adult activities & talks

We open the new exhibition Tim Head: Raw Material with a conversation between Tim Head and the curator of the exhibition Sotiris Kyriacou.

Summer Term: 24 April; 8, 22 May; 5, 19 June; 3, 17 July, 11.30am-2pm
Fortnightly drawing workshop for adults and people aged 16+ led by an artist. An opportunity to draw in the house at Kettle's Yard.

booking online: University of Cambridge estore
or call 01223 748100 to book a place.

Our descriptive tour is for blind and partially sighted people and their friends and offers an introduction to our current exhibition. Booking essential, please contact Camsight to book on 01223 420 033. Free of charge.

How did a cluster of run-down cottages become one of the most important addresses in Cambridge? Tutor Adrian Barlow will explore the history, architecture and significance of Kettle's Yard in its immediate neighbourhood. Sessions may include visits to buildings in the locality.

Find out more about Adrian Barlow here.

booking online: University of Cambridge estore
or call 01223 748100 to book a place.

Join us for a guided tour of the Kettle's Yard house – a great opportunity to find out more about the original owners, Jim and Helen Ede, and some of the key artists in the collection. Free but booking is essential, call 01223 748100 to book a place.

Join us for a guided tour of the Kettle's Yard house – a great opportunity to find out more about the original owners, Jim and Helen Ede, and some of the key artists in the collection. Free but booking is essential, call 01223 748100 to book a place.

This workshop will explore the power of objects as personal talismans, metaphors and triggers for narrative and memory in poems. Led by Tamar Yoseloff. All levels of experience are welcome.

Find out more about Tamar Yoseloff on her web site: www.tamaryoseloff.com/

Please contact the Poetry School to book: www.poetryschool.com, 0207 582 1679.

Including a consideration of the part her lesbian sexuality may be seen to play in her particular development of abstraction, and an examination of her links to other women artists of the time. Leading scholars including Professor Briony Fer (University College London) and Professor Jonathan Katz (State University of New York) will present new research and lead discussion on the day.

Woodleigh Room, Lucy Cavendish College followed by a reception and late view of the exhibition at Kettle’s Yard. £10 (£5 students). The late view is free and open to all.

This is a "Women's Word" event, organised in conjunction with Lucy Cavendish College. Tickets will be available from 15 April.

Please contact the college to book a place, womensword@lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk or 01223 764020

Join us for an after hours look at the Agnes Martin exhibition -
free and open to all.

Professor Deanna Petherbridge will examine the cult of the ‘primitive’ body in Modernist art, inspired by a rejection of classicism, an admiration for exotic cultures and the Surrealist embrace of psychoanalysis and the irrational. In association with the mind-spirit-body-matter: drawn to the human workshop.

Find out more about Deanna Petherbridge here.

Location: Mill Lane Lecture Room 2, see map here.

booking online: University of Cambridge estore
or call 01223 748100 to book a place.

An exploration of performative and improvisational structures in contemporary dance and non-western movement traditions. Film screening and panel discussion with anthropologist Professor Andrée Grau, dancer-choreographer Sarah Warsop and film producer Rodney Wilson. Chair: Glenn Sujo. In association with the mind-spirit-body-matter: drawn to the human workshop.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 2, map here.

booking online: University of Cambridge estore
or call 01223 748100 to book a place.