One World Week round up
Students at the University Of Warwick participated in One World Week, a student run cultural festival from January 27th to February 1st.
Organised and run entirely by students, the festival featured day programs, talks on relevant topics and various forms of entertainment events.
The week featured daylong programs aimed at different sections of society, such as Charity Day and Outreach Day.
Charity Organisations such as UNICEF used the opportunity to raise awareness and fundraise at the same time.
Mrin Chatterjee, third year student and President of Warwick UNICEF told the Boar: “ We expect people to have fun while realising the cause behind the fundraising.”
Outreach Day focused on providing middle school children a glimpse into university life by setting up engaging activities, along with performances from societies such as the Warwick Magic Society and Warwick Improvised Theatre Society.
Children from Westwood Academy attended the event. After a finger painting and T-shirt decoration session, Reece Morris, student from Westwood Academy said, pointing to his T-shirt: “ I’ve been painting, and I’ve got my hands all brown, and I’ve got Warwick University on there!”
The teachers commented as well: “We’ve really enjoyed it and the kids have really enjoyed it. It was a shame when the performers were up there because we couldn’t hear them, but otherwise it’s been great.”
Stalls at Careers Day were run by organisations such as AISEC, Warwick Finance Society and a Chinese company called TicTwo.
Saumya Dabriwal, team member of Careers Day told the Boar: “The man especially flew from China to put up a stall here, but nobody turned up, and there were very few attendees, but it was still a good event because the guy was really happy with the response that he got, even though we weren’t.”
Forums, a series of talks on various relevant topics such a religion, capitalism and sustainability and feminism saw good turnouts and active participation.
While the discussions were largely well moderated, there were some instances of outbursts.
After the talk on Race, Religion and Rationality, a student who wished to remain anonymous said: “The debate got really heated at times, I think the room was especially tense when a student got up, abused the panel and left. I don’t think anyone saw that coming.”
Amongst others, ‘Night’ Events included the Fashion Show and Warwick’s Got Talent, both of which were hugely successful.
Daniel Marshall-Heyman, head of public relations, was especially pleased with the turnout to the non-ticketed events. Speaking with reference to Warwick’s Got Talent, he said to the Boar “There were people standing on the side lines! No one forced them to be there.”
In terms of improvements over last year, he added that the coordinators had worked really hard to streamline communication so that everyone was aware of what was happening.
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