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From making your own gin with one of the world’s most innovative distilleries, to trying the best of the Cambridge food scene – here are some uniquely Cambridge experiences to seek out during your stay
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Big Deal Comedy Club
Live comedy every Friday night
Introduction to Cold Water Swimming
Learn all about the joys and benefits of cold water swimming with Anna, our qualified open water lifeguard and certified cold water practitioner in this two-hour workshop.
Cambridge Fringe Festival
The Cambridge Fringe Festival is back for 2026, with over 100 comedy acts performing across the second May Bank Holiday weekend (23rd & 24th May 2026) at four great venues in the city.
Designing and Printing Block Print with Nicholas Hughes
Spend a Saturday designing and printing your own repeat patterns in a small, hands-on workshop, with a glimpse inside the richly decorated interiors of David Parr House at lunchtime. Led by artist and illustrator Nicolas Hughes, this beginner-friendly session explores block printing through observation, experimentation and making. You’ll work from small, found objects to develop your own designs, carving and printing by hand to create something unexpected.
BalletBoyz: Still Pointless
Celebrating a quarter of a century on stage. This is the best of BalletBoyz.
Open Gardens
We look forward to welcoming you to our Spring Open Gardens, which offers exclusive garden access, refreshments, family-friendly activities and a warm Waresley welcome.
A Squash and a Squeeze
Join us for this heartwarming and hilarious adventure, full of beautiful puppets and enchanting songs, coming to the Arts Theatre Cambridge this May.
Beginners comedy Improv 6 week course (Wednesday evenings)
Join us for a fun and interactive 6-week comedy improv course for beginners!
Angela Bra: Secret Diary of a Bingo Call Girl
The queen of ball based bedlam comes to Cambridge with a show packed with original songs and stories from the front line of the party bingo circuit, wrapped up in a round of her very own “Great British Bingo” which everyone can play.
Carducci Quartet
Join us for a Chamber Music concert with the Carducci Quartet in the Kettle’s Yard house.
The Wedding of Ellie & Sid
Dig out your glad rags and join the conscious coupling of Eleanor Breeze and Sid White-Jones for an exhibition-cum-wedding co-curated by the artists themselves. After five years of friendship and creative dialogue, it’s time to tie the knot.
A Morning with British Red Cross – Here for Humanity
An incredible opportunity to find out more about the local, UK and international work of one of the world's oldest humanitarian organisations
Zero to Hero
Join us for an afternoon of heroic exploits at the Museum of Classical Archaeology.
CREATION RECORDS LEGENDS THE LOFT COME TO CAMBRIDGE
Creation Records legends The Loft pay their first ever visit to Cambridge. Support comes from The Kobayashi Bookstore and Ollie Jackson There will be a brand new album to promote, songs from last year's acclaimed comeback, 'Everything Changes, Everything Changes, Everything Stays the Same' and probably their two classic Creation singles, 'Why Does the Rain' and 'Up the Hill and Down the Slope'!
Bridging Binaries LGBTQ+ Tour
From queens, emperors and divine beings, to scientists, artists and global communities, explore the spectrum of identities that exist across time, place and culture in the Museum of Classical Archaeology.
Big Deal Comedy Club
Live comedy every Friday night
Did you know?
Cambridge can boast of William Wordsworth, Samuel Pepys, Virginia Woolf, Stephen Fry and Prince Charles as alumni of the university.