You'll be seeing a lot of us this year, as we are planning a full slate of really great entertainment - why not join us? At the Organization Expo on Wednesday, representatives from each of our five subcommittees will be available to talk to you about what you want to see us bring to campus and how you can help us! We've divided the organization into the five sub-committees to make it easier to program; each committee specializes in a certain form of entertainment:
Coffee House shows take place on Tuesday nights in Riley Commons. Performers at the House include comedians, folk musicians, and small, usually acoustic acts. Doors open at 6 pm for all shows, with free coffees, teas, hot chocolate, and pastries offered, as well as an assortment of unusual card and board games for you to pass the time. Admission is $1.00 for WPI students, $3.00 for Consortium students, and $5.00 for everyone else (you get $1.00 off if you bring your own mug!)
The Fine Arts Committee is comprised of both students and faculty. The Committee brings many different forms of entertainment to campus, ranging from jazz musicians to puppet shows, from lecturers to dance recitals. Fine Arts shows occur about once per month, and the cost of admission varies, although most shows are free. In addition to its own programming, the committee gives money from its budget to fund shows sponsored by other groups, including concerts performed by WPI's music groups, and theatre on campus.
The Sunday Night Film Series is one of the most well-attended parts of our program here at WPI. The Films Committee selects 15 films each semester, including the three films for our new "Kaleidoscope" series, a handful of "different perspectives" shown on the last Sunday of each month. Films are shown in Perreault Lecture Hall, Fuller Labs, at 6:30 and 9:30PM each Sunday. Admission is $2.00. In addition, the committee runs the SocComm Movie Channel shown Mon-Sat starting at 6PM on WPI cable channel 12.
The Major and Special Events Committee plans one or two larger-scaled events each semester. Past events have been mostly concerts, like They Might Be Giants in 1992, but, with prices for big-name bands climbing, the committee has had to come up with more creative events. One such event, called Night of the Screaming Cathode Ray Tube, was an indoor carnival, featuring VR games, temporary tattoo artists, a video dance party, and free Pez candy, as well as an enormous prize giveaway. We never know just what to expect from these guys...
The Pub Committee brings a variety of bands to campus, ranging in style from reggae to "alternative." Most bands in the Pub are local, coming in from the Worcester-Boston area. Past acts have included Tribe, Big Catholic Guilt, and Belly. Pub shows are generally on Friday nights in Riley Commons. Admission can range from free to $2 for WPI students, $3 and $5 for Consortium and others.
If you are interested in our shows, stop by our office on the first floor of Daniels Hall (right across the hall from our bulletin board) and pick up a SocComm calendar. For more information on individual shows, call 831-5509, email soccomm or check out our cool World Wide Web site: http://www.wpi.edu/~soccomm/
Our first show of the year is a comedian, Gary Delena, on Monday night at 9:30 PM in Alden Hall - come check it out - it's FREE!