Everyone is invited to join the Polish community of Cambridge on 13 May at The Guildhall to celebrate their heritage and culture.
The Polish community in Cambridge numbers around 5,000 people, many of them permanent residents and some who are here to study. The Polonia Club on Chesterton Road is a meeting place, a cultural centre and has a restaurant serving traditional Polish dishes while the University offers a Polish Studies programme which runs lectures, film screenings, debates and meetings with writers and artists, events which are open to all. There’s a Polish Saturday School and a Polish Mass is held every Sunday at the Catholic church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs on Hills Road.
There’s plenty going on at this Heritage Day event which will be opened by the Polish Ambassador. You’ll be able to taste authentic Polish food such as pierogi (little dumplings of various flavours, both sweet and savoury), cakes, pastries and breads. Local Polish artists and craftspeople will be exhibiting. There’ll be choral, guitar and piano performances, dancing from the Wiwat Folk Group and a Thai boxing display while local Polish businesses will host stalls.
Polish Heritage Day is happening on Sunday 13 May from 12 noon to 5pm. Entry is free. Everyone is welcome to join the celebrations and to discover more about Polish life and culture.
Well, April brought us a short, unseasonal heatwave but as we move into May, the weather’s reverted to wind, rain and generally grey murky conditions … surely, surely we must be due some decent spring days soon?? Anyway, there’s plenty going on in the city so here’s the What’s On listing for May. It’s a mix of all sorts of things that come to my attention and I update it through the month, so it’s worth checking back occasionally. And please get in touch via my Contact page if you know of an event that I’d like to include.
Railings at St Bene’t’s Church
3 – 7th Cambridge May Fair, Midsummer Common
3 – 12th 11am – 5pm Sound of Silence. Still Life Exhibition. Alessandra Tarcia and Akiko Hirai. St Peter’s Church, Castle Hill http://www.flowgallery.co.uk
5th 7.30pm K.239 Chamber Orchestra. Elgar, G. Jacob, Mozart, Schonberg. St Luke’s Church, Victoria Road. Tickets on the door.
5th 8pm The Empyrean Ensemble. Beethoven. Trinity College Chapel. Tickets on the door. http://www.tcms.org.uk
7th 9am The Reach Ride. A bike ride to the 800 year old Reach Fair. Assemble in front of the Guildhall, Market Hill, for a 10am departure. http://www.camcycle.org.uk/reachride
8 – 10th 9.30pm Queue – A Freshers’ Sketch Show. Corpus Playroom, St Edward’s Passage. http://www.adctheatre.com
12th 8pm Ensemble Pro Victoria. The Kinges Musicke. Rarely heard music from Tudor England and the Continent before and after the Reformation. Cornysh, Fayrfax, Byrd, Victoria. Trinity College Chapel. Tickets on the door.
18th 6.30 – 10pm Summer Night Market and outdoor cinema (Sing and Meet the Parents). Market Square
19th 10am – 5pm Festival of Plants 2018. Cambridge University Botanic Gardens, Brookside http://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk
19th 10.30am – 4pm Eat Cambridge – Main Event. Guildhall, Market Hill. Festival Fringe events run until 2 June. http://www.eat-cambridge.co.uk
20th 3pm Music for the Madonna. New Cambridge Singers. Poulenc, Durufle, Villette. St Botolph’s Church, Trumpington Street. Tickets on the door. http://www.newcambridgesingers.org.uk
20th 3.30pm Blue Smoke. The Lucy Cavendish Singers. Classical, traditional and country music followed by tea and cake. Childerley Hall Long Barn, Dry Drayton. http://www.lucycavendishsingers.org.uk
30th 10 – 11am The Red Hot Fireball. Children’s bilingual storytelling with the Alliance Francaise Cambridge. Central Library, 1st Floor, Grand Arcade. Free, no booking required.
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