International Festival

It's Happened!! The International Festival

City Campus is the place to be on 21 March 2013 - an international celebration coming your way.International Festival

  • stalls and displays
  • performances
  • sport and fun

The University's annual International Festival is fast approaching. The purpose of this event is to promote internationalisation, sharing the cultural heritages of our 2,500 students from around the world and the richness they bring to our experience.

Thursday 21 March, 10am - 5pm, City Campus

The event is delivered by the students in School of Sport, Performing Arts and Leisure.

Highlights                                                           Watch the Video

Time  The Venue - Students' Union
10.45 Dance with China 
11.45 Welsh songs
12.00 Outside in quad - Morris dancing
13.00 Bollywood workshop
13.20 Bollywood performance
All day UAE stall
All day Iran stall
All day French stall
All day Spanish stall
All day Finland stall
All day Ireland stall
All day Poland stall

 

Time Sports Centre
9.00 Frisby
11.00 Netball
12.00 Badminton
13.00 Table Tennis ( squash court )
14.00 Football league
16.00 Football (free)

All sports activities take place in the Sports Hall, with the exception of table tennis, which will take place in the squash court.

Time The Quad
12.00 Morris troupe
All day Nigeria stall

 

Last year included a range of similar activities including a zumba challenge linking up Japan, Malaysia and Cyprus for an hour of exercise and great fun had by all! There was also a research inspired talk on 'Black Country to Red Earth' by Author Candi Miller who spun a storytelling thread from the coalfields of the West Midlands to the red dunes of Namibia.

Find out more

For more information on how you can take part and to see what is going on, keep watching this page or contact us for more information at internationalfestival@wlv.ac.uk

We hope lots of our students will participate again this year and come and enjoy this international celebration.

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