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Creative Futures

Start Date: 4 December 2023 9:00 am

End Date: 6 December 2023 4:00 pm

Location: Creative Campus, Kingsway

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The University’s Department of Music, Media and Performance is delighted to host the Creative Futures event from Monday 4 December 2023 to Wednesday 6 December 2023.

Creative Futures Professionals will share their knowledge, insight, and experiences from the creative industries across three days of inspiring free talks, workshops, and performances.

Creative Futures celebrates the creative industries, offers fascinating insights, and provides the chance to broaden skills, spark ideas and encourage networking.

Create your Future!

Places are free but need to be booked in advance. For further information on the sessions and to book places, please visit: https://buytickets.at/uocmmp

Posted in EventsTagged Careers, Creative Campus Kingsway, Kingsway

The Race Equality and Cultural Heritage (REACH) Network Presents: Authentic Leadership

Start Date: 6 December 2023 1:00 pm

End Date: 6 December 2023 4:00 pm

Location: Bridge House, Queen's Park

Diversifying Leadership (DL) is a programme designed to support early career academics, professional services staff, Lecturers and Senior Lecturers from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds who are about to take their first steps into a leadership role.

It exists to enable participants to enhance their visibility and authentic leadership within Higher Education and to address the under-representation of leaders from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds in HEIs in the UK at all levels, but particularly at senior levels.

This event is a celebration of REACH staff at the University of Chester who have undertaken Advance HE’s Diversifying Leadership programme, to share some of the key learning and benefits of the programme with others.

Open to all colleagues and students at L7 and above, this event is for anyone who wants to celebrate their authenticity and develop as a leader.

To book your place, email trainingenquiries@chester.ac.uk

Posted in EventsTagged Chester, diversity, Equality, queen's park, REACH

University Carol Service

Start Date: 6 December 2023 5:15 pm

End Date: 6 December 2023 6:15 pm

Location: University Chapel, Exton Park

Join our Chaplaincy team and University Choir for our University Carol Service.

We’ll sing congregational carols, and seasonal refreshments will be served following the service.

Posted in EventsTagged Carols, Chaplaincy, Chester, Christmas, Exton Park

Carols at Queen’s Park

Start Date: 7 December 2023 5:00 pm

End Date: 7 December 2023 6:00 pm

Location: Queen's Park

Join Chester Business School for carol singing with a brass band.

We’ll be serving warm spiced apple punch, mulled wine and mince pies.

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Wellbeing walk: Chester Meadows and river side

Start Date: 29 November 2023 1:00 pm

End Date: 29 November 2023 3:00 pm

Location: Chester Meadows and river side

Join our Sport and Active Lifestyle team for a wellbeing walk to explore Chester Meadows and river side.

There’s no need to book – just meet the team outside the CSU building at Exton Park at 1pm.

Posted in EventsTagged Fitness, Mental Health, Sport, Sport and Active Lifestyle, Wellbeing

Pandora’s Box: Open-mic Night

Start Date: 29 November 2023 6:00 pm

End Date: 29 November 2023 7:00 pm

Location: Vicarage Lecture Theatre CVC008, Exton Park

Always a fantastic evening, the open-mic nights are a chance to get together and hear some great poetry and prose in a supportive, informal environment. You can bring some poetry or short fiction to read – either your own writing or by a favourite author. Or you might just want to come along, have a drink, and enjoy listening to an exciting range of creative writing.

There’ll also be information about how you can submit your work to Pandora’s Inbox, the University’s creative writing magazine and website, run by students from the English Department. The deadline for submissions is 15 March.

Bring a drink and a friend (the nights are for current students in any department), and come along to the Vicarage Lecture Theatre CVC008 at 6pm. We hope to see you there!

Run by the student editors of Pandora’s Box, English Department.

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LGBTQ+ Student Support Network session: Anxiety

Start Date: 23 November 2023 2:00 pm

End Date: 23 November 2023 3:00 pm

Location: Online

In this session we will discuss anxiety – what is it and how it may affect you as part of the LGBTQ+ community. We will also look at coping strategies and where to get support.

To attend this session, please join our LGBTQ+ Student Support Network, which is live on Teams – click here to join or email studentservices@chester.ac.uk for more information.

Posted in EventsTagged LGBTQ+, Mental Health, support, Wellbeing

Warrington Climate Emergency Forum 2023: Using Carbon Literacy to boost climate action in Warrington

Start Date: 4 December 2023 5:30 pm

End Date: 4 December 2023 7:30 pm

Location: McCarthy Room, Pyramid Arts Centre Palmyra Square Warrington WA1 1BL

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This evening event is hosted by Warrington Borough Council and charity Pure Leapfrog to mark the global Carbon Literacy Action Day.

Find out more about Carbon Literacy and how it can help you develop your own response to the climate emergency. Hear from several organisations, including the University’s Sustainability team, who are already using Carbon Literacy in Warrington, and learn about a new local initiative to boost the uptake of Carbon Literacy by businesses and Parish Councils.

Refreshments will be available from 5.15pm for a 6pm start. The event will finish at 7.30pm.

In line with the Carbon Literacy Action Day theme for this year, ‘Bigger, Better, Bolder’, this event makes up part of a wider programme of events co-ordinated by the Warrington Climate Emergency Commission. It is open to anyone in Warrington who is interested to find out more about Carbon Literacy and how it could benefit you or your organisation.

Posted in EventsTagged sustainability, warrington

Warrington Climate Emergency Forum 2023: Climate Express: Warrington’s local response to the climate emergency

Start Date: 28 November 2023 5:30 pm

End Date: 28 November 2023 8:00 pm

Location: Time Square, University Centre Warrington

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At this event, which is co-hosted by the University of Chester and Warrington Climate Emergency Commission, you’ll be able to take inspiration from others taking practical action in response to the climate and ecological emergencies in Warrington.

Hear the story so far followed by a series of short presentations to illustrate local action. Connect with and learn from others in the “market place” space and start planning you next steps to help amplify the impact of local action.

Posted in EventsTagged sustainability, UCW, University Centre Warrington

Disability History Month: Disability, Children and Youth

Start Date: 13 December 2023 1:00 pm

End Date: 13 December 2023 3:00 pm

Location: Online

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You are warmly invited to a free online event to mark Disability History Month.

This event, organised by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Chester will welcome four brilliant speakers and promises to be an exciting mix of academic, personal and professional reflection on this year’s theme of ‘Disability, Children and Youth’.

Come and learn about the representation of disabled children in Victorian literature, about sign language and deaf education, and hear from the CEO of Warrington Disability Partnership about the personal and professional challenges of growing up with disabilities.

Posted in EventsTagged disability, Disability History Month