The Garden Party Guide 2014
Whether you’re into science, swedes, singing, sausages or snogging there’s a garden party out there for you. Stay tuned for all the latest updates.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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