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Just to let everyone know that this week the Bowett room keyboard is being used for the BATS Main Show musical- The Final Countdown. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience this may cause your practice, and the keyboard will be returned promptly when the shoe finishes on saturday the 13th. If you're wondering what to do instead of practicing- you could always come and watch the show! 

If your vagina could speak, what would it say? What would it wear?

Eve Ensler's The Vaginia Monologues celebrates female sexuality and condemns its violation with insightful discussion from women of all walks of life, reflecting on the pussy with humour, tenderness and rage. Deeply poignant, hilariously funny: the monologues are an honest investigation into how women feel about their vaginas, sexuality and empowerment.

In conjunction with V-Day (a world-wide feminist movement around Valentine's Day to promote the end of violence against women) all money raised by the production will go to local women's charities.

BATS Late Show Week 5

11pm, 10th-13th February

Fitzpatrick Hall, Queens' College

Tickets £5-8

Free booking at www.adcticketing.com 

7.30pm TUES 9th- SAT 13th FEB Fitzpatrick Hall, Queens’

Rachel dreams of fame and recognition. Zander dreams of wealth and women. Bonnie dreams of having a dream. To what lengths would you go to be successful? 'The Final Countdown' is a thoroughly modern musical following someone like you or me, like the person downstairs or like the person in Starbucks.

Ambition is at the very root of our next day's planning, yet Rachel, Zander and Bonnie do not know what their hopes and dreams will lead. This piece of punchy and hilarious new writing - at times fantastical, at times close to the bone - tracks three students in their final year at university as they plan, prioritise and panic. Is Zander's CV his saving grace? Is Rachel cut out to appear on television every day? Are Bonnie's trivial goals her downfall? Don't laugh too hard, just in case you're laughing at yourself!

Book tickets online at www.bigfishents.com/events/theatre/the-final-countdown

Enjoy, miss or chicken out of Jailbreak? Fancy hitchhiking in the sunshine?

This June the Cambridge University Society for SOS Children’s Villages is running a hitchhike race to Barcelona, to raise money for ongoing relief work in Haiti. Pairs will race to one of the hottest cities in Europe, where city sights and nightlife meet the sea- then return to Cambridge at their leisure. Post exams and pre-May Week SOScape is THE way to kick-start your summer!

Interested? Come along to the Squash: 8pm, Thursday 11th February, Queens Building, Emmanuel.

Facebook group: SOScape: Hitchhike Race- Barcelona 2010

I am seeking native speakers of any variety of English, with no known hearing impairments, for two experiments, which together take about 1 hour to complete.  Participants will be paid £7 per hour for participation, and biscuits will be provided.  The experiment will take place at the Research Centre for English & Applied Linguistics, on the third floor of the English Faculty building on the Sidgwick Site.

If you are interested in participating, please go to calendar.google.com and sign in with the following information:

username: 2linguisticexperiments

password: rceal2expts

This will lead you to a calendar showing available hour-long slots for participation.  Choose one of the slots and fill it in with your name and your CRS id (or email address) - that way I'll be able to send you a reminder when your appointment time comes.

If you'd like more information about the experiments before signing up, please email mkz21.

We are raiding on SATURDAY 13TH FEB to raise money for Cambridge SCA. SCA exists to encourage the involvement of students in voluntary community work, providing services to disadvantaged groups within the community. We need YOUR help with fund-raising this Saturday. If you could spare just ONE HOUR to help collect change from the public, you would be making a fantastic effort to help us out.

If you would like to sign up to help email: ab714@cam.ac.uk

www.cambridgesca.org.uk/

YOU FILL IN THE BLANKS:

Alcock Improv are a _______ comedy group from Cambridge University. Our shows consist of the audience giving us ______ and from that we create a ______ on the spot. We play a variety of games, some short, some ______, which often have a tendency to descend into ________. We have been known to put our heads in buckets of _______ and walk barefoot across _________. Essentially the audience are in charge, and we base our show around what they give us. Even if that means a show about _______! So come and _____ our show at the ADC Theatre between the 10th and the 13th of February, and make sure you bring along plenty of _______, several _________ and maybe a __________." 

Tickets £5-6, free online booking at www.adctheatre.com/box office 01223 300085

Be transported to the mysterious Orient for one night only... Come along to Students Supporting Street Kids' oriental feast, for a night of fabulous themed food, great company and oriental entertainment. Our Oriental Formal will be on Tuesday 16th February, at Churchill, starting at 7.30 pm.

The best thing is, it's all in aid of a good cause: all the money raised

will go directly towards helping street children in developing countries, including Vietnam, China, Cambodia, India and many more.

Simply UMS a cheque for £12.50 made out to "Cambridge SSSK Branch" to David Nefs at Churchill College, with your name, college and email address on the back (and any dietary requirements).

Tickets are limited, so send in your cheques now! Oriental dress is encouraged!

Any queries, e-mail jk450@cam.ac.uk

Thursday 11th Febrary - WALLACE AND GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE RABBIT

9 pm

The Curse of the Were Rabbit, painstakingly animated in stop frame animations, is the first feature  length  Wallace and Gromit adventure. The film follows cheese-loving inventor  Wallace and his ever-faithful dog, Gromit, as they come to the  rescue of the residents of a village whose vegetables are being  plagued by a were-rabbit. A subtly touching and wonderfully eccentric adventure. 

Christ's College New Court Theatre

£2.50

The Global Student Education Forum (www.gseforum.org) is hosting a talk by Professor Christopher Colclough (Founding Director, UNESCO's Global Monitoring Report on Education For All).

The talk, titled 'Education for All at Mid-Term: Can it be Achieved by 2015?' will be held on Tuesday, 9th February 2010 at Lecture Room 1S3, Faculty of Education (next to Homerton College), University of Cambridge from 18:00 to 19:30.

All are welcome. FREE. Please reserve your place at : www.gseforum.org/christopher_colclough

CURAS is the society for ale-lovers - basically we go to a different

Cambridge pub each week and sample the ales on offer. What better way to spend an evening after a hard day of work?

CURAS will be meeting at the Burleigh Arms from 8PM on Wednesday 10th February. Its a pub that many students might not know, so what better opportunity to try it out?

New faces are always welcome!

Check us out at:

www.srcf.ucam.org/realale/

www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=5029738607&ref=ts

Campus Children's Holidays are selling beautiful, red, roses, complete with your own personal message, to be delivered to your sweetheart's pigeonhole on Valentine's Day. Roses cost £3.50. For information on how to order please visit our facebook group 'Campus Valentine's Roses 2010' or email jhk38@cam.ac.uk. Payment online or by cheque is available. Please order by  Thursday the 11th of Feb to be guaranteed a rose.

All profit goes to help us take children referred by social services in Liverpool, away on a much needed summer break.

Rescued?: a week of events put on for you to investigate the person and claims of Jesus Christ (8-13th February, Great St Mary's)

Lunchtimes: 1.10pm all week, with a free lunch. Tuesday: "Is Jesus the only way to God?"

Evenings: 8pm starting Tuesday with "Rescued from Religion"

Check out www.rescued.org.uk for more information, videos and downloads of the talks.

The Cambridge Reading Series (CRS) is a new cycle of poetry readings taking place at the Faculty of English in Cambridge. Dialogic in form and international in scope, CRS revises the conventional performance format. In addition to reading their own work, both poets will also read the work of another poet. Each reading will be accompanied by a pamphlet publication featuring a selection of the participating poets' work and critical responses.

Readings begin at 7:30pm and are held in the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, in the Faculty of English, West Road, Cambridge.

A full list of up-coming dates and readers is given below. Please direct any queries to Ryan Dobran (rdobran [at] gmail [dot] com) or see the CRS website: crs0hq.tumblr.com

FREE  ALL WELCOME  WINE SERVED

LENT TERM

Friday 12 February: Francesca Lisette & Stephen Rodefer (Call It Thought book launch) Friday 5 March: Peter Manson & Jefferson Toal

INTER-TERM

April 1-7: Nour Mobarak & TBA

EASTER

Friday 30 April: Jonty Tiplady & TBA

Friday 21 May: Jow Lindsay & John Wilkinson

Friday 18 Jun: Sean Bonney & Simon Jarvis

Thursday Feb 11 Revolution, 9:30pm-2am

Choose your sticker: red for 'closed for business', amber for 'persuade me', green for 'you had me at hello'.

Love (or something less meaningful) is in the air at SUAD. Celebrate Valentine's Day the easy way with our tried and tested Traffic Light Night formula. Choose your status - red, amber, green or 'mysterious blue' (for that enigmatic appeal) - to make things just that little bit easier. You never know, you might meet someone . . . or spend the rest of your life alone. Either way, it's still the usual brilliant SUAD, with DJ Joss Bibby.

In a group of 15 or more? Email ents-manager@cusu.cam.ac.uk before any SUAD night to get £2 guestlist entry for everyone in your group. Wristbands are £3 from reps in most colleges. You can also get entry on the night for £4 if you just turn up.

Revolution operate a Check 21 ID policy so you'll need to bring a DRIVING LICENSE or PASSPORT. University cards are not accepted as proof of age.

CU ISoc invites you to...EXPERIENCE ISLAM WEEK ‘10

14th - 21st February

Raising awareness, generating debate and celebrating diversity...

--->Watch the trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-8pjp4y9DI

--->Catch a talk (free lunch!): www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=258912971972&index=1

--->Give your misconceptions a ‘Sheikh’!

Everyone is welcome, Muslim or non-Muslim, student or non-student.

www.isoc.co.uk/eiw

Congratulations to Laura Walker who filled in last week's blank...

"I found a pedigree Red Poll cow on her side in the field. She was struggling for breath and her neck had swollen up considerably...I found the remains of a chinese lantern within a few yards of where the cow had been lying... and it had been well-chewed."

This week: Another fill-in-the-culture-related-blank style challenge (both blanks are the same word)...

"[A] European Union ruling marks the end of a battle that began a quarter of a century ago and aimed to protect Neapolitan _____ from imitations. The Traditional Speciality Guaranteed label on Naples ______ was approved last month and came into effect [last] Thursday."

Ents in Exile

If you have any good photos from recent Queens' events including plays, sports matches, bops etc please send them to jcr-comms@queens.cam.ac.uk!