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Monday 5 August |
National ACU Community Engagement Showcase Please join us and our partners for ACU's Community Engagement Showcase focusing on community impact through community-engaged learning, community-engaged projects and programs, and community-engaged research. |
12:30pm-1:40pm Register to attend this national online event Attend the in person watch party: Torney Room, Carn Brea, BAL.100.G.17 |
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Monday 5 August - Friday 9 August |
Mission Awareness Stations Come check out our 'mission awareness' stations and learn more about how ACU's mission comes to life on the Ballarat Campus. |
All week long at the Forbes Building, the Library, Pell Centre and Catherine of Siena |
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Wednesday 7 August |
Mission Week Mass Join us for the Holy Mass celebrated on campus, as we pray for ACU and our mission in the world, followed by our main event with a guest speaker and free lunch provided by Student Life. |
11am in the Chapel |
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Wednesday 7 August |
Mission Week Festival Day Festival Day is an opportunity to gather the whole community together to celebrate our mission. Live music, giveaways, inspiring speakers, and free food are all on offer. |
11:30am - 2pm Forbes Student Centre |
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Wednesday 7 August |
Mind, Body, Spirit Event This Mission Week we invite staff and students to consider the 'wholeness' of the human person. This event offers a moment of reconnection, between the mental, physical, and spiritual, as we rotate through a series of activities while asking the bigger questions of life. We will move from physical exercise and team building to a time of guided meditation in the chapel, displaying the various elements integral to the wellbeing and dignity of the human person. Come along to be strengthened, built-up and refreshed. |
1:30-2:30pm The Track |
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Thursday 8 August |
Campus Ministry Random Acts of Kindness Day Writer and peace activist Anne Herbert coined the phrase "practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty" in 1982 when she wrote it on a restaurant serviette in San Francisco. Just over ten years later Professor Chuck Wall of Bakersfield College, California, challenged his students to perform a "random act of senseless kindness" after hearing a radio report describing "another random act of senseless violence." Be surprised by your response to the kindness challenges and consider getting involved as an RAK Day ambassador to activate this day with the Campus Ministry and People and Capability Teams. You can help make ACU a place where random acts of kindness are happening every day. |
All day. Everywhere. |
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Friday 9 August |
"Climate Change, Pope Francis, and Our Future" In 2015, Pope Francis wrote Laudato Si' (The Letter), an encyclical letter about the environmental crisis to every single person in the world. A few years later, four voices that have gone unheard in global conversations have been invited to an unprecedented dialogue with the Pope. This documentary is packed with powerfully moving personal stories alongside the latest information about the planetary crisis and the toll it's taking on nature and people. We will watch a portion of the documentary together online and then open for questions and dialogue with our expert panel members. |
12pm - 1pm Register to attend this national online event. Attend the in person watch party: The Track, Forbes Student Centre |