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Love lessons from Rat, our soldier of hope 💌 are most beautiful, most tender and most true!   By Elodie Cavill, illustra...
21/03/2024

Love lessons from Rat, our soldier of hope 💌 are most beautiful, most tender and most true! By Elodie Cavill, illustration by Eve Sakai James, both Aurora’s own 😌

Tallulah, we don’t know where we’re going - revisiting bugsy malone as a finalist (image: ITV/Shutterstock, GTV ARCHIVE)
11/03/2024

Tallulah, we don’t know where we’re going - revisiting bugsy malone as a finalist (image: ITV/Shutterstock, GTV ARCHIVE)

First post in our new year-abroad column! All year-abroad adventurers - send reflections, ramblings, photos, drawings…
11/03/2024

First post in our new year-abroad column! All year-abroad adventurers - send reflections, ramblings, photos, drawings…

EYES PEELED. People watcher is a-watchin’. .k_hooper
04/02/2024

EYES PEELED. People watcher is a-watchin’. .k_hooper

Lydia lets us peep at her peeping toms in her notebook 📒 first post in the art and photography section aren’t we lucky. ...
23/12/2023

Lydia lets us peep at her peeping toms in her notebook 📒 first post in the art and photography section aren’t we lucky. All art and visual contributions welcome!

It’s the right time to write time oh yessiree exciting message us or email us your work/if you’d like advice/inspiration...
20/12/2023

It’s the right time to write time oh yessiree exciting message us or email us your work/if you’d like advice/inspiration!!

Come and talk ruminate spiral chat about the writing/making you’re planning for the holidays 🌀🍥🍭bring yourself and ideas...
13/12/2023

Come and talk ruminate spiral chat about the writing/making you’re planning for the holidays 🌀🍥🍭bring yourself and ideas floating around you…***Global Lounge, 10.30-12.30, 14th December***

☆ 14th December 10:30-12:30 ☆ Before winter completely takes over we will be hosting a workshop to talk shop, ruminate, ...
08/12/2023

☆ 14th December 10:30-12:30 ☆ Before winter completely takes over we will be hosting a workshop to talk shop, ruminate, spiral, and chat about the writing we want to start over the holidays - bring yourself and any ideas floating around you! ☆

Orlà will share book-binding techniques on Friday, 2.30-4.30 at the top of whiteladies road!! (Precise address shared wi...
28/11/2023

Orlà will share book-binding techniques on Friday, 2.30-4.30 at the top of whiteladies road!! (Precise address shared with attendees) Sign up sheet coming soon (link will be in bio) Limited places available so sign up quick as a cat 🐈‍⬛

👀👀👀👀👀 chapter 2 in Maia’s gorgeous column …Halloween in McDonalds Charing Cross Road …
28/11/2023

👀👀👀👀👀 chapter 2 in Maia’s gorgeous column …Halloween in McDonalds Charing Cross Road …

Wanna know the question of Life, the Universe and Everything??? Romina thinks about Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy whi...
20/11/2023

Wanna know the question of Life, the Universe and Everything??? Romina thinks about Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy while she sits in traffic …. (Illustration by Matilda Wright)

👀👀👀but have you seen our new column from resident people-watcher Maia Hooper?? Wednesday afternoon wonderful wonderings ...
25/10/2023

👀👀👀but have you seen our new column from resident people-watcher Maia Hooper?? Wednesday afternoon wonderful wonderings from the window…who can you see from yours?

Skarabababambam! Eve’s polar cosmic intergalactic holiday is the most beautiful 💥. read in the poetry section!
10/10/2023

Skarabababambam! Eve’s polar cosmic intergalactic holiday is the most beautiful 💥. read in the poetry section!

We’ve sat on scrub…walking poems from Luanna McCallum, quick-jotted with a running out pen somewhere along Camino de San...
02/10/2023

We’ve sat on scrub…walking poems from Luanna McCallum, quick-jotted with a running out pen somewhere along Camino de Santiago…photographs by Finnuala Brett

Beautiful walking poems from Luanna McCallum , quick-jotted with pen running out along Camino de Santiago in June 2022 🦋...
02/10/2023

Beautiful walking poems from Luanna McCallum , quick-jotted with pen running out along Camino de Santiago in June 2022 🦋photograph by Finnuala Brett 🌊

Tom Dance, our resident minimalist devotee and sculpture critic writes about existential crisis in the gallery 🧠🤯💥🎨 exci...
27/09/2023

Tom Dance, our resident minimalist devotee and sculpture critic writes about existential crisis in the gallery 🧠🤯💥🎨 exciting stuff have a read

Sitting on suitcases and No-man’s-Time - first post of Aurora new year 🍎🍯🍁☔️
24/09/2023

Sitting on suitcases and No-man’s-Time - first post of Aurora new year 🍎🍯🍁☔️

~ Public Service Announcement ~We interrupt your scrolling to announce that The Aurora is now accepting submissions for ...
30/08/2023

~ Public Service Announcement ~
We interrupt your scrolling to announce that The Aurora is now accepting submissions for the 2023/2024 academic year!

As your Liberal Arts blog, we are The Aurora wan to publish your work from across the academic spectrum. Our aim is to create an online space as divested as the pathways of the wonderful interdisciplinary students we represent.

We welcome blog-posts, articles, academic essays, photographs, sketches, poems, thought pieces, stories, lyrics and recipes, amongst other forms of creativity. Submissions may be of any length: feel free to bestow as much as an essay upon us or as little as a mere thought.

All posts are edited in a collaborative manner between the writer/artist and the editors of The Aurora. Publications may also be anonymous, should you so wish. All submissions will be posted from October onwards.

Please send your submissions to [email protected], or feel free to DM us with any queries. We are more than happy to provide writing prompts and advice or inspiration.

With love,
Tom () and Rosa (.leah.p), your Co-Editors x

The Aurora 2023/2024 is coming soon.
30/08/2023

The Aurora 2023/2024 is coming soon.

Welcome to The Aurora — the interdisciplinary Liberal Arts blog.
30/08/2023

Welcome to The Aurora — the interdisciplinary Liberal Arts blog.

Let’s get creative together!! Come along!! All welcome - Aurora event to encourage blog ideas and to sit and write toget...
09/02/2023

Let’s get creative together!! Come along!! All welcome - Aurora event to encourage blog ideas and to sit and write together! Limited free coffee so get there on time! Can’t wait to see you all :)

We are back!! We are kicking off the term with a fascinating piece on MA student Grace’s year abroad!!
06/02/2023

We are back!! We are kicking off the term with a fascinating piece on MA student Grace’s year abroad!!

NEW BLOG! All about the Bristol zoos new home! Go give it a read
12/12/2022

NEW BLOG! All about the Bristol zoos new home! Go give it a read

Exciting news for Liberal Arts students!!! WINTER FORMAL!WINTER FORMAL! ✨ 13th December! BUY TICKETS NOW!Join the Crimin...
01/12/2022

Exciting news for Liberal Arts students!!! WINTER FORMAL!

WINTER FORMAL! ✨ 13th December! BUY TICKETS NOW!
Join the Criminology, Philosophy, Liberal Arts and Archeology & Anthropology Society for an evening of sparkle and shine at our joint Winter Formal! Ticket sales are now open!
Location: Revolution (59-63 Baldwin Street, St Nicholas Street, Bristol BS1 1QZ)
When: Tuesday, 13th December. 6pm - 9pm (You are welcome to stay later! Revolution will be open until 2am)
What: Join us for an evening of sparkle and shine at Revolution! We will be hosting a winter formal to remember. Included in your ticket price is a buffet meal, a glass of fizz on arrival (soft drinks available), music and dance floor!
Dress Code: Sparkle and Shine- cocktail dresses and shirt & tie!
Tickets:
£20 for Society Members (get your free membership here Liberal Arts Society @ Bristol SU)
£22 for Non-Members and Plus One/Guest tickets!
Ticket Link for ALL Society Members: https://www.bristolsu.org.uk/groups/criminology-society-7b29/events/sparkle-shine-winter-formal-2022

* Please be aware that the ticket purchase deadline is Monday, 5th December 2022. If you have not purchased a ticket by this time, you will be unable to attend the event.

~ new blog post! ~Rosa expresses the beauty of experiencing culture for yourself, whether that be in galleries or live m...
21/11/2022

~ new blog post! ~
Rosa expresses the beauty of experiencing culture for yourself, whether that be in galleries or live music venues.

Interested in culture and writing? The Aurora is running a new scheme where, if you write a review, we will subsidise your tickets!

Written by .leah.p

New Blog!!! All about unlikeable female protagonists in literature! Go give it a read!
07/11/2022

New Blog!!! All about unlikeable female protagonists in literature! Go give it a read!

New post from our Film & Television Lily is now up on our website!
17/10/2022

New post from our Film & Television Lily is now up on our website!

New post!Our previous editor  has curated some images from the recent Liberal Arts trip to Italy.
10/10/2022

New post!

Our previous editor has curated some images from the recent Liberal Arts trip to Italy.

First post of the 2022/2023 academic year! A more relaxed guide to Bristol for freshers and returning students, just in ...
20/09/2022

First post of the 2022/2023 academic year! A more relaxed guide to Bristol for freshers and returning students, just in time for Welcome Week.

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