not operate during Christmas but there are lots of winter concerts to enjoy. Evensong and coral services start back up again on Tuesday 16th January 2024 for the Lent Term finishing on Friday 15th March for Easter. You can always check future term dates here: https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/term-dates-and-calendars

For more detailed information about what you may bring and precisely what service is on visit: http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/events/chapel-services.html

Evensong during Michaelmas Term at Kings College Chapel

Michaelmas Term being 8th Oct to 6th Dec 2024

This is the most special thing that anyone can do when they visit Cambridge. Allowing the public to enjoy Evensong is an incredibly generous gift by the college and it must be appreciated as a privilege. There are lots of things to do in Cambridge but this should be at the top of anyone’s list. Soak up the voices of the choir under the vaulted ceiling of Kings College Chapel. Bask in the splendour and the majesty of this remarkable chapel and it’s talented members of the college.

As a visitor we recommend that you arrive at 4:55pm at the front entrance to the college on Kings Parade and then you will be at the front of the queue that will form behind you. 5pm they will let you into the college and make your way to the south door. 5:15pm you will be allowed into the chapel and be directed to a seat. 5:30pm Evensong will start.

There is no need to sing or pray but stand up when everyone else stands up and sit down when everyone else sits down.

Be respectful by dressing appropriately, not talking and not taking photographs.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

DETAILED INFORMATION

Easter Term Evensong will start on Tuesday 3rd October and runs nearly non-stop until Friday 1st December 2023.

*Closed Mondays’

Easter Sunday has a morning Holy Eucharist at 10:30am and a special Festival Evensong at 3:30pm

Wednesdays’ are the Kings Voices being students and choristers

Thursdays’ is Holy Eucharist

Sundays’ is Holy Eucharist at 10:30am and Evensong at 3:30pm

Evensong does not operate during Christmas but there are lots of winter concerts to enjoy. Evensong and coral services start back up again on Tuesday 16th January 2024 for the Lent Term finishing on Friday 15th March for Easter. You can always check future term dates here: https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/term-dates-and-calendars

For more detailed information about what you may bring and precisely what service is on visit: http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/events/chapel-services.html

Robbie Burns Night – eat haggis!

Contrary to popular belief a haggis is not a wee furry creature that lives in the highlands of Scotland but actually a traditional cuisine from Scotland made from offal.

Burns night is a special event for Scottish people as they celebrate the bard’s birthday by traditionally having a big supper and enjoying haggis whilst reciting the famous poem by Robert Burns called Address To The Haggis (see below)

If you are looking for an excellent restaurant that has haggis on the menu try The Cambridge Chop House restaurant at No.1 Kings Parade

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If you are looking for somewhere to buy a traditional haggis head to Cousins Butchers in Newnham. https://www.cambridgebutchers.com/haggis-burns-night-supper

Address to a Haggis Translation

Good luck to you and your honest, plump face,
Great chieftain of the sausage race!
Above them all you take your place,
Stomach, tripe, or intestines:
Well are you worthy of a grace
As long as my arm.

The groaning trencher there you fill,
Your buttocks like a distant hill,
Your pin would help to mend a mill
In time of need,
While through your pores the dews distill
Like amber bead.

His knife see rustic Labour wipe,
And cut you up with ready slight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
Like any ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm steaming, rich!

Then spoon for spoon, the stretch and strive:
Devil take the hindmost, on they drive,
Till all their well swollen bellies by-and-by
Are bent like drums;
Then old head of the table, most like to burst,
‘The grace!’ hums.

Is there that over his French ragout,
Or olio that would sicken a sow,
Or fricassee would make her vomit
With perfect disgust,
Looks down with sneering, scornful view
On such a dinner?

Poor devil! see him over his trash,
As feeble as a withered rush,
His thin legs a good whip-lash,
His fist a nut;
Through bloody flood or field to dash,
O how unfit.

But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread,
Clap in his ample fist a blade,
He’ll make it whistle;
And legs, and arms, and heads will cut off
Like the heads of thistles.

You powers, who make mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill of fare,
Old Scotland wants no watery stuff,
That splashes in small wooden dishes;
But if you wish her grateful prayer,
Give her [Scotland] a Haggis!

Other things on in Cambridge …. see link below:-

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Sunday 9th March 2025 – 10,000 runners

The half marathon has come round again. Starting at 4am some roads will be closed. The event will be finished around lunch time but with lots of roads closed until 5pm.

Do not attempt to drive in the centre of Cambridge on this day.

For detailed information about road closures etc., visit:-

https://cambridgehalfmarathon.com/

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