#whitsons

Purchase's General Events Coordinator, Elise Granata, put together a blog a while ago to let the student body know how to put on an event @ The Stood. Here it is again for those who missed it...

HOW TO PUT ON AN EVENT AT PURCHASE COLLEGE                So here I present to you a kinda comprehensive, definitely charming guide on event at Purchase.

Come up with a good idea! Do you want to organize a show? A lecture? Something else wild and great that I can’t think of? 

Find the right people to help you out with this. This step might not be necessary depending on what you’re doing, but the truth is that there are a bunch of people all around campus who might be pretty familiar with what you’re interested in already. Every club on campus meets bi-weekly under the name Council of Clubs, Organizations and Services (CoCOaS). Maybe one of them could help you with your idea! If you’re not sure who to contact directly, you should get in touch with Ricky Gunzel ([email protected]). He is their coordinator and is the most knowledgeable person on all sorts of networking and budgeting within our clubs and services.

Find funding If whatever you’re doing costs money, don’t panic! There’s a little thing called the Mandatory Student Activities Fee, a small $100 tacked onto everyone’s tuition at the school. This money goes to fund all the events that happen here—and I mean all of them. It even helps the Student Center run! In any case, this is money that is devoted to funding student events. It is divided up between clubs and GPC and all that…again, find the group of people most appropriate for what you’re doing and work with them on this.  (A good example of collaboration is when junior Marianna Grady wanted to put on a laser tag event, she approached the Role Playing Gamers Alliance for some help and some funding. Does that kinda make sense?)

If you have performers… If your event has a band, solo artist, organization, lecturer, etc. coming through, you have to fill out a couple of contracts in order for them to play here. This is also the paperwork you need to fill out in order to get them paid. It’s no big deal, just head on over to the PSGA office in Campus Center North (attached to the Hub) to pick up the paperwork!

Time and place! Figure out which venue on campus works best for your event and when. When you have a time and place in mind, you have to reserve your space on the Room Management Service thing (RMS). Despite it being super archaic and tedious, this is how a ton of Purchase is run. Even classes are reserved on there. Anyway, bear with me:

1. Go to the Purchase College website. 2. Click on 'Faculty and Staff' on the upper bar. 3. Select 'Self Service.' 4. Select 'RMS Menu & Master Calendar' and log in with your student e-mail and e-mail password. 5. Select 'Create a New Event' on the upper panel. 6. Title your event and try to be clear with your description, because there is a separate manager of each venue who gets all kinds of requests like these. This will also be the information that appears on the master calendar when students go to look at that. 7. On the drop down menu on the next page, select the building and room you would like to rent. For example, if you want to rent the Cinema in the Student Center, you select 'Student Center' as your building, and to select the Cinema just select '1018 – Cinema.’ 8. Go through the rest of the form and do your thing...double check everything to make sure the time slot is correct and whatnot.  9. Click 'create event'. You should get an e-mail confirming that you put in this RMS request. This does not mean that it is confirmed yet-- you will get a second e-mail telling you that your event was approved or rejected by whoever manages that space. It probably will not be rejected, and if it is, it is only because your event might clash with another event booked for the same time slot in the same room. No reason you can't negotiate that with whoever is in charge of the event, though! 

Get some tech! If you need sound or power or whatever, don’t worry. We have a whole Tech Services programrun by students here who are there to help you out with your event. If you want your event to have tech, there is a calendar that you have to log all events with. When you do this, someone from tech services signs up for the event and is able to use all the equipment necessary. As a rule, you can't use tech services equipment unless you're an employee or officially assigned to the event, because these tech services folks get paid for their time and all of that. Only a couple of people have access to this calendar, so just let me ([email protected]) or Josh Warsaw ([email protected]), the Tech Services Coordinator, know which date and time slot you end up going with so we can put it on there for you.

Promote it all up in everywhere Make some posters and use up those extra printing dollars in your account and just blanket every available bulletin board with your flyer! Remember, if you’re getting funding from a club or anything under the PSGA, it has to say ‘Paid for by your mandatory student activities fee’ somewhere on there.If you want a campus-wide e-mail to go out, contact [email protected] or [email protected] . 

Have your event! I don’t really have any advice past this point because I don’t have any clue what you’re doing.  I’m sure it’ll be great.  I SERIOUSLY WOULD LOVE TO TALK TO YOU, HOW DO I DO THAT, HOW                Our e-mail is [email protected] and our blog isWWW.PURCHASEEVENTSBRIGADE.BLOGSPOT.COM. You can also join the Facebook group if you want, just search ‘Purchase Events Brigade’!

Sunday October 9th The World is a Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid to Die will be playing @ The Stood with Laura Stevenson and The Cans and The Act of Estimating As Worthless. The show starts at 8:30pm. We caught up with Greg, guitar/vocals of The World is a Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid to Die, to ask him a few questions before the show. 

 @ The Stood: How did The World is a Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid to Die form? 

Greg: The Band formed in the fall of 2009 by Derrick and Tom after they had been  playing solo shows together for about a year. While drunk, Josh asked if he  could play bass in the band and was then forced to play Blink-182 riffs as  fast as he could as a tryout. The next year was rather chaotic with members  coming and going. Derrick was originally the drummer and only switched to  guitar right before recording “Formelessness”. I think we’ve finally settled  on the six of us who make up the band now. I don’t see the line up changing  again.

  @ The Stood: What is the story behind the name “The World is a Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid to Die”?

Greg: The name was sort of a joke about ridiculous post rock song titles. We have made a promise to ourselves to never shorten it. Derrick might have also accidentally stolen it from a Neva Denova song.

@ The Stood: Which artists influence you the most and why?

Greg: We all listen to so much, it’s hard to really pin point anything. Obviously a lot of Midwestern emo and post rock influenced the backbone of our sound, but we don’t want to pigeonhole ourselves in those genres. We probably listen to a lot of bands people would expect us to, and then a ton that they consider out of left field. It’s best to keep your ears open to everything.

@ The Stood: Can you describe your song writing process?

Greg: We’ve always tried to approach things as a group. Lyrically we’ve always tried to share things from a collective standpoint, and our writing process is similar. It usually starts with a simple idea and we all inject our input. This process honestly works really well sometimes but can turn into a disaster if everyone isn’t contributing. We’ve left our basement after working on new material feeling on top of the world and at points like complete garbage.

@ The Stood: How was your experience last time you played Suny Purchase?  

Greg:  It was honestly really great. Last semester we played with Caspian, who are a phenomenal post rock band from the Boston area; it was a privilege to play with them. I’ve also been to a ton of great shows at Suny Purchase the last few years too. I really admire the things you guys have going on here

@ The Stood: What can we expect from The World is a Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid to Die in the future?

Greg: We are about to release a split LP with our good friends Deer Leap on the wonderful Topshelf Records this month. After that, we’re planning on playing out in the North East quite a bit, and doing a short tour with the Living City from MA in January. After that it’s time to record an LP finally!

@ The Stood: Any last words you want to say?

Greg: Please no turds at the gig.

Step 1: Click link above

Step 2: Like our facebook page

The Hot Flood :: CD Release show @ The Stood :: October 1 :: 8:30pm

Netherfriends plays 'St. Louis, MO.' at

 a show with Terror Pigeon Dance

 Revolt in Whitson's Hall at SUNY

 Purchase College Thursday,

 September 8th 2011.

I recorded this at SUNY Purchase.

http://sirsmusic.bandcamp.com/