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Social Events

The Graduate Centre hosts a variety of social events through the year - including free weekly film nights - which are open to all postgraduate students at Cardiff. You can also bring guests along to social events!

If you have an idea for an event or would like to know about our free venue for postgraduate social and academic events, please email us at the Graduate Centre: grad-centre@cardiff.ac.uk

Coach Trips

The Graduate Centre operates fortnightly coach trips to great destinations in the UK which are open to postgraduates and their invited guests. You can check out our schedule and prices on the Trips webpage.

Scroll down for the latest events at the Graduate Centre. All events take place in our modern, cosy Café Bar unless otherwise stated.


NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2012

Saturday 5 January

7pm

Movie Night

New Release  

Snow White & The Huntsman

In a twist to the fairy tale, the Huntsman ordered to take Snow White into the woods to be killed winds up becoming her protector and mentor in a quest to vanquish the Evil Queen.

Wednesday 9 January

8pm

£2.50 Quiz Entry & Pizza

Graduate Centre Cafe Bar

Quiz & Pizza Night

A fun general knowledge team quiz with pizza included (choice of pepperoni or cheese & tomato). There will be questions on pop culture, history, geography, etc with enough international flavour to suit everyone. Come along with or without a team - individuals are welcome and we'll find you some fellow postgrads to join in with! This event will run every Wednesday throughout the Autumn Term.

Saturday 12 January

7pm

Movie Night

Classic

The Boy in The Striped Pajamas

Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.

Wednesday 16 January

8pm

£2.50 Quiz Entry & Pizza

Graduate Centre Cafe Bar

Quiz & Pizza Night

A fun general knowledge team quiz with pizza included (choice of pepperoni or cheese & tomato). There will be questions on pop culture, history, geography, etc with enough international flavour to suit everyone. Come along with or without a team - individuals are welcome and we'll find you some fellow postgrads to join in with! This event will run every Wednesday throughout the Autumn Term.

Saturday 19 January

7pm

Movie Night

World Cinema

Bicycle Thieves

 A poor young father in postwar-ravaged Rome who finally finds work putting up Rita Hayworth posters around town, only to have his precious bicycle stolen the first day on the job. In a light moment as the father and his young son chase after the thief, the boy attempts to relieve himself against a wall, and his father lets him know they don't have time for that. In another scene, the father tracks the thief into the kitchen of a brothel.

Wednesday 30 January

8pm

£2.50 Quiz Entry & Pizza

Graduate Centre Cafe Bar

Quiz & Pizza Night

A fun general knowledge team quiz with pizza included (choice of pepperoni or cheese & tomato). There will be questions on pop culture, history, geography, etc with enough international flavour to suit everyone. Come along with or without a team - individuals are welcome and we'll find you some fellow postgrads to join in with! This event will run every Wednesday throughout the Autumn Term.

Saturday 2 February 

7pm

Movie Night

New Release 

The Amazing Spiderman

Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. Peter is also finding his way with his first high school crush, Gwen Stacy, and together, they struggle with love, commitment, and secrets. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents' disappearance - leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr Curt Connors, his father's former partner. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course with Connors' alter-ego, The Lizard, Peter will make life-altering choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become a hero.

Wednesday 6 February

8pm

£2.50 Quiz Entry & Pizza

Graduate Centre Cafe Bar

Quiz & Pizza Night

A fun general knowledge team quiz with pizza included (choice of pepperoni or cheese & tomato). There will be questions on pop culture, history, geography, etc with enough international flavour to suit everyone. Come along with or without a team - individuals are welcome and we'll find you some fellow postgrads to join in with! This event will run every Wednesday throughout the Autumn Term.

Friday 8 February

8pm

Graduate Centre Cafe Bar

Meet & Mingle: RELOADED

Don’t miss the first special social night of the new term! There will be lots going on to help break the ice so why not come along and meet all those people you failed to meet last term! Prizes for the best socialites!

Saturday 1 December

7pm

Movie Night

Classic

Up

A young Carl Fredrickson meets a young adventure-spirited girl named Ellie. They both dream of going to a lost land in South America. 70 years later, Ellie has died. Carl remembers the promise he made to her. Then, when he inadvertently hits a construction worker, he is forced to go to a retirement home. But before they can take him, he and his house fly away. However, he has a stowaway aboard: an 8-year-old boy named Russell, who's trying to get an Assisting the Elderly badge. Together, they embark on an adventure, where they encounter talking dogs, an evil villain and a rare bird named Kevin.

Wednesday 13 February

8pm

£2.50 Quiz Entry & Pizza

Graduate Centre Cafe Bar

Quiz & Pizza Night

A fun general knowledge team quiz with pizza included (choice of pepperoni or cheese & tomato). There will be questions on pop culture, history, geography, etc with enough international flavour to suit everyone. Come along with or without a team - individuals are welcome and we'll find you some fellow postgrads to join in with! This event will run every Wednesday throughout the Autumn Term.

Saturday 9 February

7pm

Movie Night

World Cinema

Spirited Away

Chihiro and her parents are moving to a small Japanese town in the countryside and Chihiro is missing her old house. Chihiro's father makes a wrong turn and drives through a lonely land road with dead end in a tunnel. Her parents decide to stop the car and explore the area. They cross the tunnel and find an abandoned cultural theme park on the other side with a ghost town. When her parents sees a restaurant with smelling food but no staff, they decide to eat to pay later; however Chihiro refuses to eat and decides to visit the place. She meets the boy Haku that tells her that her parents and she are in danger and they must leave the place. She runs to the restaurant and finds that her parents have turned into pigs. Further, the place is a bathhouse of spirits, monsters, gods and ghosts owned by the witch Yubaba. Now Chihiro counts on Haku to save her parents and return to their world.

Wednesday 13 February

8pm

£2.50 Quiz Entry & Pizza

Graduate Centre Cafe Bar

Quiz & Pizza Night

A fun general knowledge team quiz with pizza included (choice of pepperoni or cheese & tomato). There will be questions on pop culture, history, geography, etc with enough international flavour to suit everyone. Come along with or without a team - individuals are welcome and we'll find you some fellow postgrads to join in with! This event will run every Wednesday throughout the Autumn Term.

Saturday 16 February

7pm

Movie Night

New Release

Looper

In the year 2044, a man working for a group of killers called "Loopers" (they work for the mob and kill people who are sent blindfolded back in time from the year 2074 by their bosses) recognizes a victim as himself. He hesitates resulting in the escape of his older self.

Wednesday 20 February

8pm

£2.50 Quiz Entry & Pizza

Graduate Centre Cafe Bar

Quiz & Pizza Night

A fun general knowledge team quiz with pizza included (choice of pepperoni or cheese & tomato). There will be questions on pop culture, history, geography, etc with enough international flavour to suit everyone. Come along with or without a team - individuals are welcome and we'll find you some fellow postgrads to join in with! This event will run every Wednesday throughout the Autumn Term.

Saturday 23 February

7pm

Movie Night

Classic

Good Will Hunting

A touching tale of a wayward young man who struggles to find his identity, living in a world where he can solve any problem, except the one brewing deep within himself, until one day he meets his soul mate who opens his mind and his heart.

Wednesday 27 February

8pm

£2.50 Quiz Entry & Pizza

Graduate Centre Cafe Bar

Quiz & Pizza Night

A fun general knowledge team quiz with pizza included (choice of pepperoni or cheese & tomato). There will be questions on pop culture, history, geography, etc with enough international flavour to suit everyone. Come along with or without a team - individuals are welcome and we'll find you some fellow postgrads to join in with! This event will run every Wednesday throughout the Autumn Term.

Saturday 2 March

7pm

Movie Night

World Cinema

King of Devil’s Island

Based on a true story: Norwegian winter, early 20th century. On the island Bastoy, located in the Oslo fjord live a group of delinquent, young boys aged 11 to 18. The boys daily, sadistic regime is run by the guards and the principal who bestow both mental and physical abuse on them. Instead of the boys being straightened out with education they end up being used as cheap, manual labor. The boys attempt to survive by adapting to their inhumane conditions. One day a new boy, Erling (17), arrives with his own agenda; how to escape from the island. How far is he willing to go in order to get his freedom?

Wednesday 6 March

8pm

£2.50 Quiz Entry & Pizza

Graduate Centre Cafe Bar

Quiz & Pizza Night

A fun general knowledge team quiz with pizza included (choice of pepperoni or cheese & tomato). There will be questions on pop culture, history, geography, etc with enough international flavour to suit everyone. Come along with or without a team - individuals are welcome and we'll find you some fellow postgrads to join in with! This event will run every Wednesday throughout the Autumn Term.

Saturday 9 March

7pm

Movie Night

New Release

Madagascar 3 – Europes Most Wanted

Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman are still trying to get back to the Big Apple and their beloved Central Park zoo, but first they need to find the penguins. When they travel to Monte Carlo, they attract the attention of Animal Control after gate crashing a party and are joined by the penguins, King Julian and Co., and the monkeys. How do a lion, zebra, hippo, giraffe, four penguins, two monkeys, three lemurs travel through Europe without attracting attention and get back to New York? They join a traveling circus. Their attempts to get back to New York are consistently hampered by the Captain of Animal Control who wants to make Alex part of her collection. Once they make it back to New York Marty, Alex, Gloria and Melman realize that they want to be part of the traveling circus.

Wednesday 13 March

8pm

£2.50 Quiz Entry & Pizza

Graduate Centre Cafe Bar

Quiz & Pizza Night

A fun general knowledge team quiz with pizza included (choice of pepperoni or cheese & tomato). There will be questions on pop culture, history, geography, etc with enough international flavour to suit everyone. Come along with or without a team - individuals are welcome and we'll find you some fellow postgrads to join in with! This event will run every Wednesday throughout the Autumn Term.

Friday 15 March

8pm

Various Bars around Cardiff

Hidden Gems Pub Crawl

Starting in our very own Cafe Bar - the best place to start your weekend. Afterwards current students will lead you around favoured venues of Cardiff postgrads as you find those hidden gems that you may have been missing out on these past few months

Saturday 16 March

7pm

Movie Night

Classic

Rain Man

Charles Sanford "Charlie" Babbit is a self-centered Los Angeles-based automobile dealer/hustler/bookie who is at war with his own life. Charlie, as a young teenager, used his father's 1948 Buick convertible without permission and as a result, he went to jail for two days on account that his father reported it stolen. It is then that Charlie learns that his estranged father died and left him from his last will and testament a huge bed of roses and the car while the remainder will of $3 Million goes into a trust fund to be distributed to someone. Charlie seemed pretty angry by this and decides to look into this matter. It seems as if that "someone" is Raymond, Charlie's unknown brother, an autistic savant who lives in a world of his own, resides at the Walbrook Institute. Charlie then kidnaps Raymond and decides to take him on a lust for life trip to the west coast as a threat to get the $3 Million inheritance...

Wednesday 20 March

8pm

£2.50 Quiz Entry & Pizza

Graduate Centre Cafe Bar

Quiz & Pizza Night

A fun general knowledge team quiz with pizza included (choice of pepperoni or cheese & tomato). There will be questions on pop culture, history, geography, etc with enough international flavour to suit everyone. Come along with or without a team - individuals are welcome and we'll find you some fellow postgrads to join in with! This event will run every Wednesday throughout the Autumn Term.

Saturday 23 March

7pm

Movie Night

World Cinema

A Simple Life

After suffering a stroke, an altruistic maid announces that she wants to quit her job and move into an old people's home.

Wednesday 27 March

8pm

£2.50 Quiz Entry & Pizza

Graduate Centre Cafe Bar

Quiz & Pizza Night

A fun general knowledge team quiz with pizza included (choice of pepperoni or cheese & tomato). There will be questions on pop culture, history, geography, etc with enough international flavour to suit everyone. Come along with or without a team - individuals are welcome and we'll find you some fellow postgrads to join in with! This event will run every Wednesday throughout the Autumn Term.

Saturday 30 March

7pm

Movie Night

New Release

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Based on the novel written by Stephen Chbosky, this is about 15-year-old Charlie (Logan Lerman), an endearing and naive outsider, coping with first love (Emma Watson), the suicide of his best friend, and his own mental illness while struggling to find a group of people with whom he belongs. The introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors, Sam and Patrick, who welcome him to the real world.

 

2012 PAST EVENTS

Our past events list below offer a flavour of the types of activities offered by the Graduate Centre for postgraduate students. For more information about what kind of events and activities are held at the Graduate Centre throughout the year, see our Highlights web page.

 

Friday 2 Nov, 5.30pm

#followfriday – live music

Saturday 3 Nov,7pm

Movie Night - Trainspotting

Wednesday 7 Nov,10am-6pm

Charity Book Sale

Friday 9 Nov, 5.30pm 

#followfriday – live music

Saturday 10 Nov, 7pm

Movie Night – Raise the Red Lantern

Wednesday 14 Nov, 3pm

Why Not...Learn how to blog

Friday 16 Nov,5.30pm

#followfriday – Live Music

Saturday 17 Nov, 7pm

Movie Night – The Hunger Games

Sunday 18 Nov, 7pm

Games Night

Wednesday 21 Nov, 3pm

Why Not...Visit the Museum

Friday 23 Nov, 5.30pm

#followfriday – Live Music

Saturday 24 Nov, 7pm

Movie Night – Jaws

Wednesday 28 Nov, 3pm

Why Not...Climbing Taster Session

Friday 30 Nov, 5.30pm

#followfriday – Live Music

Saturday 1 Dec,7pm

Movie Night – Africa United

Sunday 2 Dec, 7pm

Open Mic Night – SVC Takeover

Wednesday 5 Dec, 3pm

Why Not...Visit Techniquest

Thursday 6 Dec, 9pm

Postgrad Christmas Party!

Friday 7 Dec, 5.30pm

#followfriday – Live Music

Saturday 8 Dec, 7pm

Movie Night – Hunky Dory

Wednesday 12 Dec, 3pm

Why Not...Winter Wonderland Ice Skate

Thursday 13 Dec, 7pm

Postgrad Christmas Dinner!

Saturday 15 Dec, 7pm

Movie Night – Airplane!

17-20 Dec, 5pm

Christmas Movies at 5pm

 

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