{"id":106801,"date":"2026-01-05T15:47:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=106801"},"modified":"2026-01-19T20:45:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T01:45:02","slug":"frost-week-offers-students-a-warm-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2026\/01\/frost-week-offers-students-a-warm-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Frost Week offers students a warm welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From cozy crafts to off-campus adventures, Frost Week is offering Brock University students a variety of ways to connect, have fun and kick off the Winter Term.<\/p>\n<p>Running from Sunday, Jan. 4 to Friday, Jan. 16, the extended schedule of events and activities has been organized by teams across campus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Student Life and Success (SLS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wednesday, Jan. 7: <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/311653\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glow and Create Lantern Making Night<\/a> from 3 to 7 p.m. in Market Hall<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, Jan. 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/312053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frozen in Time Winter Formal<\/a> from 7 to 9 p.m. in Pond Inlet (co-hosted by Brock International)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New undergraduate students can also apply to be paired with an upper-year mentor through the <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/student-life-success\/student-life\/mentorship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mentor Link<\/a> program. Details and application information can be found on the SLS website. Mentee applications close on Monday, Jan. 19 at noon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brock International <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Saturday, Jan 10: <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/296519\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trip to Niagara Falls<\/a> from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, Jan 14: <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/296518\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Connections Meet and Greet<\/a> from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Brock International Centre Global Commons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Black Students Success Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thursday, Jan. 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/312165\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vision Board Making<\/a> from to 4 p.m. in TH 131<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, Jan. 14: <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/311558\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speed Friendship<\/a> from 5 to 7 p.m. in PLZ 600F<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Brock University Students\u2019 Union (BUSU)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wednesday, Jan. 7: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brockbusu.ca\/ents\/event\/979\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=6013&amp;utm_campaign=New-Year-New-BUSU-Events-Welcome-Back-Badgers&amp;utm_content=FREE-Ice-Skating-at-Canada-Games-Park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Ice Skating at Canada Games Park<\/a> from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, Jan. 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brockbusu.ca\/ents\/event\/980\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=6013&amp;utm_campaign=New-Year-New-BUSU-Events-Welcome-Back-Badgers&amp;utm_content=Clubs-Fair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clubs Fair<\/a> from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Residence 8<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday, Jan. 13: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brockbusu.ca\/ents\/event\/876\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Hot Breakfast<\/a> from 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. in Union Station<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, Jan. 14: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brockbusu.ca\/ents\/event\/846\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vision Board Making<\/a> from noon to 4 p.m. at Residence 8<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, Jan. 15: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brockbusu.ca\/ents\/event\/983\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Drop-In Soup Event<\/a> from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts lobby<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, Jan. 15: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brockbusu.ca\/ents\/event\/1030\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pizza with Politicians<\/a> from 7 to 9 p.m. at Residence 8<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>BUSU will also be offering Free Grab and Go Breakfasts outside Union Station from 8:45 a.m. until supplies run out on Tuesday, Jan. 6, Wednesday, Jan. 7, Thursday, Jan. 8, Wednesday, Jan 14 and Thursday, Jan. 15. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/organization\/frostweek\/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ExperienceBU<\/a>\u00a0or the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brockbusu.ca\/frostweek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BUSU website<\/a>\u00a0for additional BUSU events and RSVP information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graduate Students&#8217; Association <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wednesday, Jan. 7: Drop-in <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/313790\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Winter Welcome Warm-Up<\/a> orientation from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in MCC 300 (co-hosted by the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Brock Society of Off-Campus Students<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Friday, Jan. 9: <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/311990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Escape Room Experience at Adventure Rooms<\/a> from 6:45 to 8:45 p.m. (tickets available for $15)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Brock community is also invited to take part in the <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/312776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">third annual Pow Wow<\/a> on Friday, Jan. 16. Hosted by <span data-teams=\"true\">the Hadiya\u2019dag\u00e9nhahs First Nations, M\u00e9tis and Inuit Student Centre with support from across the University, t<\/span>he event will feature dance, song, arts, cuisine and vendors. The Grand Entry begins at noon in Ian Beddis Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>A full listing of Frost Week events is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/organization\/frostweek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ExperienceBU<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From cozy crafts to off-campus adventures, Frost Week is offering Brock University students a variety of ways to connect, have fun and kick off the Winter Term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188,6833,1],"tags":[14993,159,13268,133,1523,2479,514,13151,497,9075],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106801"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106819,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106801\/revisions\/106819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}