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Type Events and festivals
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Date and Times Wednesday 25 June 2025 | 6.45pm-9.25pm
Prices General Admission £5 | University of Greenwich Staff/Student (UoG ID Required) FREE
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Drawing on rich archive resources and the expert curatorial knowledge of Royal Museums Greenwich, this concert will respond to themes of maritime heritage and its underlying drivers of innovation, human ingenuity, collaboration, ambition for global connection and perseverance.

Hosted alongside the 2025 international Architecture Media Politics and Society (AMPS) conference "Heritages - Critical Questions Contemporary Practices", the programme showcases the potential of sound to reanimate and recontextualise heritage sites via multisensory experiences.

In partnership with the University of Greenwich.

This event also features an inaugural lecture from Professor of Music and Sound Arts Andrew Knight-Hill, titled “Journeys in Sound: Sonic Creativity and Exchange”.

University of Greenwich Cutty Sark Event

Professor Andrew Knight-Hill is a composer and researcher creating works that explore the interface between music and sound practice. His works have been heard internationally at film festivals and in contemporary music concerts. He recently composed music and sound design for the immersive theatrical event Over Lunan, which was awarded an Outstanding Cultural Event award as part of the 2022 Thistle Awards for Scottish Tourism. He also published a book Art of Sound: Creativity in Film Sound and Electroacoustic Music (2024), exploring creative working practices in sound, through interviews and dialogues with leading professionals in film, design and electroacoustic music.

He is Professor in Music and Sound Arts at the University of Greenwich, leader of the SOUND/IMAGE Research Centre, co-director of the Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series, convenor of the annual SOUND/IMAGE conference, and director of the Shared Hub for Immersive Future Technologies.

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Find free workshops, character encounters and creative activities for all ages inside Greenwich's historic villa
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Out Of This World: Moons
Explore the moons of our solar system in this family workshop
27 May and 28 October 2025 | 10.30am - 12 noon
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Vessels of the Future masterclass
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Lunchtime Concerts at the Queen's House
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Select Wednesdays (see page for details) | 1pm-2pm
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Friday 13 June 2025 | 9.30am
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Members' Tour: Ocean Map
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Refugee Week 2025
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Flamsteed Lecture: 350 years of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
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Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series: Voyages and Inaugural Lecture
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Call Me Ishmaelle Cover.jpg
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Teachers' Evening 2025
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Ocean Songs
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A dance leaps beside Nelson's Ship in a Bottle sculpture
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Rhythm!
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A branch of the bread fruit tree with fruit
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In this free lunchtime talk historian Jade Lindo will explore the historical and cultural significance of breadfruit in the Caribbean
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A mother and daughter sit on the Great Map during World Ocean Day at the National Maritime Museum
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a collage of historical astronomical imagery including illustrations of astronomers, the observatory, planets and the Moon
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Daily in August (except Thursdays)
Adult: £12 | Child: £6 | Student: £8
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A Black man wearing green sunglasses and a geometric patterned top stands contemplatively by the River Thames
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National Maritime Museum
A drawing of a Royal Naval Auxiliary tanker seen in starboard-quarter view, turning in the River Thames off Greenwich. In the background is the Old Royal Naval College. There is a black smoke coming out of the top of the boat
Conferences

Britain, Conflict, and the Sea conference

This conference seeks to explore the ways in which modern Britain has been shaped by ideas and practices of maritime war.
Friday 12 September 2025 9am-5.45pm | Saturday 13 September 9am-3.30pm
Adult £50 | Postgraduate Researcher/Student £25
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An abstract image showing strands of colourful wool moving through a loom
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Fabric of the Land: the Cutty Sark Wool Experience
Step aboard Greenwich's historic ship after hours for a special night of craft, history, film and music
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£25
Cutty Sark
A stack of multiple coloured 'cakes' of wool, including yellows, pastel reds and blues
Workshops

Fabric of the Land: Weaving with Ella Doran
Join award-winning designer Ella Doran for a hands-on weaving workshop inspired by Cutty Sark’s history of transporting wool from Britain to Australia
Saturday 11 October 2025 | More details coming soon
£25
Cutty Sark
Photo of man holding a model ship. He is wearing a navy blue coat and beany hat.
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Charlie Connelly - Attention All Shipping
Charlie Connelly's hilarious one-man show brings the legendary shipping forecast vividly to life
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Adult: £22 | Member: £20
Cutty Sark
Knitting needles stuck into a light and dark blue woollen design, with balls of wool and a blanket of yellow and white wool arranged artfully around
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Fabric of the Land: Knitting with Remiiya Badru
Join us on board historic ship Cutty Sark for a hands-on knitting workshop in a friendly and supportive environment
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Cutty Sark
Image of the Fairport Convention, four men standing in a line and smiling at the camera
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Cutty Sark concert: Fairport Convention
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Cutty Sark
Ted on the moon
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Holiday to Space
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£5 per child
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View of Shanty singers in front of figurehead display in Cutty Sark dry dockk
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Sea Shanty Festival 2025
Visit Cutty Sark for a fantastic day of sea song performances and workshops in celebration of the tea clipper's 156th birthday
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