A BIG FAT GULIS-WELCOME!

So, now we're all back in Åbo, let's do this once more:

WELCOME (back) to the English department everyone!

The board has finally gotten together for its first meeting, and we also had the privilege to meet the new students earlier today! We're excited to see so many new faces and we hope you will all join our events and see how awesome the extracurricular activities can get if you're with Britannica ;)

As is tradition, we have a whole bunch of events planned especially for our dear gulisar, and it is now time to reveal the dates in question, so you can mark your calendars:

1. GULIS-GAMYL-KVÄLL, 2.9.2015, 7pm @ Hunter's Inn

This is a very chill event, with the simple intention of bringing the new students of English together with the older ones and encouraging chit-chat between people in different years of their studies. It will take place at Hunter's Inn in the city centre already this Wednesday! The Facebook event can be found here.

2. GULISINTAGNING, 10.9.2015, 5pm - starting @ Arken

This event is probably best described as an absolutely crazy and incredibly funny initiaion ceremony for new students at the entire Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology. You will get to know new people from other subjects and also meet the boards of several other associations at the faculty. All the information you need can be found here. Remember to sign up for this event, and if anything's unclear, ask your tutor!

3. GULISAKADEMIN, 16.9.2015, 4pm @ Kåren

As a first-year student, this is your golden opportunity to see what a wide variety of associations ÅA has to offer! Kåren will be filled with happy people, small tables, countless overall patches, and FREE CANDY! This is also the best possible date to become a member of Britannica and buy yourselves some of our merch, since there will be a gulis discount at our table. You definitely don't want to miss this! By the way, remember to bring CASH!

4. BRITANNICA'S GULISSITZ, 25.9.2015, 7pm @ F

Last, but absolutely not least, Britannica will organize a sitz to teach you everything you need to know about this amazing form of partying. As this event is more than three weeks away, all the details haven't been figured out yet, but you WILL hear more about this soon! Stay tuned by regularly checking this blog, the notice board at the English department and our Facebook group (and your e-mail, if you're already a member).

SEE YOU SOON!

//The Board

Upcoming events

Greetings, Britannicans! As promised, your sparkling, brand new board is setting off the new year with a new lineup of events!

 First off, we're hosting a fun and relaxing evening in the Student's Lounge on Wednesday 28th at 3pm. Feel free to join us if you want to sew overall patches, play board games and socialize with other people from the English Department! Do bring along any of the following things if you feel like it: your overall and sewing equipment, board games, snacks, friends!  We will also be selling drinks and patches.

F*CK V-DAY SITZ
Roses? Romance? Happiness? Ugh. Britannica and Infå are once again collaborating to host a Valentine's Day sitz party together! However, this year we're straying from tradition (as you can see from the clever and tasteful title). More information can be found here! The spots are indeed already filled, but go ahead and sign up for the queue in case somebody on the main list doesn't make it to the sitz. There is going to be an afterparty starting at midnight, which is open for everybody, so come and party with us!



All the best,
Kathy

Britannica goes Paddington

Britannica's inofficial mascot Paddington has come to the cinemas and naturally we want to go and watch his adventures together! We have booked 15 tickets for the screening in Finnkino on Monday. You'll find all the information you need, and a sign-up sheet, right here!

The event in short:
WHAT? "Paddington" at the cinema
WHERE? Finnkino Åbo, Kauppiaskatu 11
WHEN? Monday 19th January, 17:15 (movie starts at 18:10)
HOW MUCH? ~9,30€ with student card (10,30€ without)

Also, note our little "special offer": if you haven't got Britannica's standard Paddington overall patch yet, this is your chance to buy it at a special price! It normally costs 3€, but during the cinema event you can buy one for 2€. If you want a patch, remember to indicate it on the sign-up sheet, and bring 2€ in cash to the movie. Please avoid the 20€ bills as we won't have large amounts of change with us!

Watch the trailer for the movie here to get in the mood:

See ya Monday!

Department-get-together

Dear Britannicans,

It is once again time for a traditional department-get-together, bringing together students and staff alike for an evening of wine, cheese, and socializing with fellow students and teachers. The board has also planned some fun surprise programme for you!

The get-together will take place on Thursday the 13th of November from 7pm onwards in Kramer (M220) and costs only 3€ for members (5€ for non-members).

This is one of the lovely events you don't have to sign up for in advance, but in order to get y'all enough to eat and drink, we'd appreciate seeing your name under "going" on the Facebook event if you intend to come. See y'all there! :)

Movie Night

It is time for the first movie night of the season, and The English Department Film Club in association with Britannica are pleased to present Good Vibrations (2012), directed by Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn. The film is based on the life of Terry Hooley, founder of a cult record label and store in Troubles-era Belfast. Watch the trailer here. 

All are welcome, so bring that friend of yours that is really into film. Refreshments can be purchased for 1  €.

Stay excellent,

Britannica 

PUB QUIZ 27.10.2014

Dear Britannicans,

Whether you're going to spend your reading week writing essays (the sad reality for the poor board member writing this post), partying to celebrate that you've survived the first period or catching up with family at home, the board wishes to give you a reason to look forward to your return to your studies for the second period. We hereby bring you the autumn edition of our PUB QUIZ!

On the 27th of October at 7pm, we hereby invite you and all your friends down to F for an evening of friendly competition where your knowledge of anything from music to geography to entirely random facts will be tested. Participation costs only 2€ per team, and as a team counts any group of maximum 4 people, formed either in advance or on the spot.

Britannica will provide you with snacks (included in the price) and the F staff will provide you with drinks (as long as you bring your ABC-cards). Also, the most knowledgeable team will of course win something fabulous. :D

No sign-up is needed for this event - just show up at F on time! If you still want to check who else is going, though, and let us know you'll be joining, the FB event can be found here.

We hope to see you all at F! :)

BAKLÄNGESSITZ with DaTe

The board of Britannica is proud to present our next sitz, this time in collaboration with DaTe! Last time our associations organized a sitz together was in October of 2012, and we had such a blast that we now decided to organize a "blast from the past"/"favorit i repris" two years later: ZTISSEGNÄLKAB, or in English ZTIS SDRAWKCAB!

A "backwards sitz" is exactly what the name suggests: everything is done backwards. The dessert is served before the main course, we start by drinking the punsch and the songs are sung in the wrong order. This makes for total chaos but also a totally fabulous party! If this sounds like something you want to experience (why on earth wouldn't you?!), you need to head off to DaTe's web page where the sign-up will open TOMORROW 1.10 at 12 noon.

In short:

WHAT? !ztissegnälkaB

WHEN? 15th of October at 7pm

WHERE? B

PRICE? 12€ (with alcohol) / 10€ (alcohol-free)

DRESSCODE: Overall/backwards

(; ereht uoy gniees ot drawrof kool eW

GULISSITZ!

The academic year has started, and so has "studielivet" - and Britannica's traditional "gulissitz" is back! This is the perfect chance for all the new students at the English department to familiarize themselves with this awesome way of partying, and learn how to sitz the Britannica way! Of course, all older Britannicans are also welcome to participate and show the newbies how it's done. ;)

In short:

DATE: 18.9.2014
TIME: 19:00 (7pm)
PLACE: F
PRICE: 12€/14€ (member/non-member)
DRESSCODE: Come as you are (but wear your overall if you have one)!

GULISAR: Remember to bring your "gulispass", as you will receive points for attending this event! Also, if you aren't already a member of Britannica, you can become a member at the door.
 
You can find the FB-event for the sitz here and the sign-up here. The last day to sign up is Tuesday 16.9.

PS. Exchange students are also most welcome to join us for this party - a lovely mixture of Swedish and English will be spoken!

See y'all at F!

Gulis-gamyl-kväll @ Hunter's Inn 16.9!

Hiya folks!

Britannica is alive and kicking, and we have now set the first date for an event of our own! On Tuesday the 16th of September at 7pm we will have what we call a "gulis-gamyl-kväll", which is basically intended as a simple chill hangout breaking the ice between the gulisar (the new students) and the gamyler (the older students). This takes place at Pub Hunter's Inn, a pub in the city centre (Brahenkatu 3), so you might want to bring a little money so you can have a drink or two. Other than that, you only need to bring yourselves, preferrably in your most social mood, of course :)

The Facebook event can be found here, in case you want to let us know you're coming, or just want to check who else is joining in. We hope to see lots of you there!

In the meantime, don't forget next week's fabulous events:

- Gulisakademin @ Kåren, Wednesday 10.9 at 18:00

- Humfen's gulisintagning, starting @ Arken, Thursday 11.9 at 16:30

Have a great first week of teaching, everyone!

x The Board

COMING UP!

To the new students at the English Department: Welcome!
And to all our familiar fellow students: Welcome back!

With just a few days left until the beginning of gulisveckan ("fresher's week", i.e. the orientation week for the new students at ÅA), we thought we'd let you know that Britannica has a lot of programme planned for the coming autumn! The board is still scattered all over the country, which means we haven't decided on that many details yet, but we do know some things that we'd like to share with you. We especially want all the gulisar (first-year students) to take note of the following events, although we'd love to see lots of gamyler (older students) there too!

- GULISAKADEMIN @ Kåren 10.9.2014
The annual "student associations' fair" at Kåren is an event where the boards of all sorts of associations at ÅA come together, presenting their associations and their events to new and old students alike. This is your perfect chance to see what a huge variety of active associations there are at our university, chat to the board of Britannica, and just generally get a glimpse of what studielivet (the life as a student) in Turku has to offer. Also, there are lots of halarmärken (overall patches) to buy and free candy to be had!

The board at the student associations' fair in april 2014

- GULIS-GAMYL-KVÄLL
In order for the new students at the English department to get to know students from previous years, and vice versa, Britannica will organize a "gulis-gamyl-kväll". This evening typically takes place during the first weeks in September at some bar in the city centre, and is intended as a simple chill hangout in good company.

- HUMFEN'S GULISINTAGNING starting @ Arken 11.9.2014
Humanistiska föreningen (the association for all students at the Faculty of Arts) organizes the annual gulisintagning, which might be best explained in English as a very informal, slightly crazy, and hysterically fun initiation ceremony for the new students at the faculty. Britannica will appear among all the other subject associations with some fun task or other for the new students to perform. Older students are most welcome along to watch!

The board of 2013 at the gulisintagning in September 2013

- BRITANNICA'S GULISSITZ
Last but not least of all the "gulis" events: the first sitz (traditional student dinner party) of the academic year! This is the perfect chance for all the new students to experience this awesome form of partying that never gets old, and of course a chance for all us older students to party with the new ones (and, at some point during the evening, realize that we might be getting a bit old).

Britannica's gulissitz 2013

As soon as the board has had its first meeting for this academic year (which will be within two weeks' time, for sure) the dates for these events will be published, so STAY TUNED! In order to keep yourselves updated, you can:

- Keep an eye on this blog, where we will make posts about all upcoming events
- Join Britannica's Facebook group, where events will be shared as soon as they're created
- When you're at the department, check Britannica's notice board
- If you're already a Britannica member, check your e-mail

SEE YOU SOON!

xoxo
Board of Britannica

Lazertag @ Megazone!

Dear Britannicans,

Our last event before the summer will be a round of lazertag at Megazone on Tuesday the 13th of May at 7pm. This is your chance to take a break from your essay writing, meet up with your fellow students one last time before the holidays and blow off some steam by shooting everyone in sight! You're also more than welcome to join us for a beer afterwards, if you feel like it. :)

A visit to Megazone normally costs 9€, but since the board is feeling generous, Britannica members only have to pay 7€ this time. Since our session starts at 19:00, we need to be at Megazone at 18:45 for preparations and stuff.

To let us know you're coming, please put "attending" on our Facebook event, so that we know how many people to expect and who to wait for before we go down for our session. If you're not on Facebook, sending an e-mail to britanni@abo.fi works just as well!

This will be loads of fun - hope to see you there! :D

Spacesitz with Quantum!

Hi guys!

Britannica is alive and kicking and in two weeks' time we've got a SITZ coming up! This time we're working with Quantum (the students of physics) and together we're offering you an awesome space-themed extravaganza down at F on Tuesday the 6th of May. The sign-up is already online, so make sure to reserve yourself a seat in our space ship - this will be a party out of this world!

Also, a friendly reminder that our pre-wappen get-together takes place on Monday in the students' lounge - we'll be sewing patches and playing board games for hours, so just pop in whenever you have time after 3pm and have a good time with your fellow students!

Happy weekend and see you Monday :)

Britannica x

Pub quiz!

Hello y'all!

One of Britannicas newer traditions, the pub quiz, is back! This spring the event will be held on Monday the 14th of April at 8pm, which is the time you're supposed to bring as many of your friends as you possibly can down to F for an evening of fun that will test your random knowledge of just about everything.

For the quiz you will need a team of maximum 4 people, which you can form either in advance or on the spot. The event will cost you 2€/team and this includes participation in the quiz and some snacks. Also, if you happen to be on the lucky winning team, you will get a (more or less) awesome prize! If you suspect you'll be feeling thirsty during the evening, the staff at F will be at your service, so bring your ABC-cards!

The FB event can be found here, if you feel like letting us know you're coming (although this is in no way obligatory).

We hope to see you all there! WHOOP!

Britannica x

FILM SCREENING NUMERO DOS

Hooray it is once again time for another film club screening!

Britannica and the English Department will be screening an adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations (2012) by Mike Newell, starring Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter. April 3rd at 18.15 in Helikon, Arken.

Britannica will be serving drinks and snacks for 1 e. (Nothing!) The facebook event can be found here.

God it looks dramatic! 

See you there,

Britannica

English Department get-together! Party!

Our wine and cheese night was a blast with a good turnout! (so good the wine ran dry towards the end, oops) Cheers to everyone who came and special thanks to Anthony Johnson, Sebastian Holmgård and Linn Holmgård for lifting our spirits through the roof with your magnificent performances! 

Britannica out x

Department-get-together

Hello y'all!

It's time for the first department-get-together of the year, which will bring together students and (hopefully) staff for a chill hangout in Kramer, Arken (M220). This event will take place on Tuesday the 25th of March from 6pm onwards, and it will cost you only 3€ if you're a Britannica member (5€ if you're not). For this price you will get wine, cheese and snacks, not to mention the awesome company and some fun programme.

You don't need to sign up for the get-together anywhere, but if you intend to come we'd appreciate seeing your name under "going" on Facebook, since we want to make sure to get y'all enough refreshments.

See you there!
Britannica x

Hangout 27.2

Hey guys,

Thursday Feb 27th we will be having a general chill hangout in our student's lounge from 3 pm. Come and play a board game, sew some patches on your overalls or just have a chat. It'll be a nice, laid-back get-together where everyone's welcome.

In exam times we might all just need this kind of no worries- attitude to remind us to take it easy every once in a while.

love & peace,
Britannica x

Valentine's sitz

Hello y'all!

Britannica is once again hosting the traditional Valentine's sitz together with Infå on Friday the 14th of February. Everyone is most welcome to join the jolly company at Uusi-S to celebrate love, friendship and all good things in life. There are 50 spots and your last chance to sign up for one of them is on the 12th of February at 11:59pm. You find the sign-up here and the Facebook event here. 

In short:
WHAT? Valentine's sitz with Britannica & Infå
WHEN? 14.2.2014 at 19:00
WHERE? Uusi-S
DRESSCODE: Smart casual
PRICE? 
14€ - non-member 
12€ - member 
10€ - alcohol-free
WHY? Because all you need is love!

We hope to see you all there! :)

Lots of love,
Britannica x

THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FILM CLUB PRESENTS: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

We are happy to announce that the film club will be screening Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind on Tuesday 4th of Feb at 17.15 in Helikon, Arken. Britannica will be serving snacks for the bargain price of 1 €.

Eternal Sunshine is directed by the wonderful Michel Gondry and is regarded as a quirky classic of the 00's. My personal opinion is that it truly is a gem of coolness, a fantastical portrait of love and the mysteries of the mind. Check out the trailer here.

 

 

See you Tuesday!
Matilda

Valentine's sitz

Britannica and Infå are hosting a Valentine's sitz Friday the 14th, so book it in your calendar and await further information about this party celebrating friendship, love and all good things in life.

source: tumblr.com

/Matilda x