Happy Year of the Tiger

再见,牛年!你好,虎年!Goodbye, Ox, and Hello, Tiger!

The Language Centre at Queen’s and the BAME&I Staff Network invite staff, students, as well as members of the public, to join in welcoming the Year of The Tiger, which falls on Tuesday 1 February, with a variety of online cultural celebrations that explore the theme of Connectedness and Inclusion.

The launch event is scheduled between 13:00 and 14:15 on Wed 2 February featuring welcomes, cultural performances and a guest talk, followed by a variety of culture talks in the following weeks, as part of the Chinese Culture Forum 2022. All welcome! Check our Chinese@Queen’s Blog with more cultural events to come in this week and the following weeks.

Join EDL’s international “happy birthday” video

Happy 20th birthday, #EuropeanDayofLanguages!

Since 2002, it has been the goal of the European Day of Languages (26th September) to promote and celebrate linguistic diversity in Europe and beyond.

We would like to encourage Queen’s students and staff members to participate in international happy birthday video by coming down to our Language Centre stand at the foyer area in the McClay Library, between 12 and 2pm today (Monday 27th September) to take a short video saying ‘Happy Birthday’ and sharing their own language skills.

We can also help you to learn about all of the opportunities available to you to support your language skills development with the Language Centre.

Celebrating Cultural Diversity at Queen’s Survey

Calling all staff and students at Queen’s –

At Queen’s we are committed to promoting cultural diversity, equality and inclusion among our communities. The BAME&I Network and The Language Centre invite you to join us to set up a planner of events, including invited talks and culture/language-associated festivals and days that we can celebrate in a range of ways (e.g. culture talks, posters, taster sessions/workshops, performances) at Queen’s and elsewhere.

We value the richness of languages and cultures brought in by staff and students to Queen’s and would welcome BAME&I members, in particular, to share your knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm of your linguistic and cultural events so that we can build up a repertoire and make plans for joint celebrations in the future. 

To take part in the survey, just scan the QR code above or click the Survey button below.