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Sustainability Week

17 – 21 Feb | Across campus

This week, the University will be celebrating environmentally friendly schemes and sharing planet-saving initiatives for Sustainability Week, led by the University’s Sustainability Team.

Environmental Management Assistant Amber Quraishi commented: “With over 18,000 students and 3,900 staff, our activities as a University make a significant difference to our local environment, community, and the planet.

“This week is a great opportunity to learn more about sustainable development, what we get up to as a team, and how you can get involved in making a positive impact. There’s an event for everyone and all are welcome.”

• Monday 17th – Ditch the disposable and join the reusable revolution
• Tuesday 18th – Relaunch of the sustainability newsletter
• Wednesday 19th – Grime Scene Investigation and Rebellion Activity Day
• Thursday 20th – ‘Behind the greens’ campus walk
• Friday 21st – LAGS indoor herb and soup-making workshop

Click here for more information on Sustainability Week.

LGBT+ History Month

The celebration continues across campus, with many more events taking place this week…

Monday 17th February

Minority within a Minority

17 Feb | 7pm | Fusion, LSU

The Loughborough LGBT+ Association, supported by the Ethnic Minorities Network brings to you, Outspoken’s next panel discussion; Minority within a Minority: Navigating Spaces as an LGBT+ Person of Colour

This event will consist of a panel of speakers (announced next week!) who identify as both LGBT+ and from an ethnic minority background who will be openly sharing their experiences. We’ll be concentrating on identity, experiences and the importance of supporting people of colour in LGBT+ communities! The panel will be in discussion for an hour, followed by some time for an open discussion with the audience.

This event is open to ALL students, whether you are from an ethnic minority background or not and whether you are LGBT+ or not.

This event is free to attend. Click here for more information.

Happy Mondays: Acoustic Night

17 Feb | 7:30pm | Cognito

Join LU Arts as they showcase some of the best music talent on campus in their popular performance night, featuring a mix of solo and group performances covering a range of styles.

Acoustic night is an open mic event; if you are interested in performing then contact LU Arts in advance by emailing luarts@lboro.ac.uk.

This event is free for students to attend but £5 for non-students. Click here for more information.

Public Lecture: No Outsiders: Developing an inclusive educational ethos

6:45 – 8:30pm | U020, Brockington

Equality Action presents the public lecture, ‘No Outsiders’, delivered by Andrew Moffat, MBE, Assistant Head Teacher at Parkfield Community School in Birmingham. 

‘No Outsiders’ is a whole school ethos preparing children for life in modern Britain. It teaches children from the age of four that we are all different but everyone is welcome, no one is an outsider. 

Using the Equality Act 2010 as a foundation, the approach uses picture books as a stimulus to explore diversity and difference and relate to the world outside of school. 

In 2019, protests emerged at Andrew’s school against the inclusion of LGBT quality in the ‘No Outsiders’ curriculum. These protests spread to other schools and No Outsiders became a focus for debate around Relationship and Sex Education in British schools. 

This event is free to attend but requires booking. Click here for more information.

Tuesday 18th February

LSU Rag’s Take Me Out

18 Feb | 7pm | Room 1

LSU Rag are hosting their stance on the TV Show Take Me Out. All proceeds go to charity.

Tickets are £3.50 online (plus 50p booking charge) and are available from the LSU website. Click here for more information.

Halls and Wellbeing: Zine Workshop

7 – 9pm | Claudia Parsons

Support your health and wellbeing this term with a programme of fun and uplifting activities for you to try.

Create your own mini magazine in this fun and therapeutic workshop. Zines are an easy and popular way to express yourself and create something that is personal to you. An art session to get your creative juices flowing.

This event is open to students only and costs £3. Click here for more information.

Wednesday 19th February

Library Academic Skills Workshop: Developing an effective approach to academic reading

2 – 3:30pm | Library Seminar Room 1

Are you suffering from information overload? Develop strategies for making your reading more efficient.

The reading you do for your studies is often different from the reading that you do for leisure. If you learn the correct technique for your reading goal, then you can save yourself time and ensure that you read efficiently and effectively for your essays, reports or tutorials.

This workshop has links to the following Personal Best elements:

• study skills
• research & critical thinking
• workplace skills

This event is free to attend but requires booking. Click here for more information.

The Rebellion Activity Day

6:30 – 8pm | Stanley Evernden Studio, Martin Hall

Join LU Arts for The Rebellion Activity Day with Instant Dissidence; a time-travel dance event delivering an urgent message about the future with an accompanying dance workshop.

‘In October 2018 the United Nations warned that we have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe. When that year comes, the year of 2030, we (the dancers in this piece) will be 30 years old. When that year comes, we will either have a future, or we won’t. The Rebellion is not just a performance. It is a time-travel event where the future children of audience members in 2019/2020 travel from the year 2030 to deliver an urgent message about the future.’

After the performance there will be a short break while the studio space is turned into the Imagination Cafe. The audience is invited to project into the future and imagine what a sustainable world would look like, then work backwards to discuss and identify policies and programmes that will connect that future to the present.

Schedule for the day:

• 10am-12pm: Strategies for devising activist choreographic work (practical dance workshop) – book a place here.
• 6.30pm-7pm: The Rebellion (performance)
• 7pm-8pm: Imagination Cafe (audience participation event)

LGBT+ Flight School

7:30 – 9pm | Board Room, LSU

Mixing aeroplane themed fun with more serious discussion, this will be an evening of exploration into the ways we – as LGBT+ individuals and allies – can navigate some of the identities which fall under the ‘+’ in LGBT+.

This event is free to attend. Click here for more information.

Thursday 20th February

Plan, go GOAL! Goalsetting for your Business

6:30 – 8pm | The Start-Up Lab 2.01 (Ideas Factory), STEMLab Building

Your chance to set goals and plan for your ideas and business using our unique resources and techniques.

A workshop series with a difference, this programme is open to all students across campus and focuses on the basic entrepreneurial skills and knowledge you need to get started in thinking about being self-employed, starting-up a business or applying yourself in industry. In this session, you will be taken through key goal-setting and business planning tools and techniques to further plan and begin moving forward with your ideas and / or start-up business. These goal-setting techniques can also be applied to key projects or events you might be planning in your work as students and staff, or in industry too.

This event is free to attend but requires booking. Click here for more information.

JC’s Big LGBT+ Pub Quiz

7pm | JC’s

This week JC’s welcomes the LGBT+ version of their weekly Big Pub Quiz. Whether you want to show off your knowledge of all things LGBT+, mingle with friends or just have some drinks, come on down to JC’s.

Tickets for this event are £1 and can be purchased online through the LSU website. Click here for more information.

NT Live: Cyrano de Bergerac

7 – 10pm | Cope Auditorium

James McAvoy, known for his roles in films such as X-Men and Atonement, stars in this new adaptation, which will be broadcast live from London’s West End.

Edmond Rostand’s original play has been adapted for this production by Martin Crimp and is directed by Jamie Lloyd. Martin has brought the classic play to life with linguistic ingenuity to celebrate the central character’s powerful and resonant resistance against overwhelming odds. Cyrano de Bergerac is a man who is fierce with a pen and notorious in combat. He appears to have it all except for the heart of his true love, Roxane. The only problem is his nose; it is as huge as his heart.

Will society and its narcissism get the better of Cyrano, or will he win Roxane’s heart with his mastery of language?

Tickets are £5 for students and £10 for non students. Book tickets online here.

Friday 21st February

Year in Enterprise Briefing #1

12 – 1pm | B010, Brockington Extension

During this event, Academic Lead for Enterprise, Amanda Berry, will take you through all you need to know about the Year in Enterprise Placement, including training, support and mentoring available to you throughout the year while you have the chance to run your own business or be self-employed and the DPS element of this particular type of placement year. 

This event is free to attend but requires booking. Click here for more information.

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