Date: Wednesday 02 October 2024
Time: 6pm-8pm
Location: Bancroft 1.15
Join us on October 2nd from 6-8pm in Bancroft 1.15 to kick off Black History Month with a night of fun, games, and community!
From Caribbean-style Dominoes, to Ludo, Ayo/Mancala, and your favourites like Uno and Jenga, we have a range of games that will allow you to unleash your competitive side whilst enjoying games popular in Black communities across the diaspora. Plus, we will have refreshments on hand to keep you fuelled throughout the night.
There is limited capacity, so please grab your free ticket now to secure your spot! Bring your friends, or make some new ones on the night!
If you've missed out, there will be another game night later in the month so please look out for it on qmsu.org/events!
Keep an eye on qmsu.org/bhm to see our Black History Month Culture List and to find the other events we've got planned throughout the month!
Date: Friday 11 October 2024
Time: 1pm-2pm
Location: Library Square
Join us for a trip to the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton, where we’ll explore the rich history and contributions of Black communities in the UK. Meet on campus at Library Square and travel as a group. Alternatively, meet us there!
Date: Tuesday 15 October 2024
Location: Bancroft 2.40
Come along to celebrate Black History Month through a Film Screening of the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. A film which covers the incredible true story of the Black woman behind groundbreaking medical research - who never even knew of the contribution she made.
Date: Thursday 17 October 2024
Time: 11am-3pm
Discover and support amazing student and local Black-owned businesses at our Black Business Fair in Library Square!
Date: October 21st
Time: 11am-4pm
NHS Blood and Transplant will be coming to carry out a 'know your blood type' event. This will be an opportunity for anyone to enroll as blood donors and in turn, also participate in a finger prick test to find out your likely blood type.
This is an engaging event that will be of interest to anyone looking to sign up to become a blood donor or looking to find out more information around this subject. The added benefit of providing blood donors with the opportunity to find out their likely blood type, will also give valuable information about what your blood type means, how rare it is and what is used for.
The process will take in total around 5 minutes. You will need to fill in a form to register your details, enabling us to enroll you as a future blood donor. Once this has been done, if you wish, we can carry out a finger prick test to provide an instant result of your likely blood type. The finger prick test involves a trained member of our team, taking a small sample of the participants blood (only 4 drops of blood is required), placing it on an Eldon card with a saline solution and mixing the sample to gain a result within 2 minutes, the likely blood type will be told to the participant and a brief explanation of the blood type will be given.
Most people can give blood. If you are in generally good health and between the age of 17 - 65 you could sign up today! The students can register from age 16, they will receive a letter when they turn 17 explaining that they are now eligible to be a blood donor and to book an appointment at their convenience.
Date: Wednesday 23 October 2024
Time: 1pm-5pm
Location: Library, 2nd Floor, Archives Reading Room
Learn about QMUL's own Black History! This year, we are spotlighting the Nigerian Princess Alakija Tejumade, who was a Queen Mary student from 1946-1950.
Date: October 24th
Location: Garrod Building
Date: 29th October
Time: 12pm-6pm
Location: Matt Spencer Boardroom Student's Union
Celebrate this year’s Black History Month themes with us while we foreground resilience, self-care, and well-being through an exploration and dialogue around black and natural hair in a zine making workshop with Korantema Anyimadu!
The word ‘zine’ is shorthand for magazine and zines are often produced by artists and other creatives, sometimes self-published in small numbers. They also might incorporate found or personal images from their author’s lives.
Join Korantema and our Community Organiser for BHM, Aliya Garraway on Tuesday29th October from 4-6pm in our Matt Spencer Boardroom. No prior experience is required, and all materials are provided. We encourage you to bring any newspapers, magazines, or other found materials for use in creating your own zine.You can find the wider student-led programme of events on the Students' Union website.