International Hall

TOMORROW: Intercollegiate Challenge ROUND 2: Sunday, 8pm, IH Bar.

Put your thinking caps on and come down to the IH Bar to take part in the second round of the IH pub quiz to find out which college has the best intellectual firepower living at IH!

There are big prizes for the top three teams on the night. And the top five teams take away points…

At the end of the final match in March the team that accumulated the most points wins eight tickets for the London Eye, a magnum of champagne and LOTS of chocolates.

New teams are welcome. Remember any team can win prizes on the night and it’s not too late to win points to take a shot at the final prize. You can register your team on the night.

Intercollegiate Challenge 2008-09: Current results after round 1

1. Heythrop: 10 points
2. UCL/LSOP: 8 points
3. {UCL 1: 5 points
{UCL Undergrads: 5 points
4. UCLFirst VI: 2 points
5. {King’s: 0
{LSE: 0
{RVC/UCL: 0
{UCL 2: 0

STARTING SUNDAY 21 - IH CHRISTMAS CINEMA

Each night over the Christmas period the IH Cinema will be showing the films shown below. All films start at 8.30pm. The IH Cinema - a large screen with projector and surround sound - is located in the main TV room on the lower ground floor, beneath reception. Further details can be found on posters around reception. All welcome!

Sunday 21 - Mamma Mia

Monday 22 - 3 months and 3 weeks

Tuesday 23 - The sleeping dictionary

Wednesday 24 - Priceless

Thursday 25 - Sex and the City

Friday 26 - Man on wire

Saturday 27 - WALL-E

Sunday 28 - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Krystal Skull

Monday 29 - Batman: The Dark Knight

Tuesday 30 - Star Wars episode IV: A New Hope (remastered version)

Wednesday 31- A good woman

Thursday 1 - Wanted

Friday 2 - The edge of love

Saturday 3 - Iron man

Sunday 4 - The good shepard

We’ll be showing some of the above films again during term time.

Over Christmas there will be a special series of films in the Cinema. Full details on posters nearer the time.

Questions about the trips? Email us at ih.trips@yahoo.com

December Schedule

Sunday 30 November
IH Christmas Tree goes up! Join us at 8pm in the atrium as we decorate IH’s Christmas tree. Those who help get free mince pies, mulled wine and chocolates.

IH Karaoke! 8.30pm onwards in the IH Bar. Prizes for the best and worst singers in IH! A mixture of pop hits and Christmas carols.

IH Film: Main TV Room, Lower Ground Floor, 8.30pm. Film title will be advertised on the notice board by reception

Tuesday 2
Yoga – 7-8pm, in the Exercise Room (lower ground floor)

Wednesday 3
IH Film: Main TV Room, Lower Ground Floor, 8.30pm. Film title will be advertised on the notice board by reception

Belly Dancing! Belly dancing lessons in the Exercise room from 7.30pm.

Thursday 4
Postgraduate Christmas Dinner in the Conservatory. Tickets £5. Available from reception. Dinner starts at 8.30pm.

St Martin’s in the Fields: Choir Christ’s College Cambridge & Thames Chamber Orchestra. The Glory of Christmas! Carols and other songs. Tickets £6 (normal price £12). For further details or to reserve tickets email ih.trips@yahoo.com

Friday 5
Christmas Dinner in the Dining Hall!

IH Christmas Party
Late bar
DJ Kay
Santa!
Santa’s Grotto
Gifts galore
12 days of Xmas Raffle
Festive face and body painting

Saturday 6
Basketball with Senior Member Vlad. Meet at ULU, 5pm
Christmas IHTimes published.

Sunday 7
IH Children’s Christmas Party. 4-6pm. Families only!
IH Film: Main TV Room, Lower Ground Floor, 8.30pm. Film title will be advertised on the notice board by reception

Monday 8
Dance Aerobics. 8.30pm start in the Exercise Room.

Tuesday 9
Yoga – 7-8pm, in the Exercise Room (lower ground floor)

Wednesday 10
IH Film: Main TV Room, Lower Ground Floor, 8.30pm. Film title will be advertised on the notice board by reception

Friday 12
IH Trip to The Snowman, Peacock Theatre, next to LSE. 7pm start.
Tickets £5 each (reduced from £12). Families given priority until 7 December after which tickets will be sold to the rest of the hall. For further details or to reserve tickets email ih.trips@yahoo.com

Saturday 13
Basketball with Senior Member Vlad. Meet at ULU, 5pm

Sunday 14
IH Film: Main TV Room, Lower Ground Floor, 8.30pm. Film title will be advertised on the notice board by reception

Tuesday 16
Yoga – 7-8pm, in the Exercise Room (lower ground floor)

Wednesday 17
Royal Opera House: the Nutcracker. Tickets £10.
IH Film: Main TV Room, Lower Ground Floor, 8.30pm. Film title will be advertised on the notice board by reception

Saturday 20
Basketball with Senior Member Vlad. Meet at ULU, 5pm

Sunday 21
IH Film: Main TV Room, Lower Ground Floor, 8.30pm. Film title will be advertised on the notice board by reception

Wednesday 24
IH Film: Main TV Room, Lower Ground Floor, 8.30pm. Film title will be advertised on the notice board by reception

Sunday 28
IH Film: Main TV Room, Lower Ground Floor, 8.30pm. Film title will be advertised on the notice board by reception

Wednesday 31
IH Film: Main TV Room, Lower Ground Floor, 8.30pm. Film title will be advertised on the notice board by reception

Sunday 4
IH Film: Main TV Room, Lower Ground Floor, 8.30pm. Film title will be advertised on the notice board by reception

Wednesday 7
IH Film: Main TV Room, Lower Ground Floor, 8.30pm. Film title will be advertised on the notice board by reception

Saturday 10
Basketball with Senior Member Vlad. Meet at ULU, 5pm

Sunday 11
IH Film: Main TV Room, Lower Ground Floor, 8.30pm. Film title will be advertised on the notice board by reception

Tuesday 13
Yoga – 7-8pm, in the Exercise Room (lower ground floor)

Hey everyone!

I’ve finally managed to chisel my way into this blog, which involved the highly complicated process of entering both a username and password.

Anyways, here are some of the events of great interest we have lined up:

Form your teams on the Facebook group (just post the names of your team-members on the wall), sign them up at reception or sign up on the night.

First, second and third place teams in each individual match win BIG prizes and points.

The team with the most points by the fifth match win tickets for the London Eye and a very BIG magnum of champagne (to all you contextual purists out there, a “magnum” is indeed a standard size equivalent to 1.5 litres and hence cannot be “big”, but that’s really a question of philosophical belief).

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Tickets free for IH residents. To enter the lottery e-mail your name and room number to maria3c31@gmail.com E-MAILS WILL BE ACCEPTED NO LATER THAN MONDAY 21st at 10 p.m. Winners will be notified by e-mail on Tuesday 22nd.

This is the opening performance of King Lear and it will have a particularly celebratory character as it takes place on Shakespeare’s birthday. Not to be missed.

Please note that ours are groundling (standing) tickets. If you are unwilling to stand do not participate in the lottery.

Information about the show can be found at http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/theatre/annualtheatreseason/kinglear/

Wednesday 16.04.2008

Tickets cost only £3 to IH residents. If you wish to book tickets or for more information please e-mail me at maria3c31@gmail.com

More information about the show below:
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan is renowned for delivering spellbinding, spiritual performances. Here the company perform the breathtakingly beautiful Moon Water (a hit at Sadler’s Wells in 2002), in which the whole stage is flooded with water and reflections, creating a stunning on-stage work of art.

Choreographer LIN Hwai-min has integrated meditation, tai-chi, martial arts and Chinese opera movement with modern dance and ballet, to develop a truly unique dance style – varying from the weighty stillness of a stone sculpture, to floating lyricism, to fierce martial-art like attack.

Moon Water is set to movements from Bach’s Suites for Solo Cello. Mirrors appear on stage, reflecting the image of the moving dancers and the patterns of the white brush strokes of the set. Water then flows onto the stage, until the floor itself becomes a huge mirror reflecting dancing bodies.

Residents of IH are warmly invited to participate in the ice-skating trip the club organises the following Sunday 20-1-2008. The trip is subsidized by the club so tickets will be only £5 each. [regular price £10]

If you are interested drop me a line at maria3c31@gmail.com  and make sure to include your name, room number and room phone number [as well as those of any other resident you are buying tickets for]. I hope to soon welcome you to one of the trips!

P.S. If you are interested in this trip hurry: the population of International Hall appears to be mainly comprised of keen skaters and tickets are limited.

In the first Intercollegiate Halls football match, unfortunately International Hall got slaughtered by an experienced Connaught Hall team.

International Hall were in a confident mood after their hard earned victory against some 11 year-olds last week and things were looking promising with the scoreline at 2-1.

Unfortunately Connaught Hall’s experience shone through, as International Hall eventually lost 8-1.

Football every Thursday. Meet at reception at 6:05pm.

Email footballthursdays@googlemail.com for further information and to confirm attendance each week.

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