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FLACK is a new kind of what’s on magazine for Cambridge. We’re different in two important ways. Firstly, we cover the kind of events that can be hard to find out about in the city, from free films and exhibitions to live music, stand-up comedy and even bike maintenance workshops. Secondly, homeless people are core members of our production team. FLACK - which is also a registered charity – offers them training, support and a sense of vocation; helping them to get back on their feet. All of which gives our readers a new way to explore Cambridge, beyond old divisions like town / gown or homeless / housed.
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Nick Ward
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ive years ago I met Nick sitting at the art table at Wintercomfort for the homeless. He was engrossed with his early forays into visual art – at first with felt tip pens and then with paint, glitter and even coffee grounds! Nick is one of the many people who inspired me to establish FLACK. In fact he suggested our name. Throughout his ten years of homeless wandering, he pursued his passion for theatre making, music, and visual art with inspiring vigour. Re-viewing his now substantial portfolio has been a trip down memory lane for us both. One sunny, breezy May afternoon we made the initial selection for his forthcoming solo exhibition, and I asked him some questions posed by FLACK’s Editorial Group.
What does it mean to you to be exhibiting at Cambridge Art Salon?
It means I’ve stopped wondering how to go about getting my first solo exhibition because it’s now happening and I’m hoping to make the most of it in every way.
Is it scary to expose yourself through your art?
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the audience. There was a mediation. I guess I was always interested in exploring where the ‘you’ is in that whole process. I think with painting, poetry and music and the combination of those, you are closer to exposing something of yourself as an artist-in-process rolling along. I think the product itself doesn’t necessarily expose anything except the moment when it was finished .... possibly. Yes, it can be scary to confront an audience with a song and a banjo or recite a self-penned poem. It can sometimes be scary just to walk down the street. In that sense being an artist is a dangerous thing to claim to be because you can fall flat on your face! You can be deeply humiliated and have to crawl away and hide. Or almost more dangerous you become celebrated. I was briefly celebrated in the theatre. That can be dangerous too if you haven’t got a fairly tight hold on your ego. Artist is a big word with all sorts of confusing and subjective associations. That’s a long answer.
How is your work influenced by aboriginal art?
My life has been deeply influenced by Australian aboriginal people. I hope that my life and my ‘art’ are slowly becoming more integrated. I lived with aborginal people on and off for six years from roundabout the late nineties to the early noughties. I was very lucky to meet some extraordinary artists. One in particular, an old man whose approach to
www.flack ambridge.org.uk Where do you place yourself between abstraction and figuration? Figuration is usually a surprise in my painting. I’m more of an abstract colourist. Although of late I have been doing mask-like portraits such as the portrait of Emma I painted on Mayday at FLACK. I’m more interested in mask work than I am in portraiture. The paintings of mine I like most tend not to be figurative but they are geometric. Circles, spirals, triangles .. I love the power of sacred geometry. Which is not to say I am not delighted when faces, figures, landscapes etc seem to magically appear.
his painting was so refreshing and dynamic. I hung around, I just loved watching him paint. He never seemed to pause for inspiration. He would just fill up a piece of canvas or strip of bark and stop and the next day he’d paint again if he felt like it. There was never any moment when he sought inspiration. He was a 100% process driven artist. His theatre was an earth circle.
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www.flack ambridge.org.uk investigating theatre. Look at the cave paintings in Lascaux for instance – animated paintings that came to life in firelight, dancing bodies and shadows – they’re the first cinema but also theatre. So you could say painting is simply one aspect of a complete theatre-maker. Theatre must be able to include every art-form including film or recording. There’s nothing that theatre can’t contain – hopefully. That’s why I love Granny Graffiti. It’s brilliant what they’re doing. Transforming a space is very important.
Why is there going to be a rowing machine in the exhibition?
What can we expect from the exhibition? The unexpected!
How would you like people to behave in your exhibition?
Rowing, boating, being on the river has been a very important part of my life. I’ve been a long term campaigner for marathon single sculling races on natural waterways and rivers. I’ve spent a good deal of my time exploring meditation and different kinds of yoga including mantra meditation. I combined that with being in a boat and contributed to a branch of rowing coaching that I felt was complementary to the more scientific aspects of the sport. It was a bit cutting edge what I was doing. I’m looking to return to recreational rowing. So I thought to have a rowing machine there would be appropriate. It’s also fun and interactive and I hope it will light up some memories of Australia. You’ll have to come along to find out how.
‘Behave’ is a strange and loaded word for me. I’d like people to behave naturally and responsively rather than responsibly, and to avoid violence! Anything goes, as long as they don’t damage my works or steal my diaries. Maybe some might come along and perform dialogues for me as I sit on the window shelf and I won’t know if they’re dialogues or not. Maybe we’ll have a little festival of dialogues. How about that? No shot guns! Police uniforms are ok, nurse’s uniforms are also fine.
I continue to believe that theatre is the ‘mother of all arts’ as Robert Lepage once put it. I have never stopped wanting to understand the wellsprings of theatre and what makes human beings create what we call theatre. Clearly I was not going to get the answers I was looking for working in the conventional theatre in London. There comes a point where you have to do as Peter Brook did - explore the world. Getting housed again and having a place I call home in Cambridge is a different matter. I’m no longer travelling around but I haven’t stopped PAGE 6 | FLACK | JUNE 2013
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Have you swapped theatre for painting? Have you stopped making theatre?
www.flack ambridge.org.uk What this with glitter and fairy lights ?
I love glitter and I seem to be able to make it work. Just seems to fall out of my hand in the right way. I don’t overdo it. Sometimes I forget all about glitter and then I remember it again. My last London theatre show of a play I wrote called ‘The Present’ in 1995 featured fairy lights, because I love fairy lights! There’s definitely a glittery side to me – maybe it’s all that country music I play ... and sequins! Bob Marley’s outfits, Nelson Mandela’s shirts, Indian Yantras, Elton John’s glasses! Remember the Queen Mother’s hats?
I love brave colour statements. There’s nothing political about it. It’s just WOW! Spirits lifted, job done. Many thanks to the FLACK Editorial Group for their questions. Nick Ward’s blog can be found at nickwardscenarios.wordpress.com
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‘Expressive Symbol-Surrealism’ - a one man movement by Dave Richardson
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y name is David Richardson, I’m 42 and for the purposes of this article I will define myself as an artist. The best place for me to start my story is from the place to which I don’t want to return. It was winter 2005 in a freezing cold shed at the back of the ‘Chariots of Fire’ (the pub that got burnt down on Mill Road). I was sharing the shed with a Polish man and a 55 year-old ex-soldier from Norfolk, each of us down on our luck. It was 1 o’clock in the morning, we were going into withdrawals, and the candle went out. And there in the darkness I sat in cold silence with my thoughts. But this moment was profound. Words cannot describe it. In this moment I felt truly lost and at exactly the same time I felt truly found. The next morning I sorted myself out and then went to the library to sit in the warm, I borrowed a pencil and several pieces of paper and attempted to recapture the duality I had felt the night before.
Of course what brought me to Cambridge a number of years previously had certainly not been to become homeless, nobody intends that, but to conduct some PhD research at the Plant Science Department, Cambridge University. I was looking at Evolutionary Plant Physiology for the American Multinational Agrochemical Company, Monsanto. Then some years later, due to my marriage breakup and ‘other factors’, I became homeless for an 18 month period. After these life events, I turned away from science to art. Painting being a subject I’d had formal training in and had some success at, during the late 1980s and early 90s, training under the Neo-Expressionist Andrew Paisley in Bournemouth. Neo-Expressionism developed as a reaction against the Conceptual and Minimal art of the 1970s. It returned to portraying recognizable objects, such as the human body (although sometimes in an abstract manner), in a rough and violently emotional way using vivid colours and banal colour harmonies. From this background I developed my visual ideas and the style I have today.
If I could properly categorise my art in just a few words then I would call it Expressive SymbolSurrealism as it crosses several major artistic styles. What makes the style Expressive is the colours I
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use, as I generally choose stark, high toned, primary and secondary colours, and put them together discordantly (colours on the dog-leg on the colour wheel) to create an ‘other worldly dream-like’ effect. In some of my work I use a black background as a phenomenal space to place unusual characters in, that have become personified, coded expressions of human emotion at an archetypal level, fitting my work into the category of Symbolism. In my investigations into the mind, I have managed to construct the kingdom of Mr Mole (my painting alter-ego), a vehicle to carry messages from the subconscious to the world. This psychoanalytical aspect of my work which involves dream interpretation is Surrealist in nature.
my work, they are not left feeling stupid. Currently I’m working on a collection of 12 New Testament-inspired paintings that I have called ‘The 12 Apostles of Cambridge’, 5 of which are being shown at The Michaelhouse Centre, Trinity Street, Cambridge, from the 10th to 15th of June. Also alongside these religious works will be 12 of my earlier psychoanalytical works. I will be available to talk to every day between the times of 11am to 2pm. All this would not be possible if it weren’t for Lifecraft (a Cambridge-based mental health charity) who have continuously supported and believed in me and my work, and are currently involved in the Cambridge section of the nationwide Time to Change Project, wherein the creative skills of people with mental health difficulties are given a public platform in order to challenge stigmas and stereotypes around mental health issues. My blog: www.molemanart.blogspot.com. For more information about Lifecraft: www.lifecraft.org.uk Dave’s work can be seen at the Michaelhoue Centre Trinity Street 10 - 15th June. www.gsm.cam.ac.uk/michael-house/
Ultimately, I want my work to be an aesthetically pleasing, self contained story, that the observer can visually read with assistance of the title and description, and by the end of their observation of
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Happy Birthday Crossword by Steph
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SQUASH on Squatting
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n September 1st 2012 squatting in residential properties became a criminal offence, punishable by a fine of up to £5000 and up to 6 months in prison. What has become s144 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Act was not subject to the usual procedural scrutiny, and The Ministry of Justice ignored the results of their own consultation – 96% of respondents to their consultation, including top lawyers and legal academics, were against the criminalisation of squatting. The new law surprised even The Advisory Service for Squatters and SQUASH, who became aware of s144 coming into force only two weeks before its enactment. The law states that someone is committing an offence if: a) they enter a property as a trespasser, and b) the property was designed or adapted for use as a residence before they entered, c) and they are living there, or intend to live there. To commit an offence under s144 it needs to be proved that you are doing all of the above, and many people currently squatting do. Of the estimated 920,000 empty homes across the UK, 330,000 are long-term empty¹ , and squatting in these is a valuable way for someone homeless to put a roof over their heads. The new law is also retroactive, meaning everyone squatting in a residential building is committing the offence regardless of the status of the building, or how long they’ve been there. On September the 1st I had been squatting for just over a year in a council-owned flat. It was absurd to innocently go to bed one night, and wake the next day to find I had committed a criminal offence. Squatters and homeless people have always suffered disproportionate persecution by the criminal justice system. My squatmates and I decided to leave a month or so after the law change. One group who had been living for the past year in a long-term empty house in East London, over which there were legal disputes and who had a verbal licence from one of the owners, were visited by the police at 9pm on a Sunday night. The owner with whom they had the agreement was there; he claimed to have never seen any of them before. The police told them that they had an hour to leave or they would be arrested. An hour later they were on the street with all their belongings to face a freezing
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night. The house is still empty. The vagueness of the law is a problem. We heard of a group of 6 squatters, originally from Spain, arrested while squatting a dilapidated care home. They believed that it didn’t fall under s144 – it wasn’t a house or a flat - but the court ruled that it was “designed or adapted for living in” and they were convicted and each fined over £600. The fine wiped out their savings and the property remains empty. Alex Haigh, 21, originally from Portsmouth² , travelled to the capital to find work as an apprentice, but became unemployed and was sleeping rough. After difficulties in hostels he squatted in an empty flat. He was one of the first to be jailed, arrested on September 2nd in Westminster, one day after the law had come into force. Police visited the flat he was squatting in, looking for someone else. He explained that he was squatting, unaware that he was breaking the law, and was arrested, and given a 12 weeks custodial sentence. Michael Minorczyk, 27, was arrested in January for squatting in Blackburn and sentenced to 15 weeks in prison. Michael, originally from Poland, came to the UK in 2005 and found work but lost his job in the recession, began drinking and eventually ending up sleeping rough. Michael was “skippering” in the building he was arrested in, this does not involve securing or changing the locks, only entering the empty property at night to sleep. Michael now has a criminal conviction for sheltering in an empty building during one of the coldest winters on record The vast majority of people currently claiming housing benefits are in work. Benefits have, until now, worked in tandem with cheap credit to make up
www.flack ambridge.org.uk the gap that stagnating real wages have left. As the recession deepens, more people will lose their jobs and be unable to keep up with their rent or mortgage repayments, and if they are unable to claim benefits they will lose their homes. There are no reliable figures for the number of squatters in England and Wales, but it is estimated to be around 10,000. Groups such as the Advisory Service for Squatters³ and the Squatters Legal Network have been in contact with and supported people affected by s144. They say that 30-50% of the s144 incidents and arrests they have been made aware of came from local or national news sources – there are a vast number of people squatting who have limited or no access to support networks or legal advice. Squatting and squatters have rarely enjoyed a good press – even the heroes returning from WWII who squatted in empty army barracks with their families because their houses had been destroyed were hated by the right-wing press and politicians at the time. It is far easier to hate squatters as scroungers and freeloaders than it is to do something about homes left empty to keep rents high, or property speculators driving out whole communities to cash in on gentrification. Some people think that owning a property on paper gives them the right to do what they want with it, even if that means leaving it empty to let it rot and fall over. Other people think that buildings are resources like any other, and that if the person
or company that owns them isn’t doing anything with them then people who have nowhere else to go should be able to live in them. This government of millionaires is clearly of the former opinion. Daniel Gauntlett⁴, 35, was found dead on the porch of an empty bungalow in Kent in February. With no known health problems, he had been warned by police not to enter the bungalow and threatened with arrest for criminal damage if he did. Kent Police refused to confirm Daniel had been warned that he would be committing an offence under s144 if he were to shelter in the bungalow. But the fact remains that had he done so he would have been breaking the law. He took the fatal decision to abide by the law. Squatters Action for Secure Homes will continue to campaign against this bad law and any further criminalisation of squatting. If you would like to know more about the changes to the law, information on how to fight this law or would like to get involved or offer help, visit www. squashcampaign.org or tweet @squash_campaign. ____________________________________________________
1. www.emptyhomes.com/statistics-2/empty-homesstatistice-201112/ 2. www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/sep/27/first-squatterjailed-new-law 3. www.squatter.org.uk/ 4. www.kentonline.co.uk/kent_messenger/news/2013/ february/28/frozen_man.aspx For a longer version of this article please visit FLACK Plus Blog : flackcambridge.wordpress.com
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Remembered Friend ~ Stephen Mednick Diamonds in the sky, we still ask why? To ‘Stav’, and those loved and lost, we know how much it costs And not in monetary value, cos we know most of them treat us like poo Anyway Stav cheeky chappy, smile on face always seemed happy I’m sure there was a story behind that smile, I wish I’d took the time out for a while Anyway enough of that, said I was gonna quote songs but F*!k that And I don’t think you would have cared for all that, would you Stav? Sorry if the language is a bit much, and I’m sorry if I didn’t stay in touch You have got a lot of family and friends here, and I’m sure they will all have a beer So this one’s for you Stav too, and hopefully one day I will see you too All of us bar none, know it’s not always fun So when all is said and done, let’s have some f!*king fun!
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Midsummer Fair
Midsummer Common, CB5 8DJ Wed 19 to Monday 24 June Free (pay for rides) This is the country’s oldest travelling fun fair, having visited the city’s Midsummer Common for centuries. It’s now a thoroughly modern fair, with all the fun that you’d expect – rollercoasters, candy floss, waltzers, ghost trains and more. Lots of stalls to browse around as well. www.cambridge.gov.uk/summer www.midsummercommon.org.uk
Gwydir Street Party
Gwydir Street, Cambridge (between The Cambridge Blue and The Alexandra Arms pubs) Sat 29 June 2pm to 9pm Free This annual charity event features food, stalls, live music and beer, and is always lots of fun. This year, the money raised will go to Centre33, Shelford Cancer Care and Friends With Disabilities. jethro@thecambridgeblue.co.uk facebookc.om/gwydirstreetparty
EXHIBITIONS & HISTORY
Fashioning Switzerland
Shiba Gallery, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Cambridge Tues 4 June to Sun 15 Sept 10am to 5pm, 12am to 5pm Sundays Free A selection of watercolours and prints of Swiss women in regional costume by 18th/19th century Swiss artist Markus Dinkel. Alongside these rare portraits the gallery is also displaying some mainly etched views of the Swiss landscape, all delicately hand finished in watercolours. www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
House Guests
Kettle’s Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AQ Exhibition: to Sunday 28 July 1.30pm to 4.30pm Free Lunchtime Talk: Thur 20 June 1.10pm Free “Guest” objets from eight other University of Cambridge museums and collections have been carefully placed amongst Kettle’s Yard’s own artworks and objetcs. Join Heather Lane from the Polar Museum for a lunchtime talk about the House Guests exhibition to find out more. 01223 748100 mail@kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk www.kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk
The Visionary Art of David Richardson
The Michaelhouse Centre, St Michael’s Church, Trinity Street, Cambridge CB2 1SU Mon 10 to Saturday 15 June 8am to 5pm Free 14 years ago, during his PhD research at Cambridge, David started to receive religious visions that profoundly altered his life, and brought him into contact with Lifecraft, a Cambridge-based mental health charity, and art therapy. With Lifecraft’s encouragement and support, David will be showing 5 large New Testament-inspired paintings, alongside 12 of his earlier psychoanalytical works. Meet the artist each day during the exhibition between 11am and 2pm. www.molemanart.blogspsot.com
For Better or Worse: Herbal Cures and Plants for Health
Museum of Cambridge (formerly the Folk Museum), 2/3 Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AQ and University of Cambridge Botanic Garden, 1 Brookside, Cambridge CB2 1JE Wed 19 June 7pm £7/£5.50 (talk only) Sat 22 June 10.30am £10/£9 (walk only) These two complementary events are hosted by local professional garden historian Twigs Way (great name!). She’ll give a talk about the various experiences – good and bad – of Cambridge folk with herbal medicines from the 17th century through to today. Then you can join her in a “walk and talk” in the Botanic Gardens to continue the exploration in the appropriate natural setting. 01223 355159 info@folkmuseum.org.uk
Katie Paterson
Kettle’s Yard, Castle Stret, Cambridge CB3 0AQ to Wed 26 June 11.30am to 5pm Free Tackling some of the “big questions” about our place and time on earth. Her new work – Fossil Necklace – will be on show at St Peter’s Church (next to Kettle’s Yard), and is made up of more than 170 beads made out of fossils. The oldest one is 3.5 billion (yes – BILLION!) years old. 01223 748100 mail@kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk www.kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk
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Family Adams Exhibition
Oliver Cromwell’s House
Sunday 2 and Sunday 9 June 2pm to 5pm £3.50/£2/£1.50 The Adamses ran an ironmongers shop in Littleport that was at the heart of the local Fenland community. So much so that when it closed, a group got together to preserve some of its contents in a time capsule, along with some folk memories. This exhibition displays the results, including a great model of the shop and a film. info@museumoftechnology.com www.museumoftechnology.com
Monday to Sundays 10am to 5pm £4.60/£4.10/£3.10 Visit the house of 13th century origins where Oliver Cromwell himself lived four centuries later. Cromwell and his family lived here for about 10 years in the 17th century, and the house still has some of its original features. Take the tour and see if it helps you make up your mind about one of the most divisive figures in British history.
Cambridge Museum of Technology, Riverside, Cambridge CB5 8LD
John Preston and Neil Warmsley: Silver Silvium
Williams Art, 5 Dale’s Brewery, Gwydir Street, Cambridge CB1 2LJ Sunday 2 to Tuesday 18 June 7.30am (8.30am on Sundays) to 6pm Free Both artists have cared for Cambridge’s rich heritage of trees for the last 25 years. Neil Warmsley has worked as a gardener in historic Cambridge college gardens, inspiring his paintings. John Preston will be exhibiting some new etchings, which include snowy landscapes featuring trees from Cambridge and beyond. 01223 311687 gallery@williamsart.co.uk www.williamsart.co.uk
Ghost Tours
The Guildhall, Market Square, CB2 3QJ Fridays 6pm to 7pm £6/£5/£4 Spend an hour with one of Visit Cambridge’s official Blue Badge tour guides, hearing about the strange happenings and spooky tales from the colleges and streets of Cambridge. Things that make you go Woooooooh! 01223 455574 tinyurl.com/flackjun7
Mill Road History Project
Mill Road Bridges, c/o The Six Bells, 11 Covent Garden, Cambridge CB1 2HS This is a project that’s aiming to create a collection of stories from Mill Road – past and present. The plan is to produce a community website and an archive. They’re looking for ideas and people to get involved, so if this sounds of interest, get in touch. millroadhistory@gmail.com
Ely Tourist Information Centre, 29 St Mary’s Street, Ely, Cambridgeshire CB7 4HF
Make and Create with Rowan
Pye’s Recreation Ground, off Church Street, Cambridge CB4 1DT Sat 29 June 1pm to 5pm Free An opportunity to get creative, make some art and talk to some of Rowan’s people. You can also enjoy all the other fun activities of Chesterton Festival while you’re there! 01223 566027 judith@rowanhumberstone.co.uk www.rowanhumberstone.co.uk
01353 662062 tic@eastcambs.gov.uk www.olivercromwellshouse.co.uk
A Garden of Delight
ART, CRAFT AND REPAIRS
Fri 14 June 10.30am to 1pm £30/£25
Drop By and Doodle with Rowan
Disability Sports and Arts Festival, Chesterton Sports Centre, Gilbert Road, Cambridge CB4 3NY Sunday 9 June 10am to 4pm Free This event marks the launch of a monthlong Disability Sport and Arts festival from Cambridge City Council and Community Link for Arts and Sports (CLASP). Come along to make some art with Rowan. While you’re there, you can also find out what is coming up in the month of activities in and around Cambridge, whether you’re arty or sporty, or a little bit of both. 01223 566027 judith@rowanhumberstone.co.uk www.rowanhumberstone.co.uk
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Cambridge Arts Network meet up Arts Picturehouse, 38-39 St Andrew’s Street, Cambridge CB2 3AR
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RB Celebrate summer with this workshop themed around gardens and nature. Study some of the museum’s beautiful Japanese prints, then try making your own in the studio. Booking is essential for these workshops. 01223 332904 fitzmuseum-education@lists.cam. ac.uk www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
Art Speak
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RB Tues 18 June 1.15pm to 1.45pm Free Spend half an hour looking at art – and discussing it with others. A lovely way to spend your lunch hour, perhaps? Meet at the museum’s courtyard entrance. 01223 332904 fitzmuseum-education@lists.cam. ac.uk www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
Hixton Mill Countryside Walk and Drawing Mill Lane, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1RD
Tues 4 June 12.30pm to 2pm Free An informal meet up for anyone who has an idea to discuss. CAN is a mix of artists, designers, producers, educators and creative businesses, across a wide range of art forms. If you would like to join in or network, here’s your chance. can@cambridge.gov.uk
Sunday 9 June 2.30 Free
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Please bring your own pens, paper and a clipboard for drawing. 01223 243830 bookings@cambridgepff.org
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Join local architectural historian and drawing enthusiast Jon Harris for a guided talk and lively tour of the countryside around Hinxton Mill. This will be followed by tea at the mill itself, with drawing starting after that at 6pm, finished off with a further walk, from the mill to Ickleton at 7.30pm.
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MUSE
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RB Friday 28 June 10.15am to noon £5 These workshops promise to help budding artists become more confident with drawing, and explore new ways of working. There are only 15 places each month, and booking opens on 1 June, so if you’re interested it’s essential that you book, and get in there quickly. 01223 332904 fitzmuseum-education@lists.cam. ac.uk www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
Tactile Art Workshop
Kettle’s Yard, Castle Street, CB3 0AQ Tues 4 June 10.30am to 12.30pm Free An informal session of chat and creating, for blind or partially sighted people and their friends. The session, led by artist Filipa Pereira-Stubbs (in partnership with Cam Sight) will use Katie Paterson’s work to explore inspiration from time and space. Becky Cawdry 01223 420033 becky@camsight.org.uk
Drawing from the Collection
Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ Sat 8 and Saturday 22 June (fortnightly) 11am to 1.30pm £10 (includes all materials) These drawing sessions are for adults (16+), and allow both beginning and more confident artists to come along and explore the collections and artefacts at the museum. There is usually a particular theme or technique at the centre of each session – check the website for more details. tinyurl.com/flackjun10
MUSIC – CLASSICAL & JAZZ
Singing on the River
King’s College Chapel, King’s College, King’s Parade, Cambridge CB2 1SP Sun 23 June 7.30pm to 9.30pm £10/£5 Collegium Regale will be singing a wide array of close harmony arrangements… from punts on the River Cam! We think this sounds like just about the most Cambridge-y concert imaginable. Bring a picnic (or a bun from Fitzbillies?), sit on the bank behind the Chapel and enjoy the music. tinyurl.com/flackjun6 PAGE 22 | FLACK | JUNE 2013
Summer Celebration Concert with the Cambridge Concert Orchestra
St George’s Church, Chesterfield Road, Chesterton, CB4 1LN Sat 29 June 7.30pm £10/£8/£5 (includes free drink) Relaxing concert of light music played by the 50 year old Cambridge Concert Orchestra who specialise in taking accessible music to the community. Programme will include popular classics, film, show and TV musical favourites, and highlight a trumpet solo. Suitable for all ages. In aid of Cambridge Cruse Bereavement Care. Contact Margaret on 01223 778667 www.adctheatre.com 01223 300085 or on the door. www.cambridgeconcertorchestra.
Musicus Famosissimus: A tribute to Johannes Ciconiaconia
Little St Mary’s Church, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1QG Sunday 16 June 3.30pm £20/£15 Secular music performed by La Morra. Cicionia (c.1370-1412) was regarded as one of the periods most intriguing musical personalities. He was also the first Northern-European musician to have made a successful career in Italy at the dawn of the Renaissance. 01223 847330 info@cambridgeearlymusic.org www.cambridgeearlymusic.org
Milos Karadaglic plays Rodrigo
Cambridge Corn Exchange, Wheeler Street, Cambridge CB2 3QJ Sat 15 June 7.30pm £34/£30/£25 Milos Karadaglic is a virtuoso classical guitar player, who has won a raft of awards and topped the charts. He’s sold out the Albert Hall, and is one of the “hottest properties” on the classical scene. He’s performing the romantic Joaquin Rodrigo guitar concerto, one of Spain’s most romantic and wellknown classical pieces. The evening also includes the English Chamber Orchestra performing Mendelssohn’s Italian symphony. 01223 357851 tinyurl.com/flackjun11
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Quartet
Hidden Rooms, 7a Jesus Lane, CB5 8BA Thursday 27 June 7.15pm £15/£12 This award-winning vocalist brings her quartet to Cambridge. Described by London Jazz News as an “astonishingly assured singer”, Sarah’s joined by Rick Simpson on piano, Tom Farmer on bass and Darren Altman on drums. 01223 362550 info@cambridgejazz.org www.cambridgejazz.org
King’s College Choir Choral Services
King’s College Chapel, King’s College, King’s Parade, Cambridge CB2 1SP Sundays 10.30am and 3.30pm Mondays to Saturdays 5.30pm These daily choral services take place during term time, and visitors are welcome to attend for the price of standard admission to the chapel (£7.50 for adults and £5 for children, students and senior citizens). tourism@kings.cam.ac.uk www.kings.cam.ac.uk/chapel
May Week Concert: Sibelius and Walton
King’s College Chapel, King’s College, King’s Parade, Cambridge CB2 1SP Sat 15 June 8pm £32/£26/£20 The Cambridge University Music Society Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform Sibelius’ Symphony No 7 and Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast, for May Week (yes, it’s in June). 01223 300085 www.adcticketing.com
MUSIC – ROCK, POP, FOLK
The Roughneck Riot and The Lagan
The Man on the Moon, Norfolk Street, Cambridge CB1 2LF Sat 29 June 7.30pm £7 The Roughneck Riot return to Cambridge after a great debut show last December. Their blend of punk and folk went down a storm first time round, so this should be another raucous and energetic show. The Lagan play rowdy beer-soaked celtic punk, and the night will also be soundtracked by the Last Gang in Town DJ crew, playing their usual mix of psychobilly, rockabilly, punk and ska. www.manonthemoon.freserve.co.uk www.lastgangintownuk.net
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Celtic Fiddle Festival
Katmen
Bushfari Sound
Friday 14 June 8pm £16/£14 Some of the “finest folk violinists anywhere” feature in this four fiddle line up. Featuring Kevin Burke from Ireland, Christian Lemaitre and Nicolas Quemener from France and Andre Brunnet from Canada, the Quartet will showcase their individual styles of violin playing for all fiddle fans. 01284 758000 enquiries@theapex.co.uk www.theapex.co.uk
Wednesday 5 June 8pm £10 Rockabilly powerhouse Katmen features Slim Jim Phantom from Stray Cats, and axe man Darrel Higham (husband of Rockabilly Queen Imelda May). Their music runs the gamut from “Rockabilly boppers, strollers, Hep Cat rhythms, Country shufflers, Blues ballads and laid-back groovers”. www.junction.co.uk/artist/5539
Thursdays 8pm til late £2 This is the roots/reggae/dub night that was previously held at the Devonshire Arms on Monday nights. Join DJ Jeff Levi from Living Roots and DJ Blen from Rapture FM, plus occasional live musicians, vocalists and other guests. www.manonthemoon.freeserve. co.uk
The Apex, Charter Square, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 3FD
Cambridge Junction, Clifton Way, Cambridge CB1 7GX
The Man on the Moon, Norfolk Street, Cambridge CB1 2LF
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GADJO, with support from The Binewski Murder The Portland Arms, 129 Chesterton Road, Cambridge CB4 3BA Thur 6 June 7.30pm £7 This Barcelona band promises a blend of theatrical melodies and infectious grooves, in a mix of languages. They describe their music as gypsy-cumbia, balkanic-ska, reggae-swing and surftango which sounds to us like brilliant fun! www.gadjomusica.com www.theportlandarms.co.uk
Buskers and Street Performers Festival
Various locations, Cambridge City Centre Fri 28 to Sunday 30 June Free (to enter or to watch) After taking a year off in 2012 because of the Olympics, the festival is back! It’s a celebration and a showcase of the diversity of talented street performers that we get in Cambridge. There will be a chance to vote for your favourite busker. The winner gets prizes, and everyone who votes goes into a prize draw too. Win/Win! tinyurl.com/flackjun2
Hladowski & Joynes
Fri 28 June to be confirmed (check the website) English folk singer Stephanie Hladowski has recorded an album with C Joynes – The wild Wild Berry – with their renditions of eleven traditional songs. Expect melodic beauty and a lovely turn of phrase, from these two highly individual musicians. www.crushingdeath.com
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Victoria & Jacob
The Portland Arms, 129 Chesterton Road, Cambridge CB4 3BA
SHINDIG Summer Garden Party CB1 Café, 32 Mill Road, CB1 2AD Sat 22 June 5pm £6/£4 Join SHINDIG at Cambridge’s most bohemian café for a multidisciplinary summer celebration. Featuring contemporary pop composer Gaze Is Ghost along with lots more local musical eclecticism, the event will be brought to you with the usual SHINDIG cocktail of art, film and audio-visceral stimuli. Chances are you will find the experience one of great interest and variety. wfreemansmith@yahoo.co.uk tinyurl.com/flackjun9
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Steve Howe
Cambridge Junction, Clifton Way, Cambridge CB1 7GX Saturday 29 June 8pm £22.50 Steve Howe is one of the most talented British guitarists and musicians of the last 40 years. From his time in Yes in the ‘70s through to his later solo work, he has received consistent acclaim. He’ll be playing with his Steve How Trio band, in a show that mixes Yes hits with “hard bop jazz”, and some new arrangements of his original compositions. www.junction.co.uk/artist/5043
Tues 25 June 8pm £5 Cambridge/London electro-indie duo Victoria and Jacob make a welcome return to Cambridge, and to The Portland. www.greenmind.co.uk
Fair Ohs
The Portland Arms, 129 Chesterton Road, Cambridge CB4 3BA Tues 11 June 8pm £5 The band are touring their debut album, which has been described as a “super succinct album of esoteric punk joyfulness”. Their press also claims that they have made East London a sunnier, happier, better-looking place, so let’s see what they can do for Cambridge! www.greenmind.co.uk
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FLACK Live!
The Portland Arms, 129 Chesterton Road, Cambridge CB4 3BA Saturday 8 June 8pm (donations) Details of this event are still being confirmed as this month’s magazine goes to press, but we’re quietly confident it’s going to be an amazing night. Friends, readers, supporters and music fans are all very much welcome to come along and join us for a night of live entertainment and fun. www.theportland.co.uk tinyurl.com/flackjun17 JUNE 2013 | FLACK | PAGE 23
www.flack ambridge.org.uk GREAT OUTDOORS
CamBikeFest
Milton Country Park, Milton, CB24 6AZ Sat 22 June Midday to 7pm Free The You Can Bike Too initiative has arranged a full day of bicycle fun, aimed at disabled, nervous or first-time cyclists. They promise a “unique” selection of bikes, including trikes for both kids and adults, bikes-for-two and arm powered cycles. Get to Milton and get “on yer bike”! ruth@theyoucanhub.org.uk www.youcanbiketoo.org
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Love in Idleness and the Virgin Rose
Cambridge University Botanic Garden, 1 Brookside, Cambridge CB2 1JE Fri 14 June 10am to 1pm £30 A session in a series that explores the role of gardens in Tudor and Elizabethan England. This talk and walk explores how poetry, prose and planting combined to place Elizabethan gardens at the very heart of the court. 01223 331875 education@botanic.cam.ac.uk www.botanic.cam.ac.uk
Hinxton Watermill Open Day Mill Lane, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1RD
Sun 2 June 2.30 to 5.30 £3/£1 Find out how flour is milled at Hinxton Mill. The Mill, owned by Cambridge Past Present and Future, dates all the way back to the Domesday Book and is nestled near the River Cam in the picturesque village of Hinxton. 01223 243830 bookings@cambridgepff.org www.cambridgeppf.org
Cambridge Bike Tours A variety of options to sightsee in and around Cambridge by bike – from a river pub tour to Fen Ditton to a trip that combines biking (in the morning) and punting (in the afternoon). There’s also an Art and Architecture option for those who would like to combine their ride with some culture. 01223 366868 info@cambridgebiketours.co.uk www.cambridgebiketours.co.uk PAGE 24 | FLACK | JUNE 2013
Garden Open in aid of Cambridge Cruse Bereavement Care 17 Mariners Way, Chesterton, Cambridge CB4 1BN
Sat 29 and Sunday 30 June 2pm to 6pm £1 Come and look round this newlycreated town garden, showing what can be done in five years with unusual plants. The garden has pergolas with roses, clematis, climbers, geraniums, ferns, herbs and variegated plants. It is also home to fountains, a greenhouse, a conservatory, green men and sculpture. Cream teas, cakes and plants will be available for sale. The garden has wheelchair access, and is being opened as part of the Chesterton Festival. Margaret: 01223 778667 margaretnimmosmith@gmail.com
Bioblitz at Wandlebury Country Park
Wandlebury Country Park, Wandlebury Ring, Gog Magog Hills, Babraham, Cambridge CB22 3AE Fri 21 to Saturday 22 June 3pm All nature-loving volunteers are invited to help the local charity Cambridge Past Present and Future (CambridgePFF). They’re on a race against time to count and document as many different species of animals and plants as they can during the day and night. Go along and see how much you can discover, whilst helping them out. The event is supported by the University of Cambridge in partnership with the University Museum of Zoology, and there will be experts on hand as well as volunteers. 01223 243830 bookings@cambridgepff.org
TJ Kids Wilderbase
Vinery Road allotment site, Vinery Road, Cambridge This new project is for anyone (kids, young people, families or adult groups) who fancies getting back to nature. They’re offering a range of “Forest School” activities like shelter building, fire lighting, outdoor cooking and more. The base has been designed and built with the help of local kids and other volunteers, and is manned by trained staff. Connect with your wilder side! 07787 425799 tjkids@sky.com tinyurl.com/flackjun1
Bourn Post Mill Open Day
Caxton Road, Bourn CB23 2SU Sun 30 June 2-4pm £3/£1 This remarkable building is one of the oldest surviving windmills in the country. It is especially worth visiting on one of the summer open days, when a volunteer team of knowledgeable local guides will show you over the mill. If the wind conditions are right you may see the sails clothed and turning. 01223 243830 bookings@cambridgeppf.org www.cambridgeppf.org
Making Meadows
Cambridge University Botanic Garden, 1 Brookside, Cambridge CB2 1JE Tues 11 June 10am to 1pm £30 A workshop led by Pete and Paul from the garden’s expert team that will guide you through the process of creating your own dazzling display of meadow plants, just in time for… NEXT summer. Topics covered include soil preparation, sowing, choosing the right plants, maintenance and cutting back. 01223 331875 education@botanic.cam.ac.uk www.botanic.cam.ac.uk
Cambridge Sculpture Trails Three walking trail routes that take you to some of the outstanding pieces of sculpture to be found around Cambridge. Trail 1 is South Cambridge, Trail 2 the City Centre, and Trail 3 covers West Cambridge. Each one reveals artworks that you may not otherwise have noticed around town. info@cambridgesculpturetrails. co.uk www.cambridgesculpturetrails.co.uk
May Week Fireworks Punt Tour
The La Mimosa Landing Stage, The River Cam Mon 17 and Tuesday 18 June 9.30pm £15 (on shared tour) Private or shared punt hire is available to allow you to experience the dramatic Cambridge University “May Week” firework displays from a boat on the river. This is probably the night that has the best atmosphere on the River Cam all year, and this might just be the best way to experience it. 07989 432721 www.letsgopunting.co.uk
www.flack ambridge.org.uk FILM, DANCE & THEATRE
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Treasure Island
is the kind of guy who might not call you back
Milton Country Park, Milton, CB 24 6AZ Sun 9 June 3pm £12/£9 Cambridge Touring Theatre bring their swashbuckling family musical for kids to the lovely setting of Milton Country Park. Children are encouraged to come along in pirate fancy dress. There’s also a 45 minute drama workshop for kids aged 5 to 10 before the show (from 1.30pm). 0843 208 0500 www.cambridgetouringtheatre.co.uk
The Comedy of Errors
Wandlebury Country Park, Wandlebury Ring, Gog Magog Hills, Babraham, Cambridge CB22 3AE Sun 2 June 7.30pm £13/£11/£6 This Shakespeare play lends itself perfectly to outdoor theatre, brought to Wandlebury by the Rain or Shine Theatre Company (here’s hoping for more of the latter than the former on the night…). Bring along low-backed seats or rugs and a picnic and enjoy the Bard’s clever and original plot in a great al fresco setting. Good for kids as well as adults! www.rainorshine.co.uk
Storytelling at the Leper Chapel
The Leper Chapel, Barnwell Junction, Newmarket Road, Cambridge (opposite Cambridge United Foodball Ground) Sun 16 June 8pm Listen to the Greek myth of Persephone and more stories based on the poems of Ovid in this atmospheric setting. The tales will be retold by storyteller Anne French, on what is described as a journey into the dark and back again. 01223 243830 bookings@cambridgeppf.org
Parade
ADC Theatre, Park Street, CB5 8AS Sat 1, Tuesday 4 to Saturday 8 June 7.45pm £12/£10 This is the true story of Leo Frank – a Brooklyn-born Jewish factory supervisor accused of murder – turned into an award-winning musical. With a combination of rock-pop, folk, R&B and gospel styles, the music is as unique as the powerful and dramatic tale which it tells. 01223 300085 www.adctheatre.com
Dreamboats and Petticoats Cambridge Arts Theatre, 6 St Edward’s Passage, Cambridge CB2 3PJ
Mon 17 to Saturday 22 June 7.45pm (Friday 8pm, matinees 2.30pm) £35 to £15 This musical was inspired by a bestselling compilation album of the same name. it features classic tracks from artists like Roy Orbison, The Shadows, Eddie Cochran and Billy Fury, from the late ‘50s and early ‘60s. It tells of the life and loves of young musicians in 1961, trying to win a song writing competition, and the hearts of the girls that they love. 01223 503333 www.cambridgeartstheatre.com
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Arts Picturehouse Silver Screen Club
Emily Wilding Davison: The one who threw herself under the horse Mumford Theatre, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, CB1 1PT
Wed 5 June 7.30pm (pre-show talk 6.30pm) £12/£10/£8.50 This is a new play from Cambridge Devised Theatre, about the extraordinary life and death of the famous suffragette, with issues and questions raised that are still relevant to this day. 0845 196 2320 www.anglia.ac.uk/mumfordtheatre
Platero: Travels with a Donkey
Mumford Theatre, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, CB1 1PT Sat 1 June 7.30pm £12.50/£10/£8.50 Narrated by mesmeric storyteller Mike Maran, this is the lovely tale of a little silver donkey called Platero. This is a new adaptation of a story by Nobel Prize-winning poet Juan Ramon Jimenez, brought to life with puppets and a beautiful classical guitar score. www.anglia.ac.uk/mumfordtheatre www.mikemaran.com
Cambridge Arts Picturehouse, 38-39 St Andrew’s Street, Cambridge CB2 3AR
Pericles
Free annual membership The Arts Silver Screen is a free-to-join club for the over 60s. When you join you get discounted tickets and a hot drink and biscuits for the club’s special screenings.Other member offers are available from time to time – check the Silver Screen Club page on the Picturehouse’s website for more details, or give them a ring. 01871 902 5747 tinyurl.com/flackjun24
Wed 12, Friday 14 June 7.30pm £10/£8/£5 Saturday 15 June 3pm £10/£8/£5 This production of Shakespeare’s Pericles is by Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts, in association with RADA. It is the culmination of the students’ work from their one year foundation course. The performance is suitable for children of 12 and above.
Archive Alive Mobile Cinema Tour
Parker’s Piece, Park Terrace, CB1 1JH Tues 4 June 3.30pm to 7pm Free This Digital Heritage Project is bringing a 1960s vintage mobile cinema on a tour of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire. Catch the free screening when the tour reaches Cambridge, to watch some local archive films from the last century in a unique setting! 01603 305575 research@heritagecity.org www.archivealive.org
Mumford Theatre, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, CB1 1PT
www.anglia.ac.uk/mumfordtheatre
KIDS & YOUNG PEOPLE
Toddlercalm
The Annex, Luard Road, CB2 8PJ Tues 4 June (for 4 consecutive weeks) 7.45pm to 9.45pm £19 (or £75 for all 4) This four week course can help parents learn more about toddler behaviour, eating and sleeping. You can learn about your child’s brain development and how their pathways are formed, and get lots of tips for parenting your toddler. victoria@toddlercalm.co.uk www.toddlercalm.co.uk JUNE 2013 | FLACK | PAGE 25
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Mini Scarecrows
Cambridge University Botanic Garden, 1 Brookside, Cambridge CB2 1JE Sat 1 June 11am to 3pm £3 per child (normal admission charges for accompanying adults) One of the Botanic Garden’s regular “Family Saturday” events, just turn up on the day and ask to be directed to where the event is taking place. This month the plan is to make the scariest mini scarecrows that you can – wherever your imagination takes you… www.botanic.cam.ac.uk
Mystery Object Morning Museum of Cambridge (formerly the Folk Museum), 2/3 Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AQ
Fri 14 June 10.30am to 12.30pm Free with museum admission Volunteer-led sessions designed for young children accompanied by their parents or carers. Come and take a guess at what the strange selection of objects in the museum’s boxes are… 01223 355159 info@folkmuseum.org.uk www.folkmuseum.org.uk
Little Scrummers Rugby
Netherhall Sports Centre, Queen Edith’s Way, Cambridge CB1 8NN Saturdays from 8.30am £30 membership, £6 class Rugby classes for boys and girls from 2 to 6 years old. The centre offers regular classes in Sharks (2-3), Tigers (3-4), Falcons (4-5) and Warriors (5-6) categories each Saturday morning. They also have a range of ad-hoc holiday activities that would be worth checking out, and they can even organise a rugby-themed birthday party for your little ones! www.lilttlescrummers.com
Summer Make and Take
Museum of Cambridge (formerly the Folk Museum), 2/3 Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AQ Fri 28 June 10.30am to 12.30am Free with museum admission Create something out of paper, that you can take home with you. Use the objects in the museum to inspire your child for this creative activity, led by volunteers at the museum. Children need to be accompanied by their parents or carers for this session. 01223 355159 info@folkmuseum.org.uk www.folkmuseum.org.uk PAGE 26 | FLACK | JUNE 2013
Nickelodeon’s Dora The Explorer Live!
Cambridge Corn Exchange, 2 Wheeler Street, Cambridge CB2 3QB Fri 21 to Sunday 23 June Various times £17/£14 A live version of the kids’ TV favourite Dora The Explorer. Dora has lost her teddy bear Osito, and she travels to the City of Lost Toys to get him back. The show incorporates map-reading, counting, musical and language skills, so it’s not JUST fun for your kids, they’ll be accidentally learning along the way too. 01223 357851 tinyurl.com/flackjun16
Family Fridays: Story Time Museum of Cambridge (formerly the Folk Museum), 2/3 Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AQ
Fri 21 June 10.30am to 12.30pm Free with museum admission Sit together in the museum’s attic playroom and share some favourite stories about the museum’s objects. This activity is volunteer-led, and intended for young children accompanied by their parents or carers. 01223 355159 info@folkmuseum.org.uk www.folkmuseum.org.uk
POETRY & COMEDY
Hammer and Tongue
Allographic: Workshop and Other Voices
Fountain Inn, 12 Regent Street, Cb2 1DB Sun 23 June 3pm to 5pm £5/£3.50 (workshop), 8pm to 11pm £5/£3.50 (Other Voices) The afternoon workshop is designed to help aspiring poets, storytellers, writers and performers find their own voice. Bring along an original piece of your writing (just 20 lines or less will do), or a favourite poem written by someone else. Other Voices is the evening open-mic event. If you’ve paid for the workshop then you can attend for free. www.allographic.co.uk/events
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Footlights Tour Show 2013: Canada ADC Theatre, Park Street, CB5 8AS
Tues 11 to Saturday 22 June 7.45pm (matinees Saturdays 2.30pm, no performance Sunday 16 June) £10/£8/£6 The annual opportunity to see the best of this year’s Footlights talent before they tour further afield. Performers include standup Ahir Shah and the Pick Me Up sketch show. Check the website for specific details of who is performing when. Catch the stars of the future today! 01223 300085 www.adctheatre.com
Fountain Inn, 12 Regent Street, CB2 1DB Wed 12 June 8pm £8.50 or less This poetry “slam” event takes place every month. With host Fay Roberts, you just need to turn up and sign in to enter. This is a competitive poetryreading open-mic event. If you do well, you might get through to the national finals… www.hammerandtongue.co.uk
Portland Comedy Club
The Portland Arms, 129 Chesterton Road, Cambridge CB4 3BA Fri 28 June 8pm price to be confirmed (check website) The June edition of The Portland’s popular monthly comedy night. They have a knack of booking some great (and very funny) up-and-coming names in comedy for these shows, so check on the website to see who is coming up in June. It’ll probably be a RIGHT laugh. ww.theportlandarms.co.uk
Inspiral Success Group: Healing Codes
Orchard Park Community Centre, nr Kings Hedges Road, CB4 2EZ Wed 19 June 7pm to 9.30pm £15/£10 (includes refreshments) Discover the Healing Codes, a simple and powerful self-healing system discovered in 2011 by Alex Lyod. Every time you use a Healing Code, it activates a physical function built into the body that consistently and predicatable removes the main cause of illness and disease from the body: stress. Talk by Anne and Jack Stewart. caroline@inspiralonline.com www.selfdevelopmentgroupcambridge.co.uk
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Laurence Clark: Inspired
J2, Cambridge Junction, Clifton Way, Cambridge CB1 7GX Fri 7 June 8pm £12 Laurence’s face might be familiar from BBC1’s ‘We Won’t Drop The Baby’ documentary. In his stand-up guise, he mixes absurd logic, death-defying stunts and “unusual varieties of crisps” to create his show, sorting out once and for all what is, and isn’t, truly inspiring. www.junction.co.uk/artist/5019
FITNESS & WELLBEING
GSG Fun Run
Milton Country Park, Milton, CB24 6AZ Sat 8 June 1.30pm £6 Run or walk and have fun, while contributing to a good cause. GSG are the Galactosaemia Support Group, a local charity that provide advice and support for children and adults with this rare condition that affects around 1 in 45,000 births. The run follows a 5k route in the lovely outdoor parkland setting. www.gsgfundraising.co.uk
Nordic Walking at Wandlebury Country Park
Wandlebury Country Park, Wandlebury Ring, Gog Magog Hills, Babraham, Cambridge CB22 3AE Wednesdays (term time) 1pm/2pm/3pm £5 Special Nordic Walking Poles can be provided if required. These regular sessions around the park have spaced start times to cater for all abilities. The 1pm start is for those with restricted mobility, 2pm for a regular “healthy life” pace and 3pm for a fitness speed. Oliver 07947 835522 info@nordicwellbeing.co.uk
Park Fit
Cherry Hinton Hall Park, Cherry Hinton Road, Cambridge CB1 8DW Various military-style fitness classes for all abilities, with a mix of training techniques. Training outside is a green way to get fit, with the benefit of fresh air along with your exercise. Park Fit also fundraise in support of Help for Heroes. Find out more from their website. They also run sessions at St Faith’s School and on Lammas Land. 0330 123 9221 info@parkfit.co www.parkfit.co
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Golf at Cambridge Lakes Cambridge Lakes Golf Course, Trumpington Road, CB2 8FA
Mon to Sundays 8am to dusk £5/£8 This is Cambridge’s only public golf course. Learn to play golf, practice and enjoy a round on this relaxed 9 hole par 3 golf course. There are also practice nets and putting and chipping greens, and you can hire clubs and balls if you don’t have your own “kit”. There’s even a coffee shop. 01223 324242 bob@cambridgelakes.co.uk www.cambridgelakes.co.uk
Shaolin Gong Fu and Qi Gong
Fawcett Primary School, Alpha Terrace, Trumpington, Cambridge CB2 9FS Wednesdays 6.30pm to 7.30pm (Qi Gong Level 1) & Wednesdays 7.30 to 9pm (Gong Fu Level 1) Learn an authentic martial art, using time tested techniques that are of benefit to the mind and the body. Learn the “Eight Treasures”: gentle movements that can dramatically improve health and energy levels, or perform strength, cardiovascular, conditioning and speed training. While learning the all important stances and kicks, of course. Dr Basil Hartzoulakis: 01223 729509 www.shaolintemplecambridge.org
Jesus Green Outdoor Pool Thompson’s Lane, Jesus Green, Cambridge CB5 8AQ
Opens daily (weather permitting) in summer months, check website for times and costs Cambridge’s open air “lido” style swimming pool is open again for the summer season. If the weather’s up to it, you can sunbathe around the edge of the pool, or enjoy a swim in the (bracing!) water itself. A selection of ticket prices, including season tickets, are available for all ages. tinyulr.com/flackjun18
InspiralOnline Cambridge’s Natural Living and Conscious Network, since 2007. Regular talks, exhibitions, events and opportunities to meet like minded people. www.inspiralonline.com
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www.flack ambridge.org.uk MAKING MUSIC
German Lied Class
The Pavilion Room, Hughes Hall, Wollaston Road, Cambridge CB1 2EW Tues 4 June 8pm £5/£3 Do you love the music of Schubert, Brahms and Schumann? Work on your interpretation, style and technique, with coaching from mezzo-soprano Ute Lepetit-Clare, accompanied by concert pianist Marie-Noelle Kendall. www.ute-lepetit-clare.co.uk
Jamming Session
The Man on the Moon, 2 Norfolk Street, Cambridge CB1 2LF Wednesdays 9pm Free Fancy a jam? Just turn up (with your instrument, of course, unless you play “air guitar”) and join in. This is a regular improvisation/jamming session that takes place each Wednesday in the pub. Enjoy a pint and a play. Meet fellow musicians and maybe form a new band? manonthemoon.freeserve.co.uk
Dowsing for Sound This is a musical collective featuring more than 60 singers, and its own house band. With members drawn from all across Cambridge, they specialise in interesting and eclectic covers – anything from Icelandic soundscapes to Indie hits, club anthems, orchestral pop, Scottish mouth music, early polyphony: you name it! The choir perform for charity and for fun, and are always keen for new members, to sing or to join the band. You won’t need to audition, or need to be able to read music to join the fun. info@dowsingforsound.com www.dowsingforsound.com
Funky Days with Inspire
Centre at St Paul’s, Hills Road, CB2 1JP Fridays 10am to 3pm £45 These sessions are for adults aged 16+ with disabilities. Participants can write songs, rap and use a range of arts-based wellbeing therapies from dance and music through to photography, film making and – most importantly – fun. Transport can be made available, if booked in advance. There are also similar sessions in Milton on Thursdays. Phone for further information. 01223 441106
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Piano Lessons
Gwydir Street, Cambridge Help your child to enjoy music, gain confidence and make great progress (without having to sit exams!). Upbeat lessons for beginners. Jane: 01223 323496
SCIENCE, TECH & TRANSPORT
Putting Life Into Numbers: how statistical science has transformed health care
Classic & Vintage Motorbikes Day
Cambridge Museum of Technology, Riverside, Cambridge CB5 8LD Sun 30 June 2pm to 5pm £3.50/£2/£1.50 A display of classic and vintage motorbikes, in the grounds of the museum. One for the petrolheads! info@museumoftechnology.com www.museumoftechnology.com
Institute for Public Health, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR
Cambridge University Eco Racing
Thur 20 June 6.30pm Free This public lecture is being delivered by Professor David Spiegelhalter, the Winston Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge. It will be followed by a Summer Reception. You must register for the event, using the link below. tinyurl.com/flackjun5
CUER are planning to develop an eco car, and race it across Australia in 2013. They’re looking for sponsorship and support (either from individuals or organisations). Support them, join “the solar revolution” and get your name on the space-age car! sponsorship@cuer.co.uk www.cuer.co.uk
My Dad ....
Wicken Fen
has been hit by a lightning several times and is still very bright.
Medical Research Council Open Day Institute for Public Health, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR
Thur 20 June mid-morning Free Celebrating the centenary year of the Medical Research Council, Café Scientifique are hosting discussions, displays and activities about the MRC Biostatistics Unit. Come along to the Large Seminar Room to find out more about the history, pioneers and discoveries of the unit. tinyurl.com/fllackjun4
Cambridge Science Centre 18 Jesus Lane, Cambridge CB5 8BQ
Tues to Fridays 1pm to 5pm (term time) Sat and Sundays 10am to 5pm (and week days in holidays) This new centre has regularly changing science-themed exhibits and displays throughout the year. They also run family workshops and hands-on demonstrations, with the aim of making science and discovery interesting and fun for all. You can also hire the gallery out for a birthday party with a difference. info@cambridgesciencecentre.org www.cambridgesciencecentre.org
ECO & PHILOSOPHY Lode Lane, Wicken, Cambridgeshire CB7 5XP Mon to Sundays 10am to 5pm £6.50/£3.25 This is a national nature reserve on Cambridge’s doorstep, one of the best international examples of a wetland habitat still in existence, and being preserved by the National Trust. There’s also a Fen Cottage display, showing how fen folk used to live. 01353 720274 wickenfen@nationaltrust.org.uk www.nationaltrust.org/wickenfen
The Limits of Duty
Sidgwick Hall, Newnham College, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DF Fri 14 June 9am to 5pm £25/£15 This one-day workshop is sponsored by the University Faculty of Philosophy, and considers questions and issues around the duties that we have to others and to future generations, the global poor, animals, compatriots and ourselves. There will be a range of speakers throughout the day from Trinity College Dublin, the University of Cambridge, St Andrews and more. Lunch is included in the cost of registration. tinyurl.com/flackjun14
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Deep and Meaningful Images of our Ocean
The Michaelhouse Centre, St Michael’s Church, Trinity Street, CB2 1SU Sat 1 to Sunday 9 June 8am to 5pm Free Some of the most productive ecosystems on earth are to be found in our oceans and along our coastlines. They provide food and livelihoods to millions – from small-scale fishing communities to international fleets. This exhibition focuses on the vital role of the ocean. www.michaelhouse.org.uk
My Dad .... is a man of few words. is 120% behind me.
Transition Cambridge Energy Forum: Solid Wall Insulation
St Luke’s Church Centre, Victoria Road, Cambridge CB4 3DZ Thur 27 June 7.30pm to 9.30pm Free This forum will provide information on how you can cut your energy bills, even if you don’t have cavity walls. Grants are now available for homeowners with solid walls who want to insulate their homes and reduce their energy use (and costs!). Come along to find out how. tinyurl.com/flackjun13
Transition Cambridge This local group are active in a range of eco-related projects and campaigns. Current groups and projects include Food, Permaculture, Energy, a fortnightly café evening, Garden Share, Community Garden, Skillshare and more. If you want to get involved, take a look at what they do and contact the relevant sub-group on the website. www.transitioncambridge.org
The Roles of Knowledge
FAITH & SPIRITUALITY
An Evening with John Wesley
Wesley Methodist Church, Christ’s Pieces, Cambridge CB1 1LG Saturday 15 June 7pm to 9.30pm Mark Topping, formerly the curator of the New Room in Bristol, the world’s oldest Methodist building, has played John Wesley in churches and in the field throughout the UK. He’s even appeared on the TV, on both Songs of Praise and, more surprisingly perhaps, Flog It! www.wesleycam.org.uk
The Round Church
Bridge Street, Cambridge CB2 1UB Tues to Saturday 10am to 5pm Sun 1pm to 5pm This beautiful Norman church is one of only four round churches in the UK. It’s also the second oldest building in the whole of Cambridge. Visit the church to find out about their guided walks, or look at the Living History Exhibition or the Video History of Cambridge. 01223 311602 www.christianheritage.org.uk
Ely Cathedral Flower Festival
Chapter House, The College, Ely, Cambridgeshire CB7 4DL Thur 20 to Sunday 23 June 10am to 5pm (12pm to 4pm Sunday) £10/£8 This is the largest Flower Festival in the East of England. The theme is “In the Beginning”, and the Cathedral’s interior will be transformed by huge quantities of flowers (in their thousands) into a depiction of the Creation. The festival will also incorporate musical performances by choirs, floral demonstrations and a gift and craft marquee – and the all-important refreshments! www.elycathedral.org
University of Cambridge Faculty of Philosophy, Sidgwick Avenue, CB3 9DA
Cambridge Mosque Weekly Circle
Friday 28 June 9.30am to 3.30pm Saturday 29 June 2pm to 7.30pm Free Workshops examining the concept of ‘knowledge’ and its important roles in human life and thought. Any topics that advance the debate, and are concerned with the roles of knowledge in human life will be considered. Michael Hannon: mh536@cam.ac.uk tinyurl.com/flackjun15
Fridays, before Isha Prayer A regular circle at Cambridge’s Mosque, for brothers, sisters and families. Friends and relatives are welcome along too, and light refreshments are usually served. Check out the facebook page for updates on what talks will be taking place, and the timings etc. www.cambridgemosque.com tinyurl.com/flackjun21 (facebook )
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Sikh Diwan
Arbury Community Centre, Campkin Road, Cambridge CB4 2LD Sun 30 June (last Sunday of each month) 3pm to 5pm The Sikh community meets in the temporary Gurdwara in Arbury on the last Sunday of every month. Worship consists of music and readings. Attendees should remove shoes and cover heads. Everyone is welcome to come along. A vegetarian meal follows the worship. tinyurl.com/flackjun22
RADIO
Cambridge 105 at Strawberry Fair Cambridge 105 Radio
Sat 1 June 11am This local station presents live coverage from their tent on site at Strawberry Fair. They’ll include reports from the opening parade and feature live music throughout the day from artists including Cambridge Band Comp winners The Simpletone. www.cambridge105.fm
The New Music Generator
Cambridge 105 Radio Wednesdays 7pm Presented by Tim Willett, this show is devoted to local and unsigned musical acts. It has a live session every week and is followed by the latest Unsigned Chart at 8pm, with Emily Jayne Allen’s Gig Guide from 8.30pm. www.cambridge105.fm
Book Night
Cambridge 105 Radio Wednesdays (fortnightly) 10pm Leigh Chambers and Alex Ruczaj present this show which features Cambridge-based writers. Each show will include a studio guest or local author talking about their life and literary career, and picking some of their favourite music to play. www.cambridge105.fm
Club Classics with Chris Brown
Star 107 Radio Saturdays 5pm Every Saturday early evening Chris plays the best soul and dance club classics, helping you get ready for that big night out, or just to groove along from home. www.star107.co.uk/ PAGE 30 | FLACK | JUNE 2013
Cam FM
WORLD OF WORK
A student-run community radio station produced and presented by students from the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University. Find it on 97.2 fm (or online). They put out over 80 hours’ worth of programming each week, and it ranges from entertainment and discussions to a wide selection of music-based shows, including pop, classical, electronica, alternative, indie etc). www.camfm.co.uk
Saturday Day Schools
CHARITIES
Punting and Prosecco
Wintercomfort, Overstream House, Victoria Avenue, Cambridge CB4 1EG Thur 20 June 6.30pm £13 Enjoy an evening of punting with a group of friends. Watch the sights of Cambridge glide by whilst you sip some bubbly prosecco, and your guide tells you stories about the history of Cambridge. This event is sponsored by Scudamores, and will raise funds for the Wintercomfort homeless charity. Sarah Pesonen: 01223 518140 sarahpesonen@wintercomfort.org.uk www.wintercomfort.org.uk
Roll and Stroll Fun Day Hinchingbrooke Country Park, Huntingdon PE29 6DB
Sun 30 June 10am £8/£3/£20 (family) Take a stroll or a roll around the fully accessible scenic route at Hinchingbrooke Country Park, and raise money for Papworth Trust while enjoying the surroundings. Pass lakes, meadows, woodlands and look out for wildlife. There will also be a BBQ, music, dancing and shopping stalls – something for everyone. 01480 357206 fundraising@papworth.org.uk www.rollandstroll.eventbrite.com
Strawberry Fair: Vintage Tea Room
Wintercomfort, Overstream House, Victoria Avenue, Cambridge CB4 1EG Sat 1 June 1pm to 4pm Visit the Vintage Tea Room on your way to or from Strawberry Fair. There will be cakes to sample, or a full cream tea. You can also browse a selection of stalls of photographs, books, crafts and plants. Sarah Pesonen: 01223 518140 sarahpesonen@wintercomfort.org.uk www.wintercomfort.org.uk
Parkside Federation Academies, Coleridge Campus, Radegund Road, Cambridge CB1 3RJ Sat 29 June 2013 from 10am Fees vary, from £13 to £30, check the website These one-day courses are available to anyone over the age of 19. They cover a range of subjects from Freelance Magazine Journalism and Henna Design to Car Maintenance for Women and Digital Photography. 01223 712340 learn&train@parksidefederation. org.uk www.parksidefederation.org.uk
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Grad Pad (top floor café), The University Centre, Granta Place, Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RU Mondays 9am to 10am A breakfast club for self-employed creative. If this sounds like you, and you’d like to meet other people in a similar line of work to get you motivated for the week ahead, then this might be for you. Contact the group by email if you’d like to attend. josiecamus@googlemail.com
MISC
The American Cemetery and Memorial Madingley Road, Coton, CB23 7PH
Did you know that Cambridge is home to the only World War II American military cemetery in the United Kingdom? As well as the graves of those that lost their lives either in the skies over the UK, or in preparation for battles on the continent the site is home to a war memorial, a chapel and an informative visitor building. A sombre but moving place to visit. 01954 210350
Families Need Fathers
Arbury Community Centre, Campkin Road, Cambridge CB4 2LD Wed 26 June (4th Wednesday of every month) 7.30pm Free This is the local branch of the national Families Need Fathers organisation. They offer drop-in support for separated parents, grandparents and others, and regular speakers and advisors at their meetings. Ian Tyes: 07941 621351 info@cambridge.fnf.org.uk www.fnf.org.uk
www.flack ambridge.org.uk WHAT’S ON ON-LINE
A FLACK selection of websites with information about what’s on in Cambridge. (we can’t include everything!)
Cambridge Arts Theatre www.cambridgeartstheatre.com 01223 503333
ADC Theatre
www.adctheatre.com 01223 300085
Corn Exchange www.cornex.co.uk 01223 357851
Fitzwilliam Museum
www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk 01223 332900
Botanic Gardens
www.botanic.cam.ac.uk 01223 336265
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The Junction
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Faculty of Music
University of Cambridge www.mus.cam.ac.uk
Cineworld
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Vue
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Arts Picturehouse Cambridge
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