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WE LOVE TO SUPPORT CITY FESTIVALS! Cambridge BID supports many events and festivals throughout the year. Here’s a quick look at what’s to come this winter
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CAMBRIDGE JAZZ FESTIVAL
Cambridge Jazz Festival returns in November for two weeks. Since 2015, the festival has brought international masters, national treasures and local talent together – and 2023 will be no exception! This year’s edition celebrates the best female jazz bandleaders on the scene, including festival artist in residence Emma Rawicz, as well as YolanDa Brown OBE, Zoe Rahman, Alice Zawadzki, Alcyona Mick and many others. The festival’s visual artist in residence, Gina Southgate, will be painting the performances, capturing the magic on canvas. You can also catch Manchester indie-jazz icons A Certain Ratio, the funked out Incognito, UK jazz vocalist extraordinaire Cleveland Watkiss MBE, plus
steel pan band leader and jazz master Leon Foster Thomas, who’s doing a concert and workshop at Jesus College. Celebrating emerging talent will be a key part of the programme, with rising stars featured in Jazz in The Round at Cambridge Junction, Ferg’s Imaginary Big Band at Storeys Field, and all across the fringe programme of the festival. You can also enjoy family events, a piano trail across the city, club nights, film screenings, workshops and all sorts of other engaging events throughout the city. Whether it’s trad, bebop, modern, jazz-funk, Nu jazz, Latin jazz, international, national, local, town or gown – it’s all in Cambridge Jazz Festival 2023. cambridgejazzfestival.info
12 - 26 Nov
CAMBRIDGE LITERARY FESTIVAL
panel (with Tom Crewe, Yomi Adegoke and Helen Macdonald), plus an evening of poetry from Lemn Sissay. Food writers Rick Stein, Grace Dent and Bee Wilson will be on hand to tempt with foodie tales, and visitors can catch an exploration of the politics of beauty from Elif Shafak and Afua Hirsch. These unmissable conversations will be held in stunning venues like the Cambridge Union Debating Chamber and the Old Divinity School at St John’s College. Tickets are available now from cambridgeliteraryfestival.com
Cambridge Literary Festival returns this November with talks to entertain, inspire and examine current issues. Speakers include Theresa May and Chris Bryant MP, who will present examinations of conduct in parliamentary life from both sides of the house. Meanwhile, ITV’s Robert Peston will ask whether the West has gone economically, politically and socially bust, while Andrew Marr and David Reynolds explore the historic leadership of Churchill. The festival also welcomes Jonathan Coe, Sebastian Faulks and a debut writers’
16 - 19 Nov
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