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Use our calendar to find out what’s happening on the date you are visiting Durham, or search by event type, venue, or theme.
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Alice Dalí AR: A Rabbit Hole Awaits

05 May 2024 - 31 October 2024

12:00 AM - 11:59 PM

Botanic Garden

Alice Dalí AR is a new augmented reality experience at Durham's Botanic Garden that combines paintings by Salvador Dalí with passages from Lewis Carroll’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and a magical soundtrack.

  • Festival
  • Holiday activities
  • Partnerships & Collaboration
  • Public
  • Everyone

Durham Business School Postgraduate Events

01 September 2024 - 31 December 2025

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Our Events will give you the opportunity to learn more about what Durham Business School has to offer for postgraduate study.

  • Open days & visits

Self-Guided Tours

01 September 2024 - 31 August 2025

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Tours have audio descriptions, images and videos as well as lots of information and statistics.

  • Open days & visits

Discover Durham Live! - Virtual Sessions

28 October 2024 - 01 November 2024

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Book onto our Discover Durham Live! webinars now.

  • Open days & visits

Celebrate Science 2024

29 October 2024 - 31 October 2024

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Join us this half-term, on Palace Green from Tuesday 29 October to Thursday 31 October (10am-4pm) and enjoy three fun-packed and fascinating days of free family activities.

  • Festival
  • Holiday activities
  • Outreach & community
  • Partnerships & Collaboration
  • Public
  • Workshop
  • Family friendly

Syntactical Structures and the Evolution of Mind and Culture - Workshop 1 (Mind, brain, cognition)

29 October 2024 - 29 October 2024

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

The first of eight workshops over the course of Michaelmas term in conjunction with the large-scale cross-faculty research project, Syntactical Structures and the Evolution of Mind and Culture, which explores the syntactical basis of a wide range of phenomena spanning cognitive and cultural domains, from learning and reasoning to narrative and memory to music and dance, to shed new light on the human mind, cultural evolution, and aesthetics.

  • Research event

Fenella Humphreys (violin) and Martin Roscoe (piano): Fauré 100

29 October 2024 - 29 October 2024

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

On the 100th anniversary of the death of Gabriel Fauré, this concert celebrates the composer’s lyrical romanticism with works from the 1870s to the 1890s, including the great first Sonata. Saint-Saëns’ own first Sonata and Ravel’s one movement Sonate Posthume complete a programme that will transport you to the magic of fin-de-siècle Paris.

  • Music

What’s on across our venues

Our unique cultural attractions include Durham Castle, Botanic Garden, Historic Libraries at Palace Green, Oriental Museum, Museum of Archaeology and our World Heritage Site Visitor Centre. Whatever your interest, there's something for everyone to enjoy.

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