Sheridan clubs show their spooky school spirit

Chris Moors and Pia Supino-Mayka, members of the Hoop and Flow Arts Club bring out the hula hoops. (Photography by Courtney Blok / The Sheridan Sun)

STORY BY COURTNEY BLOK

Sheridan College clubs showed off their Halloween spirit at the annual club fair in Union Square at Trafalgar Campus.

With tables covered with caution tape and cobwebs, many of Sheridan’s clubs gathered on Oct. 13 and 14, to promote their clubs.

“If they are interested in getting more members it’s a way they can, where they don’t really have to work for it,” said Kaitlyn Lister, clubs coordinator for the Sheridan Student Union. “It’s our part of getting them awareness aside from what we have on our website.”

If the Halloween spirit wasn’t enough to get students excited about school involvement, prizes were also part of the event. Students were given passports at the entrance and if they returned with 10 club president’s signatures they were entered in a draw to win a gift card to the Real Canadian Superstore and a hard drive.

Prizes weren’t limited to just visitors, the club with the scariest table, voted by students, would win a cash prize for their club account.

At the event were clubs that celebrate hobbies and creativity like Hoop and Flow Arts and Looking for Gamers and ones with a mission statement like Sheridan Earth.

“We are just really obsessed with hula hooping and wanted to share it with other people,” explained Pia Supino-Mayka, of the Hoop and Flow Arts Club.

While it’s clear the hoop in the title represents the hula hoops, not everyone knows what flow is.

“It’s freeform dance and movement. Some people are more technical with their approach. While others see if you push or pull the hoop in front of you, is your body going to follow it or is it going to pull back? It’s all about what your body feels,” said Supino-Mayka.

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Sheridan Earth’s focus is helping students become more aware of the environment and what they can do to help it.

“Our club allows students to get closer to the environment and be more aware of the town policies on environment,” said Yi Xiang, president of the Sheridan Earth Club. “We also go for forest walks and to farms and gardens.”

Others, such as the Illustration Club and the Visual Merchandising Club aim to fundraise and raise awareness about year-end projects.

Jasmine Monk, Brett Wilson, and Chelsea Kumar, members of the Visual Merchandising Club pose in front of their table. (Photography by Courtney Blok / The Sheridan Sun)

“We do a year-end show in April, where we make displays and we actually have people from the industry come in, look at our work and talk to us. It’s a chance for us to get our foot in the door,” said Chelsea Kumar, president of the Visual Merchandising Club. “ We have to fundraise money for our year-end show, and we thought a good idea would be to host a pub night and to get a pub night you need to have a club.”

Although their club was created with the intent of helping them with their year-end show the club isn’t limited to students in their program.

“When we are putting up our windows we get a lot of people coming up to us and asking us questions,” said Kumar. “People who do want to join the club will get an insight to what we do. It would be a great way for people who are curious in the arts to branch off without having to go into the program. Even though we created the club for our project, it’s not just for us.”

Starting a club is fairly easy.

“There is a 14-page document, most of it is just policies, and some of it is pitching their club idea,” said Lister. “Essentially all they need is five members, a vice president and a president, and a unique idea for a club.”
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