Category Archives: Events and entertainment

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Equity and Diversity, Events and entertainment, Our Community, The Community

UCSA Presents: Pride Week ’24

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UCSA Pride Week 18th March - 28th March 2024

18th March – 28th March 2024

Join us for a fun-filled Pride Week with various events to celebrate the vibrant and diverse Rainbow Community right here on campus!

Rainbow Lunch – Monday 18th March | 12 pm – 2 pm | Haere-roa Amphitheatre

Bring your friends and celebrate the amazing rainbow community. take a snap in our photo booth to add to our ‘ally wall’; a space to show how large the support is for the rainbow community. – Register here for catering purposes.

QCanterbury Quiz Night – Wednesday 20th March | 6 pm | Ti-kouka

Bring your friends or join forces with fellow queer students and allies for a fun night of queer trivia.

Pride Night – Friday 22nd March | 8 pm – Late | The Foundry

Our annual Pride Night is back! With multiple performances, and new cocktails available. this will be one you won’t want to miss! Dress up in your most fabulous Pride-themed outfit and be in the chance to win your share of $200 worth of foundry vouchers!

Drag Brunch – Saturday 23rd March | 10 am – 2 pm | The Foundry

Join us for our first-ever boozy brunch! Book a seat*, eat some brekky, have a few drinks, and watch some magnificent queens and kings steal the show.

*Performers are still to be announced and tickets will be available soon.

Holi Festival – Thursday 28th March | 2 pm – 6 pm | Haere-Roa Lawn

A collaboration with the UC Indian Student Association and Q Canterbury, we are combining the amazing colour-throwing festival with Christchurch pride! join us in a fun outdoor event, with performances, music and food- and get ready to get messy!

*This is a dry Holi, please do not bring any water guns or other water vessels.

Events and entertainment, The Community, Wellbeing

Eco Volunteers Hui

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Would you like to get involved in sustainable initiatives on campus? Or learn more about what’s happening on campus in this space? Come along to UC Sustainability’s “Eco Volunteers” hui next Monday. We’ll have some kai to share while we kōrero about sustainability at UC 🌱🌏

Monday 4th March, 10-11am, Rehua 108 (Community Engagement Hub).

Read more about Eco Volunteering here.

 

Events and entertainment, Our Community, The Community

Free pizza at the Community Garden Open Day!

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Te Ngaki o Waiutuutu (Waiutuutu Community Garden) is having an open day, and you’re invited!

This is a great opportunity to explore and learn about UC’s beautiful community garden, meet some like-minded people, and be the first to learn about our upcoming workshops. We’ll be firing up the rocket oven to make some yummy pizzas, along with sharing some other yummy kai. 🍕

Drop in between 12pm – 2pm on Friday 23 February.

Our garden is located just off Engineering Road, along the Waiutuutu stream pathway. Learn more and see a map for how to find the garden here.

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