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Whether you’re a foodie, an art enthusiast, music fan, or science devotee, Cambridge has something for you. Home to festivals and events all year round, we invite you to explore the latest and greatest this buzzing cultural hub has to offer.
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Theatre
Ghost Stories III
A new performance and the third installment of in situ:’s popular Ghost Stories series. Featuring Charles Dickens’ masterpiece The Signal Man, Elizabeth’s Bowen’s The Demon Lover and The Dead from Homer’s Odyssey.
Sport
Yoga & Mimoasa
60 minute vinyasa class that ends with cool essential oil towels and mimosas
Sport
Summer Football Camp
Summer Holiday Football Camp July 28th - August 2nd 9am - 4pm Daily in Northstowe. Open to current Y1 School Age to Yr7 School Age (U6 -U12) Full football based activities each day lead by UEFA and FA qualified coaches, on our state of the art 4G pitch.
Family Friendly
Sun Print Art: Capturing Plant Shadows
You are invited to a Summer of Botany at Cambridge University Botanic Garden with family trails and activities throughout the summer.
Family Friendly
Festivals
Food & Drink
Music
Sounds Green – Cores Do Samba
The final event of our Sounds Green line up of open-air music from Cambridge Summer Music
Theatre
Hamlet
In this remarkable solo performance of Hamlet, Richard Spaul brings his unique vocal gifts and powers of characterisation to explore Shakespeare’s great tragedy. Doors open 7:30pm for 8:00pm start
Family Friendly
Family Activity: Lavender Love
Join us to make a scented lavender bag and other lavender crafts to make your home smell wonderful all summer long.
Family Friendly
Free
Music
MUSIC IN THE PARKS – 4 August – Chesterton Recreation Ground
Back by popular demand, our FREE Music in the Parks series will return to Cambridge for Summer 2024! Join us on Chesterton Recreation Ground to hear We Got That Swing.
Family Friendly
Plants on the Move: Build your own Wardian Case
You are invited to a Summer of Botany at Cambridge University Botanic Garden with family trails and activities throughout the summer.
Family Friendly
Workshops, Talks & Lectures
Summer Hand-Tied Bouquet Workshop
Join us in the ballroom of University Arms with Emily Tallulah flowers for a 2-hour summer hand-tied bouquet workshop.
Theatre
Metemorphoses
A new performance of stories from Ovid’s famous poem, Metamorphoses - a new translation, written and performed by Richard Spaul. Tales of miraculous change and transformation, by turns charming and terrifying, and astonishingly modern. Transgressive sexualities, ghosts, incest, tragedy and the Occult all feature in an evening of fascinating storytelling. Note that doors open at 7:30pm for 8pm start.
Comedy & Entertainment
Family Friendly
Festivals
Food & Drink
Markets, Fetes & Fairs
Cambridge Country Show
The Cambridge Country Show - The Show with something for everybody
Family Friendly
Free
Music
MUSIC IN THE PARKS – 11 August – Jesus Green
Back by popular demand, our FREE Music in the Parks series will return to Cambridge for Summer 2024! Join us on Jesus Green to hear Big 10.
Family Friendly
Fossil Fun: Exploring Ancient Flora
You are invited to a Summer of Botany at Cambridge University Botanic Garden with family trails and activities throughout the summer.
Theatre
Ghost Stories III
A new performance of stories from Ovid’s famous poem, Metamorphoses - a new translation, written and performed by Richard Spaul. Tales of miraculous change and transformation, by turns charming and terrifying, and astonishingly modern. Transgressive sexualities, ghosts, incest, tragedy and the Occult all feature in an evening of fascinating storytelling. Note that doors open at 7.30pm for 8pm start.
Theatre
Ghost Stories III
A new performance and the third installment of in situ:’s popular Ghost Stories series. Featuring Charles Dickens’ masterpiece The Signal Man, Elizabeth’s Bowen’s The Demon Lover and The Dead from Homer’s Odyssey. Doors open 7:30 for 8:00pm start.
Workshops, Talks & Lectures
Science on Sundays: August 2024
Engineering to study biology: building tools to study an economically important crop disease. A talk by Dr Olaf Kranse, Crop Science Centre, University of Cambridge.
Theatre
Hamlet
In this remarkable solo performance of Hamlet, Richard Spaul brings his unique vocal gifts and powers of characterisation to explore Shakespeare’s great tragedy. Doors open at 7:30 for 8:00pm start.
Theatre
Hamlet
In this remarkable solo performance of Hamlet, Richard Spaul brings his unique vocal gifts and powers of characterisation to explore Shakespeare’s great tragedy. Doors open at 7:30pm for 8:00pm start.
Family Friendly
Food & Drink
Free
Sport
The Cambridge Criterium
Professional cycle racing is back in the UK’s cycling capital. A free-to-attend event with a ride for the public and headline races for elite and professional cyclists.
Free
Markets, Fetes & Fairs
Wedding Venue Open Day
We are again, opening our doors to all the couples to be for a day of Wedding Inspiration! If you’re recently engaged, or are one of the lucky few to have already booked your wedding with us, then this is an event you don’t want to miss out on.
Family Friendly
Bat Patrol
Join us on a rare twilight ramble through the Garden
Music
Theatre
The Glam Rock Show – Get It On
It’s time to bang a gong and Get it On for - one night of glam rock! From the producers who brought you hit show - Lost in Music! Girls rock your boys as we bring you the biggest glam rock show of a generation! An outrageous celebration of a golden age, live on stage. The costumes, the make-up, the music. You ain’t seen nothing yet! So, bring your tiger feet and join us for a night like no other.We will transport you back to a time dreams were made of! Featuring the biggest hits from T.Rex, Mud, Slade, Bowie, Suzi Quatro, Wizzard, Sweet and many more. Come on feel the noize and dress to impress for this feel-good show of the year! “If you love the 70s and love to be transported back. . . it really is for you” BBC Radio Tees This is a tribute show and is in no way affiliated with any original artists/estates/management companies or similar shows.
Family Friendly
Free
Music
MUSIC IN THE PARKS – 1 September – Dudley Road Recreation Ground
Back by popular demand, our FREE Music in the Parks series will return to Cambridge for Summer 2024! Join us on Dudley Road Recreation Ground to hear Under the Covers.
Music
This Flight Tonight- The Songs of Joni Mitchell
Acclaimed singer/songwriters Zervas & Pepper present This Flight Tonight an intimate five-piece acoustic live tribute to the music of Joni Mitchell. Featuring songs such as California, Blue, Woodstock, Both Sides Now, Coyote, Big Yellow Taxi, A Case Of You, and many more…
Workshops, Talks & Lectures
An Introduction to Contemporary Hand Weaving with Dalia James
Join us for an introduction to contemporary hand weaving with artist Dalia James. This tapestry frame weaving workshop will give each participant a fundamental grounding in tapestry weaving techniques.
Theatre
The Poldark Show Presents El Mistico
Bringing magic, mind reading and comedy hypnosis. El Mistico is mystical; a unique unforgettable performance; it’s mesmerising, it’s spellbinding, it’s a show that will literally blow your mind!
Workshops, Talks & Lectures
An Introduction to Lino Printing with Zoe Ansari
In this day workshop, you will learn the basics of lino printing and the skills to get you started so you can print at home with simple tools and materials. Fuelled by inspiration from the David Parr House, you will design and carve your lino block and make a design based on the David Parr House 2024 theme, Letter, Word, Text.
Markets, Fetes & Fairs
Cambridge Bead Fair – Free Entry and Refreshments!
Beads and Pearls For The Home Jewellery Maker. Many New Semi Precious Beads Just Imported. Free Entry and Refreshments!
Art & Exhibitions
Workshops, Talks & Lectures
Oil painting for beginners
Have you always wanted to experiment with painting in oil, but you are not really sure where to begin? Then this course is perfect for you!
Festivals
Theatre
Workshops, Talks & Lectures
Hints and Revelations: Radius Festival of Drama 2024
Run by Radius Drama Society, the day at St Mark's Church Newnham includes a directing master class with two professional actors exploring Shakespeare's The Tempest, plus a performance of A hint of an unknown God by Rex Walford, which dramatises poetry by John Betjeman, and Q&A. If booked before the 23rd September, your ticket will include lunch. All welcome.
Comedy & Entertainment
Mark Thomas: Gaffa Tapes
Following a recent step towards theatre in his last few shows, Mark Thomas is back to his finest stand-up form and anti-Tory sentiment in Gaffa Tapes as takes his tour to Cambridge!
Music
Theatre
Legend – The Music of Bob Marley
Direct from the West End - Reggae for the World When you think reggae, there is only one name that comes to mind. The legend that was Bob Marley. Legend - the music of Bob Marley is an unforgettable evening celebrating this musical icon in one fantastic stage show extravaganza. Combining his superb, distinctive vocals with flawless musicianship, a supremely talented cast recreate the timeless hits Could You Be Loved, Is This Love, One Love, No Woman No Cry, Three Little Birds, Jammin’, Buffalo Soldier, Stir It Up, Get Up Stand Up, Exodus, Waiting in Vain, Satisfy My Soul, Iron Lion Zion, I Shot the Sheriff and many more reggae classics. Hotfoot from a sell out show at London’s Adelphi Theatre, It is a two-hour spectacular, showcasing the magic of Marley. It captures the charisma and culture of an icon gone too soon.
Family Friendly
Music
Theatre
Cirque – The Greatest Show
CIRQUE: The Greatest Show Where Musical Theatre Meets Circus It's time to step into the light. Escape with us for a night like no other, where we take you into a world where the very best of musical theatre showstoppers meets jaw-dropping circus spectacular. A world that explodes into colour as everyone’s favourite West End and Broadway hits combine with breath-taking, amazing performances, incredible contortionists, and thrilling feats of agility and flair. It’s the brand-new variety spectacular everyone is talking about . . welcome to Cirque: the award-winning, smash-hit sensation that is fun for all the family. Let the music lift you on a truly wondrous journey bursting with kaleidoscopic colour. Stars of the West End combine with incredible circus performers as the biggest hits from your favourite theatre shows are brought to the stage in unique, spellbinding style. An all-star cast performing the big, big numbers from your favourite shows are joined by mesmerising circus stars – making for an enchanting production that is charming and astonishing in equal measure. Enter the extraordinary world of Cirque. Roll up, roll up and book your seats now for an unforgettable night out - truly like no other.
Music
Theatre
Country Roads
COUNTRY ROADS One Night of Country Classics Come with us to the place you belong, for a night of the very best country classics! Leave your 9 to 5 worries at the door and get ready as – for one night only – we celebrate the Kings and Queens of country music. Brand-new for 2024, from hit producers Entertainers. . . this is the Lost in Music of Country! Join us for a very special evening, celebrating country superstar royalty. Enjoy the very biggest country songs of all time; 9 to 5, The Gambler, Walk the Line, Ring of Fire, King of the Road, Crazy, Rhinestone Cowboy, Jolene, Dance the Night Away, Walkin’ after Midnight and many, many more. The stars of our hit show Islands in the Stream return in this brand-new production that’s now BIGGER than ever! It’s a night like no other – join us for a celebration, live on stage, of the music of a generation. . . in one night of Country Classics. Touring nationwide for 2024! This is Country Roads!
Food & Drink
Themed Joiner Parties – A Night at the Movies
This festive season dress to impress as you walk the red carpet and get your dancing shoes ready to party at Hilton’s Night at the Movies. Start the night with a glass of bubbles and popcorn followed by a 3-course dinner, finishing the night dancing to your favourite disco tunes with our resident DJ, and strike your best pose in the photo booth.
Comedy & Entertainment
Food & Drink
HQ Nights Exclusive Christmas Party!
Join us for an evening of excitement, splendour and all that is Christmas!
Comedy & Entertainment
Food & Drink
HQ Nights Exclusive Christmas Party!
Join us for an evening of excitement, splendour and all that is Christmas!
Comedy & Entertainment
Ed Byrne: Tragedy Plus Time
TV favourite Ed Byrne brings his Best Reviewed Show at the 2023 Edinburgh Festival, British Comedy Guide's No 1 Comedy show of 2023, and his most personal show to date to Cambridge!
Comedy & Entertainment
Food & Drink
HQ Nights Exclusive Christmas Party!
Join us for an evening of excitement, splendour and all that is Christmas!
Theatre
MURDER:STAGED – LIVE
Following the success of Crime Viral's sell out UK serial killer tour - research psychologist and psychopathy expert Cheish Merryweather will be bringing to the stage for the very first time - MURDER:STAGED - LIVE
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