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London Met Freshers’ 2018
London Met’s freshers’ activity starts on Monday 24 September 2018. We have an incredible package ready for all you lucky new starters.
There are two weeks of amazing events and entertainment, followed by a huge closing party on Friday 12 October, the ‘Freshers’ Finale’. There are events of all kinds, and for all tastes 🙂
We also hold two great Freshers’ Fairs at our Holloway and Aldgate campuses, for you to learn all about uni and get some great deals and freebies.
The best place to get most up-to-date information is by following our Facebook page and our @londonmetevents Twitter feed.
Our two Freshers’ Fairs are held in Aldgate campus on Wednesday 3 October (at The Wash Houses, 11am – 3pm), and at Holloway campus on Thursday 4 October (held in The Great Hall and The Rocket).
Most events are free for Freshers, you can get a free entry wristband from our student venue The Rocket, or from our events team at enrolment around the different campuses.
Make sure you don’t miss out of the Freshers’ Finale… it’s the biggest event during the start of year festivities, and is always a sellout! You have to buy a ticket for this one, but they are super cheap and students can buy two guest tickets too.
All the most up-to-date info will be on our Facebook and Twitter… we regularly post content about uni life and what’s on, so give us a follow, say hello and keep in touch!
Use the hashtag #londonmetfreshers when posting to get featured and maybe win prizes!
See you in September!
Freshers 2017 at London Met
London Met’s freshers activity starts on Monday 25 September 2017.
There are two weeks of amazing events and entertainment, followed by a huge closing party on Friday 13 October, the ‘Freshers’ Finale’. We also hold two Freshers’ Fairs at Holloway and Aldgate campus. There are events of all kinds and for all tastes, see the events calendar below:
Our two Freshers’ Fairs are held in Holloway campus on Thursday 6 October (held in The Great Hall and The Rocket building), and in Aldgate campus on Friday 13 October (at The Wash Houses).
Most events are free for Freshers, you can get a free entry wristband from our student venue The Rocket, or from our events team at enrolment around the different campuses.
All the most up to date info will be on our Facebook and Twitter, so say hello and keep in touch!
Look out for the hashtag #londonmetfreshers for all the photos and latest event info, and use it yourself when posting any photos! .
Euro 2016 screenings for staff and students at The Rocket
The Rocket bar will be screening Euro 2016 matches where possible, and as a special opening event we will have the bar open for Republic of Ireland vs Sweden at 5pm on Monday 13 June.
The match will be screened live on the LCD screens in the Inner Courtyard (weather permitting), and in The Rocket.
The bar will be open during the screening for students and staff so come down and unwind after work… there will be a free drink for the first 25 customers from 4.30pm and cheap deals thereafter.
All 2pm weekday matches throughout the competition will be screened in The Rocket, with the bar open on other key occasions… depending on how England do!
Hope to see you there!
Matches we are showing so far at 2pm:
Mon 13 June- Spain v Czech Republic
Wed 15 June- Russia v Slovakia
Thu 16 June – England v Wales
Fri 17 June – Italy v Sweden
Freshers Fortnight Official Line Up
It’s finally here! The official #LondonMetFreshers line up is being announced today, and we have a full fortnight of entertainment for you starting on Monday 21st September until Friday 2nd October. As well as the huge Freshers Welcome Party to look forward to on Friday 9th October (more information on this to follow soon!)
London Met Presents Freshers 2015
Week 1
Follow this link for the first week of daytime events, and follow this link for the first week of evening events.
Freshers Week One Daytime
Monday 21st September
Daytime
What? Game For Free
Every day this week we will have movies on the large screen in The Back Room, huge board games and pool, all for free!
Where? The Rocket, 8.30am-11pm
How much? Free entry for everyone!
Evening
What? Creative Cocktails
Create your own cocktail by choosing your cocktail (or mocktail) ingredients, we make it up for you, and you give it any name you want! Prices are £4 per cocktail or 2 for £7. The bar staffs’ favourite cocktail name wins a prize!
Where? The Rocket Complex, 2pm-11pm
How much? Entry to the venue is free for everyone!
Tuesday 22nd September
Daytime
What? Plane Silly
As well as free games all day in The Rocket, we will be holding a paper plane competition. Come down and show us your personal best paper airplane! We’ll be running regular competitions and the maker of the plane that flies the furthest wins a free lunch and a pint!
Where? The Rocket Complex, 11.30am – 2.30pm
How much? Free entry for everyone!
Evening
What? Universally Challenged
Bring your smartest mates (or if you can’t trust them, come on your own!) for our pub quiz with a difference. We will be incorporating all of your favourite TV quiz shows into this exciting new quiz night! Expect The Weakest Link, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, University Challenge and more! Cash prize for the winning team, bar tab for the runner up!
Where? The Rocket Complex, 7pm – 11pm
How much? Entry for the quiz is £1 per person, but entry to the venue is free for everyone!
Wednesday 23rd September
Daytime
What? Llama Pinata
Feeling stressed? Or just fancy winning some free sweets? Come and have a go at breaking our Llama Pinatas.
Where? The Rocket Complex, 11.30am-3.30pm
How much? Free entry for everyone!
Evening
What? GOODBYE SUMMER, HELLO UNI!
It’s the FIRST BIG PARTY of Freshers, and we’re saying goodbye to Summer with a sunny Beach Party. Come in your finest summer attire, and expect a free BBQ, tropical courtyard, bucket cocktails and the best summer tunes all night. We’re even throwing in some fire performers!
Where? The Rocket Complex, 9pm-3am
How much? From 9pm, price of entry will be £3 MetCard, £4 Student, £5 Guest or FREE with Freshers Wristband. Price includes FREE BBQ!
Freshers Week One Evening
Thursday 24th September
Daytime
What? Circus School
Come to LMU Circus School, where clowning around is encouraged, and you can graduate in plate spinning! Fancy learning how to juggle, tightrope walk, spin plates, unicycle or walk on stilts? Today is the day, with our circus skills workshop.
Where? The Rocket Complex and Courtyard, 12pm-4pm
How much? Free entry for everyone!
Evening
What? Student Union presents ‘Speed Meet’, followed by Rocket Karaoke Disco
The Student Union will be holding a speed meet in the Rocket bar from 6pm-8pm, then we will be hosting a fantastically glamorous karaoke night for you to sing your heart out. Free drink for everyone that sings! Then when you’ve all finished singing, we’ll have a Disco DJ and dancing until late!
Where? The Rocket Complex, Speed Meet 6pm-8pm and Karaoke Disco 8pm-2am
How much? From 8pm, price of entry will be £1 MetCard, £2 Student, £3 Guest or FREE entry with Freshers Wristband.
Friday 25th September
Daytime
What? Do You DJ?
Bring your mates and show us your finest set (up to 25mins maximum). Our judges will choose 1 DJ to play a 2 hour set at one of our future nights at The Rocket, as well as winning a bar tab and pair of amazing Sennheiser HD25 DJ headphones! All genres accepted.
We will be setting up a dance floor and lights for anyone who fancies coming down for anyone who can’t DJ, but fancies a daytime party!
Sign up by emailing entertainment@londonmet.ac.uk and send us some of your mixes, we will be in touch if you’re successful!
Where? The Rocket Complex, 1pm-5pm. Winner announced at 5.30pm.
How much? Free entry for everyone!
Evening
What? #RocketLive
We’ll be having a pre-party from 5pm-8pm with £2.50 spirit and mixers and £2 pints and DJs. We will then be hosting a night filled with live music from 8pm until 11.30pm, then hours of the best indie, electro, dance and classics.
Where? The Rocket Complex, 5pm-3am (bands start at 8pm)
How much? From 8pm, the price of entry will be £3 MetCard, £4 Student, £5 Guest or FREE with Freshers Wristband!
Week 2
Follow this link for the second week of daytime events, and follow this link for the second week of evening events.
Freshers Week Two Daytime
Monday 28th September
Daytime
What? Free Welcome Back BBQ
We’re hosting a FREE BBQ for all new and returning students (while stocks last!)
Where? The Rocket Complex in the Courtyard, 12pm-3pm
How much? Free entry for everyone!
Evening
What? Back 2 School
Welcome back drinks with 2-4-1 cocktails, games and all the best old school anthems.
Where? The Rocket Complex, 3pm-11pm
How much? Free entry for everyone!
Tuesday 29th September
Daytime
What?: Aldgate Hub Freshers Fair AND Design Your Cake and Eat It Too
Aldgate Hub Freshers Fair will be taking place from 11am-3pm in The Wash Houses, Calcutta House. Freshers Fair is your chance to be given more free stuff than you carry, sign up to all societies London Met has to offer, and generally get to know about uni and the surrounding area. All new and returning students are welcome!
In The Rocket, We’ll be providing free cakes (and maybe even a free cup of tea or two) as well as loads of icing and cake decorations for you to make your own cake, we’ll even let you eat it too.
Where? The Rocket Complex, 12pm-3pm
How much? Free entry for everyone!
Evening
What? Met’s Got Talent
Get on stage from 8pm and show us your talent, London Met! it can be anything from singing, dancing, a dog show or you just being able to make your eyebrows dance. Sign up by emailing entertainment@londonmet.ac.uk explaining your talent, and sending and photos or videos of you doing your talent would be great!
We’ll also host a pre party from 5pm with £2.50 spirit and mixers and £2 pints and DJs!
Where? The Rocket Complex, 5pm-1am
How much? Free entry for everyone!
Wednesday 30th September
Daytime
What? LMU Annual Sports Day
Dig out your old P.E kit and come and join us for an old fashioned fun filled sports day. We will have loads of races including the egg and spoon, 3 legged, wheel barrow and even a relay throughout the uni. The winners will get prizes and medals, but remember, it’s all about the taking part.
Where? The Rocket Complex and Courtyard, 12pm-4pm
How much? Free entry for everyone!
Evening
What? FRAT PARTY!
After a fun day filled sports day, we will be having a huge sports themed party in the evening. There will be free beer pong, red cups, fun sports games on stage and all the best student and chart tunes! Come in your favourite sporting gear, or if you’re not a sports fan, come in your finest geek attire.
Where? The Rocket Complex, 9pm-3am
How much? From 9pm, price of entry will be £3 MetCard, £4 Student, £5 Guest or FREE with Freshers Wristband. Price includes free beer pong until 10pm.
Freshers Week Two Evening
Thursday 1st October
Daytime
What? Freshers Fair
Freshers Fair is your chance to be given more free stuff than you carry, sign up to any and all societies London Met has to offer, and generally get to know about uni and the surrounding area. All new and returning students are welcome, but get there early in case you miss out on the free pizza!
Where? The Great Hall, Tower Building (The Rocket Complex entrance), 11am-3pm
How much? Free entry for everyone!
Evening
What? Disco Bingo
Forget everything you think you know about Bingo! The Rocket is bringing you a night of funky disco bingo, where instead of numbers, you have to cross off the names of songs (and listen and dance to the songs at the same time!)
We’re going to have some HUGE (and some not so huge) prizes to give away, anything from bar tabs, free entry to events, surprise prizes and booby prizes.
We’ll be playing loads of different games from 7.30pm-10.30pm, then DJs and deals on the bar until 2am!
Where? The Rocket Complex, 7.30pm-2am
How much? From 7.30pm, price of entry will be £1 MetCard, £2 Student, £3 Guest or FREE entry with Freshers Wristband. Price includes unlimited Disco Bingo play!
Friday 2nd October
Daytime
What? Game For Free
Free use of our giant board games, pool tables and movies on the large screen in the back room!
Where? The Rocket Complex, 8.30am-7pm
How much? Free entry for everyone!
Evening
What? Urban Lounge and SubUrban
From 7pm at The Rocket, we will have Urban Lounge, with 2-4-1 cocktails and £2.50 spirit and mixers until 9pm, while playing you all the best Slow Jams and RnB.
From 9pm we will be livening things up with all the best hip hop, bashment, grime, RnB and soca all the way through until 2am.
Where? The Rocket Complex, 7pm-2am
How much? From 9pm, price of entry will be £3 MetCard, £4 Student, £5 Guest or FREE with Freshers Wristband!
Let us know what you think of the line up on our Facebook or Twitter using #LondonMetFreshers
Building up to LMU Freshers Fortnight 2014!
Freshers Fortnight 2014 kicks off at LMU on Monday 22nd September!
We have some great events and activities in store for you this year in and around campus, with all the info to be released soon…
There will be club nights, gigs, comedy, cabaret, vintage fair, taster activity sessions, competitions, give aways and more!
Wristy business…
Make sure to get your LMU Freshers Wristband as soon as you get to uni so you can get to all 2 weeks of the events for free.
We will have our Freshers events team out around uni that you can pick them up from, otherwise you can get one from The Rocket Complex and we will also be hanging around all the enrolment sessions giving out lots of info too!
Discounts? Yes please…
Make sure to pick up a ‘Metcard’ when you get to uni, which gives you great discounts around campus, especially on food, drink, merch and event entry! Our top tip is to use it in The Rocket where you can get the cheapest and best breakfast, brunch and lunch – Mon to Fri!
Freshers Fair – for everything you need!
The Freshers Fair is held on Thursday 2nd October at the Holloway Hub Sports Hall. Everything from info on all the great societies and sports teams you can join, to DJs and free slices of free pizza… we strongly recommend you don’t miss this one off event!
Freshers Welcome Party – just for you!
The Freshers Welcome Party is on Friday 10th October and is the last and biggest event of Freshers Fortnight! It’s a huge party with something for everyone, and ALWAYS sells out, so make sure to get your tickets nice and early. Find out more soon on our FB page.
Stay in the loop…
If you want all the latest goss and info on what’s going on socially around uni, you have to get involved with our facebook and twitter – let us know you’re here and get chatting, we’re a friendly bunch, very worldly wise about everything to do with #Londonmet, and would love to meet you!
Check out Freshers Fortnight events…
You can find us at:
Facebook.com/londonmetevents
TWITTER: @londonmetevents
http://www.rocketcomplexc.co.uk
See you soon!
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Casablanca Casino Night, supporting Bernardos
Thursday 26th April @ The Rocket Complex
Casablanca’s Casino Night invites you for an evening filled with glamour, gaming and a gust of good old 1940’s speakeasy splendor adorned with classic cocktails and smooth Jazz sounds. This den of delights is for the well-dressed and well pressed go-lucky characters out for an evening of splendor on behalf of the children’s charity Barnado’s.
Whilst listening to the sounds live music you can kick back relax or join the adrenaline junkies at one of four casino tables. Let your pulses run wild with roulette, try your hand at beating the dealer at our infamous blackjack table, or join the cool and calculated players at one of our poker tables.
If the gaming is proving too exciting, refresh yourselves with our classic cocktail menu and let your taste buds experience the 1940’s forbidden fruits. If your taste buds are left tingling there will be a variety of delicious handmade cupcakes decorated with a twist .
For those who like to shimmer and stand out from the crowd there will be a range of jewellery to browse and purchase from vintage and silverware designers to suit all tastes.
For the successful players and tournament champions we have a host of prizes to suit all, as well as a raffle for those who just can’t get enough of the winning!
So come and join us at the Casablanca Casino Night – raising the odds and the cash for the children of the next generation.
