Events

Detail from Christ carrying the cross by Mattia Preti, Christ Church

Passion on Paper

Western art developed in conjunction with the pictorial needs of the Christian church. At the heart of the Christian faith is the Crucifixion and the so-called Passion, the deeds and days leading to it.

This exhibition brings together drawings from the Renaissance and the Baroque from the gallery’s collection and explores how artists depicted the complex themes of love, betrayal and pain found in these stories.

Oxford Edge AI Hackathon: Bringing Communities Together

16–18 May

Oxford Edge, 37 St Giles

Workshop / Course

Join us for a weekend with other hackers, technologists and creators to use AI to address the biggest challenges of our time: increasing social connection, reducing loneliness and promoting community cohesion. Over the course of a weekend, you’ll develop AI-enabled prototypes that help people across three tracks:

Social Young People
Improving Welcome
Community Engagement

Advance registration is essential.

Lunch & Learn: Storytelling & Brand Building in the Age of AI

22 May

Oxford Edge, 37 St Giles

Talk / Lecture

Part of the Oxford Edge Lunch & Learn series, this session features George Looker, Commercial Director at ClickZ Media and CEO of Delfy.ai—an innovative GenAI platform helping content teams streamline discovery and creation. Drawing on his leadership across Blenheim Chalcot ventures, Amazon, and government advisory, George will explore how AI tools can enhance storytelling, sharpen messaging, and support powerful brand building.

Lunch & Learn: Design Thinking and Lean Start-up Methodologies

29 May

Oxford Edge, 37 St Giles

Workshop / Course

Curious about how to spot opportunities in your research or ideas—and actually do something with them? In this session, Sally Charles, MPLS Enterprise Programme Manager at the University of Oxford, brings together Design Thinking and Lean Start-up principles to offer a fresh, actionable approach to turning ideas into ventures with real-world impact.

Lunch & Learn: Building Winning Teams with Rob Chapman

5 June

Oxford Edge, 37 St Giles

Workshop / Course

In this Oxford Edge Lunch & Learn, Rob Chapman, co-founder and former CEO of Founders Intelligence (acquired by Accenture in 2021), shares candid insights into what makes start-up teams succeed. With real-world lessons in hiring, firing, and culture building, Rob will explore the human dynamics behind venture success.

Unknown, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Christ Church

Imagining Wolsey: The Invention of an English Cardinal

18 June–22 December

Christ Church Picture Gallery

Exhibition

Marking the 500th anniversary of the initial founding of Christ Church by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in 1525, this exhibition will present a range images of the Cardinal from an anonymous Tudor oil portrait to Jonathan Pryce’s representation of him in Wolf Hall.

Without a firmly-secured contemporary portrait of Wolsey, posterity was given a free hand to imagine a Cardinal whose humble beginnings led to a stellar ascent and ended in a dramatic fall from grace and lonely death.