Monday, November 23, 2009

BRC’s First Event of the Year ‘Successful’

Entertainment and food come alive! The Brantford Residence Council (BRC) holds their first event of the year with the aim to provide a fun-filled environment for all first-year students on residence. On Wednesday, November 11, 2009, a Coffee House was held in the Grand River Hall lounge. The event was organized by the BRC, a council consisting of a representative from each residence that holds the sole aim of reuniting residence students with each other through events and activities.
This first event had the theme of a Coffee House with a special addition of a Talent Show. Free food consisting of cookies, pies and cakes, with refreshments such as coffee and tea were provided, exclusive only to first year students living on residence.
The talent provided consisted of volunteers from the various residences that had a wide range of talent. The opening act was a sketch performed by the BRC. Bianca Ferris did a freestyle dance, and Keigan played an acoustic version of ‘What a Wonderful World’ on his guitar.
Other talents included singing, spoken word, and the closing act was a cover of Journey’s ‘Don’t Stop Believing’ performed by the residence Dons.
Meaghan Smith attended the event and had this to say, “The event was fun and exciting, and the talent for the most part was really great! I would love to see events like the Coffee House in the future.”
Carla Egesi, president of the BRC calls the event ‘successful’ as it brought out more than 90 students to the event. As for the attendance of students at the event, Carla had this to say, “Honestly, I expected around 50 at most [students] despite the alleged 180 odd students who were supposed to be in attendance. I was certainly proven wrong when I counted 200 odd students before I and my fellow emcee did the opening address. Suffice it to say, the turnout did exceed my expectations.”
The BRC understands how difficult it is for first year students to come together due to exams and assignments, and so this event was created to form a lively and classy environment for them to relieve stress from school and make new friends.
Carla plans to create similar events in the future with the rest of the BRC and hopes that they will bring the various residence communities’ closer together: “With such positive feedback, BRC will definitely be taking on more projects like the Coffee House in the future. We will be having a banquet in March 2010, so please look forward to that.”

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