UCLan Humanities Festival: How Humanities can save the world

The University of Lancashire

Can people who study Humanities really save the World? Join us for a day full of fun workshops and activities where we'll find out.

Harrington Building

Can people who study history and languages, literature and culture really save the World?Yes they can! There are many problems in the World today, but one of the biggest is that some people think other people are less important than they are. So they won’t share, and they won’t help each other.The study of humanity - our histories, languages and cultures - helps us to understand that other people are pretty much like us. When we understand that, we can start to work together to solve the World’s problems.Join us for a day full of fun activities and workshops celebrating Language, Culture and History. Suitable for families with children aged 7 years and upwards. • Get immersed in different cultures via games such as Tangram (Chinese) and Gonggi (Korean).• Get hands-on with fun activities such as writing in a different language, quizzes and crafts.• Try your hand at Chinese brush painting/calligraphy activities.• Learn about poems and songs from the Victorian period. Subjects including comic tales, love stories, tragedies, brief histories and songs about Preston.• Learn about the Cyrillic alphabet and play interactive games with it. Try out word recognition, writing your name, patronymic in Cyrillic, and more.• Join us for everyone’s favourite story, ‘Three Little Pigs’ in the form of traditional Japanese picture card storytelling, ‘Kamishibai’.Smile - you’re on camera! Please be aware that throughout the duration of the event there will be official event photography/filming taking place for marketing and promotional purposes