Faculty party 2023: Here are the photos from the red carpet
On Friday 18 August 2023, more than 450 festively dressed Health employees in high spirits flocked to DGI-Huset in Aarhus, where Dean Anne-Mette Hvas welcomed every single employee on the red carpet. Here you will find all the pictures from the party.
The weather gods behaved, and the atmosphere was at its best when colleagues from all corners of the faculty gathered for a festive evening in DGI-Huset. On the agenda were – besides socializing with good colleagues – a three-course buffet menu, open bar, and dancing to live music well into the night.
The interest in being photographed on the red carpet at the entrance to the party was overwhelming, and even though the line was occasionally long, everyone waited patiently. Only a few took up the offer to skip the line and photo opportunity to go directly into the party, and several even took the chance to have multiple photos taken in different constellations.
In total, 460 employees were registered for the faculty party, and staff from all Health’s departments and administrative units were seated at long tables in the festively decorated sports hall, until they took to the dance floor and let loose. In particular, the Department of Biomedicine and the Department of Clinical Medicine were strongly represented, each with as many as 158 participants.
In her welcome speech, Dean Anne-Mette Hvas spoke, among other things, about Health as a workplace.
"I want our faculty to be inclusive, interdisciplinary, and international. We strive for nothing less than a world-class position in our professional endeavours – with the goal of even better research, even better education, and even better administration. To achieve this, we need to be an attractive workplace for all employees regardless of gender, nationality, or social background," she said.
The Dean also emphasised the importance of cross-faculty interaction and collaboration, regardless of disciplines, departments, and units, and encouraged us to always keep both our doors and our minds open.
"Tonight we get together as colleagues in a different setting and for a different purpose than in our daily work life. Tonight we talk, eat, drink, dance, and sing together with just one aim: to have fun," said Anne-Mette Hvas, before handing over the stage to the evening's DJ.
The evening's starter consisted of oven-baked salmon with creamy spinach and dhal with raita and naan. The main course was chicken and falafels with oven-roasted potatoes, salad, and various sauces. The dessert consisted of a pannacotta with strawberries.
The band Parklife, which provided the evening's live music and features Clinical Lecturer and Chief Physician Ole Halfdan Larsen from the Department of Clinical Medicine - MOMA as the lead singer, was originally formed as a student band and has played at countless parties in the University Park. That is actually why the band is called Parklife – and not because they have a past as a Blur cover band.
