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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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PRESENT 26
PRESENT 26 A celebration of contemporary hand-crafted jewellery - ONE-DAY EXHIBITION
Luxury Christmas Wreath Making Workshop
Create a magical festive wreath in a guided workshop with expert florists. Includes materials, fizz, cream tea & seasonal treats.
Crazy Bingo at Burgess Hall
Grab your mates and prepare for a night that's less "quiet dabbers" and more dance-offs, rave rounds, singalongs, lip sync battles, tiebreakers, and some truly terrible-yet-brilliant prizes. If you're here to behave, you're at the wrong bingo. Think of it as bingo...but with a dancefloor. Grandma is welcome - as long as she's ready to rave!
Trumpington Eco Christmas Market
The only Eco-friendly Christmas event in East Anglia! Trumpington Eco Christmas Market is returning to the Clay Farm Centre for the 4th year on Sunday the 29th of November 10 to 2.
Exhibition Tour: Sunil Gupta: Life with a Camera, 1970 – Today
Join us for an exhibition tour with Kettle’s Yard Assistant Director Susie Biller.
Holiday Inn Cambridge Christmas Drag Bingo
Christmas with a twist! Drag Bingo, party nights and festive fun at Holiday Inn Cambridge from £45pp.
Commoners’ Comedy Club
We are back at the Portland Arms for another night amazing comedy and we have a festive treat for you with the magnificent Alistair Barrie headlining! Join Ali and Harriet for another night of antics and frolics!
Christmas Crafts
Celebrate the festive season by crafting your very own Christmas decorations.
Guided House Tour
Join one of our knowledgeable Visitor Assistants for an introductory guided tour of the Kettle’s Yard house.
Highland Cow Cottage Christmas Market
Christmas Craft Fair and Highland Cows included.
Make it with Marmalade 2 – week Cards for Christmas course
In our mass produced, digital age, this short Relief Printmaking course will show you how to use traditional Linocutting techniques with confidence, so that you can create and hand print your own unique and personalised cards that will be kept and appreciated long after Christmas.
Camsail – December meeting
Camsail's member evening. A chance to share sailing stories, experiences of the last season and enjoy a mince pie and some mulled wine together. Interested future members also welcome.
The Common Thread – December Business Networking Morning
Join us at University Arms for The Common Thread, a relaxed monthly networking morning bringing together Cambridge's professional community.
Bridging Binaries LGBTQ+ Tour
Explore antiquity beyond the binary at the Museum of Classical Archaeology.
Screenprint Mono-printing with Adam Bridgland
Spend a Saturday creating vibrant mono-prints as the perfect festive gifts in this small, hands-on workshop, with a chance to look inside 186 Gwydir Street after the session. Led by artist-printmaker Adam Bridgland, this beginner-friendly workshop explores screen print mono-printing through colour, pattern and mark-making. You’ll use simple tools and processes to paint and pull your own expressive prints, creating a series of bold, one-off artworks.
Handel’s Messiah by Candlelight
Eboracum Baroque perform Handel’s celebrated work, Messiah on Saturday 12th December in Great St Mary’s Church, Cambridge. Their historically informed performance has become a staple of the Christmas concert season in Cambridge. Relax in the run up to Christmas with this candlelit performance from some of the finest singers and instrumentalists in the UK. Performed on period instruments from the time of Handel, this is an evening of music not to be missed!
Did you know?
With over 800 years of history, tread in the footsteps of many famous faces, including Charles Darwin, James Watson and France Crick, Rosalind Franklin, Sylvia Plath and Professor Stephen Hawking.