Most of our meetings are on Sundays at 8pm in Trinity College. We will meet at the Trinity Porter's Lodge before making our way to the meeting room (usually the Teaching Room 5).
See below for details, sign up for the ousfg-announce mailing list to receive a reminder and details for each meeting, or check on Discord for smaller updates.
Please remember that Sunday is the first day of the Oxford Week, so do check the dates below if you are unsure.
| 13 Oct | Sunday | 1st Week | Trinity | meet 3–5pm | Afternoon chat. Meet the crew and fellow geeky freshers, see what we get up to, and maybe play some Werewolf. Come along to Trinity College, Levine CafĂ© between 3pm and 5pm on Sunday to meet the crew and fellow geeky freshers, see what we get up to, and maybe play some Werewolf. |
| 20 Oct | Sunday | 2nd Week | Trinity | Discussion + EGM |
Desert Planet Books.
What are the ten SF and Fantasy books most worth reading and why?
OUSFG's traditional first meeting of the year asks you to nominate and vote for your favourite books to
establish our ten favourite books for the year!
Audience contributions are encouraged, but no worries if you are new to SFF or just feeling a bit shy!
This is an excellent place to find out about books that you may not have yet come across,
and hopefully introduce the society to hidden gems that we have not heard of. For additional voting excitement, we will briefly confirm the new Committee appointments at this meeting. |
| 27 Oct | Sunday | 3rd Week | Trinity | Discussion | Alternate histories. Does history need just one change, one choice, one individual, or a whole different timeline (psychohistory)? Do you need a mechanism (time travel, precognition, magic) to change things? How can you tell a good story within an alternate history? How to explain in the story what is different to non-historians or breaking the 4th wall (or whatever you call it)? Is it SF, fantasy, or something different? |
| 3 Nov | Sunday | 4th Week | Trinity | Discussion |
Collaborative storytelling discussion, Tentacular Vikings
takes a theme and runs with it as we all work together to write (or at least plan) a story.
Last year we started with a fortuitous cat and a prompt "The oceans rise to hide a gate" and
plotted a tale of exploration and discovery.
Previous stories have involved
a miners' strike on the surface of the sun,
Boom Sticks,
the St Giles' Fair's role in keeping freshers
from disappearing into parallel dimensions,
and finally an explanation for why we keep crashing on that dratted desert planet.
Oh yes, and tentacular Vikings. |
| 9 Nov | Saturday | 4th Week | Oxfam | bookshops | Bookshop crawl. This Saturday we are going to explore the many hidden (and cheap!) bookshops in Oxford and their SFF collections.
This might be the time to find new hidden spots, expand your book collection and if you're feeling generous –
donate your findings into the OUSFG library. Feel free to join for any part of our crawl. We will start with the Oxfam bookshop on Turl Street at 2pm. To catch up with us later, please contact Paulina on Discord. |
| 10 Nov | Sunday | 5th Week | Trinity | TV + Discussion | Star Trek joint event. We are joining forces with the Star Trek Society for the week! We will first watch a selected Star Trek episode, and then will discuss how Star Trek tackles science fiction topics. |
| 17 Nov | Sunday | 6th Week | Trinity | 7pm Quiz | OUSFG will again be hosting the Oxford Geek Quiz! Please join us and help us compete for the crown of 'the one wot won that year'. Every society needs ideally at least 2 rounds: if you are willing to donate rounds (on the condition that you cannot answer them during the Quiz), send them through to Paulina or on Discord at any point before Saturday, 16th November. Meet at 7pm Trinity Lodge. |
| 24 Nov | Sunday | 7th Week | Trinity | Discussion | Aliens and Creatures. What makes a good sci-fi/fantasy non-human/alien character? What makes them good? Does a story need to have a human protagonist to be relatable to the audience? What are some examples of great non-human protagonists? Why are aliens so often humanoid? Come discuss. |
| 1 Dec | Sunday | 8th Week | Library Party | What could be better than Christmas Party? A Christmas Party with books! and werewolves! For the last meeting of the term, we will meet and walk to the Library (currently residing at 16 Rawlinson Road), which is slowly creeping to 900 books! Come browse and perhaps play some werewolf – OUSFG edition. | |
In addition, throughout the november we will be having a weekly creative writing groups meetings to celebrate NaNo (and perhaps write something too). Details incoming, more info will be distributed via email and on discord in #writings channel in due course!
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