What’s on | Editor’s pick – Aug/Sep 2022
T. REX: THE KILLER QUESTION
Monday 18 July until Saturday 3 September 2022
Peterborough Cathedral
Various times
See the Natural History Museum’s touring exhibition of moving and roaring animatronic dinosaurs inside 900-year-old Peterborough Cathedral. The exhibition asks the killer question: ‘Was T. rex a ferocious hunter or a mere scavenger?’ Come along and decide what you think!
Tickets: £6 per child (aged 3-16 years), £8 per adult and £25 per family ticket (2 adults and up to 3 children aged 3-16 years, or 1 adult and up to 4 children aged 3-16 years). A booking fee applies.
BOOK NOW: www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/t.rex or call Ticket Source on 0333 666 3366 during office hours (additional £1.80 fee applies to phone bookings).
DINOSAUR ADVENTURE LIVE
Monday, August 22 at 2pm and 4.30pm
Key Theatre, Peterborough
After 65 million years, the dinosaurs are back. And they’re stampeding straight towards Peterborough. You have been warned! Most kids love dinosaurs and let’s admit it, most adults do too! So, Dinosaur Adventure Live promises to be an awesome theatrical adventure for all the family.
Tickets start at £15. To book visit keytheatre-peterborough.com
Or call the box office on 01733 207239
POPUPSCIENCE – PETERBOROUGH
13-21 Aug
Queensgate Shopping Centre, Peterborough
FREE to attend
This summer, the regional charity Cambridge Science Centre is bringing special PopUpScience events to Peterborough and Cambridge – fun ways to bring STEM into the community and engage with children from 7-13 years to help get them into science.
WWW.CAMBRIDGESCIENCECENTRE.ORG
LAND ROVER BURGHLEY HORSE TRIAL
Thursday 1 – Sunday 4 September 2022
Burghley House, Stamford
www.burghley-horse.co.uk
In 1961, a planned three-day at Harewood, in Yorkshire, was unexpectedly cancelled due to an outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease. Hearing of it, the Marquess of Exeter, a keen equestrian, invited the British Horse Society to transfer the event, to his estate near Stamford. There were just 19 competitors, and 12,000 visitors – but Burghley Horse Trials was born. The five-star event now known as Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, has grown considerably since that first year, now attracting 80 of the world’s greatest riders, over 170,000 visitors and featuring more than 600 tradestands – all of it built in the space of four weeks in the historic grounds of Burghley House.
THE REAL THING
SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER
The Cresset, Peterborough
They’ve got connections to The Beatles, they worked with Michael Jackson and Jeff Wayne, they were the first Black group to have a number 1 in the UK, and they’ve been described as one of the most important bands in the history of British music. Now they’re coming to town and will be performing their greatest hits like You to Me Are Everything and Can’t Get by Without You to promote their first new album in 40 years.
THE REAL THING WILL BE PERFORMING AT THE CRESSET ON SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER. TICKETS COST £29.50. TO BOOK VISIT CRESSET.CO.UK OR CALL THE BOX OFFICE ON 01733 265705.
ONLINE HISTORY TALK – STILL STANDING: CATHEDRAL RESTORATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Thursday 15 September 2022
19:30 – 20:30
Explore the hidden spaces of the Cathedral through the lens of Cathedral Architect, Stephen Oliver, and learn what it takes to keep a 900-year-old building standing! Stephen will explore some of the current challenges facing the Cathedral building.
Tickets: £7 per viewing + booking fee.
To book, visit: https://www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/143/section.aspx/142/still_standing
