Sunday Library Meetings are held from 8pm until late (normally around midnight) at Will's house, 5c Kingston Road, accessed via the rear entrance on Walton Well Road. These evenings are an opportunity to socialise, and chat about life, the universe and everything, whilst also perusing and borrowing from OUSFG's library of around 1000 books.
Wednesday discussion (&c) meetings are held at 8pm in Somerville, Park 3 meeting room; or Queen's College, Lecture Room C.
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20 Jan | Wednesday | 1st Week | Film | Jupiter Ascending. The most recent film from the Wachowski siblings, critically panned but described as a spectacle to be seen. My favourite review is "The movie's a fascinating mess, grand and gaudy, often hilarious." 8pm, Somerville, Park 3 meeting room. |
23 Jan | Saturday | 1st Week | Discussion | Taurithorn Crossover Event. We will be meeting with the Tolkein Society to discuss connections between works of literature. This meeting will be held at 8pm in Christ Church, Bayne Room (door about one-third along right side of the front Quad, ground floor). |
3 Feb | Wednesday | 3rd Week | Games | Boardgames. We are meeting with a selection of boardgames. If you have any particular favourites then be sure to bring them along. 8pm, Somerville, Park 3 meeting room. |
10 Feb | Wednesday | 4th Week | Discussion | Interactive Fiction. This combined talk and discussion is being run by our president Jabberwocky (Jacob) and will be about forms of interactive fiction, such as Choose Your Own Adventure novels, text based games, and even up to visual novels. Feel free to bring along a laptop with your own examples, or read some of the examples we will bring to the meeting. 8pm, Queen's College, Lecture Room C. |
18 Feb | Thursday | 5th Week | Quiz | Oxford Geek Quiz — battle of wits and knowledge against Docsoc, Tolksoc, RPGsoc, et al. Bring your own round of questions if you like (don't tell anyone the answers). 8pm, St. Peter's College, Dorfman Centre. (Details from WhoSoc.) |
20 Feb | Saturday | 5th Week | Banquet | will be held at Al Shami on Walton Crescent at 7:30pm. |
24 Feb | Wednesday | 6th Week | Discussion | Web Comics meeting. Will is going to lead a discussion on web comics. Come along with your own favourite to suggest, or listen to others to find out what you should check out online. 8pm, Somerville, Park 3 meeting room. |
2 Mar | Wednesday | 7th Week | TV | Merlin TV episodes. Provided we have a suitable selection of episodes we are going to watch 3 or so episodes to get a good introduction to the series. Feel free to come even if you have not seen Merlin before. |
9 Mar | Wednesday | 8th Week | Silly Games | We have an opening for a meeting if anybody has good ideas, but otherwise we will meet up to play some social/silly games and chat to finish up the term. |