Cherry Hinton Festival Week will run from 14th – 21st September 2019. Events take place in various venues in Cherry Hinton, Cambridge. Details can be found on the Venues page.
The Festival team are taking a break from organising Festival Day on the Recreation Ground this year, but there will be plenty of NEW events to keep you entertained throughout week. Including:
Cherry Hinton Festival Bake Off
Holiday Club Fair and BBQ
Festival Family Bingo
A Brief History of Jazz with Paul Higgs
Festival week will begin on Saturday 14th September with the Thirsty Biergarten, including free cinema with the Cambridge Film Festival. For details of all the festival events, please visit the Programme page.
CANCELLATION NOTICE: unfortunately we have had to cancel the author event on Thursday evening. Sorry for any disappointment.
We look forward to seeing you at lots of events in Festival Week 2019.
Enjoy the photos below from Festival Week 2018.
Thirsty Biergarten and Cambridge Film Festival
Welcome to the Thirsty Biergarten
Opening the Biergarten with a peal
Having a go at bell ringing
Having a go at bell ringing
Enjoying the September sunshine
Buster Keaton on the outdoor screen
Could this be a winning duck?
Enjoying duck decorating
Welcome to St Andrew’s
Cinema with the Cambridge Film Festival
Honest burgers and delicious rosemary fries
The Biergarten in full swing
27th Cambridge Scouts Duck Race
Lots of ducks in the race this year
a beautiful sunny day for a duck race
Ducks on parade
Hook a duck game
Lucky duck game
The 27th Cambridge Scouts
We have a winner!
Beautiful ducks!
Excellent decorating!
History Walk, Code Club, 52 Stories and more . . .
Local History Society about life in Cherry Hinton and the surrounding areas in WWI
Speaker Jo Costin and Chair of the Local History Society Ken Hames
Local History Society History Walk
19 teams battle it out in the Festival Quiz Night
Festival Quiz Night at St Andrew’s
Learning to code with Python
The Team Arm volunteers at the Code Club Workshop
Local author Nicola Upson at the Library
The allotment tour
52 Stories Workshop
The Cambridge Mayor gives out the Summer Reading Challenge certificates and medals.
Author / illustrator Megan Brewis at 52 Stories
Megan Brewis reads ‘Henry and Boo’
Festival Day: Time Travellers
Sunrise!
The beautiful Cherry Kids Club welcome banner
Arco Iris starting the 2018 Festival
Electron Thieves on the Music Stage
Level Up on the music stage
Friendly dinosaurs
Fossil dig
Beautiful face painting
Science fun with CRUK
Find your Wild crafts
Matt from the Magformers demo team
Magformers
Play the Rig
The Children’s Marquee
Exterminate!
The DeLorean
Visitors from a galaxy far, far away
The covered eating area – a good investment
Living history encampment
17th Century Life and Times
Soldiers on parade
The Cambridge Mayor and Reggie the Rex
Cherry Hinton Tang Soo Do
Sanskruti School of Dance
Cambridge Academy of Martial Arts
3G Gyroscope
Skittles
Inflatable sweeper game
Climbing wall
The planetarium
Cambridge Lady Cake
The Library Presents
St John’s Players
Little Cherries
Darwin Farm Shop
Fild Your Wild crafts
Buzzwire
Puppet workshops with the Young People’s Puppet Theatre
