Cambridge, England: Do any ILXers reside in this apology for a city?

I might be in Cam for a party on Saturday 19th, so if anyone wants to FAP Sat daytime or maybe Sunday let me know!

that, and the fact that the university runs this town...

Paintings thread revive has reminded me to say the current kettles yard exhibition, paint like the swallow sings calypso, is excellent & you have a couple of days left to see it

Also some kind of fap one of these days could be nice

Kettle’s Yard is pleased to present Paint Like the Swallow Sings Calypso, a major new exhibition curated in dialogue with artists Paul Dash (b. 1946, Barbados), Errol Lloyd (b. 1943, Jamaica) and John Lyons (b. 1933, Trinidad), three important first-generation diaspora Caribbean painters that were working in the UK during the same period that the Kettle’s Yard House and collection was still being established.

Alongside a selection of their own works, the artists will bring together the collections of Kettle’s Yard and The Fitzwilliam Museum for the first time, assembling paintings and works on paper that reflect the rich history, themes and forms of Carnival, from street parades with music and dancing, to folklore, flora and fauna.

28 artists whose work span across five centuries will reflect elements from Carnival’s rituals and celebrations, including Jean-Michel Moreau, Albrecht Dürer, Helen Frankenthaler, Avinash Chandra, David Bomberg, Graham Sutherland and Barbara Hepworth.

FREE, come along

Artists in the exhibition

David Bomberg

Brueghel (Pieter, the younger)

Jacques Callot

Giulio Carpioni

Avinash Chandra

Charles Conder

William Congdon

Paul Dash

Francisco Goya

Albrecht Dürer

Helen Frankenthaler

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

Stanley William Hayter

Barbara Hepworth

David Jones

Nat Leeb

Errol Lloyd

John Lyons

Momper, the younger

Jean-Michel Moreau

Fritz Möser

Ben Nicholson

William Orpen

John Phillip

Pablo Picasso

Ceri Richards

Graham Sutherland

Agostino Veneziano

Not mentioned in that description are the quotations from Wilson Harris’s carnival trilogy that beautifully tie it all together (by coincidence I picked this up earlier this year and it’s gone right up the to-read pile)

I am in Cambridge, think we may be the only two, and I may leave this year - commuting to London is getting a bit much and landlord has just put the rent up to a ridiculous level.

Will do my best to check out the Kettle's Yard exhibition tomorrow in between dropping off kids to their activities

Hope you enjoyed if you went! There are/were a couple more of us I think, I am not great at making things happen but considering something in the spring - currently extremely hypothetical but would enjoy to hang with you & other cam ilxors & those from near environs (eg London)

we did enjoy it, though could only pop in briefly

would naturally be happy to hang out sometime, generally free evenings and Sundays

I'm still here too

Why do cantabrigians think they’re too good for deli meat?

I’ll just tell you then

Because cold ham’s common

might cycle across there tomorrow, try not to hit any cows