Celebrating Cultures across the University of Birmingham
Eid-al-Fitr (Ramadan ends) From the evening of 12 May to the evening of 13 May Eid al-Fitr, also called the “Festival of Breaking the Fast”, is a religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide that marks the end of the month-long dawn-to-sunset fasting of Ramadan, as well being as a time for spiritual reflection and prayer. … Continue reading “Eid-al-Fitr”
The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition and fair that reached millions of visitors throughout the UK in the summer of 1951. Six years after the end of the Second World War, and exactly one hundred years since the famous Great Exhibition of 1851 – the first international exhibition of manufactured products – the … Continue reading “Festival of Britain 70th anniversary”
The theme of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week is ‘Connect with Nature’. During lockdown, websites which showed footage from webcams of wildlife saw hits increase by over 2000%. Wider studies also found that during lockdowns, people not only spent more time in nature but were noticing it more and re-discovering our need to connect … Continue reading “Mental Health Awareness Week 10-16 May”
Mass Observation Day One day a year, there’s a call for people in Britain to send their anonymous diary accounts of their day http://www.massobs.org.uk/write-for-us/12th-may. After over a year of living through a global pandemic, this year’s contributions will be very telling. If people also send them to today@bbc.co.uk, extracts may get read out on Thursday … Continue reading “Mass Observation Day 12 May”
Tchin Tchin! OBRIGADA to Gisele Tyba Mayrink Redondo Orgado, Research Fellow in Portuguese Studies from Brazil, currently at the UoB, also galloping gourmet and cocktail maker extraordinaire! At an event to mark World Portuguese Language Day (5 May), Gisele entertained a Zoom group of students and staff (lusophones and non lusophones) in the ways of … Continue reading “World Portuguese Language Day cocktail celebrations”
Deaf Awareness Week (3-9 May) aims to raise awareness and challenge perceptions of hearing loss and deafness across the UK. Deaf awareness week is all about promoting the positive aspects of living with deafness and raising awareness of the isolation that deaf people can sometimes experience, and promote the importance of social inclusion. This year’s … Continue reading “Deaf Awareness Week (3-9 May)”
The Lusophone world celebrates 5 May as the international day of the Portuguese language and culture. The language is spoken by over 250 million people in nine countries and is the third most widely spoken European language, after English and Spanish. The Council of Ministers of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP) originally began observing … Continue reading “World Portuguese Language Day 5 May”
3 May marks 70 years since the Royal Festival Hall in London was opened. Now a Grade 1 listed building (the first post-war building to be Grade 1 listed), the Royal Festival Hall was built as part of the Festival of Britain, a five month national exhibition and fair held to help the nation recover … Continue reading “70th anniversary of the opening of the Royal Festival Hall”
Celebrate World Portuguese Language Day on 5 May and join us for a Zoom session creating cocktails and mocktails and learning a little Portuguese too. This event is hosted by Gisele Tyba Mayrink Redondo Orgado (Dept of Modern Languages, UoB) wpld.freecluster.eu
Saint George’s Day is celebrated on 23 April by various Christian churches and by the several nations, kingdoms, countries and cities of which Saint George is the patron saint, including England and regions of Spain and Portugal in particular. Saint George is most widely known for slaying a dragon. According to legend, the only well in … Continue reading “St George’s Day”
