Downing College Mcr

Photos from Burns Night Dinner and ceilidh! Photo credits and thanks to: Erato Panayiotou and Patrik Gubeljak

How time flies! 10 days since we held our Mini Ball - take a sneak peek at the Hall where we enjoyed our futuristic-themed 3 course dinner 🍴🥂

Check out the full album of photos from our Mini Ball below!

Photos taken by the wonderful Freddie Dyke

Open Day! Hope to see many visitors again as students next year!

The eighth exhibition at the Heong Gallery engages with themes of communication, breakdown of communication, and isolation. It brings together a collection of contemporary American and British prints from the British Museum, and works in various media from private lenders, including prints, postcards, books, diagrammatic drawing, sign painting, tape recording, neon, LED, enamel plaques, bunting, and campaign posters.
Artists include Louise Bourgeois, Jenny Holzer, Jasper Joh...ns, Glenn Ligon, Bruce Nauman, Eduardo Paolozzi, Grayson Perry RA, Ed Ruscha, Wolfgang Tillmans, and others.
The rise of mass and electronic media meant that artists were no longer required for the transmission of objective content. Artists in this exhibition make communication and its technologies the medium and subject of their work. For these artists, as for thinkers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein and Marshall McLuhan, communication is never straightforward. From Louise Bourgeois' parables of personal relationships He disappeared into complete silence (1947-2005) to Bob and Roberta Smith’s open Letter to Michael Gove (2015) and Wolfgang Tillmans' pro-EU posters (2016), the exhibition explores the potential and limitations of communication in making connections across distances - whether they be psychological, cultural or geographical - and art’s own role in ensuring that 'no man is an island'.
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Our very own Downing MCR cricket team showed today that training, a thorough preparation, and even a general familiarity with the game you are playing are highly overrated!
DCMCC vs Churchill 104 to 99
... Yeah Downing!
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***PHOTO OF THE WEEK***
This week's photo of the week was taken at the Downing College trip to visit our sister college in Oxford - Lincoln College. As well as having a tour around 'the other place', we were treated to a fantastic meal in their dining hall, as well as a party afterwards in their beautiful MCR common room. <3

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This week's snow-themed photo comes courtesy of Dan Levy who recently submitted his postgraduate thesis!
The snow may now have melted but we still love looking at this wintery scene ❄️❄️❄️

Downing M1 will join into the Bumps today chasing Maggie to bump them off headship!
Some strong MCR presence this year in this boat as well as in the Women‘s eight. so make sure to cross your fingers and listen in to CamFM (or come to the river if you are not afraid of the cold) to follow them and all the other Downing boats!
Btw: on Saturday (last day of Bumps) the MCR will organise a walk over to the river to watch the Downing boats with some drinks and nibbles!

Snow has well and truly arrived ❄️☃️❄️

***PHOTO OF THE WEEK***
This week’s photo was taken by MCR Equal Opps Officer Katie Mato at a special tour for mcr members of the Heong Gallery "The Court of Redonda" exhibition ❤️🎨🎟 .

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This week's photo comes from the very talented Josh Newman who this weekend, along with team members from the Cambridge University Cheerleading Squad, placed 3rd in Nationals and became a Varsity Champion!! 🎖️🏆🎉💚

***PHOTO OF THE WEEK***
This week's photo was taken by MCR member James Nutt at our Carnival themed bar night on Friday.
The MCR was transformed with plenty of tropical-esque decorations, fancy dress and, of course, a fantastic carnival inspired playlist! 🎉💚🧡💃