Towards the beginning of the year our membership is always a little low due to all of the seniors who graduated, so I decided to start off the year with a huge push for membership. This shadowbox is in the SIUC Student Center and thousands of students walk by it everyday. I had a budget of $50 for an entire year of shadow boxes so I needed to do something as cost effective as possible. One of the things we have in abundance at WIDB is CDs so I filled the shadow box with mostly crappy promotional CDs that we were going to throw out anyway. Of course, I made sure that all the visible CD's were good ones.
In case you can't read the sign it says; Like Music? So Do We! WIDB receives new CD's everyday that need to be reviewed by students like you! Just come up to the 4th floor of the Student Center Wednesdays at 6 and ask about joining our music review staff. The best reviews are published weekly in The Nightlife!
For WIDB's 40th anniversary we did a few promotions, we gave away tickets to Pitchfork Music Festival, and we threw a concert with two touring bands and one local band. This is the beginning of a piece that was put in our shadow box to promote the concert. It is a cake made of styrofoam and plaster of paris. My promotions director Stefanie Kuchta was an art major and while I came up with the idea for the cake she did all of the sculpting. It was made from a styrofoam base and covered in plaster of paris. I painted the bottom two rows and she painted the top three.
To promote the Pitchfork ticket giveaway I rented a special giant shadow box that was located at the front entrance of the Student Center. I took my Promotions Directer and PR Directer with me to Dollar General and we spent about 13 dollars on the toys in the picture. The crowd is made from firemen who are holding tiny signs made of toothpicks and post-it notes that say I heart WIDB, and WIDB rocks. The speakers were just some old spares that were at the station, the stage is made out of cardboard, and the curtains are a plastic table cloth from Dollar General. During the week that it was up I often saw students stopping to stare at it.
To finish up this page (for now) I thought I would just post a few pictures of the concert that I helped organize featuring Coast West Unrest (from Las Vegas), Theodore (from St. Louis), and The Magnificent TapeWorms (from Carbondale, IL).
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| A few early arrivals to the show |
