Literary-art Events in Cambridge

Check out happening literary-art events all around Cambridge, EN

The Anglia Comedy Allstars

 Fri, 13 Feb at 07:30 pm Cambridge Corn Exchange

Always Remember - Charlie Mackesy, at Heffers Bookshop

 Sat, 21 Feb at 03:00 pm Heffers Bookshop GBP 10 to 22

Autism & Cognitive Evolution-The Cambridge Lectures on Art & Intelligence

 Wed, 11 Feb at 07:00 pm MODO GBP 28

Tchaikovsky and Chopin — Poets of the Piano. A piano recital by Alexander Karpeyev

 Thu, 26 Feb at 07:00 pm Churchill College GBP 12 to 18

An Evening with Adrian Tchaikovsky in Cambridge

 Mon, 30 Mar at 06:00 pm Waterstones GBP 5 to 28

Not Truly Dead - Three Ghost Stories by M R James

 Sat, 14 Feb at 08:00 pm Unitarian Church GBP 20

"Super Snail" with Elys Dolan at Cambridge Central Library

 Fri, 20 Feb at 10:30 am Cambridge Central Library Free

CUCGS 2026 Schools Programme: Workshop Registration

 Fri, 27 Feb at 12:45 pm Trinity Hall Cambridge Free

The History of Mermaids, Sea Spirits & Women

 Sun, 01 Mar at 08:15 pm Cambridge Junction GBP 14 to 32

Dazed and Confused: How to make sense of the new era of Geo Economics

 Mon, 09 Mar at 05:00 pm Wolfson College, University of Cambridge Free

Duo Àrtemis – Rels i Records

 Mon, 16 Mar at 07:00 pm Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge Free

The Last Starborn Seer - Venetia Constantine and Elodie Harper

 Tue, 10 Mar at 06:00 pm Heffers Bookshop GBP 5 to 19

Encountering Extinction: A talk by author Dolly Jørgensen

 Wed, 11 Feb at 07:00 pm Museum Of Zoology Free

Cambridge Speechwriters' & Business Communicators' Conference 2026

 Wed, 25 Mar at 10:00 am St Catharine's College GBP 1,283 to 2,458

2026 Herman De Croo Lecture

 Tue, 24 Mar at 05:30 pm St John's College GBP 240

An Evening of Suspense with Sarah Vaughan & Araminta Hall

 Thu, 26 Mar at 06:30 pm St. Paul's Church and Community Centre GBP 6

From Page to Podium: A White House Speechwriting Masterclass

 Wed, 25 Mar at 10:00 am St Catharine's College GBP 1,283

Book launch: Mrs Sidhu's Just Desserts by Suk Pannu

 Thu, 12 Feb at 06:30 pm St Botolph's Church Free

EDGE Spoken Word Open Mic

 Sat, 28 Feb at 07:00 pm 351 Mill Road, CB1 3DF Cambridge, United Kingdom

Historical Fiction: Linda Wilgus and Rosie Andrews in Cambridge

 Wed, 11 Feb at 06:00 pm Waterstones GBP 5 to 22

An Evening with Elle McNicoll in Cambridge

 Wed, 15 Apr at 06:00 pm Waterstones GBP 5 to 22

Handel's Acis and Galatea

 Fri, 06 Mar at 08:00 pm Girton College, Cambridge

Arabic Tradition & English Folk

 Tue, 24 Feb at 07:30 pm Pembroke College Cambridge

MODO gallery crawl - DAVID HOCKNEY - Cambridge Arts Festival

 Thu, 12 Feb at 05:00 pm MODO Free

Book Launch: A people's history of the Anti-Nazi League

 Tue, 10 Feb at 06:30 pm Mill Road Community Centre Free

Cambridge Apologetics Summer Conference 2026

 Fri, 12 Jun at 09:30 am Christ Church GBP 30 to 60

"Super Snail" with Elys Dolan at Cambridge Central Library

 Sat, 21 Feb at 10:30 am 7 Lion Yard, CB2 3QD Cambridge, United Kingdom

Faith, with the Rev'd Dr Cally Hammond

 Sat, 28 Feb at 10:45 am Little St Mary's

New Routes – Amy Hollinrake and Maz O’Connor

 Sat, 18 Apr at 07:30 pm Cambridge Junction

Lying Abroad by Carol Chillington Rutter

 Thu, 26 Feb at 06:00 pm 20 Trinity Street, CB2 1TY Cambridge, United Kingdom

Love of Rumi – flow and spirit: a performative fashion show

 Sat, 21 Mar at 07:00 pm Mumford Theatre GBP 28

Screening of 'Fires and Fascism'

 Tue, 17 Feb at 04:00 pm The David Attenborough Building Free

An Evening with Harriet Tyce in Cambridge

 Wed, 25 Feb at 06:00 pm Waterstones GBP 5 to 21

What can the Qur’an teach us about Arabian Jews at the beginning of Islam?

 Thu, 05 Mar at 05:30 pm Pembroke College Free

The History of Medicine in Twelve Objects

 Wed, 25 Feb at 07:30 pm Willingham Library

Orpheus Dismembered by Ben Haggarty and Jonah Brody

 Sun, 12 Apr at 07:00 pm Cambridge Junction

In Conversation with authors of Habitats of Europe

 Wed, 11 Feb at 05:45 pm The David Attenborough Building Free

Tapa (bark cloth)

 Fri, 06 Mar at 10:00 am Centre for Material Culture GBP 80

Themed walk: Discovering poetry in Mill Road Cemetery

 Sun, 22 Feb at 02:00 pm Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge

An Evening with Rosie Hewlett in Cambridge

 Tue, 17 Mar at 06:00 pm Waterstones GBP 5 to 20

A Noise Annoys at Cambridge Junction Theatre

 Sun, 22 Feb at 11:30 am Cambridge Junction

A Woman's Work - Elinor Cleghorn, at Heffers Bookshop

 Tue, 17 Mar at 06:00 pm Heffers Bookshop GBP 5 to 22

Katherine Priddy | Junction 2, Cambridge | 19.4.26

 Sun, 19 Apr at 07:00 pm Cambridge Junction

An Evening with Prof César A. Hidalgo in Cambridge

 Mon, 09 Mar at 06:00 pm Waterstones GBP 5 to 28

Our Infinite Crafts in Cambridge

 Mon, 16 Feb at 05:00 pm Waterstones GBP 5

Ghost Writers on the Cam

 Sun, 22 Mar at 02:00 pm Cambridge GBP 17

'Desi Queers': Celebrating South Asian LGBTQ+ Lives in Britain

 Tue, 24 Feb at 05:30 pm Wolfson College, University of Cambridge Free

Footnotes: The Writing of Football - Dr Carrie Dunn

 Wed, 11 Feb at 06:00 pm Lecture Theatre A (Arts School) Free

Gabriel Zuchtriegel: The Buried City at Waterstones Cambridge

 Thu, 26 Feb at 06:00 pm Waterstones GBP 8 to 19

Tomas Venclova on being a dissident in the Soviet Union

 Fri, 27 Feb at 05:30 pm Ramsden Room, St Catharine's College Free

The Fights That Make Us w Sarah Hagger-Holt at Cambridge Central Library

 Sat, 21 Feb at 02:00 pm Cambridge Central Library Free

Frankenstein by Don't go into the Cellar

 Fri, 27 Feb at 07:00 pm Cambridge Museum of Technology, The Old Pumping Station, CB5 8LD Cambridge, United Kingdom

Noughts & Crosses

 Wed, 15 Apr at 07:30 pm 6 St Edwards Passage, CB2 3PJ Cambridge, United Kingdom

This Gospel I Believe: Confidence and Crisis in the Christian Academic Mind

 Sat, 14 Mar at 09:30 am McGrath Centre, St Catharine's College, Cambridge GBP 0 to 25

The Accoutrements of an Indian Dancer

 Mon, 18 May at 05:30 pm Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Free

Philosophers, their Jokes and Humour

 Wed, 15 Apr at 07:00 pm Rock Road, CB1 7UG Cambridge, United Kingdom

The life and works of William Shakespeare, 1564-1616

 Wed, 25 Mar at 04:00 pm Queen Anne House, Gonville Place, Cambridge, UK GBP 5

War of the Worlds

 Wed, 29 Apr at 07:30 pm 6 St Edwards Passage, CB2 3PJ Cambridge, United Kingdom

An Evening with Terry Deary in Cambridge

 Wed, 11 Mar at 06:00 pm Waterstones GBP 5 to 13

Atlantic Furies, with author Midge Gillies

 Thu, 12 Feb at 07:30 pm Milton Road Library Free

Zine Club

 Sun, 01 Mar at 05:00 pm The Blue Moon GBP 7 to 14

King Street Cellar Book and Wine Club – A Drinking Club with Books!

 Thu, 05 Mar at 07:00 pm 99 King St GBP 22

An Evening with Catherine Carr in Cambridge

 Wed, 18 Mar at 06:00 pm Waterstones GBP 5 to 22

Writing historical fiction: Blending reality and imagination

 Thu, 12 Feb at 01:00 pm 2/3 Castle Street, CB3 0AQ Cambridge, United Kingdom

Christian Virtue: Faith

 Sat, 28 Feb at 10:45 am Little St Mary's Church GBP 2 to 5

An Evening with James Hunt at Waterstones Cambridge

 Wed, 25 Mar at 06:00 pm Waterstones GBP 5 to 20

Book of the Month, Danielle Giles - Mere, at Heffers Bookshop

 Tue, 24 Feb at 06:00 pm Heffers Bookshop GBP 5 to 10

Richard Strauss - Enoch Arden

 Sat, 21 Mar at 07:30 pm Clare Hall Dining Hall, University of Cambridge GBP 0 to 20

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A HUNTER-GATHERER

 Fri, 20 Feb at 03:15 pm Rock Road Library Free

Between Borders: then and now

 Wed, 11 Feb at 07:15 pm Rock Road Library Free

Terror Tales of Cambridge, by Frederick Cowles

 Fri, 03 Apr at 07:30 pm The Leper Chapel of Saint Mary Magdalene GBP 14

Bodies in the Library Reading Group

 Sat, 14 Feb at 03:00 pm 7 Lion Yard, CB2 3QD Cambridge, United Kingdom

Creative Writing workshop for children

 Tue, 17 Feb at 03:15 pm Rock Road Library Free

Teaching and Writing Digital Methods

 Mon, 20 Apr at 01:00 pm Cambridge University Library Free

Poetry of Care

 Wed, 25 Feb at 07:15 pm Rock Road Library Free

In Her Words: Women Artists and Life Writing Symposium

 Fri, 19 Jun at 10:00 am Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge GBP 0 to 25

Nourish & Nurture: A weekend of food, wellbeing and sustainable living

 Sat, 16 May at 09:00 am Storey's Field Centre GBP 20 to 136

☕️ Café Olé

 Sat, 24 Jan at 11:30 am 1 Red Cross Ln Free

Politics and Culture at the Late Stuart Courts, 1649-1714

 Tue, 07 Apr at 09:30 am Christ's College, Cambridge Free

Suturing the Worlds: Tomie Ohtake Between Japan and Brazil

 Tue, 24 Feb at 05:00 pm Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge Free

Peter Gilber Prize Lecture: Postcard from the Turco Trail

 Wed, 04 Mar at 05:00 pm Woolf Institute Free

the Aethenic Bivium Trivium & Quadrivium of the Philosopher's Stone(Online)

 Sat, 02 Nov at 07:00 pm Trinity St GBP 6 to 80

Terra Electrica

 Thu, 19 Feb at 03:15 pm Rock Road Library Free

Sunday Scribes at Cambridge Central Library

 Sun, 04 Feb at 02:00 pm Cambridge Central Library Free

Book Launch of Moltmann in China by Dr Naomi Thurston

 Wed, 04 Mar at 03:30 pm Faculty of Divinity Free

Talk - The Human and the Nonhuman in the Tragedies of Jean Racine

 Sat, 21 Mar at 02:00 pm 1 Red Cross Lane CB2 0QU Cambridge Free car park (Bell Foundation) Free