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Events and activities Academic 2018-<strong>2019</strong> agenda<br />
A busy year<br />
for <strong>Wolfson</strong><br />
choir<br />
<strong>Wolfson</strong>’s choir has had a busy year under new music<br />
director, Caroline Lesemann-Elliott, who is studying<br />
conducting as part of her Masters in Musicology at Royal<br />
Holloway. To celebrate the end of Michaelmas term and the<br />
start of Christmas, the choir performed a mix of traditional<br />
carols and popular songs, as well as some Holst (‘This have<br />
I done for my true love’), and a song written by a 17thcentury<br />
Mexican nun: ‘Madre la de los primores’. For this<br />
they were joined by cellist Kate Kennedy-Allum from the<br />
Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, with her son on percussion.<br />
On 12 March, the choir performed folk songs from around<br />
the world in a joint concert with St Cross College in the St<br />
Cross Chapel. The choir rehearses regularly at 19.30 on<br />
Mondays – all welcome.<br />
Ursula Westwood<br />
Supporting the BME<br />
community<br />
BME rep Woohee Kim strives to create supportive<br />
spaces for black, Asian and minority ethnic students<br />
and family members at <strong>Wolfson</strong>, championing<br />
issues related to diversity and inclusivity at the<br />
College. Woohee was elected as the BME rep during<br />
Michaelmas term and has organised a number of<br />
events. These have included ‘Speaking through<br />
silence: Blackness Cambridge and radical archive’,<br />
a talk featuring the president of the Black Cantabs<br />
Society at Cambridge, which formed part of Common<br />
Ground Oxford’s Festival of Liberated Curricula in<br />
February. She also organised ‘A conversation on<br />
women of color’s experiences at Oxford’. This was<br />
co-organised with BME reps at Keble, Brasenose,<br />
St Hilda’s and Wadham, successfully creating an<br />
intimate conversation that went beyond the planned<br />
time, lasting for three hours. Other events have<br />
included BMETea, a supportive space for all self-<br />
identifying black, Asian, and minority ethnic students and<br />
family members to come together for tea and snacks, and<br />
a Lunar New Year welfare cake event with snacks from<br />
cultures that celebrate Lunar New Year.<br />
WOLFSON COLLEGE OXFORD . PLANS & PROSPECTS . <strong>2019</strong> . 25
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