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EXHIBITION Pictures for Schools Until 8 August This exhibition at the David Parr House Studio Gallery explores the legacy of Pictures for Schools, the post-war initiative founded by artist Nan Youngman that enabled schools to purchase original artworks by contemporary artists. davidparrhouse.org the Museums Until 31 August The University of Cambridge Museums and Botanic Garden have a programme packed with free or low-cost activities to keep the whole family entertained this summer, from craft workshops to hands-on science. museums.cam.ac.uk EXHIBITION Ten Good Years Until 11 October The Heong Gallery at Downing College in Cambridge is celebrating its tenth birthday by paying FAMILY Summer at homage to its inaugural exhibition, Generation Painting 1955-65 : British Art from the Collection of Sir Alan Bowness. dow.cam.ac.uk EXHIBITION Polar Panoramas Until 16 January This striking exhibition at The Polar Museum explores the Arctic and Antarctic through panoramic artworks that bring together exploration, history and lived experience of the polar regions. spri.cam.ac.uk ONGOING EVENTS
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national Tour Show , while regular Footlights Smokers lead us up to the annual CUADC/ Footlights Pantomime – this year it’s going to be Cinderella ! Why not pair it with the panto sketch-show satire Behind You! or Bawds’ Much Ado About Nothing , set in an Edwardian country house at Christmas?” said theatre manager Patrick Nielsen. Then, in the new year, we can look forward to a new translation of Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui , plus the musical The Band , featuring the songs of Take That, and European Theatre Group’s jazz age Antony and Cleopatra . Book tickets online at adctheatre.com , call 01223 300085 or pick up a brochure from the ADC
The ADC Theatre’s autumn season begins with the Cambridge Festival of Drama before We Will Rock You brings Queen’s greatest hits. King Lear ends a stateside tour with a home run in October, while the new musical Midnight Train to Nowhere returns from the Fringe in a double bill with cult classic The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals. More highlights include Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls , Frantic Assembly’s Things I Know to Be True and hit musical The Wiz . At the Corpus Playroom, Remembrance Week is marked with Journey’s End , while Orwell’s dystopian classic is reimagined in 1984: Revolution of the Soul. “Comedy fans should also check out the Cambridge Footlights concluding their
STEAL THE SHOW The Cambridge Footlights’ Tour Show for 2026, which is intriguingly named Prize Cow (For My Best Son)
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