For a year now T!NT has been organizing fortnightly events featuring dinner and a movie, focusing in particular on the meeting of international and Dutch students. These ‘Eat & Meet’ nights are growing more and more popular, according to Marion de Groot and Elisabeth Fricker from T!NT. Fricker: “Nowadays we have some twenty-five to thirty students showing up. Eating communally always means crowded tables”. “Also, more and more students from the Design Academy and Fontys are coming in”, De Groot adds. For the T!NT workshops, such as psychodrama, meditation and time management, the space was getting too cramped as well.

Eat & Meet Specials
Yesterday, Wednesday 8 September, the renovated room was put into use. On the initiative of the multicultural association Mosaic, Islamic students prepared an Iftar for Dutch as well as international interested persons: a festive meal that Muslims have every day after sunset during Ramadan, the fasting period.

Next year, apart from the regular ‘Eat & Meet’, T!NT will devote attention more frequently to traditions that are important in different cultures: the ‘Eat & Meet Specials’. One of the next ‘specials’ is Diwali, the Indian festival of lights on 10 November. “That night Indian students will tell us something about the meaning of this festival, there will be Indian cooking and of course we shall show a film fitting the occasion”, De Groot explains. (SK)

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