In these encounters we will explore Wolfson College by talking to the people involved in everyday College life, helping to raise awareness about the possibilities, resources, and initiatives available to the large and diverse Common Room community. The interviews will be of particular interest to freshers and to old members who wish to engage further with College life.

Episode 2: The Green Team
Paulo de Souza will be talking to us about his experience in Wolfson’s Green Team, its ethos, projects and ideas to develop green action in College. We will explore how members of the Common Room can get more involved and contribute to the Green Team.

This event will be broadcast Live via Microsoft Teams, as well as over Instagram Live, please follow the link above to join the meeting.

A presentation by the experts on why Wolfson's environmental project is such a momentous breakthrough for climate change and how the groundbreaking changes being made, will make Wolfson the UK’s first zero carbon higher education institution.

Speakers Bill Watts (engineer at Max Fordham) and Andrew Dawson (architect at Original Field) will give a 30 minutes presentation in the LWA, where they will share their designs, the science behind them and how we are delivering it in real terms.

This will be followed by a 30 minute Q&A session where Bill and Andrew will take questions on their designs and plans.

The lecture will take place in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium (LWA). The lecture will be also livestreamed online, on our YouTube Channel here.

The College operates a mandatory indoor face coverings and one-metre social distancing policy, and we can therefore offer just over 60 spaces are in the LWA.
 

Oxford Lieder's Song at Wolfson series, in collaboration with Fairlight Hall and Rye Creative Centre, resumes with the outstanding young baritone James Atkinson. At the Spring Weekend in February 2021, The Times wrote of James: ‘This young man is still in his final year at the Royal College of Music, but so confident was his stage manner and command of Schubert’s music… that he proclaimed himself a natural Lieder singer and linguist, savouring the words almost as idiomatically as a native German speaker, his lovely lyric baritone responding to the words with invigorating warmth. As a recitalist he’s clearly a name to watch.’



He and Artistic Director Sholto Kynoch begin their programme with one of Schumann's most popular song cycles (Liederkreis). In many ways, it's the epitome of the Romantic song cycle, full of love, longing and nature. They follow that with three settings of Shakespeare by the composer - and actor - Madeleine Dring. These wonderful songs are exciting and poignant, with a film-score feel as one might expect for a composer who also wrote for stage and screen. Their programme concludes with Maurice Ravel's Histoires Naturelles ('Natural Histories'), five colourful and joyously irreverent songs that deliver a brilliant commentary on familiar personalities, via the strutting peacock, the vain swan and the belligerent guinea fowl.



PRACTICAL INFORMATION

This concert is being performed live twice this evening, once at 6pm and again at 8pm. Details relating to COVID-19 and social distancing measures will be confirmed in due course.

Oxford Lieder's Song at Wolfson series, in collaboration with Fairlight Hall and Rye Creative Centre, resumes with the outstanding young baritone James Atkinson. At the Spring Weekend in February 2021, The Times wrote of James: ‘This young man is still in his final year at the Royal College of Music, but so confident was his stage manner and command of Schubert’s music… that he proclaimed himself a natural Lieder singer and linguist, savouring the words almost as idiomatically as a native German speaker, his lovely lyric baritone responding to the words with invigorating warmth. As a recitalist he’s clearly a name to watch.’



He and Artistic Director Sholto Kynoch begin their programme with one of Schumann's most popular song cycles (Liederkreis). In many ways, it's the epitome of the Romantic song cycle, full of love, longing and nature. They follow that with three settings of Shakespeare by the composer - and actor - Madeleine Dring. These wonderful songs are exciting and poignant, with a film-score feel as one might expect for a composer who also wrote for stage and screen. Their programme concludes with Maurice Ravel's Histoires Naturelles ('Natural Histories'), five colourful and joyously irreverent songs that deliver a brilliant commentary on familiar personalities, via the strutting peacock, the vain swan and the belligerent guinea fowl.



PRACTICAL INFORMATION

This concert is being performed live twice this evening, once at 6pm and again at 8pm. Details relating to COVID-19 and social distancing measures will be confirmed in due course.

Firoze Madon & Magdalene Ho



Scarlatti Sonatas K213 & K184

Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit, Ondine

Kapustin Concert etude Toccatina Op. 40 No. 3

Chopin Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52



Bach Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor Bk. 2

Ligeti Etude No. 6 Automne à Varsovie

Chopin Bacarolle Op. 60

Liszt Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi sonata



Schubert Fantasie in F minor, D940



Admission Free (donations taken for AMREF)



Spaces are limited to 70 people and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.



Face coverings must be worn at all times during the performance and 1 metre social distancing must be observed.
 

Wolfson President Tim Hitchens, and College Secretary, Luke Jackson Ross will be taking questions from Juan Neves Sarriegui about College Governance and how students can get involved in the running of Wolfson.

Streamed live over Teams and Instagram Live, this is your chance to learn how you can be part of the college, and have your say on how it is run.

Click here to join the meeting on MS Teams.

As part of Wolfson’s initiative to support homeless charities in Oxford, we’re running a collection drive in support of Crisis. There will be a box in the Lodge from Monday 15 November to Sunday 5 December. Please help support our drive by donating some non-perishable foods, such as:

• Tinned food (e.g. Soups, Stews, Rice Pudding, Tinned Fruit etc)

• Pasta, rice and noodles

• Pot Noodles, Cup-a-Soup, Instant Porridge

• Cereal bars / Energy Bars

• Chocolate / Sweet Biscuits

• Biscuits

Wolfson President Tim Hitchens will offer a one hour guided tour of the artworks at the College, especially the new collections. We will meet at the Lodge and walk around the College. Limited numbers, so please book a place via victoria.forster@wolfson.ox.ac.uk