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We had an awesome afternoon last Thursday celebrating 100,000 visitors to the Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities with Festa di Strada, a family-friendly Italian style street party hosted at our City Campus within The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora! 🎉

With over 300 visitors joining us to celebrate for the afternoon, the day was a huge success! We had amazing musical entertainment thanks to our Performance Music students, Kyle Hsieh and Lila Nicholson. We were joined by Base Food By Fire and Gelato Dolce Christchurch who provided our guests with some delicious Italian treats! And of course, we had the Teece Museum open for everyone to explore, as well as an awesome kids activity around the Art Centre!

Thank you to everyone who joined us and a big congratulations to our Teece team for reaching this exciting milestone 👏🍕🎶

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Our Creative Writing: Eco-Lit in the Field Summer School class took a trip out to Kura Tawhiti, Castle Hill and UC’s Cass Field Station last week to learn more about the history of these unique landscapes to inspire their writing around the environment, landforms and lifeforms. Big thanks to Dr Angus McIntosh and Dr Helen Warburton from UC Science for guiding us through the fascinating landscape at Cass, sharing their knowledge from their ecology backgrounds! 🍃🌏✍️

Meet UC Arts Alum, Emma 🇳🇿

After finishing her BA Hons and MA in Media and Communication and Political Science, Emma went on to working as the Second Secretary, Trade & Economic at the New Zealand Embassy in Rome, Italy 🌟

Swipe through to hear more about Emma's experience post-studies 🌏

🎉 Congratulations to UC PhD student Brittany Ogden-Travis! 🎉

Brittany, who recently won the UC Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, has now made it into the Top 8 of the Asia-Pacific 3MT finals! 🌏✨

Her research, titled "Listening to Children in Aotearoa", addresses a crucial gap in understanding how we listen to children within New Zealand organizations. Brittany argues that listening is often treated as an implicit part of child participation when it should be made explicit. Through interviews with 30 professionals—including policy advisors, doctors, lawyers, and advocates—she has developed a listening framework to improve child well-being in Aotearoa.

Let's all support Brittany as she represents UC and New Zealand! Register now to watch the Asia-Pacific 3MT finals on October 30th and cheer her on! 🙌

Register here: https://stream.gigtv.com.au/Mediasite/Login/Register?ReturnUrl=%2FMediasite%2FPlay%2F910f33c8c1df4a95b9669658f4dc7ddd1d

European Foreign Policy in the 21st Century (EURA/POLS 234) students were lucky enough to be joined by the European Union Ambassador to New Zealand Ambassador, his excellency, Lawrence Meredith.

Thank you for your time and insights Lawrence Meredith, we greatly appreciated it! 🌟

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This week the University of Canterbury hosted a group of International Agents from China, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines to join us on campus to explore UC and life in Ōtautahi, Christchurch. This event provided the opportunity for the agents to explore our facilities and to get to know more about our key programmes.

The Faculty of Arts hosted a tour of our amazing UC Digital Screen facilities on Dovedale Campus, as well as a talk from our Associate Dean of Arts (Academic), Jeanette King, who highlighted some of our key programmes for international students. These agents play a vital role in helping us to support international students with their study options and life at UC. We hope all the attendees had a great week and enjoyed learning more about the Faculty of Arts 🌟

Discover Your Creative Side This Summer at UC!

Unlock your potential with our new Summer School Arts courses – from ceramics and children’s book illustration to eco-literature and screen printing. Whether you're looking to explore hands-on crafts, dive into creative writing, or learn cutting-edge techniques, UC’s Faculty of Arts Summer School has a course for you! No prior experience needed, and students from any degree can enrol.

📅 Courses start either November 2024 & January 2025.

👉 Swipe through to find your perfect course and enrol today!

🔗 To find out more, click the link in our bio.

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Donald Matheson from our Media and Communication department recently joined former student and TVNZ reporter Thomas Mead, along with Hariklia Nicola, editor of CANTA, for a panel discussion at the UN Youth Model Parliament at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha. They explored the intricate relationship between media and politics, tackling insightful questions from rangatahi on topics ranging from AI to opinion polling and social media platforms. This event is a highlight of UN Youth NZ: Canterbury Region Aotearoa’s annual program, aimed at inspiring young people and fostering their global citizenship 📱🌏

Credit: Marjolaine Stranaghan

University of Canterbury

Huge congratulations to Bella Morrow and Sophie McKenzie, our first 2 Bachelor of Social and Environmental Sustainability graduates! 🎓

Bella majored in Sustainable Business Enterprise and Economics and is now working as a Sustainability Coordinator for a Hospitality Group based in Ōtautahi, focusing on helping the group achieve B Corp Certification.

Sophie majored in Social Action, Community and Global Development and is now working as a Client Assistant supporting clients going through numerous life decisions, following her passion in making a difference in communities and whānau alike.

Well done to Bella and Sophie, we are so proud of you both and are excited to see where your passion for sustainability takes you on your future endeavours 🌎

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Big congratulations to Brittany Ogden-Travis who represented Arts in the University of Canterbury 3 Minute Thesis competition and was awarded 1st place! 🥇

Well done Brittany, we are very proud! 👏

Congratulations to our Arts 3 Minute Thesis Winners for 2024! 🌟

🥇1st place: Anna Christoforou from the National Centre for Research on Europe with the presentation "The murky ethics of bordering technologies."

🥈2nd place: Brittany Ogden-Travis from Media & Communication with the presentation "Listening to children in Aotearoa, New Zealand."

🥉3rd place: Georgia Williams from Media & Communication with the presentation "Finding flourishment: Daily wellbeing mobile applications and their ability to support young adults in New Zealand's daily wellbeing."

Well done to everyone who entered, you all did amazing! All the best to Anna and Brittany who will be representing the Faculty of Arts in the University of Canterbury finals!

We joined some of 3rd year Journalism students in class this week as they were working on video editing 💻

Yuma had the most incredible time in Chile while study towards his Spanish minor here at UC! Swipe through to find out more and see some amazing photos from Yuma's time in Chile 📚📸 🇨🇱

Huge thanks to LatAmCAPE for the opportunity! ☺️

UC Careers Evening 2024! 💭🎓

Last week we had our Careers Evening event, where we invited back 3 of our amazing Arts Alumni (pictured) to share on their career journeys post arts degree and offer valuable advice and insights to attendees thinking of studying Arts at UC. Huge thanks to our speakers, Clive, Laura and Jo! We hope all those who joined us had a great time and left feeling inspired... 💡🎤🍂🎨✍️

We have had a super busy few days with our Languages Department hosting both Spanish Day and Japanese Day at UC this week 🇪🇸🇯🇵

Over 1,000 students attended over the 2 days from over 15 different Canterbury High Schools! Students had the chance to explore all the opportunities which can come from studying a language at UC, as well as attended workshops to help them prepare them for their NCEA assignments and exams. A huge thank you to all the staff and students involved who made these days a huge success! ☺👏

How beautiful is Ōtautahi during autumn? 🍂🍁

We're incredibly fortunate to have such a gorgeous campus at UC, which certainly makes those 8am lectures a bit easier to wake up for! 😋

Meet John, a UC Arts Grad 🎶

After finishing his Bachelor of Music in Composition, John went on to open his own music school, Le Jon School of Music 🎸🥁🎹

Have a read through this post to learn more about John's experience working in the Music industry! 👌