Introduction to R Workshop

Event Date: Monday, June 19, 2017

This workshop is a half-day introduction to R, an open source statistical package for data analytics and graphics that is widely used in both academia and industry. It is freely available, well-supported, powerful and flexible, making it one of the most used of all programming languages.

Workshop participants will be introduced to basic programming concepts in R and learn to execute data manipulations, calculations, statistical analyses, and produce useful graphs and numeric summaries.  Participants will also learn to write simple functions that can be used to automate analyses and examine the use of R packages to expand R’s basic capabilities.  More information on this workshop can be found here:  http://ift.tt/2sdIQ8R.

No prior programming knowledge is necessary.  The workshop is hands-on and participants will follow along with all of the coding.  Participants are strongly encouraged to bring their own computers, but please ensure that both R and RStudio are installed. R is the programming language itself and must be installed first (http://ift.tt/1JNsXIg). RStudio Desktop provides a more friendly programming environment and is used in conjunction with R (http://ift.tt/1gQO3cs).

The workshop will be led by PhD candidates in the Department of Statistical & Actuarial Sciences in the Weldon Instruction Room (ground floor, Map & Data Centre, Weldon Library).

Register Online

Introduction to R Workshop

Spring Convocation.

Event Date: Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Spring Convocation.

Spring Convocation.

Event Date: Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Spring Convocation.

Spring Convocation.

Event Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Spring Convocation.

McIntosh Gallery - Sculpture Garden Tour

Event Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Join us for a tour of our Sculpture Garden (located across from Natural Science) during our 75th anniversary year! Chances are you've walked by the garden, and for those who want more context behind the works, this tour is for you!  Join us inside for a tour of the current exhibition in the gallery after.

When: 12:10pm on June 14, July 12, and August 16.
Where: Meet us outside the red doors of the McIntosh Gallery.
Who: Open to all faculty, staff and students.
What to bring: It is recommended that you wear comfortable walking shoes.

Contact Mitra Shreeram at mshreera@uwo.ca for more information

McIntosh Gallery - Sculpture Garden Tour

Spring Convocation.

Event Date: Thursday, June 15, 2017

Spring Convocation.

Last day to drop a second-term half course in Intersession w

Event Date: Friday, June 16, 2017

Last day to drop a second-term half course in Intersession w

Spring Convocation.

Event Date: Friday, June 16, 2017

Spring Convocation.

Spring Convocation.

Event Date: Monday, June 19, 2017

Spring Convocation.

Second term half courses in Summer Evening and Spring/Summer

Event Date: Monday, June 19, 2017

Second term half courses in Summer Evening and Spring/Summer

Introduction to R Workshop

Event Date: Monday, June 19, 2017

This workshop is a half-day introduction to R, an open source statistical package for data analytics and graphics that is widely used in both academia and industry. It is freely available, well-supported, powerful and flexible, making it one of the most used of all programming languages.

Workshop participants will be introduced to basic programming concepts in R and learn to execute data manipulations, calculations, statistical analyses, and produce useful graphs and numeric summaries.  Participants will also learn to write simple functions that can be used to automate analyses and examine the use of R packages to expand R’s basic capabilities.  More information on this workshop can be found here:  http://ift.tt/2sdIQ8R.

No prior programming knowledge is necessary.  The workshop is hands-on and participants will follow along with all of the coding.  Participants are strongly encouraged to bring their own computers, but please ensure that both R and RStudio are installed. R is the programming language itself and must be installed first (http://ift.tt/1JNsXIg). RStudio Desktop provides a more friendly programming environment and is used in conjunction with R (http://ift.tt/1gQO3cs).

The workshop will be led by PhD candidates in the Department of Statistical & Actuarial Sciences in the Weldon Instruction Room (ground floor, Map & Data Centre, Weldon Library).

Register Online

Introduction to R Workshop

Spring Convocation.

Event Date: Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Spring Convocation.

Spring Convocation.

Event Date: Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Spring Convocation.

Spring Convocation.

Event Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Spring Convocation.

McIntosh Gallery - Sculpture Garden Tour

Event Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Join us for a tour of our Sculpture Garden (located across from Natural Science) during our 75th anniversary year! Chances are you've walked by the garden, and for those who want more context behind the works, this tour is for you!  Join us inside for a tour of the current exhibition in the gallery after.

When: 12:10pm on June 14, July 12, and August 16.
Where: Meet us outside the red doors of the McIntosh Gallery.
Who: Open to all faculty, staff and students.
What to bring: It is recommended that you wear comfortable walking shoes.

Contact Mitra Shreeram at mshreera@uwo.ca for more information

McIntosh Gallery - Sculpture Garden Tour

Spring Convocation.

Event Date: Thursday, June 15, 2017

Spring Convocation.

Last day to drop a second-term half course in Intersession w

Event Date: Friday, June 16, 2017

Last day to drop a second-term half course in Intersession w

Spring Convocation.

Event Date: Friday, June 16, 2017

Spring Convocation.

Second term half courses in Summer Evening and Spring/Summer

Event Date: Monday, June 19, 2017

Second term half courses in Summer Evening and Spring/Summer

Spring Convocation.

Event Date: Monday, June 19, 2017

Spring Convocation.

Introduction to R Workshop

Event Date: Monday, June 19, 2017

This workshop is a half-day introduction to R, an open source statistical package for data analytics and graphics that is widely used in both academia and industry. It is freely available, well-supported, powerful and flexible, making it one of the most used of all programming languages.

Workshop participants will be introduced to basic programming concepts in R and learn to execute data manipulations, calculations, statistical analyses, and produce useful graphs and numeric summaries.  Participants will also learn to write simple functions that can be used to automate analyses and examine the use of R packages to expand R’s basic capabilities.  More information on this workshop can be found here:  http://ift.tt/2sdIQ8R.

No prior programming knowledge is necessary.  The workshop is hands-on and participants will follow along with all of the coding.  Participants are strongly encouraged to bring their own computers, but please ensure that both R and RStudio are installed. R is the programming language itself and must be installed first (http://ift.tt/1JNsXIg). RStudio Desktop provides a more friendly programming environment and is used in conjunction with R (http://ift.tt/1gQO3cs).

The workshop will be led by PhD candidates in the Department of Statistical & Actuarial Sciences in the Weldon Instruction Room (ground floor, Map & Data Centre, Weldon Library).

Register Online

Introduction to R Workshop

Spring Convocation.

Event Date: Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Spring Convocation.

Spring Convocation.

Event Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Spring Convocation.

McIntosh Gallery - Sculpture Garden Tour

Event Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Join us for a tour of our Sculpture Garden (located across from Natural Science) during our 75th anniversary year! Chances are you've walked by the garden, and for those who want more context behind the works, this tour is for you!  Join us inside for a tour of the current exhibition in the gallery after.

When: 12:10pm on June 14, July 12, and August 16.
Where: Meet us outside the red doors of the McIntosh Gallery.
Who: Open to all faculty, staff and students.
What to bring: It is recommended that you wear comfortable walking shoes.

Contact Mitra Shreeram at mshreera@uwo.ca for more information

McIntosh Gallery - Sculpture Garden Tour

Spring Convocation.

Event Date: Thursday, June 15, 2017

Spring Convocation.

Last day to drop a second-term half course in Intersession w

Event Date: Friday, June 16, 2017

Last day to drop a second-term half course in Intersession w

Spring Convocation.

Event Date: Friday, June 16, 2017

Spring Convocation.

Second term half courses in Summer Evening and Spring/Summer

Event Date: Monday, June 19, 2017

Second term half courses in Summer Evening and Spring/Summer

Spring Convocation.

Event Date: Monday, June 19, 2017

Spring Convocation.

Introduction to R Workshop

Event Date: Monday, June 19, 2017

This workshop is a half-day introduction to R, an open source statistical package for data analytics and graphics that is widely used in both academia and industry. It is freely available, well-supported, powerful and flexible, making it one of the most used of all programming languages.

Workshop participants will be introduced to basic programming concepts in R and learn to execute data manipulations, calculations, statistical analyses, and produce useful graphs and numeric summaries.  Participants will also learn to write simple functions that can be used to automate analyses and examine the use of R packages to expand R’s basic capabilities.  More information on this workshop can be found here:  http://ift.tt/2sdIQ8R.

No prior programming knowledge is necessary.  The workshop is hands-on and participants will follow along with all of the coding.  Participants are strongly encouraged to bring their own computers, but please ensure that both R and RStudio are installed. R is the programming language itself and must be installed first (http://ift.tt/1JNsXIg). RStudio Desktop provides a more friendly programming environment and is used in conjunction with R (http://ift.tt/1gQO3cs).

The workshop will be led by PhD candidates in the Department of Statistical & Actuarial Sciences in the Weldon Instruction Room (ground floor, Map & Data Centre, Weldon Library).

Register Online

Introduction to R Workshop

Western Film: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Event Date: Tuesday, Jun 13, 2017

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Playing: June 9 - 15 (No shows Sunday or Monday)

7:00 pm (ends at 9:19 pm)

9:30 pm (ends at 11:49 pm)

Rating:  PG
Synopsis:

Belle (Emma Watson) lives in a small town in France with her loving father, Maurice (Kevin Kline). He leaves on a trip to the market and when his horse comes back without him, Belle goes looking for him. The horse leads her to an enchanted castle, where Belle finds Maurice imprisoned in a tower by The Beast (Dan Stevens). She offers herself as a prisoner in exchange for her father’s release.

The Beast was once a vain, arrogant and handsome prince until an Enchantress cast a spell on him. The Enchantress leaves a rose in a glass case, telling him that when the last petal falls, if he has not found someone to love him, he’ll remain a Beast forever, and his servants will become inanimate objects without personalities.

Belle finds to her amazement that the household objects in the castle are alive, and can talk. They wonder if she’s “the one” and tell her the Beast is not as terrible as he appears. She slowly gets to know his softer side, just as the townsfolk are preparing to rescue her.

Western Film: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Western Film: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Event Date: Wednesday, Jun 14, 2017

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Playing: June 9 - 15 (No shows Sunday or Monday)

7:00 pm (ends at 9:19 pm)

9:30 pm (ends at 11:49 pm)

Rating:  PG
Synopsis:

Belle (Emma Watson) lives in a small town in France with her loving father, Maurice (Kevin Kline). He leaves on a trip to the market and when his horse comes back without him, Belle goes looking for him. The horse leads her to an enchanted castle, where Belle finds Maurice imprisoned in a tower by The Beast (Dan Stevens). She offers herself as a prisoner in exchange for her father’s release.

The Beast was once a vain, arrogant and handsome prince until an Enchantress cast a spell on him. The Enchantress leaves a rose in a glass case, telling him that when the last petal falls, if he has not found someone to love him, he’ll remain a Beast forever, and his servants will become inanimate objects without personalities.

Belle finds to her amazement that the household objects in the castle are alive, and can talk. They wonder if she’s “the one” and tell her the Beast is not as terrible as he appears. She slowly gets to know his softer side, just as the townsfolk are preparing to rescue her.

Western Film: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Western Film: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Event Date: Thursday, Jun 15, 2017

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Playing: June 9 - 15 (No shows Sunday or Monday)

7:00 pm (ends at 9:19 pm)

9:30 pm (ends at 11:49 pm)

Rating:  PG
Synopsis:

Belle (Emma Watson) lives in a small town in France with her loving father, Maurice (Kevin Kline). He leaves on a trip to the market and when his horse comes back without him, Belle goes looking for him. The horse leads her to an enchanted castle, where Belle finds Maurice imprisoned in a tower by The Beast (Dan Stevens). She offers herself as a prisoner in exchange for her father’s release.

The Beast was once a vain, arrogant and handsome prince until an Enchantress cast a spell on him. The Enchantress leaves a rose in a glass case, telling him that when the last petal falls, if he has not found someone to love him, he’ll remain a Beast forever, and his servants will become inanimate objects without personalities.

Belle finds to her amazement that the household objects in the castle are alive, and can talk. They wonder if she’s “the one” and tell her the Beast is not as terrible as he appears. She slowly gets to know his softer side, just as the townsfolk are preparing to rescue her.

Western Film: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Cosmology and the Future of Spacetime | Rotman Conference

Event Date: Monday, Jun 12, 2017

Cosmology and the Future of Spacetime is a three-day conference taking place June 12-14, 2017 at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada.

Actual event times will be updated once a conference schedule is confirmed. To view full details about the conference, please visit the conference page on the philosophy of cosmology website.

Please register by no later than June 5, 2017.

Even though general relativity has enjoyed profound success throughout the century since its discovery, there are at least two reasons to think that it may have to undergo small, albeit possibly profound, revisions. One reason, essentially uncontroversial, is the open problem of how to unify general relativity with quantum theory, while the second reason, essentially controversial, regards whether certain dynamical anomalies in astronomy and cosmology are best explained in terms of new, otherwise undetected forms of matter, or in terms of a modification of gravitational theory.

We will explore these two themes from a more specific angle. In particular, the conference speakers will address the issue of “spacetime emergence” within certain approaches to quantum gravity in a cosmological setting. If, as is usually taken to be the case, general relativity breaks down as a classical initial singularity is approached, what could this mean for the view of spacetime as emergent in the early universe? Does the thermodynamic arrow of time require treating initial and final singularities differently and thereby impose fundamental constraints on the structure of a future theory of quantum gravity? More generally, what could in principle even be meant by a physical theory without at least some underlying notion of spacetime?

Similarly, if the path is pursued of modifying general relativity (MOND, TeVeS, f(R), torsion, etc.) in order to avoid the new forms of matter and/or energy that the cosmological concordance model posits, what does this mean for the lessons about matter, motion, gravity and spacetime that Einstein taught us? We will also consider recent work that clarifies the space of alternatives to general relativity, in order to assess the viability of proposals to emulate general relativity’s success at length scales where it has passed stringent tests, while differing at cosmological scales.

This conference will be followed by a graduate student conference, the 17th Annual Philosophy of Logic, Math and Physics (LMP) Graduate Student Conference.

Cosmology and the Future of Spacetime | Rotman Conference

Art Exhibition 'In the Beginning, 1942'

Event Date: Monday, Jun 12, 2017

This year, McIntosh Gallery celebrates its 75th anniversary as the oldest university art gallery in Ontario. In 1942 the opening exhibition presented thirty paintings commissioned by the Canadian War Memorials Fund during the First World War as a unique record of Canadian achievements and war heroes. In the Beginning, 1942 reunites these paintings, now housed at the Canadian War Museum, for the first time in 75 years. Works by future Group of Seven artists A.Y. Jackson, Arthur Lismer, and Frederick Varley will join those of fellow Canadians Maurice Galbraith Cullen and John William Beatty, British artist Algernon Mayow Talmage, and Australian James Peter Quinn. The remaining twenty-three images will be represented digitally.

The gallery is open Monday to Friday 10AM-5PM and Saturday 12PM-4PM 

McIntosh Gallery gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Canadian War Museum in loaning 27 key works to both exhibitions.
Image: Alexander Young Jackson, The Green Crassier, 1918, 1918. Oil on canvas, 86.7 x 112.0 cm, CWM 19710261-0183 

Art Exhibition 'In the Beginning, 1942'

Art Exhibition 'Behind the Lines'

Event Date: Monday, Jun 12, 2017

"Behind the Lines: Canada's Home Front During the First and Second World Wars" provides a glimpse into the personal sacrifice and hard work of determined Canadians at home who collectively supported the armed forces overseas during two world conflicts. Assembled from public and private collections across Canada, the artworks tell the stories of ordinary men and women who wielded tools, searched for submarines, worked the land, and guarded prisoners. Through them we witness unprecedented developments in manufacturing, travel, and social upheavals such as the changing roles of women entering the workplace and armed forces.

The gallery is open Monday to Friday 10AM-5PM and Saturday 12PM-4PM

Art Exhibition 'Behind the Lines'

Meditation

Event Date: Monday, Jun 12, 2017

Living Well at Western invites you to lunch hour meditation in the Wellness Education Centre! (UCC 76)

Be sure to check the Western Event calendar weekly to confirm. 

There is no cost and all staff, faculty and students are welcome.

No special clothing or equipment is required.

Meditation

Zumba

Event Date: Monday, Jun 12, 2017

Two classes each week - Monday at 12:10 and Friday at 12:10!

Please be sure to consult the Western Calendar each week to be sure this session is running and to confirm location.

Getting there: SSB 3101 can be a bit difficult to find.  From level four (street level when you enter front of building) take stairwell #3 (across from water fountain) down to the third floor, and go through two sets of doors.

Who:  Designed to appeal to people of all abilities and fitness levels.

Instructors: Certified Zumba instructors – Sabrina Tingle and Angelica Lucaci

What to bring: It is recommended that you wear comfortable clothing and low grip athletic shoes. Please bring a water bottle.

Zumba

Summer Farmers' Market

Event Date: Tuesday, Jun 13, 2017

Western's weekly Summer Farmers' Market is here again. Come check out more than a dozen vendors; some will begin a little later in the season as their crops come into harvest. We are expecting 5 produce vendors, 1 fresh flower grower, 3 baked goods and sweets, 1 beekeeper honey producer, 1 goat farmer cheese producer and a kettle corn vendor. You'll also be able to enjoy some food trucks on Tuesdays too.

Summer Farmers' Market

Cosmology and the Future of Spacetime | Rotman Conference

Event Date: Tuesday, Jun 13, 2017

Cosmology and the Future of Spacetime is a three-day conference taking place June 12-14, 2017 at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada.

Actual event times will be updated once a conference schedule is confirmed. To view full details about the conference, please visit the conference page on the philosophy of cosmology website.

Please register by no later than June 5, 2017.

Even though general relativity has enjoyed profound success throughout the century since its discovery, there are at least two reasons to think that it may have to undergo small, albeit possibly profound, revisions. One reason, essentially uncontroversial, is the open problem of how to unify general relativity with quantum theory, while the second reason, essentially controversial, regards whether certain dynamical anomalies in astronomy and cosmology are best explained in terms of new, otherwise undetected forms of matter, or in terms of a modification of gravitational theory.

We will explore these two themes from a more specific angle. In particular, the conference speakers will address the issue of “spacetime emergence” within certain approaches to quantum gravity in a cosmological setting. If, as is usually taken to be the case, general relativity breaks down as a classical initial singularity is approached, what could this mean for the view of spacetime as emergent in the early universe? Does the thermodynamic arrow of time require treating initial and final singularities differently and thereby impose fundamental constraints on the structure of a future theory of quantum gravity? More generally, what could in principle even be meant by a physical theory without at least some underlying notion of spacetime?

Similarly, if the path is pursued of modifying general relativity (MOND, TeVeS, f(R), torsion, etc.) in order to avoid the new forms of matter and/or energy that the cosmological concordance model posits, what does this mean for the lessons about matter, motion, gravity and spacetime that Einstein taught us? We will also consider recent work that clarifies the space of alternatives to general relativity, in order to assess the viability of proposals to emulate general relativity’s success at length scales where it has passed stringent tests, while differing at cosmological scales.

This conference will be followed by a graduate student conference, the 17th Annual Philosophy of Logic, Math and Physics (LMP) Graduate Student Conference.

Cosmology and the Future of Spacetime | Rotman Conference

Tai Chi

Event Date: Tuesday, Jun 13, 2017

Living Well at Western is pleased to offer lunch hour Tai Chi.  Tai Chi is a gentle exercise suitable for people of all ages. Its benefits include strengthening of muscle and bones, and improved flexibility and balance. The abdominal breathing skill is beneficial to relaxation and improved energy level. Loose clothing and running shoes are recommended for participants.

Norman Lam is a certified Tai Chi instructor.

Note location in SSB:  From level four (this is the street level if entering in front door) take stairwell #3 across from water fountain.  Walk down to level three, through two sets of doors to 3101.

Tai Chi

Cosmology and the Future of Spacetime | Rotman Conference

Event Date: Wednesday, Jun 14, 2017

Cosmology and the Future of Spacetime is a three-day conference taking place June 12-14, 2017 at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada.

Actual event times will be updated once a conference schedule is confirmed. To view full details about the conference, please visit the conference page on the philosophy of cosmology website.

Please register by no later than June 5, 2017.

Even though general relativity has enjoyed profound success throughout the century since its discovery, there are at least two reasons to think that it may have to undergo small, albeit possibly profound, revisions. One reason, essentially uncontroversial, is the open problem of how to unify general relativity with quantum theory, while the second reason, essentially controversial, regards whether certain dynamical anomalies in astronomy and cosmology are best explained in terms of new, otherwise undetected forms of matter, or in terms of a modification of gravitational theory.

We will explore these two themes from a more specific angle. In particular, the conference speakers will address the issue of “spacetime emergence” within certain approaches to quantum gravity in a cosmological setting. If, as is usually taken to be the case, general relativity breaks down as a classical initial singularity is approached, what could this mean for the view of spacetime as emergent in the early universe? Does the thermodynamic arrow of time require treating initial and final singularities differently and thereby impose fundamental constraints on the structure of a future theory of quantum gravity? More generally, what could in principle even be meant by a physical theory without at least some underlying notion of spacetime?

Similarly, if the path is pursued of modifying general relativity (MOND, TeVeS, f(R), torsion, etc.) in order to avoid the new forms of matter and/or energy that the cosmological concordance model posits, what does this mean for the lessons about matter, motion, gravity and spacetime that Einstein taught us? We will also consider recent work that clarifies the space of alternatives to general relativity, in order to assess the viability of proposals to emulate general relativity’s success at length scales where it has passed stringent tests, while differing at cosmological scales.

This conference will be followed by a graduate student conference, the 17th Annual Philosophy of Logic, Math and Physics (LMP) Graduate Student Conference.

Cosmology and the Future of Spacetime | Rotman Conference

Toastmaster's Campus Communications

Event Date: Wednesday, Jun 14, 2017

Toastmaster’s Campus Communicators – Looking to develop your public speaking and leadership skills? Toastmasters is your solution.

Along the Toastmasters journey, you will also boost your confidence, grow your network and build your professional portfolio!  

Meetings happen every Wednesday 12 -1 p.m. in Room 147B UCC;

club website:  9119.toastmastersclubs.org/ .  

Contact Donna Moore, dmoore@uwo.ca or 85159.

Toastmaster's Campus Communications

Lunch Hour Yoga

Event Date: Wednesday, Jun 14, 2017

Take a break!  Yoga can be good for your body, mind and spirit.

Living Well @ Western invites staff, faculty and students to weekly yoga sessions.  This program is designed to appeal to people of all abilities and fitness levels.

Bring your own yoga mat or towel and comfortable clothing.

Note location in SSB:  From level four (this is the street level if entering in front door) take stairwell #3 (across the hall from the water fountain).  Walk down to level three, through two sets of doors to 3101.

Lunch Hour Yoga

Friends of the Gardens Plant sales

Event Date: Thursday, Jun 15, 2017

The Friends of the Gardens (FOGs) volunteers invite you to our 24th year of plant sales to be held on:

• Tuesday, May 23rd,
• Wednesday, May 24th and
• Thursday May 25th 2017 from 12 noon to 1:00 p.m. on each sale day.
• We will also have plant sales on every Thursday in June: 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th, also from 12 noon to 1:00 p.m. on each sale day.

All sales run rain or shine. The proceeds of the plant sales go to: the UWO FOGs undergraduate student bursaries, the maintenance of the gardens surrounding the B&G building, and the operating expenses of the plant sales. The sales offer perennials (some are native), trees, shrubs, herbs, vegetables, annuals, and house plants at bargain prices!!!

We will soon have a list of the plants that will be available at our sales, shown on our website: http://www.fogsuwo.ca/ . The list will be updated each week as more plants come in.

Friends of the Gardens Plant sales

Line Dancing

Event Date: Thursday, Jun 15, 2017

Two classes every Thursday with Liz Desjardins - 12:10 and 1:10.

This activity will appeal to anyone who loves to dance.  The music is more than country - it covers all genres from Latin and salsa to pop and Irish jigs. Steps can be adapted to accommodate your needs.

To find room 3101 in the Support Services building - From level four (streel level when you enter the front of the building) take stairwell #3 (across from the water fountain) down to the third floor and go through two sets of doors.

What to bring: comfortable clothing, low grip shoes, and a bottle of water.

Line Dancing

Line Dancing

Event Date: Thursday, Jun 15, 2017

Two classes every Thursday with Liz Desjardins - 12:10 and 1:10.

This activity will appeal to anyone who loves to dance.  The music is more than country - it covers all genres from Latin and salsa to pop and Irish jigs. Steps can be adapted to accommodate your needs.

To find room 3101 in the Support Services building - From level four (streel level when you enter the front of the building) take stairwell #3 (across from water fountain) down to the third floor and go through two sets of doors.

What to bring: comfortable clothing, low grip shoes, and a bottle of water.

Line Dancing

Global Cafe

Event Date: Thursday, Jun 15, 2017

Are you interested in meeting people and staying connected with new friends? Do you want to take a break from your school work? IESC has the answer: Global Café!

Connect with international and Canadian students at our weekly drop-in gatherings! This is a great way for you to meet friends from all over the world in a casual and relaxed setting. Coffee, tea, and snacks are provided.

Global Cafe

Zumba!

Event Date: Friday, Jun 16, 2017

Two classes each week - Monday at 12:10 and Friday at 12:10.

Please be sure to consult the Western Calendar each week to be sure this session is running and to confirm location.

Getting there: To find Room 3101 in SSB - from level four (street level when you enter front of building) take stairwell #3 (across from water fountain) down to the third floor, and go through two sets of doors.

Who:  Designed to appeal to people of all abilities and fitness levels.

Instructors: Certified Zumba instructors – Sabrina Tingle and Angelica Lucaci

What to bring: It is recommended that you wear comfortable clothing and low grip athletic shoes. Please bring a water bottle.

Zumba!

Tea and Information Sessions for Spouses & Partners

Event Date: Friday, Jun 16, 2017

Drop in for our Tea & Information Sessions and meet other spouses or partners of Western students, and our IESC staff. The Information Sessions will give spouses and partners of international students the opportunity to meet and get to know people, practice their English skills, learn about the Canadian culture, share knowledge, culture and skills as well as discuss topics related to international families and living in Canada. This event will take place every Friday.

The International and Graduate Affairs Building is located in the former home of the Ivey Business School at the top of UC Hill.

Tea and Information Sessions for Spouses & Partners