After a long and difficult year, and with much uncertainty ahead, Wolfson College Choir is pleased to present an evening of choral music for home and the holidays. With lush songs on the theme of homecoming, birdsong, and winter - alongside Christmas classics - this evening will bring back the Wolfson tradition of heralding a new year with song and joy.

Bring along your santa hats and festive spirit to the Leonard Wolfson Audiotorium on Sunday December 5th, 5 pm to hear us serenade you!

A contribution for AMREF will be taken at the end of the concert, with mince pies provided outside after the concert. We kindly request audience members wear masks unless exempt.

This is your chance to help shape part of the next phase of Wolfson's Zero Carbon project, before the plan is in place. Architects will present proposals on decarbonising the rest of Wolfson's estate, including Robin Gandy and the Annexe, as well as Chadlington, Linton and Garford Roads. You'll also hear from the project manager who will be leading the work. We'd love to hear your feedback and questions so we can make this project work for you.

Join the event via Teams here

Screening of Frank Capra's 1946 classic, It's a wonderful life. Free and open admission. No booking required.

Screening of West Side Story (1961) by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise. Winner of 10 Oscars, this musical tells the ageless story of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of gang warfare in 1950s New York.

Free and open admission. No booking required.

'Isaiah Berlin and his Contemporaries': an evening of book readings and discussion, to mark the publication of Kei Hiruta's 'Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin' (Princeton University Press) and Johnny Lyons, 'Isaiah Berlin and his Philosophical Contemporaries' (Palgrave Macmillan).



Followed by a panel discussion featuring the two authors, alongside Maria Dimova-Cookson, of Durham University, and Berlin's editor, Henry Hardy; moderated by Mark Pottle, Isaiah Berlin Legacy Fellow.

The Film Society is pleased to invite you to its next screening:



What: La strada (1954) by Federico Fellini



When: Friday, 26 November, 7.30pm



Where: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium



How: Free admission. No booking required.



Why: Winner of the first Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film in 1954, the movie tells the story of a girl sold to a traveling entertainer, offering "one of cinema’s most exquisitely moving visions of humanity struggling to survive in the face of life’s cruelties.” (Adapted from the Criterion Collection.)



Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CucHyXsxCU8

Wolfson College Arts Committee, Sergey Katran and Irene Kukota invite you to the opening of the exhibition, Until the Word is Gone on Wednesday 24 November 2021 from 3.30-7.30pm.



The Private View reception will be held in the Haldane Room with the opportunity to view the works in Wolfson College Grounds.

Refreshments served from 5pm. Speeches 6.30pm.



Please rsvp to irene@russianartandculture.com or luisa.summers@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

The Health System of India: Learning from disarray under Covid-19 and ‘building back better’?

This is a zoom webinar on health policy lessons from India’s Covid experience, from Wolfson’s South Asia Research Cluster.

Two Indian public health experts discuss structural flaws in India’s private-public health system revealed by the covid pandemic and the pandemic response. They debate the question whether Covid-19 may also be viewed as a historic opportunity for re-imagining public engagement and building universal health-care with a variety of providers. All are welcome.

We have the honour to host Wolfson alumnus Ali James this coming Thursday at 6 pm in the Private Dining Room of Wolfson College.

James, who is currently Head of Medical Services at Wasps Rugby, will talk to us about his impressive career path from Wolfson College into British elite sports, as a son of Iranian-Jamaican parents. James has worked at Wasps since 2012 as a physiotherapist, taking over the role of head of medical services in 2013. During his time working at Wasps he also worked externally as tutor in pre-hospital care in sport as well as guest lecturing at the University of Coventry on its MSc Physiotherapy programs.

James has also worked as a consultant physiotherapist for the senior England men’s rugby team on the 2017 tour of South Africa and an additional fixture against the Barbarians in 2019. In addition to his undergraduate physiotherapy degree and MSc in the Science and Medicine of Athletic Performance obtained whilst a student at Wolfson College, Ali has gone on to obtain a postgraduate diploma in Manual Therapy and is currently working towards his MSc in Strength & Conditioning.

We will also address specific challenges and lessons Ali James mastered as a British-Iranian-Jamaican student in Oxford and how he now enjoys supporting the next generations to discover their identity and own voice.

The event will be held as a 40 min interview followed by 20 min questions from the audience.

The event is part of the Wolfson Welfare Black History Month Celebrations.