BU Holiday Bruncheon 2025

Ready with your cozy clothes? Brandon University’s annual holiday get-together will be Friday, Dec. 19 from 11 am – 1 pm in Harvest Hall.

This year’s approach is a Holiday Bruncheon! We’re reimagining our traditional luncheon as a cozy, brunch-style feast that will feature many of your hearty holiday faves plus a spread of lighter options. Join friends from across campus for a relaxed, come-as-you-are celebration that’s filled with good food, great company, and plenty of holiday cheer. All staff, faculty, and students are welcome.

Thanks to support from the President’s Office, we can keep ticket prices at a rock-bottom (and seasonally appropriate) $25 again this year. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at any of the following offices:

• Arts General Office (CHO 100)
• Faculty of Science (BB 1-05)
• Health Studies (HSB 112)
• Student Services (MCK 105-3)
• Healthy Living Centre (HLC 1-01)
• School of Music (QEB 1-03)
• Main Library (Circulation Desk)
• Faculty of Education (EB 1-02)
• Campus Books (KDC)

While you’re there, pick up some 50-50 tickets as well. We’re doing something new and cool this year — a cumulative prize for the 50-50. Rather than weekly winners, the prize pot will keep growing from now until the Bruncheon, and we’ll pull one* big winner there. Wait a minute, what’s that asterisk for!? That’s right, there is some small print. Our lottery license caps each prize at $500, so if when we reach that total, we’ll split it into two (or more!) prizes.

You can get 50-50 tickets for $2 apiece or 3 for $5. We’ll keep tabs on the pot as it grows, sharing regularly, and we encourage you to help us push that prize as high as it can go.

Don’t forget the annual holiday basket raffle! Each year, departments, units, and campus groups put together creative, delightful, and sometimes downright dazzling baskets to help raise funds for Brandon–Westman Christmas Cheer. It’s a wonderful tradition that’s also a great way to spread some cheer across campus.

Want to create a basket? Get festive, get imaginative, and have fun with your theme! Just remember — please deliver all baskets by Friday, December 5 to the Arts Faculty Office. (Quick note: This office does NOT have a chimney, so you will have to deliver through the door.)

Want to win a basket? Baskets will be available for viewing and ticket sales in Clark Hall Room 317. Watch for a full schedule to be posted.

Basket ticket sales begin on Wednesday, December 10 and will conclude on Wednesday, December 17, although there will be one final chance to buy tickets at the Holiday Bruncheon itself, on Friday, December 19. Every ticket purchased helps support Brandon–Westman Christmas Cheer, bringing warmth and joy to local families during the holiday season.

The annual BU holiday gathering is organized in turn by different areas of the campus. This year, the elves on the planning committee come from the Faculty of Arts and Clark Hall.