Having some FUN

February

No super intense events for the month of February, but there was definitely some fun ones. To kick off this month, we did a DIY Canvas Painting.

In event planning, sometimes you find supplies; whether it is left over from previous events or given to you through other venues, and you think, "what can we do with this?" This was the exact case with DIY, we had lots and lots of paint from our twice a semester paint nights and we also found some mini canvas. We couldn't use the mini canvas to do a paint night so we decided to do a fun, little do it yourself day in the Rams Den. 

Do it Yourself Painting 

On the day of the event we set up a table with paint of choice and mini canvas. This gave students the free range to paint whatever they wanted in between classes. It was rather fun and easy to set up, my job was to pull the canvas and paint from the storage closet and put it into the event box for other 

programmers to set it up. 

As I have mentioned, in event planning we collaborate with many people. In the case of another event we did, we brought in a slam poet by the name of Guante, who is well known for his consent poem, "Consent at 1,000 feet." 

Consent Poet

Very strategically, we brought Guante to campus to share is consent poetry during consent week. I was unable to attend the event as I had other duties, but I was in charge of making sign in sheets for the event.

Taco Tuesday

Back to free food, we also had our famous Taco Tuesday event which also racks in more than 200+ people every semester. This was a bigger event as far as set up goes, usually we serve our walking tacos outside, but do to cold weather in the Spring we did it inside the Rams Den. The biggest part of set up was being there to help when catering came with the taco supply. 

The month of February is all about love so of course we dedicated an event to that. 

Build A Buddy 

This is a very exciting event in which we let students choose a skin (gross I know) of a stuff animal and stuff it themselves with any amount of stuffing they please. They can choose to make one for a loved one of theirselves. You can imagine it could get pretty messy, the stuffing ended up everywhere, but that's also the beauty in event planning, you get to clean up the fun of a mess!

What I Learned

I learned that when putting on events with guest speakers that you must always be in communication with them. You have to let them know every detail that pertains to them or confusion could come in. I also learned that being hands on for events is very crucial on the performance of the event, even when it comes to delegating who goes where. It can be stressful, but it makes all the difference in the success of an event.