Your ultimate guide to Welcome Week events!

It’s now only seven days to go until the most exciting week of your life – Welcome Week 2015! We have loads of exciting events lined up for your first week of term, so look through some of the highlights below, put the dates in your diary and get your eTickets purchased straight from this very website!

 

Undergraduate Events

The Mingles


UG Mingle

Saturday 3 & 4 October
19:00 – 01:00
The Union Building

An Imperial tradition, your chance to visit the Union for the first time and join 1,200 other new Undergraduate students in the ultimate start to your first year at the College. Shift Key will be in our nightclub Metric as well as other entertainments in our bars, FiveSixEight and The Union Bar. Tickets will have already been arranged for you by your Hall for either the Saturday or Sunday evening – if you aren’t living in Halls then we have reserved you some tickets which you can buy after you Student Not in Halls Talks on the Saturday afternoon.

Saturday Sunday
Beit Falmouth & Keogh
Woodward Selkirk
Wilson House Tizard
Students not in Halls Fisher
  Xenia
  Parsons
  Pembridge
  Gabor
  Linstead
  Wilkinson
  Bernard Sunley
  

 

Lite Mingles

Lite Mingle

Saturday 3 & 4 October
20:00 – 22:00
Junior Common Room 

For those of you looking for a more chilled out welcome to the College, we run the Lite Mingles on the Saturday and Sunday featuring live-lounge style performances from student bands and a range of non-alcoholic drinks

 

Comedy

comedy

Monday 5 October
19:00 – 23:00
Metric 

LOL! Nice ‘n’ Spiky Comedy bring their superb line-up of comedians to Metric – not to be missed!

 

Bandeoke

bandeoke
Tuesday 6 October
20:00 – 23:30
Metric 

Live Band + You signing = Bandeoke. Could go one of two ways, either way it’s going to be an amazing night!

 

CSP Wednesday

CSP Wed
Wednesday 7 October
19:00 – 01:00
The Union Building 

CSP = Clubs, Societies & Projects. The first Wednesday of term is your chance to get together and party with your newly found friends from which ever of our 340 CSPs you’ve joined!

 

IC Big Band

IC Big Band

Thursday 8 October
19:00 - 23:00
Metric 

Join our very own IC Big Band for a night of jazz classics and modern twists.

 

Freshers’ Ball

freshers;' ball

Friday 9 October
20:00 – 03:00
The Union Building 

THIS IS THE BIG ONE! One piece of advice; last year we sold out in advance for the Freshers’ Ball so don’t miss-out and get your ticket now!  

Made in Chelsea star Alex Mytton hosts an incredible evening of great DJs, partying and of course celebrating the end of your first week at Imperial.

 

Reynolds Cabaret

Reynolds cabaret

Sunday 11 October
17:00 - 23:00
Reynolds Bar

Enter into a 1930s circus-themed evening of endless surprises in the Reynolds Bar on our Charing Cross campus.

 

 

Postgraduates Events

 

Pie & Ale Festival

pie and ale

All week
h-bar 

Pie + Ale = Win. With a great range of cask ales and, well, pastry pies – h-bar will be your destination for a heart meal and thirst=quenching ale all week. Quintessentially British!

   

Live Acoustic Session

acoustic

Saturday 3 October
20:00 – 22:00
h-bar 

Our own Jazz & Rock society will be smashing out some great live music in the h-bar.

 

Cocktail Bar Launch

cocktail

Monday 5 October
17:00 – 23:00
h-bar 

We are launching an exciting new range of cocktails in the h-bar, come on down and try out some of the great cocktails on the menu.

 

Wine & Whisky Tasting Session

Tuesday 6 October
18:00 – 23:00
h-bar 

Come and have a taste of our great range of premium wines and whiskys – only sold in h-bar for the discerning clientele!

 

Pub Quiz

Wednesday 7 October
19:30  - 23:00
h-bar 

Get your team together for an Imperial type of pub quiz, don’t expect any easy questions!

 

Comedy

comedy

Thursday 8 October
19:00 – 22:30
h-bar 

LOL! Nice ‘n’ Spiky Comedy bring their superb line-up of comedians to h-bar – not to be missed!

 

Silent Disco

pgi

Friday 9 October
20:00 – 01:00
h-bar 

Celebrate the end of your first week at Imperial with two channels of silent disco dancing – you have to experience it to believe it!  

 

Postgraduate Mingle

pg mingle

Saturday 10 October
19:00 – 02:00
The Union Building 

The official welcome party for Postgraduate students. For the last five years the Postgraduate Mingle has been the largest PG party in Imperial’s calendar! DJ Yoda will be hosting the event with DJs and entertainment across three venues in the Union Building!

 

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