19 20 21 - World Alzheimer’s Day - UN International Day of Peace 22 - Michaelmas Term begins - Autumn Equinox 23 - Bisexuality Day 24 25 26 27 28 - International Right to Know Day - Freedom from Hunger Day 29 30 ‘We may have different religions, different languages, different coloured skin, but we all belong to one human race’ – Kofi Annan OCTOBER 2016 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 1 - Black History Month Begins - International Day of Older Persons 2 - International Day of - Islam: Muslim New Year 3 - Judaism: Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year) 4 - Judaism: Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year) 5 6 7 8 9 10 - World Mental Health Day 11 - - UN International Day of the Girl Child - Judaism: Yom Kippur 12 - Judaism: Yom Kippur 13 - World Sight Day 14 15 16 - World Food Day 17 - World Day to Overcome Extreme Poverty 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 - United Nations Day 25 26 - Asexual Awareness Day 27 28 29 30 - British Summer Time ends - Hindu/Sikh/Jain: Diwali/Deepavali 31 - Halloween - Beginning of reading week
‘I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up’ – Rosa Parks NOVEMBER 2016 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 - End of reading week 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 - World Kindness Day 14 - Beginning of the Interfaith Week at LSE - World Diabetes Day 15 16 - International Day of Tolerance 17 - International Men’s Day 18 19 20 - Universal Children’s Day - Transgender Day of Remembrance 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ‘The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands, but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you. We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right’ – Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible DECEMBER 2016 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY
1 - World Aids Day 2 - International Day for the Abolition of Slavery 3 - International Day of Persons with Disabilities 4 5 - International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development 6 7 8 - Pan Pride Day 9 - Michaelmas Term ends 10 - International Human Rights Day 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 - International Migrants Day 19 20 21 - Winter Solstice 22 - School closure 23 - School closure 24 - Judaism: Hanukkah (24 Dec to 1 Jan) - Christian: Christmas Eve - School closure 25 - Christian: Christmas Day - School closure 26 - Christian: Boxing Day - School closure 27 - School closure 28 - School closure 29 - School closure 30 - School closure 31 - New Year’s Eve ‘Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and peoples’ – Rigoberta Menchú Tum JANUARY 2017 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 1 - New Year’s Day - School closure 2 - New Year’s Day Holiday 3 - Lent Term exams 4 - Lent Term exams 5 - Lent Term exams - Sikh: Guru Gobind Singh’s birthday 6 - Lent Term exams 7 - Christian Orthodox: Christmas Day 8
9 - Lent Term begins 10 11 12 13 14 15 - World Religion Day 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 - Chinese New Year 29 30 31 ‘The only queer people are those who don't love anybody’ – Rita Mae Brown FEBRUARY 2017 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 1 - LGBT History Month begins (SPECTRUM Theme of the Year – Law and Human Rights) 2 3 4 - World Cancer Day 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 - Beginning of School reading week 14 15 - Buddhist: Nirvana Day 16 17 18 - End of School reading week 19 20 - World Day of Social Justice 21 - International Mother Language Day 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 ‘Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the intolerable burdens of honour and propriety, breeds repressions of other kinds as well’ – Salman Rushdie, Shame MARCH 2017 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 1 - Women’s History Month begins 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 - International Women’s Day 9 10 11 12 13 Hinduism: Festival 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 - Spring Equinox - International Day of Happiness 21 - International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination 22 23 24 - Lent Term ends 25 26 - British Summer Time starts 27 28 29 30 31 -Transgender Visibility Day ‘I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap’ – Ani DiFranco