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Greetings all you dudes and dudettes, Webmaster Bill here at the tail-end of Arts Crawl weekend 2010. This is about the time to start studying and getting my work done for tomorrow, so I will delay that slightly further with this recap of our annual signature event. Taking place on Friday, April 9th, the 2010 Arts Crawl was described by many as the most fun they’ve had at one yet, including President Danny Michelson. Spanning 8 buildings, 15 bands, 4 activties and 4 presentations this may have been the most diverse and unique Arts Crawl yet! We saw the addition of two brand new ideas this year, including a headlining artist, Ira Sherman, and a fashion show which was presented by M.O.O.D Magazine. We hope that these are two additions to the Arts Crawl arsenal that will continue for years to come. Despite the weather everyone enjoyed walking around from building to building watching all the bands, presentations and perhaps even making a little something themselves. While I personally was unable to get around to it myself, I was quite stoked to see people walking around with superhero capes that they had made in Patterson.
For those that weren’t sure of where to go, even after 3 years I still have no way of electing a path myself, we were blessed as always with walking minstrels. This year that role was filled by the entertaining duo of Silvio Navarro and Mark Celeste who helped shine a path for everyone. All of the bands put on excellent shows, perhaps due to the exceptional coordination of which acts played in which room. Rather than just scattering the bands like a game of marbles, 2010 saw metal band Judgement Shall Pass play in the brutally appropriate Foundry while the band Sculpture Club Family Band performed in none other than the Sculpture Room. While I wish I could thank each act that played this year individually that would take quite a while and I do not believe I have enough snacks to do so, so I will just say in complete honesty that you all did marvelous jobs and represented the State College music scene remarkably. I would also like to give a shout-out to the headlining band No Age who put on a fun and energetic show as well as the headlining artist Ira Sherman. Everyone that helped put this shin-dig together are incredibly grateful that they came to our school and hope for the best in their future endeavors. Speaking of those that helped out, everyone that volunteered or in some way contributed to the set up and coordination of this event did a superb job and are owed a debt of gratitude by everyone in attendance. Since this is SOMA’s website, we would like to personally thank VASA for as always co-running this event with us. Lastly, thank you to everyone that came out and had the opportunity to enjoy such a joyous occasion, you are the reason we keep doing this every year and it is your satisfaction that keeps the Arts Crawl alive!
Now, onto the rest of the semester. We may only have a few weeks left, but this has been a fun and awesome year for SOMA and we plan to cram as much more of that awesomeness as we can in. While we don’t have set days for either yet, it has been pretty unanimous by all members that we will have at least one more Open Mic and an end of the year Photo Scavenger Hunt. This time we have some pretty definite confirmations on the photo scavenger hunt so there will be a lot of finger-wagging should this not be a success. For our last Open Mic we have decided to do something special and while it is not set it seems likely that this will be an outdoor event on the Old Main lawn. While this excludes the actual mics, we feel the earthy ideals behind such a notion will make for an equally fun time. Keep your social networking skills up to par to find out the dates and further information on both of these events in the near future! Finally, the moment you’ve all been waiting for, our final event of the year. While it is sad that the year is in fact ending, it will be on an overwhelmingly enjoyable and splendid note that could perhaps rival this whole year itself.
As you may have heard from the Collegian by now, SOMA will be presenting one final show in Heritage Hall on Monday, April 26th. This show will include local openers Zak Sobel and the Kalob Griffin Band, along with Cymbals Eat Guitars and headliner Los Campesinos! This will serve as an excellent capstone on an illustrious year in SOMA and we are all quivering in anticipation for the awesomeness that will occur. On that note I believe I have caught you all up on what has been and what will be. I hope you all had a good time at Arts Crawl and that all of you will have a good time at these upcoming shenanigans. Webmaster Bill out!
Thank you from SOMA and VASA!
