FREE Outdoor Film Festival - 3rd June, 7pm - Late
Whether you’ve finished your exams or need a break from revision, come join us for some of your favourite films in the open air.
It’s free to attend and you get to choose what we show. Simply head online to take part in the poll.
We’ll be in The Amphitheatre (aka the University of Essex Students' Union Secret Garden); outside The Limehouse and behind Happy Days, come rain or shine. Bring cushions, blankets, snacks and drinks.


Haiti's Cholera Crisis
The United Nations
and the international community have a responsibility to meet the
crisis head-on. There are pledges to fulfill, dollars to deliver and
lives to save.
After seating themselves, the stranger said he was part owner in a gold mine in California, and explained that there had been a dispute about its ownership and that the conference of partners broke up in quarreling. The stranger said he had left, threatening he would take the bull by the horns and begin legal proceedings. "The next morning I went to the meeting and told them I had turned over Josh Billing's almanac that morning and the lesson for the day was: 'When you take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; you can get a better hold and let go when you've a mind to.' We laughed and laughed and felt that was good sense. We took your advice, settled, and parted good friends. Some one moved that five thousand dollars be given Josh, and as I was coming East they appointed me treasurer and I promised to hand it over. There it is."
take the bull by the horns
Confront a problem head-on, as in We'll have to take the bull by the horns and tackle the Medicare question. This term most likely alludes to grasping a safely tethered bull, not one the matador is fighting in the ring. [c. 1800]
head-on
(hĕd'ŏn', -ôn')
adv.
- With the head or front first: The cars crashed head-on.
- In open conflict; in direct opposition: "I have wondered since whether it would have been wiser to meet the issue head-on" (Henry A. Kissinger).
- Facing forward; frontal.
- With the front end foremost: a head-on collision.
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