The annual luncheon for faculty and staff will take the form of a Traditional Holiday Gathering, says catering manager Dean Kissner.

The event is scheduled for noon Tuesday, December 8, in Vanier Hall’s Winclare Room. It promises festive food stations, a charity raffle and the company of friends and colleagues at a stand-up reception in a casual holiday setting.

“The faculty and staff luncheon is a campus tradition and so we wanted to reflect that with our choice of theme this year,” Kissner says. “Our patrons will enjoy some old favourites, and find some new twists, too.”

Tickets are $12 per person, including tax and a festive beverage. Each department is asked to delegate an individual to coordinate ticket purchases; they are available until December 4 from Catering Services; phone 519-253-3000, ext. 3276 or 3277.

Students with little experience in producing summaries of a research project will benefit from a free workshop Tuesday in the Leddy Library.

The Writing Support Desk is hosting the event on preparing an effective abstract in conjunction with the UWill Discover undergraduate research conference. It is aimed at students planning to submit to a conference or journal.

The one-hour workshop begins at 4 p.m. November 24 in room 302, Leddy West.

In his documentary This Changes Everything, filmmaker Avi Lewis follows the stories of communities around the world responding to the impact of climate change and capitalism through activism.

Inspired by the book of the same name, written by his wife Naomi Klein, Lewis hopes to promote hope about how people can combat anthropogenic global warming.

Windsor on Watch and the Council of Canadians’ Windsor Chapter invite the public to a free screening of the film Monday, November 23, at 7 p.m. in room 1101, Centre for Engineering Innovation.