The Garden Party Guide 2014

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Strawberries and Creem Festival

Date: Thursday 12th June

Time: 11:00

Tickets: £25

Release Date: AVAILABLE NOW

Dress code: Festival

The Creem de la crème of parties. Be there or be square.

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Turf All-Night w/Prosumer, Alexander Nut and Romare

Date: Thursday 12th June

Time: 22:00-06:00

Tickets: £8 (Early Bird)

Release Date: Friday 9th May

Dress Code: None

Fez will host what looks to be the last but by no means least Turf night. 

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Effective Altruism Garden Party

Date: Thursday 12th June

Time: 14:30

Tickets: TBC

Release date: TBC

Dress Code: Smart Casual

The altruists of Cambridge unite for a piss-up.

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Scandinavian Society Garden Party

Date: Thursday 12th June

Time: 16:00

Tickets: TBC

Release date: TBC

Dress Code: Smart Casual

More blonde than your average. Most Brits go only to hit on sexy Swedish (wo)men.

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Fever x The Union

Date: Friday 13th June

Time: 20:00

Tickets: £12/£15

Release Date: AVAILABLE NOW

Dress Code: Edgy

More edgy fun at The Union.  

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The Gents of St John’s Garden Party

Date: Friday 13th June

Time: 20:00

Tickets: By invitation only

Release date: Released

Dress Code: Smart Casual

It’s probably better than Oxford, whatever the song says. They sing.

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Cambridge Union Society Garden Party

Date: Saturday 14th June

Time: 13:00

Tickets: £20 (£25 non-members)

Release date: Friday 2nd May

Dress Code: Smart Casual

If the last three years are anything to go by, we can expect good things.

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French Society Garden Party

Date: Saturday 14th June

Time: 16:00-18:00

Tickets: £12/£17

Release date: Released

Dress Code: Smart Casual

Drinks, Sidney Sussex, French food and drinks.

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IndiaSoc Garden Party MASTI

Date: Saturday 14th June

Time: 14:30

Tickets: TBC

Release date: TBC

Dress Code: Smart Casual

A vibrant twist on the traditional Cambridge garden party.

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CULS Garden Party

Date: Saturday 14th June

Time: 12:00

Tickets: £12/15

Release Date: SOLD OUT

Dress Code: Smart Casual

Expect a good deal – Law Soc events are usually heavily subsidised.

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The Gentlemen Patricians’ Garden Party

Date: Saturday 14th June

Time: 14:00

Tickets: £10/15

Release date: TBC

Dress Code: Smart Casual

Fairly generic – Downing’s drinking society garden party.

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Real Ale Society Garden Party

Date: Saturday 14th June

Time: 14:00

Tickets: Free

Release Date: AVAILABLE NOW

Dress Code: Smart Casual

Promises to be a pretty decent afternoon, especially if you’re watching the pennies.

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Sidney Sussex Boat Club Garden Party

Date: Sunday 15th June

Time: 12:00

Tickets: TBC

Release date: TBC

Dress Code: Smart Casual

With a growing reputation amongst grads in particular, this might just surprise you.

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Girton Garden Party

Date: Sunday 15th June

Time: 12:00

Tickets: FREE

Release date: AVAILABLE NOW

Dress Code: Smart Casual

Girton is free in a bid to draw the crowds. Will it work?

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Crescents’ Garden Party

Date: Sunday 15th June

Time: 09:00

Tickets: £15

Release date: SOLD OUT

Dress Code: Smart Casual

Alcohol mixed in barrels, and young men embarrassing themselves. A classic.

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Gentlemen Wyverns’ Garden Party

Date: Sunday 15th June

Time: 11:00

Tickets: £17 Silver, £22 Gold

Release date: AVAILABLE NOW

Dress Code: Blazers and Shorts/Bikinis and Shades

Another year of no jelly wrestling. Tickets have got pricier, but they promise us double the ents of last year.

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Trinity Hall Garden Party

Date: Sunday 15th June

Time: 14:00

Tickets: £14/15/16

Release date: AVAILBALE NOW

Dress Code: Smart Casual

Good clean fun. Food, booze, and no ritual humiliation.

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Squires’ Garden Party

Date: Sunday 15th June

Time: 14:00-17:00

Release date: AVAILABLE NOW

Dress code: Smart Casual

Hog roasts, Truly Medley Deeply, beer pong galore.

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Idlers’ Garden Party

Date: Sunday 15th June

Time: TBC

Tickets: TBC

Release date: TBC

Dress Code: Smart Casual

As drinking soc garden parties go, Pembroke’s is actually pretty sophisticated.

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Marguerites and Hippolytans Garden Party

Date: Sunday 15th June

Time: 12:00-2:00

Tickets: TBC

Release Date: TBC

Dress Code: Smart Casual

Booze-up with a fancy name in Christ’s Fellows’ Garden

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Murray Edwards Garden Party

Date: Sunday 15th June

Time: 16:00

Tickets: £28

Release date: SOLD OUT

Dress Code: Castle Hill Carnival

Sold out in 20 minutes. Will it live up to the hype?

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Chetwynd Society Garden Party

Date: Sunday 15th June

Time: 18:00

Tickets: TBC

Release Date: TBC

Dress Code: Smart Casual

‘A crowd of undergraduates bent upon an evening of gaiety of speech and conduct’

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Trinity College Science Society Garden Party

Date: Sunday 15th June

Time: 14:00

Tickets: £2/4

Release Date: AVAILABLE NOW

Dress Code: Smart Casual

Cheap tickets and boozy Nat-Scis. What more could you want?

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Blake Society Garden Party

Date: Monday 16th June

Time: 14:00

Tickets: TBC

Release date: TBC

Dress Code: Smart Casual

Blake and booze.

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Fitzwilliam Museum Society Secret Garden Party

Date: Monday 16th June

Time: 14:00

Tickets: £3

Release date AVAILABLE NOW

Dress Code: Smart Casual

It’s secret. Oooo.

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Newnham MCR Garden Party

Date: Wednesday 18th June

Time: 16:00

Tickets: £25

Release Date: AVAILABLE NOW

Dress Code: Smart Casual

Taken rather seriously.

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Dilli Haat CUHCS Garden Party

Date: Wednesday 18th June

Time: 12:00

Tickets: TBC

Release Date: TBC

Dress Code: Smart Casual

The Cambridge University Hindu Cultural Society are planning quite a rumpus we hear.

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Caius Medics, NatScis and Engineers Garden Party

Date: Thursday 19th June

Time: 12:30

Tickets: TBC

Release Date: TBC

Dress Code: Smart Casual

Engineers have fun too, y’know.

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History Graduates’ Garden Party

Date: Friday 20th June

Time: 14:00

Tickets: £6/9/12

Release Date: TBC

Dress Code: June 1914: Europe’s last summer

If you’re in this minority, you might want to be here.

 

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