Cambridge Festival

Cambridge Festival Celebrating the arts, sciences, and ideas that shape our world 🌍✨

The Cambridge Festival will take place from 16 March - 2 April 2026

The Cambridge Festival welcomes everyone to explore and discuss a range of topics through talks, hands-on activities, performances, exhibitions, tours and films. Follow us on twitter to find out more

A new month is here and here are 6️⃣ free or low-cost events to attend this month ⬇️📚 Enjoy Cambridge University Library...
01/06/2026

A new month is here and here are 6️⃣ free or low-cost events to attend this month ⬇️

📚 Enjoy Cambridge University Library after-hours for an evening creative activities with local poets and artists: https://bit.ly/4uTZSUt (Booking required, £)

🖌️ Shape Shifters, hosted by CRASSH is an exhibition where five women artists redefine abstraction through geometry, materiality, and perception: https://bit.ly/4vx12qe (Drop-in, free)

🌼 The Festival of Plants is back Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Celebrate the start of summer with a day full of plants, creativity and family fun in the Garden as it bursts into summer colour: https://bit.ly/3Rh4UMw (Garden admission applies)

🧪 Find out how patient and public involvement are impacting reaching in the East of England by attending NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre showcase event: https://bit.ly/4nG5iA3 (Booking required, free)

🌊 How do the oceans shape our world? Join author Professor Helen Czerski in conversation with Master of Churchill College, Professor Sharon Peacock as they discuss Helen's award-winning book: https://bit.ly/4uR2tOY (Booking required, free)

🎨 Notes on Colour at the Robert Cripps Gallery at Magdalene College brings together the work of three contemporary artists, Vicken Parsons, Jeff McMillan and David Batchelor, for whom colour has been an abiding preoccupation over many years: https://bit.ly/3WADL6l (Drop-in, free)

🔗 As always there are so many public events taking place across Cambridge: https://bit.ly/3tIDdjZ

29/05/2026

How can research, clinical expertise and patient experience work together to improve breast cancer care?

This Cambridge Festival 2026 event brought together experts and patient representatives to discuss the future of breast cancer treatment, research and support — and the innovations helping shape tomorrow’s care.

🎬 Catch up on the full discussion via the link in the comments.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre

➡️ 1 billion people in the world have obesity➡️ Stop taking weight loss drugs = weight gain➡️ They do not tackle the roo...
27/05/2026

➡️ 1 billion people in the world have obesity
➡️ Stop taking weight loss drugs = weight gain
➡️ They do not tackle the root cause of the disease

These are just some of the things we learnt from Professor Giles Yeo's talk at . Watch Giles' talk in full to learn more: https://bit.ly/49e2DYA

✏️ Live illustration by Nunulanka

🎉 Open Cambridge Community Grants are now available! 🎉We’re offering small grants to help community organisations run fr...
25/05/2026

🎉 Open Cambridge Community Grants are now available! 🎉

We’re offering small grants to help community organisations run free public events during Open Cambridge 2026.

Funding can support costs such as:
✔️ Venue hire
✔️ Refreshments
✔️ Printing

To apply, your event must:
✅ Be free to attend
✅ Take place during the festival
✅ Offer something not normally open or usually ticketed

Find out more here: https://bit.ly/3R7nlDd

📧 Questions? Contact [email protected]

📷 Potato picking at Cambridge Access Surgery

22/05/2026

Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs are transforming conversations around obesity and health, but have we really “cured” obesity?

Professor Giles Yeo tackled this question at Cambridge Festival 2026, exploring the science behind these treatments and what they could mean for healthcare, society and our understanding of body weight.

🎞️ Catch up on the full discussion via the link in the comments.

20/05/2026

Are we alone in the universe? 👽🌌

What would Earth look like to intelligent life somewhere out there — and what might they think of us?

Former Astronomer Royal Martin Rees shares his thoughts on alien life, the future of humanity, and his hopes for our planet over the next 25 years in his fascinating talk.

🎥 Watch the full conversation now on our YouTube channel via the link in the comments.

🎉 Open Cambridge 2026 submissions are now open! 🎉Open Cambridge returns from 11–20 September 2026, bringing together ext...
18/05/2026

🎉 Open Cambridge 2026 submissions are now open! 🎉

Open Cambridge returns from 11–20 September 2026, bringing together extraordinary spaces, places, stories and people from across Cambridge and the surrounding area.

Running alongside Heritage Open Days, the festival celebrates local heritage, community and culture - and we’d love for you to be part of it.

We’re welcoming submissions from departments, colleges, institutions and organisations across the University and beyond.

Your event must:
✅ Be free to attend (donations are welcome)
✅ Take place during the festival dates
✅ Offer something not normally open to the public or usually requiring paid entry

📅 Submissions close on Thursday 16 July 2026.

Further information, key dates and coordinator support details are available here: https://bit.ly/3RBiXwk

For questions or to discuss a submission idea, please contact:
[email protected]

📷 Visitors inside the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College Cambridge

15/05/2026

What will the world look like in 2050? 🌏

What a pleasure it was to welcome back Professor Lord Martin Rees to speak at .

In his talk at The Cambridge Union, Lord Rees discussed his hopes for the future of our planet and, if there is life out there, what it might look like.

🎞️ Watch the full talk over on our YouTube channel now via the link in the comments.

Lord Rees is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the Institute of Astronomy Cambridge and Co-founder of Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge.

Have you checked out our YouTube channel yet? Every Friday, we’re sharing full videos of our Cambridge Union events so y...
13/05/2026

Have you checked out our YouTube channel yet? Every Friday, we’re sharing full videos of our Cambridge Union events so you can catch up whenever you like!

Kicking things off, we have ‘The world in 2050 and far beyond’ featuring Professor Lord Martin Rees – don’t miss it! 💫

➡️ Subscribe now and be notified when we post: https://bit.ly/3LtI2Eq

We asked the children who came to visit us during our family weekend to draw the best thing they had learnt. ✏️Here are ...
11/05/2026

We asked the children who came to visit us during our family weekend to draw the best thing they had learnt. ✏️

Here are some of our favs! ⬇️

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