02/11/2021
“We are International” in the School of Design | Wednesday 10th November | 1.30 - 4.00 pm
This afternoon will provide a relaxed opportunity to meet the amazing range of staff and students that we have in our School, who come from all over the world. We really are International. This event will take place on campus, and we have three rooms allocated: the foyer of the School of Design, plus a room close by and the two G32 rooms. _________________________________________________________________________
There will be four activities with timed slots: book via Eventbrite to ensure our safety.
• Meet the International committee, find out who we are, what we do, what events are coming up.
o https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-are-international-meet-the-committee-tickets-199252990057
• A drop-in room of staff and students from all stages of their degrees, both post and undergraduate, who are familiar with Leeds or Yorkshire, so that newish international and home students, and staff of course, can ask informal questions about anything “Leeds” from university information to finding galleries and restaurants and bars!
o https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-are-international-local-knowledge-drop-in-tickets-199283370927
• Tours of the School for students who are not familiar with everything on offer here
o https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-are-international-school-tours-tickets-199293370837
• View the photographs and other material in the foyer. No need to book, just turn up.
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In advance … It would be great if you could do this and then send in a photo
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The novelist Ernest Hemingway, according to literary legend, was once challenged to write a short story in only six words. The six-word story attributed to him reads: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” We would like to invite all School of Design staff and students to write a six-word memoir, reflect on the changes that coming to our School has meant for you, and then do two things with this: first print or write this out on a piece of A4 paper using an appropriate type or implement e.g., paintbrush, pen, chalk, lipstick, mascara, coal ….
Then take a selfie of yourself holding this and send it to [email protected] along with your name and the place from which you have travelled to Leeds. Please send this to me by Friday 5th November, or earlier.
These photos will be made into a slide show for the Foyer screen, and some will be printed out and placed in the glass cabinets in time for our “We are International” afternoon at the School of Design.
This won’t take long and the more we have, the more effective this will be!
