Cultural Week began with the semifinal of the Internal Debate league on the following theme “Should borders be closed to immigrants? Security vs Solidarity “. Two groups were classified on each campus. We were able to meet the winner at the final, which was held the next day.  Sergio Martínez and Ferran Grau were the two who classified for the final, both from the Faculty of Medicine and Healthcare on our Sant Cugat campus, their team was called “NK”.

Today the Rector’s Football 7 Tournament was held, which eleven teams participated in, six from our Barcelona campus, four from our Sant Cugat campus and also a team consisting of PAS/ PDI staff members.  It was a resounding success!

Music was present during the whole of the rest of Easter Week: on Wednesday the Sant Cugat choir gave a concert with a varied gospel repertoire: fifteen students sang eleven songs, such as “Lean on me”, and “Everybody clap your hands”. On Thursday on our Sant Cugat campus and today on our Barcelona campus the Maria Canals International Music competition placed a grand piano on site, and various students had an opportunity to play music including symphonies and contemporary music.

On Wednesday the Theatre group performed a play entitled “Autom@tics”, this group always puts on a play during Cultural Week each year. Around twenty students participated in the play’s première, this year more people than ever signed up.

Finally, yesterday the winners of the various competitions were announced: in the Short Stories Competition, the winning story was written by Cristina Enero Jorge, a 1st year Medicine student, and was entitled “Estaciones”. The winning poem was entitled “Enyor en C Major”, and was written by Natàlia Costa Coromina, a first year student from the double degree in Humanities and Business Administration and Management.

In Photography Competition entitled “La primavera”, the winner was 1st year Physiotherapy student Laura Losana, with a photograph entitled “Buscando un preludio primaveral”. Second prize was awarded to 2nd year Medicine student, Julia Playa, for her photograph entitled “Xicoia”. Pilar Lacorte won the art competition with her painting entitled “Océano Índigo”