Campusfest to debut day before Deep Roots Festival

Plans are underway for GCSU’s own celebration of student artists—Campusfest. The event is set for Oct. 22 between Parkhurst and Foundation Halls, just one day before Deep Roots Festival.

Campusfest is a festival to revive the liberal arts focus of GCSU by bringing together clubs, bands, performance and independent artists to show students, especially freshmen, that there are more options at GCSU.

“I’m just giving students an opportunity—the time, the organized space for you guys to use creatively,” said Sara Wood, Campusfest coordinator and art major.

Deep Roots Festival celebrates the artists of Milledgeville similar to the way Campusfest organizers hope to celebrate the student artists of GCSU.

The date was pure luck for Wood and Campusfest volunteers. They hope to make Campusfest an annual event the day before Deep Roots Festival.

Campusfest started as a simple idea. Wood recalls the dinner where she and her friends criticized the “lack of awareness of opportunities—the fact that GCSU is a liberal arts school. We needed something each year that highlighted the essence of the school,” Wood said. Thus, the idea of a festival was born.

Wood is in the process of organizing performance times, gaining volunteers and working out the logistical details. The festival is asking for no funding—simply a stage and some tables.

Student bands such as Flamingo Royale, Elastic Skyline and Stumblin’ Toads have volunteered to play at the festival. The Chess Club, Salsa Dance Club and International Club are willing to come out as well. Not to mention the support from independent artists searching for an outlet.

The Campusfest Facebook event has almost 520 individuals attending and Wood has “enough bands to have live performances from the time it starts to the time it ends.”

For those interested in volunteering in any aspect of the festival, check out the GCSU Campusfest 2010 Facebook page.

Junior art and creative writing major Peggy Des Jardines is one of the students that will be showcasing her own photography, paintings and drawings.

“Campusfest is for people interested in art that are not necessarily majors and need an outlet to showcase their work,” Des Jardines said.

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