Saturday 12th March 2016

SINGING HISTORY CONCERT: THE SOUNDS OF STEAM

3pm to 5pm at Great St Mary's Church, Market Place

All Welcome! Free Family Friendly Concert! 

Description:  Please join us for the finale of the Festival for the “Creating My Cambridge & STEAM Singing History” Concert in the heart of the city. There will be a new piece by Michael Rosen (best loved writer of Children’s books and former Childrens’ Laureate) and a variety of rounds and anthems co-written by Cambridge composers, plus stinky songs by Dave Cohen, chief songwriter for CBBC’s Horrible Histories.   

This event is celebrating the local history around Great St Mary's Church and the Market Place and also the STEM history of Cambridge’s Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths. The pieces will be inspired by past endeavours from the well known to hidden and horrible histories, putting the ARTS into STEM to create a concert of  unique performances about Cambridge’s people and places!

Come along at 3pm and join in this family-friendly concert where Historyworks will showcase funny songs and lyrical poems all based on historical sources which will be described in installations during the programme of this astonishing concert of new compositions and performances that will give voice to local musicians and primary school singers. Lyrics will be projected so everyone can join in.  All Children must be accompanied by an Adult.

ART AND HISTORICAL ACTIVITIES 1pm to 5pm at Great St Mary's Church and ChurchYard

There will be Doing and Thinking Art Activities for families in the Church and also the Churchyard (weather permitting), with sessions on body percussion, illustrating history topics with creative art responses, making 3D models of Great St Mary's and Milestones for important inventions, newspaper engineering, free trips up the Tower for participatants and more!  Visitors will be invited to follow a new history trail transmitted by beacons to guide users to unique and fascinating stories around the Market area.  Volunteers will be available at  Great St Mary's with instructions for how to use the history trail on your smartphone or tablet.