What a weekend!

This was one interesting weekend here at the Student Center! Unfortunately we have been so busy this week with our Start Seeing Pink Breast Cancer Awareness Scholarship tables, handing out free cold cut combo samples from Subway for National Cold Cuts Day, and SNOW! that I am just now getting to tell you about this past weekend.

Drag Show

On Saturday evening the Student Rainbow Network and Student Center Special Programs presented a drag show with a fairytale theme. "Once Upon A Drag Show" it was called. It was FABULOUS. I have never actually attended one of these shows before but I am so glad I finally got a chance to.

There were professional queens, one all the way from Chicago, as well as SIU students that came out and worked the stage. You are handed a "goodie bag" filled with all sorts of things, compliments of the Student Rainbow Network, as a gift for coming to the show.










Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is definitely an experience like no other. I had no idea what Rocky Horror had entailed until I got there. If you have never seen the show before, the people working it draw a big "V" on your forehead, standing for virgin, in red lipstick. They also pull you on stage and make you do an embarrassing activity in front of the audience if you are a Rocky Horror virgin.

People are chosen before the show begins from the audience and are called on to act out the movie. Each person chosen represents a certain character and they have to do as the character does in the movie. The rest of the audience is also strongly encouraged to participate during the movie by throwing rice, toast, toilet paper, confetti, wearing a party hat, using noisemakers, and covering their heads with a newspaper at certain times of the movie. If you have never seen the show and been apart of the audience, it is definitely something you need to experience!


And yes, there is a big V on my forehead!



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