Events

The University of Cambridge’s year-long celebration of its 800th anniversary concluded with a three-night spectacle of light and sound in the city center, with lavishly colorful animated images projected onto the walls of some of Cambridge’s most iconic buildings: the late-medieval Chapel and the seventeenth-century Gibbs Building, Senate House, and Old Schools, as well as the façades of King’s Parade. It was the counterpoint to a sound-and-light show which took place almost exactly a year before, which launched the anniversary celebrations. Both displays were created by light artist Ross Ashton and showcased examples of world-changing discovery and transformative research taking place in Cambridge over the past 800 years and continuing today and tomorrow.

View a video of the grand-finale display.

Click here to see photos of the light show.