Undergraduates have as their social base the recently refurbished Hartland Room within the very heart of the College, with other facilities close at hand.

Meals are provided in the College Hall during term time. The JCR organizes various social events, including special dinners, 'bops' (discos) and the occasional ball, as well as music nights.

• Music
• A Sample Week at St Anne's
• Sports
• University Societies
• St Anne's Classics Society

Music

Music is strongly supported within St Anne's. There is a music bursary scheme, open to both music and non-music students and intended to help pay for instrumental lessons. Music students at St Anne’s have the advantage of an excellent collection of books and scores in the College Library (open 24 hours a day), as well as the use of a dedicated suite of four practice rooms, which can be booked and used until 10pm. One of these is used as an ensemble room and houses a new Yamaha grand piano.

The St Anne’s College Recital Series has grown from strength to strength in recent years under the direction of Dr John Traill and Dr Martyn Harry. Recitals take place weekly during term time in the Mary Ogilivie Lecture Theatre, which also has its own grand piano. These showcase young professional musicians, as well as some of our own students, who are encouraged to participate in these and make the most of the opportunity to perform in public.

St Anne’s students are also able to join the college orchestra (run jointly with St John’s) and the college choir, as well as making the most of the rich musical life of Oxford as a whole.

A Sample Week at St Anne's

Just to give you a feel for how rich life at St Anne's can be in terms of extracurricular activities, here is the list of events in College that was circulated one week in May 2010.

Thursday 6th May

Music Recital: Julian Scott (Oboe), Joshua Poole (Saxophone)
Mozart, Oboe Quartet in F major, K.370, Movements II and III
Britten, Arethusa, from Six Metamorphoses after Ovid
Barry Cockcroft, Ku Ku
Robert Muczynski, Sonata for Alto Saxophone, Op.29
Nigel Wood, Where Spirits and Demons Dance
This event is free and followed by complimentary refreshments.
Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, 6.15pm

Thursday 6 May

Election Coverage
A large TV screen will be installed on High Table in Hall and will be available from 10pm, when the Polling Stations close. Free tea/coffee/water, etc will be available until midnight. 

Friday 7 May

Election Breakfast
Breakfast will be available in the Hall from 7 to 9.30am and the large TV screen will be in place.
Hall

Friday 7th May

Discussion Lunch group (Sciences)
Prof Marian Stamp Dawkins, Professor in Animal Behaviour, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford: ‘The Future of Farming’
Open to all members of College. Sandwiches are provided.
Seminar Room 3, 48 Woodstock Rd, 12.30pm

Friday 7th May

Private View: Photo Exhibition
Hazel Rossotti: Photos from 2009. These are mainly from South Australia, Greece and Oxford. All members of College are warmly invited to come along.
Mary Ogilvie Art Gallery, 6-8.30pm

Saturday 8th May

ASM Spring Event 2010
All are welcome to attend the Association of Senior Members’ Spring Event with a visual talk by Dr Andrew Klevan: ‘Internalising the Musical: Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953)’.
Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, 6pm

Sunday 9th May

Arts Week: Evening of Swing
Dining Hall

Monday 10th May

Subject Family Event and Dinner

• Jim Thompson, Part II student: ‘A novel structure for low cost silicon photovoltaics’
• Dr Isabelle Comte, post-doctoral researcher: ‘Galectin-3 modulates adult subventricular zone neuroblast migration’
• Dr Renata Pieragostini, Junior Research Fellow in Music at St Anne’s: ‘Medieval composers as witnesses of political events: an episode in the Western Schism and an English motet’

A Buffet Supper will be served in the Hall at 7.30pm.This event is open to all members of College, regardless of your own subject.
Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, 5.30pm, followed by Hall

Monday 10th May

Arts Week: Life Drawing Class
Student Meeting Room, Trenaman, 7pm

Wednesday 12th May

Creative Writing Group
Student Meeting Room, Trenaman, 5.30pm

Wednesday 12th May

Mathematics Society Lecture
Hiten Patel: ‘The Financial Crisis Through the Eyes of a Young Mathematician’
Hiten graduated from St Anne’s in 2006, gained a Masters degree from Harvard, and now works as a financial consultant with the firm Oliver Wyman. The lecture will be followed by drinks. Any member of College is welcome to come to the lecture and drinks.
Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, 5.30pm

Wednesday 12th May

Arts Week: Poetry and Creative Writing Event
Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, 7pm

Thursday 13th May

Discussion Group (Humanities and Social Sciences)
Anne Dutton from the Oxford Careers Service will be speaking, with particular emphasis on information about the Civil Service.
Open to all members of College. Sandwiches are provided.
Seminar Room 3, 48 Woodstock, 12–2pm (please note change of time)

Thursday 13th May

Arts Week: Music and Dance Extravaganza
Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, 4.30pm

Friday 14th May

Discussion Lunch group (Sciences)
Prof Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford; Novelist & translator: ‘Adventures in Science & Literature’
Open to all members of College. Sandwiches are provided.
Seminar Room 3, 48 Woodstock, 12.45pm

Friday 14th May

Music Recital
Valeria Stenkina (Soprano), Julian Gallant (Piano)
Wolf, Verborgenheit, In dem Schatten meiner Lokken, Lebe wohl, Ich hab’ in Penna einen Liebsten wohnen
Mahler, Rückert Lieder
Shostakovich, Satiri, Op.109
This event is free and followed by complimentary refreshments.
Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, 6.15pm

Saturday 15th May

Arts Week: Open Mic Night
St Anne’s Quad, 6pm

Sports

For the seriously sporty and masochistic, the College nurtures a number of teams and eights, and we have many blues and half-blues amongst the student body.

To cover an extensive range of sports, Oxford colleges club together to share amenities such as playing fields. St Anne's shares pitches for rugby, hockey, soccer, cricket, and so on, with St John's.

And about ten years ago we joined with St Hugh's and Wadham to build and equip a boathouse on the Isis.

Athletic facilities are available at the University's sports ground, about 10 minutes away by bicycle.

But there is an increasing range of sporting events for those after sheer fun. Ever more popular for working-out are the multigym and aerobics sessions in College, but a tremendous asset is our proximity to the acres of University Parks. Many students take the opportunity to jog, play frisbee, or kick a ball about for a few minutes during the day.    

University Societies

Although the collegiate system weaves academic and social lives together, we would not want you to bind or strangle yourself in the College fabric.

We have always encouraged our students to look and mix beyond the College walls by taking active and leading roles in University societies, choirs, orchestras, and so on, where there is an opportunity to meet like-minded enthusiasts from other colleges.

St Anne's Classics Society