Happy Mondays: Portrait drawing workshop

15 March, 7pm, Online

Learn how to draw portraits in this relaxed online art session.

Have you ever fancied having a go at drawing portraits but didn’t know where to start? Are you looking for something relaxing, creative and social to do with your evenings in? Then this could be the perfect session for you.

Artist and educator Katie Sandoval will guide you through the session. You’ll start by looking at inspirational portrait artists and going through some warm up drawing exercises. You’ll then look at mark making and approaches to tonal shading before focusing on techniques for drawing facial features and proportions.

This session is suitable for all abilities including beginners. Find out more on the events page.

Paulo Freire centennial (multiple events)

15, 17, 18 March, 1 -2pm, Online

The Institute for Media and Creative Industries invites you to join their next cycle of talks celebrating the birth centennial of the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire.

Over the course of seven 60-minute talks taking place between 9-24 March 2021, the cycle includes two Plenaries and five Global Exchanges exploring themes such as dialogue, love, empathy, hope and humility. Find out more on the events page.

Public lecture: Mental toughness: From elite sport to weight management

16 March, 5.30 – 6.30pm, Online

Dr Elizabeth Stamp, lecturer in Health and Exercise Psychology at Loughborough University will present her public lecture online.

The talk will discuss mental toughness and its relationship with both elite sport and weight management.

Dr Elizabeth Stamp researchers behaviour change of health-related lifestyle behaviours, predominately focusing on physical activity and diet.

For further information relating to this public lecture please email Alison Stanley on:NCSEM-Education@lboro.ac.uk, you can also find out more information on the events page.

Ideologization and digital network structures

17 March, 2 – 3pm, Online

This event is hosted by the Populism Research Group at Loughborough University and co-sponsored by CRCC. This talk is presented by Athina Karatzogianni, Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester and guest chair Cristian Vaccari, Professor of Political Communication, Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture (Loughborough University). Find out more information on the events page.

Year in Enterprise Briefing Session

17 March, 2 – 3pm, Online

The Year in Enterprise is designed to give students the chance to set up their own business during their placement year. With access to training, mentoring, and plenty of peer support, we aim to help you to maximise your business success. Click here for more info.

Euro-Vision Workshop

17 March, 5 – 8pm, Online

Join FRAUD for a workshop exploring the extractivist gaze of the EU’s migration policy in the Mediterranean.

This workshop will interrogate how phosphate extraction in Western Sahara, fisheries partnership agreements, and the expansion of Free Trade Zones – such as the Tangier Exportation Free Zone – participate in the thickening of borders and the technologies underlying their surveillance. Through the collective creation of an online cartogram, participants will together map different forms of power entangled in extraction politics within EU border countries (such as Morocco), charting migrant flows towards the EU from these zones.

Such a task is particularly relevant at a time when projected free trade (namely with the United States) is lauded as the saviour to a post Brexit ‘immigrant free’ England. In this vision, free trade (i.e. the ability of capital to exploit cheap labour elsewhere) is posited as a solution to the monstrous ‘other’ leaking through the borders. EURO-VISION therefore discusses how these issues are entangled and politically deployed both spatially and socially.

Prior knowledge of this subject area is not necessary. Readings will be distributed in advance of the workshop, but these will not be compulsory.

Find out more on the events page.

Initiate Programme: The Practicalities of Starting Out

18 March, 6.30 – 8pm, Online

In our penultimate workshop of Term 2, Dr Sal Malik and Dr Sophie-Louise Hyde join forces to introduce you to all the significant steps you might need to take and consider when getting started with turning your business idea into the real deal!  You can find out more here.

Self-Care Sundays: Fun, Feel-good, Theatre-improv games

21 March, 4pm, Online

Join us for an unconventional zoom session and have a laugh!

Are you tired and fed up with dry and tedious virtual meetings and lectures? Yash Chawla, a drama student currently on placement at Trestle Theatre, will lead a 90-minute zoom session of fun, feel-good theatre-improv games that challenge the negative connotation associated with virtual meetings. If you are looking to take a break from your busy life, meet new people and have a laugh, look no further!

The session will start with a get-on-your-feet warm up and an interactive ice-breaker, followed by a bunch of basic improv games that will encourage you to be silly and spontaneous, ending with a self-care exercise that will end your week on a positive note. Find out more information here.