Programmes are available across Cambridge and online from this week and are packed full of over 170 events, most of them free.
Its cover is designed by George Shapter, a 21-year-old History of Art graduate, who has no formal design training, although he and a fellow Cambridge graduate have recently set up a design company called Qip Creative.
His winning design depicts a sleeping woman surrounded by origami boats and birds with a huge origami spider crawling towards her.
It was one of 22 entries in the annual Face of the Festival competition.
The Festival, which runs from 24 October to 4 November, aims to celebrate the rich contribution the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences make to our culture and understanding of the world and to showcase the huge breadth of work being done by University of Cambridge academics.
Booking for the Festival opens on 12 September. See www.cam.ac.uk/festivalofideas for more information.
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Credit: George Shapter
Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge
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