Event planning is not one of my prime strengths. I lack the patience to organize events & see them through, send invitations and recruit attendees -- if I'm alone in the endeavor. However, the other members of the Wexner Center Student Council & I have been asked to plan an event for winter quarter.

The aim of the event is to invite students to the Wex for some sort of free event that will facilitate the goal of having more eyes opened up to all that the Center has to offer - the current exhibitions, information on upcoming films & performances (music, dance, art), the Wexner Center Store (best book collection ever, by the way, and is also an authorized Apple store.. so you can buy computers, software, iPods, etc.)

At our meeting last Thursday we brainstormed some ideas such as a bake sale, a guitar hero/DDR contest, a costume party, carnival, fashion show, live music & food, cooking competition, open mic, leap-year themed party with a time capsule......We couldn't really come to a consensus. Winter is a difficult time to get people to go out of their way for an event. But.. it will be free! & there will likely be food! And the Wexner Center rules! I would have no trouble convincing my own alternatively-thinking art&tech-savvy friends to come out for the shin-dig, but I'm wondering about everyone else at OSU.

The Wex has been positively reviewed by the New York Times & other respected publications and has more to offer than what one may see at a glance. I think the architecture alone is enough to draw anyone inward!

We're still working on our event (if anyone has suggestions, shout them out!) & I hope that the exposure will broaden the horizons of some future Wex-regulars.