Weekends @ Emory is the ultimate guide to fun activities on Emory's campus! We are the University Center Board (UCB), a student organization that is the governing and programming board of Emory Student Center. Our aim is for students to have fun and safe events to go to on weekends. If you are a student organization looking to promote an event through this email, you can send the event title, description and a graphic to esc@emory.edu
The Artivist Market 5pm-8pm| The Hatchery
Cost: FREE, RSVP Here Discover what the Atlanta arts scene has to offer with a night of networking and speaker panels. Food and refreshments will be served. A pop-up shop with local art prints you can purchase and a VR art exhibition will also be on display. Free canvases and paints are available for you to unleash your inner creativity!
Sponsored by Upper Division Experience and Arts at Emory
Sponsored by Recreation and Wellness and Office of Financial Aid
Financial Wellness Workshop 5pm-6pm| Rollins Courtyard
Cost: FREE Graduate focused financial workshop that discusses student loan debt/repayment. To be held outside in the courtyard between Rollins school of Public Health and Claudia Nance Rollins Building
Dump Stress with Dumplings 5:30pm-7pm| Few Demonstration Kitchen
Cost: FREE, RSVP
Join EAC to destress before finals by making dumplings!
Sponsored by East Asia Collective
Sponsored by Student Programming Council
Dooley's Multicultural Festival 6pm-8pm| McDonough Field
Cost: FREE Food, games, activities and live performances from many of Emory's multicultural clubs and organizations.
Light Painting Workshop 6:30pm-9pm| Emory University Quad
Cost: FREE Light painting is a photography technique that uses a moving light source to add light to a subject while taking a long-exposure photograph. Whether you're an experienced photographer or just starting, we welcome everyone to join us to experience this fascinating technique!
Sponsored by Emory Photography Club
Sponsored by Emory SHINE, Emory University Refugee Drive, Dooley After Dark, Movies & Moonlight, and Emory Behind the Glass
In the Heights Movie Night 6:30pm-9:30pm| McDonough Plaza Cost: FREE Emory SILT, partnering with a few other immigrant-engagement organizations, is collaborating for a fun night of warm blankets, hot drinks, and In the Heights. There will be free food from Q'Paso food truck and Just Bakery cookies!
Special Thanksgiving International Community Lunch 11:30am-12:30pm| Cannon Chapel Brooks Commons Cost: FREE, RSVP Here ISSS and OSRL invite all international students and scholars to this special and final fall International Community Friday Lunch where we will enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving meal sponsored by the Office of the Provost.
Sponsored by International Student and Scholar Service
Sponsored by Population Biology, Ecology, and Evolution Seminar Series
Confronting Slavery in the Classical World 12pm-1pm| Michael C. Carlos Museum Cost: FREE Join Dr. Ruth Allen, curator of Greek and Roman Art, for a look at objects highlighted in a gallery intervention titled Confronting Slavery in the Classical World. Dr. Allen will focus on objects in the Greek and Roman galleries that depict enslaved people, commemorate the lives of freedmen, or were likely made by enslaved or formerly enslaved craftsmen.
4pm-5pm| AMUC 235 Cost: FREE, RSVP Here Come hang out with our executive board and the other general body members at EME's last event for the fall semester! We will be hosting an emergency-medicine-themed Jeopardy game with prizes for the winning team, and free Chic-Fil-A sandwiches for everyone before heading inside the building.
Sponsored by Education in Medical Emergencies
Sponsored by Bengali Association for Students at Emory
A Night in Bengal 2021 6pm-8pm| Cox Ballroom (Cox Hall 3rd Floor) Cost: FREE, RSVP Here Come join the Bengali Association for Students at Emory for music, performances, food, and more! This year we are partnering with the Zayan Shamayeen Memorial Award, which will assist a deserving Emory undergraduate student in partially covering tuition and fees.
Earth Day Every Day 4pm-6pm| The Plaza at McDonough Cost: FREE, RSVP Here Join RHA Sustainability at the McDonough Plaza on Friday November 19th from 4-6pm for some Free Donuts, pot painting, and giant jenga! Don't miss out on one our games for Dooley's Bowl Points!!!
Sponsored by Residence Hall Association
Sponsored by Recreational and Wellness
Emory Club Swimming Swim Clinic 12pm-4pm| Madeleine Jude Brown Aquatic Center Cost: FREE, RSVP here Want to learn how to swim? Or how to improve your technique to swim more effectively and prevent injury? Sign up for a FREE swim stroke clinic held by Emory Varsity Swimmers and Club Swimming! Participants can participate in one, or multiple 1-hour sessions.
Emory Pride Midtown LGBTQ+ Tour 2pm-4pm| Midtown MARTA Station (41 10th Street) Cost: FREE, RSVP here We will be having a tour on LGBTQ+ spaces throughout Midtown on Saturday, November 20th from 2 pm until ~3:15pm. Sights will include historic markers of LGBTQ+ life, such as gay bars, Piedmont Park, Peachtree Street, and other iconic landmarks.
Sponsored by Emory Pride
Sponsored by Recreational and Wellness
Dooley After Dark: Food Truck Fest 7pm-10pm| McDonough Field, Woodruff Residential Center, Clairmont Campus Cost: FREE, RSVP here Come join us for an array of food trucks to satisfy your taste buds. Food Truck Fest will be every Saturday and FREE for ALL Emory students.
Catholic Reconciliation 8am-9am |Cannon Chapel Cost: FREE
The Catholic Sacrament of Reconciliation is available before Mass every week. Check www.emorycatholic.org for more info.
Sponsored by Spiritual and Religious Life
Sponsored by Pokémon GO Emory
SHINX GBM Community Day 10:40am |Lawley Fountain Cost: FREE This Sunday will be Shinx Community Day! Let's join together at Lawley Fountain gym near Emory's School of Medicine just before Shinx start to cover the map!
Dooley After Dark: Virtual Cooking Class 6pm-7pm |Online Cost: FREE Comedians In YOUR Kitchen will be a tutorial-style cooking skills class alongside interactive and engaging comedic contributions. Our trained chef will go through every element of the meal in a fun and informative style that will give everyone a personalized experience!
Sponsored by Spiritual and Religious Life
Sponsored by Spiritual and Religious Life
CSU Executive Board Meeting 5pm-5:45pm |Cannon Chapel Room 314 Cost: FREE Are you interested in supporting Catholic students by creating prayer, fellowship, and service opportunities during the 2021-2022 school year? Your gifts are what make our ministry thrive, and we'd love to have your help!
Shared by Emory Office for RACE
Muscogee Stomp Dance and Cultural Sharing Nov 27, 5pm-7pm| South River Trail Intrenchment Cost: FREE In honor of Native American Heritage Month, join the Atlanta community in welcoming Muscogee community members from Helvpe Ceremonial grounds to South River Forest.
Windows to the World: Tibetan Culture Dec 3, 2pm-4pm| Cox Ballroom Cost: FREE Stop by between 2 and 4 pm to learn from our Tibetan monastics through demonstrations, a presentation, and a trivia game with awesome prizes!
Sponsored by International Student and Scholar Services
Sponsored by Student Programming Council
Winter Wonderland Dec 7, 12:30pm-2:30pm| Asbury Circle Cost: FREE Food, drinks, giveaways, and music to celebrate the winter season and the last day of classes!
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