Discover Cambridge American Cemetery

American Cemetery, Madingley Road, Coton, Cambridge, CB23 7PH 22—24 July 2011, 11.00 am - 2.00 pm Free

The Second World War was a critical cultural and historic juncture between the United States and Great Britain. The cemetery represents the ties that developed during that time in the com-memoration of 8,939 American lives that were lost during the war while stationed in Britain for the supreme sacrifice for our freedom today. Come and visit the American Military Cemetery and Memorial in Madingley and take a walk through history; learn first hand how the ceme-tery was developed, view a short presentation explaining the key features, and meet those who fought for liberty and freedom that are honoured there. 01954 210350 www.abmc.gov Michael Green cambridge@abmc.gov Cambridge Summer Music Festival—

Rosalind Ventriss

St Edwards Church, Peas Hill, Camb, CB2 3PP 22 July 2011, 1.10pm - 2pm

Free, with donations A lunchtime concert, free with donations, by the 'remarkable talent' of this young prizewinning viola player. www.cambridgesummermusic.com

Buntathon at the Babylon

Babylon Gallery, Babylon Bridge Waterside, Ely, CB7 4AU 22 July to 24 July 2011, 12 noon - 4pm Free (donations welcome) Creating a 50m long piece of community bun-ting. Create your own favourite sporting or art themed piece of bunting. As our bunting grows over the weekend we will take it out of the gallery and down the Ely Waterside. All materials pro-vided. 01353 611592 zoe.davidson@adec.org.uk www.adec.org.uk

Enchanted Wood

Dunhams Wood, Rodham Road, Binnimoor, March, PE15 0DN

22 July 2011 , 2pm - 5pm Children FREE Adults £2.00

Come and have an Enchanted afternoon with our Wizardly crafts, visit our Pixie Post Office, FREE train rides around the Enchanted Wood. Enjoy the magical Bouncy Castle, see what potions the wise old woman has and visit our Magic Fairy Tea Room… 07869135922

www.fenlandarts.org.uk

katherine@fenlandarts.org.uk

OPEN WEEKEND 22 TO 24 JULY 2011 Open Weekend is back for its fourth year, on 22 - 24 July 2011.

Celebrating one year to go to the Games, Open Weekend will feature art, dance, film, sport events and more. Get involved and be part of the 'one year to go' celebrations!

London 2012 Open Weekend is an annual UK-wide celebration counting down to the Olympic and Paralympic Games. During the weekend there will be a range of activities from culture and sport

organisations. Since 2008, 2.4 million people have enjoyed London 2012 Open Weekend.

Ross Peers Countdown

Ross Peers Sports Centre, Sand Street , So-ham, CB7 5AA 22 July 2011 - 24 July 2011, 10:00am-10:00pm Free Offering all Leisure Centre activities free of charge which will include badminton, squash, table tennis, carpet bowls and bowls. sdsa@rosspeers-sportscentre.co.uk 01353 722662 Exhibition: The Coppice: Ancient Traditions,

Sustainable Future?

The Farmland Museum & Denny Abbey, Ely Road, Waterbeach, Cambridge, CB25 9PQ 22 July 2011 to 24 July 2011 Adults £4.50, Concessions £3.50, Children £2.50, Under 5s FREE, Family £12 An in-house temporary exhibition exploring the ancient tradition of coppicing and following its continued use into a contemporary con-text. The exhibition will feature a mini tree trail around the site and examples of how coppicing is now put to use to create contemporary furni-ture. Open Times: 22nd: 12pm-5pm, 23rd: 10.30am-5pm, 24th: 10.30am - 5pm Contact details 01223 860988 www.dennyfarmlandmuseum.org.uk

Cambridge Summer Music Festival– New

Zealand String Quartet

22 July 2011, 7.30pm Great St Mary's Church, The University Church, Senate House Hill, Cambridge, CB2 3PQ

£14, £12 concessions, Balcony £8 An evening concert of music by Beethoven, Puccini and Smetena by a great quartet here on tour from New Zealand. www.cambridgesummermusic.com

Collecting for the Future

Cambridge & County Folk Museum, 2/3 Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ 22 July 2011, 10.30- 16.30 Normal admission applies The Open Weekend is all about celebrating the best in art, culture and sport. What do you think the Folk Museum should be collecting that represents the best of Cambridge in 2011 - 2012? Come along and provide your sugges-tions! info@folkmuseum.org.uk 01223 355159 www.folkmuseum.org.uk

Ely Culture Night

22 July 2011, 6pm-10pm Free To mark the Cultural Olympiad weekend, Ely is opening its doors on Friday 22nd July. All of the visitor attractions are opening free of charge from 6 to 9pm so that residents and visi-tors alike can experience the atmospheric buildings at dusk. Many are offering additional tours and activities. As well as the visitors attractions, many of the churches, public buildings and some busi-nesses are jumping on board and marking the event in a variety of ways. Music and theatre play a part in celebrating Ely’s Culture and a range of talents will be performing in numerous locations. The evening will see the launch of Ely Tales – a new tourist, walking trail based around the established Eel Trail which is a way-marked route taking you past all the key places of this beautiful city. On route there will be a variety of costumed characters such as the Stone Mason and Eel Catcher who will be on hand to tell you how they shaped Ely’s history. The evening culminates in a Riverside Party in Jubilee Gar-dens from 8 pm to 10 pm with a BBQ and musi-cal entertainment in the bandstand. At 10 pm the finale turns Ely Pink – with a vari-ety of buildings being lit pink to mark the col-ours of the Cultural Olympiad. Contact details Ely Attractions, East Cambridgeshire District Council, Oliver Cromwell's House/Tourist Infor-mation Centre, 29 St Mary's Street, Ely, Cambs, CB7 4HF www.visitely.org.uk

CAM Hang!

Williams Arts, 5 Dale's Brewery, Gwydir Street, Cambridge, CB1 2LJ 22 July 2011 to 24 July 2011, 11am - 6pm Free

A very special exhibition with no frames. A spe-cial exhibition of artwork from CAM members, featuring work that is literally hung, without frames. All local, professional artists. Contact details www.williamsart.co.uk

Sorted

Peterborough City Centre, Cathedral Square, Peterborough, PE1 1XH 23 July 2011, 10.00am - 4.00pm Free

We challenge you to come along and partici-pate in the biggest one day youth information event and try something new out. We have lots for you to participate in: dancing, climbing wall (can you reach the branches?), boxing, golf, pool tables plus lots more including sports ac-tivities for young people with disabilities and all while listening to local bands playing on our Guild Hall stage with live linkups on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire (if you are a solo artist or you have a band and have done some gigs get in touch as soon as possible) BBC Radio Cam-bridgeshire may invite you to participate in some of their radio shows. Its free, open to all and there are lots of activities to get involved in! Contact details 01733 863958 www.peterboroughsorted.co.uk

Bottisham One Year Countdown

Bottisham Sports Centre, Lode Road, Bottisham, CB5 9DL 23 July 2011, 12:00-18:00pm Free for sports indicated and £1 for swimming pool entry. Free sports: 12:00pm – 1:30pm: Football 2:00pm – 4:00pm: Basketball 4:30pm – 6:00pm: Racket Sports £1 entry Sports Swim-ming: 12:15pm – 1:30pm: Commando Run In-flatable 1:45pm – 3:00pm: Commando Run In-flatable drayner@bottishamvillage.cambs.sch.uk Ely Paradise Sports Centre Weekend Newnham Street, Ely, CB7 4PO

23 July - 24 July 2011, 10am until 10pm. Free Free use of the Squash courts for squash, rack-etball or table tennis on July 23rd and July 24th (Sat and Sun), from 10am until 10pm. Custom-ers will need to book the courts on 01353 667580, non member fees will not apply, so totally free. Table tennis bookings will be 40 mins not 1 hour as usual. jeremy.paradise@virgin.net Open Studios at Cambridge Museum of

Technology

Cambridge Museum of Technology, The Old Pumping Station, Riverside, Cambridge, CB5 8LD 23 July 2011 - 24 July 2011, 11am to 6pm Free Local artists display their work at Cambridge's historic pumping station. This event brings to-

gether art and engineering. A group of local artists will take over the museum's historic site on the banks of the river Cam and exhibit their work which includes painting, pottery, jewellery and stained glass among the majestic Victorian engines. The artists taking part include Katy Bailey, Richard Heeps, Diana Kazemi, Hannah Collins, Mark Palmer, Vicky Hunt, Ruth Haw-kins, Helen Imogen Field and Jill Fordham. info@museumoftechnology.com 01223 368650

Talking Treasures

Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Cam-bridge, CB2 1RB 23 July 2011, 12 noon - 4.00pm Free Event, but some events have restricted numbers which can be reserved on the day.

Discover the amazing stories artworks can in-spire. Join the Fitzwilliam and other Cambridge museums for a festival of stories with activities for families, adults and young people on offer throughout the day. Talking Treasures has something for everyone. We will be storytelling in the galleries, screen-ing films made by young people about the col-lection, publishing a book of stories written by secondary school students inspired by the col-lection, giving away storymaking kits and hav-ing book making and paper cutting workshops in the studio. Contact details Rachel Sinfield , rcs26@cam.ac.uk 01223 761678 http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk

Friendship Theatre Production

LaNYT Theatre, The Round Church, Bridge Street, Cambridge, CB5 8AD 23 July 2011, 8pm Free The Friendship Youth Theatre Project, organ-ised by LaNYT Theatre, is inspired by the val-ues of the Olympics: Friendship, Respect, and Excellence. The project aims to engage young adults (approximately aged between 18-25) in exploring performing arts from different parts of the world and in creating their own show with professional artists. After a period of develop-ing performing arts skills and devising new work based on creative arts forms from around the world, Friendship Youth Theatre Group would like to invite members of the public to join their performance sharing evening, where they will be staging a newly devised perform-ance piece. The show is a celebration of diver-sity, excellence and friendship. Contact details Wilatluk Ging Sinswat wsinswat@yahoo.com 07507 787639

Stageworks Performing Arts Graduation

Show

Hinchingbrooke Performing Arts Centre, Hinchingbrooke School, Brampton Road, Huntingdon, PE29 3BN 23 July 2011, Matinee 3.00pm, Eve 7.30pm An extravaganza of singing, dancing and Musi-cal Theatre performed by the Graduating stu-dents from Stageworks/ Huntingdonshire Re-gional College Full Time students. An amazing showcase of young adults talent in dance, sing-ing and musical theatre. A lively, entertaining and diverse performance representing what youth in this area can achieve. Box Office 01480 812010 Tickets £15 www.stageworksstudio.co.uk

Music for Kids

Cambridge Summer Music Festival 23 July 2011 - 24 July 2011, 11am-5pm

Workshops and concerts for kids. Music for Kids has been running for almost a decade and has been the start of many chil-dren's engagement with music. Great fun and great music, what's not to like? Tickets and information available from www.cambridgesummermusic.com Cambridge Summer Music Festival - Music

for Kids

Parkside Community College, Parkside, Cam-bridge, CB1 1EH 23 July 2011, 11am- 5.30pm £7 per child, £12 for two An all-day workshop. Calling all gangsters and-

their molls aged 9-14! Enjoy a day of splurge-gun fun working on songs from Bugsy Malone culminating in a performance for parents and guests at 5pm. Bring a hat! www.cambridgesummermusic.com

Cambridge Summer Music Festival - Aurora

Orchestra

King's College Chapel, King's Parade, Cambridge, CB1 1AA 23 July 2011, 8.15pm -10pm Antechapel £28, £23, Rear Antechapel £18, Choir (unsighted) £6

Winner of the 2011 Royal Philharmonic Society Ensemble Award, Aurora Orchestra has estab-lished itself over just six seasons as the most significant new British chamber orchestra in a generation. The orchestra is joined by the excit-ing young award-winning Welsh singer Fflur Wyn, in a programme that contains Beethoven's Pastorale Symphony and works by Mozart and Mendelssohn. www.cambridgesummermusic.com

Urban Sports Festival

Meadows Community Centre, 1 St. Catharines Road, Cambridge, CB4 3XJ 23 July 2011, 11.00am - 3.00pm Free This FREE sports and art festival aimed at young will provide free taster sessions for people to try activities. Activities include street football, climbing wall, basketball, multisport, dance, DJing, arts and urban adventure play. Contact details www.cambridge.gov.uk/getactive

Wysing Arts Centre Open Studios

Fox Road, Bourn, Cambridge, CB23 2TX 23 July 2011 to 24 July 2011, 2pm - 5pm Free An Open Weekend with over 20 artists opening their studios around Wysing’s 11 acre rural site. The weekend also includes the presentation of a new project in Wysing’s gallery devised by cura-tor Paul Pieroni in collaboration with the resi-dency artists; poet, sound and visual artist Law-rence Upton; and violist and composer Benedict Taylor. Cream teas will be served throughout the weekend by Café Abantu and there will be free, family drop-in activities across Wysing’s site. Contact details Reception - Wysing Arts Centre, info@wysingartscentre.org 01954 718881 www.wysingartscentre.org

Whittlesey Fun

Manor Leisure Centre, Whittlesey, Station Road, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, PE7 1UA 23 July 2011, 1pm - 5pm Free An afternoon of fun for all the family. Craft activi-ties, food, bouncy castle and entertainment. Lots going on at the Manor Leisure Centre, join in with our craft activities, have a go or just watch the dancers and the musicians entertain you. Bouncy Castle, Face Painting, Activities for pre-schoolers and Food! All available to you for FREE, great for all the family. www.fenlandarts.org.uk

Littleport Leisure Day

Littleport Leisure Centre, Camel Road, Littleport, CB6 1PU 24 July 2011, 10am to 1pm Free Littleport Leisure day is a Community based event for everyone to come and take part in a range of activities. The day will include a cele-bration of Littleport's first year of the adiZone, community based health checks for our over 50s and a 10k run around the village. tom.hickson@eastcambs.gov.uk 01353 665555

Best of Burwell

Burwell Sports Centre, Buntings Path, Burwell, East Cambs, CB5 0EG 24 July 2011, 10am to 4pm Free This event will be a showcase of the very best of what Burwell has to offer. Activities ranging from storytelling, guided walks, tea dances, physical activity sessions and a mass T’ai Chi class, involving various key organisations within the village. tom.hickson@eastcambs.gov.uk 01353 665555 Mercian Arts and Music Explosion March Market Place, March, PE15 9JF 24 July 2011, 10am - 4pm for the arts and craft market and 6.30pm - 9pm for the live music During the day we have a Open Art Exhibition going on in March Town Hall and right outside we have a host of craft stalls, including 10 crafts workshops which offer a variety of crafts for eve-ryone to not just watch but to have a go. At 6.30pm the live music will start - so stay around to have a dance. www.fenlandarts.org.uk FREE

HANDS on SPORT 2011

HANDS on SPORT offering football, archery, boxing, cycling, running/athletics, gymnastics and many more! 24 July 2011, 10am-4pm Peterborough City Centre, Cathedral Square, Cathedral Grounds and Bridge Street, PE11 We challenge you to come along and participate in the biggest one day sports focused event and try something new out! We have lots of sporting activities available across the city for you to par-ticipate in. Some activities on offer on the day will be: football, achery, boxing, cycling, running/athletics, gymnastics, bowling, to name a few but come along as you may never know who you may meet or who may want to meet you!!! www.peterborough.gov.uk Free - open to all and there are lots of activities to get involved in. Film Shoot: Greatest Sporting Mistakes The Arts Picturehouse, 38-39 St Andrews Street, Cambridge, CB2 3AR 24 July 2011, 11.00 am - 3.00 pm

It's the countdown to the London Olympics 2012 and our accident-prone hero is in training. Tu-tored by professional filmmaker Ryd cook, shoot a MOCKumentary film in the style of silent cin-ema's hero Charlie Chaplin and use your acting skills to become history's silliest sporting star! This workshop is all about the shoot. You'll learn about shot types, camera movement, and using HD cameras and microphones to create your comedy film. Don't forget to bring along your Olympic sports equipment: over-sized/under-sized? trish.s@picturehouses.co.uk www.cambridgeshirefilmconsortium.org £30 Bookings: 0871 902 5720 Max. 12 places

Cambridge Summer Music Festival - Classic Buskers All Saints Church, Church Lane, Haslingfield, CB23 1JE 24 July 2011, 3.30pm

The Classic Buskers' new opera programme consists of virtuosic arrangements of a surpris-ingly large number of operatic masterpieces, played at unlikely speeds on unusual instru-ments. It includes overtures and arias by Mozart, Verdi and Rossini, Borodin's cheery Polovtsians and Wagner's fierce Valkyries. Music by Saint-Saens, Gluck, Vaughan Williams and Catalani is also featured on instruments including flutes of various sizes, recorders, panpipes, buzzy ren-aissance things, multiple ocarinas and an elec-tric saxophone - all accompanied by a small but perfectly formed piano accordion, and delivered with the Classic Busker's famously dry British humour. www.cambridgesummermusic.com £11 includes tea and cake

Moth Trapping Event

Peckover House, North Brink, Wisbech, PE13 1JR 24 July 2011, 12 noon - 5pm Normal admission charges apply

Members of the Butterfly Conservation Group will set up a light trap in the garden to see what species of moth come out at night. Join us to see what moths are out and about after hours. Contact details 01945 583463 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/peckover

Huntingdonshire Sports Festival in the Park

Visitors Centre, Hinchingbrooke Country Park, Huntingdon, PE29 6DB 24 July 2011, 11.00am - 2.00pm Free

The Huntingdonshire Sports Festival in the Park is a celebration of the diverse sporting opportuni-ties on offer in the district. It is an excellent op-portunity for families of all ages to come along and experience a variety of fun and interactive sports sessions for free. www.huntingdonshire.gov.uk/DASH

Cambridge Summer Music Festival – Accord Duo Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RB 24 July 2011, 1.15pm -2pm Free, with donations Milos Milivojevic and Zivorad Nikolic take the art of accordion playing to new heights in a pro-gramme of sparkling classical and folk music from Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania. www.cambridgesummermusic.com

Park Life

Milton Country Park, Cambridge Road, Milton, Cambridge, CB24 6AZ 24 July 2011, 11.00 am - 4.00 pm

Free (there will be a charge for parking) Park Life 2011 will be celebrating just one year until London 2012. There will be a host of cul-tural, arts, sports and music activities for the whole family to take part in, including face paint-ing, climbing wall, water sports, archery, music making, bouncy castle, football, carnival and much more. www.scambs.gov.uk/LeisureandCulture/

Cambridge Summer Music Festival - Neil

Henry

24 July 2011, 8pm ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge, CB5 8AS £11, £9 concessions, Students £7 Neil Henry with Felix Hagan The Music of Magic Experience the magic of Neil Henry and the mu-sic of Felix Hagan mixed in a mind-boggling magic show. Mind-blowing Magic with a musical twist! www.cambridgesummermusic.com See the Patiently Restored Allen T47 Prickwillow Engine Museum, Main Street, Prickwillow, Ely, CB7 4UN 24 July 2011, 11am - 4.30pm £4 Adult, £3 Concession, £1.50 Child, £10 Family Showing off the engine transformed from a rusty heap, and receiving an award from the W H Al-len Engineering Ltd historical society for work in preserving Allen Engines. This run day will in-clude starting the T47 engine at 2pm. First pub-lic demonstration of the newly restored Allen T47 engine, together with demonstration running of the other large diesel engines in the collec-tion. Outside exhibits include the historical City of Ely fire appliances and Classic Cars. Contact details 01353 720737 www.prickwillow-engine-museum.co.uk Animation Workshop: Sporting Characters! Squeaky Gate Studios, 47-51 Norfolk Street, Cambridge CB1 2LD 24 July 2011, 11.30 am to 3.30 pm

Become a part of a creative team of young animators and create your favourite sporting characters. Using stop-motion animation dress them up, make them talk and give them personalities! Will they jump over the River Thames or climb to the top of Big Ben? You decide! Tutor: Monika Umba £30 each. Bookings: 0871 902 5720 Max. 12 places. trish.s@picturehouses.co.uk www.cambridgeshirefilmconsortium.org

You don't have to wait until 2012 to get involved with the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The London 2012 Cultural Olympiad is the largest cultural celebration in the history of the modern Olympic and Paralympic Movements. Spread over four years, it is de-signed to give everyone in the UK a chance to be part of London 2012 and inspire creativity across all forms of culture, especially among young people. All the events in Cambridgeshire and Peterbor-ough are listed on www.cambridgeshire.net See what's happening across the UK Explore how you can be a part of the greatest show on earth today www.london2012.com For more information on Cambridgeshire and Peterborough rising to the challenge of the Lon-don 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games see www.goldlivingsport.co.uk GOLD

Cambridgeshire Competes: collections come together for London 2012

This exciting project will be launched in July 2011 and sees an Olympic exhibition trail running from June 2012, through the Para-lympics (September 2012) until December 2012. The project involves museums, sports facilities and YOU. There will be: linked family and adult events where you can learn more about Olympic history and explore local connections to the Olympics through talks and take part in family activi-ties. Sporting activity taster sessions for the pub-lic and school students to increase and en-courage participation in sport. Memory collecting days where we invite Cambridgeshire and Peterborough resi-dents to contribute by sharing their hidden histories as: spectators in the past during the Games plus provide memories of their sporting heroes. A special project will work with the Portu-guese community and the Mozambique Na-tional Olympic Team. If you want to know more please don't hesi-tate to contact beverley.hoff@cambridgeshire.gov.uk Museums Partnership Officer , Cambridgeshire County Council Many of the events featured within the Open Weekend rely on volunteers. Volunteering Cambridgeshire & Peterbor-ough (VC&P) comprises of the six volunteer centres in Cambridge, Ely, Fenland, Huntingdonshire, Peterborough and Roys-ton, providing free services to both organi-sations and volunteers. Please visit our website to see how we can help you. www.volunteeringcambsandpboro.org.uk