Student Activities- Upcoming Events

On the heels of last year's highly successful Winter Carnival bus to Anchorage, SAO, APO, and ASUAF are pleased to announce that the event will be continued this year! The first Governor's Cup game this year will be in Fairbanks on Friday, February 25th. On the morning of the 26th SAO will run a bus to Anchorage for the second game.

The trip costs $30 and includes transportation, one ticket to the Governor's Cup game, and complimentary Thunder Sticks noise makers and custom Gov. Cup t-shirt.

Our monthly slam poetry events continue February 22nd in the Wood Center Mutli-Level lounge. Interested poets should come with 3 of their own poems ready to perform, and audiences should come with an open mind.

Dan Cummins has appeared on The Late, Late Show, Last Comic Standing: Season 6, Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham, and his first 1/2 hour special, Comedy Central Presents Dan Cummins. He will be taping his first one hour special for Comedy Central, which will air in the first quarter of 2010.

Combining absurd, imaginative, yet somehow relatable topics with a laid back, signature delivery style, Dan is one of the most requested comics on the college circuit, perform-ing at 110 schools from Maine to Washington during the 2007-08 school year alone. While not touring colleges, Dan is quickly becoming a headlining fixture on the club cir-cuit, bringing in new fans to his live shows each time he makes another national televi-sion appearance.

All the way from Salt Lake City, The Devil Whale bring their unique brand of folk music to UAF. Advance tickets are available at the Wood Center front desk ($5/student, $10/general) and will also be available at the door ($8/student, $15/general). 

"Anyone who has heard the music of Brinton Jones will agree that his songs are literature of the heart. Like a book bound by melody, harmony, and honesty, they unfold before you. Paragraphs become verses and chapters become choruses, leaving room for interpretation & relation. Brinton is an author as much as he is a songwriter. After you’ve heard his music and shut the book, you feel close to something that, before, felt so far away. You long to hear it again."

The Devil Whale have shared the stage with lots and lots of bands. Some of their favorites have been: The Cold War Kids, Damien Jurado, the Autumn Defense, Richard Swift, Langhorne Slim, Jeremy Enigk, Joshua James, Leslie & the Badgers, J. Tillman, the Notorious BOA, Cameron McGill & What Army, Talkdemonic, Matt Hopper & the Roman Candles.

They are currently touring in support of their new full-length record,Teeth, to be released on Northplatte Records on May 10, 2011.

Local boys Whiskey Tango return yet again, bringing raucous punk-rock tunes to the UAF Pub. Tickets will be $5 for students, $10 general and will only be available at the door, so get there early! This is bound to be a sold-out show!

          The Student Activities Office (SAO) of UAF would like to announce POP-CON, a comic book and gaming convention to be held in the Wood Center over two days November 12^th   and 13^th.    Video game tournaments (including classic gaming), comic book vendors, and table-top gaming (Magic, Warhammer 40K, and more) are all on the agenda, as well as several cartooning workshops. The Student Activities Office will be working closely with Fairbanks’ own Comic Shop to provide tournaments, prizes, and merchandise.

              The flagship event of POP-CON will center around a screening of   Reformat the Planet, a documentary about 8bit music made by Portland-based 2P Productions. The film chronicles the development of chiptune music, or music made by manipulating gameboys and other classic video game hardware to create music. The film will be screened Saturday, November 13^th, at 5:00 PM in the Wood Center Ballroom. Immediately following the film the director, Paul Owens, will be holding a Q&A. At 7:30PM, chiptune DJ Bitshifter, who is interviewed frequently throughout the film, will be holding a workshop in which students can learn how to make their own 8-bit music. Beginning at 10:00PM the UAF Pub will end the event with a superhero themed dance party, featuring a live set by Bit Shifter.

For more information or vendor and workshop sign-up, contact SAO at   fysao@uaf.edu, by telephone at 474-6026, or at   www.uaf.edu/activity. Vendor sign-up is $10/table for the weekend.

*Feel free to come dress as your favorite character

Full Schedule:

Thursday :

8:00PM Scott Pilgrim film screening - Pub

Friday :

3:00:Super Street Fighter 4 tournament - Multi-Level Lounge

Classic gaming systems set up - Multi-Level Lounge

Vendors start – Wood Center Mall

6:00:On-Stage Rock Band - Multi-Level Lounge

Magic Tournament – Conference room

Cartooning Workshop – Conference room

8:00:Scott Pilgrim film screening - Wood Center Ballroom

Saturday :

12:00PM: Vendors begin - Wood Center Mall

          Classic Gaming - Multi-Level Lounge

1:00:Warhammer 40K tournament – Conference room

Warmachine tournament – Conference room

2:00:Halo: Reach tournament - Multi-Level Lounge

3:00:Steampunk Goggle making workshop – Multi-Level Lounge

4:00:Cartooning Workshop – Conference room

5:00:Reformat the Planet documentary screening - Wood Center Ballroom

Smash Bros. Tournament - Multi-Level Lounge

6:30:Director Q&A - Wood Center Ballroom

7:30:Chiptune/8bit music workshop -Wood Center  Ballroom

10:00:Superhero themed dance - Pub

Tobacco is the leadman of Black Moth Super Rainbow (musically & conceptually themed in many similar ways) and has done work with such artists as Aesop Rock & Beck most recently on his album "Maniac Meat". While touring with such acts as "The Flaming Lips" with his band.

Tobacco's sound engulfs a psychedelic, indie & electronic soundscape while break-beat hip hop beats flowing seamlessly underneath it to be things fresh n' lively. Check out his music if you haven't had the pleasure.

Tickets will be available at the Wood Center. 
$5 Students
$10 General

Grammy Nominated Hip-hop/rap group, NAPPY ROOTS, is coming to UAF to kick-off Starvation Gulch 2010. Their new album Pursuit of Happiness was released on June 15, 2010. This show is going to be Off the Chain, and you should be there!

September 24, 2010

8:00pm Beluga Field (Outside SRC)

Tickets available for purchase September 1st at the following locations

Wood Center Front Desk, Hoitts, Body Piercing Ulmitited, & College Coffee House

Advance tickets $5 for UAF Students   |  $15 for General Admission

September 14, 2010

7:30pm Wood Center Ballroom

This year’s Bartlett Lecture Series speaker is Terry Tempest Williams. Williams’ expansive career in the field of conservation spans fourteen books and five honorary doctoral degrees. Her writing centers largely on the conservation of our nation’s land, and she is able to create a synthesis of a science-oriented argument for conservation while maintaining a poetic appreciation for nature, a bond codified by Williams’ own exploration and experimentation of the world’s remaining untouched wilderness. She was actively involved in protests against nuclear testing in the deserts of Nevada, has received the highest honor from The Wilderness Society, and has experienced the wilderness of countries all around the world.

A welcoming reception will take place at 1:00PM-2:00PM in the Wood Center E & F. Come meet Terry and enjoy refreshments.

For more information contact the Student Activities Office at 474-6026.

Join us for a free outdoor concert, featuring the Brothers of the Baladi!

Brothers of the Baladi is a Grammy Nominated Middle Eastern / World Music band, performing with traditional Middle Eastern instruments (Oud, Saz, Mizmar, Doumbek) and Western
electric Guitar, Bass and Drumset. They feature vocals in seven different languages (Arabic, Turkish, Farsi, French, Spanish, Armenian and English).They largely play Middle Eastern songs, unique original material and well-chosen cover songs.

Critics say:
 
"A sound that knows no borders"  LA Times
"Their versatility redefines the concept of World Music”  Activity Board - University of Arizona
"People were dancing in a well-lit public place and that never happens. Bottom line - they make you
move" 
Watermargin Cooperative / Program Board - Cornell University

http://www.baladi.com/

Tickets on sale at Wood Center, Grassroots Guitar and College Coffee House.

Get them in advance for:
$12 - General
$8 - Student

@The Door:
$15 - General
$12- Student


Following on one of the most well received 16 minutes of music in recent history (2006's A Lesson In Crime EP), Newmarket Ontario's Tokyo Police Club will release a debut album entitled Elephant Shell, due out late April on Saddle Creek in North America and Memphis Industries in the UK.

Elephant Shell lands roughly a year and half after A Lesson In Crime (with last year's Smith EP and "Your English Is Good" digi-single and a ton of touring also bridging the gap) and barely four years from the band's 2005 formation. Not bad for four friends who learned to play during senior year in high school, later naming themselves for a nonsensical lyric from the song that would become track one on their first EP, which would in turn sell over 30,000 copies-probably about 29,000 more copies than they expected-and garner accolades from Entertainment Weekly ("We can hardly wait for the full length” A-), Rolling Stone ("If only all young guitar bands were smart enough to rock out this fast, banging out seven first-rate mod-punk party starters in barely more than sixteen minutes"), Interview, Blender, Nylon and The New York Times among others.

If bassist/vocalist David Monks once described the band's music as "wide-eyed post-punk with a tendency to get over excited-so much so that someone has to come and tell it to settle down," Elephant Shell is the sound of four early-20-somethings now seasoned through hundreds of shows from tiny clubs to the festival throngs at Coachella and Glastonbury, maturing a bit and learning to temper and modulate their own more varied musical moods. Or maybe Canada's socialized health care means easier access to generic Ritalin and Adderall?

You can check them out here:

http://tokyopoliceclub.com/

http://www.myspace.com/tokyopoliceclub

April 3rd, 8PM in the Wood Center Ballroom!

Like walking through a storybook, this spoken-word band paints vivid images of characters and subject with intrinsic themes such as "unity or division in the church, suicide, money, war and love". MewithoutYou explores unique instrumentation such acoustic guitar, accordion, trumpet, keyboards, and various percussion to lend to the impeccable soundtrack of their tales.
MewithoutYou's buoyant sound is the perfect contrast to the deep meaning of their lyrics. It comes off light, while striking a powerful chord that many are sure to enjoy.

Tickets available at the Wood Center
Advance Tickets
$7 Students
$12 General
At the Door
$12 Student
$15 General

Straight from Chicago, Maps & Atlases offers songs that wrestle themselves from flailing, algebraic fits of spazzy guitar notes and drum ruptures to lulling, voice-driven melodies that speak stories using lyrical images strung together like soup cans chasing a Cadillac. Maps and Atlases create a distinctive blend of the intricate and organic.

Feb. 20- Wood Center Ballroom 8:00 PM

Feb. 21- UAF Pub (gotta be 21 & over)

Tickets  are $5 UAF Students/ $8 General Admission

Check out their Myspace.

THE BOUNCING SOULS are the epitome of the live show, they live to perform. Carrying on the spirit of the punk rock scene, they have revived their roots and have gone back to their own label to release their 20^th year anniversary album, making a new original song available on the first of every month for the duration of 2009. Coming to Alaska for the first time ever, New Jersey’s finest will complete their quest to play a show in all fifty states.

March 27- WC Ballroom Doors at 8pm

March 28- The Pub Doors at 8pm (must be 21+)

Advance Tickets: $7 for UAF Students & $12 General Admission

Tickets at the Door: $ 10 UAF Students & $15 General Admission

Pre-Sale Tickets available at Wood Center Front Desk and the Pub