Welcome to Study Association T.W.I.S.T.!

After the scariest week in October (exams) it will be time to have some fun! Join us and 9 other associations at the NEXT, nov 7th as we celebrate the end of exams in fitting fashion at the Halloween Masquerade. Sign ups are open with a maximum of 200 participants.

Do you want to get a good taste of this piece of Dutch culture🇳🇱🌷🧡 (in a suspiciously candy-shaped way)? Then join us Tu. Nov. 11th for the first NeerlandiCie activity: 🌟🏮Sint Maarten🌟🏮 A Dutch holiday where you craft a lantern and beg for candy

We will gather at 19:00 in Lipsius to unleash our creative talents onto a stick with a light to build a lantern that is actually candy-worthy💪💪 T.W.I.S.T. already has sticks and crafting materials, but to keep it free and broaden our artistic horizons, we ask that you also bring some crafting material(s) yourself. In turn, we’ll provide snacks and drinks!

Then, it’s time for the real job: walking the big city🌆 Don’t worry, we won’t ring unknown doorbells, but rather you’ll follow a route full of familiar T.W.I.S.T. faces in the inner city, who will give you candy🙂 (if you’re sweet, that is)🙃. We will end the walk at around 21:30 with a borrel at L’Espérance🍻, but feel free to go home if you wish.

We hope to see you there! If so, please fill in the sign-up form.

🇳🇱🌷🧡Groetjes van de NeerlandiCie!🇳🇱🌷🧡

Language is everywhere. Language is culture. Language is cognition, politics, history. It connects us to others and to our past, it fuels our thinking, makes us build worlds, and shape ourselves. It is the air that we breathe and the stuff of our dreams.

Learning other languages is building bridges, to other people, cultures, and times. We are students of the humanities and we devote ourselves to building these bridges. But we rarely talk about the many reasons why we do this. It is time for us, wordsmiths, linguists, and other language workers, to come together and exchange perspectives and articulate our vision on the why of learning languages. To learn from each other and to show to the world: this is why we do it. This is why languages matter.

We want to have three rounds with three pitches each on the following subjects:
1.⁠ ⁠What is it like to study a language?
2.⁠ ⁠The importance of studying languages in our society
3.⁠ ⁠The future of language studies at Leiden University
Besides these pitches, there is room for interviews and dialogue.
We hope that this event can not only bring us together as students but also convince others that studying languages is worthwhile. We hope that our efforts as students will impact the faculty board as well, and preserve our language studies, and associations.

AcCie has something different prepared for you!

Do you like music and or classical Iranian poetry? Or do you just want to vibe and go to a weird esoteric musical performance? Then Song of the Reed may be something for you!

On the 14th of November at 20:00(ish), we will go to the Leidsche Schouwburg to attend a performance of reed quintet Calefax with Iranian singer Mohammad Motamedi, where they will perform a version of a 13th-century Iranian poem, as well as some Western music.

Come join us for only €8.50, free drink included (and they have alcohol at these things)!

For more information, see https://leidseschouwburg-stadsgehoorzaal.nl/voorstelling/calefax-mohammad-motamedi-song-of-the-reed/.