Cambridge Festival

What is the Cambridge Festival?

The new, interdisciplinary Cambridge Festival (replacing the Cambridge Science Festival and the Cambridge Festival of Ideas) will take place from 17 March – 2 April 2023 with a mixture of online, on-demand and in-person events covering all aspects of the world-leading research happening at Cambridge.

There will still be strong and distinct platforms for the sciences and the arts, humanities and social sciences. And the Festival will include a uniquely Cambridge, eclectic mixture of over 350 events and activities: from panel discussions, film premieres, and self-guided walking tours to ‘try this at home activities for the whole family. Topics cover the breadth of Cambridge research and will be presented across the Festival’s four themes: Society, Health, Environment and Discovery! For 2023 only, we’ve included a special fifth theme – Power.

The University’s Public Engagement team brings the Cambridge Festival to you. To find out about their other events, such as Open Cambridge, and their training and development programme for researchers, please visit cam.ac.uk/public-engagement