What's On
If it's music you're after, and whether you're into drum 'n' bass, indie or cheese, there's always plenty to keep you occupied at Emma.
Emma Ents, our very own student-run club night, fills the Barevery Wednesday night in addition to twice termly Bar Extensions open to Emma students only.
The What's On Email
The What's On email is a weekly email sent to undergraduates at Emmanuel College, listing events and announcements for the next week or so. The email is compiled and set by the Communications Officer. Emmanuel students can submit items by logging in and using the links on the right-hand side of this page.
External Notices
Sustainability in Cambridge: Ideas into Action - Tickets on sale!
Date: 3rd March 2012
Time: 9:00 - 17:30
Hosted by the Cambridge Department of Engineering
Climate change is increasingly recognised as both a serious threat and a major challenge requiring multi-faceted solutions. Sustainability leadership concerns the question of how to move to a world in which sustainable principles are integrated into decision-making at every level - from individual behaviour to building design to energy policy - and it is the central theme of this one-day...
Free Volunteering Holiday this Summer with Campus Children's Holidays
Do you fancy going on an activity holiday this summer with disadvantaged kids? It's a really fun, free and worthwhile way to spend a week of your holidays.
Come to our training session for new volunteers on Wednesday the 15th of February at 5:00pm in Sidney Sussex college and read on to find out more.
Campus Children's Holidays provides respite holidays for 200 children aged 6-13 every summer - lots of the kids wouldn't get a holiday otherwise and it provides a break for both them and...
Job Opportunity: Reach Cambridge Supervisor
The Job: Supervisor of international students aged 14?19.
The Dates: A choice, either 29 June - 22 July and/or 27 July - 19 August.
The Pay: £250 per week
The Free Stuff: Free accommodation in a Cambridge college; free breakfast &
dinner.
The Perks: Weekend excursions across the UK including such places as
London, Stratford-upon-Avon, Brighton and Oxford plus more, cinema and
theatre trips, access to sports facilities and equipment.
The ideal applicant would have experienc...
CHARLES MOORE: WHY MARGARET THATCHER IS BACK IN FASHION
Tuesday 7th February, 5.30pm Queen's Building auditorium, Emmanuel College Charles Moore is a former editor of The Daily Telegraph and Margaret Thatcher's biographer. His talk, "Why Margaret Thatcher is back in fashion," will be followed by questions. This event is hosted by the Cambridge University Conservative Association, and is free to all students. Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear one of the country's leading journalists!
After the talk, all are welcome to dinner at the Curry...
RAG Blind Date is back!
Single and ready to mingle? On the rebound? Or coupled up but still want to be involved? TUESDAY 7TH FEBRUARY is your chance to join us for a night of fun, amazing drinks deals and romance, whilst making lots of money for charity.
Forms are available for £5 from your Blind Date Rep and from the RAG Office on the New Museums Site.
Forms are to be completed by Friday 3rd February and handed back to your Blind Date Rep. The RAG Cupids will then match you up an...
Language-juggling poetry - a talk by Dr Raphael Lyne
Cambridge University English Society presents
MULTILINGUAL AND LANGUAGE-JUGGLING POETRY
a talk by DR. RAPHAEL LYNE
7pm, Wednesday 8th February
Emmanuel College, Timmy Hele Room
Free wine, nibbles and fruit juice.
Dr Lyne, a specialist in the Renaissance and cognitive theory, will speak on poems through history that boldly united the uneasy bedfellows of different languages, and on the surprising poetic potential and complexity in mongrel verse. This is the first of a series of...
Hub Series Week 3 - Strawberry Fair
Latimer Room, Clare College
The Strawberry Fair is the most popular music and free arts event in Cambridge. Every first saturday in June for over 40 years, the Strawberry Fair has landed on Midsummer Common and has become an established and well loved fixture in the Cambridge calendar. The Strawberry Fair is a visual and musical extravaganza for all the family, a jamboree for people of all ages. First and foremost, Strawberry Fair is a feast for music lovers. Throughout the Fair, all day...
CU AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESENTS: THE SECRET PORTER'S BALL
Saturday 11th February- 19.30-01.00
Join Cambridge University Amnesty International and the Cambridge Union, the team behind the award winning Freedom Festival, for an unforgettable night of cocktails, jazz and the rib-tickling best of Cambridge's comedy scene.
Featuring side-splitting sketch shows and special guests from Radio 2 and the News Quiz carrying you into the live music after-party with big band beats and cocktails deals to keep you dancing into the night.
Tickets are £...
The Wilberforce Society: National Security and the Prime Minister, meeting with Lord Wilson 13th Feb.
On MONDAY, 13th February at 5pm, TWS will meet in in the Harrods Room at Emma to discuss a wide-ranging and novel policy paper on the National Security Council and the Prime Minister by George Bangham and Sarang Shah.
This policy seminar will be of interest to all historians, lawyers, economists, PPSers etc. who would like to learn more about UK government, national security and foreign policy.
Since 9/11 the UK?s national security has become an increasingly central organisational...
