Clubs & Socities Centre

Dancing up close with members of the opposite sex! Working up a sweat in a steamy sauna! Eating delicious food! Kicking and punching people! Planning the overthrow of capitalism! Battling goblins and gremlins! Producing your own wine (and maybe even tasting it)! Making music! Drawing pictures of naked models!

Where in Dunedin can you do all of those things?

You can do all of them and much, much more at the OUSA Clubs and Societies Centre at 84 Albany Street (opposite the University Library complex).

The Clubs and Societies Centre is a three-storey building on the corner of Albany Street and Ethel Benjamin Place. The Centre has an agreement with the Otago Polytechnic Students' Association, which means you are entitled to take part in any of its activities, and to use its facilities.

When is the Centre open ?
Monday – Friday       9am – 10.30pm
Weekends                 10am – 8.30pm

Check out the Clubs & Socs' website to find out what is available, club contacts, and the latest courses.

 

What happens at Clubs and Societies?

We have three main functions:

ACTIVITIES for you to get a taste of. These include kickboxing, Ceroc, yoga, Pilates, ballroom dancing, belly dancing, Oamaru stone carving, blues harmonica, workplace first aid, salsa, Latin American dancing, basic bar skills, Maori language, Indian Vegetarian Cooking, Spanish language, car maintenance, wine tasting, painting, life drawing, café coffee-making, African dance, chess, snooker, pool and table tennis tournaments and heaps more. A brochure containing our first semester course programme is available from Clubs and Societies reception.

FACILITIES you can use. These include a sauna, cricket nets, a pool table, a snooker table, a vehicle workshop, a dance studio, men’s and women’s showers, craft rooms, pianos, sewing machines, guitars, squash courts with racquets for hire, and lots of meeting rooms of varying sizes. You can also check out the excellent value $3 vegetarian lunches provided by the Hare Krishna Society and Community Support, Monday to Friday, during the semester.

CLUB ROOM and STORE ROOM for lots of affiliated clubs and societies. The Centre is the first point of contact for the enormous range of sporting, political, cultural and religious clubs based on the University of Otago campus.  Polytechnic students are welcome to join all of these groups.  Clubs as diverse as the Tramping Club and the International Socialists meet regularly at the Centre.  In total there are nearly one hundred different clubs that you can join including Squash, Harriers, Rowing, Debating, several martial arts groups, Fire Dancing, Amnesty International, Environmental Action, KAOS, a wide range of groups representing international students from all over the world as well as a multitude of diverse religious denominations.