Mane Event features 112 indoors
Mane Event, an end of the year celebration, will take place in the Hughes-Trigg Student Center from 3-6 p.m. and will provide students will food, games and live entertainment. The celebration will feature platinum recording artist 112 as the headline band.
Alex Wolfe, Student Foundation president, believes that Mane Event will allow students to “de-stress” before exams.
“It’s a high stress time of year,” Wolfe said. “We hope to provide everyone with the opportunity to let their hair down and enjoy free food, music and school spirit.”
Michelle Espino, Program Council adviser, describes the event as a time for students to have fun.
“It’s a closing celebration for the end of the year,” Espino said.
What started out as a celebration for Peruna’s birthday and later transformed into Block Party is now being called Mane Event.
This year, Mane Event will feature various forms of entertainment including the Red Rocket band, Wild 100 with DJ Spin and DJ Ivy, VOC, Voices of Inspiration and a step show performed by Delta Sigma Theta. The headlining band, 112, will perform its hit single “Peaches and Cream” as well as a variety of other songs.
“I think they are going to be a great band for Mane Event,” said Program Council’s Special Events Chair Anishta Bhagat. “They’ll get the audience bumpin’ with their chart-topping beat.”
Entertainment is not the only thing that will be in abundance at Mane Event. Food has been donated from various vendors including, Margarita Ranch, Schlotzsky’s Deli, Starbucks, Jason’s Deli, Sonny Bryan’s, Campisi’s, Smoothie King, Big Al’s Pizza and Blue Bell Ice Cream.
Games and activities include wax hands, caricatures, bungee runs, sumo wrestling and mini-golf, which will be available to all students.
Bhagat said this is the time to let loose and have fun before finals.
“It is not something you get to do all the time,” Bhagat said. “It will bring out the kid in everyone before they have to buckle down for finals.”
All of the activities will be free of charge to SMU students. Members of Program Council and Student Foundation agree that Mane Event is the one unifying event on campus that is for everybody.
“It’s not too often on the SMU campus that you can enjoy everything from cotton candy to listening to a chart-topping band all at no charge,” Wolfe said.
The large-scale production is a partnership between Program Council and Student Foundation who, Wolfe said, are the largest and longest standing organizations on SMU’s campus.
Mane Event features 112 indoors
