New College Society Garden Party and BBQ

Saturday 27 June 2015

COME AND ENJOY A GARDEN PARTY AND BBQ IN THE BEAUTIFUL NEW COLLEGE GARDENS

We are delighted to invite Old Members and their families and friends to come and join us for a relaxed and informal day in College. Children of all ages are welcome.

BOOKING HAS NOW CLOSED.

Programme

11.00am-11.30am            Soft drinks will be served in Lecture Room 6

11.30am-12.30pm            Talk in Lecture Room 6
                                          By Roopa Farooki (1992)
                                          The Good Children: Leaving home is one thing. Going back is another.

About the author: Roopa Farooki is a British novelist. Born in Lahore, Pakistan to a Pakistani father and Bangladeshi mother in 1974, she moved to London at the age of seven months. Roopa studied PPE at New College, worked in Corporate Finance (at Arthur Andersen) and then as an Advertising Account Director (at Saatchi & Saatchi and JWT), before she turned to writing fiction full-time.

She wrote her first novel, Bitter Sweets, while pregnant with her first child, and renovating a house in SW France. Bitter Sweets was first published in the UK in 2007, and shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers that year. She published her second novel, Corner Shop, in 2008. Her third novel, The Way Things Look To Me, was published in 2009, and was voted one of The Times Top 50 Paperbacks of 2009, long-listed for the Orange Prize 2010, and has been long-listed for the Impac Dublin Literary Award 2011. Her fourth novel, Half Life, was published in 2010, and was selected by Entertainment Weekly (US) as No. 2 on their list of "Eighteen Books We Can't Wait to Read This Summer"; it was also nominated for the International Muslim Writers Awards 2011. Her fifth novel, The Flying Man was published in January 2012 in the UK, and was longlisted for the Orange Prize 2012.

11.00am-12.30pm            Giffords Circus - Moon Songs
(doors open at 10.30am)  Oxford University Parks - please book directly with us, not with the Circus, as we have reserved seats already.

 12.30am-1.15pm             Drinks served in the College Garden
                                         A Jazz quartet will play

1.00pm-2.30pm                BBQ Buffet Lunch
                                         Help yourself to lunch from the BBQ. Bring your own rug.

There will be entertainment for children throughout, including a treasure hunt, face painting, baloon modelling, and races and more...

2.00pm-5.00pm               Archive Exhibition in the Conduit Room

4.00pm-5.00pm               Tea served in Hall

For any queries, please contact Jonathan Rubery on 01865 279337 or email jonathan.rubery@new.ox.ac.uk