The World in Westminster festival spotlights the many ways in which Westminster is connected to the global community, and celebrates our place within the global city of London.
Our University is one of the most diverse, inclusive, internationalised Higher Education Institutions in the UK, with colleagues and students from a huge range of communities, cultures and countries. We are a University fully committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and to global engagement.
The World in Westminster is a celebratory, global festival, with a host of activities and events on offer to students and colleagues. It will run across two days, from Tuesday 15 until Thursday 17 March, at several locations including Marylebone campus, Regent Street campus and online. It will showcase our engagement with diversity, inclusion and internationalisation, richly evidenced through our colleague and student networks, societies and communities; the heritage, cultures and languages of our University; our academic, research and knowledge exchange work; our institutional history, culture and values.
Come along, collaborate, continue conversations and celebrate the inclusive, global landscape of the University!
Find out more and book your place to each of the following festival’s events:
Tuesday 15 March
- Westminster, the Multilingual University – opening event; 1-2:30pm
- Just Go! Fair, Marylebone Campus; 11am-2:30pm
- Traditional board games from diverse countries; 1-2:30pm
- Careers support for international students – Virtual Skills Academy; 1:30-2:30pm
- The Language Volunteer Scheme: connecting our multilingual community; 3-3:30pm
- Where are we now? The music industry response to Blackout Tuesday; 5:30-7pm
- Westminster Student Entrepreneur’s Journey; 6-7:30pm
- What it Takes to succeed in the media industry; 6:30-8pm
Wednesday 16 March
- Arabic language Taster – Mahammed Bouabdallah; 10-10:30am
- Four powerful strategies for learning languages; 10:30-11:30am
- Faith Spirituality and Belief at Westminster; 11am-3pm
- University of Westminster Students' Union (UWSU) Cultural Fair; 12-3pm
- HOMELandS Dialogue: migration and diversity in global London; 12:30-2pm
- Celebrating the women in our lives; 1-4pm
- 'Heart Monologues' plus International film (film to be announced); 5-8pm
- Celebrating Diversity through fashion and artefacts; 6-9pm
- World in Westminster: My Story, My Space; 6:30-7:30pm
- Festivity and Inclusivity: Latino Life in the Park; 6.30–8.25pm
Thursday 17 March
- Spanish language taster – Debora Staryfurman; 10-10:30am
- University of Westminster and Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT) entrepreneurship demo day; Thursday 17 March 11am – Friday 18 March 1pm
- Just Go! Fair, Harrow Campus; 11am-2:30pm
- Faith Spirituality and Belief at Westminster; 11am-3pm
- Caribbean Cooking presented by Black History Year; 12:30-1:30pm
- Westminster Working Cultures (WWC) Professional – career insights: Europe (for European students); 12-1pm
- School of Humanities New Writing Festival: translating stories, translating lives; 5-6pm
- Interfaith: "What does it mean to give things up?; 6-7:30pm
- Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) auditing the campus; 6-7:15pm
- Film screening "Moonlight"; 6pm
- Celebrating Diversity with Democratic Education Network; 7:30-9pm
