It’s the final week of the summer term and so the final weekly events roundup of the undergraduate academic year! Find out what’s on this week:
Monday 12 June: Wellbeing Café
On Monday, it’s the final Wellbeing Café of the year. The Wellbeing Café is a space to connect with other students in a relaxed environment with a focus on promoting your wellbeing and mental health through activity.
Tuesday 13 June: Ancient languages, graduating action plan and summer lawn games
Are you curious about hieroglyphs, cuneiform, or Sanskrit? The Department of Classical and Archaeological Studies is organising an Ancient Languages Extravaganza on Tuesday and Wednesday. No prep or prior knowledge required.
Graduating soon? Use this workshop to create your own graduating action plan. This checklist will help you reflect on your career readiness and help you to set actions to fill any gaps. This is a hybrid event in Eliot and streamed online.
Get outside and have some fun in the sun playing lawn games on Templeman Library lawn. Try your hand at Spikeball, Stakk or Mölkky with the Park Wood Residential Life Assistants.
Wednesday 14 June: PG Summer Coffee Morning, creative language development workshop and archiving stories of migration
On Wednesday it’s the PG Summer Coffee Morning. All postgrad students are welcome to this multi-divisional PG coffee morning, with Gordan Lynch (Director of the Graduate and Researcher College), as well as the GRC Team and PG Network representatives. It’s a great opportunity to meet the wider PG community. In the afternoon there’s also a webinar for PGR students around staying well in difficult times.
Are you interested in migration, movement and people’s stories? Ahead of Refugee Week, our archiving stories of migration and movement workshop explores examples and challenges of how stories of migration and movement can be reflected in archive collections.
If English is not your first language, join us for this creative language development workshop, which will use a variety of media such as music, plays, news articles, as well as outdoor activities to develop your English language skills.
Thursday 15 June: Reflective writing workshops, outdoor games and food and drink festival
Reflective writing is a powerful learning tool which can help you to understand your own thinking processes, challenge your assumptions and explore logical approaches to arguments. On Thursday we have in-person reflective writing workshops at both Canterbury and Medway.
Join the Woolf College Residential Life Assistants for some outdoor games including table tennis, Molkky, Stakk and Spikeball. Plus there will also be free pizza provided!
The Taste of Kent Food & Drink Festival at the Gulbenkian Arts Centre is open to everyone, showcasing more than 50 amazing award finalists, who will be promoting, sampling and selling their delicious food and drink products. Tickets costs £6 in advance or £8 on the door.
Friday 16 June: Kent Community Oasis Garden
Want to spend some time outside? Come along to the Kent Community Oasis Garden (Kent COG) for an open gardening session. Everyone is welcome, and sessions are very flexible. Kent COG will need volunteers over the summer, so if you’re around, considering going along.
Staying on or near campus over summer?
If you are staying on or near summer over campus, there’s still lots you can get involved in:
- Summer wellbeing activities – There’s lots on over the summer to help support your wellbeing including writing for wellbeing workshops, positive mental health workshops and a walk and talk group. See more wellbeing activities.
- PG Summer – Make friends, enjoy the sun and learn new skills over the summer at our PG Summer events. These are designed for postgrad students, but all students are welcome to join the social events (unless specified).
- Refugee Week, 19-25 June – Events include a short, guided walk to hear extracts of the Refugee Tales, as well as a range of workshops and lectures on migration and movement throughout the month of June. Learn more about Refugee Week at Kent.
- Medway Pride, 19 August – Join Medway’s biggest LGBTQ+ Pride event! You’ll need to register for a free ticket if you want entry into Rochester Castle Gardens where performances will take place.