Events
Please see the links to the left for our major individual events, for information (and for some limited-capacity events, to sign up).
| Day (and date) | Events | Description | Place | Time |
| Saturday (21st November) | Vintage Poster Making | With inspiration drawn from vintage sexual health posters, current statistics and HIV/AIDS articles, Artsoc hosts a poster making session with the resulting posters exhibited around campus |
Music Room 3, Westwood |
1-3pm |
| Monday (23rd November) | EIGHTIES DAY! | Everyone dresses up in their best clothes from the Eighties complete with Red Ribbon to remember the impact of the AIDS virus! | Classrooms, lecture theatres and labs all over campus | All day! |
| Chlamydia TESTING | The chance to win £100 Amazon.co.uk vouchers in the STD raffle!!! | SUHQ, MR 4 | 11am-3pm | |
| Codpiece Impromptu Performances |
Performance society Codpiece showcase a series of unexpected scenes and events based loosly around sexual health | All over campus | Could happen at any time! | |
| Sex, Lies and STD Pictionary | One woman talks frankly about her experience with STDs, from the trials with the medical profession to ways of telling new partners |
S0.17 Social Studies |
5pm | |
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MTW Presents 'Lust, Love, Loss and Life' | Music Theatre Warwick's alternately light-hearted and moving production on the complexity of relationships. | Chaplaincy | 7pm |
| Get a quick and discreet chlamydia test during a night out at the Union! | Toilets during Top B in the Students' Union, Copper Rooms 1 & 2 | 9pm-1am | ||
| Tuesday (24th November) |
Part One of 'Politics, Policies and Ethics of HIV/AIDS: Past and Present' |
Sexual health activists from the 80s, 90s and today meet to recall their experiences |
The Teaching Grid, Library |
10am - 5pm |
| GUM Clinic on Campus |
No time for a check up? Just drop in to these quick and easy testing sessions at the SU. |
Meeting Rooms 4 & 5, SUHQ, Students' Union |
11am - 4pm | |
| CRUSAID 5K Charity Fun Run | Warwick Sport help to bring you an unique opportunity to run across campus to raise money for key AIDS outreach charity, Crusaid | Meet at Cryfield Pavilion | 2pm to approximately 3pm with social afterwards |
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| Film Showing: Edward II by Derek Jarman |
Showing of the brilliant cult movie 'Edward II', with an introduction and post-show discussion led by film lecturer Dr Jose Arroyo. |
Room A0.28 at Millburn House |
5pm | |
| Wednesday (25th November) |
Part Two of 'Politics, Policies and Ethics of HIV/AIDS: Past and Present' |
Conference on the different forms of political and ethical engagement with HIV/AIDS in the past and present |
Seminar Room 3, Wolfson Research Exchange, Library |
10am-5:30pm |
| Blood Donation on Campus |
A chance to give blood and save someone's life, right here on campus |
Students' Union, Copper Rooms, Room 1 |
Two sessions: AM: 9:45-12pm PM: 1:30-4pm |
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| 'Is Religious Belief Good for your Sexual Health?' | A debate on how religious belief might affect sexual health practices |
S0.10 Social Studies |
5pm - 6pm | |
| Thursday (26th November) | Chlamydia TESTING | Another chance for you and your mates to get tested, with a raffle ticket for the £100 Amazon voucher | Meeting Room 4, SUHQ | 11am-3pm |
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'Don't Stop Me Now' Sexual Health Campaigning, Where Next? |
A constructive discussion and mini-workshop reflecting on sexual health campaigning on campus and in a wider context, asking how Students' Unions and charities can remedy growing STD percentages |
Meeting Room 6 SUHQ, Students' Union |
12pm-1pm | |
| A Birthday Party for the Forgotten Children |
Join People and Planet for interactive party games and food, partly in rememberance and partly in hope, for the 1 million children with HIV who never make it to their 2nd birthday because of a lack of access to life-saving drugs. |
Meeting Room 6 SUHQ, Students' Union |
1pm | |
| The Rise and Fall of Student Health |
Mini-lecture on the microcosm of student healthcare and the politics behind it with the Head of the History of Medicine, Mathew Thomson |
R1.03 (Ramphal Building) |
3pm | |
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'A Very Peculiar Practice' - An Evening with Andrew Davies
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Screenwriter Andrew Davies talks about how his experiences at Warwick inspired the BBC series 'A Very Peculiar Practice' (clips will be shown) |
Postponed due to illness - event to be reorganised in near future |
Postponed |
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| Banned for Life: Gay Men and the Blood Ban | A debate looking at the issues surrounding the banning of blood from gay men, presenting both sides of the story |
S0.13 (Social Studies) |
4pm | |
| Joy of Sex Education | An entertaining selection of sex education videos from the 1910s - 1970s |
S0.13 (Social Studies) |
5pm | |
| Friday (27th November) | Chlamydia TESTING | One final chance to get those lagging behind a sweet check-up and a stab at the £100 Amazon voucher prize | Meeting Room 5, SUHQ | 11-3pm |
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'Pox, Pus and Prophylactics': Sexual Health Through the Ages |
A lively, often funny mini-lecture about the evolution of sexual health practices, from pig intenstines to dental dams. |
S0.28 (Social Studies) |
2pm | |
| An investigation into writing poetry on the experience and issues surrounding AIDS and sexual health | Writer's Room, CAPITAL Centre at Millburn House |
3pm |
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| Sunday (29th November) | Music Centre Concert | A Symphony Orchestra and Chorus performance of extracts from Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem | Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre | 3:30pm |
| RAG QUIZ | A special 'sexy' round in the infamous charity-money-raising pub quiz | Copper Rooms, SUHQ | 7pm | |
| Tuesday (1st December) | Review of the week's achievements, including a work-in-progress reading of the Angels in America workshop and an a cappella performance! (Invitation only) |
CAPITAL Centre at Millburn House |
6pm |
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| Ongoing Events | Angels in America Workshop |
Watching and then reworking the famous AIDS-based play into a new performance | CAPITAL Centre at Millburn House |
Week 7-1st December |
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SHAW ART Installations & Outreach Projects
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3 Major Arts projects led by a commissioned artist - fully interactive with plenty of crocheted condoms to be made and petridishes to be designed! | Various locations on campus and in Coventry | All week with additional sessions in the build up to the week | |
| Videocasting Project | Make edgy films! Sexual health concepts, questions and histories transformed into art, activism, academic study or documentary! | 3 mini-sessions on campus | One session a week from Week 7-1st December |