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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

Library Book Giveaway: Pride Month

01 June 2024 - 30 June 2024

9:00 AM - 10:00 PM

Our book giveaway is back once more for Pride Month! New copies of selected titles will be wrapped and hidden in Bill Bryson Library – find one and it’s yours to keep or pass on.

  • Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
  • Support services

Durham Film Festival 2024

09 June 2024 - 14 June 2024

12:00 AM - 11:59 PM

Durham Film Festival is back for 2024 with an exciting itinerary of screenings, workshops and other events across the city from Sunday 9 June to Friday 14 June.

  • Festival
  • Film screening
  • Holiday activities
  • Outreach & community
  • Public
  • Everyone

“Overlookedness: Where do we go from here?”

10 June 2024 - 11 June 2024

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Event 3 of the Urban Studies Foundation Seminar Series Grant 2023-2024 'Overlooked Cities: Thinking and doing global urban studies differently' 10-11 June 2024

  • Research event

Machine Learning and Marginalia, Durham-Uppsala Workshop

10 June 2024 - 10 June 2024

9:30 AM - 4:00 PM

IMEMS is hosting a workshop for the project “Machine Learning and Marginalia” which is supported by the joint research seedcorn fund of Durham and Uppsala Universities. This event may be of interest to those working in Digital Humanities or library services, or to any researcher studying early modern book culture.

  • Outreach & community
  • Partnerships & Collaboration
  • Research event
  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Workshop

QRFE Seminar with Prof Robert Kosowski (Imperial College London)

10 June 2024 - 10 June 2024

1:15 PM - 3:00 PM

Join us for a seminar hosted by the Centre for Quantitative Research in Financial Economics with Professor Robert Kosowski (Imperial College London)

  • Research event
  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences

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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