Events

The Global Health Hack Day was an "open innovation" event run by the Humanitarian Centre ( and Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club (CUTEC - as part of the Cambridge Science Festival. Seven teams were formed, bringing together students and professionals from backgrounds as diverse as laser physics, criminology and management studies. The teams took on seven real global health challenges facing NGOs, consultancies and businesses. Each team had one week to find an innovative and viable approach to the challenge, and present their ideas to a live audience, a judging panel of entrepreneurs and development consultants and their organisational mentors. The results? The teams came up with fantastic ideas: ideas that the mentors admitted they would never have thought of themselves. The mix of different backgrounds and perspectives, combined with the teams' incredible enthusiasm, led to a lot of creative thinking. Several of the ideas are now being put into practice by the organi

Find out more about the eagerly awaited Cambridge Festival of Ideas event 'Access all archives: sights and sounds' which will take place on Monday 24 October 2011. The University's museums will be brought alive with live music and cutting-edge sound installations to accompany your exploration of the archives. Film and photography projections, improvisation, gamelan gongs, DJ sets and more combine to awaken your senses as you embark on a trail of discovery throughout this late night opening. Full programme details and venue information at

The world's population will reach seven billion this year. Can the Earth sustain this many people and is reproductive freedom a fundamental liberty? What will the future hold for a crowded planet? In this film, Professor John Guillebaud, Population Matters; Sara Parkin, Forum for the Future; Fred Pearce, author of 'Peoplequake'; and Sir Tony Wrigley, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure debate the topic. This event forms part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas ( on Tuesday 25 October 2011.

A Cambridge augmented reality app that breathes animated life into the printed page has worked its magic on the programme for this year's Science Festival. Download the free app, 'pop the Popcode', and point your phone at the front cover of the Science Festival programme. If you haven't got a programme yet, you can try it on the website:

0-800 in 60 minutes was originally performed in November 2009 and saw almost 100 children from different schools cram the events of the last eight centuries in Cambridge into the space of a single hour. The play was performed entirely by children, many of whom were taking to the stage for the first time.

More than 20,000 people came to witness the spectacular light show which brought the University of Cambridge's 800th anniversary celebrations to a close. For three evenings beginning on Saturday, January 16th, an array of colourful images brought iconic buildings such as Senate House and King's College Chapel to life. Designed by world-renowned light artist Ross Ashton, the show highlighted some of the transformative research taking place at Cambridge today. Music by Geraint Luff