So, did you have a Valentine? Donât answer that. Iâm not trying to bring the mood down. You know what will make you feel better? A jam-packed week of fun society events!
Itâs âRag Weekâ this week too. Unfortunately, due to the nature of Zoom University the usual merriments canât go ahead, but that doesnât mean there arenât some great charity events to support.
Monday
Tomorrow at 7pm, Trinity Vincent de Paul (VDP) is hosting a panel discussion that will focus on the power young people have to affect social change in their community. Panelists will include Anna Cosgrave, founder of the Repeal movement, and Joanna Siewierska, former President of UCD Students’ Union and former member of the national executive of the Irish Second-Level Students’ Union.
Once youâve learned how to change the world, you can wind down at Trinity Jazz Society (Jazz Soc)âs games night at 8pm. There, the society will undoubtedly remind you that they have a womenâs week concert coming up on March 12th, which submissions open for this week. So crack out that clarinet your parents bought you and let us have it!
Tuesday
Last week, I revealed the ultimate tip on contraception during college: writing a submission for The Eagle (Trinityâs Law Gazette). This week, after receiving compliments on my humour from The Eagleâs social media page I feel obliged to tell you that Editorial Board member Matthew OâSheaâs essay, âBalancing Public Interest Surveillance with Individualsâ Constitutional Rights: South Africa Strikes a Balanceâ, will be published to their blog this week.
Brown envelopes aside, VDP will be interviewing Irish boxer, Trinity alumnus and motivational speaker Mary Kate Slattery this Tuesday at 1pm. Youâd have to have been boxed in the head to miss that!
NĂos dĂ©anaĂ sa lĂĄ, An Cumann Gaelach will be hosting their usual thrilling 7pm social event on Zoom. This week its âCumann does Countdown agus ComĂłrtas Culaithâ where, I hear, Cumann will do Countdown and probably a ComĂłrtas Culaith too! Cumann Gaelachâs Ents Officer Jack Dunne even promotes it with a cringey quip: âBĂgĂ ann Ăł no bĂgĂ i bhur gcearnĂłg.â
Wednesday
TCD Environmental Society is always there for you on Wednesdays at 12pm with their Midweek Munchies chats. This week, youâll have the chance to show off your garden shrine of Greta Thunberg to that girl with the nice eyes in second-year GeogPol.
Speaking of things you maybe shouldnât admit to, Iâd avoid telling everyone on DU Modern Languagesâ 7pm Spongebob as Gaeilge Netflix party that you can do a mean impression of all the secondary characters. On the other hand, those attending the QSoc and DU Players Drag Race-inspired event at 8:30pm would probably love to hear your best impressions of the queens. Now you can annoy a whole bunch of people on Zoom with your Jasmine Masters soundbites and not just your course groupchat!
Before then, at 7:30pm, you can wear your ironically bought âMake Ireland Great Againâ hat to the College Historical Societyâs (the Hist) weekly debate: This House Believes That The Irish Left Should Abandon Republicanism.
Thursday
If you happen to have a spare 10 hours on Thursday (do you do Philosophy?) then you can stop by the Trinity College Dublin Studentsâ Unionâs Rag Week telethon from 10am. Throughout the stream, different societies will get a slot to show off whatever they want, including DU Music who will be giving you some basic guitar lessons, music trivia and clips of membersâ performances.
At 6pm, DU Amnesty will co-host a discussion on direct provision with the founder of Our Table, Ellie Kisyombe, who works to create a collaborative and connected community through food.
If you didnât get your fill of republicanism from the Histâs Wednesday night debate, at 7:30pm the Student Economic Review and the University Philosophical Society (the Phil) have you covered. They are hosting a debate between Trinity and University of Oxford students on the motion âThis House Would Break Up the United Kingdomâ.
Friday
To finish off your week with a boogie, float over to DU Dance and sign up for their 7pm Afro dance workshop. Once all this is over, the clubs won’t know what hit them.
At 9pm, VDP will celebrate the weekâs end with a games night on their discord which you are very welcome to join.