We have devoted a day of each of the last two weekends to catching up on our Cambridge sights.
Last weekend we finally visited Kettle's Yard, a really quirky and great little art museum. A former art curator bought some cottages in a former slummy area and made them into a home where he could display his own collection. He would open up the house to the public in the afternoons and also hold concerts (like our living room chamber music concert event!). Now the university owns it and runs it the same way. The art is everywhere and not particularly labeled, but it is interesting and the house itself is also cool. Too bad we didn't make it to a concert. Attached to the house is a newer more traditional gallery, and a very old church is also on the property.
We then went to the see the Annual Spring Revue of the Footlights Club - a group of comic writer-performers at the university with some very famous alum such as John Cleese and Emma Thompson. Seems similar to Second City when it was at UChicago. Anyway, they were very clever and we quite enjoyed it, especially when we could actually understand some of the UK-centric jokes.
Last but not least, we finally heard the famous King's College Choir during Evensong. The acoustics are horrible for understanding the service, but they are great for the choir. Because it is the 500th chapel anniversary year, there was a special organ concert afterwards as well.
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