Hi again from the ICS interns Caitlin and Nancy!

Time is really flying on our placement with LLAS, we can’t believe we’ve hit double figures of blog posts so quickly!

This week we’ve been making lots of progress with our marketing materials, and have come up with a concept that we really hope you’ll like. We should be handing out our first round of publicity material at the Freshers’ Bunfight later this month so look out for us there!

This week we’ve also kept liaising with numerous university departments, and we’re really happy to have the Confucius Institute on board with WOW Festival. They’ll be providing various exciting activities relating to Chinese culture on the day of the Festival, so make sure that you’re around for those.

We’re also very excited to announce that, after much deliberation, we have a confirmed date for WOW Festival! Our day of intercultural exchange will take place on 6^th February 2016 on Highfield Campus, University of Southampton.

As usual, we’ll continue to blog on the ICS website before 6^th February so you can keep updated with all things WOW.

Until next Friday!

Hi again from Nancy and Caitlin!

This week we were so glad to welcome back our supervisor for the Intercultural Connections Project, Alison, and we had three weeks’ worth of work to update her on when she returned, along with all our questions, queries and qualms about WOW Festival. We’re really happy to have Alison back with us for the final three weeks of our placement here at LLAS and hope we can make some real progress in this final push!

This week we’ve been thinking about culinary contributions to WOW Festival. As you know, here on the WOW Festival Team we’re keen to get the people of Southampton engaging in intercultural exchange in as many ways as possible. In many cultures, food brings together family and friends and so we’d love to get some recipe contributions from across the globe so people can start connecting with new cultures through new cuisine!

In February, we’re hoping to hold an International Recipe Swap, and so, to facilitate this, we’d like to collect as many recipes as possible before the festival date so we can distribute these on the day, people can contribute their own favourite recipes and swap them for some new ones to take home! We think this will expand gastronomic horizons and facilitate intercultural exchange through people’s favourite food!

If you’d like to contribute a recipe then please click this link to fill in this form.

Hello once again from Caitlin and Nancy!

The updates we have this week are much more tangible than before as they involve progress that we can actually show in our blog! We’ve been doing even more design work this week, and we think we’ve made some real headway with the website, thanks again to the brilliant Routes into Languages intern, Yolanda. Just by looking at this page, you’ll notice that we’ve redesigned our website’s banner to co-ordinate with our brand new ICS logo! We also have a new Festival section of the website, so be sure to check that out too!

We’re also really excited to show you the new, official WOW branding that, after a few weeks of prototypes and provisional designs, is finally ready! We hope you love the blend of different patterns and vibrant colours as much as we do.

This week we’ve also been in contact with lots of local groups and associations who have been really receptive to the idea of being involved with WOW. We’re so happy that the people of Southampton like our ideas for the day and are wanting to contribute something of their own to what should be a brilliant day of intercultural exchange. If you know of or are part of a local association and think you could participate in WOW Festival then please do get in touch with us at intercultural@soton.ac.uk